IP Library Granted Patent US 10,397,921
Granted Patent B2
US 10,397,921 · App. 15/504,079 · Granted Aug 27, 2019

Terminal, base station, and communication method

Inventors: Naoki Kusashima (Sakai, JP); Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Sakai, JP); Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, JP); Alvaro Ruiz Delgado (Sakai, JP); Kimihiko Imamura (Sakai, JP); Takashi Hayashi (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W72/0453H04J3/00H04L1/18H04L1/1812H04L5/001H04L5/0055H04L5/1469H04W28/04H04W72/04H04W72/0406H04J4/00
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Patent No.
US 10,397,921
App. No.
15/504,079
Granted
Aug 27, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal communicating with a base station by using an FDD cell and a TDD cell includes a reception unit that performs reception over a PDCCH transmitted using a DCI format. In a case where the TDD cell is configured as a primary cell for the terminal, a first uplink reference UL-DL configuration used for determining an interval between reception of the PDCCH indicating transmission of a PUSCH and the transmission of the PUSCH is configured for the TDD cell, and a second uplink reference UL-DL configuration used for determining whether or not to use DAI included in the DCI format of the PDCCH indicating the transmission of the PUSCH is configured for the FDD cell.

Claims (14)

1. A user equipment comprising:

receiving circuitry that receives a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);

setting circuitry that sets an uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration number for at least one of more than one serving cell;

transmitting circuitry that transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in a subframe, wherein

the transmitting circuitry transmits the HARQ-ACK using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and

in a case that (a) the more than one serving cell includes a primary cell with a frame structure type 2 and a secondary cell with a frame structure type 1, (b) the setting circuitry sets 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , or 6 as a DL-reference UL/DL configuration number for the primary cell, (c) the setting circuitry sets 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , or 6 as a DL-reference UL/DL configuration number for the secondary cell, and (d) the setting circuitry sets a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection as the PUCCH for the primary cell and the secondary cell:

the transmitting circuitry transmits the HARQ-ACK by assuming that an UL-reference UL/DL configuration number for the secondary cell belongs to 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , or 6 .

2. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein

the receiving circuitry receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) which includes a downlink control information (DCI) format 0 or 4, and

the setting circuitry determines a bit length of the HARQ-ACK based on a downlink assignment index (DAI) in the DCI format 0 or 4.

3. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein

in a case that (a) the setting circuitry sets a PUCCH format 3, and, (b) the transmitting circuitry transmits the PUSCH in a subframe n based on a detected physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a detected enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) with a downlink control information (DCI) format 0 or 4, the transmitting circuitry transmits the HARQ-ACK by assuming that the UL-reference UL/DL configuration number for the secondary cell belongs to 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , or 6 .

4. The user equipment according to claim 3 , wherein

the setting circuitry determines a bit length of the HARQ-ACK based on (i) a number of downlink and special subframes determined based on the DL-reference UL/DL configuration and (ii) a downlink assignment index (DAI) in the DCI format 0 or 4.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2017
From: KUSASHIMA, NAOKI; SHIMEZAWA, KAZUYUKI; OUCHI, WATARU; RUIZ DELGADO, ALVARO; IMAMURA, KIMIHIKO; HAYASHI, TAKASHI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-183881 · Sep 10, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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