JP7316139B2 - mobile radio communication unit - Google Patents

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TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a radio communication unit including a radio base station section for performing radio network communication with a terminal device, and more particularly to a mobile radio communication unit configured so that the entire unit can be mounted on a mobile object such as a ship. regarding the unit.

In wireless communication networks based on high-speed communication standards based on 3GPP specifications (for example, LTE (Long Term Evolution) or WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), an EPC (Evolved Packet Core) that accommodates the wireless communication access network is constructed within the area. The wireless base station to which the terminal device is connected receives IP packet transmission/reception control via the EPC.On the other hand, wireless terminal devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, and tablet PCs ), areas where EPCs and radio base stations have not been developed as infrastructure, such as the sea, depopulated areas, and areas where communication functions have been lost due to disasters, etc. There is also a growing demand for using terminal devices in the field.

In order to meet such a demand, Patent Document 1, for example, proposes a composite radio communication unit in which a radio base station section and an EPC function section are integrated. By installing such a wireless communication unit in the wireless unserviced area as described above, a small but communicable area is constructed by the wireless base station section included in the unit, and the EPC function section in the unit performs communication control. In this manner, wireless communication can be performed among a plurality of terminal devices connected to the wireless base station section.

Such wireless communication units can also be mounted on mobile objects such as ships and vehicles. However, when attempting to build a wireless network with a terminal device while moving the wireless base station , there is a possibility that interference will occur with communication waves of other stations at the destination. In order to solve this problem, in Patent Document 2, a management server that is fixedly installed separately from the mobile base station is provided, and the communication status of the mobile base station is monitored via the management server and satellite communication. A wireless communication system has been proposed that controls a mobile base station to reduce its transmission power when it is predicted that interference with other station communication waves will occur.

JP 2016-12841 JP-A-2010-28369

However, the above method has the drawback that it is necessary to develop a large-scale communication network including a management server in order to grasp the communication state at the destination of the radio base station . Another problem is that it is essentially unusable when a wireless communication unit is mounted on a marine vessel or the like where it is difficult to obtain information from a public network.

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to grasp the communication state of a radio base station at a destination of movement with a simple configuration even when information cannot be obtained from a public network, and furthermore, to obtain communication waves from other stations at the destination of movement. To provide a mobile radio communication unit capable of effectively avoiding the interference of

In order to solve the above problems, the mobile radio communication unit of the present invention is installed on a mobile body, and is capable of being wirelessly connected by a terminal device while moving with the mobile body, and transmits radio transmission waves to the terminal device. A radio communication unit comprising: a radio base station section having a transmitting section for transmitting; and a base station control section connected by wire to the radio base station section and movable together with the radio base station section, wherein the radio base station section is stopped. A radio base station section is connected to the base station control section by wire to detect communication waves from other stations in the vicinity of the installation position of the radio base station section . A transmission output setting unit for variably setting the transmission output level of the transmission unit based on a setting instruction received from the control unit is provided, and the base station control unit receives other-station communication wave detection information acquired from the other-station communication wave detection unit. , and based on the analysis results, the analysis determination unit determines whether or not to execute the transmission output reduction control of the radio transmission wave, and the analysis determination unit determines to execute the transmission output reduction control. (2) a transmission power setting instructing section for instructing the transmission power setting section of the radio base station section to set the transmission power level of the transmitting section to be reduced.

The mobile radio communication unit of the present invention causes the other-station communication wave detection section to detect other-station communication waves around the installation position of the radio base station section in a state where the radio base station section is stopped, and the other-station communication wave detection information Based on the analysis result of the content analysis, the base station control section is configured to set the radio base station section to reduce the transmission output level. Therefore, even if it is impossible to obtain information from public networks, etc., it is possible to grasp the communication status of the wireless base station at the destination with a simple configuration. A mobile wireless communication unit that can effectively avoid is realized.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the usage concept of the mobile wireless communication unit of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of the configuration of the mobile radio communication unit in FIG. 1; 3 is a block diagram showing details of the electrical configuration of FIG. 2; FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the details of the electrical configuration of the radio communication section of the radio base station section; A conceptual diagram of an IP packet. FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing a protocol stack of a 3GPP control plane; FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing a protocol stack of a 3GPP user plane; FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing 3GPP downlink channel mapping; FIG. 4 is a diagram conceptually showing uplink channel mapping. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing the relationship between frequency band channels and resource blocks; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a received waveform spectrum (spectrum analyzer waveform) of a communication wave of another station by a spectrum analyzer; 4 is a conceptual diagram of an output setting table; FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of changing the transmission output in stages; FIG. 4 is a communication processing flow diagram according to a first example of transmission output control; FIG. 10 is a communication processing flow diagram according to a second example of transmission output control; FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a method for determining whether or not the waveform of the other-station communication wave after demodulation is the digital baseband signal waveform; FIG. 3 illustrates the concept of a radio data frame with embedded MIBs distributed using the PBCH;

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the usage concept of the mobile radio communication unit of the present invention. A mobile radio communication unit (hereinafter also simply referred to as "radio communication unit") 1 is a communication protocol of a system defined by 3GPP (in this embodiment, LTE is used, but other systems such as WiMAX may be used). It is configured to perform wireless communication with a UE (terminal device) 5 according to the stack.

