Multi-site cell communication method, base station controller, base station, and communication system thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9351208-B2
Application number	US-201414273855-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2014
Priority date	Nov 9, 2011
Publication date	May 24, 2016
Grant date	May 24, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a multi-site cell communication method, a base station controller, a base station, and a communication system thereof to increase cell capacity of a base station based on a multi-site cell technology. A multi-site cell communication method includes: when the terminals that respectively access different subsites occupy different logical channels, handing over terminals, which access different subsites respectively, to a same logical channel. A multi-site cell communication method includes: using a same logical channel to modulate and send downlink data to terminals that access different subsites respectively; and/or receiving and demodulating uplink data that is sent through the same logical channel by the terminals that access different subsites respectively.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multi-site cell communication method, comprising:
handing over terminals, which access different subsites respectively, to a same logical channel, when the terminals occupy different logical channels; and
performing at least one of the following:
(a) jointly modulating downlink data when a signal quality of the terminals reaches a preset value, and
(b) independently modulating the downlink data when the signal quality of the terminals fails to reach a preset value.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
handing over the terminals, which meet signal quality conditions and access the different subsites respectively, to the same logical channel, wherein the signal quality conditions comprise one or any combination of the following items: uplink and downlink quality of service of the terminals, a transmitting level, a receiving level, a carrier-to-interference ratio, and a bit error rate.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
when multiple terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access, handing over the multiple terminals to the different logical channels.

4. A multi-site cell communication method, comprising;
detecting subsites accessed by terminals covered by a base station;
detecting signal quality of the terminals covered by the base station; and
performing at least one of the following:
(a) using a same logical channel to modulate and send downlink data to the terminals that access different subsites respectively, wherein the process of using the same logical channel comprises jointly modulating the downlink data if the signal of the terminals reaches a preset value; and
(b) receiving and demodulating uplink data that is sent through the same logical channel by the terminals that access the different subsites respectively.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the process of receiving and demodulating the uplink data comprises:
jointly demodulating the uplink data sent by the terminals if the signal quality of the terminals reaches the preset value, when the terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access and the terminals remain on the same logical channel; and independently demodulating the uplink data sent by the multiple terminals if the signal quality of the multiple terminals fails to reach the preset value.

6. A base station controller for implementing a multi-site cell, comprising:
a handover apparatus, configured to:
hand over terminals, which access different subsites respectively, to a same logical channel, when the terminals occupy different logical channels, and
perform at least one of the following:
(a) jointly modulate downlink data when a signal quality of the terminals reaches a preset value, and
(b) independently modulate the downlink data when the signal quality of the terminals fails to reach a preset value.

7. The base station controller according to claim 6 , wherein:
the handover apparatus is further configured to hand over the terminals, which meet signal quality conditions and access the different subsites respectively, to the same logical channel, wherein the signal quality conditions comprise one or any combination of the following items: uplink and downlink quality of service of the terminals, a transmitting level, a receiving level, a carrier-to-interference ratio, and a bit error rate.

8. The base station controller according to claim 7 , wherein:
the handover apparatus is further configured to hand over multiple terminals to different logical channels when the multiple terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access;
or
allow the multiple terminals to remain on the same logical channel when the multiple terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access.

9. A base station for implementing a multi-site cell, comprising:
a subsite detecting apparatus, configured to detect subsites accessed by terminals covered by the base station;
a signal quality detecting apparatus, configured to detect signal quality of the terminals covered by the base station; and
a transceiver apparatus, configured to:
jointly modulate the downlink data when the signal quality of the terminals reaches a preset value, or independently modulate the downlink data when the signal quality of the terminals fails to reach a preset value, and
implement at least one of the following:
(a) use a same logical channel to modulate and send downlink data to the terminals that access different subsites respectively, and
(b) receive and demodulate uplink data that is sent through the same logical channel by the terminals that access different subsites respectively.

10. The base station according to claim 9 , wherein when multiple terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access, and the multiple terminals remain on the same logical channel, the transceiver apparatus is further configured to:
jointly demodulate the uplink data sent by the multiple terminals if signal quality of the multiple terminals reaches a preset value; and
independently demodulate the uplink data sent by the multiple terminals if the signal quality of the multiple terminals fails to reach the preset value.

11. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
when multiple terminals on the same logical channel move to a same subsite for access, allowing the multiple terminals to remain on the same logical channel.

12. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the process of using the same logical channel further comprises:
independently modulating the downlink data if the signal quality of the terminals fails to reach a preset value.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Guo Jiang
• Mei Jingjin

Classifications

• H04W36/16

  Performing reselection for specific purposes · CPC title

• H04W48/10

  using broadcasted information · CPC title

• H04W36/06 Primary

  Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point · CPC title

• H04W36/0009

  for a plurality of users or terminals, e.g. group communication or moving wireless networks (user group management H04W4/08; processing of subscriber group data H04W8/186) · CPC title