Communication system, mobile station, base station, and communication method

• US 8,768,362 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shimonabe, Tadashi, Ohshima, Akira, Sakamoto, Mitsuru, Takagi, Yuhsuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John J
• Application Number:
  US13/379,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20120100885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: 455/436, 455/502, 455/524, 455/439, 455/437, 455/438, 455/442, 455/452.1, 455/452.2, 455/67.11, 370/331, 370/336
• US Class Current: 455/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point

Abstract

A communication system includes: a determination unit, provided in any one of a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile station, which determines a transmission timing change amount on the basis of reception timing of a signal transmitted between the first or second base station and the mobile station. The mobile station includes a handover execution unit which performs a handover from the first base station to the second base station on the basis of the transmission timing change amount calculated by the determination unit.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a determination unit, provided in any one of a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile station, configured to determine a transmission timing change amount based on a first reception timing of a first signal and a second reception timing of a second signal, the first signal being transmitted between the first base station and the mobile station, the second signal being transmitted between the second base station and the mobile station,

wherein the mobile station comprises a handover execution unit configured to perform a handover from the first base station to the second base station based on the transmission timing change amount calculated by the determination unit.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile station comprises:

a measurement unit configured to measure the first and second reception timings; and

the determination.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile station comprises:

a measurement unit configured to measure the first and second reception timings; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the first and second reception timings measured by the measurement unit to the first base station,

wherein the first base station comprises the determination unit and the determination unit is configured to determine the transmission timing change amount based on the first and second reception timings transmitted by the transmission unit.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile station comprises:

a measurement unit configured to measure the first and second reception timings; and

a transmission unit which transmits the reception timings measured by the measurement unit to the second base station,

wherein the second base station comprises the determination unit and the determination unit is configured to determine the transmission timing change amount based on the first and second reception timings transmitted by the transmission unit.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit is configured to use, as the transmission timing change amount, the difference between the first reception timing and the second reception timing.

6. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit is configured to determine the transmission timing change amount based on the first reception timing, the second reception timing, and a time of transmission/reception timing difference between signals of the first base station and the second base station.

7. A mobile station which communicates with first and second base stations, the mobile station comprising:

a measurement unit configured to measure a first reception timing of a first signal and a second reception timing of a second signal, the first signal being transmitted by the first base station, the second signal being transmitted by the second base station;

a determination unit configured to determine a transmission timing change amount based on the first and second reception timings measured by the measurement unit; and

a handover execution unit configured to perform a handover from the first base station to the second base station based on the transmission timing change amount calculated by the determination unit.

8. A base station which communicates with a mobile station and another base station, the base station comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a first reception timing of a first signal and a second reception timing of a second signal, the first signal being transmitted between the base station and the mobile station, the second signal being transmitted between the another base station and the mobile station;

a determination unit configured to determine a transmission timing change amount based on the first and second reception timings received by the reception unit; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission timing change amount determined by the determination unit to the mobile station.

9. A communication method comprising:

determining, by any one of a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile station, a transmission timing change amount based on a first reception timing of a first signal and a second reception timing of a second signal, the first signal being transmitted between the first base station and the mobile station, the second signal being transmitted between the second base station and the mobile station; and

performing, by the mobile station, a handover from the first base station to the second base station based on the transmission timing change amount calculated in the determination.