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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2001
Takashi Mochizuki, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Mochizuki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
During soft handover, base station selectorselects the base station that is transmitting the downlink signal with the best downlink reception quality, and notifies the base stations of the ID of this base station, so as to cause only the selected base station to transmit user data. Downlink signal weight decision circuitestimates base stations that have a likelihood of transmitting user data. Downlink TPC command decision circuituses the downlink signal from the base stations that have a likelihood of transmitting user data, to decide whether the transmission power of the base stations is excessive or insufficient, and to instruct the base stations to increase or decrease their transmission power. Data demodulatoruses the downlink signals from base stations that have a likelihood of transmitting user data to demodulate the user data.