Base station, communication method, and mobile station

• US 9,693,209 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tsutsui, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Kimberly A
• Application Number:
  US14/655,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041, 4554141-4143, 340 61, 340 72, 340 758, 340 759, 379 37, 379 47, 379 49
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station communicates with a mobile station. The base station includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit transmits an alert periodically to the mobile station using a first channel, receives, from the mobile station, alert reception information related to reception of the alert, and transmits at least a part of the alert to the mobile station using a second channel different from the first channel. The control unit instructs the wireless communication unit, in response to the alert reception information, to transmit to the mobile station at least a part of the alert using the second channel.

Claims

1. A warning system for earthquakes, tsunamis and commercial mobile alerts, comprising:

a core network comprising a mobility management entity, a cell broadcast center and a cell broadcast service;

at least one mobile station comprising a mobile station control unit and a mobile station wireless communication unit having a first frequency band and a second frequency band; and

a base station, station comprising a base station control unit and a base station wireless communication unit having a segment division unit, the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and the base station communicates with the mobility management entity via an interface, wherein

the base station wireless communication unit periodically transmits an alert to the at least one mobile station using the first frequency band, the alert including a flag requiring the at least one mobile station to request transmission of the alert via the second frequency band when decoding of the alert does not succeed in the at least one mobile station, the base station wireless communication unit receiving, from the mobile station, alert reception information, the base station wireless communication unit transmitting the alert to the at least one mobile station using the second frequency band; and

the control unit of the base station instructs the base station wireless communication unit, in response to the alert reception information, to transmit the alert to the at least one mobile station using the second frequency band.

2. The warning system according to claim 1, wherein the alert reception information includes information that requests transmission of the alert.

3. The warning system according to claim 2, wherein the base station control unit determines whether to add the flag to the alert based on a predetermined condition.

4. The warning system according to claim 2, wherein the base station wireless communication unit transmits a plurality of different alerts, using the first frequency band.

5. The warning system according to claim 2, wherein the segment division unit divides the alert into a plurality of segments.

6. The warning system according to claim 1, wherein the base station control unit determines whether to add the flag to the alert based on a predetermined condition.

7. The warning system according to claim 6, wherein the predetermined condition is at least one of:

priority degree of the alert;

transmission period of the alert; and

usage degree of resource used by the base station.

8. The warning system according to claim 7, wherein the base station wireless communication unit transmits a plurality of different alerts, using the first frequency band.

9. The warning system according to claim 7, wherein the segment division unit divides the alert into a plurality of segments.

10. The warning system according to claim 6, wherein the base station wireless communication unit transmits a plurality of different alerts, using the first frequency band.

11. The warning system according to claim 6, wherein the segment division unit divides the alert into a plurality of segments.

12. The warning system according to claim 1, wherein the base station wireless communication unit transmits a plurality of different alerts, using the first frequency band.

13. The warning system according to claim 1, wherein the segment division unit divides the alert into a plurality of segments.

14. A method for warning for earthquakes, tsunamis and commercial mobile alerts, comprising:

providing a core network comprising a mobility management entity, a cell broadcast center and a cell broadcast service;

at least one mobile station comprising a mobile station control unit and a mobile station wireless communication unit having a first frequency band and a second frequency band; and

a base station, station comprising a base station control unit and a base station wireless communication unit having a segment division unit, the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and the base station communicates with the mobility management entity via an interface,

transmitting an alert periodically to the at least one mobile station using a first frequency band, the alert including a flag requiring the at least one mobile station to request transmission of the alert via a second channel when decoding of the alert does not succeed in the at least one mobile station, the second frequency band being different from the first frequency band;

receiving, from the mobile station, alert reception information related to reception of the alert;

transmitting the alert to the mobile station using the second frequency band; and

instructing the base station, in response to the alert reception information, to transmit the alert to the at least one mobile station using the second frequency band.

15. The method for warning according to claim 14, wherein the alert reception information includes information that requests transmission of the alert.

16. A warning system for earthquakes, tsunamis and commercial mobile alerts, comprising:

a core network comprising a mobility management entity, a cell broadcast center and a cell broadcast service;

at least one mobile station comprising a mobile station control unit and a mobile station wireless communication unit having a first frequency band and a second frequency band; and

a base station, station comprising a base station control unit and a base station wireless communication unit having a segment division unit, the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and the base station communicates with the mobility management entity via an interface, wherein

the wireless communication unit of the at least one mobile station periodically receives an alert using the first frequency band, the alert including a flag requiring the mobile station to request transmission of the alert via a second frequency band when decoding of the alert does not succeed in the at least one mobile station, the second frequency band being different from the first frequency band, the wireless communication of the at least one mobile station unit transmitting, to the base station, alert reception information related to reception of the alert, the wireless communication unit of the at least one mobile station receiving the alert from the base station using the second frequency band; and

the control unit of the base station controls the alert, the control unit of the base station determining whether the alert is correctly decoded, the control unit instructing the wireless communication unit to transmit the alert of the base station reception information to the base station in a case of the control unit of the base station determining that the alert is not correctly decoded.

17. The warning system according to claim 16, wherein the alert reception information includes information that requests transmission of the alert.