Control device and control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11528674-B2
Application number	US-201917269154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2019
Priority date	Aug 24, 2018
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

If a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value is detected in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station, a suppression unit 52 performs control pertaining to resources in the time-division duplex of a first wireless communication terminal. Thereby, communication errors that occur in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to the second wireless base station that is different from the first wireless base station, to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected, is suppressed by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal in accordance with the propagation delay. For example, this suppression process is a process pertaining to the assignment of resources a time-division duplex with respect to the first wireless communication terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
detect an occurrence of a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value in an uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected;
in response to detection of the propagation delay equal to or greater than the threshold value, perform control pertaining to resources in the time division duplex to suppress, in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to a second wireless base station different from the first wireless base station, occurrence of a communication failure caused by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal under the propagation delay; and
perform the suppression upon detecting that the second wireless communication terminal is present within a range of a given distance from the first wireless communication terminal or that the second wireless communication terminal is performing a time-division duplex with the second wireless base station with a guard period that is shorter than a guard period used between the first wireless communication terminal and the first wireless base station.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the given distance is a distance at which the second wireless communication terminal is capable of receiving a wireless signal wave transmitted from the first wireless communication terminal at a reception strength that is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

3. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
perform the suppression by synchronizing a length of time and a timing of guard periods used by the first wireless base station and the second wireless base station.

4. A control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
detect an occurrence of a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value in an uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected;
in response to detection by the detection unit of a propagation delay equal to or greater than the threshold value, to perform control pertaining to resources in the time division duplex to suppress, in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to a second wireless base station different from the first wireless base station, occurrence of a communication failure caused by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal under the propagation delay;
perform the suppression by assignment of resources in the time-division duplex of the first wireless communication terminal, or by control of a timing at which the uplink communication is performed in the time-division duplex of the first wireless communication terminal; and
perform the suppression by causing the first wireless communication terminal to perform the uplink communication in the time-division duplex at a timing that matches a start timing of a shortest guard period from among guard periods used by one or a plurality of the second wireless communication terminals.

5. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
perform the suppression by refraining from assigning resources within a special subframe in the time-division duplex to the first wireless communication terminal.

6. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
perform the suppression by refraining from assigning resources immediately following a guard period in the time-division duplex to the first wireless communication terminal.

7. The control device according to claim 4 , the processor is further configured to:
perform the suppression by assigning resources to the first wireless communication terminal, the resources corresponding to a start timing of a shortest guard period from among guard periods used by one or a plurality of the second wireless communication terminals, and to the propagation delay between the first wireless communication terminal and the first wireless base station.

8. A control method comprising:
detecting an occurrence of a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value in an uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected;
in response to the detection of the propagation delay equal to or greater than the threshold value, performing control pertaining to resources in the time division duplex to suppress, in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to a second wireless base station different from the first wireless base station, occurrence of a communication failure caused by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal under the propagation delay; and
performing the suppression upon detecting that the second wireless communication terminal is present within a range of a given distance from the first wireless communication terminal or that the second wireless communication terminal is performing a time-division duplex with the second wireless base station with a guard period that is shorter than a guard period used between the first wireless communication terminal and the first wireless base station.

9. The control method according to claim 8 , wherein the given distance is a distance at which the second wireless communication terminal is capable of receiving a wireless signal wave transmitted from the first wireless communication terminal at a reception strength that is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

10. The control method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
performing the suppression by synchronizing a length of time and a timing of guard periods used by the first wireless base station and the second wireless base station.

11. A control method comprising:
detecting an occurrence of a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value in an uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected;
in response to the detection of the propagation delay equal to or greater than the threshold value, performing control pertaining to resources in the time division duplex to suppress, in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to a second wireless base station different from the first wireless base station, occurrence of a communication failure caused by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal under the propagation delay;
performing the suppression by assignment of resources in the time-division duplex of the first wireless communication terminal, or by control of a timing at which the uplink communication is performed in the time-division duplex of the first wireless communication terminal; and
performing the suppression by causing the first wireless communication terminal to perform the uplink communication in the time-division duplex at a timing that matches a start timing of a shortest guard period from among guard periods used by one or a plurality of the second wireless communication terminals.

12. The control method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
performing the suppression by refraining from assigning resources within a special subframe in the time-division duplex to the fir

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Yamada Takefumi
• Oono Youhei
• Segawa Yuichiro
• Hanano Shinya
• Yoshimoto Takashi
• Kitamura Yasuhiro

Classifications

• H04W72/12

  Wireless traffic scheduling · CPC title

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04W72/1268

  of uplink data flows · CPC title

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• H04W56/0045 Primary

  compensating for timing error by altering transmission time · CPC title