Patent ID: 8345706

Claim:
A base station performing a radio communication with a user equipment and being included in a mobile communication system transmitting downlink data to be transmitted periodically in accordance with a persistent scheduling via a downlink data channel not associated by a control channel notifying a modulation method and a channel coding ratio applied to the user equipment, by using a transmission format including the modulation method and the channel coding ratio known to the user equipment, the base station comprising: a processor executing instructions that cause the base station to: determine the transmission format including the modulation method and the channel coding ratio known to the user equipment, based on a downlink reception signal quality measured by the user equipment; change the transmission format of the downlink data channel, based on the downlink reception signal quality multiplexed on a response signal for the downlink data channel, the response signal being transmitted from the user equipment; notify, to the user equipment, the determined transmission format; control a transmission power of the downlink data channel; transmitter configured to transmit the downlink data to the user equipment via the downlink data channel, by using the determined transmission format and wherein the notifying further comprises transmitting the downlink data via the downlink data channel in a first cyclic period, so as to notify, to the user equipment, the changed transmission format by using the control channel in a second cyclic period longer than the first cyclic period.