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Granted Patent B2
US 11,463,225 · App. 16/496,255 · Granted Oct 4, 2022

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Lihui Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN); Huiling Jiang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0082H04L5/0051H04L27/261H04W72/0446H04W72/1268H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 11,463,225
App. No.
16/496,255
Granted
Oct 4, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

To control UL transmission properly even when uplink data and demodulation reference signals are transmitted using short TTIs, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a transmission section that transmits a UL signal and a reference signal for use for demodulating the UL signal, and a control section that controls the allocation of the UL signal and the reference signal, and, when UL signals are allocated to a plurality of contiguous predetermined time intervals (sTTIs), respectively, the control section allocates the UL signal and the reference signal for use for demodulating the UL signal to the same sTTI, at least in an sTTI apart from the top sTTI.

Claims (24)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that controls an allocation of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and an allocation of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) for the PUSCH; and

a transmitter that transmits the PUSCH and the DMRS,

wherein, when each of a plurality of the PUSCHs is respectively allocated to a plurality of contiguous short transmission time intervals (sTTIs) shorter than a subframe, the processor controls the allocation of the DMRS to an sTTI depending on whether or not the sTTI included in the plurality of sTTIs is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, and

wherein, when the sTTI is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, the processor controls not to allocate the DMRS to any symbol in the sTTI.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein a same number of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs), and a same transmission power of the PUSCHs are allocated to the plurality of sTTIs, respectively.

3. A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:

controlling an allocation of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and an allocation of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) for the PUSCH; and

transmitting the PUSCH and the DMRS,

wherein, when each of a plurality of the PUSCHs is respectively allocated to a plurality of contiguous short transmission time intervals (sTTIs) shorter than a subframe, controlling the allocation of the DMRS to an sTTI depending on whether or not the sTTI included in the plurality of sTTIs is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, and

wherein, when the sTTI is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, the terminal controls not to allocate the DMRS to any symbol in the sTTI.

4. A base station comprising:

a processor that, when each of a plurality of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs) is respectively allocated to a plurality of contiguous short transmission time intervals (sTTIs) shorter than a subframe, determines that a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) allocation to an sTTI is controlled, by a terminal, depending on whether or not the sTTI included in the plurality of sTTIs is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs; and

a receiver that receives the PUSCH and the DMRS, and

wherein, when the sTTI is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, the processor determines that the DMRS is not allocated to any symbol in the sTTI.

5. A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein:

the terminal comprises:

a first processor that controls an allocation of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and an allocation of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) for the PUSCH; and

a transmitter that transmits the PUSCH and the DMRS,

wherein, when each of a plurality of the PUSCHs is respectively allocated to a plurality of contiguous short transmission time intervals (sTTIs) shorter than a subframe, the first processor controls the allocation of the DMRS to an sTTI depending on whether or not the sTTI included in the plurality of sTTIs is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, and

wherein, when the sTTI is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs, the first processor controls not to allocate the DMRS to any symbol in the sTTI; and

the base station comprises:

a second processor that, when each of the plurality of the PUSCHs is respectively allocated to the plurality of contiguous sTTIs, determines that the DMRS allocation to the sTTI is controlled, by the terminal, depending on whether or not the sTTI included in the plurality of sTTIs is at the top of the plurality of sTTIs; and

a receiver that receives the PUSCH and the DMRS.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2020
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, LIHUI; HOU, XIAOLIN; JIANG, HUILING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 051728/0483 →
Continuity (1)
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