Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Naoto Ookubo

Tooru Uchino

Kazuaki Takeda

Anil Umesh

Tetsushi Abe

Satoshi Nagata

Hiroyuki Ishii

Hideaki Takahashi

Liu Liu

Qin Mu

Huiling Jiang

Nobuhiko Miki

Takayuki Isogawa

Takahiro Takiguchi

Yoshihisa Kishiyama

Mikio Iwamura

Yoshiaki Ofuji

Kohei Kiyoshima

Kenichi Higuchi

Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari

Yuta Sagae

Kazunori Obata

Jiahui Liu

Tadashi Uchiyama

Naoki Hashida

Seigo Harano

Ryusuke Matsukawa

Kosuke Fujino

Yuma Kuribayashi

Chisa Takeda

Junko Hiraishi

One object is to provide a radio base station and a communication control method that can realize appropriate control on a user device even when a function of an upper layer such as MAC scheduler and a function of a radio physical layer are mounted separately. A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station () including a remote device () and a central aggregation device () and that performs radio communication with a user device (). The communication control method includes transmitting including the central aggregation device () transmitting to the remote device () paging information that is information used for performing paging on the user device (), and performing including the remote device () setting a downlink physical channel based on the paging information received from the central aggregation device () and performing the paging.

Radio base station and communication control method

A user apparatus in a radio communication system including a base station and the user apparatus includes: a receiver unit configured to receive, from the base station, first designation information for designating a resource group including a plurality of resources each including a bandwidth of a predetermined number of resource blocks and second designation information for designating allocation resources in the resource group; and a communication unit configured to perform data communication using the allocation resources designated by the second designation information in the resource group designated by the first designation information.

User apparatus and base station

A communication device used as a first communication device in a wireless communication system including the first communication device, a second communication device communicating with the first communication device, and a user equipment communicating with the first communication device, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter used for performing a random access procedure from the second communication device; and a control unit configured to transmit, in the case of receiving a random access preamble from the user equipment in a random access channel indicated by the parameter, information indicating that the random access preamble indicated by the parameter is received from the user equipment to the second communication device.

Communication device and random access control method

The present invention provides a method for allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs), a method of allowing a base station to indicate information about paging PRBs to UE, a method of allowing UE to determine allocation of paging PRBs, a method of allowing a base station to allocate paging PRBs, a base station and UE. The above method of allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs) includes detecting an anchor PRB, reading information carried by the anchor PRB, and acquiring information about the non-anchor paging PRBs associated with the anchor PRB based on the information carried by the anchor PRB. By this method, non-anchor paging PRBs can be specified to the UE.

User terminal, radio base station, and radio communication method for operating with non-anchor carriers in narrowband internet of things

A user apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus is provided. The user apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, an indication for an individual random access preamble, information indicating correspondence to non-contention based random access procedure, and a random access response; a transmission unit configured to transmit the individual random access preamble to the base station apparatus; and a control unit configured to, in response to receiving the random access response to the individual random access preamble, the random access response being transmitted from the base station apparatus, determine whether the random access procedure has been successfully completed based on the information indicating correspondence to the non-contention based random access procedure.

User apparatus and base station apparatus

Provided is a communication system that can sustain a reduction in delay in FFT/IFFT processing by code blocking user data, even in a case where the functions of upper layers such as a MAC scheduler and the function of the radio physical layer are implemented separately. In a radio base station (communication system) including a central aggregation deviceand a remote device, the central aggregation devicetransmits code blocks in a number necessary for generating an OFDM symbol as a piece of data to the remote device, the code blocks being produced by dividing user data into units of encoding processing.

Communication system having a central aggregation device and a remote device

Provided is a base station used as a first base station in a radio communication system including the first base station, a second base station communicating with the first base station, and a user equipment communicating with the first base station. The base station includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of parameters used for an initial cell setting; and a setting unit that performs a cell setting using the acquired plurality of parameters.

