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US 12,463,788 · App. 17/995,533 · Granted Nov 4, 2025

Radio communication node

Inventors: Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo, JP); Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Weiqi Sun (Beijing, CN); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0098H04L5/001H04L5/0048H04W72/0453
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,463,788
App. No.
17/995,533
Granted
Nov 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A radio communication node ( 100 B) includes a cell information acquiring unit ( 165 ) that acquires a subcarrier interval to be set and a frequency range to be used; and a control unit ( 170 ) that sets a reference additional time included in a time difference from transmission in a serving cell to reception in the radio communication node and the granularity applied to the reference additional time based on the subcarrier interval and the frequency range.

Claims (10)

1 . A radio communication node comprising:

a receiver that receives a control element including an index of an additional time included in a time difference in a downlink direction from Distributed Unit (DU) transmission in a serving cell to Mobile Termination (MT) reception in the radio communication node; and

a processor that determines a calculation formula for calculating the time difference using the index of the additional time provided by the control element, granularity of the additional time and an initial value of the additional time.

2 . The radio communication node according to claim 1 , wherein the processor configures the granularity according to a frequency range to be used.

3 . The radio communication node according to claim 2 , wherein the processor configures a granularity coarser than a granularity applied to a first frequency range when using a second frequency range that is higher than the first frequency range in frequency.

4 . A radio communication system including a first radio communication node and a second radio communication node, wherein

the first radio communication node comprises a transmitter that transmits a control element including an index of an additional time included in a time difference in a downlink direction from Distributed Unit (DU) transmission in a serving cell to Mobile Termination (MT) reception in the second radio communication node, and

the second radio communication node comprises:

a receiver that receives the control element; and

a processor that determines a calculation formula for calculating the time difference using the index of the additional time provided by the control element, granularity of the additional time and an initial value of the additional time.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 7, 2022
From: KURITA, DAISUKE; HARADA, HIROKI; SUN, WEIQI; WANG, JING; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230155802A1 · May 18, 2023
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