IP Library Granted Patent US 12706696
Granted Patent B2
US 12706696 · App. 18/824,366 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

Terminal, base station, and communication method

Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, JP); Hongchao Li (Langen, DE); Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04L1/16H04W28/04H04W72/12
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Patent No.
US 12706696
App. No.
18/824,366
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to downlink retransmission control. A terminal includes a control circuit that performs retransmission control for a plurality of transport blocks in units of code block groups including at least one code block, and a communication circuit that performs communication according to the retransmission control.

Claims (33)

1 . An integrated circuit, comprising:

reception circuitry, which, in operation, controls a reception of a downlink control information (DCI) including information relating to a retransmission of multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and receives the multiple PDSCHs indicated by the DCI; and

decode circuitry, which, in operation, controls a decode of the multiple PDSCHs,

wherein the retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled based on one or more hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process numbers that identifies one or more HARQ processes, and

the multiple PDSCHs have consecutive HARQ process numbers.

2 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the DCI includes a separate time resource information for each of the multiple PDSCHs.

3 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the DCI includes a common frequency resource information or a common modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the multiple PDSCHs.

4 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled for each of a plurality of transport blocks, separately.

5 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled based on a New data indicator and a Redundancy version.

6 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a response signal to the multiple PDSCHs is transmitted in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

7 . The integrated circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the PUCCH is determined based on a PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) included in the DCI.

8 . The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of response signals to the multiple PDSCH are transmitted on a PUCCH.

9 . A terminal, comprising:

a receiver, which, in operation, receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) which includes a first PDSCH and a subsequent PDSCH over multiple times, and receives the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI; and

circuitry, which, in operation, decode the multiple PDSCHs,

wherein a time resource amount of the first PDSCH is different from a time resource amount of the subsequent PDSCH,

a retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled based on at least a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number of the first PDSCH and a second HARQ number of the subsequent PDSCH, and

the first HARQ process number and the second HARQ number are consecutive numbers and are less than a configured number.

10 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the DCI includes a common frequency resource information and a common modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the first PDSCH and the subsequent PDSCHs.

11 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the configured number is less than a maximum number of HARQ processes.

12 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the DCI includes a separate time resource information for each of the multiple PDSCHs.

13 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the DCI includes a common frequency resource information or a common modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the multiple PDSCHs.

14 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled for each of a plurality of transport blocks, separately.

15 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled based on a New data indicator and a Redundancy version.

16 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein a response signal to the multiple PDSCHs is transmitted in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

17 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the PUCCH is determined based on a PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) included in the DCI.

18 . The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein a plurality of response signals to the multiple PDSCH are transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).

19 . A communication method, comprising:

receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) which includes a first PDSCH and a subsequent PDSCH over multiple times, and receiving the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI; and

decoding the multiple PDSCHs,

wherein a time resource amount of the first PDSCH is different from a time resource amount of the subsequent PDSCH,

a retransmission of the multiple PDSCHs is controlled based on at least a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number of the first PDSCH and a second HARQ number of the subsequent PDSCH, and

the first HARQ process number and the second HARQ number are consecutive numbers and are less than a configured number.