Method of cutting off a transmission signal of a main transmitter relayed by a cell of a base station and associated system

• US 9,008,713 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2010
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ST-Ericcson SA (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: ST-Ericcson SA (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Dorbes, Stephane, Mignot, Christophe
• Primary Examiner(s): GESESSE, TILAHUN
• Application Number:
  US13/260,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20120115533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,839 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/69, 455/127.1, 455/67.11, 455/67.13, 455/63.1, 455/226.1
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/221 using past power control commands
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/228 using past power values or information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range

Abstract

Method of cutting off a transmission signal of a main transmitter relayed by a cell of a base station and associated system. According to this method, the transmission signal is cut off:—if the power of the transmission signal emitted by the main transmitter is greater than the power of each transmission signal of other transmitters relayed by the same cell of the base station, and—if the power of the transmission signal of the main transmitter does not decrease after several identical successive transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by the base station.

Claims

1. A method of cutting off a transmission signal of a main transmitter of a mobile telephone relayed by a cell of a base station, the method comprising:

cutting off the transmission signal by the main transmitter of the mobile telephone if the power of the transmission signal emitted by the main transmitter of the mobile telephone is greater than the power of each transmission signal of other transmitters relayed by the same cell of the base station, and

if the power of the transmission signal of the main transmitter of the mobile telephone does not decrease after several identical successive transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by the base station.

2. The method according to claim 1, in which the power variation commands of the transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by the base station are summed and the corresponding variations of effective power that are emitted by the main transmitter are summed for a number of transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC), the sum of the power variation commands is compared with the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power, and the transmission signal of the main transmitter is cut off by the main transmitter if the sum of the power variation commands is different from the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power.

3. The method according to claim 2, in which the power variation commands of the transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by the base station and the corresponding variations of effective power that are emitted by the main transmitter are summed for a number of transmitted-power regulating commands, if the effective power emitted by the main transmitter is greater than an effective-power threshold (Power threshold).

4. The method according to claim 2, in which the sum of the power variation commands is compared with the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power if the sum of the power variation commands is greater than a control power variation threshold (threshold1).

5. The method according to claim 2, in which a subtraction is carried out between the sum of the power variation commands and the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power, and the transmission signal of the main transmitter is cut off by the main transmitter if the difference between the sum of the power variation commands and the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power is greater than a tolerance threshold (threshold2).

6. A system for cutting off the transmission signal of a main transmitter of a mobile telephone relayed by a cell of a base station, the system comprising:

the main transmitter of the mobile telephone comprising a receiver to receive transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by a base station and a transmitter to transmit the signal emitted by the main transmitter, comprising a first integrator to compute a sum of the power variation commands of the transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) emitted by the base station, a second integrator to compute a sum of the corresponding variations of effective power that are emitted by the main transmitter, a comparator to compare the sum of the power variation commands with the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power, and a generator to generate a cut-off signal for the main transmitter of the mobile telephone, the generator being of the main transmitter.

7. The system according to claim 6, comprising a parameterizer to deliver a signal indicating the moment of starting of the first and second integrators, and the number of transmitted-power regulating commands (TPC) for which the sums are computed.

8. The system according to claim 6, comprising a threshold module able to deliver an effective-power threshold (Power threshold) above which the system operates.

9. The system according to claim 6, comprising a first comparison module able to compare the sum of the power variation commands of the transmitted-power regulating commands with a control power variation threshold value (threshold1).

10. The system according to claim 6, in which the comparator comprise a subtraction module able to compute the difference between the sum of the power variation commands and the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power.

11. The system according to claim 6, in which the comparator comprise a second comparison module able to compare the difference between the sum of the power variation commands and the sum of the variations of corresponding effective power with a tolerance threshold value (threshold2).

12. The system according to claim 6, in which the mobile telephone is a European third-generation mobile telephone, and the base stations are base stations of a network of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System type.