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Granted Patent B2
US 10,103,865 · App. 15/024,655 · Granted Oct 16, 2018

User terminal, base station and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Hiroyuki Ishii (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/16H04J11/00H04L5/14H04W8/24H04W72/042H04W72/048H04W72/0413
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Patent No.
US 10,103,865
App. No.
15/024,655
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is designed to enable appropriate transmission and reception in user terminals even when CA is executed by applying different duplex modes between multiple cells. A user terminal communicates with an FDD cell and a TDD cell by using carrier aggregation, and has a transmitting/receiving section that receives DL signals transmitted from each cell and transmits UL signals to each cell, and a report control section that controls reporting of capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the DL signals and UL signals in the transmitting/receiving section. The report control section controls reporting of the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the transmitting/receiving section with respect to every combination of a frequency band to use in the FDD cell and a frequency band to use in the TDD cell.

Claims (29)

1. A user terminal, comprising:

a transmitting/receiving section that receives DL signals transmitted from each of an FDD cell and a TDD cell and transmits UL signals to each of the FDD cell and the TDD cell; and

a control section that controls carrier aggregation using the FDD cell and the TDD cell, and controls reporting of capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the DL signals and UL signals in the transmitting/receiving section,

wherein the control section controls reporting of the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the transmitting/receiving section with respect to every combination of a frequency band to use in the FDD cell and a frequency band to use in the TDD cell, and

wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception includes information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a DL frequency band of the FDD cell and a UL frequency band of the TDD cell and information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a UL frequency band of the FDD cell and a DL frequency band of the TDD cell.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception includes information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of full-duplex in the FDD cell and information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to all frequencies that are subject to carrier aggregation.

3. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control section reports the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception as user terminal capability information.

4. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception is stipulated, for every combination of frequency bands that are subject to carrier aggregation, as a parameter of the combination of frequency bands.

5. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control section reports the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception as user terminal capability information.

6. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception is stipulated, for every combination of frequency bands that are subject to carrier aggregation, as a parameter of the combination of frequency bands.

7. A base station comprising:

a receiving section that receives capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of DL signals and UL signals in the user terminal; and

a control section that executes carrier aggregation with another base station that uses a different duplex mode, and controls scheduling of DL signals and UL signals for the user terminal based on the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the user terminal,

wherein the receiving section receives the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the user terminal with respect to every combination of a frequency band to use in the FDD cell and a frequency band to use in the TDD cell, and

wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception includes information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a DL frequency band of the FDD cell and a UL frequency band of the TDD cell and information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a UL frequency band of the FDD cell and a DL frequency band of the TDD cell.

8. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein the receiving section receives the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the user terminal as two-bit user capability information.

9. The base station according to claim 8 , wherein:

a restriction for simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to each combination of the frequency band to use in the FDD cell and the frequency band to use in the TDD cell is stipulated in advance; and

the control section controls scheduling in accordance with a condition of a greater restriction between the restriction for simultaneous transmission and reception that is stipulated in advance and the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception that is reported from the user terminal.

10. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein:

a restriction for simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to each combination of the frequency band to use in the FDD cell and the frequency band to use in the TDD cell is stipulated in advance; and

the control section controls scheduling in accordance with a condition of a greater restriction between the restriction for simultaneous transmission and reception that is stipulated in advance and the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception that is reported from the user terminal.

11. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein, when inter-base station carrier aggregation is employed, the control section controls allocation of the DL signals and/or the UL signals not to coincide with allocation by the other base station, based on the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the user terminal.

12. A radio communication method for a user terminal, the radio communication method comprising:

receiving DL signals transmitted from each of an FDD cell and a TDD cell and transmitting UL signals to each of the FDD cell and the TDD cell;

controlling carrier aggregation using the FDD cell and the TDD cell; and

controlling reporting of capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the DL signals and UL signals in the user terminal,

wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception includes capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception of the user terminal with respect to every combination of a frequency band to use in the FDD cell and a frequency band to use in the TDD cell, and

wherein the capability information regarding simultaneous transmission and reception includes information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a DL frequency band of the FDD cell and a UL frequency band of the TDD cell and information as to whether or not the transmitting/receiving section is capable of simultaneous transmission and reception with respect to a combination of a UL frequency band of the FDD cell and a DL frequency band of the TDD cell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2016
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; ISHII, HIROYUKI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 038109/0946 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-200015 · Sep 26, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160218853A1 · Jul 28, 2016