Wireless communications system, base station, terminal, and process method

• US 10,327,132 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2016
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Jitsukawa, Daisuke, Kawasaki, Yoshihiro, Suda, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Hassan A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jones, Prenell P
• Application Number:
  US15/247,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20160366584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,027 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1825 Adaptation of specific ARQ protocol parameters according to transmission conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/58 Format of the TPC bits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless communications system includes a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to control information transmitted to a terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal; and the terminal configured to switch a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state, and a fourth state of adjusting the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal, based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the second state.

Claims

1. A wireless communications system comprising:

a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to control information transmitted to a terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal; and

the terminal configured to switch a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state, and a fourth state of adjusting the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal, based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the second state.

2. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the control information includes a predetermined region storing the value instructing the transmission power of the terminal, in the first state, and a predetermined region storing the value instructing the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal.

3. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal refrains from adjusting the transmission power when in the fourth state.

4. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the base station, when in the first state, stores to the control information, a value selected from among a value instructing the transmission power and a value instructing switching to the fourth state, and the base station, when in the second state, stores to the control information, a value selected from among a value instructing the transmission count and a value instructing switching to the third state,

the terminal transitions to the fourth state and the base station transitions to the second state, when the base station stores to the control information, the value instructing transition to the fourth state, and

the terminal transitions to the third state and the base station transitions to the first state, when the base station stores to the control information, the value instructing transition to the third state.

5. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the terminal transmits to base station, information that corresponds to the transmission power of the terminal;

the base station switches to one of the first state and the second state, corresponding to the information that corresponds to the transmission power of the terminal, and

the terminal switches to one of the third state and the fourth state, corresponding to the information that corresponds to the transmission power of the terminal.

6. The wireless communications system according to claim 5, wherein

the base station, when in the first state, switches to the second state, when the information that corresponds to the transmission power becomes a predetermined value,

the terminal, when in the third state, switches to the fourth state, when the information that corresponds to the transmission power becomes the predetermined value,

the base station, when in the second state, stores to the control information, a value selected from among a value instructing the transmission count and a value instructing switching to the third state, the base station switching to the first state when the selected value is a value instructing switching to the first state, and

the terminal, when in the fourth state, switches to the third state when the value stored to the control information is the value instructing switching to the third state.

7. The wireless communications system according to claim 5, wherein the information that corresponds to the transmission power of the terminal is information indicating a difference of the transmission power of the terminal and a maximum transmission power of the terminal.

8. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal adjusts the transmission count concerning a new transmission among the new transmission and retransmission of data.

9. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the base station, when in the second state, stores to the control information, a value indicating a combination of the transmission count and a period from when the terminal transmits data until retransmission of the data, and

the terminal, when in the fourth state, adjusts based on the value stored to the control information, the combination of the transmission count and the period from when the terminal transmits data until retransmission of the data.

10. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the base station, when in the second state, stores to the control information, a value indicating a combination of the transmission count and a process count of performing for a same data, a process of transmitting the same data multiple times, and

the terminal, when in the fourth state, adjusts based on the value of the predetermined region, the combination of the transmission count and the process count of performing for the same data, the process of transmitting the same data multiple times by the terminal.

11. The wireless communications system according to claim 10, wherein the process is a process of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ).

12. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein the control information is information indicating a radio resource assigned by the base station to a transmission of a wireless signal from the terminal to the base station.

13. The wireless communications system according to claim 1, wherein the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data is a transmission time interval (TTI) bundle size in TTI bundling.

14. A base station comprising:

a transmitting circuit configured to transmit control information to a terminal; and

a control circuit configured to switch a first state of storing to a predetermined region of the control information transmitted by the transmitting circuit, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the predetermined region of the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal.

15. A terminal comprising:

a receiving circuit configured to receive control information from a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to the control information transmitted to the terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal; and

a control circuit configured to switch a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state by the receiving circuit, and a fourth state of adjusting the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal, based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the second state by the receiving circuit.

16. The terminal according to claim 15, wherein the control information includes a predetermined region storing the value instructing the transmission power of the terminal, in the first state, and a predetermined region storing the value instructing the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal.

17. A process method at a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting control information to a terminal; and

switching a first state of storing to a predetermined region of the transmitted control information, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the predetermined region of the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal.

18. A process method at a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving control information from a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to the control information transmitted to the terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information, a value instructing a transmission count of multiple transmissions of a same data by the terminal; and

switching a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state, and a fourth state of adjusting the transmission count of multiple transmissions of the same data by the terminal, based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the second state.

19. A wireless communications system comprising:

a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to control information transmitted to a terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information a value instructing a period from when the terminal transmits data until retransmission of the data; and

the terminal configured to switch a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state, and a fourth state of adjusting the period from when the terminal transmits data until retransmission of the data, based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the second state.

20. A wireless communications system comprising:

a base station configured to switch a first state of storing to control information transmitted to a terminal, a value instructing a transmission power of the terminal, and a second state of storing to the control information, a value instructing a process count of performing for a same data, a process of transmitting the same data multiple times by the terminal; and

the terminal configured to switch a third state of adjusting the transmission power based on the value stored to the control information received from the base station in the first state, and a fourth state of adjusting the process count of performing for a same data, a process of transmitting the same data multiple times by the terminal.