Base station controller, base station and communication method

• US 9,020,506 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2009
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Masanori, Motohashi, Kayo, Tezuka, Yasuo, Miyazaki, Nao
• Primary Examiner(s): Faragalla, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): OLIVER, GERALD L
• Application Number:
  US12/535,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20100056145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,092 Days
• Field of Search: 455/444, 455/436, 455/437, 455/438, 455/439, 455/440, 455/441, 455/442, 455/443, 455/422.1, 455/435.1, 455/435.2, 455/435.3, 455/524, 455/525, 455/560, 455/561, 370/331, 370/328, 370/332
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/10 Reselecting an access point controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/12 Access point controller devices

Abstract

A base station controller that manages a plurality of cells includes a receiving part configured to receive, from another base station controller that manages a cell sharing a communication area with each of the plurality of cells, identification information of a cell group to which a cell formed by a base station of connection destination candidate of a mobile station connected to a base station under control of the another base station controller belongs, and a control part configured to exercise control to transmit a message requesting connection to the mobile station to each base station forming the cells contained in the cell group.

Claims

1. A base station controller that manages a plurality of cells, the base station controller comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from another base station controller that manages a cell having a communication area that encompasses each of the plurality of cells, identification information of a mobile station connected to a base station under control of the another base station controller, and identification information of one of a plurality of cell groups to which a cell, among the plurality of cells belonging to the plurality of cell groups, formed by a base station as a connection destination candidate of the mobile station belongs; and

a processor configured

to determine a connection cell that the mobile station connects to among the plurality of cells, the connection cell belonging to the cell group identified by the cell group identification information and formed by a connection base station that determines whether to permit a connection to the mobile station based on the identification information of the mobile station, and

to control the connection base station forming the connection cell to transmit a message requesting connection to the mobile station, wherein

the another base station controller transmits information regarding each of the plurality of cell groups to the mobile station.

2. The base station controller according to claim 1, wherein, if no cell formed by the base station permitting connection to the mobile station among the plurality of cells belonging to the cell group determined by the identification information of the cell group is determined, the processor controls not to allow transmission, to the base station forming any cell belonging to the cell group, of a message requesting connection to the mobile station.

3. The base station controller according to claim 1, wherein when a message notifying the processor of permission to connect to the mobile station is received from the determined base station forming the cell, the processor controls to allow transmission of the message to the another base station controller by including an identifier of the cell in the message.

4. The base station controller according to claim 1, wherein the processor has a correspondence table associating, with each other, identification information of the mobile station, identification information of the cell formed by the base station permitting connection to the mobile station, and identification information of the cell group in which the cell formed by the base station permitting the connection is contained, and determines the cell based on the correspondence table.

5. A base station controller that manages a plurality of cells belonging to a plurality of cell groups, the base station controller comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from another base station controller that manages a cell having a communication area that encompasses each of the plurality of cells, identification information of one of the plurality of cell groups to which a cell formed by a base station of connection destination candidate of a mobile station connected to a base station under control of the another base station controller belongs; and

a processor configured to control to transmit a message requesting connection to the mobile station to each base station forming the cells contained in the cell group,

wherein each base station determines whether to permit a connection to the mobile station based on the identification information of the mobile station, and

the another base station controller transmits information regarding each of the plurality of cell groups to the mobile station.

6. The base station controller according to claim 5, wherein when a message notifying the processor of permission to connect to the mobile station is received from one of the cells contained in the cell group, the processor controls to allow transmission of the message to the another base station controller by including identification information of the cell in the message.

7. The base station controller according to claim 5, wherein the processor has a correspondence table associating identification information of the cell group with identification information of the cell contained in the cell group, and controls to transmit a message, requesting connection to the mobile station connected to the base station forming the cell under the another base station controller, to the base station forming each cell contained in the cell group based on the correspondence table.

8. A base station that forms one of a plurality of cells belonging to a plurality of cell groups managed by a base station controller, the base station comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from the base station controller, identification information of a mobile station connected to a base station under control of an another base station controller that manages a cell having a communication area that encompasses each of the plurality of cells; and

a processor configured to determine whether to permit a connection to the mobile station to based on the identification information of the mobile station, and to control to transmit a message of notification that connection to the determined mobile station is permitted to the another base station controller via the base station controller, wherein

the another base station controller transmits information regarding each of the plurality of cell groups to the mobile station.

9. The base station according to claim 8, wherein when a mobile station not permitted to connect to the local station is determined based on the identification information of the mobile station, the processor controls to transmit a message of notification that connection to the mobile station is not permitted to the base station controller.