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US 11,991,672 · App. 17/294,097 · Granted May 21, 2024

Terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Shaozhen Guo (Beijing, CN); Lihui Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/0446
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,991,672
App. No.
17/294,097
Filed
May 14, 2021
Granted
May 21, 2024
Kind
B2
Examiner
DUONG, DUC T
Art Unit
2467
USPC
370/329
Abstract

To properly control half-duplex communication in future radio communication systems, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure has a receiving section that receives slot format information for designating a slot format of a cell, and a control section that determines a slot format in each cell based on at least one of content designated by each slot format information and a signal type used in transmission of each slot format information, in the case of receiving a plurality of pieces of slot format information.

Claims (20)

1. A terminal comprising:

receiver that receives slot format information indicating a slot format of a cell; and

a processor that determines, based on the slot format information, a slot format in a cell,

wherein, when a half-duplex operation is applied among multiple cells, the processor controls, in a symbol corresponding to the slot format of each cell, not to perform transmission or reception in different directions on a first cell and a second cell, or does not assume, in the symbol, that the transmission or reception is indicated, the slot format being determined based on the slot format information, and

wherein when transmission or reception in the symbol is indicated to the first cell by first downlink control information, the processor does not assume that transmission or reception in a direction that is different from the first cell is indicated to the second cell by second downlink control information in the symbol.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein when transmission or reception in the symbol, which is flexibly configured, is configured by higher layer signaling for the first cell, and transmission or reception in a direction that is different from the first cell is indicated, by downlink control information, to the second cell in the symbol, the processor controls not to perform transmission or reception on the first cell.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the first cell is a cell with a smallest index.

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

receiving slot format information indicating a slot format of a cell; and

determining, based on the slot format information, a slot format in a cell,

wherein, when a half-duplex operation is applied among multiple cells, transmission or reception in different directions on a first cell and a second cell is not performed in a symbol corresponding to the slot format of each cell, or the transmission or reception is not assumed to be indicated in the symbol, the slot format being determined based on the slot format information, and

wherein when transmission or reception in the symbol is indicated to the first cell by first downlink control information, the terminal does not assume that transmission or reception in a direction that is different from the first cell is indicated to the second cell by second downlink control information in the symbol.

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

the terminal comprises:

a receiver that receives slot format information indicating a slot format of a cell; and

a processor that determines, based on the slot format information, a slot format in a cell,

wherein, when a half-duplex operation is applied among multiple cells, the processor controls, in a symbol corresponding to the slot format of each cell, not to perform transmission or reception in different directions on a first cell and a second cell, or does not assume, in the symbol, that the transmission or reception is indicated, the slot format being determined based on the slot format information, and

wherein when transmission or reception in the symbol is indicated to the first cell by first downlink control information, the processor does not assume that transmission or reception in a direction that is different from the first cell is indicated to the second cell by second downlink control information in the symbol, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the slot format information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 28, 2021
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; GUO, SHAOZHEN; WANG, LIHUI; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-228549 · Nov 16, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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