Mobile terminal and control method therefor
View Patent ↗A mobile terminal detecting an instantaneous deterioration in BLER and quickly converging an SIR into an appropriate target SIR, thereby preventing requesting an excessive transmission power from a base station and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. The present invention relates to the mobile terminal including a target SIR control unit 105 that detects a burst error state indicating a deterioration in a communication environment, a burst error return state indicating a return of the communication environment, and a normal communication state indicating a good state of the communication environment based on whether a cyclic redundancy check is good, after detecting the burst error state, decreases the target SIR by a first decrease amount whenever an OK determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is obtained, detects a state in which the target SIR is decreased by a burst error return criterion that is a preset decrease amount, determines that the detected state is a burst error return state, and decreases the target SIR by a preset second decrease amount, and the method of controlling the mobile terminal.
1. A mobile terminal conducting a cyclic redundancy check on a transmitted signal from a base station to detect a communication environment of a communication with the base station, and increasing or decreasing a target SIR for deciding a transmission power from the base station, comprising
a target Signal-to-Interference-Ratio (SIR) control unit that: after increasing the target SIR by a preset increase amount according to a No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check and before decreasing the target SIR by a burst error criterion that is a preset decrease amount, detects that the No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check occurs again, determines that a detected state is a burst error state indicating a deterioration in the communication environment, and decreases the target SIR by a first decrease amount whenever an OK determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is obtained after determining the burst error state;
after detecting the burst error state, detects a state in which the target SIR is decreased by a burst error return criterion that is a preset decrease amount, determines that a detected state is a burst error return state indicating a return of the communication environment, and decreases the target SIR by a preset second decrease amount whenever the OK determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is obtained; and
detects a state in which the target SIR is decreased by a normal communication criterion that is a preset decrease amount after detecting that the No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check occurs, or detects that the target SIR is below a preset normal communication state threshold value after determining the burst error return state, then determines that the detected state is a normal communication state indicating a good state of the communication environment, and decreases the target SIR by the first decrease amount.
2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 ,
wherein the target SIR control unit detects that a following expression (1) is satisfied when it is assumed that the target SIR immediately after an increase is T_SIR(T−1), the target SIR when the NG determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is detected and immediately before the increase is T_SIR_tbng, the increase amount of the target SIR is Sinc, and a burst error determination coefficient for determining the burst error state is T_burstin, and determines that the detected state is the burst error state:
T — SIR ( T− 1)> T — SIR — tbng+Sinc*T _burstin (1).
3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 ,
wherein the target SIR control unit detects that a following expression (2) is satisfied when it is assumed that the target SIR immediately after an increase is T_SIR(T−1), the target SIR when the NG determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is detected and immediately before the increase is T_SIR_tbng, the increase amount of the target SIR is Sinc, and a normal communication determination coefficient for determining the normal communication state is T_burstout, and determines that the detected state is the normal communication state:
T — SIR ( T− 1)< T — SIR — tbng+Sinc*T _burstout (2).
4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 ,
wherein the target SIR control unit detects that a following expression (3) is satisfied when it is assumed that the target SIR immediately after an increase is T_SIR(T−1), the target SIR when the NG determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is detected and immediately before the increase is T_SIR_tbng, the increase amount of the target SIR is Sinc, and a burst error return determination coefficient for determining the burst error return state is T_burstok, and determines that the detected state is the burst error return state:
T — SIR ( T− 1)< T — SIR — tbng+Sinc*T _burstok (3).
5. The mobile terminal according to claim 2 ,
wherein the burst error criterion is indicated by the Sinc*T_burstin in the expression (1).
6. The mobile terminal according to claim 3 ,
wherein the normal communication criterion is indicated by the Sinc*T_burstout in the expression (2).
7. The mobile terminal according to claim 4 ,
wherein the burst error return criterion is indicated by the Sinc*T_burstok in the expression (3).
8. A method of controlling a mobile terminal conducting a cyclic redundancy check on a transmitted signal from a base station to detect a communication environment of a communication with the base station, and increasing or decreasing a target SIR for deciding a transmission power from the base station, and comprising steps of:
after increasing the target Signal-to-Interference-Ratio by a preset increase amount according to a No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check and before decreasing the target SIR by a burst error criterion that is a preset decrease amount, detecting that the No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check occurs again, determining that a detected state is a burst error state indicating a deterioration in the communication environment, and decreasing the target SIR by a first decrease amount whenever an OK determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is obtained after determining the burst error state;
after detecting the burst error state, detecting a state in which the target SIR is decreased by a burst error return criterion that is a preset decrease amount, determining that a detected state is a burst error return state indicating a return of the communication environment, and decreasing the target SIR by a preset second decrease amount whenever the OK determination result of the cyclic redundancy check is obtained; and
detecting a state in which the target SIR is decreased by a normal communication criterion that is a preset decrease amount after detecting that the No Good determination result of the cyclic redundancy check occurs or detecting that the target SIR is below a preset normal communication state threshold value after determining the burst error return state, determining that the detected state is a normal communication state indicating a good state of the communication environment, and decreasing the target SIR by the first decrease amount.