Base station apparatus and communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10123233-B2
Application number	US-201615026701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2016
Priority date	Jan 18, 2016
Publication date	Nov 6, 2018
Grant date	Nov 6, 2018

Abstract

A base station apparatus and a communication system, witch are capable of optimizing a radio transmission path between a mobile station and a base station according to a communication speed of a backhaul link, are provided. The base station apparatus capable of communicating with a mobile station via a radio transmission path comprises information acquisition means of acquiring information on a communication speed of a backhaul link, and parameter adjustment means of adjusting communication parameters of the radio transmission path so that a communication speed of the radio transmission path becomes equal to or lower than the communication speed of the backhaul link, based on the information on communication speed of the backhaul link and a channel bandwidth of the radio transmission path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a mobile station via a radio transmission path, the base station apparatus comprising:
information acquisition means for acquiring information on a communication speed of a backhaul link of the base station apparatus, and
parameter adjustment means for adjusting a communication parameter of the radio transmission path so that a communication speed of the radio transmission path becomes equal to or lower than the communication speed of the backhaul link, based on the information on communication speed of the backhaul link acquired by the information acquisition means and a channel bandwidth of the radio transmission path, wherein the parameter adjustment means acquires information on link quality between the base station and the mobile station, selects an MCS index that is equal to or smaller than an MCS index showing an MCS (Modulation Coding Scheme) corresponding to the acquired link quality, selects a range of TBS (Transport Block Size) candidates by which the communication speed of the radio transmission path is equal to or lower than the communication speed of the backhaul link, based on TBS indexes corresponding to the selected MCS index, and selects a maximum value of the TBS candidates corresponding to the PRB (Physical Resource Block) that is an integral multiple of the RBG (Resource Block Group) according to the channel bandwidth of the radio transmission path, from the range of selected TBS candidates, in a correspondence data showing a corresponding relationship between a TBS index showing the TBS, a value of TBS and the number of PRBs, and determines an MCS index and the number of PRBs corresponding to the selected maximum value of TBS, as an MCS index and the number of PRBs that are used for a communication with the mobile station via the radio transmission path.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the parameter adjustment means adjusts the communication parameter of the radio transmission path so that the communication speed of the radio transmission path becomes equal to or lower than a value obtained by multiplying the communication speed of the backhaul link by a correction coefficient C.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the correction coefficient C is a value within a range satisfying 0<C≤1.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the correction coefficient C is set based on an identifier of quality of communication service via the radio transmission path.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information acquisition means periodically acquires the information on the communication speed of the backhaul link, and
the parameter adjustment means performs the adjustment of the communication parameter of the radio transmission path when the communication speed of the backhaul link becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the base station apparatus is configured so as to be capable of spatially multiplexing in the radio transmission path, and
the parameter adjustment means adjusts so as not to perform the spatial multiplexing in a downlink of the radio transmission path.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the base station apparatus is configured so as to be capable of selecting two or more kinds of modulation and coding schemes in the radio transmission path, and
the parameter adjustment means adjusts so as to change a modulation and coding scheme in the radio transmission path to a modulation and coding scheme corresponding to slow speed.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information acquisition means acquires the information on the communication speed of the backhaul link from a server apparatus.

9. A communication system comprising:
a base station apparatus according to claim 8 ; and
a server apparatus of measuring a communication speed of a backhaul link of the base station apparatus, the server apparatus being located in a core network side.

Assignees

• Softbank Corp

Inventors

• Nanri Masahiko

Classifications

• H04W72/535

  based on resource usage policies · CPC title

• H04W24/10

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04L5/00

  Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path · CPC title

• H04W28/22

  Negotiating communication rate · CPC title

• H04W28/06 Primary

  Optimizing {the usage of the radio link}, e.g. header compression, information sizing {, discarding information (system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365)} · CPC title