JP2005229417A - Communication terminal and radio communication method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal and a radio communication method which realize effective use of resources of a radio communication system capable of performing upward high speed packet transmission and furthermore, efficient operation of the system. <P>SOLUTION: When the communication terminal 401 performs handover during the upward high speed packet transmission to a base station device 409, the effective use of the resources of the radio communication system and furthermore, the efficient operation of the system are realized by determining a system load status of the base station device by utilizing SYL information from base station devices 407, 409 or interference power estimation value in cells 403, 405 which the communication terminal itself calculates and selecting a base station device with the least system load as a destination for continuously performing packet transfer. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless communication method, and more particularly to a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless communication method used in a wireless communication system that performs packet transmission on an uplink.

  Conventionally, a packet transmission system called HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) is known as a technique for transmitting packet data in a W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) downlink (for example, Patent Document 1). reference).

  In HSDPA, one physical channel is shared and used by a plurality of communication terminal devices by time division. For this reason, the base station apparatus determines a communication terminal apparatus to which packet data is transmitted in predetermined time units and a transmission parameter of the packet data (generally called “scheduling”). Scheduling is performed based on, for example, the amount of data transmitted from the base station apparatus to the communication terminal apparatus, allowable delay time, communication quality, and the like.

  When a communication terminal apparatus that performs high-speed downlink packet transmission in HSDPA performs handover, the communication terminal apparatus uses a common pilot channel (CPICH) that is always transmitted with a constant power to each base station in a neighboring cell. The downlink channel quality with the device is measured, and the base station device for packet transmission is switched based on the channel quality.

  On the other hand, since such a common pilot channel does not exist in the uplink, CPICH can be used even when a handover is performed during uplink high-speed packet transmission using a common channel such as an uplink shared channel (USCH). Based on the downlink channel quality measured using (Common Pilot CHannel), the base station apparatus can be switched.

Specifically, referring to FIG. 12, first, the communication terminal apparatus 1 is in the middle of handover and is located in an area where the cells 3 and 5 overlap. In this situation, the communication terminal device 1 receives the signal and schedule information placed on the CPICH from the base station device 7 of the cell 3, and also receives the signal and schedule information placed on the CPICH from the base station device 9 of the cell 5. Is receiving. At this time, the communication terminal apparatus 1 compares the CPICH received power of both the base stations 7 and 9 and transmits the packet to the base station apparatus having a larger received power, that is, a better channel quality. In FIG. 12, the communication terminal device 1 is considered to be closer to the base station device 7 and better in reception quality than the base station device 9, so that the packet transmission destination is the base station device 7 and performs packet transmission according to the schedule. . In this way, the conventional communication terminal apparatus realizes improvement in reception and transmission quality around the cell.
JP 2000-151623 A

  By the way, the case where it exists in the condition (henceforth a link imbalance state) where the number of the communication terminal devices to accommodate differs greatly between adjacent cells is considered. FIG. 13 shows a case where the number of communication terminal apparatuses accommodated in the cell 3 and the cell 5 in FIG. 12 is greatly different and a link imbalance state is generated between the base station apparatus 7 and the base station apparatus 9. .

  In such a situation, as shown with reference to FIG. 12, the communication terminal apparatus 1 has a large number of communication terminal apparatuses that are linked without considering the situation of the base station apparatus, but the reception quality of CPICH is large. If packets are transmitted to a good base station apparatus 7, resources of the base station apparatus 9 are not effectively used. Therefore, there is a problem that the entire system does not operate efficiently.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and in a wireless communication system capable of high-speed packet transmission in the uplink to the base station apparatus of the communication terminal apparatus, the effective use of resources of the wireless communication system, and the system It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device and a wireless communication method that realize efficient operation of the communication.

  The communication terminal apparatus of the present invention connects a selection means for selecting a base station apparatus having the least system load among a plurality of base station apparatuses when performing a handover, and connects to the selected base station apparatus as a handover destination The connection means is provided.

  According to this configuration, when the communication terminal apparatus performs handover, the base station apparatus having the lowest system load is selected from among the base station apparatuses. Therefore, effective use of resources in the communication system and further efficiency of the communication system are achieved. Operation can be realized.