The wireless communication unit 1 is installed in a large vessel WS, which is a mobile body, and forms a cell 50 to which a UE (terminal device) 5 can be connected. In addition, small vessels FB (eg, fishing boats, tugboats, etc.) are operating around the large vessels WS (eg, fishing mother ships, tankers, etc.), and crew members of the small vessels FB in the cell 50 carry UE5. . These UEs 5 are wirelessly connected to the wireless communication unit 1 by a wireless bearer 57 .

Note that the UE 5 may be carried by a crew member of the large ship WS. Also, the wireless communication unit 1 may be installed on a mobile object (such as a vehicle) other than a ship, or may be fixedly installed at a desired installation location on land, for example. FIG. 1 shows a state in which a large ship WS equipped with a wireless communication unit 1 is approaching a coastline CL and is causing interference with a cell 250 of other station communication waves emitted by a base station 500 on the land side. ing.

FIG. 2 shows the functional block configuration of the wireless communication unit 1. As shown in FIG. The radio communication unit 1 is connected by wire to a radio base station section 4 (eNodeB (evolved NodeB)) 4 to which a UE (terminal device) 5 can connect via a radio bearer 57, and to the radio base station section 4. and an EPC (Evolved Packet Core) function unit 3 that functions as a higher-level network control unit for

The EPC function unit 3 includes an MME (Mobility Management Entity) 2 serving as a gateway on the control plane side, an S-GW (Serving Gateway) 6 serving as a gateway on the user plane side, and an upstream network element, here, a router 8. It has a P-GW (PDN (Packet Data Network) Gateway) 7 which is located at a node and performs IP address management for upstream network elements. The router 8 is connected to a communication wave analysis section 10 for other stations and a transmission output setting instructing section 11 . The EPC function unit 3 and the upstream network element constitute a base station control unit 20 .

A plurality of UEs 5 are wirelessly connected to the radio base station unit 4 via radio bearers 57 . On the control plane side, the radio base station unit (eNodeB) 4 is connected to the MME 2 via the S1-MME interface. Also, on the user plane side, the radio base station unit 4 is connected to the S-GW 6 via the S1-U interface. Also, S-GW6 is connected to P-GW7 via an S5 interface.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the wireless communication unit 1. As shown in FIG. The base station control unit 20 is mainly composed of microcomputer hardware, and includes a CPU 301, a RAM 302 serving as a program execution area, and a mask ROM 303 (permanently storing firmware for microcomputer hardware peripheral control that does not require rewriting). ; hereinafter the same) and a bus 306 etc. that interconnect them.

Further, a flash memory 305 is connected to the bus 306, and communication firmware 305a including an LTE protocol stack for realizing the functions of the EPC function unit 3 is used. and programs of an MME entity 305b, an S-GW entity 305c and a P-GW entity 305d that virtually realize each function of the P-GW 7 are installed.

Further, the flash memory 305 stores a virtual router entity 305e that virtually realizes the functions of the router 8, an output setting table 305f (to be described later) for setting the transmission output for the wireless base station section 4, and other station communication Other-station communication wave analysis entity 305g that virtually realizes the function of wave analysis unit 10, and transmission power setting instruction unit entity 305i that virtually realizes the function of transmission power setting instruction unit 11 are also stored. A communication interface 304 is also connected to the bus 306 . The other-station communication wave analysis entity 305g and the transmission power setting instruction unit entity 305i cooperate with each other to realize the function of the analysis determination unit. In the above configuration, the MME 2, S-GW 6 and P-GW 7 in FIG. 2 are configured as virtual functional blocks on computer hardware, but they may be configured by independent hardware logic.

The wireless base station unit 4 is mainly composed of microcomputer hardware, and includes a CPU 401, a RAM 402 serving as a program execution area, a mask ROM 403, a bus 406 interconnecting them, and the like. A flash memory 405 is connected to the bus 406, and communication firmware 405a including the LTE protocol stack for the radio base station is stored therein. Also connected to the bus 406 are a radio communication unit 412 for radio connection with the UE by constructing a radio bearer, and a communication interface 404 . The communication interface 404 is connected to the communication interface 304 of the base station controller 20 via the wired communication bus 31 . The flash memory 405 stores transmission control firmware 405 b for setting the transmission power for the wireless communication unit 412 .

Next, the wireless communication unit 1 includes a detachable secondary battery module 21 (for example, a lithium-ion secondary battery module, a nickel-hydrogen secondary battery module, etc.), each circuit of the wireless base station section 4 and the base station control section 20. It has a structure in which a block and a power supply circuit unit 22 that converts an input voltage from a secondary battery module 21 into a driving voltage for each circuit block and outputs the voltage are integrally assembled in a portable housing 23 . As a result, the wireless communication unit 1 can autonomously procure the drive power supply voltage from the secondary battery module 21, and can be used without problems even in installation locations (for example, on the sea) where external power supply voltages such as commercial alternating current cannot be used. be. The portable housing 23 has a box shape made of metal or reinforced resin.