Base station and cell setting method

A base station is provided that includes an obtainer that obtains a first parameter used for generation of a signal of a physical downlink control format indicator channel, a second parameter used for generation of a signal of a physical downlink HARQ indicator channel, or a third parameter used for generation of a signal of a physical downlink control channel; a generator that generates the signal of the physical downlink control format indicator channel, the signal of the physical downlink HARQ indicator channel, or the signal of the physical downlink control channel using the first parameter, the second parameter, or the third parameter; and a transmitter that transmits the generated signal of the physical downlink control format indicator channel, the generated signal of the physical downlink HARQ indicator channel, or the generated signal of the physical downlink control channel.

Base station and transmission method

An interface method between a central-aggregate apparatus and an extension apparatus is provided, which includes: transmitting, by the central-aggregate apparatus, uplink signal indication information for a user equipment and an identifier of the user equipment to the extension apparatus; retaining, by the extension apparatus, the identifier and uplink signal information extracted from the received uplink signal indication information and transmitting an uplink signal indication to the user equipment; receiving an uplink signal transmitted from the user equipment based on one or both of the retained uplink signal information and identifier; extracting data information from the uplink signal, estimating uplink communication quality based on the uplink signal, and transmitting one or both of the extracted data information and the estimated uplink communication quality to the central-aggregate apparatus; and receiving, by the central-aggregate apparatus, one or both of the data information and the uplink communication quality from the extension apparatus.

Interface method between central aggregate apparatus and extension apparatus, and radio control system

The present invention provides a method for configuring a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mode in a base station, a communication method for use by user terminal supporting communication capabilities of the first type, a base station and user terminal. This user terminal includes a transmission section that transmits information about a capability for supporting HARQ bundling, to a radio base station, and the transmission section transmits bundled HARQ-ACKs to the radio base station based on the capability.

User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method

A radio base station is disclosed including an extension station and a central aggregate station, wherein the extension station includes a processor that determines whether a resource used when a user equipment transmits an uplink reference signal is allocated, a first receiver that receives the uplink reference signal from the user equipment based on a determination result of processor, wherein the processor calculates measurement information based on the uplink reference signal received by the first receiver, and a transmitter that transmits the measurement information calculated by the processor to the central aggregate station, and the central aggregate station includes a receiver that receives the measurement information from the extension station.

Radio base station and measurement information transmission/reception method

There is provided a user apparatus of a radio communication system provided with a base station and the user apparatus, the user apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine a size of a soft buffer to be secured within the user apparatus based on a total soft buffer size corresponding to a UE category of the user apparatus, a modulation scheme configured for a downlink by the base station, and a MIMO-layer number configured for the downlink by the base station; and a receiving unit configured to store data received from the base station in the soft buffer with the size determined by the determination unit, wherein the UE category includes 2 layers, 4 layers, and 8 layers as maximum MIMO-layer numbers to be supported, and the UE category includes 64 QAM and 256 QAM as the modulation schemes to be supported.

User apparatus, base station, and communication method

A base stationincludes a scheduling processing unitconfigured to schedule each of multiple mobile stations to the PDCCH, and a UE-type judgment unitconfigured to judge whether each of the mobile stations is an OLD UE supporting only CFI=1 to 3 or a NEW UE supporting CFI=1 to 4. The scheduling processing unitschedules each of the multiple UEs to the PDCCH by use of any one of CFI=1 to 3 when UEs targeted to be scheduled to the PDCCH include an OLD UE.

Base station and radio communication method

In order to transmit a paging to a user terminal with high quality, transmit a CSI-RS effectively and perform UL HARQ efficiently in HetNet, the present invention provides a radio communication method having the steps of: a micro base station which is arranged in a macro cell and forms a smaller micro cell than the macro cell, transmitting, to a user terminal, a signal having a CSI-RS subframe including a CSI-RS and a paging subframe including modification notification information indicating modification in system information and a control signal indicating not to measure a CSI-RS when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other; and the user terminal determining a CSI-RS subframe to measure the CSI-RS based on the control signal when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other.

A communication terminal acquires an email, when an instruction to generate a memorandum is detected, specifies a character string associated with a predetermined attribute (a date and time, place, and person etc.), selects an input candidate from the specified character string and presents the selected candidate. For example, when a receive time of the email is 'March 10th,' and the email includes the character string 'next day' in the text, the communication terminal presents the character string &#x201c;March 11th&#x201d; as an input candidate.

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Naoto Ookubo