Mobile communication system, specific base station, and user terminal

• US 9,991,997 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuta, Noriyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, CONGVAN
• Application Number:
  US15/118,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20170063502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• Field of Search: 4554352, 455436-439, 455423, 455424, 370328, 370330, 370331, 370332
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0032 Distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each making partial allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0027 for a plurality of data sessions of end-to-end connections, e.g. multi-call or multi-bearer end-to-end data connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/20 between access points

Abstract

A LTE system comprises a eNB 200-2 that is a eNB shared by a plurality of network operators, and that performs LTE communication with a UE in a specific frequency band of which primary use is not allowed by the plurality of network operators. The specific eNB 200-2 performs backhaul communication with a eNB 200-1 provided in each mobile LTE network 1 of the plurality of network operators, via an inter-eNB interface 600.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system, comprising:

a specific cellular base station that is a base station that performs mobile communication with a user terminal in an unlicensed frequency band, wherein

the specific cellular base station is configured to perform communication with a general cellular base station via an inter-base station interface,

a predetermined user terminal that supports a dual connectivity in which communication with the general cellular base station and communication with the specific cellular base station are performed simultaneously, wherein

the general cellular base station is a master base station that establishes an RRC connection with the user terminal in the dual connectivity,

the specific cellular base station is a secondary base station that provides additional radio resources to the user terminal in the dual connectivity, and

the predetermined user terminal notifies capability information indicating that the predetermined user terminal supports the dual connectivity, to the general cellular base station or the specific cellular base station.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined user terminal that is in an RRC idle state performs cell re-selection control for selecting a cell of the general cellular base station as a serving cell rather than selecting a cell of the specific cellular base station as the serving cell.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined user terminal notifies the capability information to the general cellular base station,

the capability information further indicates whether the user terminal is capable of performing communication via the unlicensed frequency band, and

the general cellular base station determines, based upon the received capability information, whether to start a communication of the dual connectivity with the predetermined user terminal in which the specific cellular base station is set as the secondary base station.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the specific base station provides at least one radio resource to the predetermined user terminal without establishing an RRC connection with predetermined user terminal.

5. A user terminal, comprising:

a controller configured to perform communication with a general cellular base station and a specific cellular base station by dual connectivity in which communication with the general cellular base station and communication with the specific cellular base station are performed simultaneously, the specific cellular base station performing communication with the user terminal in an unlicensed frequency band, the general cellular base station performing communication with the specific cellular base station via an inter base station interface, wherein

in the dual connectivity, the general cellular base station is set as a master base station that establishes an RRC connection with the user terminal, and the specific cellular base station is set as a secondary base station that provides additional radio resources to the user terminal, and

the controller is further configured to notify capability information indicating that the predetermined user terminal supports the dual connectivity, to the general cellular base station or the specific cellular base station.

6. The user terminal according to claim 5, wherein

when the user terminal is in an RRC idle state, the controller performs cell re-selection control for selecting a cell of the general cellular base station as a serving cell rather than selecting a cell of the specific cellular base station as the serving cell.