IP Library Granted Patent US 11,601,939
Granted Patent B2
US 11,601,939 · App. 17/071,648 · Granted Mar 7, 2023

Wireless communication system, wireless communication setting method, base station, mobile station, and program

Inventors: Takamichi Inoue (Tokyo, JP); Kenji Koyanagi (Tokyo, JP); Le Liu (Tokyo, JP); Yoshikazu Kakura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04W72/0453H04L5/006H04L5/0007H04L5/0037H04L5/0041H04L5/0044H04L5/0048H04L5/0057H04L5/0064H04L5/0094H04L27/2614H04W72/042H04W72/0406H04W72/0413H05K999/99H04W88/02H04W88/08
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Patent No.
US 11,601,939
App. No.
17/071,648
Granted
Mar 7, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink control information to a user equipment, the downlink control information being generated based on one of (1) a first uplink allocation information indicating a first frequency block corresponding to a first plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and (2) a second uplink allocation information indicating a second frequency block corresponding to a second plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and a third frequency block corresponding to a third plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency, the second frequency block and the third frequency block being separated in frequency.

Claims (48)

1. A communication method for a user equipment (UE), the communication method comprising:

transmitting, to a base station, an indication indicating that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission using plural resource block sets is supported at the UE;

receiving, from the base station, information for scheduling including uplink resource allocation information for indicating, to the UE, two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE for the PUSCH transmission,

wherein the information for scheduling is according to the indication; and

transmitting, to the base station, a demodulation reference signal for use in demodulation of PUSCH, wherein:

a sequence length of the demodulation reference signal matches a transmit bandwidth which consists of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE,

each of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE consists of one or more consecutive resource blocks, and

the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE are separated in frequency by at least one subcarrier which is not allocated to the UE.

2. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE is according to the number of the plural resource block sets.

3. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets indicated by the uplink resource allocation information is less than or equal to the number of the plural resource block sets.

4. A communication method for a base station, the communication method comprising:

receiving, from a user equipment (UE), an indication indicating that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission using plural resource block sets is supported at the UE;

transmitting, to the UE, information for scheduling including uplink resource allocation information for indicating, to the UE, two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE for the PUSCH transmission,

wherein the number information for scheduling is according to the indication; and

receiving, from the UE, a demodulation reference signal for use in demodulation of PUSCH, wherein:

a sequence length of the demodulation reference signal matches a transmit bandwidth which consists of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE,

each of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE consists of one or more consecutive resource blocks, and

the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE are separated in frequency by at least one subcarrier which is not allocated to the UE.

5. The communication method according to claim 4 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE is according to the number of the plural resource block sets.

6. The communication method according to claim 4 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets indicated by the uplink resource allocation information is less than or equal to the number of the plural resource block sets.

7. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to process the instructions to:

transmit, to a base station, an indication indicating that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission using plural resource block sets is supported at the UE;

receive, from the base station, information for scheduling including uplink resource allocation information for indicating, to the UE, two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE for the PUSCH transmission,

wherein the information for scheduling is according to the indication; and

transmit, to the base station, a demodulation reference signal for use in demodulation of PUSCH, wherein:

a sequence length of the demodulation reference signal matches a transmit bandwidth which consists of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE,

each of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE consists of one or more consecutive resource blocks, and

the two or more of resource block sets to be allocated to the UE are separated in frequency by at least one subcarrier which is not allocated to the UE.

8. A base station comprising:

a memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to process the instructions to:

receive, from a user equipment (UE), an indication indicating that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission using plural resource block sets is supported at the UE;

transmit, to the UE, information for scheduling including uplink resource allocation information for indicating, to the UE, two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE for the PUSCH transmission,

wherein the information for scheduling is according to the indication; and

receive, from the UE, a demodulation reference signal for use in demodulation of PUSCH, wherein:

a sequence length of the demodulation reference signal matches a transmit bandwidth which consists of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE,

each of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE consists of one or more consecutive resource blocks, and

the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE are separated in frequency by at least one subcarrier which is not allocated to the UE.

9. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the plural resource block sets is equal to two.

10. The communication method according to claim 4 , wherein the number of the plural resource block sets is equal to two.

11. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE is according to the number of the plural resource block sets.

12. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets indicated by the uplink resource allocation information is less than or equal to the number of the plural resource block sets.

13. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the number of the plural resource block sets is equal to two.

14. The base station according to claim 8 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets to be allocated to the UE is according to the number of the plural resource block sets.

15. The base station according to claim 8 , wherein the number of the two or more resource block sets indicated by the uplink resource allocation information is less than or equal to the number of the plural resource block sets.

16. The base station according to claim 8 , wherein the number of the plural resource block sets is equal to two.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-072581 · Mar 19, 2008 · national
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