Mobile communication system, radio controller, base station, and mobility control method

• US 8,996,010 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2011
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Hosono, Hiroyuki, Terayama, Takeshi, Okamoto, Takeshi, Nagato, Rie
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US13/701,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20130143567A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 455/422.1, 455/432.1, 455436-444, 370/328, 370/329, 370331-333
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/30 by measured or perceived connection quality data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/304 due to measured or perceived resources with higher communication quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/04 TPC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/242 taking into account path loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences

Abstract

A radio controller 100 includes a transmission power acquisition unit 111 configured to acquire a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell, an offset determination unit 115 configured to determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value acquired by the transmission power acquisition unit, and an offset notification unit 117 configured to notify the power offset determined by the offset determination unit to the mobile station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system configured to control mobility of a mobile station from a predetermined cell to a neighboring cell of the predetermined cell on the basis of a path loss value based on a predetermined transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the predetermined cell and a reception power value of the radio signal in the mobile station, the system comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell; and

determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value; and

a communication interface configured to notify the power offset to the mobile station, which calculates the path loss value by adding the power offset to the predetermined transmission power value.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the communication interface is configured to receive a notification including a transmission power value of a common control channel transmitted by the neighboring cell;

and

the circuitry is configured to detect the neighboring cell transmission power value based on the received notification.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission value as the power offset.

4. A radio controller configured to control mobility of a mobile station from a predetermined cell to a neighboring cell of the predetermined cell on the basis of a path loss value based on a predetermined transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the predetermined cell and a reception power value of the radio signal in the mobile station, the radio controller comprising:

circuitry configured to

acquire a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell; and

determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value; and

a communication interface configured to notify the power offset to the mobile station, which calculates the path loss value by adding the power offset to the predetermined transmission power value.

5. The radio controller according to claim 4, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission value as the power offset.

6. A base station configured to control mobility of a mobile station from a predetermined cell to a neighboring cell of the predetermined cell on the basis of a path loss value based on a predetermined transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the predetermined cell and a reception power value of the radio signal in the mobile station, the base station comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell; and

determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value; and

a communication interface configured to notify the power offset determined by the offset determination unit to the mobile station, which calculates the path loss value by adding the power offset to the predetermined transmission power value.

7. The base station according to claim 6, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission value as the power offset.

8. A mobility control method for controlling mobility of a mobile station from a predetermined cell to a neighboring cell of the predetermined cell on the basis of a path loss value based on a predetermined transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the predetermined cell and a reception power value of the radio signal in the mobile station, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell;

determining a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the detected neighboring cell transmission power value; and

notifying the determined power offset to the mobile station, which calculates the path loss value by adding the power offset to the predetermined transmission power value.

9. The mobility control method according to claim 8, wherein in the power offset determining step, a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission value is determined as the power offset.