Mobile communication system, base station and communication control method for notification and management of resource allocation information in CoMP cooperating set

• US 9,668,246 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2013
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Morita, Kugo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Hoang-Chuong
• Application Number:
  US14/373,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20140362801A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,593 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0035 Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

In a mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations included in a CoMP cooperating set allocate a same communication resource to a user terminal to perform a communication, each of the plurality of base stations comprises a notification unit that notifies another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set of a communication resource of allocation candidate for the user terminal in the base station itself; a receiver that receives a notification of a communication resource of allocation candidate for the user terminal in another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set from the other base station; and a selector that selects a communication resource to be allocated to the user terminal from communication resources of allocation candidates in the plurality of base stations, based on the notification received by the receiver.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system, comprising:

a plurality of base stations included in a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) cooperating set for performing CoMP communication, wherein

each of the plurality of base stations comprises;

a receiver configured to receive a CoMP allocation candidate notification from another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set, the CoMP allocation candidate notification including;

resource block information that indicates allocation candidate resource blocks to be used for the CoMP communication,

a system frame number (SFN) and a subframe number that indicate allocation candidate time corresponding to the resource block information, and

a value for determining whether the CoMP allocation candidate notification should be applied for allocating communication resources to a user terminal; and

a processor configured to select a communication resource to be allocated to the user terminal, based on the CoMP allocation candidate notification received by the receiver.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to select the communication resource to be allocated to the user terminal according to a selection rule common to the plurality of base stations.

3. A base station included in a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) cooperating set for performing CoMP communication, the base station comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a CoMP allocation candidate notification from another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set, the CoMP allocation candidate notification including;

resource block information that indicates allocation candidate resource blocks to be used for the CoMP communication,

a system frame number (SFN) and a subframe number that indicate allocation candidate time corresponding to the resource block information, and

a value for determining whether the CoMP allocation candidate notification should be applied for allocating communication resources to a user terminal; and

a processor configured to select a communication resource to be allocated to the user terminal, based on the CoMP allocation candidate notification received by the receiver.

4. A base station included in a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) cooperating set for performing CoMP communication, the base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a CoMP allocation candidate notification to another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set, the CoMP allocation candidate notification including;

resource block information that indicates allocation candidate resource blocks to be used for the CoMP communication,

a system frame number (SFN) and a subframe number that indicate allocation candidate time corresponding to the resource block information, and

a value for determining whether the CoMP allocation candidate notification should be applied for allocating communication resources to a user terminal;

wherein the CoMP allocation candidate notification enables said another base station to select a communication resource to be allocated to the user terminal.