Radio terminal, radio base station, channel signal forming method and channel signal receiving method
A radio terminal, radio base station, channel signal forming method and channel signal receiving method wherein when an upstream unit band and a plurality of downstream unit bands associated therewith are used to perform communications, the quality of downstream assignment control information can be prevented from being degraded. In a base station ( 100 ), the PDCCH signals including upstream assignment control information are limited to ones that are placed in some of the downstream unit bands. This can reduce the probability of performance of zero padding to downstream assignment control information having greater importance. Also in the base station ( 100 ), the PDCCH signals of the downstream unit bands other than the basic unit band include only downstream resource assignment information. For this reason, in the individual regions of the downstream unit bands other than the basic unit band, the bandwidth of the downstream unit bands is always used as a reference of size adjustment and hence requires no information size adjustment. As a result, there is no need of performing zero padding to the downstream assignment control information, so that the quality of downstream assignment control information can be prevented from being degraded.
1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
an information size determination section configured to determine a first basic information size of control information mapped on a UE specific search space in a first component carrier; and
a receiver configured to monitor the control information mapped on the UE specific search space based on the determined first basic information size,
wherein a first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a second determination method for determining a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier, and
the first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a third determination method for determining a third basic information size of control information mapped on a search space in a second component carrier that is different from the first component carrier.
2. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
the third basic information size is determined according to a larger one of a first information size determined from a downlink bandwidth of the second component carrier and a second information size determined from an uplink bandwidth of an uplink component carrier.
3. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
the first basic information size is determined according to an information size determined from a bandwidth of the first component carrier.
4. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
a number of one or more uplink component carrier(s) assigned to the UE is less than a number of two or more downlink component carriers assigned to the UE.
5. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
a number of one or more uplink component carrier(s) and a number of one or more downlink component carrier(s) assigned to each user equipment are asymmetric.
6. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
The first component carrier is a component carrier other than a basic component carrier.
7. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein
the basic component carrier is arbitrarily assigned to each user equipment, and the first basic information size for blind decoding in the first component carrier is independently set for each user equipment.
8. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
The first component carrier is a component carrier in which uplink allocation information is absent.
9. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
when a number of one or more uplink component carrier(s) assigned to the UE is less than a number of two or more downlink component carriers assigned to the UE,
the control information mapped on the common search space is transmitted only in a portion of the two or more downlink component carriers.
10. The user equipment according to claim 9 , wherein
the portion of the two or more downlink component carriers is a basic component carrier.
11. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
when a number of one or more uplink component carrier(s) assigned to the UE is less than a number of two or more downlink component carriers assigned to the UE,
uplink allocation information is transmitted only in a portion of the two or more downlink component carriers.
12. The user equipment according to claim 11 , wherein
the portion of the two or more downlink component carriers is a basic component carrier.
13. A user equipment, (UE) comprising:
an information size determination section configured to determine a first basic information size of control information mapped on a UE specific search space in a first component carrier, the first basic information size of the control information mapped on the UE specific search space being different from a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier; and
a receiver configured to monitor the control information mapped on the UE specific search space based on the determined first basic information size,
wherein when uplink allocation information is absent in the first component carrier,
the first basic information size is determined according to an information size determined from a downlink bandwidth of the first component carrier.
14. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception method performed by a reception apparatus, comprising:
determining a first basic information size of control information mapped on a user equipment (UE) specific search space in a first component carrier, the first basic information size of the control information mapped on the UE specific search space being different from a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier; and
monitoring the control information mapped on the UE specific search space based on the determined first basic information size,
wherein when uplink allocation information is absent in the first component carrier, the first basic information size is determined according to an information size determined from a downlink bandwidth of the first component carrier.
15. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception method performed by a reception apparatus, comprising:
determining a first basic information size of control information mapped on a UE specific search space in a first component carrier; and
monitoring the control information mapped on the UE specific search space based on the determined first basic information size,
wherein a first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a second determination method for determining a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier, and
the first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a third determination method for determining a third basic information size of control information mapped on a search space in a second component carrier that is different from the first component carrier.