  The communication terminal apparatus of the present invention is a communication terminal apparatus in a communication system in which a communication terminal apparatus transmits a packet to a base station apparatus on an uplink, and when performing handover during the packet transmission, the communication terminal apparatus of the plurality of base station apparatuses A configuration is provided that includes selection means for selecting a base station apparatus with the least system load among them, and transmission means for transmitting the packet to the selected base station apparatus.

  According to this configuration, when the communication terminal apparatus performs a handover during packet transmission, the communication terminal apparatus transmits a packet to the base station apparatus with the least system load. Efficient operation can be realized.

  The communication terminal device of the present invention further comprises receiving means for receiving signals from a plurality of linked base station devices in the above configuration, wherein the selecting means is based on signals received by the receiving means. The base station apparatus with the smallest system load is selected.

  The communication terminal device of the present invention, in the configuration described above, includes a receiving means for receiving a received power value of a transmission signal of the base station device from a plurality of base station devices that are linked, and the received received power value. A transmission loss from the transmission power value of the transmission signal, and the interference power in the cell of the base station device from the propagation loss and the SIR corresponding to the transmission parameter assigned to the own device from the base station device Control means for calculating an estimated value, and the selecting means is configured to select a base station apparatus having the least system load among the plurality of base station apparatuses based on the interference power estimated value. .

  The wireless communication method of the present invention is a wireless communication method in a communication system in which a communication terminal apparatus transmits a packet to a base station apparatus on an uplink, and when performing handover during the packet transmission, the plurality of base station apparatuses The step of selecting a base station apparatus with the least system load among them and the step of transmitting the packet to the selected base station apparatus are provided.

  According to this method, when a handover is performed during packet transmission, the packet is transmitted to the base station apparatus with the least system load. Therefore, effective use of resources in the communication system and efficient operation of the communication system are achieved. Can be realized.

  According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system capable of uplink high-speed packet transmission, there are provided a communication terminal device and a wireless communication method for realizing effective use of resources of the wireless communication system and efficient operation of the system. can do.

  The gist of the present invention is that when a communication terminal apparatus performs a handover, it selects a base station apparatus to be connected as a handover destination based on the system load in the base station apparatus as a criterion.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  First, the operation of each component of base station apparatus 100 of the present embodiment will be described using the block diagram of FIG.

  Reception radio section 102 converts a radio frequency reception signal received by antenna 101 into a baseband digital signal, and outputs it to despreading section 103 and despreading section 121.

  Despreading sections 103 are prepared for the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, perform despreading processing on received baseband signals, extract individual channel signals transmitted from the respective communication terminal apparatuses, and demodulate section 104. Output to. Further, despreading section 103 outputs information indicating the desired wave power obtained from the delay profile created at the time of despreading to SIR measuring section 106.

  Demodulation sections 104 are prepared for the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, perform demodulation processing on the output signal of despreading section 103, and output the demodulated signal to channel decoding section 105.

  Channel decoding section 105 performs decoding processing such as error correction decoding on the output signal of demodulation section 104, receives data, downlink transmission power control command (hereinafter referred to as "DL-TPC"), and communication terminal Information that the device requests scheduling to the base station device (hereinafter referred to as SRQ information) is extracted. The received data is sent to the upper control station, the DL-TPC is sent to the transmission power control unit 164, and the SRQ information is sent to the scheduling unit 108.

  In addition, SRQ information is information which shows the transmission rate of the transmission packet data which a communication terminal device desires, for example, is represented by 1-n (n is a natural number of 2 or more). This transmission rate is determined based on the amount of packet data stored in the communication terminal device and its residence time and the transmission power available for transmission of packet data in the communication terminal device.

  The SIR measuring units 106 are prepared as many as the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, calculate interference wave power from a dispersion value of desired wave power, and a ratio between the desired wave power and the interference wave power (hereinafter referred to as “SIR”). ) And information indicating the SIR is output to the TPC generation unit 107 and the scheduling unit 108.

  The TPC generation units 107 are prepared for the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, and uplink transmission power control that instructs increase / decrease in uplink transmission power according to the magnitude relationship between the uplink reception SIR and the target SIR. A command (hereinafter referred to as “UL-TPC”) is generated, and UL-TPC is output to channel coding section 161.