When the output voltage of the secondary battery module 21 drops due to discharge, the secondary battery module 21 is removed from the portable housing 23 and mounted on a dedicated charger connected to, for example, a commercial AC power supply (not shown) or a private power generator. It is possible to charge by The power supply circuit unit 22 can also receive the commercial alternating current and the external power supply voltage such as a centralized power supply unit provided in a moving body, and can convert and output the drive power supply voltage. Furthermore, it is also possible to configure such that the secondary battery module 21 can be charged by the external power supply voltage. For example, when the power supply circuit unit 22 is receiving power from a commercial alternating current or the like and the power supply is interrupted due to a power failure, the operation of the wireless communication unit 1 can be continued by switching to power reception from the secondary battery module 21. It can also be configured as

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the electrical configuration of the radio communication section 412 of the radio base station section 4. As shown in FIG. The wireless communication unit 412 includes an interface unit 101 for inputting and outputting digital signals with the bus 406 of the microcomputer hardware shown in FIG. A transmission side block 103, a transmission/reception antenna 105, and an antenna switch 104 that receives a transmission/reception switching signal from the microcomputer hardware side and selectively connects the reception side block 102 and the transmission side block 103 to the transmission/reception antenna 105. and

The receiving block 102 and the transmitting block 103 correspond to a plurality of modulation/demodulation schemes for adaptive modulation, such as QPSK (Quadrature Phase shift Keying), 16QAM (16Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) or 64QAM (16Quadrature Amplitude Modulation). However, since the circuit configuration itself is well known, here, a QPSK modulation/demodulation circuit will be described as a representative example.

In the transmission side block 103, the waveform of the serial transmission data signal input from the interface section 101 is separated into two-channel (Ich/Qch) parallel bit signals by the serial/parallel conversion section 220, which are converted into D/A conversion sections 217 and 217, respectively. 219 and low-pass filters 216 and 218 to convert to analog baseband signals. Multipliers 215 and 213 convert the analog baseband signal of each channel into a sinusoidal carrier wave from an oscillator circuit 212 consisting of a voltage-controlled oscillator circuit VCO and a phase-locked loop circuit PLL (one of which is advanced by 90° by a phase shifter 214). ), mixed by a duplexer 221, further amplified by a power amplifier 211, and passed through a bandpass filter 210, an attenuator 209 for output adjustment, an antenna switch 104 and an antenna 105 to be a transmission wave. is output as The attenuator 209 is configured as a well-known step attenuator in this embodiment, and can stepwise switch the pass impedance value in the desired frequency band according to a transmission output switching signal from the microcomputer hardware side.

The receiving block 102 passes the received wave received by the antenna 105 through the band-pass filter 110, amplifies it with the low-noise amplifier 111, and converts it into the sine wave demodulated signal from the transmitting circuit 112 with the multipliers 113 and 115. (One is advanced by 90° by the phase shifter 114) to demodulate to Ich and Qch baseband signals. These baseband signals are further converted into parallel bit signals by low-pass filters 116, 118 and A/D converters 117, 119, and input to interface section 101 by parallel/serial conversion section 120 as serial received data signals.

Here, the receiving block 102 is also used as an other-station communication wave detection section for detecting other-station communication waves around the installation position of the wireless communication unit 1 (that is, the wireless base station section 4). Also, the bandpass filter 110 has a bandwidth that encompasses the occupied frequency band of the radio transmission wave that is transmitted from the antenna 105 via the transmitting block 103 (that is, corresponds to the occupied frequency band). It plays the role of detecting only other-station communication waves that have passed through the bandpass filter. As a result, the configuration of the other-station communication wave detector is greatly simplified.

However, the radio reception section constituting the other station communication wave detection section may be provided separately from the transmission side block 103 . In addition, the band-pass filter 110 analyzes the frequency band occupied by the communication waves of other stations, and on the condition that the frequency band overlaps with the frequency band of the radio transmission wave, executes transmission strength reduction control. It fulfills the function of making a decision to As a result, the transmission wave from the transmission block 103 and the frequency band are close to each other, and the analysis is performed by selecting the other station communication wave that is highly likely to cause interference, so that the processing load can be reduced. However, the function is not limited to the form of extracting the corresponding frequency band component by the bandpass filter 110. For example, the other station communication wave is acquired in a wider band, and after converting it into a frequency spectrum, on the frequency spectrum may be determined whether or not there is overlap with the frequency band of the radio transmission wave.

Other-station communication waves are received by the antenna 105 while the transmission-side block 103 is stopped. As a result, it is possible to avoid interference with the output wave of the transmitting block 103 when detecting the other station's communication wave, and to improve the detection accuracy. The detected other-station communication wave passes through the bandpass filter 110 and is amplified by the low-noise amplifier 111 , and the output is distributed to the spectrum analyzer 250 . The spectrum analyzer 250 samples the detected waveform and performs Fourier transform to generate a frequency spectrum (hereinafter also referred to as "spectrum analyzer waveform"). The output of the frequency spectrum is input to interface section 101 via A/D converter 251 as frequency spectrum data (FIG. 11 as an example). The microprocessor unit of the radio base station unit 4 analyzes the frequency spectrum data by executing the other-station communication wave analysis application 405c, and calculates, for example, the center frequency, bandwidth, intensity E, etc. of the detected other-station communication wave. .

The output setting table 305f incorporated in the EPC function unit 3 of FIG. I remember each time. The transmission power setting instructing unit entity 305i determines to execute the transmission power reduction control on the condition that the intensity E of the other-station communication wave exceeds a predetermined first threshold intensity E1. Then, as shown in FIG. 12, when the intensity E of the other-station communication wave is less than the first threshold intensity E1, the transmission power is selected as full power PF, and the intensity E of the other-station communication wave exceeds the first threshold intensity E1. If it exceeds, it selects lower output settings P3, P2, and P1 (PF>P3>P2>P1) and transmits them to the radio base station section 4 as transmission wave output settings. By executing the transmission power reduction control as described above, it is possible to effectively reduce the concern that the transmission wave of the own station interferes with the communication of other stations.

