Reference signal transmission method, mobile station apparatus and base station apparatus

1. A reference signal transmission method comprising:

transmitting an uplink scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), from a base station apparatus; and

transmitting the SRS from a mobile station apparatus, in response to the instruction for transmission of the SRS included in the uplink scheduling grant,

wherein the mobile station apparatus transmits the SRS, in a subframe of the Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) which the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit or in a first SRS-transmittable subframe among later subframes by a predetermined number of subframes after the subframe of the PUSCH.

2. The reference signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the base station apparatus notifies the mobile station apparatus of resource information to multiplex the SRS, using both the uplink scheduling grant and higher layer signaling.

3. The reference signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein when the base station apparatus notifies, using the uplink scheduling grant, the mobile station apparatus of a part of resource information to multiplex SRSs from a plurality of mobile station apparatuses including the mobile station apparatus into a same symbol, the part of resource information is notified using another control bit constituting the uplink scheduling grant.

4. The reference signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile station apparatus transmits the SRS in a subframe immediately before the subframe of the PUSCH that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit.

5. The reference signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile station apparatus transmits the SRS in a previous subframe by the predetermined number of subframes before the subframe of the PUSCH that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit.

6. A mobile station apparatus comprising:

a reception section configured to receive an uplink scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) from a base station apparatus;

a transmission section configured to transmit the SRS in a subframe of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit or in a first SRS-transmittable subframe among later subframes by a predetermined number of subframes after the subframe of the PUSCH.

7. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the SRS is multiplexed into a last symbol in the subframe of the PUSCH that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit.

8. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the SRS is multiplexed into a last symbol in a subframe immediately before the subframe of the PUSCH that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit.

9. A base station apparatus comprising:

a transmission section configured to transmit an uplink scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) to a mobile station apparatus; and

a reception section configured to receive the SRS transmitted from the mobile station apparatus in response to the instruction for transmission,

wherein the SRS is transmitted from the mobile station apparatus in a subframe of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit or in a first SRS-transmittable subframe among later subframes by a predetermined number of subframes after the subframe of the PUSCH.

10. The base station apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the transmission section is configured to transmit resource information to multiplex the SRS to the mobile station apparatus, using both the uplink scheduling grant and higher layer signaling.

11. A radio communication system comprising:

a base station apparatus having:

a transmission section configured to transmit an uplink scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS); and

a reception section configured to receive the SRS transmitted from a mobile station apparatus in response to the instruction for transmission; and

the mobile station apparatus having:

a reception section configured to receive the uplink scheduling grant from the base station apparatus; and

a transmission section configured to transmit the SRS in a subframe of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) that the uplink scheduling grant instructs to transmit or in a first SRS-transmittable subframe among later subframes by a predetermined number of subframes after the subframe of the PUSCH.