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Granted Patent B2
US 10,980,009 · App. 16/346,340 · Granted Apr 13, 2021

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/0413H04L5/0037H04W72/02H04W72/04H04L5/0055
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Patent No.
US 10,980,009
App. No.
16/346,340
Granted
Apr 13, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

To suppress decreases in spectral usage efficiency, even in the case of not using a reference signal in demodulation of uplink control information, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention is characterized by having a control section that determines whether or not to use a predetermined resource in transmission based on uplink control information to notify, and a transmitting section that transmits a signal in the predetermined resource when it is determined that the predetermined resource is used in transmission, where the predetermined resource is one of a first resource that is not allocated to another user terminal and a second resource that is allocated also to another user terminal.

Claims (19)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that determines to use one of a first resource and a second resource for transmission when a first information is to be fed back as Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ)-ACK information, and determines, based on a physical layer control information, whether to use the other of the first resource and the second resource for transmission or not to use either of the first resource and the second resource for transmission when a second information different from the first information is to be fed back as the HARQ-ACK information; and

a transmitter that, when the one or the other of the first resource and the second resource has been determined to be used for transmission, transmits a signal with the one or the other resource that has been determined to be used for transmission.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the first information is a NACK and the second information is an ACK.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the first resource is a common resource with another terminal.

4. A radio communication method of a terminal, comprising:

determining to use one of a first resource and a second resource for transmission when a first information is to be fed back as Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ)-ACK information, and determining, based on a physical layer control information, whether to use the other of the first resource and the second resource for transmission or not to use either of the first resource and the second resource for transmission when a second information different from the first information is to be fed back as the HARQ-ACK information; and

when the one or the other of the first resource and the second resource has been determined to be used for transmission, transmitting a signal with the one or the other resource that has been determined to be used for transmission.

5. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a signal with one of a first resource and a second resource, wherein when a first information is to be fed back as Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ)-ACK information, one of the first resource and the second resource is used for transmission; and

a transmitter that, when a second information different from the first information is to be fed back as the HARQ-ACK information, transmits a physical layer control information that is used to determine to whether to use the other of the first resource and the second resource for transmission or not to use either of the first resource and the second resource for transmission.

6. A system comprising a terminal and another terminal, wherein:

the terminal comprises:

a processor that determines to use one of a first resource and a second resource for transmission when a first information is to be fed back as Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ)-ACK information, and determines, based on a physical layer control information, whether to use the other of the first resource and the second resource for transmission or not to use either of the first resource and the second resource for transmission when a second information different from the first information is to be fed back as the HARQ-ACK information; and

a first transmitter that, when the one or the other of the first resource and the second resource has been determined to be used for transmission, transmits a signal with the one or the other resource that has been determined to be used for transmission; and

the other terminal comprises:

a second transmitter that transmits the physical layer control information to the terminal; and

a receiver that receives the signal with the one or the other of the first resource and the second resource.

7. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the first resource is a common resource with another terminal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2019
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 050266/0478 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-215668 · Nov 2, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190268898A1 · Aug 29, 2019