Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Toshinori Doi

Kensei Kawabata

Kenichi Ohno

According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device and radio frequency units. The radio frequency units each convert a signal from each of base station system into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time division duplex scheme. The communication repeater system repeats communication between a mobile communication terminal device and each base station system via a corresponding one of slave station devices, and includes a detector that detects each of transmission/reception switching timings between the master station device and each of the radio frequency units, a setter that sets, as reference transmission/reception switching timing, a latest one of the transmission/reception switching timings of the radio frequency units as candidates of reference transmission/reception switching timing, and a corrector that corrects variation in the transmission/reception switching timings according to the reference transmission/reception switching timing.

Communication repeater system and method

According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system repeats communication by time division duplex scheme. The system includes a timing detector that detects each of transmission/reception switching timings between a master station device and each of radio frequency units, a protection level detector that detects a level of synchronization protection of each of base station systems, a setter that sets, as reference transmission/reception switching timing, a transmission/reception switching timing corresponding to one of the base station systems having a higher level of synchronization protection among the transmission/reception switching timings on the basis of a result of the detection by the protection level detector, and a corrector that corrects a variation in the transmission/reception switching timings in accordance with the reference transmission/reception switching timing.

According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device, slave station devices, and radio frequency units which convert a signal from each base station system into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time-division duplex scheme. The communication repeater system repeats communication between a mobile communication terminal device and each base station system via a corresponding one of the slave station devices. The radio frequency units each include a detector that detects transmission/reception switching timing between the master station device and each of the radio frequency units. The slave station devices each include a setter that sets reference transmission/reception switching timing on the basis of acquired reference time information. The radio frequency units each include a corrector that corrects variation in the transmission/reception switching timing in accordance with the reference transmission/reception switching timing.

According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device and radio frequency units. The radio frequency unite each convert a signal from each of base station system into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time division duplex scheme. The communication repeater system repeats communication between a mobile communication terminal device and each base station system via a corresponding one of slave station devices, and includes a detector that detects each of transmission/reception switching timings between the master station device and each of the radio frequency units, a setter that sets, as reference transmission/reception switching timing, a latest one of the transmission/reception switching timings of the radio frequency unit as candidates of reference transmission/reception switching timing, and a corrector that corrects variation in the transmission/reception switching timings according to the reference transmission/reception switching timing.

According to one embodiment, a communication relaying apparatus directly or indirectly relays communication between a base transceiver station and a mobile communication terminal. The communication relaying apparatus includes a determiner and an interrupter. The determiner determines whether an uplink signal is received from the mobile communication terminal through a wireless communication antenna. The interrupter interrupts, when the determiner determines that the uplink signal is not received, a transmission path of the uplink signal to the base transceiver station side.

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Inagi, Japan

Toshinori Doi