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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Anass Benjebbour, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Tokyo, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is designed to shorten the time that a user terminal takes to detect the common control/reference signals while coverage of the common control/reference signals transmitted from a small base station is secured. As the radio communication method of the invention, a radio communication method is provided in which beam forming information for forming transmission beams directed from the small base station to the user terminal are generated based on position-related information of the user terminal acquired by communication between the macro base station and the user terminal using a coverage carrier and position-related information of the small base station, and the small base station precodes at least one of a common control signal and a reference signal that are common in a small cell based on the beam forming information and transmits the precoded signal from a plurality of transmitting antennas using a capacity carrier.