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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 200901117', 'Application No. 200970770', 'Application No. 201100351', 'Application No. 08829634', 'Application No. 08765266', 'Application No. 12']

US Patent # 9,913,160. Communication apparatus and communication method - Patents.com
United States Patent 9,913,160
Aiba , et al. March 6, 2018
A MS transmits, to a BS, uplink data (UD) on a PUSCH, PUSCH being assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives on PDCCH, an indication instructing the MS to transmit reception quality information (RQI) without UD on PUSCH, and transmits on PUSCH, to the BS, RQI without UD based on the indication which is received on PDCCH. The indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information transmitted on PDCCH are set. One of the plurality of fields is a field used for instructing the MS to transmit RQI and another is a field used for indicating a redundancy version. For instructing the MS to transmit RQI without UD on PUSCH, the field used for instructing the MS to transmit RQI is set to a first single predetermined value (SPV) and the field used for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second SPV.
Aiba; Tatsushi (Osaka, JP), Yamada; Shohei (Osaka, JP), Katsuragawa; Hiroshi (Osaka, JP)
Family ID: 1000003157427
15/015,838
US 20160157121 A1 Jun 2, 2016
13474393 May 17, 2012 9288030
13368970 Jan 14, 2014 8630654
12461986 Mar 20, 2012 8140021
12529042 Apr 1, 2014 8688137
PCT/JP2008/065848 Sep 3, 2008
Sep 6, 2007 [JP] 2007-231154
Current CPC Class: H04W 24/10 (20130101); H04L 1/0001 (20130101); H04L 5/0037 (20130101); H04L 5/0053 (20130101); H04L 5/0064 (20130101); H04W 72/0406 (20130101); H04L 5/0094 (20130101); H04W 72/085 (20130101); H04B 17/24 (20150115); H04L 5/0007 (20130101); H04L 25/022 (20130101); H04W 72/0413 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 24/10 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04W 72/08 (20090101); H04B 17/24 (20150101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 25/02 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101)
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This Application is a Continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 13/474,393, filed on May 17, 2012, which is a Divisional of application Ser. No. 13/368,970, filed on Feb. 8, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,630,654, which is a Divisional of application Ser. No. 12/461,986, filed on Aug. 31, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,140,021, which is a Divisional Application of application Ser. No. 12/529,042, filed Aug. 28, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,688,137, which was filed as 371 National Phase Application No. PCT/JP2008/065848 filed Sep. 3, 2008 under 35 U.S.C .sctn. 120. This Application also claims priority under 35 U.S.C .sctn. 119 to Japanese Application No. JP 2007-231154 filed Sep. 6, 2007. The entire contents of each of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
1. A base station apparatus which assigns, to a mobile station apparatus, a physical uplink shared channel by using a physical downlink control channel, the physical uplink shared channel being used for transmitting uplink data, the base station apparatus comprising: a transmitter which is configured to transmit on the physical downlink control channel, to the mobile station apparatus, an indication instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the physical downlink control channel, wherein the indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field used for indicating a redundancy version, and for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, the field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field used for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second single predetermined value.
2. A mobile station apparatus which transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel, the physical uplink shared channel being assigned by using a physical downlink control channel, the mobile station apparatus comprising: a receiver which is configured to receive on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, an indication instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, and a transmitter which is configured to transmit on the physical uplink shared channel, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information without the uplink data based on the indication which is received on the physical downlink control channel, wherein the indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field used for indicating a redundancy version, and for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, the field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field used for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second single predetermined value.
3. A communication method of a base station apparatus which assigns, to a mobile station apparatus, a physical uplink shared channel by using a physical downlink control channel, the physical uplink shared channel being used for transmitting uplink data, the communication method comprising: transmitting, by the base station apparatus, on the physical downlink control channel, to the mobile station apparatus, an indication instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel assigned by using the physical downlink control channel, wherein the indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field used for indicating a redundancy version, and for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, the field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field used for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second single predetermined value.
4. A communication method of a mobile station apparatus which transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel, the physical uplink shared channel being assigned by using a physical downlink control channel, the communication method comprising: receiving, by the mobile station apparatus, on the physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, an indication instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, and transmitting on the physical uplink shared channel, to the base station apparatus, the reception quality information without the uplink data based on the indication which is received on the physical downlink control channel, wherein the indication is specified based on values to which a plurality of fields of information transmitted on the physical downlink control channel are set, one of the plurality of fields is a field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information and another is a field used for indicating a redundancy version, and for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data on the physical uplink shared channel, the field used for instructing the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information is set to a first single predetermined value and the field used for indicating the redundancy version is set to a second single predetermined value.
