User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9819474-B2
Application number	US-201414893321-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2014
Priority date	May 27, 2013
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

The present invention is designed to feed back feedback signals such as delivery acknowledgement signals properly even when the DL/UL configuration is reconfigured in TDD. A user terminal communicates, in time division duplexing, with a radio base station that reconfigures the DL/UL configuration, and has a judging section that judges a delivery acknowledgement in response to each DL subframe, and a feedback control section that allocates a delivery acknowledgement signal in response to each DL subframe to a UL subframe and sends feedback, and, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, the feedback control section bundles at least part of the delivery acknowledgement signals for a plurality of DL subframes corresponding to the UL subframe, and sends feedback.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A user terminal that communicates in time division duplexing with a radio base station that reconfigures a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) configuration, the user terminal comprising:
a processor and a memory, wherein the processor:
judges a delivery acknowledgement in response to each DL subframe; and
allocates a delivery acknowledgement signal in response to each DL subframe to a UL subframe and sends feedback,
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, the processor bundles at least part of delivery acknowledgement signals for a plurality of DL subframes corresponding to the UL subframe, and sends feedback, and
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is greater than the predetermined value, the processor sets a plurality of bundling groups, which serve as a bundling unit of DL subframes, selects the DL subframe that is arranged first in a time axis direction in each bundling group, and employs channel selection based on physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1b by using PUCCH resources that correspond to the DL subframes selected from each bundling group.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is equal to or less than the predetermined value, the processor employs channel selection based on PUCCH format 1b by using PUCCH resources that correspond respectively to the DL subframes.

3. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is greater than the predetermined value, the processor controls bundling so that the number of DL subframes included in each bundling group is equal.

4. The user terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor judges the number of DL subframes that correspond to each UL subframe in the radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration based on information regarding the DL/UL configuration, which is reported from the radio base station.

5. A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal in time division duplexing, and that reconfigures and controls a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) configuration, the radio base station comprising:
a processor that controls a reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration;
a transmitter that transmits information regarding the DL/UL configuration to the user terminal; and
a receiver that receives a delivery acknowledgement signal that is fed back from the user terminal,
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, the receiver receives a delivery acknowledgement signal, in which at least part of a plurality of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is bundled, in a predetermined physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource,
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is greater than the predetermined value, the predetermined PUCCH resource is selected, by employing channel selection based on PUCCH format 1b, out of PUCCH resources that correspond to the DL subframes selected from a plurality of bundling groups,
wherein the plurality of bundling groups, which serve as a bundling unit of DL subframes, are set by the user terminal, and
wherein each of the DL subframes, which are selected by the user terminal, are arranged first in a time axis direction in each bundling group.

6. A radio communication method for a radio base station that reconfigures a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) configuration and a user terminal that communicates with the radio base station in time division duplexing, the radio communication method comprising, in the user terminal, the steps of:
judging a delivery acknowledgement in response to each DL subframe; and
allocating a delivery acknowledgement signal in response to each DL subframe to a UL subframe and sends feedback,
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, at least part of delivery acknowledgement signals for a plurality of DL subframes corresponding to the UL subframe is bundled and fed back,
wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is greater than the predetermined value, physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources that correspond to the DL subframes selected from a plurality of bundling groups are used to employ channel selection based on PUCCH format 1b,
wherein the plurality of bundling groups, which serve as a bundling unit of DL subframes, are set by the user terminal, and
wherein each of the DL subframes, which are selected by the user terminal, are arranged first in a time axis direction in each bundling group.

7. The user terminal according to claim 2 , wherein, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to the UL subframe is greater than the predetermined value, the processor controls bundling so that the number of DL subframes included in each bundling group is equal.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Nagata Satoshi
• Takeda Kazuki
• Wang Chunyi
• Hou Xiaolin
• Harada Atsushi

Classifications

• H04L5/0053

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

• H04L5/0007

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

• H04L1/12

  by using return channel · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04L5/14 Primary

  Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex · CPC title