WO2010058375A1 - Location-based, event triggered inter-radio access technology handovers from a cdma macrocell to a wcdma femtocell - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to communication systems, and, more particularly, to wireless communication systems.
- a network of base stations to provide wireless connectivity to one or more mobile units.
- the mobile units may initiate wireless communication with one or more base stations in the network, e.g., when the user of the mobile unit would like to initiate a voice or data call.
- the network may initiate the wireless communication link with the mobile unit.
- a server transmits voice and/or data destined for a target mobile unit to a central element such as a Base Station Controller (BSC).
- BSC Base Station Controller
- the BSC may then transmit paging messages to the target mobile unit via one or more base transceiver stations or BTSs.
- the target mobile unit may establish a wireless link to one or more of the base transceiver stations in response to receiving the page from the wireless communication system.
- a radio resource management function within the BSC receives the voice and/or data and coordinates the radio and time resources used by the set of base transceiver stations to transmit the information to the target mobile unit.
- the radio resource management function can perform fine grain control to allocate and release resources for broadcast transmission over a set of base transceiver stations.
- a conventional base station provides wireless connectivity within a geographical region that is referred to as a cell, a macrocell, and/or a sector.
- Conventional base transceiver stations can transmit signals using a predetermined amount of available transmission power.
- the range of the macrocell is determined by numerous factors including the available transmission power, angular distribution of the available power, obstructions within the macrocell, environmental conditions, and the like.
- the range of a macrocell can vary from as little as 300 m in a densely populated urban environment to as much as 10 km in a sparsely populated rural environment.
- the coverage area can also vary in time if any of these parameters changes.
- each base station router may combine Radio Network Controller (RNC) and/or PDSN functions in a single entity that manages radio links between one or more mobile units and an outside network, such as the Internet.
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- Base station routers wholly encapsulate the cellular access technology and may proxy functionality that utilizes core network element support to equivalent IP functions.
- IP anchoring in a UMTS base station router may be offered through a Mobile IP Home Agent (HA) and the GGSN anchoring functions that the base station router proxies through equivalent Mobile IP signaling.
- HA Mobile IP Home Agent
- Distributed networks may also reduce (relative to hierarchical networks) the delays experienced by users because packet queuing delays at the separate RNC and PDSN entities in hierarchical networks may be reduced or removed.
- base station routers may be deployed in locations that are impractical for conventional base stations.
- a base station router may be deployed in a residence or building to provide wireless connectivity to the occupants of the residents of the building.
- Base station routers deployed in a residence are typically referred to as home base station routers or femtocells because they are intended to provide wireless connectivity to a much smaller area (e.g., a femtocell) that encompasses a residence.
- Femtocells have a much smaller power output than conventional base stations that are used to provide coverage to macrocells. For example, a typical femtocell has a transmission power on the order of 10 mW.
- a typical femtocell is much smaller than the range of a macrocell.
- a typical range of a femtocell is about 100 m.
- Clusters of femtocells may also be deployed to provide coverage to larger areas and/or to more users.
- Femtocells are expected to be deployed in conjunction with a macro-cellular network in an overlay configuration.
- a macro-cellular network may be used to provide wireless connectivity to a neighborhood that includes numerous residences. Any mobile unit traveling through the neighborhood or located in one of the residences can access the wireless communication system using the macro-cellular network.
- Individual femtocells can be deployed in one or more of the residences to provide overlay coverage within (or near) the residence.
- Clusters of femtocells can also be deployed in one or more of the buildings to provide overlay coverage within (or near) the building. In either case, there will be a one-to-many relationship between the macrocells and the femtocells within the coverage area.
- mobile units will typically only be authorized to camp on selected femtocells.
- mobile units operated by an individual user can be authorized to camp on femtocells that were installed by the user in their residence.
- mobile units operated by employees can be authorized to camp on femtocells in a femtocell cluster installed by a business.
- the wireless communication system may include second-generation macrocells and third generation femtocells.
- inter-RAT inter-radio access technology
- Conventional communication systems use radio conditions and/or the availability of radio resources to determine when to perform an inter-radio access technology hand off. For example, channel qualities and/or signal strengths can be measured using signals transmitted between the mobile unit and the macrocells and/or the femtocells. The conventional system hands off the mobile unit from a macrocell to a femtocell when the channel qualities and/or signal strengths for signals transmitted by the macrocell are poor relative to the measured channel qualities and/or signal strengths for the femtocell.
