Mobile communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10609602-B2
Application number	US-201715426775-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2017
Priority date	Nov 4, 2011
Publication date	Mar 31, 2020
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020

Abstract

A mobile communication system includes a movable user equipment device, a plurality of base station devices configured to perform radio communication with the user equipment device, and a relay device movably configured to relay radio communications between the user equipment device and the base station devices. In a handover process of switching a base station device to be connected with the relay device from a base station device being a moving source to a base station device being a moving destination along with moving of the relay device, the base station device being a moving source selects the base station device being a moving destination from base station devices other than a base station device that does not have a function supporting the relay device, and performs the handover process such that the relay device is connected to the selected base station device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile communication system comprising:
a movable user equipment device;
a plurality of base station devices configured to perform radio communication with said user equipment device; and
a relay device movably configured to relay radio communications between said user equipment device and said base station devices,
wherein in a handover process of switching a base station device to be connected with said relay device from a base station device being a moving source to a base station device being a moving destination along with moving of said relay device, said base station device being the moving source stores a list that is separate from a neighbor list of neighbor base station devices of the base station device and that includes neighbor base station devices other than neighbor base station devices that do not have a function supporting said relay device, selects said base station device being the moving destination from the stored list of neighbor base station devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device, and performs said handover process such that said relay device is connected to the selected neighbor base station device,
said base station device being the moving source is configured to obtain the list of neighbor base station devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device by at least one of a plurality of list receiving methods, said base station device being the moving source selects one of the plurality of list receiving methods and notifies said relay device of the selected one of the plurality of list receiving methods, and said base station device being the moving source obtains the list of neighbor base station devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device by the selected one of the list receiving methods, and
the list of neighbor base station devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device indicates the base station devices that support the relay device via carrier frequencies assigned to the base station devices that support the relay device.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , comprising a plurality of said relay devices,
wherein between said plurality of relay devices, different subframes are used for subframes of a communication frame for use in an access link from said user equipment device to said relay device and for subframes of a communication frame for use in a backhaul link from said relay device to said base station device.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein said base station device being the moving source receives initial configuration parameters from an operation administration and maintenance, and extracts the list of neighbor base stations devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device from the received initial configuration parameters.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein said base station device being the moving source is configured to obtain the list of neighbor base station devices other than the neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device by one of the plurality of list receiving methods that include
said relay device eliminating neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device from a list of the plurality of neighbor base station devices that are measurement objects,
said relay device eliminating neighbor base station devices that do not have the function supporting said relay device from a list of the plurality of neighbor base station devices that are targets for a measurement report,
said relay device notifies whether a target one of the plurality of neighbor base station devices has the function supporting said relay device when issuing a measurement report, and
said relay device issues, to the base station device being the moving source, a measurement report targeted for the one of the plurality of neighbor base station devices that has the best reception quality among the base station devices that have the function supporting said relay device.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Maeda Miho
• Mochizuki Mitsuru
• Uga Shinsuke
• Fukui Noriyuki
• Iwane Yasushi

Classifications

• H04W36/06

  Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point · CPC title

• H04W76/10

  Connection setup · CPC title

• H04W16/26

  Cell enhancers {or enhancement}, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow · CPC title

• H04W36/0016 Primary

  Hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions · CPC title

• H04W84/005

  Moving wireless networks · CPC title