  Scheduling section 108 determines a communication terminal apparatus that is permitted to transmit packet data based on the SRQ information and SIR from each communication terminal apparatus, and parameters at the time of packet data transmission (encoding rate of error correction coding, modulation) Multi-value number, spreading factor, transmission power, etc.) are determined (scheduling). Then, scheduling section 108 sends information indicating the result of scheduling (hereinafter referred to as “SAL information”) to channel coding section 161, and information indicating transmission parameters as despreading section 121, demodulation section 122, and channel decoding section 123. Output to. Note that the base station apparatus 100 always transmits the SAL information to communication terminal apparatuses that permit transmission of packet data, but may not transmit to other communication terminal apparatuses.

  Despreading section 121 performs despreading processing on the received baseband signal at the spreading factor indicated in the transmission parameter information from scheduling section 108, extracts the packet signal transmitted from the communication terminal apparatus, and demodulates section 122. Output to.

  Demodulation section 122 performs demodulation processing on the packet signal output from despreading section 121 with the modulation multilevel number indicated in the transmission parameter information from scheduling section 108, and sends the demodulated signal to channel decoding section 123. Output.

  The channel decoding unit 123 performs decoding processing such as error correction decoding on the demodulated signal output from the demodulation unit 122 at the coding rate indicated in the transmission parameter information from the scheduling unit 108, and receives the received packet data. Take out and output to the error detection unit 124.

  The error detection unit 124 performs error detection on the received packet data output from the channel decoding unit 123. If no error is detected, error detection section 124 outputs the received packet data to the upper station, and outputs an ACK signal indicating that it has been correctly demodulated to channel coding section 161. On the other hand, when an error is detected, error detection section 124 outputs a NACK signal indicating that the demodulation could not be performed correctly to channel coding section 161.

  The channel coding units 161 are prepared as many as the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, and the pilot signal (PL), ACK / NACK, UL-TPC, and SAL information are included in transmission data to be transmitted to each communication terminal apparatus through a dedicated channel. Multiplexing is performed, error correction coding processing is performed on the multiplexed data, and a signal obtained by the coding processing is output to modulation section 162. The transmission data includes information indicating the system load (hereinafter referred to as “SYL information”) and information indicating whether or not a soft handover state is set (hereinafter referred to as “SHO information”) in a host device such as a wireless network control device. ) Are multiplexed, but the base station apparatus only handles the transmission data and does not recognize the contents, so it does not know these pieces of information. Note that SAL information and SYL information are simultaneously transmitted from the base station apparatus 100 to the communication terminal apparatus 500, and an image diagram at this time is shown in FIG.

  The SYL information is generated from the system load in at least one base station apparatus. As an index indicating the system load, (1) the sum of transmission rates of all communication terminal apparatuses in the uplink in use (see FIG. 3), (2) Sum of reception power and thermal noise power of all communication terminal apparatuses in the base station apparatus (see FIG. 4), that is, total reception interference power in the base station apparatus and normal RoT (Rise over thermal noise) (3) the number of communication terminal devices in communication, and the like.

  FIG. 5 shows one aspect of the SYL information transmitted from the upper apparatus to the base station apparatus 100. In FIG. 5, the sum of the received power, thermal noise power, and other cell interference, that is, RoT (dB), of all communication terminal devices in the uplink of the base station device 100 ascertained by the host device is divided into eight steps. Each table is associated with a 3-bit value as a table. The host device calculates the sum of the transmission rates for each base station device 100, and transmits a 3-bit value corresponding to the sum to the communication terminal device via the base station device 100. Thereby, the communication terminal apparatus can recognize the system load of the base station apparatus 100 by receiving this 3-bit value.

  The modulation units 162 are prepared for the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, perform modulation processing on the output signal of the channel coding unit 161, and output the modulated signal to the spreading unit 163.

  Spreading units 163 are prepared as many as the number of communication terminal apparatuses that perform wireless communication, perform spreading processing on the output signal of modulation unit 162, and output to amplification unit 165.

  The transmission power control unit 164 is prepared for the number of communication terminal devices that perform wireless communication, and controls the amplification amount of the amplification unit 165 according to DL-TPC. As many amplifying units 165 as the number of communication terminal devices that perform wireless communication are prepared, the transmission power of the output signal of the spreading unit 163 is amplified under the control of the transmission power control unit 164, and the amplified signal is transmitted to the transmission wireless unit 166. Output.

  The transmission radio unit 166 up-converts the output signal of the amplification unit 165 to a radio frequency and transmits the radio signal from the antenna 101.

  Next, the communication terminal apparatus of this Embodiment is demonstrated with reference to drawings.

  First, an outline of a method for selecting a base station apparatus that continuously performs packet transfer when a communication terminal apparatus performs handover to a base station apparatus during uplink high-speed packet transmission will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 6, the communication terminal device 401 is in the middle of handover, and is located in an area where the cells 403 and 405 overlap. In this situation, the communication terminal device 401 receives SYL information and schedule information from the base station device 407 of the cell 403 and also receives SYL information and schedule information from the base station device 409 of the cell 405. At this time, the communication terminal device 401 compares the SYL information from both the base station devices 407 and 409, selects the base station device with the least system load, and performs subsequent packet transmission to the selected base station device. Do it.

  Next, the operation of each component of the communication terminal device 500 will be described using the block diagram of FIG.

  Reception radio section 502 converts a radio frequency reception signal received by antenna 501 into a baseband digital signal, and outputs it to despreading section 503.

  Despreading section 503 performs despreading processing on the received baseband signal, extracts the dedicated channel signal transmitted from the base station apparatus, and outputs the signal to demodulation section 504. Further, despreading section 503 outputs information indicating desired wave power obtained from the delay profile created during despreading to SIR measurement section 506.

  Demodulation section 504 performs demodulation processing on the output signal of despreading section 503 and outputs the demodulated signal to channel decoding section 505. The channel decoding unit 505 performs decoding processing such as error correction decoding on the output signal of the demodulation unit 504, and extracts received data, SAL information, UL-TPC, and ACK / NACK.

  Note that during the handover of the communication terminal apparatus 500, the processing performed by the despreading section 503, demodulation section 504, and channel decoding section 505 is performed for each base station that is linked. Also, the SHO information and SYL information are extracted from the received data. Then, SAL information is sent to transmission parameter setting section 541, UL-TPC is sent to transmission power control section 528, ACK / NACK is sent to buffer 542, and SHO information and SYL information are sent to base station selection section 523. It is done.

  The SIR measurement unit 506 calculates interference wave power from the dispersion value of desired wave power, calculates SIR from the desired wave power and interference wave power, and outputs a signal indicating SIR to the TPC generation unit 507.

  TPC generation section 507 generates DL-TPC instructing increase / decrease in downlink transmission power based on the magnitude relationship between downlink reception SIR and target SIR, and outputs DL-TPC to channel coding section 525.

  When the base station selection unit 523 receives the SHO information and recognizes that soft handover is in progress, the base station selection unit 523 compares the SYL information from each base station device 100, selects the base station device 100 with the smallest system load, and selects Information indicating the received base station apparatus 100 is output to the transmission parameter setting unit 541.

  Channel coding section 525 performs error correction coding processing on DL-TPC and outputs a signal obtained by the coding processing to modulation section 526.

  Modulation section 526 performs modulation processing on the output signal of channel coding section 525 and outputs the modulated signal to spreading section 527. Spreading units 527 are prepared as many as the number of communication terminal devices that perform wireless communication, perform spreading processing on the output signal of modulation unit 526, and output to amplification unit 529.

  The transmission power control unit 528 controls the amplification amount of the amplification unit 529 according to UL-TPC. The amplification unit 529 amplifies the transmission power of the output signal of the spreading unit 527 under the control of the transmission power control unit 528, and outputs the amplified signal to the transmission radio unit 548.

  The transmission parameter setting unit 541 includes a buffer 542, a channel coding unit 543, a modulation unit 544, a spreading unit 545, a transmission parameter indicated by SAL information corresponding to information indicating the selected base station device 100 from the base station selection unit 523, The data is output to the transmission power control unit 546. As a result, communication terminal apparatus 500 transmits packet data based on the scheduling of base station apparatus 100 selected by base station selection section 523.

  The buffer 542 temporarily accumulates transmission packet data, and outputs the packet data instructed by the transmission parameter setting unit 541 to the channel coding unit 543 at the instructed time. At this time, when ACK is input, the buffer 542 discards the transmitted packet data and outputs new packet data. On the other hand, when NACK is input, the buffer 542 re-outputs the previously transmitted packet data.

