Communication system, information processing device and femto base station therein, method and program for controlling the same, and method of transmitting information to femto base station

• US 9,973,996 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Yoshio, Shindo, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US14/974,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 370 31, 455411, 455436-444
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/654 International mobile subscriber identity [IMSI] numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/38 by fixed network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 Network data management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

In order to change control over a user equipment within a femtocell in accordance with a change in camping of the user equipment, a communication system includes a femto base station (10) that provides a femtocell includes notification destination setting means (20) for setting, in the femto base station (10), a notification destination to be notified of a change in camping of a user equipment (30) on the femtocell. The femto base station (10) notifies the set notification destination of the change in camping of the user equipment (30), upon detection of the change in camping.

Claims

1. A femto base station that communicates with user equipment within a femto cell in a communication system, the femto base station comprising:

a receiver that receives first information which indicates a device; and

a transmitter that transmits a notification to notify the device of a change in camping of the user equipment on the femto cell, upon detection of the change in camping,

wherein the device instructs the user equipment to change, add, or delete restriction or addition of a function of the user equipment,

wherein the first information is included in transmission data to be transmitted to the femto base station,

wherein the transmitter transmits the notification in a case where the femto base station detects the change in camping of the user equipment, and

wherein the femto base station judges whether the transmitter transmits the notification or not, after the user equipment is registered with the gateway.

2. The femto base station according to claim 1,

wherein the receiver receives second information,

wherein the second information identifies user equipment, and

wherein the transmitter transmits the notification based on the second information.

3. The femto base station according to claim 2,

wherein the second information is an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity).

4. The femto base station according to claim 1,

wherein the first information is included in one of a parameter set by a maintenance management server that manages the femto base station, a parameter set by a gateway connected to a core network, and a parameter set by a packet core via a network.

5. The femto base station according to claim 4,

wherein the first information is send by the maintenance management server or the gateway or the packet core.

6. A communication system including a femto base station which communicates with a user equipment within a femto cell, and a network device, the communication system comprising:

the femto base station comprising;

a receiver that receives first information which indicates a device; and

a transmitter that transmits a notification to notify the device of a change in camping of the user equipment on the femto cell, upon detection of the change in camping; and

the network device comprising;

a transmitter that transmits the first information to the femto base station,

wherein the device instructs the user equipment to change, add, or delete restriction or addition of a function of the user equipment,

wherein the first information is included in transmission data to be transmitted to the femto base station, and

wherein the femto base station judges whether the femto base station transmits the notification or not, after the user equipment is registered with the gateway.

7. The communication system according to claim 6,

wherein the first information is included in one of a parameter set by a maintenance management server that manages the femto base station, a parameter set by a gateway connected to a core network, and a parameter set by a packet core via a network.

8. The communication system according to claim 7,

wherein the network device is a maintenance management server or a gateway connected to a core network or a packet core via a network.

9. The communication system according to claim 8,

wherein the femto base station transmits the notification in a case where the femto base station detects the change in camping of the user equipment.

10. The communication system according to claim 9,

wherein the network device is a maintenance management server or a gateway connected to a core network,

wherein the transmitter transmits second information which indicates user equipment, and

wherein the femto base station transmits the notification based on the second information.

11. The communication system according to claim 10,

wherein the second information is an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity).