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Granted Patent B2
US 11,184,896 · App. 16/301,520 · Granted Nov 23, 2021

User terminal, radio base station, and radio communication method for operating with non-anchor carriers in narrowband internet of things

Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Naoto Ookubo (Tokyo, JP); Jiahui Liu (Beijing, CN); Qin Mu (Beijing, CN); Liu Liu (Beijing, CN); Huiling Jiang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/048H04L67/12H04W48/10H04W68/00H04W68/02H04W72/04H04W72/0453H04W74/006
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Patent No.
US 11,184,896
App. No.
16/301,520
Granted
Nov 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a method for allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs), a method of allowing a base station to indicate information about paging PRBs to UE, a method of allowing UE to determine allocation of paging PRBs, a method of allowing a base station to allocate paging PRBs, a base station and UE. The above method of allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs) includes detecting an anchor PRB, reading information carried by the anchor PRB, and acquiring information about the non-anchor paging PRBs associated with the anchor PRB based on the information carried by the anchor PRB. By this method, non-anchor paging PRBs can be specified to the UE.

Claims (15)

1. A terminal for NB-IoT, comprising

a receiver that receives information about non-anchor carriers that are associated with an anchor carrier,

wherein the receiver receives a paging configuration for the non-anchor carriers,

wherein a paging resource is determined based on a number of paging resources allocated to the terminal and an indicator for identifying the terminal and is determined by using an index obtained using a weight of the paging resource, and

wherein a carrier frequency of the non-anchor carriers is indicated by an offset for the non-anchor carriers to a specific frequency, and information regarding the carrier frequency is included in the paging configuration.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein information about the paging configuration for the non-anchor carriers is received in an SIB.

3. A radio base station that communicates with a terminal for NB-IoT, the radio base station comprising a transmitter that transmits information about non-anchor carriers that are associated with an anchor carrier,

wherein the transmitter transmits a paging configuration for the non-anchor carriers,

wherein a paging resource is determined based on a number of paging resources allocated to the terminal and an indicator for identifying the terminal and is determined by using an index obtained using a weight of the paging resource, and

wherein a carrier frequency of the non-anchor carriers is indicated by an offset for the non-anchor carriers to a specific frequency, and information regarding the carrier frequency is included in the paging configuration.

4. A radio communication method for a terminal for NB-IoT and a radio base station, the radio communication method comprising:

transmitting, by the radio base station, information about non-anchor carriers that are associated with an anchor carrier, to the terminal; and

transmitting, by the radio base station, a paging configuration for the non-anchor carriers,

wherein a paging resource is determined based on a number of paging resources allocated to the terminal and an indicator for identifying the terminal and is determined by using an index obtained using a weight of the paging resource, and

wherein a carrier frequency of the non-anchor carriers is indicated by an offset for the non-anchor carriers to a specific frequency, and information regarding the carrier frequency is included in the paging configuration.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2018
From: TAKEDA, KAZUAKI; OOKUBO, NAOTO; LIU, JIAHUI; MU, QIN; LIU, LIU; JIANG, HUILING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 047686/0429 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201610659887.4 · Aug 11, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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