  Channel coding section 543 performs error correction coding processing on the packet data at the coding rate specified by transmission parameter setting section 541, and outputs the packet signal obtained by the coding processing to modulation section 544.

  Modulation section 544 performs modulation processing on the packet signal output from channel coding section 543 with the modulation multilevel number instructed by transmission parameter setting section 541, and outputs the modulated packet signal to spreading section 545.

  Spreading section 545 performs spreading processing on the packet signal output from modulation section 544 with the spreading factor instructed by transmission parameter setting section 541, and outputs the spread packet signal to amplification section 547.

  The transmission power control unit 546 controls the amplification amount of the amplification unit 547 according to an instruction from the transmission parameter setting unit 541. Amplifying section 547 amplifies the transmission power of the packet signal output from spreading section 545 under the control of transmission power control section 546 and outputs the amplified signal to transmission radio section 548.

  The transmission radio unit 548 up-converts the output signals of the amplification unit 547 and the amplification unit 529 to a radio frequency and transmits the radio signal from the antenna 501.

  In the present embodiment, the base station apparatus has been described as multiplexing the SAL information and the SYL information and transmitting them simultaneously to the communication terminal apparatus. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The station apparatus transmits SYL information, and after the communication terminal apparatus that has received the SYL information selects a base station apparatus that continuously performs packet transfer based on the SYL information, the selected base station apparatus transmits the SAL information. It is good also as a structure.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the system load of the base station apparatus is determined based on the SYL information transmitted from the base station apparatus. It is possible to estimate the system load of the base station apparatus from the interference power value. Then, it is possible to select the base station apparatus by estimating that the base station apparatus having the smallest interference power value has the smallest system load.

  Specifically, with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 8, first, in ST701, a control unit (not shown) of communication terminal apparatus 500 generates a measurement signal used for measuring propagation loss. The measurement signal is subjected to predetermined processing by the channel coding unit 525, the modulation unit 526, and the spreading unit 527, and is output to the amplification unit 529. The amplifying unit 529 amplifies the transmission power of the measurement signal from the spreading unit 527 according to the control of the transmission power control unit 528, and the amplified measurement signal is transmitted from the transmission radio unit 548 to the base station apparatus 100 using the DPCCH (Dedicated Sent using Physical Control CHannel). At this time, the control unit stores the value of the transmission power of the amplified measurement signal.

  Next, in ST702, reception radio section 102 of base station apparatus 100 receives a measurement signal multiplexed with other signals from communication terminal apparatus 500. The received measurement signal is extracted by performing predetermined processing in the despreading unit 103, the demodulation unit 104, and the channel decoding unit 105 together with the other multiplexed signals. A control unit (not shown) receives the extracted measurement signal and measures the received power of the measurement signal. The measured received power value is subjected to predetermined processing by the channel coding unit 161, the modulation unit 162, and the spreading unit 163, and is output to the amplifying unit 165 as a received power value signal. The amplification unit 165 amplifies the transmission power of the received power value signal according to the control of the transmission power control unit 164, and the amplified received power value signal uses the DPCCH from the transmission radio unit 166 to the communication terminal device 500. Sent.

  Next, in ST703, reception radio section 502 of communication terminal apparatus 500 receives the received power value signal multiplexed with other signals from the base station apparatus. The received received power value signal is extracted by performing predetermined processing in the despreading unit 503, the demodulating unit 504, and the channel decoding unit 505 together with other multiplexed signals. The control unit obtains the propagation loss by subtracting the power value indicated by the extracted received power value signal from the stored transmission power value of the measurement signal.

  Next, in ST704, the control unit subtracts the propagation loss value from the maximum transmission power of communication terminal apparatus 500 to obtain the maximum received power of the signal received by base station apparatus 100 from communication terminal apparatus 500. Further, the control unit obtains a target SIR corresponding to the TFC assigned to the own device from the TFCS table. Next, the control unit divides the maximum received power by the target SIR, and uses this calculation result as an estimated interference power value in the cell of base station apparatus 100. TFC means a transport format combination that is a combination of transport formats (TF) indicating the amount of data transmitted on each DCH when data is multiplexed and transmitted on a plurality of dedicated channels (DCH). To do.