Further, when the intensity E of the other station communication wave is equal to or greater than a predetermined second threshold intensity Ec higher than the first threshold intensity E1, a determination is made to continue the suspension of the radio base station unit, and the transmission is performed. Select the output to be zero or stop. By stopping the communication wave when the strength E of the communication wave of the other station is particularly strong, the concern of interference with the communication wave of the other station can be completely eliminated. In the output setting table 305f of FIG. 12, the higher the intensity of the detected other-station communication wave, the more the setting instruction is given to stepwise decrease the transmission output level of the transmitter (here, E2≧E >E1, P3, E3≥E>E2, P2, and Ec≥E>E3, P1). This situation is illustrated in FIG. As the intensity E of the other station's communication wave increases, the moving wireless communication unit 1 approaches the cell (communication area) 250 of the land-side base station (other station) 500 in FIG. This means that there is an increased risk of interference with communication waves from other stations. Therefore, as described above, by reducing the transmission output level of the transmission unit according to the strength E of the detected other-station communication wave, deterioration in communication quality with the terminal device 5 connected to the wireless communication unit 1 can be minimized. It is also possible to prevent interference with communication waves of other stations while keeping the limit. As indicated by the dashed line in FIG. 13, the transmission output level of the transmitter can be continuously reduced according to the intensity E of the station communication wave. In this case, in FIG. 4, a variable attenuator capable of steplessly changing the passing impedance may be employed as the attenuator 209, or the gain of the power amplifier 211 may be configured to be variable.

Next, FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of an IP packet used for data transmission between the UE 5 and the wireless communication unit 1. As shown in FIG. An IP packet 300 is composed of an IP header 301 and a payload 302. The IP header 301 is written with a PDU identification number, a data source address 301a, a data destination address 301b, and the like. 6 and 7 show radio protocol stacks in the LTE system, with FIG. 6 showing a user plane protocol stack and FIG. 7 showing a control plane protocol stack. The wireless protocol stack is partitioned into layers 1 to 3 of the OSI reference model, with layer 1 being the PHY (physical) layer. Layer 2 includes a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer, an RLC (Radio Link Control) layer, and a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer. Layer 3 includes an RRC (Radio Resource Control) layer and a NAS (Non-Access Stratum) layer.

The role of each layer is as follows.
PHY layer: Performs encoding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, antenna mapping/demapping, and resource mapping/demapping. Data and control signals are transmitted via physical channels between the PHY layer of the UE 5 and the relay wireless communication unit 9 and the PHY layer of the wireless base station unit (eNodeB) 4 .
MAC layer: Performs data priority control, retransmission control processing by HARQ, random access procedure, and the like. Data and control signals are transmitted between the MAC layer of the UE 5 and the MAC layer of the radio base station unit 4 via a transport channel. The MAC layer of the radio base station unit 4 includes a scheduler that determines uplink and downlink transport formats (transport block size, modulation and coding scheme (MCS)) and resource blocks to be allocated to the UE 5 .

• RLC layer: uses functions of the MAC layer and the PHY layer to transmit data to the RLC layer of the receiving side. Data and control signals are transmitted between the RLC layer of the UE 5 and the RLC layer of the radio base station unit 4 via logical channels.
- PDCP layer: Performs header compression/decompression and encryption/decryption of PDUs.
• RRC layer: defined only in the control plane that handles control signaling. A message (RRC message) for various settings is transmitted between the RRC layer of the UE 5 and the RRC layer of the radio base station unit 4 . The RRC layer controls the logical, transport and physical channels according to the establishment, re-establishment and release of radio bearers. If there is a connection (RRC connection) between the RRC of the UE 5 and the RRC of the radio base station unit 4, the UE 5 is in RRC connected mode, otherwise it is in RRC idle mode.

These layers are used in both the control plane and the user plane. On the other hand, only the control plane, the UE 5 and the MME 2 are provided with a NAS layer that performs session management, mobility management, etc. above the RRC layer. A GTP-U (GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Tunneling Protocol for User Plane) layer is provided in the user data transmission interface between the radio base station unit 4 and the EPC function unit 3 side. The GTP-U layer is for identifying the UE 5 to be connected and identifying the radio bearer to be used.

Next, FIG. 8 shows downlink channel mapping in the LTE system. Here, the mapping relationship among logical channels (Downlink Logical Channels), transport channels (Downlink Transport Channels) and physical channels (Downlink Physical Channels) is shown. They will be explained in order below.
- DTCH (Dedicated Traffic Channel) is a dedicated logical channel for the transmission of data. The DTCH is mapped to a DLSCH (Downlink Shared Channel), which is a transport channel.
DCCH (Dedicated Control Channel): A logical channel for transmitting dedicated control information between the UE 5 and the network. DCCH is used when UE 5 has an RRC connection with radio base station unit 4 . DCCH is mapped to DLSCH.
• CCCH (Common Control Channel): a logical channel for transmission control information between the UE 5 and the relay radio communication unit 9 and the radio base station unit 4 . CCCH is used when UE 5 does not have an RRC connection with radio base station unit 4 . CCCH is mapped to DLSCH.

BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel): Logical channel for system information distribution. The BCCH is mapped to a transport channel BCH (Broadcast Channel) or DLSCH.
PCCH (Paging Control Channel): A logical channel for notifying paging information and system information changes. PCCH is mapped to PCH (Paging Channel) which is a transport channel.

