Communication control device and communication control method

• US 9,473,996 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2012
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagata, Satoshi, Abe, Tetsushi, Takahashi, Hideaki, Iwamura, Mikio, Nakamura, Takehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Demeter, Hilina K
• Application Number:
  US14/114,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20140162662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,611 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/20 for optimising the interference level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load

Abstract

A communication control device includes a parameter acquisition unit which acquires a first parameter determined on the basis of the number of mobile stations connected to the first cell or the number of mobile stations connected to the second cell, a parameter determination unit which changes the number of mobile stations connectable to the first cell or the number of mobile stations connectable to the second cell on the basis of the first parameter, and a parameter notification unit which notifies at least any one of the first base station and the second base station of the determined second parameter.

Claims

1. A communication control device configured to control a first base station forming a first cell having a predetermined cell radius and a second base station forming a second cell having a cell radius smaller than the predetermined cell radius and being overlaid completely within a coverage area of the first cell, the communication control device comprising:

processing circuitry configured to;

acquire a first parameter determined based on a number of mobile stations connected to the first cell or a number of mobile stations connected to the second cell;

determine a second parameter based on the first parameter, the second parameter causing a change in a number of mobile stations connectable to the first cell or a number of mobile stations connectable to the second cell;

notify at least any one of the first base station and the second base station of the second parameter;

acquire a load factor of the first cell and a load factor of the second cell as the first parameter;

determine a Cell Range Expansion value as the second parameter;

set an Almost Blank Subframe pattern used in an inter-cell interference coordination in a time domain or a Relative Narrowband TX Power pattern used in an inter-cell interference coordination in a frequency domain based on the load factor of the first cell and the load factor of the second cell; and

determine the Cell Range Expansion value by which a difference between the load factor of the first cell and the load factor of the second cell is made within a predetermined range.

2. A communication control method of controlling a first base station forming a first cell having a predetermined cell radius and a second base station forming a second cell having a cell radius smaller than the predetermined cell radius and being overlaid completely within a coverage area of the first cell, the communication control method comprising:

acquiring a first parameter determined based on a number of mobile stations connected to the first cell or a number of mobile stations connected to the second cell;

determining a second parameter based on the acquired first parameter, the second parameter causing a change in a number of mobile stations connectable to the first cell or a number of mobile stations connectable to the second cell; and

notifying at least any one of the first base station and the second base station of the determined second parameter notify at least any one of the first base station and the second base station of the second parameter;

the acquiring further including acquiring a load factor of the first cell and a load factor of the second cell as the first parameter; and

the determining further including

determining a Cell Range Expansion value as the second parameter,

setting an Almost Blank Subframe pattern used in an inter-cell interference coordination in a time domain or a Relative Narrowband TX Power pattern used in an inter-cell interference coordination in a frequency domain based on the load factor of the first cell and the load factor of the second cell, and

determining the Cell Range Expansion value by which a difference between the load factor of the first cell and the load factor of the second cell is made within a predetermined range.