- the conventional inter-RAT handoff criteria do not discriminate between generic femtocells, femtocells associated with particular mobile units, and macrocells. Consequently, mobile units may not be handed off to authorized home and/or business femtocells as long as the radio conditions in the macro-cellular network are sufficiently high quality, even if the user is inside the home or business covered by the associated femtocell. For example, radio conditions in the macro-cellular network may remain sufficiently high quality to prevent substantially all inter-RAT handovers to the femtocell, e.g., when the femtocell is deployed at the center of a macrocell coverage area.
- the disclosed subject matter is directed to addressing the effects of one or more of the problems set forth above.
- the following presents a simplified summary of the disclosed subject matter in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosed subject matter. This summary is not an exhaustive overview of the disclosed subject matter. It is not intended to identify key or critical elements of the disclosed subject matter or to delineate the scope of the disclosed subject matter. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is discussed later.
- a method for implementation in mobile unit that is configured to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes macrocells and femtocells.
- the macrocells and the femtocells use different radio access technologies.
- the method includes determining a distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell(s) and transmitting a first measurement report when the distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell(s) is less than a threshold distance.
- the method also includes performing an inter-radio access technology handoff from the base transceiver station to the femtocell when the distance is less than the threshold distance.
- a method for implementation in a base station controller that is configured for deployment in a wireless communication system that includes macrocells and femtocells.
- the macrocells and the femtocells use different radio access technologies.
- the method includes receiving a first measurement report when a distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell is less than a threshold distance.
- the method further includes performing an inter-radio access technology handoff of the mobile unit from the base transceiver station to the femtocell when the distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell is less than the threshold distance.
- Figure 1 conceptually illustrates a first exemplary embodiment of a wireless communication system
- Figure 2 conceptually illustrates a second exemplary embodiment of a wireless communication system
- Figure 3 conceptually illustrates a first exemplary embodiment of a method of handing off a mobile unit between a macrocell and a femtocell using event-based triggering.
- FIG. 1 conceptually illustrates a first exemplary embodiment of a wireless communication system 100.
- a base transceiver station (BTS) 105 provides wireless connectivity to a plurality of macrocells 110(1-3).
- the indices (1-3) can be used to identify individual elements such as the macrocell 110(1) or subsets of elements, these indices may be dropped when referring collectively to the macrocells 110. This convention may be applied to other elements depicted in the drawings and referred to using an identifying numeral and one or more distinguishing indices.
- the macrocells 110 operate according to Second Generation (2G) standards and/or protocols such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).
- 2G Second Generation
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- the macrocells 110 may operate according to other standards and/or protocols including Global System for Mobile communications (GSM).
- GSM Global System for Mobile communications
- the macrocells 110 shown in Figure 1 correspond to different sectors associated with the BTS 105.
- the BTS 105 may include three antennas (or three groups of antennas) that provide wireless connectivity to three sectors associated with the three macrocells 110.
- the wireless communication system 100 may include any number of macrocells 110 and/or BTSs 105.
- the BTSs 105 may be a part of a hierarchical network or a distributed network.
- the wireless communication system 100 also includes an overlay network of femtocells 115.
- the femtocells 115 may be installed in businesses and/or residences by individual users, companies, or other entities. In the interest of clarity, only four femtocells 115 are depicted in Figure 1. However, persons of ordinary skill in the art having benefit of the present disclosure should appreciate that the wireless communication system 100 may include any number of femtocells 115 distributed throughout the wireless communication system 100.
- the femtocells 115 operate according to a different radio access technology than the macrocells 110. In the illustrated embodiment, the femtocells 115 operate according to Third Generation standards and/or protocols. However, in alternative embodiments the femtocells 115 may operate according to other standards and/or protocols that differ from the standards and/or protocols used to implement the macrocells 110.
- the wireless communication system 100 includes user equipment, such as the mobile unit 120 shown in Figure 1, that are configured to communicate over the air interface using the standards and/or protocols implemented in both the macrocells 110 and the femtocells 115.
- the mobile unit 120 can therefore be associated with one or more of the femtocells 115.
