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Granted Patent B2
US 12,289,270 · App. 16/960,678 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Lihui Wang (Beijing, CN); Min Liu (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN); Chongning Na (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0053H04L5/0023H04L5/0042H04L5/0094H04W80/02H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 12,289,270
App. No.
16/960,678
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure is designed to determine appropriate spatial resources for uplink control channels. A user terminal has a receiving section that receives, through higher layer signaling, a plurality of entries of information related to a spatial resource for an uplink control channel, and receives specifying information that specifies, amongst the plurality of entries, entries that correspond respectively to the plurality of uplink control channel resources, by means of a control element of media access control, and a control section that controls determination of one of the plurality of uplink control channel resources, and controls transmission of the uplink control channel, by using an entry that corresponds to the determined uplink control channel resource, amongst the specified entries.

Claims (37)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that, when receiving a first higher layer parameter indicating one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and a second higher layer parameter including a plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, the PUCCH spatial relation information element corresponding to a PUCCH resource that is determined by downlink control information, of the one or more PUCCH resources, and receives the downlink control information; and

a processor that uses a PUCCH resource determined by the downlink control information and the PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE for a PUCCH transmission,

wherein the MAC CE indicating the PUCCH spatial relation information element is identified by a logical channel identifier (LCID) in a MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE and has a fixed size,

wherein the MAC CE including a header field less than 8 bits indicates a PUCCH resource ID of the PUCCH resource that is determined by the downlink control information,

wherein the MAC subheader comprises one LCID field per MAC subheader and a reserved bit set to “0,” and a size of the LCID field is 6 bits,

wherein, in response to the MAC CE including a header field for indicating for a plurality of PUCCH resources, the MAC CE indicates one single PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, and

wherein the one single PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE is applied to the plurality of PUCCH resources.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements includes one of a synchronization signal block (SSB) index, non-zero power (NZP)-channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) resource ID, and sounding reference signal (SRS) resource ID.

3. A radio communication method for a terminal comprising:

when receiving a first higher layer parameter indicating one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and a second higher layer parameter including a plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, receiving a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, the PUCCH spatial relation information element corresponding to a PUCCH resource that is determined by downlink control information, of the one or more PUCCH resources, and receiving the downlink control information; and

using a PUCCH resource determined by the downlink control information and the PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE for a PUCCH transmission,

wherein the MAC CE indicating the PUCCH spatial relation information element is identified by a logical channel identifier (LCID) in a MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE and has a fixed size,

wherein the MAC CE including a header field less than 8 bits indicates a PUCCH resource ID of the PUCCH resource that is determined by the downlink control information,

wherein the MAC subheader comprises one LCID field per MAC subheader and a reserved bit set to “0,” and a size of the LCID field is 6 bits,

wherein, in response to the MAC CE including a header field for indicating for a plurality of PUCCH resources, the MAC CE indicates one single PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, and

wherein the one single PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE is applied to the plurality of PUCCH resources.

4. A base station comprising:

a transmitter that, when transmitting a first higher layer parameter indicating one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and a second higher layer parameter including a plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, transmits a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, the PUCCH spatial relation information element corresponding to a PUCCH resource that is determined by downlink control information, of the one or more PUCCH resources, and transmits the downlink control information; and

a processor that controls reception of PUCCH transmitted using a PUCCH resource determined by the downlink control information and the PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE,

wherein the MAC CE indicating the PUCCH spatial relation information element is identified by a logical channel identifier (LCID) in a MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE and has a fixed size,

wherein the MAC CE including a header field less than 8 bits indicates a PUCCH resource ID of the PUCCH resource that is determined by the downlink control information,

wherein the MAC subheader comprises one LCID field per MAC subheader and a reserved bit set to “0,” and a size of the LCID field is 6 bits,

wherein, in response to the MAC CE including a header field for indicating for a plurality of PUCCH resources, the MAC CE indicates one single PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, and

wherein the one single PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE is applied to the plurality of PUCCH resources.

5. A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein:

the terminal comprises:

a receiver that, when receiving a first higher layer parameter indicating one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and a second higher layer parameter including a plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, the PUCCH spatial relation information element corresponding to a PUCCH resource that is determined by downlink control information, of the one or more PUCCH resources, and receives the downlink control information; and

a first processor that uses a PUCCH resource determined by the downlink control information and the PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE for a PUCCH transmission; and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that, when transmitting the first higher layer parameter and the second higher layer parameter, transmits the MAC CE and transmits the downlink control information; and

a second processor that controls reception of the PUCCH transmitted using the PUCCH resource determined by the downlink control information and the PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE,

wherein the MAC CE indicating the PUCCH spatial relation information element is identified by a logical channel identifier (LCID) in a MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE and has a fixed size,

wherein the MAC CE including a header field less than 8 bits indicates a PUCCH resource ID of the PUCCH resource that is determined by the downlink control information,

wherein the MAC subheader comprises one LCID field per MAC subheader and a reserved bit set to “0,” and a size of the LCID field is 6 bits,

wherein, in response to the MAC CE including a header field for indicating for a plurality of PUCCH resources, the MAC CE indicates one single PUCCH spatial relation information element of the plurality of PUCCH spatial relation information elements, and

wherein the one single PUCCH spatial relation information element indicated by the MAC CE is applied to the plurality of PUCCH resources.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2020
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, LIHUI; LIU, MIN; HOU, XIAOLIN; NA, CHONGNING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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