  Next, in ST705, base station selection section 523 receives the interference power estimation value in each base station apparatus 100 from the control section, compares it, selects base station apparatus 100 with the smallest interference power estimation value, and selects it. Information indicating base station apparatus 100 is output to transmission parameter setting section 541.

  The base station apparatus 100 has been described as merely transferring the SYL information indicating the system load from the host apparatus to the communication terminal apparatus 500 and not recognizing the contents. However, the base station apparatus 100 does not recognize the traffic in the cell. Can be measured and transmitted to the communication terminal device 500. An example of the functional configuration of base station apparatus 100 at this time is shown in FIG.

  As illustrated in FIG. 9, the base station device 100 includes a cell traffic measurement unit 901, a traffic information generation unit 902, a communication terminal device (UE) control information reception unit 903, a soft handover (SHO) schedule calculation unit 904, a handover determination. 905, a traffic information transmission unit 906, and a schedule information transmission unit 907.

  The cell traffic measurement unit 901 measures the traffic in the cell (hereinafter referred to as cell traffic) from the sum of the transmission rates of all communication terminal apparatuses on the uplink being used in the base station apparatus 100. During handover, this measurement is performed for each base station apparatus that is linked. Then, the traffic information generation unit 902 generates traffic information based on the cell traffic received from the cell traffic measurement unit 901.

  In addition, the UE control information receiving unit 903 receives control information including SRQ information and SIR from each communication terminal apparatus, and provides the control information to the in-SHO schedule calculation unit 904. When the SHO schedule calculation unit 904 receives handover information indicating that a handover is being performed from the handover determination unit 905, the SHO schedule calculation unit 904 performs scheduling based on the control information.

  The traffic information transmission unit 906 receives traffic information from the traffic information generation unit 902 and transmits the traffic information to the communication terminal device 500. The schedule information transmission unit 907 receives schedule information from the in-SHO schedule calculation unit 904 and transmits the schedule information to the communication terminal device 500.

  In the present embodiment, the system load in base station apparatus 100 is determined based on the SYL information received by communication terminal apparatus 500 from base station apparatus 100, and packets are transmitted to base station apparatus 100 with the least system load. However, the present invention is not limited to this. As shown in FIG. 10, the base station apparatus 100 that performs packet transmission based on the traffic information and schedule received from the base station apparatus 100 and its schedule are shown in FIG. The data transmission rate for the base station apparatus 100 may be determined.

  FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram for explaining the operation of communication terminal device 500 at that time.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the communication terminal apparatus 500 receives traffic information and a scheduled data transmission rate from each of the base station apparatuses 100-A and 100-B corresponding to the cell A and the cell B, and based on them. Then, the base station apparatus 100 that transmits the packet is determined, and the data transmission rate when the own device transmits is determined as the final data transmission rate (Final data rate). Communication terminal apparatus 500 then transmits the calculated final data transmission rate to determined base station apparatus 100.

The data transmission rate is calculated using the following formula. Here, the following (Formula 1) is a general formula, and (Formula 2) shows one specific example. In the following equation, RoT_cellA is RoT in cell A, RoT_cellB is RoT in cell B, Scheduleddatarate (FTCS) _cellA is the data transmission rate scheduled in the base station apparatus of cell A, and Scheduleddatarate (FTCS) _cellB is in cell B. It means a data transmission rate scheduled in the base station apparatus.
FinalDatarate (or TFCS) = Function (RoT_cellA, RoT_cellB, Scheduleddatarate (TFCS) _cellA, Scheduleddatarate (TFCS) _cellB) ... (Formula 1)

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when a communication terminal apparatus performs handover during uplink high-speed packet transmission to the base station apparatus, the SYL information from the base station apparatus or the communication terminal apparatus itself obtains it. By determining the system load status of the base station device using the interference power estimation value in the cell of the base station device, by selecting the base station device with the least system load as a destination for continuous packet transfer, Effective utilization of resources of the wireless communication system and efficient operation of the system can be realized.

  Further, when a communication terminal apparatus performs handover during uplink high-speed packet transmission to the base station apparatus, it is estimated that the communication terminal apparatus has a large system load, that is, a large number of communication terminal apparatuses that are linked. Since the connection destination is switched from the base station apparatus to the base station apparatus with a small system load, it is possible to equalize the number of communication terminal apparatuses provided with links for each base station apparatus. Furthermore, since the interference power in the cell of the base station apparatus having a large number of communication terminal apparatuses that are linked can be reduced, the reception quality of the communication terminal apparatus in the wireless communication system can be equalized.

