Method, mobile station device, base station device, and mobile communication system for gap-generation determination

• US 9,351,206 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2014
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Uemura, Katsunari, Oh, Wahoh, Tsuboi, Hidekazu
• Primary Examiner(s): DUONG, CHRISTINE T
• Application Number:
  US14/454,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20140348016A1
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• 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 36/0085 Hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/142 over the same radio air interface technology

Abstract

A mobile station device that communicates with a base station device. The mobile communication receives, from the base station device, a control signal for permitting the mobile station device to perform monitoring neighboring cell. The mobile station device also generates a gap based on one length of plural lengths, the gap being used in the monitoring, the one length corresponding to a measurement type of a neighboring cell according to a predetermined rule, the plural lengths being common with the base station, and the predetermine rule being common with the base station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication method for a mobile station device that communicates with a base station device, the mobile communication method comprising:

receiving, from the base station device, a control signal not including one length for permitting the mobile station device to perform monitoring of a neighboring cell, wherein the control signal is transmitted in a case where a gap is required to measure a neighboring cell;

generating the gap based on the one length of plural lengths,

the gap being used in the monitoring,

each of the plural lengths corresponding to one of measurement types according to a predetermined rule,

the one length being autonomously determined based on the control signal not including the one length,

the one length depending on a measurement type of the neighboring cell,

the plural lengths being common with the base station device,

the predetermined rule being common with the base station device, and

the measurement type comprising a radio access technology (RAT), and being reported to the base station device as a measurement capability of the mobile station device.

2. A mobile station device that communicates with a base station device, the mobile station device comprising:

a receiving circuit configured to and/or programmed to receive, from the base station device, a control signal not including one length for permitting the mobile station device to perform monitoring of a neighboring cell, wherein the control signal is transmitted in a case where a gap is required to measure a neighboring cell;

a generation circuit configured to and/or programmed to generate the gap based on the one length of plural lengths,

the gap being used in the monitoring,

each of the plural lengths corresponding to one of measurement types according to a predetermined rule,

the one length being autonomously determined based on the control signal not including the one length,

the one length depending on a measurement type of the neighboring cell,

the plural lengths being common with the base station device,

the predetermined rule being common with the base station device, and

the measurement type comprising a radio access technology (RAT), and being reported to the base station device as a measurement capability of the mobile station device.