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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/0224 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04L 5/0091 (2013.01); H04L 27/0006 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01); H04L 5/0026 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract
A communication method according to one embodiment comprises: transmitting, by a base station that manages a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) cell, downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment, the DCI including subframe information and a transmission instruction of a sounding reference signal in the LAA cell, the subframe information indicates a specific subframe in which the user equipment should transmit the sounding reference signal; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the sounding reference signal to the base station in the specific subframe, based on the DCI.