Base station, radio communications system, and processing method in base station

• US 9,872,294 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2016
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Arai, Hiroaki, Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, Kubo, Tokuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Dung B
• Application Number:
  US15/078,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20160295590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

A base station includes a determining unit, and a change unit. The determining unit determines, for each terminal, whether reception quality of an uplink signal from the terminal is equal to or smaller than a certain threshold. The change unit performs first processing or second processing when the reception quality is equal to or smaller than the certain threshold. The first processing is the processing of instructing a first terminal, a terminal of a transmission source of an uplink signal, to change the frequency of the uplink signal of the first terminal to the frequency of either an uplink or a downlink signal assigned to each terminal. The second processing is the processing of changing the frequency of a downlink signal identical to that of the uplink signal from the first terminal to the frequency of either an uplink or a downlink signal assigned to each terminal.

Claims

1. A base station capable of simultaneously receiving an uplink signal from a terminal and transmitting a downlink signal to a terminal by using an identical frequency, the base station comprising:

a transmitting unit that transmits, for each terminal, a downlink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

a receiving unit that receives, for each terminal, an uplink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

a determining unit that determines, for each terminal, whether reception quality of the uplink signal from the terminal, due to reflected waves of a downlink signal, is equal to or smaller than a certain threshold; and

a change unit that, when the determining unit determines that the reception quality is equal to or smaller than the certain threshold, instructs a first terminal that is a terminal of a transmission source of an uplink signal to change the frequency of the uplink signal of the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each terminal, or changes the frequency of a downlink signal identical to the frequency of the uplink signal from the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each terminal.

2. The base station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a holding unit that holds, for each terminal, the frequency of the uplink signal and the frequency of the downlink signal, wherein

the change unit instructs the first terminal to change the frequency to a frequency different from the frequency of the downlink signal for the first terminal when instructing the first terminal to change the frequency of the uplink signal.

3. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the change unit instructs both the first terminal and a second terminal, the second terminal that transmits an uplink signal of a frequency different from the frequency of the uplink signal of the first terminal, to replace the frequency of the uplink signal between the first terminal and the second terminal when instructing the first terminal to change the frequency of the uplink signal.

4. The base station according to claim 3, wherein

the holding unit further holds, for each terminal, information indicating a direction toward the terminal from the base station,

the second terminal is one of a plurality of the second terminals, and

the change unit selects, out of the second terminals, the second terminal by which a largest angle is formed between the direction toward the first terminal from the base station and the direction toward the second terminal from the base station, and instructs both the first terminal and the selected second terminal to replace the frequency of the uplink signal with the selected second terminal when instructing the first terminal to change the frequency of the uplink signal.

5. The base station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a holding unit that holds, for each terminal, the frequency of the uplink signal, the frequency of the downlink signal, and information indicating a direction toward the terminal from the base station, wherein

the change unit selects, out of second terminals that receive the downlink signal of a frequency identical to the uplink signal from the first terminal, the second terminal by which a smallest angle is formed between the direction toward the first terminal from the base station and the direction toward the second terminal from the base station and changes the frequency of the downlink signal received by the selected second terminal when changing the frequency of the downlink signal of the frequency identical to the uplink signal from the first terminal.

6. The base station according to claim 5, wherein the change unit changes the frequency of the downlink signal received by the selected second terminal to a frequency different from the frequency of the uplink signal from the selected second terminal.

7. The base station according to claim 5, wherein the change unit replaces the frequency of the downlink signal between the selected second terminal and a third terminal that receives the downlink signal of a frequency different from the frequency of the downlink signal received by the selected second terminal.

8. The base station according to claim 7, wherein the change unit further replaces the frequency of uplink signal between the selected second terminal and the third terminal when the frequency of the uplink signal and the frequency of the downlink signal are identical in the selected second terminal or the third terminal by replacing the frequency of the downlink signal between the selected second terminal and the third terminal.

9. The base station according to claim 7, wherein

the third terminal is one of a plurality of the third terminals, and

the change unit selects, out of the third terminals, the third terminal by which a largest angle is formed between the direction toward the selected second terminal from the base station and the direction toward the third terminal from the base station, and replaces the frequency of the downlink signal between the selected third terminal and the selected second terminal.

10. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit determines, for each terminal, that the reception quality of the uplink signal from the terminal, due to the reflected waves of the downlink signal, is equal to or smaller than the certain threshold when a signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio (SINR) of the uplink signal from the terminal is equal to or smaller than a certain value.

11. The base station according to claim 10, wherein the determining unit calculates, for each terminal, the SINR of the uplink signal for each of a certain number of slots in the uplink signal.

12. A radio communications system comprising:

a plurality of terminals; and

a base station capable of simultaneously receiving an uplink signal from each of the terminals and transmitting a downlink signal to each of the terminals by using an identical frequency, wherein

the base station comprises;

a transmitting unit that transmits, for each of the terminals, a downlink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

a receiving unit that receives, for each of the terminals, an uplink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

a determining unit that determines, for each of the terminals, whether reception quality of the uplink signal from the terminal, due to reflected waves of a downlink signal, is equal to or smaller than a certain threshold; and

a change unit that, when the determining unit determines that the reception quality is equal to or smaller than the certain threshold, instructs a first terminal that is a terminal of a transmission source of an uplink signal to change the frequency of the uplink signal of the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each of the terminals, or changes the frequency of a downlink signal identical to the frequency of the uplink signal from the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each of the terminals.

13. A processing method in a base station capable of simultaneously receiving an uplink signal from a terminal and transmitting a downlink signal to a terminal by using an identical frequency, the processing method comprising:

transmitting, for each terminal, a downlink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

receiving, for each terminal, an uplink signal at a frequency assigned to the terminal via an antenna having directivity in a direction of the terminal;

determining, for each terminal, whether reception quality of the uplink signal from the terminal, due to reflected waves of a downlink signal, is equal to or smaller than a certain threshold; and

instructing a first terminal that is a terminal of a transmission source of an uplink signal to change the frequency of the uplink signal of the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each terminal or changing the frequency of a downlink signal identical to the frequency of the uplink signal from the first terminal to either the frequency of an uplink signal or the frequency of a downlink signal assigned to each terminal when it is determined that the reception quality is equal to or smaller than the certain threshold.