IP Library Granted Patent US 10,050,766
Granted Patent B2
US 10,050,766 · App. 15/024,702 · Granted Aug 14, 2018

User terminal, base station, and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Hiroyuki Ishii (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/14H04L1/18H04L5/001H04L5/0055H04W72/04H04W72/042H04W72/044H04W72/0413
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Patent No.
US 10,050,766
App. No.
15/024,702
Granted
Aug 14, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is designed so that uplink transmission is carried out adequately even when CA is executed by applying different duplex modes between multiple cells. A user terminal communicates with an FDD cell and a TDD cell by using carrier aggregation, and has a receiving section that receives DL signals transmitted from the cells, and a feedback control section that allocates and feeds back transmission acknowledgment signals in response to each DL signal in an uplink control channel of a predetermined cell, with reference to tables in which at least the states of transmission acknowledgment signals, PUCCH resources and QPSK symbol points are associated with each other, and, in this user terminal, the tables define different contents between the FDD cell and the TDD cell, and regardless of the cell where downlink control information is detected and the cell where downlink shared data is detected, the feedback control section uses the table that corresponds to the duplex mode of the predetermined cell where the transmission acknowledgment signals are transmitted.

Claims (19)

1. A user terminal comprising:

a transmitting section that transmits a transmission acknowledgement signal for downlink (DL) signals in a plurality of cells of different duplex modes, by using an uplink control channel of a specific cell of the plurality of cells; and

a control section that determines a PUCCH resource and a QPSK symbol point to use in transmission of the transmission acknowledgement signal, with reference to a table corresponding to the duplex mode of the specific cell,

wherein the table associates ACK/NACK/DTX states of the DL signals in the plurality of cells with PUCCH resources and QPSK symbol points for each of the different duplex modes.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of cells comprises a frequency division duplex (FDD) cell and a time division duplex (TDD) cell, and

the specific cell is either the FDD cell or the TDD cell.

3. The user terminal according to claim 2 , wherein carrier aggregation is applied to communication with the FDD cell and the TDD cell.

4. The user terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the control section employs PUCCH format 1b with channel selection.

5. The user terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the control section employs PUCCH format 1b with channel selection.

6. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control section employs PUCCH format 1b with channel selection.

7. A base station comprising:

a receiving section that receives a transmission acknowledgement signal for downlink (DL) signals in a plurality of cells of different duplex modes, by using an uplink control channel of a specific cell of the plurality of cells; and

a control section that determines a PUCCH resource and a QPSK symbol point to use in transmission of the transmission acknowledgement signal with reference to a table corresponding to the duplex mode of the specific cell,

wherein the table associates ACK/NACK/DTX states of the DL signals in the plurality of cells with PUCCH resources and QPSK symbol points for each of the different duplex modes.

8. A radio communication method for a user terminal, comprising

transmitting a transmission acknowledgement signal for downlink (DL) signals in a plurality of cells of different duplex modes, by using an uplink control channel of a specific cell of the plurality of cells; and

determining a PUCCH resource and a QPSK symbol point to use in transmission of the transmission acknowledgement signal, with reference to a table corresponding to the duplex mode of the specific cell,

wherein the table associates ACK/NACK/DTX states of the DL signals in the plurality of cells with PUCCH resources and QPSK symbol points for each of the different duplex modes.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2016
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; ISHII, HIROYUKI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 038109/0952 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-200353 · Sep 26, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160241377A1 · Aug 18, 2016