Patent ID: 7937078
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: G06F,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A base station apparatus having a plurality of sectors and communicating with a wireless terminal in the sectors and a wired communication network by using a plurality of wireless communication paths having different frequencies, the base station apparatus comprises: an apparatus management portion that manages the entire base station apparatus based on control signals from a network management device in the wired communication network; and a plurality of wave signal processing portions for each of the plurality of frequencies, wherein each of the wave signal processing portions comprises: a plurality of antennas for each of the plurality of sectors; a plurality of sector processing portions for each of the plurality of sectors; and a sector control portion that controls the plurality of sector processing portions, wherein the sector control portion comprises: a memory that stores a software for controlling the sector processing portions; and a CPU, wherein when the apparatus management portion receives an upgrading request to upgrade software from the network management device, at a state in which a new software for upgrading has been transferred from the network management device to the base station apparatus, wherein the apparatus management portion does not perform a software upgrading processing for each of the wave signal processing portions at the same time, controls the each of the wave signal processing portions of each frequency such that the wave signal processing portion of one frequency no longer provides the communication services to perform the software upgrading processing and the wave signal processing portion of other frequency provides the communication services and, performs the software upgrading processing for each of the wave signal processing portions sequentially, wherein the CPU of the wave signal processing portion, which performs the software upgrading processing in accordance with a control by the apparatus management portion, requests the sector processing portions of the wave signal processing portion to reduce a transmission power of the sector processing portions by a predetermined rate of the power reduction, wherein the sector processing portions reduce the transmission power in response to the request and, notify the CPU of the transmission power value after the transmission power reduction, wherein the CPU, in accordance with the notification, determines if the notified transmission power value reaches a predetermined lowest value of the transmission power or not, wherein the CPU, in a case that the transmission power value does not reaches the lowest value, further requests to reduce the transmission power by the predetermined rate of the power reduction, and wherein the CPU, in a case that the transmission power value reaches the lowest value, finishes the reduction of the transmission power, performs a reset processing and a load processing of the new software for upgrading and, performs a processing of gradually increasing the transmission power, thereby performs the software upgrading processing.