Control system and control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023413157-A1
Application number	US-202118030771-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 30, 2021
Priority date	Nov 30, 2021
Publication date	Dec 21, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

An operation control module executes, for each of a plurality of base station system groups, operation control corresponding to a degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the base station system group, with respect to a follower base station system included in the base station system group. A removal module removes, in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a deviation of a ratio of the degree of operation of a follower base station system included in one of the base station system groups with respect to the degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the base station system group from a given reference ratio has satisfied a predetermined condition, the follower base station system from the base station system group.

First claim

1 . A control system, comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory device storing instructions which, when executed by the least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: identifying, for each pair of base station systems included in a plurality of base station systems, a degree of correlation of a transition of a degree of operation between the each pair of base station systems; classifying, based on the degree of correlation identified for the each pair of base station systems, the plurality of base station systems into a plurality of base station system groups; executing, for each of the plurality of base station system groups, operation control corresponding to the degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the each of the plurality of base station system groups, with respect to a follower base station system included in the each of the plurality of base station system groups; and removing, in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a deviation of a ratio of the degree of operation of a follower base station system included in one of the plurality of base station system groups with respect to the degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups from a given reference ratio has satisfied a predetermined condition, the follower base station system from the one of the plurality of base station system groups.

2 . The control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein identifying the degree of correlation of the transition of the degree of operation comprises identifying the degree of correlation of the transition of the degree of operation for the each pair of base station systems based on transition data indicating the transition of the degree of operation of each of the plurality of base station systems, wherein the operations further comprise identifying, based on the transition data, the given reference ratio being the ratio of the degree of operation of the follower base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups with respect to the degree of operation of the leader base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups, and wherein removing comprises removing the follower base station system from the one of the plurality of base station system groups in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a difference between a value indicating the degree of operation of the leader base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups and a value obtained by dividing a value indicating the degree of operation of the follower base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups by the given reference ratio has satisfied a predetermined condition.

3 . The control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein identifying the degree of correlation of the transition of degree of operation comprises identifying the degree of correlation of the transition of the degree of operation for the each pair of base station systems based on transition data indicating the transition of the degree of operation of each of the plurality of base station systems, wherein the operations further comprise identifying, based on the transition data, the given reference ratio being the ratio of the degree of operation of the follower base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups with respect to the degree of operation of the leader base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups, and wherein removing comprises removing the follower base station system from the one of the plurality of base station system groups in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a difference between a value obtained by multiplying a value indicating the degree of operation of the leader base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups by the given reference ratio and a value indicating the degree of operation of the follower base station system included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups has satisfied a predetermined condition.

4 . The control system according to claim 2 , wherein removing comprises removing the follower base station system satisfying a condition that a distribution of the differences identified a plurality of times is different from the distribution of another follower base station system, from the one of the plurality of base station system groups.

5 . The control system according to claim 2 , wherein removing comprises removing the follower base station system in which a magnitude of a variance or a standard deviation of the differences identified a plurality of times satisfies a predetermined condition, from the one of the plurality of base station system groups.

6 . The control system according to claim 2 , wherein removing comprises removing the follower base station system in which an average of the differences identified a plurality of times satisfies a predetermined condition, from the one of the plurality of base station system groups.

7 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise predicting the degree of operation of the leader base station system,
wherein executing comprises executing operation control of the leader base station system based on the degree of operation being a result of the predicting, and wherein executing comprises executing the operation control of the follower base station system based on the degree of operation being the result of the predicting and on the given reference ratio.

8 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise determining, from among a plurality of base station systems included in the one of the plurality of base station system groups, the leader base station system based on the number of other base station systems in each of which the degree of correlation with respect to a corresponding one of the plurality of base station systems is larger than a predetermined magnitude.

9 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein identifying the degree of correlation of the transition of the degree of operation comprises identifying, as the degree of correlation, a representative value of a cross-correlation coefficient of a value indicating the degree of operation.

10 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the degree of operation of each of the plurality of base station systems is a traffic amount or the number of accommodated persons in an area covered by the each of the plurality of base station systems.

11 . A control method, comprising:
identifying, for each pair of base station systems included in a plurality of base station systems, a degree of correlation of a transition of a degree of operation between the each pair of base station systems; classifying, based on the degree of correlation identified for the each pair of base station systems, the plurality of base station systems into a plurality of base station system groups; executing, for each of the plurality of base station system groups, operation control corresponding to the degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the each of the plurality of base station system groups, with respect to a follower base station system included in the each of the plurality of base station system groups; and removing, in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a deviation of a ratio of the degree of operation of a follower base station system included in one of the plurality of base station system groups with res

Assignees

• Rakuten Mobile Inc

Inventors

• Ono Makoto
• Takeuchi Kazushige
• Kojima Masahiro

Classifications

• H04W40/32 Primary

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