Device

• US 10,306,622 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2018
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takano, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lopata, Robert J
• Application Number:
  US16/038,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20180324776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 370329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1215 for collaboration of different radio technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/10 adapted for operation in multiple networks, e.g. multi-mode access points

Abstract

[Object] To enable a frequency band shared between wireless communication of a cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard to be more appropriately used in the cellular system.

[Solution] There is provided a device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a terminal device which is a device candidate for performing wireless communication of a cellular system using a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (LAN) standard, and a control unit configured to notify the terminal device that the terminal device is the device candidate.

Claims

1. A base station or a module for a base station, comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating whether a terminal device is a device candidate for performing wireless communication of a cellular system using a shared frequency band, the shared frequency band being a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (WLAN) standard; and

a control unit configured to notify the terminal device that the terminal device is the device candidate,

wherein the shared frequency band is used for a secondary component carrier, SCC, and a frequency band for cellular communication is used as a primary component carrier, PCC, for wireless communication of the cellular system

characterized in that

the control unit is further configured to notify one or more terminal devices for performing wireless communication of the cellular system of a period in which the wireless communication of the cellular system is performed using the shared frequency band, and to determine the device candidate on the basis of a result of performing measurement for the frequency band by at least some of the one or more terminal devices in said period.

2. The base station or the module for a base station according to claim 1, wherein the control unit notifies the terminal device that the terminal device is the device candidate before the shared frequency band is used in the wireless communication of the cellular system, and/or that the terminal device is the device candidate using another frequency band for the cellular system, and/or that the terminal device is the device candidate in a system information block, SIB, or by individual signaling for the terminal device.

3. The base station or the module for a base station according to claim 1, wherein the control unit instructs the terminal device to transmit a frame including duration information for setting a network allocation vector, NAV, using the shared frequency band before the shared frequency band is used in the wireless communication of the cellular system.

4. The base station or the module for a base station according to claim 3, wherein the control unit uses another frequency band for the cellular system to instruct the terminal device to transmit the frame using the shared frequency band, in particular provides the terminal device with information which specifies a timing at which the frame is transmitted, and/or with the duration information or information which specifies the duration information.

5. The base station or the module for a base station according to claim 3, wherein the control unit instructs the terminal device to transmit the frame using the shared frequency band by another frame for triggering the transmission of the frame by the terminal device.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines whether to use the frequency band in the wireless communication of the cellular system on the basis of a result of carrier sensing for the frequency band by the terminal device.

7. The base station or the module for a base station according to claim 1, wherein the control unit synchronizes wireless communication using another frequency band for the cellular system with wireless communication using the shared frequency band.

8. The base station or module for a base station according to any one of claim 1,

wherein a duplex operation of the cellular system is frequency division duplex, FDD, and

wherein the frequency band is used as a downlink band in the cellular system.

9. The base station or module for a base station according to any one of claim 1,

wherein the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier use both an LTE or an LTE-A communication scheme.

10. A terminal device or a module for a terminal device comprising:

a recognition unit configured to recognize that a terminal device is a device candidate for performing wireless communication of a cellular system using a shared frequency band which is a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (WLAN) standard through a notification by a base station of the cellular system; and

a control unit configured to perform control for using the frequency band in the wireless communication of the cellular system when the terminal device is the device candidate,

wherein the shared frequency band is used for a secondary component carrier, SCC, and a frequency band for cellular communication is used as a primary component carrier, PCC, for wireless communication of the cellular system

characterized in that the recognition unit is configured to recognize a period in which the wireless communication of the cellular system is performed using the shared frequency band through a notification by the base station, and in that

the control unit is configured to perform measurement of the frequency band in said period and to notify the base station of a result of the measurement.

11. The terminal device or the module for a terminal device according to claim 10, wherein the control includes controlling transmission of a frame by the terminal device or the module for a terminal device so that the frame including duration information for setting a NAV is transmitted using the frequency band.

12. The terminal device or the module for a terminal device according to claim 10, wherein the control unit achieves synchronization for the frequency band on the basis of a result of achieving synchronization for another frequency band for the cellular system.