Patent Application
20240430809
The present disclosure relates to a terminal, a radio communication method, and a base station in next-generation mobile communication systems.
In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network, the specifications of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) have been drafted for the purpose of further increasing high speed data rates, providing lower latency and so on (see Non-Patent Literature 1). In addition, for the purpose of further high capacity, advancement and the like of the LTE (Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release (Rel.) 8 and Rel. 9), the specifications of LTE-Advanced (3GPP Rel. 10 to Rel. 14) have been drafted.
Successor systems of LTE (for example, also referred to as “5th generation mobile communication system (5G),” “5G+ (plus),” “6th generation mobile communication system (6G),” “New Radio (NR),” “3GPP Rel. 15 (or later versions),” and so on) are also under study.
Non-Patent Literature 1: 3GPP TS 36.300 V8.12.0 “Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2 (Release 8),” April, 2010
For future radio communication systems (for example, NR), it is studied that a user terminal (terminal, User Equipment (UE)) controls transmission/reception processing, based on information related to quasi-co-location (QCL) (QCL assumption/Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state/spatial relation).
Application of a configured/activated/indicated TCI state to a plurality of types of signals (channels/RSs) has been under study. However, a relationship between a TCI state and a power control parameter has not been fully studied. Unless a determination method thereof is appropriate, reduction of communication quality, reduction of throughput, and the like may be caused.
In view of this, the present disclosure has one object to provide a terminal, a radio communication method, and a base station that appropriately determines a power control parameter.
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives information related to one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for a plurality of types of signals and one or more settings of a power control parameter for uplink transmission in the plurality of the types of the signals, and a control section that determines the power control parameter, based on the one or more settings.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the power control parameter can be appropriately determined.
For NR, control of reception processing (for example, at least one of reception, demapping, demodulation, and decoding) and transmission processing (for example, at least one of transmission, mapping, precoding, modulation, and coding) of at least one of a signal and a channel (expressed as a signal/channel) in a UE, based on a transmission configuration indication state (TCI state) is under study.
The TCI state may be a state applied to a downlink signal/channel. A state that corresponds to the TCI state applied to an uplink signal/channel may be expressed as spatial relation.
The TCI state is information related to quasi-co-location (QCL) of the signal/channel, and may be referred to as a spatial reception parameter, spatial relation information, or the like. The TCI state may be configured for the UE for each channel or for each signal.
QCL is an indicator indicating statistical properties of the signal/channel. For example, when a certain signal/channel and another signal/channel are in a relationship of QCL, it may be indicated that it is assumable that at least one of Doppler shift, a Doppler spread, an average delay, a delay spread, and a spatial parameter (for example, a spatial reception parameter (spatial Rx parameter)) is the same (the relationship of QCL is satisfied in at least one of these) between such a plurality of different signals/channels.
Note that the spatial reception parameter may correspond to a receive beam of the UE (for example, a receive analog beam), and the beam may be identified based on spatial QCL. The QCL (or at least one element in the relationship of QCL) in the present disclosure may be interpreted as sQCL (spatial QCL).
For the QCL, a plurality of types (QCL types) may be defined. For example, four QCL types A to D may be provided, which have different parameter(s) (or parameter set(s)) that can be assumed to be the same, and such parameter(s) (which may be referred to as QCL parameter(s)) are described below:
A case that the UE assumes that a certain control resource set (CORESET), channel, or reference signal is in a relationship of specific QCL (for example, QCL type D) with another CORESET, channel, or reference signal may be referred to as QCL assumption.
The UE may determine at least one of a transmit beam (Tx beam) and a receive beam (Rx beam) of the signal/channel, based on the TCI state or the QCL assumption of the signal/channel.
The TCI state may be, for example, information related to QCL between a channel as a target (in other words, a reference signal (RS) for the channel) and another signal (for example, another RS). The TCI state may be configured (indicated) by higher layer signaling or physical layer signaling, or a combination of these.
