Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method thereof

• US 10,660,122 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2017
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yoshimoto, Takashi, Goto, Jungo, Nakamura, Osamu, Hamaguchi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Butt, Walli Z
• Application Number:
  US16/313,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20190223208A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/005 Iterative decoding, including iteration between signal detection and decoding operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0073 Special arrangements for feedback channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1816 with retransmission of the same, encoded, message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0466 the resource being a scrambling code
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of efficiently performing retransmission control for small size data in grant-free multiple access where the base station apparatus accommodates a large number of terminal apparatuses. A base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus, the base station apparatus including: a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink grant indicating a resource for transmitting uplink data to the terminal apparatus; and a receiver configured to receive the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus based on the uplink grant, and the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus without being based on the uplink grant.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus, the base station apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink grant indicating a resource for transmitting uplink data to the terminal apparatus; and

a receiver configured to receive the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus based on the uplink grant, and the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus without being based on the uplink grant, wherein

in a case that the receiver receives the uplink data based on the uplink grant from the terminal apparatus, the transmitter transmits a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal only for the uplink data, and

in a case that the receiver receives the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant from the terminal apparatus, the transmitter transmits a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal for multiple terminal apparatuses including the terminal apparatus.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the transmitter adds a cyclic redundancy check scrambled with a sequence generated using a parameter shared by the multiple terminal apparatuses, to the control channel including the delivery confirmation signal for the multiple terminal apparatuses including the terminal apparatus, and

adds a cyclic redundancy check scrambled with a parameter specific to the terminal apparatus transmitting the uplink data, to the control channel including the delivery confirmation signal only for the uplink data.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the receiver receives an identification signal for identifying the terminal apparatus transmitting the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant, and

the parameter shared by the multiple terminal apparatuses includes a slot number of a slot in which the identification signal is transmitted.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the receiver receives the identification signal for identifying the terminal apparatuses transmitting the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant, and

the parameter shared by the multiple terminal apparatuses includes a slot number of a slot in which the uplink data is transmitted.

5. A communication method of a base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus, the communication method comprising the steps of:

transmitting an uplink grant indicating a resource for transmitting uplink data to the terminal apparatus; and

receiving the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus based on the uplink grant, and the uplink data transmitted from the terminal apparatus without being based on the uplink grant, wherein

in a case of receiving the uplink data based on the uplink grant from the terminal apparatus, a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data is transmitted by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal only for the uplink data, and

in a case of receiving the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant from the terminal apparatus, a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data is transmitted by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal for multiple terminal apparatuses including the terminal apparatus.

6. A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive an uplink grant indicating a resource for transmitting uplink data; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the uplink data to the base station apparatus based on the uplink grant, and transmit the uplink data to the base station apparatus without being based on the uplink grant, wherein

in a case that the transmitter transmits the uplink data based on the uplink grant to the base station apparatus, the receiver receives a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal only for the uplink data, and

in a case that the transmitter transmits the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant to the base station apparatus, the receiver receives a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal for multiple terminal apparatuses including the terminal apparatus itself.

7. A communication method of a terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus, the communication method comprising the steps of:

receiving an uplink grant indicating a resource for transmitting uplink data; and

transmitting the uplink data to the base station apparatus based on the uplink grant, and the uplink data to the base station apparatus without being based on the uplink grant, wherein

in a case of transmitting the uplink data based on the uplink grant to the base station apparatus, a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data is received by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal only for the uplink data, and in a case of transmitting the uplink data without being based on the uplink grant to the base station apparatus, a delivery confirmation signal for the uplink data is received by using a control channel including the delivery confirmation signal for multiple terminal apparatuses including the terminal apparatus itself.