User equipment and radio communication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11515923-B2
Application number	US-201817266825-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2018
Priority date	Aug 9, 2018
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

A user terminal includes: a transmission section including a plurality of antennas; and a control section that controls the phase of a signal transmitted from the plurality of antennas to a base station. The control section performs control such that any one of first information and second information is notified to the base station, the first information is information indicating any of a plurality of array patterns that are adoptable by each antenna in a case where the plurality of antennas are all coherent, and the second information is information indicating the number of the coherent antennas in a case where at least two of the plurality of antennas are coherent.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal, comprising:
a transmitter including a plurality of antennas; and
a processor that controls a phase of a signal transmitted from the plurality of antennas to a base station, wherein
the processor performs control such that any one of first information and second information is notified to the base station, wherein
the first information is information indicating any of a plurality of array patterns adoptable by each of the antennas in a case where the plurality of antennas are all coherent,
the second information is information indicating the number of antennas that are coherent in a case where at least two of the plurality of antennas are coherent and the plurality of antennas are partial-coherent,
the number of antennas differs in a partial-coherent case with the same polarization, and
a polarization of antennas differs in the partial-coherent case with the same number of antennas.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor performs control such that third information indicating a polarization configuration of the plurality of antennas is notified to the base station.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls a signal transmitted from the plurality of antennas to the base station, based on information configured by the base station according to the first information or the second information.

4. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the plurality of antennas is eight or more.

5. A radio communication method, comprising:
notifying, by a terminal including a plurality of antennas, to a base station of any one of first information and second information;
the first information being information indicating any of a plurality of array patterns adoptable by each of the antennas in a case where the plurality of antennas are all coherent, and
the second information being information indicating the number of antennas that are coherent in a case where at least two of the plurality of antennas are coherent and the plurality of antennas are partial-coherent, wherein the number of antennas differs in a partial-coherent case with the same polarization, and a polarization of antennas differs in the partial-coherent case with the same number of antennas,
determining, by the base station, a configuration to be used by the terminal to control an uplink signal, according to the first information or the second information, and
controlling, by the terminal, the uplink signal based on the configuration determined by the base station.

6. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the plurality of antennas is eight or more.

7. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the number of the plurality of antennas is eight or more.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Kakishima Yuichi
• Matsumura Yuki
• Osawa Ryosuke
• Nagata Satoshi

Classifications

• H04W16/28

  using beam steering · CPC title

• H04B7/0404

  the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity · CPC title

• H04B7/0686 Primary

  Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and simultaneous transmission · CPC title

• H04B7/0456 Primary

  Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting · CPC title

• H04B7/10

  Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity · CPC title