The physical layer signaling may be, for example, downlink control information (DCI).
A channel for which the TCI state or spatial relation is configured (specified) may be, for example, at least one of a downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), a downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)), an uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)), and an uplink control channel (Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)).
The RS to have a QCL relationship with the channel may be, for example, at least one of a synchronization signal block (SSB), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a reference signal for measurement (Sounding Reference Signal (SRS)), a CSI-RS for tracking (also referred to as a Tracking Reference Signal (TRS)), and a reference signal for QCL detection (also referred to as a QRS).
The SSB is a signal block including at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)). The SSB may be referred to as an SS/PBCH block.
An RS of QCL type X in a TCI state may mean an RS in a relationship of QCL type X with (a DMRS of) a certain channel/signal, and this RS may be referred to as a QCL source of QCL type X in the TCI state.
With a unified TCI framework, UL and DL channels can be controlled by a common framework. A unified TCI framework may indicate a common beam (common TCI state) and apply the common beam to all the UL and DL channels instead of defining a TCI state or a spatial relation for each channel as in Rel. 15, or apply a common beam for UL to all the UL channels while applying a common beam for DL to all the DL channels.
One common beam for both DL and UL or a common beam for DL and a common beam for UL (two common beams in total) are studied.
The UE may assume the same TCI state (joint TCI state, joint TCI pool, joint common TCI pool, joint TCI state set) for UL and DL. The UE may assume respective different TCI states (separate TCI states, separate TCI pools, UL separate TCI pool and DL separate TCI pool, separate common TCI pools, UL common TCI pool and DL common TCI pool) for UL and DL.
By beam management based on a MAC CE (MAC CE level beam indication), default UL and DL beams may be aligned. A default TCI state of a PDSCH may be updated to match to a default UL beam (spatial relation).
By beam management based on DCI (DCI level beam indication), a common beam/unified TCI state may be indicated from the same TCI pool (joint common TCI pool, joint TCI pool, set) for both UL and DL. X (>1) TCI states may be activated by a MAC CE. UL/DL DCI may select one from the X active TCI states. The selected TCI state may be applied to channels/RSs of both UL and DL.
The TCI pool (set) may be a plurality of TCI states configured by an RRC parameter or a plurality of TCI states (active TCI states, active TCI pool, set) activated by a MAC CE among the plurality of TCI states configured by the RRC parameter. Each TCI state may be a QCL type A/D RS. As the QCL type A/D RS, an SSB, a CSI-RS, or an SRS may be configured.
The number of TCI states corresponding to each of one or more TRPs may be defined. For example, the number N (≥1) of TCI states (UL TCI states) applied to UL channels/RSs and the number M (≥1) of TCI states (DL TCI states) applied to DL channels/RSs may be defined. At least one of N and M may be notified/configured/indicated to the UE via higher layer signaling/physical layer signaling.
In the present disclosure, description of N=M=X (X is any integer) may mean that X TCI states (joint TCI states) (corresponding to X TRPs) common to the UL and the DL are notified/configured/indicated to the UE. Description of N=X (X is any integer) and M=Y (Y is any integer and Y may be equal to X) may mean that X UL TCI states (corresponding to X TRPs) and Y DL TCI states (corresponding to Y TRPs) (that is, separate TCI states) are respectively notified/configured/indicated to the UE.
For example, description of N=M=1 may mean that one TCI state common to the UL and the DL for a single TRP is notified/configured/indicated to the UE (joint TCI state for a single TRP).
For example, description of N=1 and M=1 may mean that one UL TCI state and one DL TCI state for a single TRP are separately notified/configured/indicated to the UE (separate TCI states for a single TRP).
For example, description of N=M=2 may mean that a plurality of (two) TCI states common to the UL and the DL for a plurality of (two) TRPs are notified/configured/indicated to the UE (joint TCI states for a plurality of TRPs).
