Communication system, base station, terminal, and communication method

• US 8,982,800 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Takamatsu, Nobuaki, Tanigawa, Hironobu, Nakamura, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nooristany, Sulaiman
• Application Number:
  US12/517,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20100074197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,665 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2604 Multiresolution systems by means of multiresolution subcarriers H04L27/183, H04L27/3488
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0042 intra-user or intra-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0087 when data requirements change
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters

Abstract

A multiservice is implemented by connecting one base station and one terminal via one wireless link.

There is provided communication control means 2-1 that performs communication in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels for containing information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels for storing data pertaining to services in correspondence with the first sub-channels, that allocates a plurality of first sub-channels to a plurality of services, respectively, and that connects one base station to one terminal via one wireless link, thereby establishing communication pertaining to the plurality of services.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

communication control means that allocates one wireless link between one base station and one terminal and that adds, in the one wireless link, communication including, in addition to a first service provided by communication initially performed, a second service differing from the first service, wherein

the first service has a first priority and the second service has a second priority differing from the first priority, wherein

communication is performed in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels including information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels storing data pertaining to the services in correspondence with the first sub -channels, wherein,

when the communication control means adds the communication including, in addition to the first service provided by the initially-performed communication, the second service differing from the first service, the communication control means allocates, in addition to a first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, another first sub-channel differing from the first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, wherein the communication control means associates, on the basis of priorities corresponding to the respective services, the priorities with the first sub-channels and allocates the second sub-channels on the basis of the priority.

8. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the communication control means secures a wireless band for the second service.

2. A base station that performs communication with a single wireless terminal in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels including information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels storing data pertaining to communication services in correspondence with the first sub-channels, wherein,

when the communication control means adds communication including, in addition to a first service provided by initially-performed communication, a second service differing from the first service, the communication control means allocates, in addition to a first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, another first sub-channel differing from the first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, and wherein

the first service has a first priority and the second service has a second priority differing from the first priority, wherein the communication control means associates, on the basis of priorities corresponding to the respective services, the priorities with the first sub-channels, and allocates second sub-channels in numbers appropriate for the priority.

9. The base station according to claim 2, wherein the communication control means secures a wireless band for the second service.

3. A terminal that performs communication in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels including information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels storing data pertaining to communication services in correspondence with the first sub-channels, wherein,

when the communication control means adds communication including, in addition to a first service provided by initially-performed communication, a second service differing from the first service, the communication control means allocates, in addition to a first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, another first sub-channel differing from the first sub-channel allocated to the initially-performed communication, and wherein

the first service has a first priority and the second service has a second priority differing from the first priority, wherein the communication control means associates, on the basis of priorities corresponding to the respective services, the priorities with the first sub-channels and allocates the second sub-channels on the basis of the priority.

4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein a communication band is requested in response to each of the plurality of services.

5. A communication method for performing communication between a base station and a terminal over a single wireless link in compliance with an OFDMA scheme having traffic channels including first sub-channels including information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels and second sub-channels storing data pertaining to communication services in correspondence with the first sub-channels, the method comprising:

allocating and adding, by the base station, a first sub-channel for each additional service for which a terminal has requested establishment and notifies the terminal of each first sub-channel;

transmitting a service addition acknowledgment from the base station to the terminal;

requesting, by the terminal that received the service addition acknowledgment requests, a communication band for the additional service to the base station; and

allocating, by the base station that received the request for the communication band, to the terminal the second sub-channels in numbers appropriate for the communication band of the additional service on the basis of a priority corresponding to the additional service.

6. An OFDMA communication system, comprising

a base station;

a terminal; and

a communication controller that is configured to;

allocate a wireless link between the base station and the terminal;

allocate, for a first service, a first anchor sub-channel and first plural numbers of first extra sub-channels identified by the first anchor sub-channel, wherein the first anchor sub-channel includes information showing enabled or disabled sub-channels;

allocate, for a second service, a second anchor sub-channel and second plural numbers of second extra sub-channels identified by the second anchor sub-channel, wherein the second anchor sub-channels store data pertaining to the services in correspondence with the first anchor sub-channels; and

add communication for the second service via the wireless link using the second anchor sub-channel and the second extra sub-channels during communication for the first service via the wireless link using the first anchor sub-channel and the first extra sub-channels, wherein the first and second extra sub-channels are allocated based on priorities corresponding to the respective services associated with those sub-channels.

7. The OFDMA communication system according to claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to determine the first plural number based on priority of the first service and the second plural number based on priority of the second service.