RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20140086202A1
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagata, Satoshi, Abe, Tetsushi, Kishiyama, Yoshihisa, Takeda, Kazuaki
• Application Number:
  US14/115,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/330
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0039 Frequency-contiguous, i.e. with no allocation of frequencies for one user or terminal between the frequencies allocated to another
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

To provide a radio base station apparatus that enables the effect of improving usage efficiency of radio resources to be exerted sufficiently also in the case where the number of user terminals multiplexed into the same radio resources further increases, the radio base station apparatus performs communications using a first resource region for a downlink control channel subjected to time division, and a second resource region for a downlink data channel, and is characterized by being provided with generation sections (307, 308) that generate a first notification signal for notifying of the number of OFDM symbols of the first resource region, and a second notification signal for notifying of a starting position in the time domain of a third resource region obtained by performing frequency division on a part of the second resource region, and a multiplexing section (312) that multiplexes the first notification signal into the first resource region, and the second notification signal into the third resource region.

Claims

1. A radio base station apparatus that performs communications using a first resource region for a downlink control channel subjected to time division, and a second resource region for a downlink data channel, comprising:

a generation section that generates a first notification signal for notifying of the number of OFDM symbols of the first resource region, and a second notification signal for notifying of a starting position in the time domain of a third resource region obtained by performing frequency division on a part of the second resource region; and

a multiplexing section that multiplexes the first notification signal into the first resource region, and the second notification signal into the third resource region.

2. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing section multiplexes the second notification signal into a fourth OFDM symbol or subsequent OFDM symbol from a beginning of a subframe.

3. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing section multiplexes the second notification signal into a fourth OFDM symbol from a beginning of a subframe.

4. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing section multiplexes the second notification signal into different OFDM symbols in a plurality of resource blocks.

5. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing section multiplexes the second notification signal into a plurality of resource elements with same time different in frequency in a same resource block.

6. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing section multiplexes the second notification signal into a plurality of resource elements different in time and frequency in a same resource block.

7. A user terminal apparatus that performs communications using a first resource region for a downlink control channel subjected to time division, and a second resource region for a downlink data channel, comprising:

a demodulation section that demodulates a first notification signal for notifying of the number of OFDM symbols of the first resource region, and a second notification signal for notifying of a starting position in the time domain of a third resource region obtained by performing frequency division on a part of the second resource region, while demodulating a downlink control signal based on the first notification signal and the second notification signal each subjected to demodulation.

8. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the demodulation section demodulates the second notification signal multiplexed into a fourth OFDM symbol or subsequent OFDM symbol from a beginning of a subframe.

9. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the demodulation section demodulates the second notification signal multiplexed into a fourth OFDM symbol from a beginning of a subframe.

10. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the demodulation section demodulates the second notification signal multiplexed into different OFDM symbols in a plurality of resource blocks.

11. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the demodulation section demodulates the second notification signal multiplexed into a plurality of resource elements with same time different in frequency in a same resource block.

12. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the demodulation section demodulates the second notification signal multiplexed into a plurality of resource elements different in time and frequency in a same resource block.

13. A radio communication system for performing communications using a first resource region for a downlink control channel subjected to time division, and a second resource region for a downlink data channel, comprising:

a radio base station apparatus having a generation section that generates a first notification signal for notifying of the number of OFDM symbols of the first resource region, and a second notification signal for notifying of a starting position in the time domain of a third resource region obtained by performing frequency division on a part of the second resource region, and

a multiplexing section that multiplexes the first notification signal into the first resource region, and the second notification signal into the third resource region to transmit a downlink signal; and

a user terminal apparatus having a demodulation section that demodulates the first notification signal and the second notification signal each from the received downlink signal, while demodulating a downlink control signal based on the first notification signal and the second notification signal each subjected to demodulation.

14. A radio communication method using a first resource region for a downlink control channel subjected to time division, and a second resource region for a downlink data channel, comprising:

in a radio base station apparatus, generating a first notification signal for notifying of the number of OFDM symbols of the first resource region, and a second notification signal for notifying of a starting position in the time domain of a third resource region obtained by performing frequency division on a part of the second resource region;

multiplexing the first notification signal into the first resource region, and the second notification signal into the third resource region to transmit a downlink signal; and

in a user terminal apparatus, demodulating the first notification signal and the second notification signal each from the received downlink signal, while demodulating a downlink control signal based on the first notification signal and the second notification signal each subjected to demodulation.