For example, description of N=2 and M=2 may mean that a plurality of (two) UL TCI states and a plurality of (two) DL TCI states for a plurality of (two) TRPs are notified/configured/indicated to the UE (separate TCI states for a plurality of TRPs).
Note that, although the above examples describe cases in which the value of N and M is 1 or 2, the value of N and M may be 3 or greater, and N and M may be different.
In the example in
In the example of the figure, one dot may be one TCI state applied to both UL and DL or may be two respective TCI states applied to UL and DL.
At least one of the plurality of TCI states configured by the RRC parameter and the plurality of TCI states activated by the MAC CE may be referred to as a TCI pool (common TCI pool, joint TCI pool, TCI state pool). The plurality of TCI states activated by the MAC CE may be referred to as an active TCI pool (active common TCI pool).
Note that, in the present disclosure, a higher layer parameter (RRC parameter) that configures a plurality of TCI states may be referred to as configuration information that configures a plurality of TCI states or simply as “configuration information.” In the present disclosure, one of a plurality of TCI states being indicated by using DCI may be receiving indication information indicating one of a plurality of TCI states included in DCI or may simply be receiving “indication information.”
In the example in
DL DCI or a new DCI format may select (indicate) one or more (for example, one) TCI states. The selected TCI state(s) may be applied to one or more (or all) DL channels/RSs. The DL channel(s) may be a PDCCH/PDSCH/CSI-RS(s). The UE may determine the TCI state of each of the DL channels/RSs by using operation of a TCI state (TCI framework) of Rel. 16. UL DCI or a new DCI format may select (indicate) one or more (for example, one) TCI states. The selected TCI state(s) may be applied to one or more (or all) UL channels/RSs. The UL channel(s) may be a PUSCH/SRS/PUCCH(s). Thus, different pieces of DCI may indicate a UL TCI and a DL DCI separately.
Existing DCI format 1_1/1_2 may be used for indication of a common TCI state.
A common TCI framework may include separate TCI states for DL and UL.
In the present disclosure, a TCI state pool, a TCI state list, a unified TCI state pool, a joint TCI state pool, a separate TCI state pool, a separate DL/UL TCI state pool, a DL TCI state pool, a UL TCI state pool, a separate DL TCI state pool, and a separate UL TCI state pool may be interchangeably interpreted.
In NR, transmission power of the PUSCH is controlled based on a TPC command (also referred to as a value, an increased or decreased value, a correction value, or the like) that is indicated by a value of a field (also referred to as a TPC command field or the like) in the DCI.
For example, when the UE transmits the PUSCH on an active UL BWP b of a carrier f of a serving cell c using a parameter set (open loop parameter set) having an index j and an index l of a power control adjustment state (PUSCH power control adjustment state), transmission power (PPUSCH,b,f,c(i, j, qd, l)) [dBm] of the PUSCH in a PUSCH transmission occasion (also referred to as a transmission period or the like) i may be based on at least one of PCMAX,f,c(i), PO_PUSCH,b,f,c(j), MPUSCHRB,b,f,c(i), αb,f,c(j), PLb,f,c(qd), and ΔTF,b,f,c(i), fb,f,c(i, l).
The power control adjustment state may be referred to as a closed loop (CL)-power control (PC) state, a value based on a TPC command of a power control adjustment state index l, an accumulated value of TPC commands, or a value using a closed loop. l may be referred to as a closed loop index.
The PUSCH transmission occasion i is a period in which the PUSCH is transmitted, and may include, for example, one or more symbols, one or more slots, or the like.
PCMAX,f,c(i) is, for example, transmission power (also referred to as maximum transmission power, UE maximum output power, or the like) of a user terminal configured for the carrier f of the serving cell c in the transmission occasion i.
PO_PUSCH,b,f,c(j) is, for example, a parameter related to target received power configured for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c in the transmission occasion i (for example, also referred to as a parameter related to a transmission power offset, a transmission power offset P0, a target received power parameter, or the like). PO_UE_PUSCH,b,f,c(j) may be a sum of PO_NOMINAL_PUSCH,f,c(j) and PO_UE_PUSCH,b,f,c(j).
