Communication control method, user terminal, network device, and base station

• US 9,686,708 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuta, Noriyoshi, Fujishiro, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN
• Application Number:
  US14/779,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057643A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,184 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports

Abstract

A communication control method according to the present invention comprises: a step A of notifying, by UE 100 in a connected state, a MME/S-GW300 of RAT information on an MDT support RAT that is a radio access technology (RAT) on which the user terminal supports an MDT measurement; and a step B of setting to the UE 100, by network device, a PLMN (public land mobile network) list indicating a public land mobile network that permits MDT measurement, on the basis of RAT information.

Claims

1. A communication control method, comprising:

a step A of notifying, by a user terminal, when the user terminal is in a connected state, a network apparatus of RAT information on a radio access technology (RAT) on which the user terminal supports an MDT measurement;

a step B of setting to the user terminal, by the network apparatus, a PLMN (public land mobile network) list indicating a public land mobile network that permits the MDT measurement, on the basis of the RAT information;

a step D of transmitting to a base station, by the user terminal, notification information indicating that the user terminal holds a plurality of measurement results for different RATs and identification information indicating an RAT corresponding to each of the plurality of measurement results;

a step F of transmitting to the base station, by the user terminal, a measurement result report;

a step G of determining, by the base station, whether the measurement result report received from the user terminal includes the plurality of measurement results corresponding to a plurality of RATs; and

a step H of transmitting to the user terminal, by the base station, control information indicating whether or not to permit deletion of a measurement result corresponding to one of the plurality of RATs, in response to the determination that the measurement result report received from the user terminal includes the plurality of measurement results corresponding to the plurality of RATs.

2. The communication control method according to claim 1, further comprising:

a step C of performing, by the user terminal, when the user terminal is in an idle state, the MDT measurement in a PLMN included in the PLMN list set on the basis of the RAT information.

3. The communication control method according to claim 1, wherein

the user terminal notifies the network apparatus of the RAT information, in response to reception of a notification request for the RAT information from the network apparatus.

4. The communication control method according to claim 1, wherein

the PLMN list includes only a PLMN belonging to the RAT.

5. The communication control method according to claim 2, wherein

when the PLMN list includes a first PLMN belonging to the RAT and a second PLMN not belonging to the RAT, the user terminal prohibits performing the MDT measurement in the second PLMN and performs the MDT measurement in the first PLMN.

6. The communication control method according to claim 2, further comprising:

a step E of transmitting to the base station, by the user terminal that holds a first measurement result by the MDT measurement, information indicating that the user terminal does not hold a second measurement result, when the user terminal receives from the base station, a transmission request of the second measurement result, wherein

the second measurement result is a measurement result for an RAT other than an RAT corresponding to the first measurement result.

7. A base station, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive from a user terminal, notification information indicating that the user terminal holds a plurality of measurement results for different RATs and identification information indicating an RAT corresponding to each of the plurality of measurement results, wherein the receiver is further configured to receive a measurement result report from the user terminal, and

a controller configured to

determine whether the measurement result report received from the user terminal includes the plurality of measurement results corresponding to a plurality of RATs, and

transmit to the user terminal, control information indicating whether or not to permit deletion of a measurement result corresponding to one of the plurality of RATs, in response to the determination that the measurement result report received from the user terminal includes the plurality of measurement results corresponding to the plurality of RATs.