Wireless communication system, terminal device, and base station device

• US 9,253,741 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hanaoka, Seishi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John J
• Application Number:
  US14/126,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20140248921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/69, 455/452.1, 455/452.2, 455/509, 455/456.1, 455/67.11, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/283 Power depending on the position of the mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/322 Power control of broadcast channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/38 TPC being performed in particular situations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/44 in connection with interruption of transmission

Abstract

It is provided a wireless communication system, which secondarily uses the same frequency as a primary system using, the wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station. The mobile terminal detects a signal having the frequency; and requests, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that a signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system. The base station increases the transmission power to the range that the signal does not reach the service area of the primary system in case of receiving the request to increase the transmission power.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system, which secondarily uses same frequency as a primary system that uses a certain frequency,

the wireless communication system comprising:

a mobile terminal; and

a base station,

wherein the mobile terminal is configured to;

detect a signal having the frequency; and

request, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that the signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system, and

wherein the base station increases the transmission power to the range that the signal does not reach the service area of the primary system in case of receiving the request to increase the transmission power.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to obtain location information of the mobile terminal before detecting a utilization status of the frequency.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to hold information about the location of the base station that is a candidate for a node to which the mobile terminal is to be coupled, receiving sensitivity of the wireless communication system, the location of the wireless transmitter of the primary system that is in surroundings of the mobile terminal, and the receiving sensitivity of the primary system.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:

detect a signal of the primary system and a signal of the secondary wireless communication system which is transmitted in different timing from that of the signal of the primary system; and

calculate a distance between the wireless transmitter of the primary system and the mobile terminal, a distance between the base station and the mobile terminal, and a distance from a boundary of the service area of the primary system to the mobile terminal based on results of the sensing.

5. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to request the base station to increase the transmission power by transmitting a signal that has a given pattern in timing on when the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal.

6. The wireless communication system according to claim 5, wherein, the base station increases the transmission power in a case where the signal having the given pattern which is transmitted from the mobile terminal is detected in the timing on when the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal.

7. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:

determine antenna directivity in a direction in which a signal does not reach the service area of the primary system, and determine the transmission power that does not allow the signal to reach the service area of the primary system based on a positional relation of the mobile terminal and the wireless transmitter of the primary system; and

transmit the signal to the base station in a case where it is determined that the signal reaches the base station under the determined conditions.

8. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the primary system has a keep out region set at a given distance from the service area in which a signal from the wireless transmitter reaches, outside the service area, and

wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:

determine antenna directivity in a direction in which a signal does not reach the service area of the primary system, and determine the transmission power that does not allow the signal to reach the service area of the primary system, based on a positional relation of the mobile terminal and the wireless transmitter of the primary system in a case where a distance between the base station that is a coupling candidate and the mobile terminal is equal to or more than the given distance which defines the keep out region, and a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station that is the coupling candidate is undetectable; and

request the base station to increase the transmission power by transmitting a signal that has a given pattern in a time period where the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal in a case where it is determined that the signal reaches the base station under the determined conditions.

9. The wireless communication system according to claim 8, wherein, the base station increases the transmission power in a case where the signal including the given pattern which is transmitted from the mobile terminal is detected in the timing on when the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal.

10. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a database for holding information about the location of the wireless transmitter of the primary system, a transmission power of the wireless transmitter of the primary system, an antenna pattern of the primary system, and receiving sensitivity of the primary system, and information about a signal utilization status of each frequency at a location of each base station.

11. The wireless communication system according to claim 10,

wherein the database periodically obtains a signal status of each frequency from the base station by setting up a sensing trigger in the base station, and updates the held information based on the obtained signal status.

12. A mobile terminal for a wireless communication system, which secondarily uses same frequency as a primary system that uses a certain frequency, the mobile terminal comprising:

a sensing block for detecting a signal transferred at frequency; and

a power increase request block for requesting, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from a base station of the wireless communication system is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that the signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, further comprising a location information acquisition block for obtaining location information of the mobile terminal before detecting a utilization status of the frequency.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, further comprising a database for holding information about the location of the base station that is a candidate for a node to which the mobile terminal is to be coupled, receiving sensitivity of the wireless communication system, the location of the wireless transmitter of the primary system that is in surroundings of the mobile terminal, and the receiving sensitivity of the primary system.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 12,

wherein the sensing block detects a signal of the primary system and a signal of the secondary wireless communication system which is transmitted in different timing from that of the signal of the primary system, and

wherein the mobile terminal further comprises a distance calculation block for calculating a distance between the wireless transmitter of the primary system and the mobile terminal, a distance between the base station and the mobile terminal, and a distance from a boundary of the service area of the primary system to the mobile terminal based on results of the sensing.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the power increase request block requests the base station to increase the transmission power by transmitting a signal that has a given pattern in timing on when the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the power increase request block

determines antenna directivity in a direction in which a signal does not reach the service area of the primary system, and determine the transmission power that does not allow the signal to reach the service area of the primary system based on a positional relation of the mobile terminal and the wireless transmitter of the primary system, and

transmits the signal to the base station in a case where it is determined that the signal reaches the base station under the determined conditions.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 12,

wherein the primary system has a keep out region set at a given distance from the service area in which a signal from the wireless transmitter reaches, outside the service area, and

wherein the power increase request block

determines antenna directivity in a direction in which a signal does not reach the service area of the primary system, and determine the transmission power that does not allow the signal to reach the service area of the primary system, based on a positional relation of the mobile terminal and the wireless transmitter of the primary system in a case where a distance between the base station that is a coupling candidate and the mobile terminal is equal to or more than the given distance which defines the keep out region, and a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station that is the coupling candidate is undetectable;

and

request the base station to increase the transmission power by transmitting a signal that has a given pattern in a time period where the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal in a case where it is determined that the signal reaches the base station under the determined conditions.

19. A base station for a wireless communication system, which secondarily uses same frequency as a primary system that uses a certain frequency,

the wireless communication system being configured to, when a mobile terminal requests, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that the broadcast signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system, and increase the transmission power to the range that the signal does not reach the service area of the primary system in a case where receiving the request to increase the transmission power.

20. The base station according to claim 19, wherein, the base station increases the transmission power in a case of detecting the request to increase the transmission power, the request being made by transmitting a signal having a given pattern which is transmitted from the mobile terminal in timing on when the wireless communication system does not transmit a signal.