Radio base station and mobile communication method

• US 8,724,569 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2010
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Kiyoshima, Kohei, Ishii, Hiroyuki, Okubo, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Grey, Christopher
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lou, Peian
• Application Number:
  US13/259,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20120063399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• Field of Search: 370/230.1, 370/252, 370/280, 370/281, 370/314, 370319-321, 370328-330, 370335-337, 370341-345, 370/347, 370/348, 370/431, 370/436, 370/437, 455/450, 455/464
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0017 in which a distinct code is applied, as a temporal sequence, to each frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0019 in which one code is applied, as a temporal sequence, to all frequencies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority

Abstract

A radio base station includes a resource assignment unit for assigning a resource candidate for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal to a first mobile station during a semi-persistent scheduling bearer setting process. The resource candidate for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal is formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource by which the first mobile station transmits a transmission acknowledgement signal after a predetermined timing from a timing of receiving downlink data, to the downlink data that has been scheduled by semi-persistent scheduling and has been transmitted via a downlink data channel. The resource assignment unit is configured to assign the resource candidate for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal to the first mobile station based on a number of assignments of predetermined resources formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource.

Claims

1. A radio base station comprising:

a resource assignment unit configured to assign resource candidates to a first mobile station for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal, in a semi-persistent scheduling bearer setting process, wherein

said resource candidates respectively formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource that the first mobile station uses for transmitting a transmission acknowledgement signal after a predetermined timing from a timing of receiving downlink data via a downlink data channel scheduled by semi-persistent scheduling, and

the resource assignment unit is configured to assign the resource candidates to the first mobile station, based on an assigned number of predetermined resources during a transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal transmitted from the first mobile station, the predetermined resource being formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource, and

the resource assignment unit is configured to select a resource for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from among the resource candidates, when the downlink data is scheduled by the semi-persistent scheduling,

wherein

the assigned number of the predetermined resources is a total number of other mobile stations, to which the predetermined resource has been assigned as resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the other mobile stations, at each sub-frame of the transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the first mobile station.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal is a period delayed by the predetermined timing from a discontinuous reception period of the first mobile station.

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

the resource assignment unit is configured to assign the resource candidates to the first mobile station, based on a resource assigned to a second mobile station as resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the second mobile station, the second mobile station having a discontinuous reception period temporally and at least partially overlapping a discontinuous reception period of the first mobile station.

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

the assigned number of the predetermined resources is a number resources assigned to a predetermined resource group during the transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the first mobile station, and

the resource assignment unit is configured to respectively assign the resource candidates for each resource group.

5. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined resource group is a resource group including resources assigned to a second mobile station as resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the second mobile station, the second mobile station having a discontinuous reception period temporally and at least partially overlapping the discontinuous reception period of the first mobile station.

7. The radio base station according to claim 2, wherein

the assigned number of the predetermined resources is a total number of other mobile stations, to which the predetermined resource has been assigned as the resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal, at each sub-frame of the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal transmission period of the first mobile station.

8. The radio base station according to claim 2, wherein

the resource assignment unit is configured to assign the resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signals to the first mobile station based on a resource assigned, as the resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal, to a second mobile station having a discontinuous reception period temporally and at least partially overlapping the discontinuous reception period of the first mobile station.

9. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein

the resource assignment unit is configured to assign the resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signals to the first mobile station based on a resource assigned, as the resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal, to a second mobile station having a discontinuous reception period temporally and at least partially overlapping the discontinuous reception period of the first mobile station.

6. A mobile communication method, comprising:

a step A of assigning resource candidates to a first mobile station for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal, in a semi-persistent scheduling bearer setting process, wherein

said resource candidates respectively formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource that the first mobile station uses for transmitting a transmission acknowledgement signal after a predetermined timing from a timing of receiving downlink data via a downlink channel scheduled by semi-persistent scheduling,

in the step A, the resource candidates are assigned to the first mobile station, based on an assigned number of predetermined resources during a transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal transmitted from the first mobile station, the predetermined resource being formed by a combination of a frequency direction resource and a code direction resource,

the mobile communication method further includes a step B of selecting a resource for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from among the resource candidates, when the downlink data is scheduled by the semi-persistent scheduling, and

in the step A, the assigned number of the predetermined resources is a total number of other mobile stations, to which the predetermined resource has been assigned as resource candidates for transmitting a semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the other mobile stations, at each sub-frame of the transmission period for transmitting the semi-persistent scheduling transmission acknowledgement signal from the first mobile station.