User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11595997-B2
Application number	US-201615761874-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2016
Priority date	Sep 24, 2015
Publication date	Feb 28, 2023
Grant date	Feb 28, 2023

Abstract

A user terminal is disclosed, where a band to use is limited to a partial narrow band in a system band. The user terminal includes a transmitter that transmits and/or a receiver that receives a signal, and a controller that controls repetitious reception and/or repetitious transmission of a control channel in a random access procedure based on a coverage enhancement level for a random access channel. A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal is also disclosed, where a band to use is limited to a partial narrow band in a system band. The radio base station includes a transmitter that transmits and/or a receiver that receives a signal, and a controller that controls to transmit information to make the user terminal control repetitious reception and/or repetitious transmission of a control channel in a random access procedure based on a coverage enhancement level for a random access channel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal operating with a limited narrow bandwidth that is a part of a system band, the terminal comprising:
a transmitting/receiving section that transmits and receives signals; and
a control section that controls repetitive transmission of a physical uplink control channel in a random access procedure based on a coverage enhancement level for a random access channel and a parameter, corresponding to the coverage enhancement level, regarding the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the random access procedure provided via higher layer signaling,
wherein a radio base station reports information about a relationship between a number of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel and the coverage enhancement level to the terminal by utilizing at least one of the higher layer signaling and downlink control information (DCI),
wherein the coverage enhancement level for the random access channel ranges from level 0 to 3,
wherein the number of repetitions is applied to the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the random access procedure, the physical uplink control channel being used to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in response to message 4 for the coverage enhancement level,
wherein the control section performs the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel with the number of repetitions based on both the coverage enhancement level and the message 4,
wherein a number of subframes of a search space of a physical downlink control channel in the random access procedure is based on the number of repetitions, and
wherein a size of a DCI format scheduling the message 4 is aligned with a size of another DCI format scheduling uplink transmission that is different from the DCI format scheduling the message 4, based on an HARQ-ACK resource offset field.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control section determines the coverage enhancement level based on a measured reference signal received power (RSRP).

3. A radio base station communicating with a terminal that operates with a limited narrow bandwidth that is a part of a system band, the radio base station comprising:
a transmitting/receiving section that transmits and receives signals; and
a control section that controls transmission for the terminal via higher layer signaling of a parameter, corresponding to a coverage enhancement level for a random access channel, regarding repetitive transmission of a physical uplink control channel in a random access procedure,
wherein the radio base station reports information about a relationship between a number of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel and the coverage enhancement level to the terminal by utilizing at least one of the higher layer signaling and downlink control information (DCI),
wherein the coverage enhancement level for the random access channel ranges from level 0 to 3,
wherein the number of repetitions is applied to the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the random access procedure, the physical uplink control channel being used to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in response to message 4 for the coverage enhancement level,
wherein the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel with the number of repetitions is based on both the coverage enhancement level and the message 4,
wherein a number of subframes of a search space of a physical downlink control channel in the random access procedure is based on the number of repetitions, and
wherein a size of a DCI format scheduling the message 4 is aligned with a size of another DCI format scheduling uplink transmission that is different from the DCI format scheduling the message 4, based on an HARQ-ACK resource offset field.

4. A radio communication method for a terminal operating with a limited narrow bandwidth that is a part of a system band, the radio communication method comprising:
transmitting and receiving signals; and
controlling repetitive transmission of a physical uplink control channel in a random access procedure based on a coverage enhancement level for a random access channel and a parameter, corresponding to the coverage enhancement level, regarding the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the random access procedure provided via higher layer signaling,
wherein a radio base station reports information about a relationship between a number of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel and the coverage enhancement level to the terminal by utilizing at least one of the higher layer signaling and downlink control information (DCI),
wherein the coverage enhancement level for the random access channel ranges from level 0 to 3,
wherein the number of repetitions is applied to the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the random access procedure, the physical uplink control channel being used to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in response to message 4 for the coverage enhancement level,
wherein the repetitive transmission of the physical uplink control channel with the number of repetitions is based on both the coverage enhancement level and the message 4,
wherein a number of subframes of a search space of a physical downlink control channel in the random access procedure is based on the number of repetitions, and
wherein a size of a DCI format scheduling the message 4 is aligned with a size of another DCI format scheduling uplink transmission that is different from the DCI format scheduling the message 4, based on an HARQ-ACK resource offset field.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Moroga Hideyuki
• Takeda Kazuaki
• Jiang Huiling
• Liu Liu
• Mu Qin

Classifications

• H04W74/0833 Primary

  Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access · CPC title

• H04B17/328

  Reference signal received power [RSRP]; Reference signal received quality [RSRQ] · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L1/08

  by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} · CPC title