IP Library Granted Patent US 10,856,318
Granted Patent B2
US 10,856,318 · App. 16/870,367 · Granted Dec 1, 2020

Base station, terminal, and wireless communication system

Inventor: Yoshinori Tanaka (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/1284H04W16/14H04W72/042H04W72/0453H04W72/1268H04W72/1278H04W74/0808H04W72/1289H04W74/006H04W88/10
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,856,318
App. No.
16/870,367
Granted
Dec 1, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station includes a licensed band transmitting unit, a determining unit, and an unlicensed band transmitting unit. The licensed band transmitting unit transmits, to a terminal, a control signal for specifying a resource in a shared band to be used for data transmission by the terminal. The determining unit determines whether the resource in the shared band is idle or busy. The unlicensed band transmitting unit transmits a permission signal for permitting transmission in the shared band when the determining unit determines that the resource in the shared band is idle. The control signal or the permission signal includes an offset indicating a time from the permission signal to a start of transmission of data from the terminal to the base station with reference to the permission signal transmitted from the unlicensed band transmitting unit.

Claims (33)

1. A base station that performs wireless communication with a terminal by using a dedicated band dedicated to a wireless communication system including the base station and the terminal and a shared band shared with other systems, the base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the terminal using the dedicated band, a control signal including first information and second information, the first information indicating an uplink resource in the shared band to be used for data transmission by the terminal, the second information indicating a period to wait for a permission signal indicating the data transmission can be performed using the uplink resource; and

a controller configured to determine whether the shared band is idle or busy, wherein

the transmitter transmits, to the terminal via physical downlink channel, the permission signal transmitted using the shared band with different timing from the control signal, the permission signal for permitting transmission in the shared band when the controller determines that the shared band is idle, and

the control signal and/or the permission signal includes an offset indicating a time from receiving the permission signal to a start of transmission of data from the terminal to the base station with reference to the permission signal transmitted from the transmitter.

2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the permission signal includes identification information for identifying each of permission signals in the permission signals, and

the control signal includes same identification information as the identification information included in the permission signal that is used as a reference of the offset by the terminal serving as a destination of the control signal.

3. The base station according to claim 2 , wherein the identification information includes base station identification information for identifying the base station.

4. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the offset is specified in units of a subframe in Long Term Evolution (LTE).

5. A terminal that performs wireless communication with a base station by using a dedicated band dedicated to a wireless communication system including the base station and the terminal and a shared band shared with other systems, the terminal comprising:

a receiver configured to receive using the dedicated band, a control signal including first information and second information, the first information indicating an uplink resource in the shared band to be used for data transmission by the terminal, the second information indicating a period to wait for a permission signal indicating the data transmission can be performed using the uplink resource, and to receive the permission signal for permitting transmission in the shared band transmitted via physical downlink channel from the base station with different timing from the control signal; and

a transmitter configured to transmit to the base station using the uplink resource in the shared band specified by the control signal, wherein

the control signal and/or the permission signal includes an offset indicating a time from receiving the permission signal to a start of transmission of data to the base station with reference to the permission signal transmitted from the base station, and

the transmitter transmits data to the base station by using the uplink resource in the shared band specified by the control signal after a lapse of the time indicated by the offset since reception of the permission signal by the receiver.

6. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein

each of the permission signal and the control signal includes identification information, and

the transmitter transmits data to the base station after a lapse of the time indicated by the offset since reception of the permission signal including same identification information as identification information included in the control signal transmitted to the terminal.

7. The terminal according to claim 6 , wherein the identification information includes base station identification information for identifying the base station.

8. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein

the transmitter cancels transmission of data to the base station when the permission signal is not received until the period indicated by the second information included in the control signal transmitted to the terminal.

9. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the offset is specified in units of a subframe in LTE.

10. A wireless communication system comprising:

a base station; and

a terminal, wherein

the base station and the terminal perform wireless communication with each other by using a dedicated band dedicated to the wireless communication system and a shared band shared with other systems,

the base station includes:

a first transmitter configured to transmit, to the terminal using the dedicated band, a control signal including first information and second information, the first information indicating an uplink resource in the shared band to be used for data transmission by the terminal, the second information indicating a period to wait for a permission signal indicating the data transmission can be performed using the uplink resource; and

a controller configured to determine whether the shared band is idle or busy, wherein

the first transmitter transmits, to the terminal via physical downlink channel, the permission signal transmitted using the shared band with different timing from the control signal, the permission signal for permitting transmission in the shared band when the controller determines that the shared band is idle, and

the control signal includes an offset indicating a time from receiving the permission signal to a start of transmission of data from the terminal to the base station with reference to the permission signal transmitted from the first transmitter,

the terminal includes:

a receiver configured to receive using the dedicated band, the control signal and receive using the shared band, the permission signal;

a second transmitter configured to transmit data to the base station using the uplink resource in the shared band specified by the control signal after a lapse of the time indicated by the offset since reception of the permission signal by the receiver.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 072423/0194 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2020
From: TANAKA, YOSHINORI
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 052613/0632 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15703606 · Sep 13, 2017
Continuation PCTJP2015060770 · Apr 6, 2015
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