Mobile communication system, radio base station controller, and relocation method

• US 9,137,721 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hayashi, Sadafuku
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIM, ANEZ C
• Application Number:
  US14/107,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20140105177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0055 Transmission or use of information for re-establishing the radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0064 of control information between different access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/10 Reselecting an access point controller

Abstract

Radio base stations connect by radio lines with radio terminals in cells that make up each radio base station and relay data communication realized by the radio terminals on bearers on radio lines. Base station controllers record correspondence information of the data flow of data communication with the radio terminals and the bearers on the radio lines and, by referring to the correspondence information, effects termination of data communication with the radio terminals. When, in a state in which a drift base station controller relays and transfers data communication between radio base stations to which the radio terminals are connected and a serving base station controller, the serving base station controller is transferred to the drift base station controller, the plurality of base station controllers then report to the drift base station controller the correspondence information from the serving base station controller.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a radio terminal;

a radio base station;

a serving base station controller that transmits a control signal to the radio terminal by using a Signaling Radio Bearer; and

a drift base station controller that relays data communication between the serving base station controller and the radio terminal;

wherein, during a relocation procedure, a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer and a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HSDSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow are transmitted from the serving base station controller to the drift base station controller, and wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

2. A drift base station controller of a mobile communication system in which a serving base station controller transmits a control signal to a radio terminal by using a Signaling Radio Bearer, the drift base station controller comprising:

a relay unit that relays data communication between the serving base station controller and the radio terminal; and

a receiver that receives from the serving base station controller, during a relocation procedure, a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer, a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow, wherein in the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

3. A serving base station controller for carrying out data communication with a radio terminal via a drift base station controller, the serving base station controller comprising:

a first transmitter that transmits a control signal to the radio terminal by using a Signaling Radio Bearer; and

a second transmitter that transmits to the drift base station controller, during a relocation procedure, a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer and a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow, wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

4. A radio terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a control signal that is transmitted from a serving base station controller by using a Signaling Radio Bearer; and

a communication unit that performs data communication with the drift base station controller after a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer and a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow are transmitted from the serving base station controller to the drift base station controller during a relocation procedure, wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

5. A core network that is connected to a serving base station controller that transmits a control signal to a radio terminal by using a Signaling Radio Bearer and is connected to a drift base station controller that relays data communication between the serving base station controller and the radio terminal, the core network comprising:

a receiver that receives from the serving base station controller, during a relocation procedure, a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer and a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow; and

a transmitter that transmits to the drift base station controller, the first ID, the second ID and the third ID, wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

6. A control method of a radio terminal in a mobile communication system that includes a serving base station controller and a drift base station controller, the method comprising:

receiving a control signal from the serving base station controller by using a Signaling Radio Bearer;

performing during a relocation procedure, data communication with the drift base station controller after a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer, a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow are transmitted from the serving base station controller to the drift base station controller, wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the data communication with the drift base station controller is performed without performing data communication with the serving base station controller.

8. A relocation method wherein:

a serving base station controller transmits a control signal to the radio terminal by using a Signaling Radio Bearer;

a serving base station controller performs data communication with radio terminal via the drift base station controller; and

during a relocation procedure, the serving base station controller transmits to the drift base station controller a first ID for identifying the Signaling Radio Bearer and a second ID for identifying a High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) Medium Access Control (MAC)-d flow and a third ID for identifying an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) MAC-d flow, wherein the first ID is mapped with the second ID and the third ID.