Handover method, radio base station, and mobile station
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsMikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Anil Umesh, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
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Abstract
A radio base station according to the present invention comprising the radio base station eNB#2 comprising a transmission unit 11 configured to transmit C-RNTI that can be used in the cell #2, to the radio base station eNB #1, in response to “HO Preparation (a handover preparation signal)” received from the radio base station eNB #1 that manages the cell #1, and a resource assignment unit 14 configured to notify a radio resource assigned to the mobile station UE by using C-RNTI included in “HO Complete”, when it is determined that C-RNTI included in “HO Complete” received from the mobile station UE that can be used in the cell #2.
Claims6
A handover method in which a mobile station performs handover from a first cell to a second cell, wherein the second cell is allocated with a set of dedicated random access preambles which are not in common with preambles allocated to a third cell being a neighboring cell to said second cell, the method comprising:
- a step in which a first radio base station that manages the first cell transmits a handover command signal including mobile station identification information, to the mobile station;
- a step in which the mobile station transmits a dedicated random access preamble comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles, to a second radio base station that manages the second cell, after receiving the handover command signal;
- a step in which the second radio base station transmits a random access response to the mobile station when it is determined that the received dedicated random access preamble is a dedicated random access preamble comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles;
- a step in which the mobile station transmits a handover completion signal to the second radio base station, after receiving the random access response;
- a step in which the second radio base station notifies a radio resource assigned to the mobile station, after receiving the handover completion signal;
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- a step in which the second radio base station does not transmit the random access response to the mobile station when it is determined that the received dedicated random access preamble is not comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles.
A radio base station that can operate, when a mobile station performs handover from a first cell to a second cell, as a second radio base station that manages the second cell, wherein the second cell is allocated with a set of dedicated random access preambles which are not in common with preambles allocated to a third cell being a neighboring cell to said second cell, the radio base station comprising:
- a transmission unit configured to transmit a random access response to the mobile station, when it is determined that a dedicated random access preamble received from the mobile station is a dedicated random access preamble comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles;
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- a resource assignment unit configured to notify a radio resource assigned to the mobile station, when the handover completion signal is received from the mobile station after transmitting the random access response to the mobile station,
- wherein the resource assignment unit is configured not to transmit the random access response to the mobile station, when it is determined that the dedicated random access preamble received from the mobile station is not a dedicated random access preamble comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles.
A mobile station capable of performing handover from a first cell to a second cell, wherein the second cell is allocated with a set of dedicated random access preambles which are not in common with preambles allocated to a third cell being a neighboring cell to said second cell, the mobile station comprising:
- a random access preamble transmission unit configured to transmit a dedicated random access preamble comprised in said set of dedicated random access preambles to a second radio base station that manages the second cell, after receiving a handover command signal from the first radio base station that manages the first cell;
- a handover completion signal transmission unit configured to transmit a handover completion signal to the second radio base station after receiving a random access response to the dedicated random access preamble from the second radio base station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.