- a user that has installed the femtocell 115(1) in a residence can configure the mobile unit 120 to recognize the femtocell 115(1) as its premier femtocell.
- the mobile unit 120 may therefore preferentially handoff to the premier femtocell 115(1) when the mobile unit 120 approaches the premier femtocell 115(1).
- the femtocell 115(1) may be part of a femtocell cluster (not shown in Figure 1). However, in cases where the femtocell 115(1) and the macrocell 110(3) implement different radio access technologies, an inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover should be used to hand off to the femtocell 115(1) from the BTS 105 that provides connectivity for the macrocell 110(3).
- RAT inter-radio access technology
- the femtocell 115(1) is a premier femtocell for the mobile unit 120.
- the term "premier femtocell” refers to a femtocell that has been associated with the mobile unit 120 so that the mobile unit 120 is authorized to preferentially access the premier femtocell.
- Exemplary situations in which a premier femtocell can be defined include femtocell installed by users in their homes, femtocells (or clusters of femtocells) installed in a place of business, and the like.
- Mobility information related to the premier femtocell 115(1) may be stored in the mobile unit 120 and network entities such as the base station 105 and/or a base station controller (not shown in Figure 1) that is communicatively coupled to the base transceiver station 105.
- Exemplary mobility information includes, but is not limited to, information identifying the premier femtocell 115(1), information indicating a location of the premier femtocell 115(1), information indicating the radio access technology implemented by the premier femtocell 115(1), information indicating a frequency (or frequencies) used by the premier femtocell 115(1) for communication over the air interface, and the like.
- the mobile unit 120 has an existing wireless communication link 125 with the base transceiver station 105.
- the mobile unit 120 may be in communication with the macrocell 110(3) via one or more antennas supported by the base transceiver station 105 using the link 125 that is established according to 2G CDMA standards and/or protocols.
- the mobile unit 120 may then determine a distance 130 between the mobile unit 120 and its premier femtocell 115(1).
- the mobile unit 120 may compare its location to the location of the premier femtocell 115(1) to determine the distance 130.
- the mobile unit 120 may generate an inter-RAT event and send a message including the inter-RAT event to the base station 105 indicating that the location-based threshold for a handoff to the femtocell 115(1) has been reached.
- the mobile unit 120 may also perform channel quality or signal strength quality measurements, e.g., using pilot channels transmitted by the base station 105 and/or the femtocell 115(1).
- the wireless communication system 100 may then initiate an inter-RAT handoff of the mobile unit 120 from the 2G base transceiver station 105 and corresponding macrocell 110(3) to the 3G femtocell 115(1).
- a wireless communication link 135 between the mobile unit 120 and the premier femtocell 115(1) may be created (using the appropriate standards and/or protocols) and the mobile unit 120 may be handed off (as indicated by the dotted line 140) to the premier femtocell 115(1).
- the wireless communication system 100 may also use other criteria, such as measures of the quality of the wireless communication link 135, to determine when to perform the location-based inter-RAT handoff.
- the location-based inter-RAT handoff is only applied to premier femtocells 115(1) associated with the mobile unit 120. Accordingly, the mobile unit 120 may be preferentially handed off to its premier femtocell 115(1) even though the air interface 125 to the macrocell 110(3) may be providing sufficiently high quality channel conditions or even channel conditions that are superior to the channel conditions supported by the air interface 135.
- FIG. 2 conceptually illustrates a second exemplary embodiment of a wireless communication system 200.
- the wireless communication system 200 includes a 3G femtocell 205, mobile unit 210, a 2G base transceiver station 215, and a 2G base station controller (BSC) 220.
- BSC base station controller
- the femtocell 205 is a premier femtocell for the mobile unit 210 and it operates according to a first set of standards and/or protocols, such as a Third Generation femtocell standard for a distributed architecture.
- the femtocell 205 stores information 225 including a femtocell identifier and information indicating the location of the femtocell 205.
- the location information may be determined using numerous different techniques, including Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality incorporated into the femtocell 205 or manual configuration of the femtocell 205 by a user or a service provider.
- GPS Global Positioning System
- the base transceiver station 215 operates according to a second set of standards and/or protocols that differs from the first set of standards and/or protocols.
- the base transceiver station 215 may operate according to a Second Generation standard.
- the mobile unit 210 has been configured so that it recognizes the femtocell 205 as its premier femtocell.
