Communication apparatus and communication method

• US 8,630,654 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Aiba, Tatsushi, Yamada, Shohei, Katsuragawa, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Edouard, Patrick
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASCA, FRED A
• Application Number:
  US13/368,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182947A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 455/447, 455/550, 455/550.1, 455/561, 455/129, 455/517, 375/295, 375/340, 370/328, 370/311, 370/236, 370/465, 370/503
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0001 Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff adaptive data allocation for multicarrier modulation H04L5/0044; controlling transmission power for radio systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/022 of frequency response
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

A mobile communication system where a mobile station apparatus transmits reception quality information to a base station apparatus, the reception quality information indicating quality of a signal received from the base station apparatus, characterized in that the base station apparatus transmits information for instructing transmission of reception quality information without uplink data included in an uplink data transmission permission signal, and the mobile station apparatus transmits reception quality information without uplink data according to the information for instructing transmission of reception quality information without uplink data. This allows a mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information including a large amount of information even if there is no uplink data between the mobile station apparatus and the base station apparatus, and the transmission control flexibly responding to the amount of information and the frequency of transmissions of the reception quality information transmitted from the mobile station apparatus is possible.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel assigned by using an uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on a physical downlink control channel, the mobile communication system comprising:

the base station apparatus,

which transmits on the physical downlink control channel, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a first indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel,

the base station apparatus further transmits on the physical downlink control channel, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a second indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, and

the mobile station apparatus,

which transmits, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that that uplink data transmission permission signal including the first indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, and

the mobile station apparatus further transmits, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the second indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, wherein

the second indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information included in the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field for indicating a modulation and coding scheme.

2. A mobile station apparatus which transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel assigned by using an uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on a physical downlink control channel, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit which is configured to receive on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a first indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel,

the receiving unit which is configured to receive on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a second indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel; and

a transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the first indication is received on the physical downlink control channel,

the transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the second indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, wherein

the second indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information included in the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field for indicating a modulation and coding scheme.

3. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the second indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, the field for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field for indicating the modulation and coding scheme is set to a second single predetermined value.

4. A mobile station apparatus which transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel assigned by using an uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on a physical downlink control channel, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit which is configured to receive on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a first indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel,

the receiving unit which is configured to receive on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a second indication for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel; and

a transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information together with the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the first indication is received on the physical downlink control channel,

the transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the second indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, wherein

the second indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information included in the uplink data transmission permission signal transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field for indicating a redundancy version.

5. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

in case that the uplink data transmission permission signal including the second indication is received on the physical downlink control channel, the field for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second single predetermined value.