Also, the mapping relationship between transport channels and physical channels is as follows.
DLSCH and PCH: mapped to PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel). DLSCH supports HARQ, link adaptation and dynamic resource allocation.
BCH: Mapped to PBCH (Physical Broadcast Channel).

Next, FIG. 9 shows uplink channel mapping in the LTE system. Similar to FIG. 8, it shows the mapping relationship between logical channels (Downlink Logical Channels), transport channels (Downlink Transport Channels) and physical channels (Downlink Physical Channels). They will be described in order below.

CCCH (Common Control Channel): A logical channel used to transmit control information between the UE 5 and the EPC function unit 3, and the EPC function unit 3 and radio resource control (RRC: Radio Resource Control) used by UEs 5 that do not have a connection.
DCCH (Dedicated Control Channel): A one-to-one (point-to-point) bidirectional logical channel, used to transmit individual control information between the UE 5 and the EPC function unit 3 It is a channel that A dedicated control channel DCCH is used by UEs 5 that have an RRC connection.
• DTCH (Dedicated Traffic Channel): A one-to-one bi-directional logical channel, dedicated to a particular UE or relay radio, used for the transfer of user information.

ULSCH (Uplink Shared Channel: HARQ), dynamic adaptive radio link control, and discontinuous transmission (DTX: Discontinuous Transmission) are supported transport channels.
RACH (Random Access Channel): transport channel in which limited control information is transmitted.

PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel): Response information for downlink data (ACK (Acknowledge) / NACK (Negative acknowledge)), downlink radio quality information, and uplink data transmission request ( It is a physical channel used to notify the radio base station unit 4 of a scheduling request (SR).
- PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel): A physical channel used to transmit uplink data.
PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel): A physical channel mainly used for random access preamble transmission for acquiring transmission timing information (transmission timing command) from the UE 5 to the radio base station unit 4. Random access preamble transmission is performed within the random access procedure.

As shown in FIG. 9, in the uplink, mapping of transport channels and physical channels is performed as follows. The uplink shared channel ULSCH is mapped to the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH. A random access channel RACH is mapped to a physical random access channel PRACH. A physical uplink control channel PUCCH is used as a physical channel alone. Also, the common control channel CCCH, the dedicated control channel DCCH, and the dedicated traffic channel DTCH are mapped to the uplink shared channel ULSCH.

Next, in the downlink of the LTE system, the UE 5 wirelessly connects to the radio base station unit 4 by OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) access (OFDMA). The OFDMA system is characterized as a two-dimensional multiplexed access system that combines frequency division multiplexing and time division multiplexing. Specifically, the orthogonal frequency axis and time axis subcarriers are divided and allocated to UE 5, and the orthogonal subcarriers on the frequency axis are divided so that the signal of each subcarrier is zero (0 points). . By dividing subcarriers and allocating them on the frequency axis, even if a subcarrier is affected by fading, it is possible to select another subcarrier that is not affected by fading. There is an advantage that subcarriers can be used and radio quality can be maintained.

In the OFDMA system, a resource block (hereinafter also referred to as RB) defined on a virtual plane defined by a frequency axis and a time axis is adopted as a radio resource. As shown in FIG. 10, RB is defined as a block in which the above plane is divided into a matrix of 180 kHz/0.5 msec. It contains one slot (7 symbols) of the frame. This RB is assigned to UE5 with two adjacent RBs (1 msec) on the time axis as one set. On the other hand, also in the uplink of the LTE system, resource blocks with a similar concept are used as radio resources, except that SC-FDM (Single Career Frequency-Division Multiplexing) access (SC-FDMA) is adopted. In OFDMA, one resource block is divided into 12 subcarriers (bandwidth: 15 kHz) on the frequency axis, whereas SC-FDMA is a single-carrier system in which division into subcarriers is not performed.

Hereinafter, in the wireless communication unit 1 of the present invention, when setting the output of the transmission wave from the transmission block 103, between the wireless base station section (eNodeB) 4, the transmission output setting instruction section 11, and the other station communication wave analysis section 10 will be described with reference to the communication flow diagram of FIG. The processing of FIG. 14 is repeatedly executed.

At T101, the transmission output setting instructing section 11 starts a timer that defines an interval for detecting communication waves of other stations (a step for initializing the timer is omitted). When the timer expires in T102, the process advances to T103 and requests the radio base station section 4 to transmit the number of connected UEs (the number of connected terminal devices), which is the number of UEs (terminal devices) currently connected. Upon receiving this, the radio base station unit 4 checks the number of UEs currently connected to itself and returns this as the number N of UEs currently connected. At T104, the transmission output setting instructing unit 11 determines whether or not the obtained number N of connected UEs is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold connection number Nc (Nc may be 1). When the number of connections is equal to or greater than the threshold number of connections Nc, the process returns to T101, initializes the timer, and returns to T101.

On the other hand, when the number of connections is less than the threshold connection count Nc, the process proceeds to T105 and requests the radio base station section 4 to stop the radio waves in order to detect the communication waves of other stations. The radio base station section 4 receives this, sets the transmission block 103 to stop the wave, and returns a response. With this processing, when a certain number or more of UEs (terminal devices) 5 are connected to the radio base station unit 4, the communication waves of other stations are not detected and the waves are not stopped. There is no interruption of communication, attachment of a new UE 5, or the like. At T106, the transmission output setting instruction section 11 notifies the other station communication wave analysis section 10 that the transmission has been stopped.

