Management device, control device, and communication method

• US 9,713,177 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hayashi, Toshiki, Yokota, Fumihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasia, Redentor
• Assistant Examiner(s): MAK, PETER K
• Application Number:
  US14/445,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20150043342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/18 Management of setup rejection or failure

Abstract

A management device includes: an estimator configured to estimate whether or not mobile station devices each requests a wireless connection at a target time after a current time; and an instructor configured to instruct a control device, configured to control calls of the mobile station devices, to execute a process of causing a first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a first time before the target time and causing a second mobile station device that is different from the first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a second time that is before the target time and different from the first time, in a case where the number of mobile station devices that are each estimated to request the wireless connection to the control device at the target time exceeds a predetermined value.

Claims

1. A management device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to execute;

estimating whether or not at least two of a plurality of mobile station devices request a wireless connection at a target time after a current time; and

instructing a control device, configured to control calls of the mobile station devices, to execute a process of causing a first mobile station device of the plurality of mobile station devices to request the wireless connection at a first time before the target time and causing a second mobile station device of the plurality of mobile station devices that is different from the first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a second time that is before the target time and different from the first time, when the number of mobile station devices that are estimated to request the wireless connection to the control device at the target time exceeds a predetermined value, wherein

the estimated request of the at least two of the plurality of mobile station devices at the target time is after the current time, the first time, and the second time,

the request at the second time is after the first time and the current time, but before the target time,

the request at the first time is after the current time, but before the second time and the target time, and

the current time is before the target time, the second time, and the first time.

2. The management device according to claim 1,

wherein the estimating estimates whether or not a target mobile station device located in a cell formed by a base station device connected to a first control device serving as the control device requests the wireless connection, based on a history record representing that the target mobile station device has requested the wireless connection to the first control device and a history record representing that the target mobile station device has requested the wireless connection to a second control device configured to control calls of the mobile station devices and different from the first control device.

3. The management device according to claim 1,

wherein the instructing instructs the control device to execute a process of causing only a mobile station device, estimated to request the wireless connection to the control device, to request the wireless connection.

4. The management device according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor further executes transmitting, to the control device at a third time before the first time, an instruction signal to instruct the first mobile station device to request the wireless connection and transmitting, to the control device at a fourth time before the second time, an instruction signal to instruct the second mobile station device to request the wireless connection.

5. A control device configured to control calls of mobile station devices, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to execute;

notifying, based on history records of requests for wireless connections from the mobile station devices, a management device, configured to estimate whether or not the mobile station devices request the wireless connections to the control device at a target time after a current time, that the mobile station devices have requested the wireless connections;

receiving, from the management device, an instruction signal that has been transmitted when the number of mobile station devices estimated to request wireless connections to the control device at the target time exceeds a predetermined value and that causes the control device to execute a process of causing the mobile station devices to request the wireless connections after the current time and before the target time;

causing the mobile station devices to request the wireless connections after the current time and before the target time in response to the reception of the instruction signal;

estimating whether or not the mobile station devices each request the wireless connection at the target time; and

causing a first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a first time before the target time and cause a second mobile station device that is different from the first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a second time that is before the target time and different from the first time, in a case where the number of mobile station devices that are each estimated to request the wireless connection to the control device at the target time exceeds a predetermined value, wherein

the request at the second time is after the first time and the current time, but before the target time, and

the request at the first time is after the current time, but before the second time and the target time.

6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein the at least one processor further executes:

receiving a request signal for the wireless connection from a third mobile station device; and

receiving, from a second control device configured to control calls of the mobile station devices and different from a first control device serving as the control device, a notification representing that a fourth mobile station device has requested the wireless connection to the second control device,

wherein the estimating estimates, based on a first history record representing that a target mobile station device located in a cell formed by a base station device connected to the first control device has requested the wireless connection to the first control device and a second history record representing that the target mobile station device has requested the wireless connection to the second control device, whether or not the target mobile station device requests the wireless connection.

7. A communication method comprising:

estimating whether or not mobile station devices each request a wireless connection at a target time after a current time; and

instructing a control device, configured to control calls of the mobile station devices, to execute a process of causing a first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a first time before the target time and causing a second mobile station device that is different from the first mobile station device to request the wireless connection at a second time that is before the target time and different from the first time, in a case where the number of mobile station devices that are each estimated to request the wireless connection to the control device at the target time exceeds a predetermined value, wherein

the estimated request of the mobile station devices at the target time is after the current time, the first time, and the second time,

the request at the second time is after the first time and the current time, but before the current time,

the request at the first time is after the current time, but before the second time and the target time, and

the current time is before the target time, the second time, and the first time.