- the mobile unit 210 stores the identity of the premier femtocell 205, the location of the premier femtocell 205, and any other mobility parameters associated with the premier femtocell 205.
- Exemplary mobility parameters include, but are not limited to, primary scrambling codes (PSC), an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), a mobile identifier number (MIN), a UTRAN Radio Network Temporary Identifier (U-RNTI), and the like.
- the mobile unit 210 defines a local variable, e.g.
- the mobile unit 210 stores the current cell information (relevant to mobility) and the location information (which may be provided by the femtocell 205 in a Connection Setup message) into the PremierFemtoCell local data structure 230 when a PremierFemtoCellAvailable Boolean value in the setup message from the femtocell 205 is set to TRUE.
- the base station controller 220 maintains a context database 235 that stores context information associated with the mobile unit 210, as well as other user equipment and/or mobile units served by macrocells that are connected to the base station controller 220.
- the base station controller 220 stores the information associated with the mobile unit 210 and information indicating that the mobile unit 210 is associated with a premier femtocell in a context 235 for the mobile unit 210.
- the context 235 for the mobile unit 210 may include an identifier, a Boolean variable indicating that a premier femtocell is available, a parameter indicating the frequency used by the premier femtocell 205, and the location of the femtocell 205.
- the base station controller 220 knows that the mobile unit 210 is associated with a premier femtocell. Although the mobile unit 210 has been depicted as being associated with a single premier femtocell, persons of ordinary skill in the art having benefit of the present disclosure should appreciate that in alternative embodiments the mobile unit 210 may be associated with more than one premier femtocell.
- the mobile unit 210 is initially served by the base transceiver station 215 over a wireless communication link including an uplink 240 and a downlink 245 that are established according to the second set of standards and/or protocols.
- the mobile unit 210 is also aware of its location.
- the mobile unit 210 includes Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality 250 to determine its location using signals 255 provided by a network of GPS satellites 260 (only one shown in Figure 2).
- GPS Global Positioning System
- the mobile unit 210 can be made aware of its location using information provided by the base transceiver station 215 over the downlink 245. This approach can be referred to as an assisted-GPS technique.
- the mobile unit 210 can therefore use the stored location of the premier femtocell 205 to determine how far away the premier femtocell 205 is from the mobile unit 210.
- the base station controller 220 can configure the mobile unit 210 for event-based triggering.
- the base station controller 220 may define a location- based inter-RAT event that can be used to trigger an inter-RAT handoff from the base transceiver station 215 to the premier femtocell 205.
- the mobile unit 210 may be configured to transmit a message including the location-based inter-RAT event when the distance between the premier femtocell 205 and the mobile unit 210 falls below a configured threshold distance.
- the threshold distance can be configured in any one of a variety of ways including pre-configuring the threshold distance, user configuration of the threshold distance (e.g., based on the size of a building served by the premier femtocell 205), and the like.
- the base station controller 220 may also use other information, such as channel conditions if they are available, to determine whether to perform the inter-RAT hand off of the mobile unit 210 to the femtocell 205. For example, if the radio access technologies implement techniques for performing channel condition measurements on the target access technology in an inter-RAT handover, the channel conditions may be measured and the values of the measured channel conditions reported to the base station controller 220 in response to requests provided by the base station controller 220. For example, in the case of a location-based inter-RAT handover event, the base station controller 220 may instruct the mobile unit 210 to perform and report the channel condition measurements when the base station controller 220 receives the inter-RAT event message from the mobile unit 210.
- other information such as channel conditions if they are available, to determine whether to perform the inter-RAT hand off of the mobile unit 210 to the femtocell 205. For example, if the radio access technologies implement techniques for performing channel condition measurements on the target access technology in an inter-RAT handover, the channel conditions may be measured and
- One example of a technique that is used in UMTS technologies is a compressed mode technique that allows mobile units to perform channel condition or signal strength quality measurements during specified time intervals.
- other radio access technologies such as 2G CDMA may not implement techniques for performing channel condition or signal strength quality measurements on the target access technology in an inter-RAT handover.
- some radio access technologies implement blind handovers for inter-RAT handover.
- FIG. 3 conceptually illustrates a first exemplary embodiment of a method 300 of handing off a mobile unit (MU) from a macrocell (BTS/BSC) to a premier femtocell (PFC) using event-based triggering.
