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Granted Patent B2
US 12,289,268 · App. 17/598,511 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Communication apparatus and communication method

Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Huan Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0051
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Patent No.
US 12,289,268
App. No.
17/598,511
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a control unit configured to, when a sidelink control channel and a sidelink shared channel are to be frequency-division multiplexed, map a demodulation reference signal for the sidelink shared channel onto a symbol onto which a demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel is mapped; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the symbol onto which the demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel and the demodulation reference signal for the sidelink shared channel are mapped.

Claims (24)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that executes time division multiplexing or frequency division multiplexing of a first demodulation reference signal for a sidelink shared channel and a sidelink control channel, or that executes both the time division multiplexing and the frequency division multiplexing; and

a transmitter that transmits the sidelink control channel and the sidelink shared channel,

wherein the processor frequency division multiplexes control information of the sidelink control channel and a second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel in one symbol, and the processor maps the first demodulation reference signal onto the one symbol,

wherein the one symbol is a symbol included in a sidelink control information resource pool,

wherein configuration information of the sidelink control information resource pool is indicated by a System Information Block (SIB), and

wherein the processor sets, in the one symbol, power of the sidelink control channel and power of the second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel to a same value.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor frequency division multiplexes the sidelink control channel and a portion of the sidelink shared channel, and the processor time division multiplexes the sidelink control channel and the other portion of the sidelink shared channel.

3. A communication system comprising:

a first terminal including:

a processor that executes time division multiplexing or frequency division multiplexing of a first demodulation reference signal for a sidelink shared channel and a sidelink control channel, or that executes both the time division multiplexing and the frequency division multiplexing, and

a transmitter that transmits the sidelink control channel and the sidelink shared channel,

wherein the processor frequency division multiplexes control information of the sidelink control channel and a second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel in one symbol, and the processor maps the first demodulation reference signal onto the one symbol,

wherein the one symbol is a symbol included in a sidelink control information resource pool,

wherein configuration information of the sidelink control information resource pool is indicated by a System Information Block (SIB), and

wherein the processor sets, in the one symbol, power of the sidelink control channel and power of the second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel to a same value; and

a second terminal including a receiver that receives the sidelink control channel and the sidelink shared channel.

4. A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

executing time division multiplexing or frequency division multiplexing of a first demodulation reference signal for a sidelink shared channel and a sidelink control channel, or executing both the time division multiplexing and the frequency division multiplexing;

transmitting the sidelink control channel and the sidelink shared channel;

frequency division multiplexing control information of the sidelink control channel and a second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel in one symbol, and mapping the first demodulation reference signal onto the one symbol,

wherein the one symbol is a symbol included in a sidelink control information resource pool,

wherein configuration information of the sidelink control information resource pool is indicated by a System Information Block (SIB), and

wherein the terminal sets, in the one symbol, power of the sidelink control channel and power of the second demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel to a same value.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2021
From: YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, HUAN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 058129/0361 →
Continuity (1)
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