Base station device, program, system, and control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11916645-B2
Application number	US-202318332760-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2023
Priority date	Dec 25, 2020
Publication date	Feb 27, 2024
Grant date	Feb 27, 2024

Abstract

Provided is a base station device which is mounted to a flight vehicle and forms a multi-cell including a plurality of cells on a ground to provide a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the multi-cell, the base station device including a location information acquisition unit which acquires location information of a user terminal present in the multi-cell, a flight vehicle associated information acquisition unit which acquires flight vehicle associated information, an interference estimation unit which estimates an interfered user terminal having a chance of experiencing an interference from a cell other than a cell in which the user terminal is present among a plurality of user terminals and an interference amount, an MCS decision unit which decides an MCS of an uplink to be assigned to the interfered user terminal, and an MCS notification unit which notifies the interfered user terminal of the MCS.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A base station device which is mounted to a flight vehicle and forms a multi-cell including a plurality of cells on a ground to provide a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the multi-cell, the base station device comprising:
a location information acquisition unit which acquires location information of a user terminal present in the multi-cell;
a flight vehicle associated information acquisition unit which acquires flight vehicle associated information including location information and attitude information of the flight vehicle;
an interference estimation unit which estimates, based on location information of a plurality of the user terminals and the flight vehicle associated information, an interfered user terminal having a chance of experiencing an interference from a cell other than a cell in which the user terminal is present among the plurality of user terminals and an interference amount;
an MCS decision unit which decides an MCS of an uplink to be assigned to the interfered user terminal based on the interference amount; and
an MCS notification unit which notifies the interfered user terminal of the MCS decided by the MCS decision unit.

2. The base station device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a report acquisition unit which acquires report information received from the user terminal present in the multi-cell and related to a reception radio wave by the user terminal, wherein
the interference estimation unit estimates the interfered user terminal and the interference amount further based on the report information.

3. The base station device according to claim 2 , wherein the report acquisition unit acquires an A3 event report received from the user terminal present in the multi-cell.

4. The base station device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a storage unit which stores association data in which the location information acquired by the location information acquisition unit, the flight vehicle associated information acquired by the flight vehicle associated information acquisition unit, and the interference amount experienced by the user terminal which is received from the user terminal are associated with each other, wherein
the interference estimation unit uses a plurality of pieces of association data stored in the storage unit as training data to generate an estimation model which estimates an interference amount to be experienced by the plurality of user terminals from the location information of the plurality of user terminals present in the multi-cell and the flight vehicle associated information, and estimates the interfered user terminal having a chance of experiencing an interference from a cell other than the cell in which the user terminal is present and the interference amount by using the estimation model.

5. The base station device according to claim 2 , comprising:
a storage unit which stores association data in which the location information acquired by the location information acquisition unit, the flight vehicle associated information acquired by the flight vehicle associated information acquisition unit, and the interference amount experienced by the user terminal which is received from the user terminal are associated with each other, wherein
the interference estimation unit uses a plurality of pieces of association data stored in the storage unit as training data to generate an estimation model which estimates an interference amount to be experienced by the plurality of user terminals from the location information of the plurality of user terminals present in the multi-cell and the flight vehicle associated information, and estimates the interfered user terminal having a chance of experiencing an interference from a cell other than the cell in which the user terminal is present and the interference amount by using the estimation model.

6. The base station device according to claim 3 , comprising:
a storage unit which stores association data in which the location information acquired by the location information acquisition unit, the flight vehicle associated information acquired by the flight vehicle associated information acquisition unit, and the interference amount experienced by the user terminal which is received from the user terminal are associated with each other, wherein
the interference estimation unit uses a plurality of pieces of association data stored in the storage unit as training data to generate an estimation model which estimates an interference amount to be experienced by the plurality of user terminals from the location information of the plurality of user terminals present in the multi-cell and the flight vehicle associated information, and estimates the interfered user terminal having a chance of experiencing an interference from a cell other than the cell in which the user terminal is present and the interference amount by using the estimation model.

7. The base station device according to claim 1 , wherein the interference estimation unit estimates, at timing at which a DMRS is received from the interfered user terminal, the interference amount at timing of PUSCH of the interfered user terminal based on the DMRS, location information of the interfered user terminal, and the flight vehicle associated information.

8. The base station device according to claim 2 , wherein the interference estimation unit estimates, at timing at which a DMRS is received from the interfered user terminal, the interference amount at timing of PUSCH of the interfered user terminal based on the DMRS, location information of the interfered user terminal, and the flight vehicle associated information.

9. The base station device according to claim 3 , wherein the interference estimation unit estimates, at timing at which a DMRS is received from the interfered user terminal, the interference amount at timing of PUSCH of the interfered user terminal based on the DMRS, location information of the interfered user terminal, and the flight vehicle associated information.

10. The base station device according to claim 4 , wherein the interference estimation unit estimates, at timing at which a DMRS is received from the interfered user terminal, the interference amount at timing of PUSCH of the interfered user terminal based on the DMRS, location information of the interfered user terminal, and the flight vehicle associated information.

11. The base station device according to claim 7 , wherein when the interference amount at the timing of the PUSCH of the interfered user terminal is more than that at the timing at which the DMRS is received, the MCS decision unit decides an MCS with an index value less than that of an MCS decided based on the DMRS.

12. The base station device according to claim 7 , wherein when the interference amount at the timing of the PUSCH of the interfered user terminal is less than that at the timing at which the DMRS is received, the MCS decision unit decides an MCS with an index value larger than that of an MCS decided based on the DMRS.

13. The base station device according to claim 11 , wherein when the interference amount at the timing of the PUSCH of the interfered user terminal is less than that at the timing at which the DMRS is received, the MCS decision unit decides an MCS with an index value larger than that of the MCS decided based on the DMRS.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as a base station device, the base station device being mounted to a flight vehicle and forms a multi-cell including a plurality of cells on a ground to provide a wireless communication servic

Assignees

• Hapsmobile Inc
• Softbank Corp

Inventors

• Sai Jutatsu

Classifications

• H04B7/18504 Primary

  Aircraft used as relay or high altitude atmospheric platform · CPC title

• H04B17/345

  Interference values ({signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]} H04B17/336) · CPC title

• H04L1/0003

  by switching between different modulation schemes · CPC title

• H04W84/06

  Airborne or Satellite Networks (space-based or airborne stations H04B7/185) · CPC title

• H04L1/0015

  characterised by the adaptation strategy · CPC title