User terminal, radio communication method and radio communication system

• US 9,648,598 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2013
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• 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: Takeda, Kazuaki, Lu, Yang, Mu, Qin, Liu, Liu, Chen, Lan
• Primary Examiner(s): SINKANTARAKORN, PAWARIS
• Application Number:
  US14/399,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20150146586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention is designed to allow effective allocation of PUCCH resources, even when the ratio between uplink subframes and downlink subframes is changed in each cell, in CA by TDD. A user terminal communicates with a radio base station by means of TDD, in a communication band that is broadbanded by CA between a first cell and a second cell, and has a receiving section that receives downlink control information for the first cell and downlink control information for the second cell, allocated to a downlink control channel of the first cell, a retransmission control determining section that determines retransmission control for downlink signals transmitted from each cell, a transmitting section that feeds back retransmission control signals to the radio base station using the PUCCH of the first cell, and a resource selection section that selects the PUCCH resources to feed back the retransmission control signals, and, when the ratio of DL subframes is higher in the second cell than in the first cell, the resource selection section determines the PUCCH resources to allocate the retransmission control signals that correspond to the first cell and the second cell to, by different methods.

Claims

1. A user terminal that communicates with a radio base station by means of time division duplexing, in a communication band that is broadbanded by carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell, the user terminal comprising:

a receiving section that receives downlink control information for the first cell and downlink control information for the second cell, allocated to a downlink control channel of the first cell, by cross-carrier scheduling;

a retransmission control determining section that determines retransmission control for downlink signals transmitted from each cell;

a transmitting section that feeds back retransmission control signals to the radio base station using an uplink control channel of the first cell; and

a resource selection section that selects resources for the uplink control channels to feed back the retransmission control signals,

wherein, when a ratio of downlink subframes is higher in the second cell than in the first cell, the resource selection section determines the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to, and the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, by different methods, so that these resources are distributed,

when determining the resources for the unlink control channels to allocate the retransmission control signals to, using indices m of subframes to feed back the retransmission control signals, the resource selection section makes the indices m of subframes to transmit downlink signals in the first cell and in the second cell the same along a time axis direction, and makes the indices m of subframes to transmit downlink signals from the second cell alone be indices that do not overlap with the indices m assigned to the subframes of the first cell, and

wherein the resource selection section selects the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, using following equation 2;

2. A user terminal that communicates with a radio base station by means of time division duplexing, in a communication band that is broadbanded by carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell, the user terminal comprising:

a receiving section that receives downlink control information for the first cell and downlink control information for the second cell, allocated to a downlink control channel of the first cell, by cross-carrier scheduling;

a retransmission control determining section that determines retransmission control for downlink signals transmitted from each cell;

a transmitting section that feeds back retransmission control signals to the radio base station using an uplink control channel of the first cell; and

a resource selection section that selects resources for the uplink control channels to feed back the retransmission control signals,

wherein, when a ratio of downlink subframes is higher in the second cell than in the first cell, the resource selection section determines the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to, and the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, by different methods, so that these resources are distributed, and

the resource selection section selects the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, from a region at a shift from a range where the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to are selected from, the shift being at least greater than a maximum value of control channel elements, which provide an allocation unit of downlink control information.

3. The user terminal according to claim 2, wherein the resource selection section selects the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, using following equation 3:

4. The user terminal according to claim 2, wherein the resources for the uplink control channels selected by the resource selection section are resources in channel selection where an uplink control channel format 1b is applied.

5. The user terminal according to claim 2, wherein the first cell is a P-Cell (Primary-Cell) and the second cell is an S-Cell (Secondary-Cell).

6. A radio communication method for a radio base station and a user terminal that communicate by means of time division duplexing, in a communication band that is broadbanded by carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell, the radio communication method comprising the steps in which the user terminal:

receives downlink control information for the first cell and downlink control information for the second cell allocated to a downlink control channel of the first cell, by cross-carrier scheduling;

determines retransmission control for downlink signals transmitted from each cell;

selects resources for uplink control channels to feed back retransmission control signals; and

feeds back the retransmission control signals to the radio base station using the uplink control channel of the first cell,

wherein, when a ratio of downlink subframes is higher in the second cell than in the first cell, the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to, and the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, are determined by different methods, so that these resources are distributed, and

the user terminal selects the resources for the unlink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, from a region at a shift from a range where the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to are selected from, the shift being at least greater than a maximum value of control channel elements, which provide an allocation unit of downlink control information.

7. A radio communication system comprising a user terminal that communicates with a radio base station by means of time division duplexing, in a communication band that is broadbanded by carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell, wherein:

the radio base station comprises;

a transmitting section that, by applying cross-carrier scheduling, allocates downlink control information for the first cell and downlink control information for the second cell to downlink control channels of the first cell, and transmits the downlink control information;

a receiving section that receives retransmission signals fed back from the user terminal; and

a retransmission control section that controls retransmission of downlink signals based on the received retransmission control signals;

the user terminal comprises;

a receiving section that receives the downlink control information for the first cell and the downlink control information for the second cell transmitted from the radio base station;

a retransmission control determining section that determines retransmission control for downlink signals transmitted from each cell;

a transmitting section that feeds back the retransmission signals to the radio base station using the uplink control channel of the first cell; and

a resource selection section that selects resources for the uplink control channels to feed back the transmission control signals,

wherein, when a ratio of downlink subframes is higher in the second cell than in the first cell, the resource selection section determines the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to, and the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, by different methods, so that these resources are distributed, and

the resource selection section selects the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the second cell to, from a region at a shift from a range where the resources for the uplink control channel to allocate the retransmission control signals corresponding to the downlink signals of the first cell to are selected from, the shift being at least greater than a maximum value of control channel elements, which provide an allocation unit of downlink control information.