IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,516,868
Granted Patent B2
US 11,516,868 · App. 16/960,708 · Granted Nov 29, 2022

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Liu Liu (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W76/18H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 11,516,868
App. No.
16/960,708
Granted
Nov 29, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives an RRC (Radio Resource Control) connection reconfiguration message including configuration information of a measurement reference signal for a radio link quality in radio link monitoring (RLM), and a control section that controls an RLM behavior concerning the RLM during an RRC connection reconfiguration based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message.

Claims (20)

1. A terminal communicating with a base station apparatus in a first cell and in a second cell by using carrier aggregation, the terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including information of a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) reference signal relating to at least one of the first cell and the second cell, the RRC connection reconfiguration message being transmitted from a base station; and

a processor that controls, based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message, stop of a radio link failure detection timer T 310 and reset of a counter N 310 indicating reception of an Out of Sync (OOS) for starting the detection timer and reset of a counter N 311 indicating reception of In Sync (IS) for stopping the detection timer in at least one of the first cell and the second cell,

wherein when the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes information about whether or not to stop the detection timer T 310 , the processor stops the detection timer T 310 .

2. A radio communication method for a terminal communicating with a base station apparatus in a first cell and in a second cell by using carrier aggregation, the radio communication method comprising:

receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including information of a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) reference signal relating to at least one of the first cell and the second cell, the RRC connection reconfiguration message being transmitted from a base station; and

controlling, based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message, stop of a radio link failure detection timer T 310 and reset of a counter N 310 indicating reception of an Out of Sync (OOS) for starting the detection timer and reset of a counter N 311 indicating reception of In Sync (IS) for stopping the detection timer in at least one of the first cell and the second cell,

wherein when the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes information about whether or not to stop the detection timer T 310 , the terminal stops the detection timer T 310 .

3. A base station in a first cell and in a second cell by using carrier aggregation, the base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including information of a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) reference signal relating to the first cell or the second cell; and

a processor that indicates, by using the RRC connection reconfiguration message, to control stop of a radio link failure detection timer T 310 and reset of a counter N 310 indicating reception of an Out of Sync (OOS) for starting the detection timer and reset of a counter N 311 indicating reception of In Sync (IS) for stopping the detection timer in the first cell or the second cell,

wherein when the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes information about whether or not to stop the detection timer T 310 , the detection timer T 310 stops.

4. A system comprising a base station and a terminal communicating with the base station in a first cell and in a second cell by using carrier aggregation, wherein:

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including information of a Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) reference signal relating to the first cell or the second cell; and

a first processor that indicates, by using the RRC connection reconfiguration message, to control stop of a radio link failure detection timer T 310 and reset of a counter N 310 indicating reception of an Out of Sync (OOS) for starting the detection timer and reset of a counter N 311 indicating reception of In Sync (IS) for stopping the detection timer in the first cell or the second cell; and

the terminal comprises:

a receiver that receives the RRC connection reconfiguration message including the information of the RLM, the reference signal relating to the first cell or the second cell, the RRC connection reconfiguration message being transmitted from the base station; and

a second processor that controls, based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message, stop of the radio link failure detection timer T 310 and reset of the counter N 310 indicating reception of the OOS for starting the detection timer and reset of the counter N 311 indicating reception of the IS, for stopping the detection timer in the first cell or the second cell,

wherein when the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes information about whether or not to stop the detection timer T 310 , the second processor stops the detection timer T 310 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2020
From: HARADA, HIROKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING; LIU, LIU
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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