Radio base station, radio terminal, and communication control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9312931-B2
Application number	US-201113819667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2011
Priority date	Aug 27, 2010
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

In a case where, although a radio base station (eNB 1 - 1 ) has established an SRS transmission frequency band, a serving radio terminal (UE 2 - 1 ) has transmitted, to the radio base station (eNB 1 - 1 ), an SRS by use of only a frequency band that is a part of the SRS transmission frequency band, the radio base station (eNB 1 - 1 ) allocates a downstream resource block the frequency band of which is included in the SRS transmission frequency band and further the frequency band of which is identical with the frequency band of the SRS received at the latest; then establishes, for the downstream resource block, a transmission weight based on the SRS received at the latest; and then uses the downstream resource block to transmit a radio signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radio base station of an adaptive array scheme applying an antenna weight to a plurality of antennas, comprising:
a reception unit that receives a reference signal; and
a control unit that sets a reference signal transmission frequency band available in a transmission of a reference signal from a serving radio terminal, the reference signal being referenced in the calculation of the antenna weight, and that also assigns a radio resource of the set reference signal transmission frequency band to the serving radio terminal, wherein
the control unit sets an antenna weight to control beam directionality for a radio resource having a frequency band of the reference signal received by the reception unit most recently, from among the radio resources of the reference signal transmission frequency band, based on the reference signal received most recently, and
the control unit sets the antenna weight so that a desired wave direction of a downlink beam having a frequency band of the reference signal, from the reference signal transmission frequency band, is directed towards the serving radio terminal.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit sets a non-directional antenna weight for the radio resource having a frequency band other than the frequency band of the reference signal, from the reference signal transmission frequency band.

3. The radio base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit sets the antenna weight so that a desired wave direction of a beam having a frequency band of the reference signal received within a predetermined time period, from the reference signal transmission frequency band, is directed towards the serving radio terminal.

4. The radio base station according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit switches the reference signal transmission frequency band, at each timing of setting.

5. A communication control method in a radio base station of an adaptive array scheme applying an antenna weight to a plurality of antennas, comprising:
a control step of setting a reference signal transmission frequency band available in a transmission of a reference signal from a serving radio terminal, the reference signal being referenced in the calculation of the antenna weight, and of assigning a radio resource of the set reference signal transmission frequency band to the serving radio terminal, wherein
the control step includes a step of setting an antenna weight to control beam directionality for a radio resource having a frequency band of a reference signal received most recently, from among the radio resources of the reference signal transmission frequency band, based on the reference signal received most recently, and
the control step includes a step of setting the antenna weight so that a desired wave direction of a downlink beam having a frequency band of the reference signal, from the reference signal transmission frequency band, is directed towards the serving radio terminal.

6. A radio terminal that performs radio communication with a radio base station of an adaptive array scheme applying an antenna weight to a plurality of antennas so as to control beam directionality, comprising:
a reception unit that receives information on a first reference signal transmission frequency band available in a transmission of a reference signal referenced in the calculation of the antenna weight, and
a control unit that sets a second reference signal transmission frequency band included in the first reference signal transmission frequency band, based on a communication quality with the radio base station, and transmits the reference signal using the second reference signal transmission frequency band, wherein
the reference signal is used for the radio base station setting the antenna weight so that a desired wave direction of a transmitted downlink beam is directed towards the radio terminal.

7. The radio terminal according to claim 6 , wherein the control unit sets the second reference signal transmission frequency band in accordance with a transmission power of the radio terminal.

8. The radio terminal according to claim 6 , wherein
the control unit narrows the second reference signal transmission frequency band when the transmission power control information requesting a control of the transmission power from the radio base station indicates a request for an increase of the transmission power, and either expands the second reference signal transmission frequency band or ends the process of narrowing of the second reference signal transmission frequency band when the transmission power control information requests a decrease in the transmission power.

9. A communication control method for a radio terminal and a radio base station of an adaptive array scheme applying an antenna weight to a plurality of antennas so as to control beam directionality, to perform radio communication, wherein
the radio terminal receives information on a first reference signal transmission frequency band available in a transmission of a reference signal referenced in the calculation of the antenna weight,
the radio terminal sets a second reference signal transmission frequency band included in the first reference signal transmission frequency band, based on a communication quality with the radio base station, and then transmits the reference signal using the second reference signal transmission frequency band, and
the radio base station sets an antenna weight for a radio resource having a second reference signal frequency band of a reference signal received most recently, from among the radio resources of the first reference signal transmission frequency band, based on the reference signal received most recently, so that a desired wave direction of a downlink beam having the second reference signal frequency band is directed towards the radio terminal.

Assignees

• Sato Yoshizo
• Takamatsu Nobuaki
• Yagi Masahiro
• Fujita Hiroki
• Nakata Masaaki
• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Sato Yoshizo
• Takamatsu Nobuaki
• Yagi Masahiro
• Fujita Hiroki
• Nakata Masaaki

Classifications

• H04W72/54

  based on quality criteria · CPC title

• H04W72/12

  Wireless traffic scheduling · CPC title

• H04W72/542 Primary

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04W72/1205

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W52/42

  in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity · CPC title