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Granted Patent B2
US 11,627,474 · App. 16/475,227 · Granted Apr 11, 2023

Base station, terminal apparatus, method, program, and recording medium

Inventors: Takahiro Yanagisawa (Tokyo, JP); Shizen Sasaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04W16/28H04W72/042H04W72/046
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Patent No.
US 11,627,474
App. No.
16/475,227
Granted
Apr 11, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

In order to enable a terminal apparatus to identify a beam to be used by a base station, while reducing radio resource use, a base station 100 of the present invention includes: an information obtaining section 131 configured to obtain obtainable information obtainable for both the base station 100 and a terminal apparatus 200 , the obtainable information being neither communication quality information nor an identifier indicating a transmit beam for transmission to the terminal apparatus 200 ; and a beam selecting section 133 configured to select a transmit beam for transmission to the terminal apparatus 200 , from among a plurality of candidate transmit beams, based on the obtainable information.

Claims (27)

1. A base station comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:

process first information and second information that are used by a terminal to identify a transmit beam from the base station for beam failure recovery, and

transmit the first information to the terminal,

wherein the second information comprises time information.

2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the terminal uses the second information after using the first information to identify the transmit beam.

3. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the first information is indication information indicating that the base station selects the transmit beam.

4. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further caused to: obtain the second information.

5. A method of a base station, the method comprising:

processing first information and second information that are used by a terminal to identify a transmit beam from the base station for beam failure recovery, and

transmitting the first information to the terminal,

wherein the second information comprises time information.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the terminal uses the second information after using the first information to identify the transmit beam.

7. A terminal comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:

obtain first information and second information for identifying a transmit beam from a base station; and

identify the transmit beam based on the first information and the second information to perform beam failure recovery upon occurrence of beam failure,

wherein the second information comprises time information.

8. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further caused to: use the second information after identification of the transmit beam using the first information.

9. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the first information is indication information indicating that the base station selects the transmit beam.

10. A method of a terminal, the method comprising:

obtaining first information and second information for identifying a transmit beam from a base station; and

identifying the transmit beam based on the first information and the second information to perform beam failure recovery upon occurrence of beam failure,

wherein the second information comprises time information.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the identifying comprises using the second information after using the first information to identify the transmit beam.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2019
From: YANAGISAWA, TAKAHIRO; SASAKI, SHIZEN
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049643/0850 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-000703 · Jan 5, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190342766A1 · Nov 7, 2019