Wireless communication base station having dynamic cell structure
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsJun Sik Kim, Kyong Tak Cho, Byung-Han Ryu, Nam Hoon Park
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Abstract
Disclosed is a wireless communication base station which includes a plurality of radio units configured to transmit and receive a radio signal; and a digital unit connected to the plurality of radio units via cables and configured to operate a communication protocol. The digital unit controls the plurality of radio units according to a communication environment to be switched into a merge state in which the plurality of radio units forms a cell, or an independent state in which the plurality of radio units forms different cells, respectively.
Claims11
A wireless communication base station comprising:
- a plurality of radio units configured to transmit and receive a radio signal;
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- a digital unit connected to the plurality of radio units via cables and configured to operate a communication protocol,
- wherein the digital unit controls the plurality of radio units according to a communication environment to be switched into a merge state in which the plurality of radio units forms a cell, or an independent state in which the plurality of radio units forms different cells, respectively,
- wherein the digital unit has no function of radio communication,
- wherein the digital unit calculates a channel quality based on a channel quality indicator indicating a quality of a downlink channel or information associated with a quality of an uplink channel and controls the plurality of radio units according to the calculated channel quality;
- wherein when the plurality of radio units is at the independent state and a channel quality is below a first critical value, the digital unit controls the plurality of radio units to keep the independent state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.