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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Anass Benjebbour, Tokyo, JP;

Yuuya Saitou, Tokyo, JP;

Kenichi Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04B 7/0689 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is designed to improve spectral efficiency in a radio communication system which can use non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). Steps are provided in which a radio base station configures one of a plurality of transmission mode including a first transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO), and a second transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ this NOMA and open-loop transmit diversity, and transmits a downlink signal for this user terminal based on the configured transmission mode.


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