Communication system, information processing device and femto base station therein, method and program for controlling the sames, and method of transmitting information to femto base station

• US 9,237,504 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2011
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Yoshio, Shindo, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Magloire, Vladimir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Perez Tolentino, Juan C
• Application Number:
  US13/817,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20130150050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 455436-444
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/654 International mobile subscriber identity [IMSI] numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/38 by fixed network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 Network data management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

In order to change control over a user equipment within a femtocell in accordance with a change in camping of the user equipment, a communication system includes a femto base station (10) that provides a femtocell includes notification destination setting means (20) for setting, in the femto base station (10), a notification destination to be notified of a change in camping of a user equipment (30) on the femtocell. The femto base station (10) notifies the set notification destination of the change in camping of the user equipment (30), upon detection of the change in camping.

Claims

1. An information processing device that manages a user equipment in a communication system providing a femtocell, the information processing device comprising:

a storage unit that stores restriction or addition of a function of the user equipment in association with at least a cell ID for identifying the femtocell;

a reception unit that receives a change in camping of the user equipment on the femtocell from a femto base station having detected the change in camping, the change in camping being notified to a notification destination, the notification destination representing the information processing device and being preliminarily set in the femto base station;

a management unit that restricts or adds the function of the user equipment stored in the storage unit, upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from an outside of coverage of the femtocell to an inside of the coverage, and that cancels the restriction or addition of the function of the user equipment, upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from the inside of the coverage to the outside of the coverage; and

a unit that receives, from the femto base station, an instruction to change, add, or delete the restriction or addition of the function of the user equipment stored in the storage unit,

wherein the management unit uses an OMA-DM (Open Mobile Alliance-Device Management) protocol for the restriction or addition, and the cancellation,

wherein the restriction or addition includes at least one of;

deactivating or activating a GPS (Global Positioning System) function of the user equipment; and

switching a mode of the user equipment to a manner mode or a drive mode,

wherein the restriction or addition of the function of the user equipment is stored in association further with IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) for identifying a subscriber that owns the user equipment and/or CSG ID (Closed Subscriber Group ID) for identifying a group to which the subscriber belongs,

wherein the restriction or addition of the function of the user equipment with respect to the femtocell controlled by the femto base station is changed, added, or deleted in the storage unit based on the received instruction,

wherein the notification destination is included in transmission data to be transmitted to the femto base station, the transmission data being compliant with a standard protocol in the communication system that provides the femtocell,

wherein the notification destination is included in one of a parameter set by a maintenance management server that manages the femto base station, a parameter set by a gateway connected to a core network, and a parameter set by a packet core via a network,

wherein the reception unit receives the change in camping from the femto base station, when the femto base station detects the change in camping of the user equipment and when monitoring information indicates that the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station, the monitoring information being received by the femto base station and indicating whether or not the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station,

wherein the monitoring information is included in the transmission data, and

wherein the monitoring information is included in one of the parameter set by the maintenance management server, the parameter set by the gateway, and the parameter set by the packet core.

2. An information processing device that manages a service to a user in a communication system providing a femtocell, the information processing device comprising:

a storage unit that stores the service to the user in association with at least a cell ID for identifying the femtocell;

a reception unit that receives a change in camping of the user equipment on the femtocell from a femto base station having detected the change in camping, the change in camping being notified to a notification destination, the notification destination representing the information processing device and being preliminarily set in the femto base station;

a management unit that starts the service to the user stored in the storage unit, upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from an outside of coverage of the femtocell to an inside of the coverage, and that cancels the service to the user, upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from the inside of the coverage to the outside of the coverage; and

a unit that receives, from the femto base station, an instruction to change, add, or delete the service stored in the storage unit,

wherein the service includes

controlling an electronic equipment located in a place where the femto base station is located, the electronic equipment being different from the user equipment,

wherein the service is stored in association further with IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) for identifying a subscriber that owns the user equipment and/or CSG ID (Closed Subscriber Group ID) for identifying a group to which the subscriber belongs,

wherein the service with respect to the femtocell controlled by the femto base station is changed, added, or deleted in the storage unit based on the received instruction,

wherein the notification destination is included in transmission data to be transmitted to the femto base station, the transmission data being compliant with a standard protocol in the communication system that provides the femtocell,

wherein the notification destination is included in one of a parameter set by a maintenance management server that manages the femto base station, a parameter set by a gateway connected to a core network, and a parameter set by a packet core via a network,

wherein the reception unit receives the change in camping from the femto base station, when the femto base station detects the change in camping of the user equipment and when monitoring information indicates that the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station, the monitoring information being received by the femto base station and indicating whether or not the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station,

wherein the monitoring information is included in the transmission data, and

wherein the monitoring information is included in one of the parameter set by the maintenance management server, the parameter set by the gateway, and the parameter set by the packet core.

3. A femto base station that controls a user equipment within a femtocell in a communication system providing the femtocell, the femto base station comprising:

a reception unit that receives a notification destination to be notified of a change in camping of the user equipment on the femtocell;

a notification unit that notifies the received notification destination of the change in camping of the user equipment, upon detection of the change in camping; and

a unit that transmits, to an information processing device, an instruction to change, add, or delete restriction or addition of a function of the user equipment,

wherein the notification destination is an information processing device that manages the user equipment, and that uses an OMA-DM (Open Mobile Alliance-Device Management) protocol for restricting or adding a function of the user equipment upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from an outside of coverage of the femtocell to an inside of the coverage, and for cancelling the restriction or addition upon receiving a change in the user equipment moving from the inside of the coverage to the outside of the coverage,

wherein the restriction or addition includes at least one of;

deactivating or activating a GPS (Global Positioning System) function of the user equipment; and

switching a mode of the user equipment to a manner mode or a drive mode,

wherein the notification destination is included in transmission data to be transmitted to the femto base station, the transmission data being compliant with a standard protocol in the communication system that provides the femtocell,

wherein the notification destination is included in one of a parameter set by a maintenance management server that manages the femto base station, a parameter set by a gateway connected to a core network, and a parameter set by a packet core via a network,

wherein the reception unit further receives monitoring information indicating whether or not the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station,

wherein the notification unit notifies the received notification destination of the change in camping, when the femto base station detects the change in camping of the user equipment and when the monitoring information indicates that the user equipment needs to be monitored by the femto base station,

wherein the monitoring information is included in the transmission data, and

wherein the monitoring information is included in one of the parameter set by the maintenance management server, the parameter set by the gateway, and the parameter set by the packet core.