Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, mobile station, program, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9554320-B2
Application number	US-201314428973-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2013
Priority date	Sep 25, 2012
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

A mobile communication system includes a mobile station provided in a moving object moving along a predetermined route, and a plurality of base stations provided along the route. The mobile station includes an interruption time determining unit that determines whether an interruption time, in which the base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected is interrupted communication with the mobile station, is within a predetermined permissible time range for a travel direction side of the route more forward than a current position of the moving object, and a handover processing unit that performs handover processing when the interruption time determining unit determines that the interruption time is not within the permissible time range.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile communication system in which a mobile station moves while performing handover, the mobile communication system comprising:
the mobile station provided in a moving object moving along a predetermined route; and
a plurality of base stations provided along the predetermined route,
wherein the mobile station comprises:
an access point information storing unit in which information of sections of the predetermined route in which shadowing occurs is stored;
an interruption time determining unit configured to determine whether an interruption time, in which the base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected is interrupted communication with the mobile station, is within a predetermined permissible time range for a travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than a current position of the moving object based on the information stored in the access point information storing unit; and
a handover processing unit configured to perform handover processing when the interruption time determining unit determines that the interruption time is not within the permissible time range.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile station comprises:
an interruption time calculating unit configured to calculate the interruption time, in which the base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected is interrupted communication with the mobile station, for the travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than the current position of the moving object,
wherein the interruption time determining unit determines whether the interruption time calculated by the interruption time calculating unit is within the predetermined permissible time range.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 2 , wherein the mobile station comprises:
a current position calculating unit configured to calculate the current position of the moving object in the predetermined route,
wherein the interruption time calculating unit calculates the interruption time, in which the base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected is interrupted communication with the mobile station, for the travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than the current position calculated by the current position calculating unit.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile station comprises:
a communication connection time calculating unit configured to calculate respective communication connection times, for which communication connection is continued when being performed handover, with respect to one or more base stations which is capable of performing handover,
wherein the handover processing unit performs handover processing for an base station having a longest communication connection time calculated by the communication connection time calculating unit among the one or more base stations which is capable of performing handover.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the handover processing unit configured to perform the handover processing immediately in the case that the current position of the moving object is within a communication range of the base station which is capable of performing handover and perform the handover processing when the mobile station enters within the communication range of the base station which is capable of performing handover in the case that the current position of the moving object is not within the communication range of the base station.

6. A mobile communication method in which a mobile station moves along a predetermined route while performing handover, the mobile communication method comprising:
an access point information storing step in which information of sections of the predetermined route in which shadowing occurs is stored;
an interruption time determining step that the mobile station provided in a moving object moving along the predetermined route determines whether an interruption time, in which a base station communicating with the mobile station which is a currently connected among a plurality of base stations provided along the predetermined route is interrupted communication with the mobile station, is within a predetermined permissible time range for a travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than a current position of the moving object based on the information stored in the access point information storing unit; and
a handover processing step of performing handover processing when it is determined in the interruption time determining step that the interruption time is not within the permissible time range.

7. A mobile station provided in a moving object moving along a predetermined route, the mobile station comprising:
an access point information storing unit in which information of sections of the predetermined route in which shadowing occurs is stored;
an interruption time determining unit configured to determine whether an interruption time, in which a base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected among a plurality of base stations provided along the predetermined route is interrupted communication with the mobile station, is within a predetermined permissible time range for a travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than a current position of the moving object based on the information stored in the access point information storing unit; and
a handover processing unit configured to perform handover processing when the interruption time determining unit determines that the interruption time is not within the permissible time range.

8. A non-transitory recording medium, which records a program that causes a computer to serve as a mobile station provided in a moving object moving along a predetermined route, records the program that causes the computer to serve as
an access point information storing unit in which information of sections of the route in which shadowing occurs is stored;
an interruption time determining unit that determines whether an interruption time, in which a base station communicating with the mobile station which is currently connected among a plurality of base stations provided along the predetermined route is interrupted communication with the mobile station, is within a predetermined permissible time range for a travel direction side of the predetermined route more forward than a current position of the moving object based on the information stored in the access point information storing unit, and
a handover processing unit that performs handover processing when the interruption time determining unit determines that the interruption time is not within the permissible time range.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• YAMAMOTO Syusaku
• Tominaga Masatoshi
• Hayashi Shinichi
• Miyajima Yutaka

Classifications

• B60L15/40 Primary

  Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary place (devices along the route for controlling devices on rail vehicles B61L3/00; central rail-traffic control systems B61L27/00) · CPC title

• H04L69/28

  Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols · CPC title

• B60L2200/26

  Rail vehicles · CPC title

• B60L2240/80

  Time limits · CPC title

• H04W84/005

  Moving wireless networks · CPC title