Patent ID: 9185710
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A radio communication system comprising: at least one high-power radio base station that forms a first cell and communicates with multiple mobile terminals; and at least one low-power radio base station connected with the high-power radio base station and communicates with multiple mobile terminals, the low-power radio base station having a transmission power less than a transmission power of the high-power radio base station and forming a second cell within the first cell, the second cell being smaller than the first cell, the high-power radio base station being configured to execute wireless transmission to the mobile terminals using resources that are the same as resources used by the low-power radio base station, and being configured to collaborate with the low-power radio base station for inter-cell interference control, the high-power radio base station comprising: a radio communicator configured to execute wireless communication with mobile terminals connected with the high-power radio base station; a resource setter configured to determine a ratio of the number of second resources at which the radio communicator of the high-power radio base station should stop radio transmission to the sum of the number of the second resources and the number of first resources at which the radio communicator of the high-power radio base station should execute radio transmission; and a communication controller configured to execute radio transmission at the first resources and to stop radio transmission at the second resources in accordance with the ratio determined by the resource setter or a modified ratio resulting from modification of the ratio, the resource setter being configured to determine the ratio on the basis of a first proportion and a second proportion, the first proportion being a proportion of the number of mobile terminals that are assumed to be connected with the high-power radio base station, rather than the low-power radio base station, when cell range expansion is not applied, but are connected with the low-power radio base station by virtue of application of cell range expansion to the total number of mobile terminals located in the first cell and connected with the high-power radio base station or the low-power radio base station, the second proportion being a proportion of the number of mobile terminals connected with the high-power radio base station when cell range expansion is applied to the total number of mobile terminals located in the first cell and connected with the high-power radio base station or the low-power radio base station, the resource setter being configured to determine the ratio in such a manner that the greater the proportion of the second proportion to the first proportion, the smaller the ratio.