TERMINAL DEVICES, BASE STATION DEVICES, AND COMMUNICATION METHODS

Abstract

A terminal device comprising: a reception unit configured to detect a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); a transmission unit configured to transmit the PUSCH; and a control unit configured to determine to use one of a first process for the PUSCH and a second process for the PUSCH, at least based on how the PUSCH is scheduled: wherein the first process is a resource determination process which is given based on a first configuration of multiple first resource block(RB)-sets, the second process is a resource determination process which is given based on a second configuration of multiple second RB-sets, the multiple first RB- sets and one or more first intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple first RB-sets fully occupies the carrier, and the multiple second RB-sets and one or more second intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple second RB-sets fully occupies the carrier.

Description

Claims

1. A terminal device comprising: reception circuitry configured to detect a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);transmission circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH; andcontrol circuitry configured to determine to use one of a first process for the PUSCH and a second process for the PUSCH, at least based on how the PUSCH is scheduled: wherein the first process is a resource determination process which is given based on a first configuration of multiple first resource block (RB)-sets,the second process is a resource determination process which is given based on a second configuration of multiple second RB-sets,the multiple first RB-sets and one or more first intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple first RB-sets fully occupies the carrier, andthe multiple second RB-sets and one or more second intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple second RB-sets fully occupies the carrier.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein in a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) monitored in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among one or more first RB-sets if the one or more first RB-sets are configured to the terminal device,in a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI monitored in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of the interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among one or more second RB-sets if the one or more first RB-sets are not configured to the terminal device, andin a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a CRC scrambled by a temporary C-RNTI (TC-RNTI) in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of the interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among the one or more second RB-sets.

3. A base station device comprising; transmission circuitry configured to transmit a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); andreception circuitry configured to receive the PUSCH based on determination of a terminal device to use one of a first process for the PUSCH and a second process for the PUSCH, at least based on how the PUSCH is scheduled: wherein the first process is a resource determination process which is given based on a first configuration of multiple first resource block (RB)-sets,the second process is a resource determination process which is given based on a second configuration of multiple second RB-sets,the multiple first RB-sets and one or more first intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple first RB-sets fully occupies the carrier, andthe multiple second RB-sets and one or more second intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple second RB-sets fully occupies the carrier.

4. The base station device according to claim 3, wherein in a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) monitored in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among one or more first RB-sets if the one or more first RB-sets are configured to the terminal device,in a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI monitored in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of the interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among one or more second RB-sets if the one or more first RB-sets are not configured to the terminal device, andin a case that the PUSCH is scheduled by the DCI format with a CRC scrambled by a temporary C-RNTI (TC-RNTI) in a common search space set, resource blocks allocated for the PUSCH are determined based on an intersection of 1) resource blocks of the interlaces and 2) resource blocks in one or more RB-sets among the one or more second RB-sets.

5. A communication method used for a terminal device, the communication method comprising: detecting a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);transmitting the PUSCH; anddetermining to use one of a first process for the PUSCH and a second process for the PUSCH, at least based on how the PUSCH is scheduled: whereinthe first process is a resource determination process which is given based on a first configuration of multiple first resource block (RB)-sets, the second process is a resource determination process which is given based on a second configuration of multiple second RB-sets,the multiple first RB-sets and one or more first intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple first RB-sets fully occupies the carrier, andthe multiple second RB-sets and one or more second intra-cell guard bands which corresponds to the multiple second RB-sets fully occupies the carrier.

6. (canceled)