Base station apparatus and communication control method using an uplink shared channel
A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel includes a calculation unit configured to calculate path loss between the user equipment terminal and the base station apparatus; an MCS selection unit configured to select an MCS level of the shared channel based on the path loss; a first offset calculation unit configured to calculate a transmission power offset for the shared channel based on both a decoding result of the uplink shared channel and a required uplink quality; a notification unit configured to notify the user equipment terminal of a difference between the transmission power offset for the shared channel and a transmission power offset retained by the user equipment terminal; and a reception unit configured to receive the shared channel from the user equipment terminal.
1. A base station apparatus for communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel, comprising:
a calculation unit configured to calculate path loss between the user equipment terminal and the base station apparatus;
a power offset determination unit configured to determine a power offset between the uplink shared channel and a sounding reference signal based on the path loss;
a first offset calculation unit configured to calculate a radio quality offset for the u uplink shared channel based on both a decoding result of the uplink shared channel and a required uplink quality;
a second offset calculation unit configured to calculate a radio quality offset for the uplink shared channel based on a priority level determined by a data type; a first radio quality calculation unit configured to calculate an expected value of radio quality of the uplink shared channel based on the power offset, radio quality of the sounding reference signal, and a sum of the radio quality offsets calculated by the first offset calculation unit and the second offset calculation unit;
a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) selection unit configured to select an MCS level of the uplink shared channel based on the expected value of radio quality of the uplink shared channel; and
a reception unit configured to receive the uplink shared channel from the user equipment terminal.
2. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the first offset calculation unit calculates the radio quality offset based on both the decoding result of the uplink shared channel and the required uplink quality with respect to one of plural logical channel groups, when the base station apparatus communicates with the user equipment terminal using the plural logical channel groups.
3. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the logical channel group used for calculating the radio quality offset comprises a logical channel group with a highest frequency of transmission occurrences.
4. A communication control method in a base station apparatus for communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel, comprising the steps of:
calculating path loss between the user equipment terminal and the base station apparatus;
determining a power offset between the uplink shared channel and a sounding reference signal based on the path loss; calculating a first radio quality offset for the u uplink shared channel based on both a decoding result of the uplink shared channel and a required uplink quality;
calculating a second radio quality offset for the uplink shared channel based on a priority level determined by a data type;
calculating an expected value of the radio quality uplink shared channel based on the power offset, radio quality of the sounding reference signal, and a sum of the first radio quality offset and the second radio quality offset;
selecting an MCS level of the uplink shared channel based on the expected value of radio quality of the uplink shared channel; and
receiving the uplink shared channel from the user equipment terminal.