Base station apparatus and communication control method
A base station apparatus is disclosed that is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a shared channel in downlink and controlling transmission power of a control channel reporting identification information of the user equipment terminal receiving the shared channel and a transmission format of the shared channel. The base station apparatus includes a transmission power control unit configured to control the transmission power of the control channel based on downlink radio quality information reported from the user equipment terminal and an offset value determined based on communications quality of the control channel.
1. A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a shared channel in downlink and controlling transmission power of a control channel reporting identification information of the user equipment terminal receiving the shared channel and a transmission format of the shared channel, the base station apparatus comprising:
a transmission power control unit configured to control the transmission power of the control channel based on transmission power of downlink scheduling information in reference radio quality information, a channel quality value related to the downlink system bandwidth, downlink radio quality information reported from the user equipment terminal, and an offset value determined based on communications quality of the control channel.
2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the transmission power control unit uses a block error rate of the control channel as the communications quality of the control channel and controls the offset value so that the block error rate of the control channel becomes a target value.
3. The base station apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive, in uplink, acknowledgement information of a shared channel corresponding to the control channel, wherein
the transmission power control unit performs control to reduce the offset value when a received result of the acknowledgement information is acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement and increase the offset value when the received result of the acknowledgement information indicates discoutinuous transmission.
4. The base station apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the target value is determined based on at least one of a transmission rate, a modulation scheme, a transmission format, a coding rate, an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level, and a payload size of the downlink shared channel and a user equipment category.
5. The base station apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the target value is determined based on at least one of a transmission format, a coding rate, and an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level of the control channel and a size of a physical channel.
6. A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a shared channel in uplink and controlling transmission power of a control channel for the shared channel, the base station apparatus comprising:
a transmission power control unit configured to control the transmission power of the control channel based on downlink radio quality information reported from the user equipment terminal, and an offset value; and
a determination unit configured to determine whether an uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is actually transmitted,
wherein when determining that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is not actually transmitted, the transmission power control unit is configured to increase the offset value, and when determining that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is actually transmitted, the transmission power control unit is configured to reduce the offset value.
7. The base station apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the transmission power control unit uses a block error rate of the control channel and controls the offset value so that the block error rate of the control channel becomes a target value.
8. The base station apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising:
wherein
the determination unit configured to determine that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is not actually transmitted when a radio quality of the uplink shared channel is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value and determine that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is actually transmitted when the radio quality of the uplink shared channel is greater than the predetermined threshold value.
9. The base station apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the target value is determined based on at least one of a transmission rate, a modulation scheme, a transmission format, a coding rate, an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level, and a payload size of the uplink shared channel and a user equipment category.
10. The base station apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the target value is determined based on at least one of a transmission format, a coding rate, and an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level of the control channel and a size of a physical channel.
11. A communication control method in a mobile communication system including a user equipment terminal and a base station apparatus communicating with the user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel, the communication control method, in controlling transmission power of a control channel reporting identification information of the user equipment terminal receiving the shared channel and a transmission format of the shared channel, comprising:
a first step of obtaining downlink radio quality information reported from the user equipment terminal;
a second step of controlling an offset value based on acknowledge information of a shared channel corresponding to the control channel; and
a third step of determining transmission power of the control channel based on the transmission power of downlink scheduling information in reference radio quality information, the channel quality value related to the downlink system bandwidth, the downlink radio quality information, and the offset value.
12. A communication control method in a mobile communication system including a user equipment terminal and a base station apparatus communicating with the user equipment terminal using a uplink shared channel, the communication control method, in controlling transmission power of a control channel reporting identification information of the user equipment terminal receiving the shared channel and a transmission format of the shared channel, comprising:
a first step of obtaining downlink radio quality information reported from the user equipment terminal;
a second step of controlling an offset value;
a third step of determining transmission power of the control channel based on the downlink radio quality information and the offset value; and
a fourth step of determining whether an uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is actually transmitted,
wherein when determining that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is not actually transmitted in the fourth step, the offset value is increased in the second step, and when determining that the uplink shared channel corresponding to the control channel is actually transmitted in the fourth step, the offset value is reduced in the second step.