Communication control method

• US 9,992,698 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Henry, Fukuta, Noriyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Rebecca E
• Application Number:
  US14/355,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20140301233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,036 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A communication control method is used in a mobile communication system that supports MDT (minimization of drive test). The communication control method has: a step (A) wherein a user terminal, which has established a connection with abase station, location information indicating the location of the user terminal to the base station based on an instruction from the base station; and a step (B) wherein the base station receiving the location information from the user terminal measures the throughput of communication with the user terminal.

Claims

1. A communication control method used in a mobile communication system supporting immediate MDT (Minimization of Drive Test), comprising:

receiving an instruction from a base station, by a user terminal being in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state in a cell of the base station, wherein the instruction includes time interval information that specifies periodicity for the immediate MDT;

acquiring, by the user terminal being in the RRC connected state, location information indicating a location of the user terminal based on the instruction from the base station;

measuring, by the user terminal, an uplink packet delay of uplink communication with the base station, wherein radio access bearers of the user terminal are associated with Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics to perform QoS control, and the user terminal periodically measures the uplink packet delay per radio access bearer;

comparing, by the user terminal being in the RRC connected state, the measured uplink packet delay with a packet delay threshold value;

determining, by the user terminal being in the RRC connected state, whether to transmit a report to the base station based on result of the comparing, the report indicating the measured uplink packet delay wherein the user terminal continues reporting operations in accordance with the instruction during the RRC connected state even when the packet delay threshold value is satisfied; and

transmitting the report including the location information to the base station based on result of the determining.

2. The communication control method according to claim 1, wherein the user terminal measures the uplink packet delay per radio access bearer per unit time.

3. A user terminal that establishes a connection with a base station in a mobile communication system supporting immediate MDT (Minimization of Drive Test), comprising:

a controller containing a processor, and configured to cause the user terminal to execute processes of;

receiving an instruction from a base station, by the user terminal being in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state in a cell of the base station, wherein the instruction includes time interval information that specifies periodicity for the immediate MDT;

acquiring, while in the RRC connected state, location information indicating a location of the user terminal based on the instruction from the base station;

measuring an uplink packet delay of uplink communication with the base station, wherein radio access bearers of the user terminal are associated with Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics to perform QoS control, and the user terminal periodically measures the uplink packet delay per radio access bearer;

comparing, while in the RRC connected state, the measured uplink packet delay with a packet delay threshold value;

determining, while in the RRC connected state, whether to transmit a report to the base station based on result of the comparing, the report indicating the measured uplink packet delay, wherein the user terminal continues reporting operations in accordance with the instruction during the RRC connected state even when the packet delay threshold value is satisfied; and

transmitting the report including the location information to the base station based on result of the determining.

4. The user terminal according to claim 3, wherein in the process of measuring, the controller is configured to measure an uplink latency per radio access bearer.