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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2010
Applicants:
Tatsuro Yajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Akihito Hanaki, Yokohama, JP;
Hidehiko Oyane, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/14 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 72/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/1284 (2013.01); H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A radio base station BTS includes an estimation unitconfigured to estimate a time when a buffer of a scheduled mobile station UE becomes empty based on a remaining amount of data in the buffer of the mobile station UE, the remaining amount reported by the mobile station, and a sending unitconfigured to send the mobile station UE a Zero Grant instructing to stop transmission of a data signal via an E-DPDCH based on the estimated time.