Base station and communication control method
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorHiroyuki Ishii
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Abstract
A base station communicating with user equipments using shared channels. The base station includes a congestion level estimation unit estimating a congestion level of a cell; a priority-level/desired-value changing unit changing priority levels or desired minimum transmission rates of data to be transmitted by the user equipments or the base station based on the congestion level of the cell; and a selection unit selecting one or more of the user equipments to which radio resources are to be allocated based on the changed priority levels or the changed desired minimum transmission rates of the data.
Claims6
A base station communicating with user equipments using shared channels, the base station comprising:
- a congestion level estimation unit estimating a congestion level of a cell;
- a priority-level/desired-value changing unit changing priority levels or desired minimum transmission rates of data to be transmitted by the user equipments or the base station based on the congestion level of the cell;
- and
- a selection unit selecting one or more of the user equipments to which radio resources are to be allocated based on the changed priority levels or the changed desired minimum transmission rates of the data.
A communication control method performed by a base station communicating with user equipments using shared channels, the method comprising the steps of:
- estimating a congestion level of a cell;
- changing priority levels or desired minimum transmission rates of data to be transmitted by the user equipments or the base station based on the congestion level of the cell;
- and
- selecting one or more of the user equipments to which radio resources are to be allocated based on the changed priority levels or the changed desired minimum transmission rates of the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.