Radio communication system and method

• US 9,872,212 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2016
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hamabe, Kojiro, Lee, Jinsock
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Brian D
• Application Number:
  US15/232,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20160353341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0016 Hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0094 Definition of hand-off measurement parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/302 due to low signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A mobile station determines, in accordance with reception quality of a radio signal from a base station, a measurement cycle of a predetermined measurement on a link status and/or on/off of the predetermined measurement and controls execution of the predetermined measurement based on the determination.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a controller configured to compare a measured serving cell quality value of a signal transmitted from a serving cell with a threshold, and to determine whether to perform a measurement of a non-serving cell quality value of a signal to be transmitted from a non-serving cell based on a result of a comparison of the measured serving cell quality value and the threshold,

wherein the controller is configured to perform the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value and to associate a position information available in the mobile terminal with a result of the measurement, in response to the measured serving cell quality value being equal to or less than the threshold; and

a transmitter configured to report, to a network, the result of the measurement and the position information associated with the result of the measurement.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the result of the measurement is stored periodically.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2,

wherein information indicating periodicity for storing the result of the measurement is transmitted from the network to the mobile terminal.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the controller stops performing the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value in a case where a timer expires.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 4,

wherein information indicating duration time of the timer is transmitted from the network to the mobile terminal.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the controller associates time information with the result of the measurement and the position information.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the controller measures Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) quality information and,

wherein the transmitter reports the MBSFN quality information to the network.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the transmitter reports the measured serving cell quality value.

9. A base station comprising,

a receiver configured to receive, from a mobile terminal, a result signal including a result of a measurement of a non-serving cell quality value based on a signal transmitted from a non-serving cell and position information available in the mobile terminal;

wherein the mobile terminal comprising;

a controller configured to compare a measured serving cell quality value of a signal transmitted from a serving cell with a threshold, and to determine whether to perform the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value of the signal to be transmitted from the non-serving cell based on a result of a comparison of the measured serving cell quality value and the threshold,

wherein the controller is configured to perform the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value and to associate the position information with the result of the measurement, in response to the measured serving cell quality value being equal to or less than the threshold; and

a transmitter configured to report, to the base station, the result of the measurement and the position information associated with the result of the measurement.

10. The base station according to claim 9,

wherein the result of the measurement is stored periodically.

11. The base station according to claim 10,

wherein information indicating periodicity for storing the result of the measurement is transmitted from a network to the mobile terminal.

12. The base station according to claim 9,

wherein the controller stops performing the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value in a case where a timer expires.

13. The base station according to claim 12,

wherein information indicating duration time of the timer is transmitted from a network to the mobile terminal.

14. The base station according to claim 9,

wherein the controller associates time information with the result of the measurement and the position information.

15. The base station according to claim 9,

wherein the controller measures Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) quality information and,

wherein the transmitter reports the MBSFN quality information to the base station.

16. The base station according to claim 9,

wherein the transmitter reports the measured serving cell quality value.

17. A method of a mobile terminal comprising:

comparing a measured serving cell quality value of a signal transmitted from a serving cell with a threshold;

determining whether to perform a measurement of a non-serving cell quality value of a signal to be transmitted from a non-serving cell based on a result of a comparison of the measured serving cell quality value and the threshold;

performing the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value if the measured serving cell quality value is equal to or less than the threshold;

associating position information available in the mobile terminal, with a result of the measurement, in response to the measured serving cell quality value being equal to or less than the threshold; and

reporting, to a network, the result of the measurement and the position information associated with the result of the measurement.

18. A method of a base station comprising,

by a base station, receiving, from a mobile terminal, a result signal including a result of a measurement of a non-serving cell quality value based on a signal transmitted from a non-serving cell and position information available in the mobile terminal;

wherein the mobile terminal comprising;

a controller configured to compare a measured serving cell quality value of a signal transmitted from a serving cell with a threshold, and to determine whether to perform the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value of the signal to be transmitted from the non-serving cell, based on a result of a comparison of the measured serving cell quality value and the threshold,

wherein the controller is configured to perform the measurement of the non-serving cell quality value and to associate the position information with the result of the measurement, in response to the measured serving cell quality value being equal to or less than the threshold; and

a transmitter configured to report, to the base station, the result of the measurement and the position information associated with the result of the measurement.