Clustering method of mobile communication and remote radio head thereof

• US 8,908,602 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoshiuchi, Hideya, Geng, Lu
• Primary Examiner(s): Mered, Habte
• Application Number:
  US13/403,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20120224541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/334, 370/339, 455/561, 455/562.1, 455/575.7
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/10 Dynamic resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A mobile communication system of the present invention includes a plurality of remote radio heads configured to transmit a signal to user equipment and configure an antenna network and a centralized baseband pool configured to be connected to the antenna network. The centralized baseband pool performs clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads so as to dynamically vary the number of the remote radio heads each included in a plurality of clusters.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a plurality of remote radio heads configured to transmit a signal to user equipment and configure an antenna network; and

a centralized baseband pool configured to be connected to the antenna network, and

wherein the centralized baseband pool performs clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads so as to dynamically vary a number of the remote radio heads that are included in each of a plurality of clusters, and

wherein the centralized baseband pool performs clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads in an ascending order of the number of the remote radio heads that are included in each of the clusters, and

wherein upon each time the centralized baseband pool performs clustering, the number of remote heads included in a first cluster of the plurality of clusters is different than the number of remote radio heads included in a second cluster of the plurality of clusters.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein in one scheduling time, the number of the remote radio heads included in each of the plurality of clusters is dynamically varied between 1 and n (n is a natural number of 2 or more).

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the centralized baseband pool calculates a clustering gain based on an SINR value corresponding to each user equipment, and performs clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein, upon the centralized baseband pool performs clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads, the number of the remote radio heads included in each of the clusters is different.

5. A remote radio head clustering method for use in a mobile communication system having a plurality of remote radio heads to transmit a signal to user equipment and configure an antenna network and a centralized baseband pool connected to the antenna network, the method comprising:

performing clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads so as to dynamically vary a number of the remote radio heads that are included in each of a plurality of clusters, and

wherein clustering is performed with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads in an ascending order of the number of the remote radio heads that are included in each of the clusters, and

wherein upon each time clustering is performed with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads, the number of remote heads included in a first cluster of the plurality of clusters is different than the number of remote radio heads included in a second cluster of the plurality of clusters.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein in one scheduling time, the number of the remote radio heads included in each of the plurality of clusters is dynamically varied between 1 and n (n is a natural number of 2 or more).

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein a clustering gain is calculated based on an SINR value corresponding to each user equipment, and clustering is performed with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein, upon clustering with respect to the plurality of remote radio heads being performed, the number of the remote radio heads included in each of the clusters is different.