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Granted Patent B2
US 10,299,308 · App. 15/750,269 · Granted May 21, 2019

Terminal device, communication method, and integrated circuit

Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, JP); Tatsushi Aiba (Sakai, JP); Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, JP); Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W76/15H04L5/0035H04L5/0053H04W72/04H04W72/0413H04W72/0446
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Patent No.
US 10,299,308
App. No.
15/750,269
Granted
May 21, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal device and a base station device efficiently communicate with each other by using multiple cells. The terminal device selects a PUCCH resource used to transmit an SR, from a first PUCCH resource in a first cell and a second PUCCH resource in a second cell, and transmits the SR by using the selected PUCCH resource in a first subframe. In a case that a first PUCCH not including a transport block in the first subframe is transmitted in the first cell, the second PUCCH resource in the first subframe is selected.

Claims (20)

1. A terminal device comprising:

selection circuitry configured to select a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used to transmit a scheduling request, from a first PUCCH resource in a first subframe in a first serving cell and a second PUCCH resource in the first subframe in a second serving cell; and

transmission circuitry configured to transmit Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) by using a predetermined PUCCH format, in the first subframe in the first serving cell; wherein

in a case that the PUCCH resource is selected in the first serving cell,

the transmission circuitry is configured

to transmit, in the first subframe in the first serving cell, the HARQ-ACK using the predetermined PUCCH format and the scheduling request, and

not to transmit, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the scheduling request using a PUCCH format 1, and

in a case that the PUCCH resource is selected in the second serving cell,

the transmission circuitry is configured to

transmit, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the HARQ-ACK using the predetermined PUCCH format and the scheduling request, and

transmit, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the scheduling request using the PUCCH format 1.

2. A communication method to be used by a terminal device, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used to transmit a scheduling request, from a first PUCCH resource in a first subframe in a first serving cell and a second PUCCH resource in the first subframe in a second serving cell; and

transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) by using a predetermined PUCCH format, in the first subframe in the first serving cell; wherein

in a case that the PUCCH resource is selected in the first serving cell,

transmitting, in the first subframe in the first serving cell, the HARQ-ACK using the predetermined PUCCH format and the scheduling request, and

not transmitting, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the scheduling request using a PUCCH format 1, and

in a case that the PUCCH resource is selected in the second serving cell,

transmitting, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the HARQ-ACK using the predetermined PUCCH format and the scheduling request, and

transmitting, in the first subframe in the second serving cell, the scheduling request using the PUCCH format 1.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2018
From: SUZUKI, SHOICHI; AIBA, TATSUSHI; YOKOMAKURA, KAZUNARI; TAKAHASHI, HIROKI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044830/0540 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-156691 · Aug 7, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180235023A1 · Aug 16, 2018