Mobile Communication System, User Equipment in Mobile Communication System, Control Program Thereof, and Transmission Power Control Method in Mobile Communication System

A user equipment in a mobile communication system, said mobile communication system comprising a base station having a predetermined communicable area and the user equipment which communicates with said base station if the user equipment belongs to said communicable area, said base station and said user equipment communicating with each other via a common channel commonly used by multiple user equipments and a dedicated channel individually set for each user equipment, said user equipment performing transmission power control for causing a transmission power in said base station to change based on a reception quality of a data transfer channel in the dedicated channel,

• wherein said user equipment comprises:
• common channel reception quality measurement means which measures a reception quality of a channel in which a predetermined code is continuously transmitted, among said common channel;
• stand-alone state detection means which detects whether or not there is a stand-alone communication state in which the data transfer channel in the dedicated channel has not been set and control information is transmitted and received only via a control channel in the dedicated channel;
• and
• stand-alone-period transmission power control means which, if said stand-alone communication state has been detected by said stand-alone state detection means, performs transmission power control corresponding to the common channel for causing the transmission power in said base station to change based on the reception quality of the common channel measured by said common channel reception quality measurement means.

A control program of a user equipment in a mobile communication system, said mobile communication system comprising a base station having a predetermined communicable area and the user equipment which communicates with said base station if the user equipment belongs to said communicable area, said base station and said user equipment communicating with each other via a common channel commonly used by multiple user equipments and a dedicated channel individually set for each user equipment, said user equipment performing transmission power control for causing a transmission power in said base station to change based on a reception quality of a data transfer channel in the dedicated channel,

• wherein said control program causes a computer to realize:
• a common channel reception quality measurement function of measuring a reception quality of a channel in which a predetermined code is continuously transmitted, among said common channel;
• a stand-alone state detection function of detecting whether or not there is a stand-alone communication state in which the data transfer channel in the dedicated channel has not been set and control information is transmitted and received only via a control channel in the dedicated channel;
• and
• a stand-alone-period transmission power control function of, if said stand-alone communication state has been detected by said stand-alone state detection function, performing transmission power control corresponding to the common channel for causing the transmission power in said base station to change based on the reception quality of the common channel measured by said common channel reception quality measurement function.

A transmission power control method in a mobile communication system, said mobile communication system comprising a base station having a predetermined communicable area and a user equipment which communicates with said base station if the user equipment belongs to said communicable area, said base station and said user equipment communicating with each other via a common channel commonly used by multiple user equipments and a dedicated channel individually set for each user equipment, said user equipment performing transmission power control for causing a transmission power in said base station to change based on a reception quality of a data transfer channel in the dedicated channel,

• wherein said transmission power control method comprises in said user equipment:
• a common channel reception quality measurement step of measuring a reception quality of a channel in which a predetermined code is continuously transmitted, among said common channel;
• a stand-alone state detection step of detecting whether or not there is a stand-alone communication state in which the data transfer channel in the dedicated channel has not been set and control information is transmitted and received only via a control channel in the dedicated channel;
• and
• a stand-alone-period transmission power control step of, if said stand-alone communication state has been detected in said stand-alone state detection step, performing transmission power control corresponding to the common channel for causing the transmission power in said base station to change based on the reception quality of the common channel measured in said common channel reception quality measurement step, and
• wherein said transmission power control method comprises in said base station:
• a transmission power changing step of changing the transmission power of the dedicated channel with respect to said user equipment, depending on the transmission power control performed by said user equipment.