Patent ID: 11871268
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A communication system comprising:
a user apparatus; and
a base station including:
a plurality of distributed units (DUs) capable of wirelessly communicating with the user apparatus; and
a central unit (CU) connected to the plurality of the DUs, wherein

a processing circuitry of the user apparatus is configured to report, to the CU, a measurement result regarding a downlink reference signal, and
a processing circuitry of the CU is configured to determine a DU to be used for wireless communication with the user apparatus based on the measurement result, and
a processing circuitry of at least one DU of the DUs is configured, in response to request information from the CU, to transmit, to the CU, status information that indicates a number of user apparatuses connected to the at least one DU.