Mobile communication system

• US 9,350,501 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2010
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Maeda, Miho, Mochizuki, Mitsuru, Saegusa, Taiga, Iwane, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Thier, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Yaotang
• Application Number:
  US13/266,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,225 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/329, 370/332, 455/450
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0005 Time-frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

A base station which uses either one of a plurality of component carriers individually or uses an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of the above-mentioned plurality of component carriers to carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned component carrier and also carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier is provided. The base station notifies a bandwidth of an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of the above-mentioned component carriers, as a bandwidth which the above-mentioned base station uses, to the mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier. As a result, while an improvement in the transmission rate is provided according to the aggregate carrier, the base station can also support an operation of a mobile terminal corresponding to a component carrier.

Claims

1. A base station which uses either one of a plurality of component carriers individually or uses an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of said plurality of component carriers to carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal supporting said component carrier and also carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier, where the mobile terminal supporting the component carrier does not support said aggregate carrier

wherein said base station

broadcasts information indicating a frequency band of a multi carrier anchor included in said aggregate carrier such that the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier can be configured to receive the multi carrier anchor, and

notifies, by using the frequency band indicated by the broadcasted information, a bandwidth of an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of said plurality of component carriers, as a bandwidth which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier, the bandwidth of the aggregate carrier being indicated in system information of said aggregate carrier.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein said base station notifies a tracking area which is common in an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of said component carriers, as a tracking area which is a target for tracking a position of a mobile terminal and which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier.

3. The base station according to claim 2, wherein said base station notifies a tracking area corresponding to said component carrier disposed separately from the tracking area which is common in said aggregate carrier, as a tracking area which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.

4. The base station according to claim 1, wherein said base station notifies a call occurrence reporting timing which is common in an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of said component carriers, as a call occurrence reporting timing which is a timing with which to report an occurrence of a call and which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier.

5. The base station according to claim 4, wherein said base station notifies a call occurrence reporting timing corresponding to said component carrier and disposed separately from the call occurrence reporting timing which is common in said aggregate carrier, as a call occurrence reporting timing which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.

6. The base station according to claim 5, wherein said base station sets the call occurrence reporting timing which is common in said aggregate carrier to have a higher frequency than the call occurrence reporting timing corresponding to said component carrier.

7. The base station according to claim 1, wherein said base station selects a component carrier to which said base station should switch from among said plurality of component carriers according to quality of a signal which said base station transmits on a component carrier which said base station is currently using.

8. The base station according to claim 7, wherein said base station causes a mobile terminal to transmit a measurement result of quality of a signal which said base station transmits by using each of said plurality of component carriers, and selects the component carrier to which said base station should switch according to the measurement result transmitted thereto.

9. The base station according to claim 1, wherein said base station selects a component carrier to which said base station should switch from among component carriers of a neighboring base station falling within a band which is same as that to which a component carrier which said base station is currently using belongs according to quality of a signal which said base station transmits on said component carrier which said base station is currently using.

10. The base station according to claim 1, wherein said base station notifies a bandwidth of said component carrier, as a bandwidth which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.