Recently, demand for data communication is increasing in a mobile communication system, and various techniques are proposed to obtain high frequency use efficiency meeting the increase in the communication data associated with the demand. One of the techniques for increasing the frequency use efficiency is OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access). The OFDMA relates to a technique of modulation method of communication in which the same frequency is used in all cells in a communication area constituted by the cells, and the OFDMA can achieve fast data communication. In the scheduling of transmission packets in the OFDMA system, a method is known in which mobile station apparatuses transmit CQI (Channel Quality Indicator), which is information indicating the reception quality of a downlink state for sub-carriers in wideband, to a base station apparatus, and the base station apparatus performs scheduling of the packets based on the CQI of sub-carriers in wideband transmitted from the mobile station apparatuses.
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A . . . base station apparatus, B . . . mobile station apparatus, 27 . . . transmission information control unit, 27a . . . scheduler unit, 27b . . . modulation encoding control unit, 27c . . . frequency scheduler unit, 63 . . . reception quality information control unit, 63a . . . reception quality information generating unit, 63b . . . reception quality measuring unit.
First, a mobile communication system according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. The mobile communication system according to the present embodiment includes a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus and has a configuration similar to that in FIG. 5(A). FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration example of the base station apparatus according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, a base station apparatus A comprises a data control unit 1, a modulation encoding unit 3, a mapping unit 5, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit 7, a wireless transmitting unit 11, a wireless receiving unit 15, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit 17, a demodulation decoding unit 21, a data extraction unit 23, a transmission information control unit 27, and an antenna 31. The transmission information control unit 27 includes a scheduler unit 27a, a modulation and coding control unit 27b, and a frequency selective scheduler unit 27c.
In the base station apparatus A, transmission data and control data to be transmitted to each mobile station apparatus are inputted to the data control unit 1, and the data is sequentially transmitted to the mobile station apparatuses according to an instruction from the transmission information control unit 27. The modulation encoding unit 3 performs a modulation processing or an error correction coding processing upon a signal outputted from the data control unit based on modulation scheme and coding rate determined by the transmission information control unit 27 and outputs the data to the mapping unit. The mapping unit maps the data outputted from the modulation encoding unit 3 on each sub-carrier based on frequency selective scheduling information outputted from the transmission information control unit 27 and outputs the data to the inverse fast Fourier transform unit 7.
The scheduler unit 27a schedules the downlink and the uplink based on control information, such as a resource region that each mobile station apparatus can use, an intermittent transmission reception cycle, a format of transmission data channel, and a buffer status. The modulating and coding control unit 27b determines the modulation scheme and the coding rate to be applied to each data based on the reception quality information transmitted from the mobile station apparatus. The frequency selective scheduler unit 27c executes a processing of frequency selective scheduling to be applied to each data based on the reception quality information transmitted from the mobile station apparatus. The data extraction unit 23 separates demodulated and decoded data into reception data for user and control data, transfers the data to a superior processing unit, and outputs the reception quality information to the transmission information control unit 27.
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration example of a mobile station apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, a mobile station apparatus B comprises a data control unit 41, a modulation encoding unit 43, a mapping unit 45, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit 47, a wireless transmitting unit 51, a wireless receiving unit 53, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit 55, a demodulation decoding unit 57, a data extraction unit 61, a reception quality information control unit 63, and an antenna 65. The reception quality information control unit 63 comprises a reception quality information generating unit 63a and a reception quality measuring unit 63b.
The wireless receiving unit 53, the FFT unit 55, the demodulation decoding unit 57, the data extraction unit 61, and the reception quality information control unit 63 constitute a receiving unit as a whole, and the data control unit 41, the modulation encoding unit 43, the mapping unit 45, the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit 47, and the wireless transmitting unit 51 constitute a transmitting unit as a whole.
The reception quality measuring unit 63b measures the reception quality of a signal received from the base station apparatus A. The reception quality information generating unit 63a generates reception quality information to be transmitted to the base station apparatus A based on the information measured by the reception quality measuring unit 63b.
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a communication technique according to the first embodiment of the present invention. A diagram on the left side of FIG. 3 illustrates control signals (L1/L2 grants) transmitted from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus, reception quality information, uplink data, and transmission forms of information transmitted in uplink, and a diagram on the right side illustrates a processing flow corresponding to the slots. In FIG. 3, operations from #slot1 to #slot12 are illustrated as an example.
The mobile station apparatus B transmits data using PUSCH according to resource assignment indicated by a downlink control channel (hereinafter, PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel)) from the base station apparatus A. Thus, the downlink control channel (PDCCH) is a signal for permitting data transmission in the uplink (uplink data transmission permission signal, "L1/L2 grant" hereinafter). The L1/L2 grant is constituted by, for example, resource assignment information (10 bits), MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) (2 bits), transport block size (6 bits), HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) redundancy version (2 bits), demodulation pilot signal strength (2 bits), and mobile station identification information C-RNTI (16 bits).
