IP Library Granted Patent US 12,200,735
Granted Patent B2
US 12,200,735 · App. 18/466,614 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Base station, terminal, and communication method

Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, JP); Lilei Wang (Beijing, CN); Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Hessen, DE); Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, JP); Yasuaki Yuda (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/23H04L1/00H04L1/0003H04L1/1812H04L5/0048H04L5/0055H04W72/0446H04W72/20
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Patent No.
US 12,200,735
App. No.
18/466,614
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station is disclosed that enables an efficient use of resources even when a TTI length is shortened. In this base station, a PDCCH section ( 103 ) generates one piece of downlink control information (DCI) containing control information for a plurality of first transmission time intervals (TTIs) each having a TTI length shorter than a second TTI, and a transmission section ( 107 ) transmits the DCI. Control information on retransmission processing for a data signal is configured for each of the plurality of first TTIs while control information other than the control information on the retransmission processing is configured in common among the plurality of first TTIs in the DCI.

Claims (18)

1. A base station comprising:

a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits, to a terminal, downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling time domain units, each of which is shorter than one slot; and

a receiver, which, in operation, receives uplink data, which is transmitted from the terminal on the time domain units based on the DCI, wherein

the DCI includes first control information respectively configured for the time domain units and second control information configured for all of the time domain units, and the second control information includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a frequency resource assignment.

2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the DCI includes information indicating whether each of the time domain units is assigned or not.

3. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the first control information includes at least one of information indicating an HARQ process number, a new data indicator (NDI), a redundancy version (RV), or a combination of a plurality of transport blocks and codewords.

4. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the DCI is used for scheduling the time domain units for an uplink data signal.

5. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the time domain units are included in one subframe.

6. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the time domain units are included in one slot.

7. A communication method comprising:

transmitting, to a terminal, downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling time domain units, each of which is shorter than one slot; and

receiving uplink data, which is transmitted from the terminal on the time domain units based on the DCI, wherein

the DCI includes first control information respectively configured for the time domain units and second control information configured for all of the time domain units, and the second control information includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a frequency resource assignment.

8. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the DCI includes information indicating whether each of the time domain units is assigned or not.

9. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the first control information includes at least one of information indicating an HARQ process number, a new data indicator (NDI), a redundancy version (RV), or a combination of a plurality of transport blocks and codewords.

10. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the DCI is used for scheduling the time domain units for an uplink data signal.

11. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the time domain units are included in one subframe.

12. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the time domain units are included in one slot.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 17513386 · Oct 28, 2021
Continuation 16746221 · Jan 17, 2020
Continuation 16070264
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