- the macrocell and the premier femtocell use different radio access technologies for communications over the air interface.
- the first exemplary embodiment therefore depicts an inter-system (e.g. 2G CDMA to 3G femtocell) handoff procedure.
- a connection is established (at 305) between the mobile unit and the macrocell.
- the macrocell determines (at 310) whether the mobile unit has an associated premier femtocell.
- the macrocell may examine the context associated with the mobile unit to determine (at 310) whether the variable PremierFemtoCellAvailable is set to TRUE.
- the mobile unit has an associated premier femtocell, so the macrocell also determines (at 310) the radio technology used by the premier femtocell to communicate with the mobile unit, which in the illustrated embodiment is different than the radio technology of the macrocell.
- the macrocell then configures (at 315) the location-based inter-RAT event.
- the mobile unit receives this information and configures (at 320) the location-based inter- RAT event.
- the mobile unit may also store (at 320) parameters related to the location- based inter-RAT event including thresholds for the location-based handoff, thresholds for the channel quality needed for a handoff (if this information is available), and the like.
- a call and/or session may then be established (at 325) between the mobile unit and the macrocell.
- the call or session between the mobile unit and the macrocell can proceed.
- the mobile unit continues to compare its location to the location of its premier femtocell and, in systems that implement techniques that permit inter-RAT signal strength quality measurements, to monitor the signal strength qualities associated with the air interface to the femtocell.
- the mobile unit determines (at 335) that the distance between the mobile unit and the premier femtocell has fallen below a threshold value. For example, the mobile unit can compare (at 335) its current location to a location of the premier femtocell stored in the mobile unit's memory to determine the distance:
- UE PremierFemto distance UE coordinates - premierFemto coordinates This distance can then be compared to the threshold and a handoff procedure can be triggered if:
- the mobile unit sends (at 340) an event-based measurement report that includes information indicating that the location-based event for inter- system handoff has occurred.
- the base station controller uses the location-based event included in the event-based measurement report to trigger
- the base station controller can send (at 365) a request to initiate the inter-RAT handover to the mobile unit.
- the mobile unit can then perform (at 370) an inter-RAT handover from the macrocell to the premier femtocell.
- radio access technologies may or may not support inter-RAT signal strength quality measurements. If the radio access technologies involved in the handover depicted in Figure 3 support inter-RAT channel or signal strength quality measurements, then the information gathered using these measurements can be used to decide whether to perform (at 370) the inter-RAT handover from the macrocell to the premier femtocell.
- the method 300 may then include the additional steps depicted in the box 343.
- the macrocell responds (at 345) to the event-based measurement report by transmitting a message indicating that the mobile unit should perform measurements of the signal strength quality between the mobile unit and the premier femtocell.
- One exemplary technique for allowing the mobile unit to perform inter-RAT signal strength quality measurements is the compressed mode implemented in UTMS systems. However, other techniques may also be used to support measurement of the signal strength quality between the mobile unit and the premier femtocell.
- the mobile unit measures (at 350) the signal strength quality, e.g., using a pilot channel transmitted by the femtocell.
- Information indicating the measured signal strength quality can then be reported (at 355) to the base station controller.
- the inter-RAT measurements could be reported either periodically or based on specific configured events. If the mobile periodically reports (at 355) the results of the inter-RAT measurements then the base station controller (BSC) can use the information included in the measurement reports to trigger (at 360) the inter- RAT handover of the mobile unit from the macrocell to the femtocell when the signal strength quality of the channel between the mobile unit and the femtocell is sufficiently high to support communication over the air interface providing that the distance based criteria is still met i.e. UE PremierFemto distance ⁇ MacroToFemtoDistanceThreshold.
- the mobile unit can decide when the signal strength quality of the channel between the mobile and the femtocell is sufficiently high to support communication over the radio interface.
- the measurement report may also include other mobility information including, but not limited to, primary scrambling codes, timing and/or offset information, measures of the signal strength quality, and the like.
- the program storage medium may be magnetic
- optical e.g., a compact disk read only memory
- CD ROM compact disc ROM
- the transmission medium may be twisted wire pairs, coaxial cable, optical fiber, or some other suitable transmission medium known to the art. The disclosed subject matter is not limited by these aspects of any given implementation.
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