In the radio base station section 4, the receiving block 102 receives the other station's communication wave during this wave stop period, and the spectrum analyzer 250 generates the frequency spectrum (spectrum analyzer waveform) of the received waveform. As described above, the other-station communication wave passes through the band-pass filter 110. Therefore, when a peak appears in the frequency spectrum (spectrum analyzer waveform) as shown in FIG. It overlaps with the band, and is particularly susceptible to interference from the transmission waves of the radio base station section 4 . The other-station communication wave analysis unit 10 acquires a spectrum analyzer waveform from the radio base station unit 4 at T107. Then, at T108, a peak is searched for on the spectrum analyzer waveform, and the strength E of the other station's communication wave is calculated from the height of the peak. In addition, analysis of peak center frequency and bandwidth is performed.

At T109, the other-station communication wave analysis unit 10 notifies the transmission output setting instructing unit 11 of the completion of the analysis. In response to this, the transmission output setting instructing section 11 acquires the strength E of the communication wave of the other station from the communication wave analyzing section 10 of the other station, and checks in T110 whether or not the strength E is equal to or greater than the first threshold strength E1. . When it is less than the first threshold intensity E1, it is determined that there is no possibility of interference with the communication waves of other stations, and the process proceeds to T116 to select the output value before stopping the wave. On the other hand, if the intensity E is equal to or greater than the first threshold intensity E1 at T110, the process proceeds to T111, and the analysis result of the center frequency and bandwidth of the other-station communication wave is obtained from the other-station communication wave analysis unit 10. At T112, whether or not the obtained band and center frequency are within the specified range set corresponding to the band and center frequency of the transmission wave of the radio base station unit 4 (that is, in a broad sense, the radio base station unit 4 match the band and center frequency of the transmission wave). If it is outside the specified range, it is determined that there is no risk of interference with other station communication waves, and the process proceeds to T116 to select the output value before stopping the wave.

On the other hand, at T112, if the acquired band and center frequency are within the specified range, it is determined that there is a risk of interference with communication waves from other stations, and at T113, the output setting table 305f (FIG. 12) is referred to, The output value corresponding to the detected intensity E is retrieved and selected. Then, at T114, if the intensity E exceeds the second threshold intensity Ec, the process proceeds to T115 to select continuation of wave termination, and at T117, the output value (=zero) corresponding to the wave termination is set to the radio base station. Send to 4. On the other hand, when the intensity E is equal to or less than the second threshold intensity Ec at T114, the output value selected at T117 is transmitted to the radio base station section 4. Radio base station section 4 receives this, sets the impedance setting value of attenuator 209 in FIG. The transmission output setting instruction section 11 receives this and requests the radio base station section 4 to resume transmission at T118. In response to this, the radio base station section 4 causes the transmission block 103 to resume transmission with the above set output.

In the configuration of FIG. 4, the band-pass filter 110 of the transmission block 102 is also used as a band-pass filter for detecting other-station communication waves. A dedicated band-pass filter 110' (furthermore, a low-noise amplifier 111' and an antenna 105') used only for the detection of is separately provided. On the other hand, if the band-pass filter 110 has a sufficiently high selectivity for other-station communication waves, it is possible to omit the analysis of the band and center frequency, and thus the spectrum analyzer 250 . In this case, the received waveform that has passed through the bandpass filter 110 is digitized by the A/D converter 251 without being Fourier-transformed in the interface section 101 and input to the interface section 101 . The other-station communication wave analysis application 405c (FIG. 3) can acquire this digitized waveform data from the interface unit 101 and specify the intensity E of the other-station communication wave from the maximum value of the amplitude.

Further, the number of steps required to reduce the output intensity of the radio base station unit 4 is not limited to that shown in FIG. 13, and may be greater than this. and full power).

Also, regarding the number of UEs currently connected to the radio base station unit 4, it is possible to set the threshold number of connections Nc to 2 or more. At this time, in the output setting table 305f of FIG. 12, when there is no connected UE, if the intensity E of the communication wave from the other station is greater than Ec, the set output is set to stop, while at least one UE is connected. It is also possible to configure so as not to stop the wave, for example, to select the lowest output value P1 when there is a UE of .

Next, the detector for other-station communication waves can be configured to include a different-station communication wave demodulator for demodulating the radio transmission waves by the same method as the demodulator. In this case, the analysis/determining section analyzes the signal waveform of the other-station communication wave after demodulation by the other-station communication wave demodulation section as the content of the other-station communication wave detection information, and the signal waveform indicates the digital baseband signal waveform. It is configured to make a determination to execute transmission intensity reduction control based on whether or not. Interference (especially crosstalk) with other station communication waves becomes a problem when the other station communication waves overlap the transmission wave of the radio base station section 4 and the frequency band and can be demodulated by the same method. , demodulates the detected other-station communication wave as described above, and determines whether or not the signal waveform of the demodulated other-station communication wave indicates a digital baseband signal waveform. Output reduction control can be implemented more accurately.

In this case, the hardware configuration may include a separate demodulator for detecting the communication waves of other stations. can be improved. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the digitized demodulated signals of each channel (I, Q) output from the A/D converters 117 and 119 of the receiving block 102 are represented by the dashed-dotted lines as demodulated signals Sdi, It can be input to the interface unit 3 in a form distributed as Sdq (both may be used or only one may be used).

