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US 12,556,311 · App. 17/633,545 · Granted Feb 17, 2026

Terminal device, base station device, method for controlling terminal device, and method for controlling base station device

Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda (Saitama, JP); Hiromasa Uchiyama (Tokyo, JP); Naoki Kusashima (Tokyo, JP); Yifu Tang (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
H04L1/1812H04L1/08H04W72/044H04W72/20H04W76/20H04W84/06
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Patent No.
US 12,556,311
App. No.
17/633,545
Granted
Feb 17, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each cell, each beam, each component carrier, each bandwidth part (BWP), each user equipment (UE), or each HARQ process.

Claims (66)

1 . A terminal device comprising

a communication unit and a control unit,

wherein the control unit is configured to

receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and

recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and

the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each HARQ process,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is transmitted in semi-static notification from a base station device,

wherein the semi-static notification is RRC Setup,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes identification information of a disabled HARQ process among one or more HARQ processes,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback indicates starting HARQ-RTT-TimerDL when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the control unit is further configured to: start the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a corresponding HARQ process in a first symbol after a last symbol of a corresponding transmission carrying the HARQ feedback when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL is for Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communication,

wherein a value of the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for NTN communication is larger than a value of a HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a Terrestrial Network (TN) communication.

2 . The terminal device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the dynamic notification is notification of downlink control information (DCI) or uplink control information (UCI).

3 . The terminal device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes a number of disabled HARQ processes among one or more HARQ processes.

4 . The terminal device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control unit switches compensation of an error rate characteristic according to switching from a HARQ process in which retransmission is not disabled to a HARQ process in which retransmission is disabled based on the disabling information of the HARQ feedback.

5 . The terminal device according to claim 4 ,

wherein, in response to switching to the HARQ process in which the retransmission is disabled, the control unit makes compensation for the error rate characteristic higher than that in a case of the HARQ process in which the retransmission is not disabled.

6 . The terminal device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control unit transmits information on an increase or decrease via the communication unit in accordance with the increase or decrease in the number of the one or more HARQ processes.

7 . A base station device comprising

a communication unit and a control unit,

wherein the control unit is configured to

transmit disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and

recognize that one or more HARQ processes indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and

the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each HARQ process,

wherein the control unit transmits the disabling information of the HARQ feedback in semi-static notification,

wherein the semi-static notification is RRC Setup,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes identification information of a disabled HARQ process among the one or more HARQ processes,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback indicates starting HARQ-RTT-TimerDL when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the control unit is further configured to: start the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a corresponding HARQ process in a first symbol after a last symbol of a corresponding transmission carrying the HARQ feedback when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL is for Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communication,

wherein a value of the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for NTN communication is larger than a value of a HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a Terrestrial Network (TN) communication.

8 . The base station device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the dynamic notification is notification of downlink control information (DCI) or uplink control information (UCI).

9 . The base station device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes a number of disabled HARQ processes among the one or more HARQ processes.

10 . The base station device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the control unit switches compensation of an error rate characteristic according to switching from a HARQ process in which retransmission is not disabled to a HARQ process in which retransmission is disabled based on the disabling information of the HARQ feedback.

11 . The base station device according to claim 10 ,

wherein, in response to switching to the HARQ process in which the retransmission is disabled, the control unit makes compensation for the error rate characteristic higher than that in a case of the HARQ process in which the retransmission is not disabled.

12 . A method for controlling a terminal device, the method comprising:

receiving disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via a communication unit;

recognizing that one or more HARQ processes indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled; and

setting the disabling information of the HARQ feedback for each HARQ process,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is transmitted in semi-static notification from a base station device,

wherein the semi-static notification is RRC Setup,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes identification information of a disabled HARQ process among one or more HARQ processes,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback indicates starting HARQ-RTT-TimerDL when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the control unit is further configured to: start the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a corresponding HARQ process in a first symbol after a last symbol of a corresponding transmission carrying the HARQ feedback when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL is for Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communication,

wherein a value of the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for NTN communication is larger than a value of a HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a Terrestrial Network (TN) communication.

13 . A method for controlling a base station device, the method comprising:

transmitting disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via a communication unit;

recognizing that one or more HARQ processes indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled; and

setting the disabling information of the HARQ feedback for each HARQ process,

wherein the control unit transmits the disabling information of the HARQ feedback in semi-static notification,

wherein the semi-static notification is RRC Setup,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback includes identification information of a disabled HARQ process among the one or more HARQ processes,

wherein the disabling information of the HARQ feedback indicates starting HARQ-RTT-TimerDL when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the control unit is further configured to: start the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a corresponding HARQ process in a first symbol after a last symbol of a corresponding transmission carrying the HARQ feedback when one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are enabled,

wherein the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL is for Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) communication,

wherein a value of the HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for NTN communication is larger than a value of a HARQ-RTT-TimerDL for a Terrestrial Network (TN) communication.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2022
From: MATSUDA, HIROKI; UCHIYAMA, HIROMASA; KUSASHIMA, NAOKI; TANG, YIFU
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059828/0084 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-148932 · Aug 14, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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