Wireless terminal and wireless base station
View Patent ↗In a case where a switching source wireless communication system is a wireless communication system in which a transmission timing of a packet or data rate can be controlled in a wireless base station, the switching source wireless communication system, which notifies information on a timing when a wireless terminal communicates the switching destination wireless communication system with respect to the switching source wireless communication system in advance, starts time-division communication between switching destination and switching source wireless communication systems, and receives the timing information, controls a transmission timing or a data rate in accordance with the timing information.
1. A wireless terminal which allows time-divisional transmission to a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system, comprising:
a first control channel modulation unit which modulates control signals to the first wireless communication system;
a first data channel modulation unit which modulates data signals to the first wireless communication system;
a first RF unit which converts outputs of the first control channel modulation unit and the first data channel modulation unit into high-frequency signals;
a second control channel modulation unit which modulates control signals to the second wireless communication system;
a second data channel modulation unit which modulates data signals to the second wireless communication system;
a second RF unit which converts outputs of the second control channel modulation unit and the second data channel modulation unit into high-frequency signals;
a transmission control unit which controls a second transmission timing to the second wireless communication system;
a switch which selects an output from one of the first RF unit and the second RF unit; and
a common control unit which controls the transmission control unit, the first control channel modulation unit and the switch;
wherein said common control unit controls a first transmission timing to the first wireless communication system based upon said second transmission timing for the second wireless communication system.
2. The wireless terminal, according to claim 1 , wherein said common control unit notifies the second transmission timing for the second communication network to the first communication network by use of the first control channel modulation unit.
3. The wireless terminal, according to claim 1 , wherein said common control unit notifies the second transmission timing for the second communication network to the first communication network by use of the first data channel modulation unit.
4. A wireless base station comprising:
a control channel demodulation unit which receives upstream control information; and
an upstream allocation control unit which selects a wireless terminal to transmit upstream control/data signal based upon the upstream control information,
wherein said upstream allocation control unit determines a first upstream transmission timing of the wireless terminal depending upon a second upstream transmission timing, which is received from the wireless terminal, for the other communication network.
5. The wireless base station, according to claim 4 , wherein said upstream allocation control unit determines a rate of upstream data/control signal depending upon a length of the second upstream transmission timing.