Mobile communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9350501-B2
Application number	US-201013266336-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2010
Priority date	Apr 28, 2009
Publication date	May 24, 2016
Grant date	May 24, 2016

Abstract

A base station which uses either one of a plurality of component carriers individually or uses an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of the above-mentioned plurality of component carriers to carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned component carrier and also carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier is provided. The base station notifies a bandwidth of an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of the above-mentioned component carriers, as a bandwidth which the above-mentioned base station uses, to the mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier. As a result, while an improvement in the transmission rate is provided according to the aggregate carrier, the base station can also support an operation of a mobile terminal corresponding to a component carrier.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A base station which uses either one of a plurality of component carriers individually or uses an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of said plurality of component carriers to carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal supporting said component carrier and also carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier, where the mobile terminal supporting the component carrier does not support said aggregate carrier
wherein said base station
broadcasts information indicating a frequency band of a multi carrier anchor included in said aggregate carrier such that the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier can be configured to receive the multi carrier anchor, and
notifies, by using the frequency band indicated by the broadcasted information, a bandwidth of an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of said plurality of component carriers, as a bandwidth which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier, the bandwidth of the aggregate carrier being indicated in system information of said aggregate carrier.

2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein said base station notifies a tracking area which is common in an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of said component carriers, as a tracking area which is a target for tracking a position of a mobile terminal and which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier.

3. The base station according to claim 2 , wherein said base station notifies a tracking area corresponding to said component carrier disposed separately from the tracking area which is common in said aggregate carrier, as a tracking area which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.

4. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein said base station notifies a call occurrence reporting timing which is common in an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of said component carriers, as a call occurrence reporting timing which is a timing with which to report an occurrence of a call and which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said aggregate carrier.

5. The base station according to claim 4 , wherein said base station notifies a call occurrence reporting timing corresponding to said component carrier and disposed separately from the call occurrence reporting timing which is common in said aggregate carrier, as a call occurrence reporting timing which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.

6. The base station according to claim 5 , wherein said base station sets the call occurrence reporting timing which is common in said aggregate carrier to have a higher frequency than the call occurrence reporting timing corresponding to said component carrier.

7. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein said base station selects a component carrier to which said base station should switch from among said plurality of component carriers according to quality of a signal which said base station transmits on a component carrier which said base station is currently using.

8. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein said base station causes a mobile terminal to transmit a measurement result of quality of a signal which said base station transmits by using each of said plurality of component carriers, and selects the component carrier to which said base station should switch according to the measurement result transmitted thereto.

9. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein said base station selects a component carrier to which said base station should switch from among component carriers of a neighboring base station falling within a band which is same as that to which a component carrier which said base station is currently using belongs according to quality of a signal which said base station transmits on said component carrier which said base station is currently using.

10. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein said base station notifies a bandwidth of said component carrier, as a bandwidth which said base station uses, to the mobile terminal supporting said component carrier.

Assignees

• Maeda Miho
• Mochizuki Mitsuru
• Saegusa Taiga
• Iwane Yasushi
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Maeda Miho
• Mochizuki Mitsuru
• Saegusa Taiga
• Iwane Yasushi

Classifications

• H04W68/00

  User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• H04W76/28

  Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX] · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04W8/24

  Transfer of terminal data · CPC title