In #slot2, the base station apparatus A, which has determined to instruct the mobile station apparatus B to transmit the reception quality information, transmits the L1/L2 grant in which the permission information (hereinafter, referred to as "reception quality information transmission permission information") is set equal to, for example, "1", to the mobile station apparatus B (71). Hereinafter, in the embodiments of the present invention, the reception quality information transmission permission information is represented by, for example, 1 bit information, and the base station apparatus transmits the L1/L2 grant by setting "1" when permitting the transmission of the reception quality information, or by setting "0" to avoid transmitting the reception quality information. In the present embodiment, although such a setting is employed for simplifying the description, it is obvious that other setting methods can be used. Having received the L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", the mobile station apparatus B simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus A, the reception quality information and the uplink data using the resource assigned by the L1/L2 grant (72).
In #slot4, the base station apparatus A, having determined to permit the mobile station apparatus B to transmit only the reception quality information, transmits the L1/L2 grant in which the designation information (hereinafter, referred to as "reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information") is set equal to, for example, "1", to the mobile station apparatus B (75). Hereinafter, in the embodiments of the present invention, the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission signal is represented by, for example, 1 bit information, and the base station apparatus transmits the L1/L2 grant by setting "1" when permitting the transmission of only the reception quality information, or by setting "0" to avoid transmitting only the reception quality information. In the present embodiment, although such a setting is employed for simplifying the description, it is obvious that other setting methods can be used. Having received the L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "1", the mobile station apparatus B transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information using the assigned resource (76). However, the mobile station apparatus B transmits the reception quality information and ACK/NACK in case that the ACK/NACK of HARQ for the downlink data needs to be transmitted.
The L1/L2 grants transmitted from the base station apparatus in #slot2, #slot3, and #slot4 in the first embodiment will be further described. In the L1/L2 grants transmitted in #slot2, #slot3, and #slot4, the reception quality information transmission permission information and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information are always included. Thus, the L1/L2 grants always include 2 bit information. In the 2 bit information, the base station apparatus sets the reception quality information transmission permission information equal to "1" and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information equal to "0" in #slot2 and sets the reception quality information transmission permission information equal to "0" and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information equal to "0" in #slot3. The base station apparatus sets the reception quality information transmission permission information equal to "1" and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information equal to "1" in #slot4. In the explanation of slot2, #slot3, and #slot4 described above, although only information set equal to "1" is described for simplifying the explanation, the L1/L2 grants always include 2 bit information of the reception quality information transmission permission information and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information in the first embodiment. Hereinafter, in the explanation of the embodiments of the present invention, only information set equal to "1" will be basically described for simplifying the explanation.
FIG. 3 similarly illustrates that the base station apparatus A transmits the L1/L2 grants in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" in #slot6, #slot9, and #slot10, and that the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signals simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus A, the reception quality information and the uplink data using the assigned resources (78, 82, and 84). FIG. 3 also illustrates that the base station apparatus transmits a normal L1/L2 grant in #slot11, and that the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal transmits, to the base station apparatus A, the uplink data using the assigned resource (86). FIG. 3 further illustrates that the base station apparatus transmits L1/L2 grants in which the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "1" to the mobile station apparatus B in #slot7 and #slot12, and the mobile station apparatus that has received the signals transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information (80 and 88). In #slot7 and #slot12, only the reception quality information is transmitted to the base station apparatus A even if there is uplink data in the information transmitted by the mobile station apparatus B using the uplink.
In FIG. 3, numerals 105 to 140 indicate the existence of data in the slots. The illustration of the L1/L2 grants depicted with horizontal hatches for #slot2, #slot6, #slot9, and #slot10 indicates that the base station apparatus A transmits L1/L2 grants in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "0". The illustration of the L1/L2 grants depicted in black for #slot4, #slot7, and #slot12 indicates that the base station apparatus A transmits L1/L2 grants in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "1".
In #slot2, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" (71). Receiving the signal, the mobile station apparatus B simultaneously transmits the reception quality information and the uplink data using the assigned resource (72). The same processing is executed in #slot6, #slot9, and #slot 10.
In #slot4, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "1" (75). Receiving the signal, the mobile station apparatus B transmits, to the base station apparatus, only the reception quality information using the assigned resource (76). In #slot7 and #slot12, only the reception quality information is transmitted to the base station apparatus A even if there is uplink data in the information transmitted by the mobile station apparatus B using the uplink.
