Terminal, radio communication method, base station, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12184351-B2
Application number	US-202117459428-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2021
Priority date	Jan 6, 2017
Publication date	Dec 31, 2024
Grant date	Dec 31, 2024

Abstract

A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives, via higher layer signaling, configuration information indicating a first resource for interference measurement, a second resource of non-zero power (NZP) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for interference measurement, and a third resource of NZP CSI-RS for channel measurement. The terminal also includes a processor that performs interference measurement by using the first resource or the second resource, and performs channel measurement by using the third resource. The configuration information indicates a plurality of combinations of a third resource candidate and at least one of a first resource candidate and a second resource candidate. The processor uses, for measurement, a combination indicated by downlink control information among the plurality of combinations. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A terminal comprising:
a receiver that receives, via higher layer signaling, configuration information which indicates non-zero power (NZP) resources to which transmit power for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is distributed and indicates zero power (ZP) resources to which transmit power for CSI-RS is not distributed, and receives a downlink control information including an identification information for specifying a channel measurement resource being one from among the NZP resources, a NZP interference measurement resource being one other than the channel measurement resources from among the NZP resources, and a ZP interference measurement resource being one from among the ZP resources; and
a processor that:
specifies, based on the configuration information and the downlink control information, the channel measurement resource, the NZP interference measurement resource, and the ZP interference measurement resource,
measures signal power using the channel measurement resource, and
measures total power of interference and noise using the NZP interference measurement resource and the third ZP interference measurement resource.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the configuration information includes information about a CSI-RS port.

3. A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:
receiving, via higher layer signaling, configuration information which indicates non-zero power (NZP) resources to which transmit power for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is distributed and zero power (ZP) resources to which transmit power for CSI-RS is not distributed;
receiving a downlink control information including an identification information for specifying a channel measurement resource being one from among the NZP resources, a NZP interference measurement resource being one other than the channel measurement resources from among the NZP resources, and a ZP interference measurement resource being one from among of the ZP resources;
specifying, based on the configuration information and the downlink control information, the channel measurement resource, the NZP interference measurement resource, and the ZP interference measurement resource;
measuring signal power using the first channel measurement resource; and
measuring total power of interference and noise using the NZP interference measurement resource and the ZP interference measurement resource.

4. A base station comprising:
a transmitter that transmits, via higher layer signaling, configuration information which indicates non-zero power (NZP) resources to which transmit power for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is distributed and indicates zero power (ZP) resources to which transmit power for CSI-RS is not distributed, and transmits a downlink control information including an identification information for specifying a channel measurement resource being one from among the NZP resources, a NZP interference measurement resource being one other than the channel measurement resources from among the NZP resources, and a ZP interference measurement resource being one from among of the ZP resources; and
a processor that controls:
specifying, based on the configuration information and the downlink control information, the channel measurement resource, the NZP interference measurement resource, and the ZP interference measurement resource;
measuring signal power using the channel measurement resource; and
measuring total power of interference and noise using the NZP interference measurement resource and the ZP interference measurement resource.

5. A system comprising:
a terminal that comprises:
a receiver that receives, via higher layer signaling, configuration information which indicates non-zero power (NZP) resources to which transmit power for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is distributed and indicates zero power (ZP) resources to which transmit power for CSI-RS is not distributed, and receives a downlink control information including an identification information for specifying a channel measurement resource being one from among the NZP resources, a NZP interference measurement resource being one other than the channel measurement resources from among the NZP resources, and a ZP interference measurement resource being one from among of the ZP resources; and

a processor that:
specifies, based on the configuration information and the downlink control information, the channel measurement resource, the NZP interference measurement resource, and the ZP interference measurement resource,
measures signal power using the channel measurement resource, and
measures total power of interference and noise using the NZP interference measurement resource and the ZP interference measurement resource; and

a base station that transmits the configuration information and transmits the downlink control information.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Takeda Kazuaki
• Nagata Satoshi
• Na Chongning
• Wang Xin
• Jiang Huiling
• Kakishima Yuichi

Classifications

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W84/042

  Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems · CPC title

• H04W24/08

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

• H04B7/0632

  Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI] · CPC title