Radio base station, and communication control method

• US 8,983,520 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2010
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Asaoka, Susumu, Nakano, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US13/518,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20120258764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,544 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/69, 455/127.1, 455/453, 455/450, 455/509, 455436-444, 455/422.1, 455/403, 455/550.1, 455/426.1, 455/426.2, 370/328, 370/329, 370/338, 370/343
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/08 Load shedding arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/04 TPC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/343 taking into account loading or congestion level

Abstract

A radio base station (1) measures the volume of communication with radio terminals connected to said radio base station (1), and if said volume of communication exceeds a threshold value, the radio signal transmission power of the base station is decreased, and a request is made to other radio base stations to increase the radio signal transmission power of said other radio base stations.

Claims

1. A radio base station configured to perform radio

communications with a radio terminal, comprising:

a controller configured to reduce transmission power of a radio signal by the base station and also to request another radio base station to increase transmission power of a radio signal in the another radio base station in a case where a load for the radio communications by the base station exceeds a threshold.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the threshold is a value lower than an upper limit of the load for the radio communications in the radio base station.

3. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the threshold varies on a time-of-day basis.

4. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the controller increases the transmission power of the radio signal in a case where a request to increase the transmission power of the radio signal is received from the other radio base station, and where the load for the radio communications is lower than the threshold.

5. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the controller rejects an increase in the transmission power of the radio signal in a case where a request to increase the transmission power of the radio signal is received from the other radio base station, and where the load for the radio communications exceeds the threshold.

6. The radio base station according to claim 5, wherein the controller executes processing to transmit a notification indicating that the radio base station rejects an increase in the transmission power of the radio signal to an upper level apparatus and processing in which the radio base station receives a notification indicating that the other radio base station rejects an increase in the transmission power of the radio signal from the upper level apparatus.

7. A communication control method in a radio base station configured to perform radio communications with a radio terminal, comprising:

reducing a transmission power of a radio signal by the radio base station in a case where a load for the radio communications exceeds a threshold; and

requesting, by the radio base station, another radio base station to increase a transmission power of a radio signal in the other radio base station in a case where the load for the radio communications by the base station exceeds the threshold.