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Granted Patent B2
US 12,538,314 · App. 18/257,715 · Granted Jan 27, 2026

Terminal, radio communication method, and base station

Inventors: Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/21H04L1/1812H04W72/1273
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Patent No.
US 12,538,314
App. No.
18/257,715
Granted
Jan 27, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a configuration of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmission of hybrid automatic repeat reQuest acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and a control section that controls transmission of the HARQ-ACK information using the PUCCH resource. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately receive multicast downlink data.

Claims (27)

1 . A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a higher layer signaling indicating a search space, and receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the search space; and

a processor that determines, based on the search space and the DCI, whether the PDSCH is multicast or unicast,

wherein an ID corresponding to the search space is configured, and

the receiver uses a sequence corresponding to the ID for the DCI.

2 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein when time domain resource assignment (TDRA) information for unicast and TDRA information for multicast are configured, and the PDSCH is determined as multicast, the processor determines a time resource of the PDSCH based on the TDRA information for the multicast.

3 . A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:

receiving higher layer signaling indicating a search space, and receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the search space; and

determining, based on the search space and the DCI, whether the PDSCH is multicast or unicast,

wherein an ID corresponding to the search space is configured, and

a sequence corresponding to the ID is used for the DCI.

4 . A base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a higher layer signaling indicating a search space for multicast and a higher layer signaling indicating a search space for unicast; and

a processor that determines to transmit a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for one of a multicast PDSCH or a unicast PDSCH,

wherein the processor controls to transmit downlink control information (DCI) scheduling the PDSCH in the search space corresponding to the PDSCH,

an ID corresponding to the search space is configured, and

a sequence corresponding to the ID is used for the DCI.

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

the terminal comprises:

a receiver that receives higher layer signaling indicating a search space, and receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the search space; and

a processor that determines, based on the search space and the DCI, whether the PDSCH is multicast or unicast,

wherein an ID corresponding to the search space is configured, and

the receiver uses a sequence corresponding to the ID for the DCI, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the higher layer signaling, and

a processor that determines to transmit the PDSCH,

wherein the processor of the base station controls to transmit the DCI.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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