Network device to monitor radio base station and a method thereof
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsHiroyuki Hosono, Masafumi Masuda
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Abstract
A radio base station monitoring method includes (A) a first radio base station detecting a second radio base station having newly detected a common control channel and a second radio base station having stopped detecting the common control channel as second radio base stations with a change, (B) the first radio base station notifying a network device of information about the second radio base stations with a change, and (C) the network device using information about second radio base stations associated with the first radio base station and the information about the second radio base stations with a change, which has been notified, to stop the operation of at least one of the first radio base station or the second radio base stations.
Claims12
A radio base station monitoring method for monitoring a radio base station, the method comprising:
- step A of causing a first radio base station to monitor common control channels of one or more second radio base stations which exist at a periphery of the first radio base station and to detect a second radio base station whose common control channel has been newly detected and a second radio base station whose common control channel has no longer been detected as a second radio base station with change;
- step B of causing the first radio base station to notify a network device of information on the second radio base station with change;
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- step C of causing the network device to stop an operation of at least one of the first radio base station and the second radio base stations by using information on the second radio base stations associated with the first radio base station and the thus-notified information on the second radio base station with change,
- wherein, in the step C, the network device compares the number of the second radio base stations with change with the number of a rest of the second radio base stations among the second radio base stations associated with the first radio base station, judges which of an installation location of the first radio base station and that of the second radio base station with change has been moved on the basis of a result of the comparison, and stops the operation of the radio base station having been judged that the installation location thereof has been moved.
A network device used in a radio base station monitoring method for monitoring a radio base station, the device comprising a monitoring unit, the monitoring unit being configured such that, in a case where a first radio base station monitors common control channels of one or more second radio base stations which exist at a periphery thereof, detects a second radio base station whose common control channel has been newly detected and a second radio base station whose common control channel has no longer been detected as a second radio base station with change, and notifies the network device of information on the second radio base station with change, the monitoring unit stops an operation of at least one of the first radio base station and the second radio base stations by using information on the second radio base stations associated with the first radio base station and the thus-notified information on the second radio base station with change,
- wherein the monitoring unit compares the number of the second radio base stations with change with the number of a rest of the second radio base stations among the second radio base stations associated with the first radio base station, judges which of an installation location of the first radio base station and that of the second radio base station with change has been moved on the basis of a result of the comparison, and stops the operation of the radio base station having been judged that the installation location thereof has been moved.
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