Wireless communications system, mobile station, base station, and communication method

• US 9,674,821 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ohta, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Acolatse, Kodzovi
• Application Number:
  US14/547,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20150078307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• 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 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless communications system includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station transmits a second control signal used for configuring a first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is monitored and a second interval that is different from the first interval. The mobile station monitors the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and monitors the first control signal for formats fewer than the plurality of the formats during the second interval.

Claims

1. A wireless communications system comprising:

a base station; and

a mobile station, wherein

the base station determines at least one information among a number of second intervals in each interval other than first intervals, an interval of the second intervals, or timing of the second interval,

the base station transmits a second control signal used for configuring the first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is monitored and the second interval that is different from the first interval and that is set within a third interval during which the mobile station does not receive a wireless signal, the third interval being an interval between first intervals, the second control signal includes the determined at least one information, and

the mobile station monitors the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and monitors the first control signal for formats fewer than the plurality of the formats during the second interval.

2. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the base station transmits the first control signal in any of the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and

the base station transmits the first control signal in any of the fewer formats during the second interval.

3. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the base station and the mobile station, if the first control signal is transmitted during the second interval, advance a start time of the first interval immediately after the second interval during which the first control signal is transmitted.

4. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

if a plurality of cells is used at the same time for performing data communication between the base station and the mobile station,

the base station transmits the first control signal related to the plurality of the cells to the mobile station through some cells among the plurality of the cells while the mobile station monitors the first control signal for the some cells and performs the data communication through the plurality of the cells based on a result of monitoring the first control signal.

5. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the first control signal indicates that the base station transmits data to the mobile station, and

the mobile station receives the data transmitted from the base station, based on a result of monitoring the first control signal.

6. The wireless communications system according to claim 5, wherein

the first control signal includes information that indicates wireless resources used by the base station for transmitting data to the mobile station.

7. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the first control signal includes information that indicates wireless resources used for transmission of data from the mobile station to the base station, and

the mobile station transmits the data to the base station, based on a result of monitoring of the first control signal.

8. A mobile station configured with intermittent reception, the mobile station comprising:

a communications unit that receives a second control signal used for configuring a first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is monitored and a second interval that is different from the first interval and that is set within a third interval during which the mobile station does not receive a wireless signal, the third interval being an interval between first intervals, the second control signal includes a determined at least one information among a number of second intervals in each interval other than first intervals, an interval of the second intervals, or timing of the second interval, and

a control unit that monitors the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and that monitors the first control signal for formats fewer than the plurality of the formats during the second interval.

9. A base station configured with intermittent reception, the base station comprising:

a communications unit that determines at least one information among a number of second intervals in each interval other than first intervals, an interval of the second intervals, or timing of the second interval and that transmits a second control signal that configures the first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is monitored and the second interval that is different from the first interval and that is set within a third interval during which a mobile station does not receive a wireless signal, the third interval being an interval between first intervals, the second control signal includes the determined at least one information, and

a control unit that controls transmits the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and that transmits the first control signal for formats fewer than the plurality of the formats during the second interval.

10. A wireless communications system comprising:

a base station; and

a mobile station, wherein

the base station determines at least one information among a number of second intervals in each interval other than first intervals, an interval of the second intervals, or timing of the second interval,

the mobile station receives a second control signal used for configuring the first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is transmitted and the second interval that is different from the first interval and that is set within a third interval during which the mobile station does not receive a wireless signal, the third interval being an interval between first intervals, the second control signal includes the determined at least one information,

the base station transmits the first control signal in any of the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and transmits the first control signal during the second interval by using formats fewer than the plurality of the formats, and

the mobile station monitors the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and monitors the first control signal for the fewer formats during the second interval.