The other-station communication wave analysis application 405c acquires the demodulated signals Sdi and Sdq, and determines whether or not the acquired signal waveform indicates a digital baseband signal waveform, for example, by the method shown in FIG. When analyzing the specific content of the information indicated by the digital baseband signal waveform, it is necessary to determine whether to execute transmission output reduction control based on the frequency setting information included in the content of the digital baseband signal indicated by the signal waveform. It is possible. Specifically, for example, the following technique is possible (in this case, both demodulated signals Sdi and Sdq may be used, and the output of parallel/serial conversion section 120 may be used).

In the LTE system, fixed broadcast information resources using PBCH and variably usable radio resources using PDSCH are used in order to flexibly change the transmission amount of the above broadcast information for each operation/environment. Used in combination. The reason why PBCH, which is a fixed resource, is used here is that broadcast information is defined as information that UE5 acquires first, and it is necessary for UE5 to be able to receive the information without receiving notification from eNodeB4. The UE 5 first receives the PBCH, which is a fixed resource, obtains the minimum information for receiving the PDSCH from the PBCH, and reads broadcast information sent on the PDSCH based on that information. Since the PDSCH is a variable resource that can be allocated in RB units, the amount of broadcast information transmitted by the PDSCH is variable. This makes it possible to change the amount of resources used for broadcast information, and to allocate radio resources according to the amount of broadcast information that varies depending on network operation and environment.

Of the broadcast information transmitted by this PBCH, what is called MIB (Master Information Block) is transmitted at the beginning of a radio frame (that is, subframe number=0), as shown in FIG. , time and frequency resources are always assigned in a fixed manner. The transmission information is, for example, information (including the frequency band used) for receiving other broadcast information (for example, SIB (System Information Block)) by PDSCH, and a radio frame number (SFN: System Frame Number). .

Specifically, the MIB is determined to be transmitted on the PBCH with a subframe number of 0 at a period of 10 ms, and both the allocated time resources and frequency resources are fixed. Therefore, for example, on the PBCH frequency band used by the transmission wave of the radio base station unit 4, by checking whether or not a radio frame with subframe number = 0 arrives at a period of 10 ms, the communication wave of another station corresponds. It can be easily identified that radio transmission and reception are being performed by the same method on the same frequency band. In this case, since it is estimated that the head of the radio frame received on the PBCH is the MIB, it is possible to accurately specify the frequency band being used by the communication waves of other stations by reading the content of the MIB.

On the other hand, as a simpler method, it is also possible to employ the following method. Specifically, the demodulated signal waveform is sampled at regular time intervals, and the signal levels at sampling points S1 to S5 are read. If the demodulated signal is demodulated into a meaningful digital baseband signal waveform, ideally the waveform will be a square wave with constant pulse intervals as shown in the upper part of FIG. Then, when the signal levels of the sampling points S1 to S5 appear biased around either of the two different reference levels AH to AL, respectively, the acquired signal waveform is a digital baseband signal waveform. can be estimated. In this case, for example, the average value of the signal levels of the sampling point group can be used as a threshold, the sampling point group can be divided into two groups according to the magnitude relationship with the threshold, and the average value of each group can be determined as AH or AL. If more accurate determination is desired, the sampling interval is shortened, and the bit interval is adjusted based on the number of consecutive sampling points near AH and the number of consecutive sampling points near AL. If the bit interval is approximately constant, the acquired signal waveform is estimated to be the digital baseband signal waveform.

On the other hand, if the acquired signal waveform is not demodulated into a meaningful digital baseband signal waveform, the signal levels at the sampling points S1 to S5 become indefinite as shown in the lower part of FIG. also shows irregular results such as the bit interval not being constant. In this case, the signal waveform is assumed not to be a digital baseband signal waveform. FIG. 15 shows the flow of processing in that case. Since the processing is in common with FIG. 14 in many parts, differences will be mainly described, common processing steps are given the same numbers as in FIG. 14, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

First, the processing from T101 to T106 is exactly the same as in FIG. Subsequently, at T121, the other-station communication wave analysis unit 10 acquires the detected waveform of the other-station communication wave from the radio base station unit 4. FIG. Specifically, in the configuration described above in which the spectrum analyzer 250 is omitted in FIG. At T123, the strength of the other station's communication wave is analyzed from the waveform amplitude. At T124, the other-station communication wave analysis section 10 notifies the transmission output setting instructing section 11 of the completion of the analysis. In response to this, the transmission output setting instructing section 11 acquires the strength E of the communication wave of the other station from the communication wave analyzing section 10 of the other station, and checks in T110 whether or not the strength E is equal to or greater than the first threshold strength E1. . The processing when the intensity is less than the first threshold intensity E1 is the same as in the case of FIG. On the other hand, if the strength E is equal to or greater than the first threshold strength E1 at T124, the flow advances to T125 to request the other-station communication wave analysis unit 10 to analyze the demodulated wave of the other-station communication wave. The other-station communication wave analysis unit 10 acquires the demodulated wave of the other-station communication wave from the radio base station unit 4 at T126, and analyzes it at T127 using one of the methods described above.

At T128, the other-station communication wave analysis section 10 notifies the transmission output setting instructing section 11 of the completion of the analysis. In response to this, the transmission output setting instruction unit 11 acquires the analysis result of the communication wave of the other station, and at T129, refers to the analysis result to determine whether or not the communication wave of the other station being detected is the anti-interference wave. to judge. If it is not an interference symmetrical wave, proceed to T116 and select the output value before the wave is stopped. On the other hand, if it is determined at T1129 that it is an interference symmetrical wave, at T113 the output setting table 305f (FIG. 12) is referred to search for and select an output value corresponding to the intensity E that has already been detected. The subsequent processing is the same as in FIG.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, it is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited to this.

