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US 12,245,245 · App. 17/772,927 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Terminal, base station, communication method, and communication system for controlling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response based on report of HARQ response information

Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/23H04L1/1812
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Patent No.
US 12,245,245
App. No.
17/772,927
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a reception unit that receives DL (Downlink) control information for allocating a SL (Sidelink) resource, from a base station, a transmission unit that transmits data in the SL resource to another terminal, and transmits a HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) response corresponding to the SL resource or the data to the base station, and a control unit that determines a control related to the HARQ response, based on presence or non-presence of a transport block to be transmitted in the SL resource.

Claims (19)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a configured grant or a dynamic grant, from a base station; and

a processor that determines a control related to a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) response to the base station, based on whether a report of HARQ response information is requested by the base station, in a case where transmission data to be transmitted via a sidelink (SL) resource provided by the configured grant or the dynamic grant, is not present,

wherein the processor determines the HARQ response to the base station is to be a positive acknowledgement, in a case where the transmission data to be transmitted via the SL resource is not present, and where the report of the HARQ response information corresponding to the SL resource is requested.

2. The terminal as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor control unit determines the HARQ response is not to be transmitted to the base station, in a case where the report of the HARQ response information is not requested.

3. A base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a configured grant or a dynamic grant to a terminal, the configured grant or the dynamic grant providing a sidelink (SL) resource; and

a processor that assumes that the terminal determines a control related to a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) response to the base station, based on whether a report of HARQ response information is requested by the base station, in a case where transmission data to be transmitted via the SL resource provided by the configured grant or the dynamic grant, is not present,

wherein the processor controls the terminal to determine the HARQ response to the base station is to be a positive acknowledgement, in a case where the transmission data to be transmitted via the SL resource is not present, and where the report of the HARQ response information corresponding to the SL resource is requested.

4. A communication method performed by a terminal, comprising:

receiving a configured grant or a dynamic grant, from a base station;

determining a control related to a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) response to the base station, based on whether a report of HARQ response information is requested by the base station, in a case where transmission data to be transmitted via a sidelink (SL) resource provided by the configured grant or the dynamic grant, is not present; and

determining the HARQ response to the base station is to be a positive acknowledgement, in a case where the transmission data to be transmitted via the SL resource is not present, and where the report of the HARQ response information corresponding to the SL resource is requested.

5. A communication system comprising: a base station; and a terminal, wherein the base station includes:

a transmitter that transmits a configured grant or a dynamic grant to a terminal, the configured grant or the dynamic grant providing a sidelink (SL) resource, and

the terminal includes:

a receiver reception unit that receives a configured grant or a dynamic grant, from the base station; and

a processor determines a control related to a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) response to the base station, based on whether a report of HARQ response information is requested by the base station, in a case where transmission data to be transmitted via a sidelink (SL) resource provided by the configured grant or the dynamic grant, is not present,

wherein the processor determines the HARQ response to the base station is to be a positive acknowledgement, in a case where the transmission data to be transmitted via the SL resource is not present, and where the report of the HARQ response information corresponding to the SL resource is requested.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2022
From: YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230034776A1 · Feb 2, 2023
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