Thus, in #slot4, #slot7, and #slot12 of FIG. 3, the L1/L2 grants in which all values of the HARQ redundancy versions for the uplink data are set equal to 0, all values of MCS for the uplink data are set equal to 0, or the transport block size for the uplink data is set equal to 0, is transmitted from the base station apparatus A, and the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information using the resources assigned by the L1/L2 grants. In that case, the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1". Which information included in the L1/L2 grants transmitted from the base station apparatus A will be used, and with what way of setting in the information the mobile station apparatus B will transmit only the reception quality information are determined in advance in specifications or the like, and this is known information between the base station apparatus A and the mobile station apparatus B. In this way, there is no need to add a new information bit to the L1/L2 grant as the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information as a result of using other information included in the L1/L2 grant to represent the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information, and the mobile station apparatus B can transmit only the reception quality information to the base station apparatus A without increasing the amount of information included in the L1/L2 grant.
Prior to #slot1, it is designated in the reception quality information transmission instruction information in the RRC signaling from the base station apparatus A that the mobile station apparatus B should transmit the reception quality information to the base station apparatus whenever an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" is received.
As described also in the first embodiment, the base station apparatus A, which has determined in #slot2 to instruct the mobile station apparatus B to transmit the reception quality information, transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", to the mobile station apparatus B (141). Having received the L1/L2 grant including the reception quality information transmission permission information, the mobile station apparatus B simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus A, the reception quality information and the uplink data using the resource assigned by the L1/L2 grant (142). In #slot3, the base station apparatus A transmits a normal L1/L2 grant to the mobile station apparatus B (143), and the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal transmits, to the base station apparatus A, the uplink data using the resource assigned by the L1/L2 grant (144).
FIG. 4 similarly illustrates that the base station apparatus A transmits L1/L2 grants in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", in #slot4 and #slot6, and the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplink data and the reception quality information using the assigned resources (146 and 148).
The reception quality information transmission instruction information will be described here. In the present second embodiment, the mobile station apparatus B that has received the RRC signaling including the reception quality information transmission instruction information interprets the reception quality information transmission permission information included in the L1/L2 grant transmitted from the base station apparatus A as the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information. For example, if the base station apparatus A represent the reception quality information transmission permission information by an information bit "A", information represented by the same information bit "A" serves as the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information after the RRC signaling including the reception quality information transmission instruction information is received.
In FIG. 4, it is assumed that the base station apparatus sets the information bit "A", which represents the reception quality information transmission permission information, equal to "1" in #slot2, #slot4, and #slot6 to permit the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information. Having received the signal, the mobile station apparatus B simultaneously transmits the reception quality information and the uplink data. The base station apparatus A transmits the RRC signaling including the reception quality information transmission instruction information in #slot8 (149). The base station apparatus A can further set the same information bit "A", which represents the reception quality information transmission permission information, equal to "1" in #slot9, #slot10, and #slot12 to permit the mobile station apparatus B to transmit only the reception quality information. Thus, the reception quality information transmission permission information and the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information represented as 2 bit information in the first embodiment can be combined into the same one information (information bit "A") by transmitting the RRC signaling. It can also be stated that the reception quality information transmission instruction information included in the RRC signaling from the base station apparatus A is information for switching the interpretation from the reception quality information transmission permission information to the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information.
In #slot9 of FIG. 4, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", and the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information although there is uplink data in the information transmitted using the uplink (153). Thus, in the slot after the RRC signaling including the reception quality information transmission instruction information is transmitted, the mobile station apparatus B that has received the L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" does not transmit the uplink data to the base station apparatus A even if there is uplink data in the information transmitted using the uplink. In FIG. 4, the mobile station apparatus B that has received the L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", similarly transmits only the reception quality information to the base station apparatus in #slot12 (157).
The #slot10 illustrates that the base station apparatus A transmits the L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1", to the mobile station apparatus B (152), and that the mobile station apparatus B that has received the signal transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information using the resource assigned by the L1/L2 grant (153).
In #slot2, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" (141). Having received the signal, the mobile station apparatus B simultaneously transmits the reception quality information and the uplink data using the assigned resource (142). The same processing is executed in #slot4 and #slot6.
In #slot9, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information transmission permission information is set equal to "1" (150). Having received the signal, the mobile station apparatus B transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information using the assigned resource although there is uplink data in the information to be transmitted using the uplink (151). The same processing is executed in #slot 12.
In #slot10, the base station apparatus A transmits an L1/L2 grant in which the reception quality information-dedicated transmission permission information is set equal to "1" (152). Having received the signal, the mobile station apparatus B transmits, to the base station apparatus A, only the reception quality information using the assigned resource (153).
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