User terminal and base station

• US 10,492,239 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2017
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Fujishiro, Masato, Yamazaki, Chiharu, Morita, Kugo, Chang, Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): Mered, Habte
• Application Number:
  US15/660,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20170325277A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0093 Point-to-multipoint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• 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 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A user terminal includes: a receiver configured to receive multicast/broadcast data transmitted from a base station to a plurality of user terminals using the same downlink radio resources; a controller configured to select uplink radio resources to be used for transmission of feedback information, from a resource pool allocated from the base station to a group including the plurality of user terminals; and a transmitter configured to transmit the feedback information to the base station using the selected uplink radio resources.

Claims

1. A user terminal, comprising:

a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the processor configured to

receive multicast/broadcast data transmitted from a base station to a plurality of user terminals using the same downlink radio resources;

select uplink radio resources to be used for transmission of feedback information, from a resource pool allocated from the base station to a group including the plurality of user terminals;

transmit the feedback information to the base station using the selected uplink radio resources; and

perform switching from a first mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using the resource pool, to a second mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using a physical uplink control channel which is individually allocated from the base station to each of the user terminals, in response to a notification given from the base station.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the resource pool includes uplink radio resources different from the physical uplink control channel.

3. The user terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to receive configuration information related to the resource pool from the base station, and

the configuration information includes at least one of

a difference between a reference point on a time axis and a start point of the resource pool,

a difference between a reference point on a frequency axis and a start point of the resource pool,

a range of the resource pool on the time axis, and

a range of the resource pool on the frequency axis.

4. The user terminal according to any one of claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to select uplink radio resources used for transmission of the feedback information from the resource pool on the basis of unique information allocated from the base station to the user terminal or unique information preconfigured to the user terminal.

5. The user terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit the feedback information using the uplink radio resources selected from the resource pool when the user terminal is in an RRC idle state.

6. The user terminal according to claim 5,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit the feedback information in the RRC idle state without performing a timing advance adjustment.

7. The user terminal according to claim 5,

wherein a guard region for permitting a transmission error in a frequency direction and/or a time direction is set in the resource pool.

8. The user terminal according to claim 5,

wherein the processor is configured to receive configuration information related to the resource pool from the base station, and

the configuration information includes an open loop transmission power control parameter to be applied for transmission of the feedback information.

9. The user terminal according to claim 5,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit the feedback information in the RRC idle state only when a notification of a necessity of transmission of the feedback information in the RRC idle state is given from the base station.

10. The user terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the feedback information is one of a plurality of index values,

a plurality of resource pools corresponding to the plurality of index values are allocated from the base station to the user terminal, and

when a predetermined index value is transmitted to the base station as the feedback information, the processor selects a resource pool corresponding to the predetermined index value among the plurality of resource pools.

11. The user terminal according to claim 10,

wherein a radio resource common to the plurality of user terminals and/or a signal sequence common to the plurality of user terminals are associated with each of the plurality of resource pools, and

the processor is configured to transmit the feedback information to the base station using the common radio resources and/or the common signal sequence corresponding to the selected resource pool.

12. A base station, comprising:

a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the processor configured to

allocate a resource pool usable for transmission of feedback information to a group including a plurality of user terminals;

transmit multicast/broadcast data to the plurality of user terminals using the same downlink radio resources;

receive the feedback information transmitted from the plurality of user terminals using uplink radio resources selected from the resource pool;

determine whether or not switching from a first mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using the resource pool, to a second mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using a physical uplink control channel which is individually allocated from the base station to each of the user terminals; and

notify the plurality of user terminals of a determination result.

13. The base station according to claim 12,

wherein the resource pool includes uplink radio resources different from the physical uplink control channel.

14. The base station according to claim 12,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit configuration information related to the resource pool to the plurality of user terminals, and

the configuration information includes at least one of

a difference between a reference point on a time axis and a start point of the resource pool,

a difference between a reference point on a frequency axis and a start point of the resource pool,

a range of the resource pool on the time axis, and

a range of the resource pool on the frequency axis.

15. A method for a user terminal, comprising:

receiving multicast/broadcast data transmitted from a base station to a plurality of user terminals using the same downlink radio resources;

selecting uplink radio resources to be used for transmission of feedback information, from a resource pool allocated from the base station to a group including the plurality of user terminals;

transmitting the feedback information to the base station using the selected uplink radio resources; and

performing switching from a first mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using the resource pool, to a second mode in which the feedback information is transmitted using a physical uplink control channel which is individually allocated from the base station to each of the user terminals, in response to a notification given from the base station.