Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Takako Sanda

Shohei Yamada

Hidekazu Tsuboi

Provided is a technology related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a method, and an integrated circuit capable of reducing complexity of protocol processing, reducing deterioration of phone call quality, and efficiently performing communication. A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an RRC message from the base station apparatus; and a processing unit configured to configure a packet loss prohibit timer according to a packet loss rate report prohibit timer field included in the RRC message and configured to, based on reception of a report of a packet loss rate from a higher layer and a fact that a packet loss rate report prohibit timer is not running, create a packet loss rate report content, start the packet loss rate report prohibit timer, and perform transmission to the base station apparatus. The packet loss rate report content includes information of a direction for indicating whether the direction is an uplink direction or a downlink direction, and information of the packet loss rate.

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Sakai, Japan

Takako Sanda