Base station, terminal, and communication method
In a base station ( 100 ), a controller ( 101 ) determines one set from among a plurality of sets, each of which including one or more candidates for a resource for an uplink (UL) control channel during initial access, and determines one candidate from among the one or more candidates for the resource, which is included in the determined set. A transmitter ( 114 ) indicates the determined set to a terminal ( 200 ) by higher layer signaling, and indicates the determined candidate by dynamic signaling. A receiver ( 116 ) receives a UL control signal, using the resource corresponding to the determined candidate in the determined set. In the base station, the association between a value to be indicated by the higher layer signaling and the plurality of sets is configured for each of one or more parameters relating to the initial access.
1. A base station comprising:
a transmitter, which in operation, transmits, to a terminal station, cell specific information that is used to configure cell specific PUCCH parameters of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set during an initial access, and transmits, to the terminal station, downlink control information (DCI); and
a receiver, which in operation, receives, from the terminal station, acknowledgement (ACK) information transmitted using a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource set,
wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on a value of a PUCCH resource indicator included in the DCI, and
wherein a number of PUCCH resources in the PUCCH resource set is larger than 2 to a power of a number of bits of the PUCCH resource indicator.
2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a number of symbols, and
when the PUCCH resource set uses PUCCH format 0, the number of symbols is set to 2.
3. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a first symbol, and
the first symbol is limited to one or more defined values.
4. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a first symbol, and
when the PUCCH resource set uses PUCCH format 0, the first symbol is set to 12.
5. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a number of symbols, and
when the number of symbols is set to 14, the PUCCH resource set uses PUCCH format 1.
6. The base station according to claim 3 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a number of symbols, and
when the number of symbol is set to 14, the first symbol is set to 0.
7. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cell specific PUCCH parameters include a number of symbols, and
when the number of symbols is set to 10, the PUCCH resource set uses PUCCH format 1.
8. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the PUCCH resource set is determined before a PUCCH resource configuration information in a radio resource control (RRC) signaling is indicated.
9. The base station according to claim 8 , wherein the ACK information is always transmitted by using frequency hopping before the PUCCH resource configuration information is indicated.
10. The base station according to claim 9 , wherein a frequency hopping pattern of the frequency hopping is a mirroring pattern as an axis is a center of a frequency band used in a previous uplink transmission during the initial access.
11. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein bits of the cell specific information is 4, and the cell specific information indicates one of 16 PUCCH resource sets.
12. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the cell specific PUCCH parameters further include a frequency position and cyclic shift information.
13. The base station according to claim 11 , wherein an association between the bits of the cell specific information and one of the 16 PUCCH resource sets is differentiated depending on resource used by message 3 during the initial access.
14. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the PUCCH resource set includes a plurality of PUCCH resources, and each of the plurality of PUCCH resources is corresponding to the cell specific PUCCH parameters.
15. The base station according to claim 14 , wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on control channel element (CCE) information of the DCI.
16. A communication method comprising:
transmitting, to a terminal station, cell specific information that is used to configure cell specific PUCCH parameters of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set during an initial access;
transmitting, to the terminal station, downlink control information (DCI); and
receiving, from the terminal station, acknowledgement (ACK) information transmitted using a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource set,
wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on a value of a PUCCH resource indicator included in the DCI, and
wherein a number of PUCCH resources in the PUCCH resource set is larger than 2 to a power of a number of bits of the PUCCH resource indicator.