IP Library Granted Patent US 9,844,046
Granted Patent B2
US 9,844,046 · App. 14/777,702 · Granted Dec 12, 2017

Terminal, base station, method of generating DMRS, and transmission method

Inventors: Lilei Wang (Beijing, CN); Kazuki Takeda (Kanagawa, JP); Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, JP); Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart (Darmstadt, DE); Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, JP); Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/042H04L5/0048H04L5/0094H04L25/0226H04W16/32H04L5/0023H04L5/0035
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Patent No.
US 9,844,046
App. No.
14/777,702
Granted
Dec 12, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention aims at allowing a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern suitable for a terminal to be selected from among a plurality of DMRS patterns including Legacy DMRS and Reduced DMRS. Disclosed is a terminal including: reception section ( 21 ) that receives uplink control information; control section ( 23 ) that determines a specific mapping pattern from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS on the basis of the control information; and DMRS generating section ( 24 ) that generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern.

Claims (76)

1. A terminal comprising:

a reception section, which, in operation, receives uplink control information;

a control section, coupled to the reception section, and which, in operation, determines a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS); and

a generation section, coupled to the control section, and which, in operation, generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with values of uplink allocation information; and

the control section, in operation, determines a mapping pattern corresponding to uplink allocation information included in the received uplink control information as the specific mapping pattern.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

the allocation information indicating an odd number of allocation resource blocks is associated with the first mapping pattern; and

the allocation information indicating an even number of allocation resource blocks is associated with the second mapping pattern.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

the allocation information indicating an odd number of allocation resource blocks is associated with the number of allocation resource blocks equal to the odd number plus or minus one and the second mapping pattern; and

the allocation information indicating an even number of resource blocks is associated with allocation of the even number of resource blocks and the first mapping pattern.

4. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

the allocation information indicating an allocation bandwidth equal to or less than a predetermined value is associated with the first mapping pattern; and

the allocation information indicating an allocation bandwidth greater than the predetermined value is associated with the second mapping pattern.

5. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

the allocation information indicating that the lowest frequency of an allocation band is greater than a predetermined value is associated with the first mapping pattern; and

the allocation information indicating that the lowest frequency of an allocation band is equal to or less than the predetermined value is associated with the second mapping pattern.

6. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with values of the allocation information corresponding to bandwidths other than a bandwidth allocatable by the allocation information.

7. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein:

the control information includes information indicating the specific mapping pattern and uplink allocation information; and

the information indicating the specific mapping pattern is subjected to scrambling different from scrambling used for the allocation information.

8. A terminal, comprising:

a reception section, which, in operation, receives uplink control information;

a control section, coupled to the reception section, and which, in operation, determines a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS); and

a generation section, coupled to the control section, and which, in operation, generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with Aperiodic SRS trigger values; and

the control section, in operation, determines a mapping pattern corresponding to an Aperiodic SRS trigger value included in the received control information as the specific mapping pattern.

9. A terminal, comprising:

a reception section, which, in operation, receives uplink control information;

a control section, coupled to the reception section, and which, in operation, determines a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS); and

a generation section, coupled to the control section, and which, in operation, generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with a plurality of control channels used for transmission of control information; and

the control section determines a mapping pattern corresponding to a control channel that has been used for transmission of the received control information as the specific mapping pattern.

10. The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

a control channel used for transmission of the control information by a macro cell base station is associated with the first mapping pattern; and

a control channel used for transmission of the control information by a small cell base station is associated with the second mapping pattern.

11. A terminal, comprising:

a reception section, which, in operation, receives uplink control information;

a control section, coupled to the reception section, and which, in operation, determines a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS); and

a generation section, coupled to the control section, and which, in operation, generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with cyclic shift indicator values that indicate a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal cover code; and

the control section, in operation, determines a mapping pattern corresponding to a cyclic shift indicator value included in the received control information as the specific mapping pattern.

12. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein:

the plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern that includes a smaller amount of resource to which a DMRS is mapped than the first mapping pattern;

the control section determines a mapping pattern corresponding to the received cyclic shift indicator as the specific mapping pattern when transmission rank is one; and

the control section determines the first mapping pattern as the specific mapping pattern when transmission rank is two or greater.

13. A method of generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising:

receiving uplink control information;

determining a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS; and

generating a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with values of uplink allocation information; and

a mapping pattern corresponding to uplink allocation information included in the received control information is determined as the specific mapping pattern.

14. A method of generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising:

receiving uplink control information;

determining a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS; and

generating a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with Aperiodic SRS trigger values; and

a mapping pattern corresponding to an Aperiodic SRS trigger value included in the received control information is determined as the specific mapping pattern.

15. A method of generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising:

receiving uplink control information;

determining a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS; and

generating a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with a plurality of control channels used for transmission of control information; and

a mapping pattern corresponding to a control channel that has been used for transmission of the received control information is determined as the specific mapping pattern.

16. A method of generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising:

receiving uplink control information;

determining a specific mapping pattern based on the control information from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS; and

generating a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern, wherein,

the plurality of mapping patterns are associated respectively with cyclic shift indicator values that indicate a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal cover code; and

a mapping pattern corresponding to a cyclic shift indicator value included in the received control information is determined as the specific mapping pattern.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2015
From: WANG, LILEI; TAKEDA, KAZUKI; HORIUCHI, AYAKO; GOLITSCHEK EDLER VON ELBWART, ALEXANDER; HOSHINO, MASAYUKI; OGAWA, YOSHIHIKO
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
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Continuity (1)
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