User terminal and radio communication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11528096-B2
Application number	US-201716310574-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2017
Priority date	Jun 20, 2016
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

The present invention is designed to improve the efficiency of the use of radio resources in retransmission control in future radio communication systems. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that, when a transport block of the DL signal is divided into a plurality of code blocks, controls transmission of retransmission control information representing an acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) for each code block, or representing an ACK or a NACK for each code block group, which groups fewer code blocks than the plurality of code blocks.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal comprising:
a transmitter that transmits capability information, of the terminal, which indicates whether the terminal supports code-block-group based retransmission of a downlink (DL) signal;
a receiver that receives downlink control information (DCI) that allocates the DL signal based on the code-block-group and receives the DL signal, wherein the DCI includes at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number, information of each code-block-group, a new data identifier (NDI) of each HARQ process, and a redundancy version (RV) of each HARQ process, wherein the RV indicates a degree in redundancy of transmission data; and
a processor that, if the receiver receives indication information, via higher layer signaling, that indicates code-block-group based transmission, performs a control to transmit retransmission control information, which indicates an acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (NACK), per code block group of the DL signal,
wherein the capability information is transmitted via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, and
wherein a number of bits of the retransmission control information is equal to a number of code block groups per transport block.

2. A radio communication method comprising:
transmitting capability information, of a terminal, which indicates whether the terminal supports code-block-group based retransmission of a downlink (DL) signal;
receiving downlink control information (DCI) that allocates the DL signal based on the code-block-group and receiving the DL signal, wherein the DCI includes at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number, information of each code-block-group, a new data identifier (NDI) of each HARQ process, and a redundancy version (RV) of each HARQ process, wherein the RV indicates a degree in redundancy of transmission data; and
if receiving indication information, via higher layer signaling, that indicates code-block-group based transmission, performing a control to transmit retransmission control information, which indicates an acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (NACK), per code block group of the DL signal,
wherein the capability information is transmitted via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, and
wherein a number of bits of the retransmission control information is equal to a number of code block groups per transport block.

3. A base station comprising:
a receiver that receives capability information, of a terminal, which indicates whether the terminal supports code-block-group based retransmission of a downlink (DL) signal;
a transmitter that transmits downlink control information (DCI) that allocates the DL signal based on the code-block-group and transmits the DL signal, wherein the DCI includes at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number, information of each code-block-group, a new data identifier (NDI) of each HARQ process, and a redundancy version (RV) of each HARQ process, wherein the RV indicates a degree in redundancy of transmission data; and
a processor that, if the transmitter transmits, to the terminal, indication information, via higher layer signaling, that indicates code-block-group based transmission, performs a control to receive retransmission control information, which indicates an acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (NACK), per code block group,
wherein the capability information is received via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, and
wherein a number of bits of the retransmission control information is equal to a number of code block groups per transport block.

4. A system comprising a base station and a terminal, wherein:
the terminal comprises:
a transmitter of the terminal that transmits capability information, of the terminal, which indicates whether the terminal supports code-block-group based retransmission of a downlink (DL) signal;
a receiver of the terminal that receives downlink control information (DCI) that allocates the DL signal based on the code-block-group and receives the DL signal, wherein the DCI includes at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number, information of each code-block-group, a new data identifier (NDI) of each HARQ process, and a redundancy version (RV) of each HARQ process, wherein the RV indicates a degree in redundancy of transmission data; and
a processor that, if the receiver of the terminal receives indication information, via higher layer signaling, that indicates code-block-group based transmission, performs a control to transmit retransmission control information, which indicates an acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (NACK), per code block group of the DL signal,
wherein a number of bits of the retransmission control information is equal to a number of code block groups per transport block; and

the base station comprises:
a receiver of the base station that receives the capability information; and
a transmitter of the base station that transmits the DCI that allocates the DL signal based on the code block group and transmits the DL signal,

wherein the capability information is transmitted via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Kitamura Yasuhiro
• Harada Hiroki
• Osawa Ryosuke

Classifications

• H04L1/1614 Primary

  using bitmaps · CPC title

• H04L5/0007

  the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT · CPC title

• H04L5/0055

  Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861) · CPC title

• H04L1/1819

  with retransmission of additional or different redundancy · CPC title

• H04W28/04

  Error control · CPC title