User terminal radio base station and radio communication method

• US 9,781,705 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Takeda, Kazuaki, Kishiyama, Yoshihisa, Kiyoshima, Kohei, Uchino, Tooru, Sagae, Yuta, Takahashi, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hampton, Tarell
• Application Number:
  US14/652,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,421 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1607 Details of the supervisory signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• 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 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

In order to control feedback control information in uplink transmission appropriately even when using carrier aggregation in HetNet, the present invention provides a user terminal that is able to communicate with a plurality of radio base stations having overlapping coverage areas by using carrier aggregation, the user terminal comprising: a reception section that receives downlink shared channel signals using component carriers of a primary cell and a secondary cell; a generating section that generates transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals; and an allocating section that allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to predetermined uplink control channel resources, wherein the allocating section allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to either or both of uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or an uplink control channel format.

Claims

1. A user terminal comprising:

a reception section that receives downlink shared channel signals using component carriers of a primary cell and a secondary cell;

a generating section that generates transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals; and

a transmission section that transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals by using predetermined uplink control channel resources,

wherein the transmission section transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals to either or both of uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or an uplink control channel format, and

when three or more cells are configured and the user terminal does not receive downlink control information from the secondary cell, the transmission section transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals by using the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when two cells are configured, the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and the uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell are configured as uplink control channel resource candidates for transmitting the transmission acknowledgement signals, and the transmission section transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals to either of the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and the uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with the contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals.

3. The user terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when three or more cells are configured, a plurality of uplink control channel resources of secondary cells are configured as uplink control channel resource candidates for transmitting the transmission acknowledgement signals, and the transmission section transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals by using the predetermined uplink control channel resources selected from the plurality of uplink control channel resources of the secondary cells, based on downlink control information of the secondary cells.

4. The user terminal according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of uplink control channel resources of the secondary cells are given by higher layer signaling.

5. The user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the transmission section transmits transmission acknowledgement signals in response to downlink shared channel signals of the primary cell by using the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell that are determined using a CCE index of downlink control channels corresponding to the downlink shared channel signals of the primary cell, and the transmission section transmits transmission acknowledgement signals in response to downlink shared channel signals of the secondary cell by using the uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell that are determined using a CCE index of downlink control channels corresponding to the downlink shared channel signals of the secondary cell.

6. A radio base station comprising:

a transmission section that transmits downlink shared channel signals to a user terminal;

a reception section that receives transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals from the user terminal by using given uplink control channel resources; and

a control section that controls retransmission based on the transmission acknowledgement signals,

wherein

the reception section receives the transmission acknowledgement signals in either or both of uplink control channel resources of a primary cell and uplink control channel resources of a secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or an uplink control channel format, and

when three or more cells are configured and the user terminal does not receive downlink control information from the secondary cell, the reception section receives the transmission acknowledgement signals by using the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell.

7. A radio communication method for a user terminal comprising:

receiving

downlink shared channel signals using component carriers of a primary cell and a secondary cell;

generating transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals; and

transmitting the transmission acknowledgement signals by using predetermined uplink control channel resources,

wherein the user terminal transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals to either or both of uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or an uplink control channel format, and

when three or more cells are configured and the user terminal does not receive downlink control information from the secondary cell, the user terminal transmits the transmission acknowledgement signals by using the uplink control channel resources of the primary cell.