Method of managing mobility using coordinated multiple point communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9258037-B2
Application number	US-201213613570-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2012
Priority date	Dec 15, 2011
Publication date	Feb 9, 2016
Grant date	Feb 9, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a method of managing mobility of a user equipment. The method includes: establishing by a first base station a communication with the user equipment; transmitting by the first base station a Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP) addition request to a second base station; establishing by the first and second base stations a CoMP communication with the user equipment according to the CoMP addition request; transmitting by the first base station an anchor cell change request to the second base station; and operating the second base station as an anchor cell of the CoMP communication according to the anchor cell switch request.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of managing mobility of a user equipment, the method comprising:
establishing by a first base station a communication between a controller and the user equipment;
transmitting by the first base station a Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP) addition request to a second base station;
establishing by the first and second base stations a CoMP communication between the controller and the user equipment according to the CoMP addition request;
transmitting by the first base station an anchor cell switch request to the second base station; and
operating the second base station as an anchor cell of the CoMP communication according to the anchor cell switch request,
wherein the first base station is configured to control a plurality of communication points, communicate with the user equipment through two or more communication points when a coordinated communication within a base station is established, and communicate with the user equipment through a communication point when the coordinated communication with the base station is not established,
wherein the second base station is configured to transmit a path addition request to the controller in response to the CoMP addition request,
wherein the second base station is configured to transmit a path switch request to the controller in response to the anchor cell switch request.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the anchor cell switch request is transmitted through a sidehaul or backhaul communication.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the CoMP addition request is transmitted through a sidehaul or backhaul communication.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the CoMP addition request comprises information on an activation time that the second base station starts the CoMP communication to the user equipment.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the second base station starts the CoMP communication to the user equipment at the activation time.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the path addition request requests to add the second base station to a data transmission path between the controller and the user equipment in addition to the first base station.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first base station forwards downlink data that are to be transmitted to the user equipment to the second base station.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the first and second base stations provide the CoMP communication to the user equipment, retransmitting error data is performed only by an anchor cell.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the path switch request requests to switch a main data transmission path between the controller and the user equipment to the second base station from the first base station.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the second base station, a CoMP communication deletion request to the first base station; and
disconnecting with the user equipment, by the first base station, in response to the CoMP communication deletion request.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising requesting, by the first base station, to the controller to delete the first station from a data transmission path between the controller and the user equipment.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the anchor cell switch request is transmitted to the second base station according to signal intensities of the first and second base stations.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein when a third base station is added to the CoMP communication, the anchor cell notifies the user equipment and the first base station that a third base station is added, and transmits information on the first and second base stations to the third base station.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the anchor cell transmits information on which cell is an anchor cell to the third base station.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the CoMP addition request is performed when signal power from the first base station to the user equipment is smaller than a threshold value.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the CoMP addition request is performed when signal power from the second base station to the user equipment is higher than a threshold value.

Assignees

• Park Soongi
• Ryu Byung-Han
• Park Nam Hoon
• Kim Jun Sik
• Oh Sang Chul
• Kim Hong Soog
• Kim Kyung Sook
• Bahg Young Jick
• Choi Sung Gu
• Korea Electronics Telecomm

Inventors

• Park Soongi
• Ryu Byung-Han
• Park Nam Hoon
• Kim Jun Sik
• Oh Sang Chul
• Kim Hong Soog
• Kim Kyung Sook
• Bahg Young Jick
• Choi Sung Gu

Classifications

• H04B7/024 Primary

  Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems · CPC title

• H04W36/02

  Buffering or recovering information during reselection {; Modification of the traffic flow during hand-off} · CPC title

• H04W36/08

  Reselecting an access point · CPC title

• H04W36/00692 Primary

  using simultaneous multiple data streams, e.g. cooperative multipoint [CoMP], carrier aggregation [CA] or multiple input multiple output [MIMO] (allocation of physical resources in CoMP or in CA H04L5/0035) · CPC title

• H04W36/18

  for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection · CPC title