Communication terminal and method for use in a communication terminal
The present invention describes a method for configuring a measurement report type to be used by a receiver to report a measurement to a transmitter, wherein the measurement is reported to the transmitter in a report signal over a control channel. The method includes selecting a first measurement report type and at least one second measurement report type to be used by the receiver to report the measurement, generating a measurement reporting pattern defining an occurrence of the first measurement report type and the at least one second measurement report type in the report signal transmitted by the receiver to the transmitter over control channel, and notifying the first measurement report type, the at least one second measurement report type, and the generated measurement reporting pattern to the receiver.
1. A communication terminal, comprising:
a transmitting section configured to report a plurality of types of measurement information related to a downlink channel using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) over an uplink control channel to a base station, and
a controlling section configured to set up a first reporting periodicity, over the uplink control channel, of a first measurement information related to the downlink channel and a second reporting periodicity, over the uplink control channel, of a second measurement information related to the downlink channel that is different from the first measurement information;
wherein the controlling section is further configured to:
(i) set up the second reporting periodicity of the second measurement information longer than the reporting periodicity of the first measurement information, and
(ii) drop a report of the first measurement information having the shorter reporting periodicity when the report of the first measurement information and a report of the second measurement information collide with each other.
2. The communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, when the report of the first measurement information and the report of the second measurement information collide with each other in the same resource; the controlling section drops the report of the first measurement information only in said same resource.
3. The communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the first measurement information and the second measurement information are measurement information representing different quality information on a per report basis in accordance with a variance of a channel state.
4. The communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling section sets up such that the second reporting periodicity of the second measurement information is an integer multiple of the first reporting periodicity of the first measurement information.
5. A method for use in a communication terminal, the method comprising the steps of:
reporting a plurality of types of measurement information related to a downlink channel using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) over an uplink control channel to a base station; and
setting up a first reporting periodicity, over the uplink control channel, of a first measurement information related to the downlink channel and a second reporting periodicity, over the uplink control channel, of a second measurement information related to the downlink channel that is different from the first measurement information,
wherein the second reporting periodicity of the second measurement information is set up longer than the first reporting periodicity of the first measurement information,
wherein a report of the first measurement information having the shorter reporting periodicity is dropped when the report of the first measurement information and a report of the second measurement information collide with each other.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein, when the report of the first measurement information and the report of the second measurement information collide with each other in the same resource, the report of the first measurement information is dropped only in said same resource.
7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the first measurement information and the second measurement information are measurement information representing different quality information on a per report basis in accordance with a variance of a channel state.
8. The method according to claim 5 , the method comprising the step of:
setting up such that the second reporting periodicity of the second measurement information is an integer multiple of the first reporting periodicity of the first measurement information.