Mobile user terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method

• US 9,331,796 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2012
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Obuchi, Kazuhisa, Yano, Tetsuya, Miyazaki, Shunji, Nakagawa, Takao
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Warner
• Application Number:
  US13/623,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20130028240A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• Field of Search: 370/280, 370336-337, 370/345, 370/436, 370/442, 370/478, 370/498
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station in an intermittent fashion; and a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, such that the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal are sent in adjacent different timings in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate.

Claims

1. A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal comprising:

a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information, via a first uplink control channel, indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal, via a second uplink control signal, to a base station in an intermittent fashion, separately from each other; and

a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, such however the transmit time of the downlink quality information, via the first uplink control channel, and the transmit time of the uplink pilot signal, via the second uplink control channel, are not the same but sent in set as adjacent different timings transmit times from each other, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate.

6. The mobile user terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in frequency from each other.

7. The mobile user terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in both time and frequency from each other.

2. A mobile communication system in which a mobile user terminal communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal comprising:

a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information, via a first uplink control channel, indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal, via a second uplink control channel, to a base station in an intermittent fashion, separately from each other; and

a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, however the transmit time of the downlink quality information, via the first uplink control channel, and the transmit time of the uplink pilot signal, via the second uplink control channel, are not the same but set as adjacent different transmit times from each other, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate.

3. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the base station comprises a channel estimator which performs channel estimation for a channel used for transmission of the downlink quality information, by using the uplink pilot signal received from the mobile communication terminal as a reference channel.

8. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in frequency from each other.

9. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in both time and frequency from each other.

4. A method for intermittent communication between a mobile user terminal and a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting downlink channel quality information, via a first uplink control channel, indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal, via a second uplink control channel, to a base station in an intermittent fashion, separately from each other; and

synchronizing transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, however the transmit time of the downlink quality information, via the first uplink control channel, and the transmit time of the uplink pilot signal, via the second uplink control channel, are not the same but set as adjacent different transmit times from each other, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, comprising performing channel estimation for a channel used for transmission of the downlink quality information in the base station, by using the uplink pilot signal received from the mobile communication terminal as a reference channel.

13. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmitting transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in frequency from each other.

14. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmitting transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in both time and frequency from each other.

10. A base station used in a mobile communication system in which the base station communicates with a mobile user terminal in an intermittent fashion, where the mobile user terminal comprises a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information, via a first uplink control channel, indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal, via a second uplink control channel, to the base station in an intermittent fashion, and a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmitting time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, however the transmit time of the downlink quality information, via the first uplink control channel, and the transmit time of the uplink pilot signal, via the second uplink control channel, are not the same but set as adjacent different transmit times from each other, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate, wherein

the base station comprising a channel estimator which performs channel estimation for a channel used for transmission of the downlink quality information, by using the uplink pilot signal received from the mobile communication terminal as a reference channel, and the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately from each other.

11. The base station as claimed in claim 10, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in frequency from each other.

12. The base station as claimed in claim 10, wherein the radio transmitter transmits the downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and the uplink pilot signal to the base station in an intermittent fashion, separately in both time and frequency from each other.