1 Mobile radio communication unit WS Large ship 2 MME
3 EPC function unit 10 Other station communication wave analysis unit 11 Transmission output setting instruction unit 20 Base station control unit 250 Spectrum analyzer 301 CPU
302 RAMs
303 Mask ROM
304A upstream side communication interface 304B downstream side communication interface 305 flash memory 305a communication firmware 305b MME entity 305c S-GW entity 305d P-GW entity 305e virtual router entity 305f output setting table 305g other station communication wave analysis entity (analysis determination unit)
305i transmission power setting instruction unit entity (analysis judgment unit)
306 bus 21 secondary battery module 22 power supply circuit unit 23 portable housings 30, 31 communication bus 4 wireless base station unit (eNodeB)
401 CPUs
402 RAMs
403 Mask ROM
404 communication interface 405 flash memory 405a communication firmware 405b transmission control firmware 406 bus 412 wireless communication unit 5 UE (terminal device)
6 S-GW
7 P-GW
8 router 50 communication area 57 radio bearer

Claims (12)

a wireless base station unit installed on a mobile object and capable of being wirelessly connected by a terminal device while moving with the mobile object, the wireless base station unit including a transmitter for transmitting wireless transmission waves to the terminal device; and a wired connection to the wireless base station unit. and a base station control section configured to be movable together with the radio base station section,
While the radio base station unit is in a state where the radio wave is stopped, the other station communication wave detection unit for detecting the other station communication wave in the vicinity of the installation position of the radio base station unit is provided in the form of a wired connection to the base station control unit. ,
The radio base station unit is provided with a transmission output setting unit that variably sets the transmission output level of the transmission unit based on a setting instruction received from the base station control unit,
The base station control unit analyzes the content of other-station communication wave detection information acquired from the other-station communication wave detection unit, and determines whether or not to execute transmission power reduction control of the radio transmission wave based on the analysis result. and an analysis determination unit that determines whether the transmission output level of the transmission unit is reduced with respect to the transmission output setting unit of the radio base station unit when the analysis determination unit determines to execute the transmission output reduction control. and a transmission output setting instructing section for instructing setting to be performed. The analysis determination unit analyzes the intensity of the other-station communication wave as the content of the other-station communication wave detection information, and performs the transmission output reduction control on the condition that the intensity exceeds a predetermined first threshold intensity. 2. The mobile wireless communication unit of claim 1, wherein the determination to perform The analysis determination unit performs the transmission power reduction control on the condition that the strength of the communication wave from the other station is equal to or greater than a predetermined second threshold strength higher than the first threshold strength. 3. The mobile radio communication unit according to claim 2, wherein the determination is made to continue the suspension of the radio wave. 4. The transmission output setting instructing unit instructs to reduce the transmission output level of the transmitting unit step by step or continuously as the strength of the detected other station communication wave increases. A mobile radio communication unit according to any one of the preceding claims. The analysis determination unit analyzes the frequency band occupied by the communication wave of the other station as the content of the detection information of the communication wave of the other station, and the frequency band overlaps the frequency band of the radio transmission wave. 5. The mobile radio communication unit according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the determination to execute the transmission output reduction control is performed as the above. The other-station communication wave detection unit includes a bandpass filter having a bandwidth corresponding to the occupied frequency band of the radio transmission wave, and detects only the other-station communication wave that has passed through the bandpass filter. Item 6. A mobile radio communication unit according to item 5. 7. The radio base station section according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the radio base station section includes a receiving section for receiving waves received from the terminal device, and the receiving section is also used as the other station communication wave detecting section. A mobile radio communication unit according to . The radio base station unit includes a receiving unit for receiving a received wave from the terminal device and a demodulating unit for demodulating the received wave,
The other-station communication wave detection unit includes a other-station communication wave demodulation unit that demodulates the other-station communication wave using the same method as the demodulation unit,
The analysis determination unit analyzes the signal waveform of the other-station communication wave demodulated by the other-station communication wave demodulation unit as the content of the other-station communication wave detection information, and the signal waveform indicates a digital baseband signal waveform. 8. The mobile radio communication unit according to any one of claims 1 to 7 , wherein a determination to execute the transmission power reduction control is made based on whether or not the mobile radio communication unit is a mobile radio communication unit. When the signal waveform indicates a digital baseband signal waveform, the analysis determination unit executes the transmission output reduction control based on frequency setting information included in the content of the digital baseband signal indicated by the waveform. 9. The mobile radio communication unit of claim 8 , wherein the determination is made that: 10. The mobile radio communication unit according to claim 8 , wherein said demodulation section of said radio base station section is also used as said other station communication wave demodulation section. The base station control unit includes a connected terminal device count acquisition unit that acquires the number of terminal devices that are currently connected to the radio base station unit from the radio base station unit,
Only when the number of connected terminal devices is less than a predetermined threshold number of connections, the base station control unit instructs the other-station communication wave detection unit to stop the radio base station unit from transmitting the 11. The mobile radio communication unit according to any one of claims 1 to 10 , further comprising an other-station communication wave detection control section for detecting other-station communication waves. The base station control unit includes a connected terminal device count acquisition unit that acquires the number of terminal devices that are currently connected to the radio base station unit from the radio base station unit,
12. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11 , wherein the analysis determination unit determines to execute the transmission output reduction control only when the number of terminal devices being connected is less than a predetermined threshold number of connections. A mobile radio communication unit as described.

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