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Granted Patent B2
US 10,972,168 · App. 16/075,445 · Granted Apr 6, 2021

User equipment and method for wireless communication

Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Chongning Na (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04B7/0632H04B7/063H04B7/0639H04B17/327H04L1/0026H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 10,972,168
App. No.
16/075,445
Granted
Apr 6, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) includes a receiver that receives a Reference Signal (RS) from a base station (BS), and a transmitter that transmits, to the BS, only precoding-related information used for precoding in the BS in response to the RS. The precoding-related information is at least one of a RS Resource Indicator (RRI) that identifies a radio resource used for RS BS transmission, a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI), a Rank indicator (RI), and a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP). The transmitter only periodically transmits the only precoding-related information. The receiver receives a signal precoded using the precoding-related information by the BS.

Claims (24)

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a receiver that receives, from a base station (BS):

Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) that comprise a CSI-RS and one or more remaining CSI-RSs; and

information on interference measurement; and

a processor that measures CSI for the CSI-RS,

wherein, in a case of aperiodic CSI feedback, when the processor measures, based on the information, CSI for the CSI-RS, the processor determines, based on the information, that only the one or more remaining CSI-RSs among the received CSI-RSs are used for interference measurement.

2. A wireless communication method comprising:

transmitting, from a base station (BS) to a user equipment (UE), Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) that comprise a CSI-RS and one or more remaining CSI-RS s;

transmitting, from the BS to the UE, information on interference measurement; and

measuring, with the UE, CSI for the CSI-RS,

wherein, in a case of aperiodic CS feedback, when measuring, based on the information, CSI for the CSI-RS, the UE determines, based on the information, that only the one or more remaining CSI-RSs among the received CSI-RSs are used for interference measurement.

3. A base station (BS) comprising:

a processor, wherein when, in a case of aperiodic feedback, a user equipment (UE) measures, based on information on interference measurement, a Channel State Information (CSI) for a CSI-Reference Signal (RS) of CSI-RSs, which comprise the CSI-RS and one or more remaining CSI-RSs, the processor controls to transmit the information to determine that only the one or more remaining CSI-RSs among the received CSI-RSs are used for interference measurement; and

a transmitter that transmits, to the UE, the CSI-RSs and the information.

4. A system comprising a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE), wherein:

the BS comprises:

a processor, wherein when, in a case of aperiodic feedback, the UE measures, based on information on interference measurement, a Channel State Information (CSI) for a CSI-Reference Signal (RS) of CSI-RSs, which comprise the CSI-RS and one or more remaining CSI-RSs, the processor controls to transmit the information to determine that only the one or more remaining CSI-RSs among the received CSI-RSs are used for interference measurement; and

a transmitter that transmits, to the UE, the CSI-RSs and the information, and

the UE comprises:

a receiver that receives, from the BS:

the CSI-RSs; and

the information; and

a processor that measures CSI for the CSI-RS,

wherein, in a case of aperiodic CSI feedback, when the processor of the UE measures, based on the information, CSI for the CSI-RS, the processor of the UE determines, based on the information, that only the one or more remaining CSI-RS s among the received CSI-RSs are used for interference measurement.

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