Mobile communication system

• US 9,521,639 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• 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: Iwamura, Mikio, Uchino, Tooru
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Peter
• Application Number:
  US14/118,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20140098784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,677 Days
• Field of Search: 370/330
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2656 for structure of frame, burst
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0062 Avoidance of ingress interference, e.g. ham radio channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/003 Arrangements to increase tolerance to errors in transmission or reception timing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

Orthogonality between signals is maintained in direct communication between a mobile station UE#1 and a mobile station UE#2. In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, a radio base station eNB is configured to transmit a data signal to the UE#1 and the UE#2 through a Uu interface at a frequency f1, the UE#1 and the UE#2 are configured to transmit the data signal to the radio base station eNB through the Uu interface at a frequency F2, the UE#1 and the UE#2 are configured to transmit and receive the data signal to and from each other in a time-division manner through a Ud interface at the frequency F2, and predetermined gaps are configured to be provided before and after timing in which the UE#1 and the UE#2 transmit the data signal through the Ud interface.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a first mobile station;

a second mobile station;

a radio base station;

a first radio base station interface between the first mobile station and the radio base station;

a second radio base station interface between the second mobile station and the radio base station; and

an inter-mobile station interface between the first mobile station and the second mobile station,

wherein the radio base station transmits a data signal to the first mobile station and the second mobile station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a first frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal to the radio base station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a second frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit and receive the data signal to and from each other through the inter-mobile station interface at the second frequency,

the transmission of the data signal through the first and second radio base station interfaces at the second frequency and the transmission and reception of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface at the second frequency are performed in a time-division manner, and

predetermined gaps are provided before and after timing in which the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface, in consideration of a time required to switch between the transmission of the data signal through one of the first and second radio base station interfaces and the inter-mobile station interface and the reception of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface in the second frequency.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein duration of the predetermined gap or duration of a subframe except the predetermined gap is specified in units of symbols.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the radio base station notifies the first mobile station and the second mobile station of duration of the predetermined gap.

4. A mobile communication system comprising:

a first mobile station;

a second mobile station;

a radio base station;

a first radio base station interface between the first mobile station and the radio base station;

a second radio base station interface between the second mobile station and the radio base station; and

an inter-mobile station interface between the first mobile station and the second mobile station,

wherein the radio base station transmits a data signal to the first mobile station and the second mobile station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a first frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit and receive the data signal to and from each other through the inter-mobile station interface at the first frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal to the radio base station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a second frequency,

the transmission of the data signal through the first and second radio base station interfaces at the first frequency and the transmission and reception of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface at the first frequency are performed in a time-division manner, and

predetermined gaps are provided before and after timing in which the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface, in consideration of a time required to switch between the reception of the data signal through one of the first and second radio base station interfaces and the inter-mobile station interface and the transmission of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface in the first frequency.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein duration of the predetermined gap or duration of a subframe except the predetermined gap is specified in units of symbols.

6. The mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein the radio base station notifies the first mobile station and the second mobile station of duration of the predetermined gap.

7. A mobile communication system comprising:

a first mobile station;

a second mobile station;

a radio base station;

a first radio base station interface between the first mobile station and the radio base station;

a second radio base station interface between the second mobile station and the radio base station; and

an inter-mobile station interface between the first mobile station and the second mobile station,

wherein the radio base station transmits a data signal to the first mobile station and the second mobile station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a first frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal to the radio base station through the first and second radio base station interfaces at a second frequency,

the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit and receive the data signal to and from each other in a time-division manner through the inter-mobile station interface at a third frequency, and

predetermined gaps are provided before and after timing in which the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmit the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface, in consideration of a time required to switch between transmission of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface and reception of the data signal through the inter-mobile station interface in the third frequency.

8. The mobile communication system according to claim 7, wherein duration of the predetermined gap or duration of a subframe except the predetermined gap is specified in units of symbols.

9. The mobile communication system according to claim 7, wherein the radio base station notifies the first mobile station and the second mobile station of duration of the predetermined gap.