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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomoya Ohara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2024.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01);
Abstract
A terminal includes: a receiver configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, first configuration information indicating an Uplink, a Downlink, or a Flexible area in a radio frame, and second configuration information indicating a random access channel (RACH) resource allocation in the radio frame in a time domain; a processor configured to identify an available RACH resource in the radio frame based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information; and a transmitter configured to transmit a preamble to the base station apparatus using the identified available RACH resource.