Mobile wireless communication control device and mobile wireless communication system

• US 9,716,797 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Shigeaki, Fushimi, Wataru, Yamaura, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Robert
• Application Number:
  US14/760,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/56 for VoIP communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0226 based on location or mobility handoff or reselection H04W36/00; mobile application services making use of the location of users or terminals H04W4/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0231 based on communication conditions dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition based on channel quality criteria H04W72/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

A mobile wireless communication control device includes a moving object information holder that stores a communication state of each moving object which moves in a plurality of wireless zones and information showing a wireless zone to which the moving object belongs, and a call admission determinator that refers to the information held by the moving object information holder, and determines whether a moving object which is going to start communications can start the communications on the basis of the number of calls of moving objects in communication in a first wireless zone to which the moving object which is going to start the communications belongs, and the number of calls of moving objects in communication in a second wireless zone adjacent to the first wireless zone.

Claims

1. A mobile wireless communication control device that, in a mobile wireless communication system in which a moving object which moves in a plurality of wireless zones performs communications with a ground side via a base station, performs start control of said communications, said mobile wireless communication control device comprising:

a moving object information memory to store a communication state of said moving object and information showing a wireless zone to which the moving object belongs; and

a controller configured to perform as a call admission determinator to refer to the information stored by said moving object information memory, and determine whether a moving object which is going to start said communications can start the communications on a basis of a number of calls of moving objects in communication in a first wireless zone to which said moving object which is going to start the communications belongs, and a number of calls of moving objects in communication in a second wireless zone adjacent to the first wireless zone.

2. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said second wireless zone is adjacent in a traveling direction of the moving object which is going to start said communications.

3. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said second wireless zone is adjacent in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the moving object which is going to start said communications.

4. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said call admission determinator determines whether the moving object which is going to start said communications can start the communications on a basis of a number of calls of moving objects which belong to said second wireless zone and are moving in a direction toward said first wireless zone.

5. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said moving object information memory stores a moving object number specifying said moving object, a communication state showing whether or not said moving object is in communication, a number specifying said base station corresponding to said wireless zone to which said moving object currently belongs, and a traveling direction of said moving object, and, at a time of starting communications, when a sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in the first wireless zone to which the moving object which is going to start said communications belongs, and a number of calls of moving objects which are moving from the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than a first threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started.

6. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 5, wherein at a time of starting communications, when the sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in said first wireless zone to which the moving object which is going to start said communications belongs, and the number of calls of the moving objects which are moving from the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, and a sum of a number of calls of moving objects which are located in the traveling direction of the moving object which is going to start said communications, and which are in communication in the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to which the moving object currently belongs, and a number of calls of moving objects which are moving from a third wireless zone adjacent to said second wireless zone to said second wireless zone, and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started.

7. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 5, wherein said moving object information memory further stores a time when said moving object entered said wireless zone to which said moving object currently belongs, and, at a time of starting communications, when a period of time during which the moving object which is going to start said communications is expected to belong to said first wireless zone from this time forward is greater than a second threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started if the sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in said first wireless zone and the number of calls of the moving objects which are moving from the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, and, when the period of time during which the moving object which is going to start said communications is expected to belong to said first wireless zone from this time forward is equal to or less than said second threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started if the sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in said first wireless zone and the number of calls of the moving objects which are moving from the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, and a sum of a number of calls of moving objects which are located in the traveling direction of the moving object which is going to start said communications, and which are in communication in the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to which the moving object currently belongs, and a number of calls of moving objects which are moving from a third wireless zone adjacent to said second wireless zone to said second wireless zone and which are in communication is equal to or smaller than said first threshold.

8. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 5, wherein said moving object information memory further stores a time when said moving object entered said wireless zone to which said moving object currently belongs, and, at a time of starting communications, when a sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in said first wireless zone to which the moving object which is going to start said communications belongs and a number of calls of moving objects in communication which are moving from a wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone, and which are expected to reach said first wireless zone before the moving object which is going to start said communications has moved from said first wireless zone to another wireless zone is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, and a sum of a number of calls of moving objects in communication which are located in the traveling direction of the moving object which is going to start said communications and belong to the second wireless zone adjacent to the wireless zone to which the moving object currently belongs, and which are expected to belong to said second wireless zone even after the moving object which is going to start said communications has reached said second wireless zone, and a number of calls of moving object which are moving from a third wireless zone adjacent to said second wireless zone to said second wireless zone is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started.

9. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 5, wherein said moving object information memory further stores a time when said moving object entered said wireless zone to which said moving object currently belongs, and, at a time of starting communications, when a sum of the number of calls of the moving objects in communication in said first wireless zone to which the moving object which is going to start said communications belongs and a number of calls of moving objects in communication which are moving from the second wireless zone adjacent to said first wireless zone to said first wireless zone and which are expected to reach said first wireless zone before the moving object which is going to start said communications has moved from said first wireless zone to another wireless zone is equal to or smaller than said first threshold, said call admission determinator determines that the communications can be started.

10. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 7, wherein said mobile wireless communication control device predicts a period of time during which said moving object is expected to belong to a wireless zone from this time forward on a basis of either a time when said moving object entered the wireless zone or a time when said moving object entered a wireless zone to which said moving object belonged before that time.

11. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 7, wherein said mobile wireless communication control device predicts a period of time during which said moving object is expected to belong to a wireless zone from this time forward on a basis of both a timetable of said moving object and a current time.

12. The mobile wireless communication control device according to claim 7, wherein said mobile wireless communication control device predicts a period of time during which said moving object is expected to belong to a wireless zone from this time forward on a basis of position information about said moving object.

13. A mobile wireless communication system in which a moving object moving in a plurality of wireless zones performs communications with a ground side via a base station, said mobile wireless communication system comprising:

a mobile wireless communication control device that includes

a moving object information memory to store a communication state of said moving object and information showing a wireless zone to which the moving object belongs; and

a controller configured to perform as a call admission determinator to refer to the information stored by said moving object information memory, and determine whether a moving object which is going to start communications can start the communications on a basis of a number of calls of moving objects in communication in a first wireless zone to which said moving object which is going to start the communications belongs, and a number of calls of moving objects in communication in a second wireless zone adjacent to the first wireless zone.