  [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a communication terminal apparatus that realizes effective use of resources of the wireless communication system and efficient operation of the system in a wireless communication system capable of uplink high-speed packet transmission to the base station apparatus of the communication terminal apparatus. And it is useful as a wireless communication method.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the base station apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention The image figure which shows the one aspect | mode of the transmission condition of SAL information and SYL information Schematic diagram showing the sum of transmission rates in the cell of each base station device Schematic diagram showing the sum of received power in the cell of each base station device The figure which shows the one aspect | mode of SYL information transmitted to a base station apparatus from a high-order apparatus. The figure which showed the state when a communication terminal device hands over to a base station apparatus during an uplink high-speed packet transmission The block diagram which shows the structure of the communication terminal device which concerns on one embodiment Flow chart showing operation of communication terminal apparatus when base station apparatus is selected using estimated interference power of cell The block diagram which shows an example of a function structure of a base station apparatus The block diagram which shows the other structure of the communication terminal device which concerns on one embodiment Schematic for explaining the operation in the communication terminal device The figure which showed the state when the conventional communication terminal device hands over to a base station apparatus during uplink high-speed packet transmission The figure which showed the link imbalance state of a base station apparatus

Explanation of symbols

1, 401, 500 Communication terminal apparatus 3, 5, 403, 405 Cell 7, 9, 100, 407, 409 Base station apparatus 101, 501 Antenna 102, 502 Reception radio section 103, 121, 503 Despreading section 104, 122, 504 Demodulation unit 105, 123, 505 Channel decoding unit 106, 506 SIR measurement unit 107, 507 TPC generation unit 108 Scheduling unit 124 Error detection unit 161, 525, 543 Channel coding unit 162, 526, 544 Modulation unit 163, 527, 545 spreading unit 164, 528, 546 transmission power control unit 165, 529, 547 amplification unit 166, 548 transmission radio unit 523 base station selection unit 541 transmission parameter setting unit 542 buffer

Claims (8)

A selection means for selecting a base station apparatus having the least system load among a plurality of base station apparatuses when performing handover;
Connection means for connecting to the selected base station apparatus as a handover destination;
A communication terminal apparatus comprising: A communication terminal apparatus in a communication system in which a communication terminal apparatus transmits a packet to a base station apparatus on an uplink,
When performing handover during the packet transmission, a selection means for selecting a base station device with the least system load among the plurality of base station devices;
Transmitting means for transmitting the packet to the selected base station apparatus;
A communication terminal apparatus comprising: Further comprising receiving means for receiving signals from a plurality of base station apparatuses that are linked,
The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the selecting means selects a base station apparatus with the smallest system load based on a signal received by the receiving means. Receiving means for receiving the received power value of the transmission signal of the base station device from a plurality of base station devices that are linked;
A propagation loss is obtained from the received reception power value and the transmission power value of the transmission signal. Control means for calculating an estimated interference power value in the cell;
Comprising
3. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit selects a base station apparatus having the least system load among the plurality of base station apparatuses based on the interference power estimation value. apparatus. A wireless communication method in a communication system in which a communication terminal device transmits a packet to a base station device on an uplink,
When performing handover during the packet transmission, selecting a base station device with the least system load among the plurality of base station devices;
Transmitting the packet to the selected base station device;
A wireless communication method comprising: Measuring means for measuring the sum of the received power in the uplink from all communication terminal devices in the cell covered by the own device, interference power from other cells, and thermal noise;
Transmitting means for transmitting measured value information indicating the measured value of the measuring means to all communication terminal devices in a cell covered by the own device;
A base station apparatus comprising: Receiving means for receiving traffic information or measurement value information from the base station apparatus according to claim 6, which is linked;
Control means for selecting a handover destination base station apparatus based on the traffic information or measurement value information and determining parameters such as a transmission rate for the base station apparatus when performing a handover;
Connection means for connecting to the selected base station apparatus as a handover destination;
A communication terminal apparatus comprising:   8. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the control unit determines the transmission rate based on a predetermined function using the traffic information, the measurement value information, and schedule information as variables.

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