MPUSCHRB,b,f,c(i) is, for example, the number of resource blocks (bandwidth) allocated to the PUSCH for the transmission occasion i in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and a subcarrier spacing μ. αb,f,c(j) is a value provided by a higher layer parameter (for example, also referred to as msg3-Alpha, p0-PUSCH-Alpha, a fractional factor, or the like).
PLb,f,c(qd) is, for example, path loss (path loss estimation [dB], path loss compensation) calculated in the user terminal using an index qd of a reference signal (a reference signal (RS), a path loss reference RS, a pathloss (PL)-RS, an RS for path loss reference, a DL-RS for path loss measurement, PUSCH-PathlossReferenceRS) for a downlink BWP associated with the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
When the UE is not provided with the path loss reference RS (for example, PUSCH-PathlossReferenceRS) or the UE is not provided with a dedicated higher layer parameter, the UE may calculate PLb,f,c(qd), using RS resources from a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block (SS block (SSB)) used for obtaining a Master Information Block (MIB).
When the UE is configured with as many RS resource indices as the number up to a value of a maximum number of path loss reference RSs (for example, maxNrofPUSCH-PathlossReferenceRSs) and a set of RS configurations respectively for the RS resource indices by the path loss reference RSs, the set of RS resource indices may include one or both of a set of SS/PBCH block indices and a set of channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) resource indices. The UE may identify the RS resource indices qd in the set of RS resource indices.
When PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a Random Access Response (RAR) UL grant, the UE may use the same RS resource index qd as that for corresponding PRACH transmission.
When the UE is provided with configuration of power control of the PUSCH by a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) (for example, SRI-PUSCH-PowerControl) and is provided with one or more values of the IDs of the path loss reference RSs, the UE may obtain mapping between a set of values for an SRI field in DCI format 0_1 and a set of ID values of the path loss reference RSs from higher layer signaling (for example, sri-PUSCH-PowerControl-Id in SRI-PUSCH-PowerControl). The UE may determine the RS resource index qd, based on the ID of the path loss reference RS mapped to the SRI field value in DCI format 0_1 for scheduling the PUSCH.
When PUSCH transmission is scheduled by DCI format 0_0, and the UE is not provided with PUCCH spatial relation information for a PUCCH resource having the lowest index for the active UL BWP b of each carrier f and the serving cell c, the UE may use the same RS resource index qd as that for PUCCH transmission in the PUCCH resource.
When PUSCH transmission is scheduled by DCI format 0_0, and the UE is not provided with space setting of PUCCH transmission, or PUSCH transmission is scheduled by DCI format 0_1 not including the SRI field, or configuration of power control of the PUSCH by the SRI is not provided for the UE, the UE may use the RS resource index qd including the ID of the path loss reference RS of zero.
When configured grant configuration (for example, ConfiguredGrantConfig) includes a specific parameter (for example, rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant) for PUSCH transmission that is configured by the configured grant configuration, the RS resource index qd may be provided for the UE by a path loss reference index (for example, pathlossReferenceIndex) in the specific parameter.
When configured grant configuration does not include a specific parameter for PUSCH transmission that is configured by the configured grant configuration, the UE may determine the RS resource index qd, based on the value of the ID of the path loss reference RS that is mapped to the SRI field in a DCI format for activating the PUSCH transmission. When the DCI format does not include the SRI field, the UE may determine the RS resource index qd having the ID of the path loss reference RS of zero.
ΔTF,b,f,c(i) is a transmission power adjustment component (offset, transmission format compensation) for the UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
fb,f,c(i, l) is a PUSCH power control adjustment state for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c in the transmission occasion i. fb,f,c(i, l) may be based on δPUSCH,b,f,c(i, l).
When TPC accumulation is enabled, fb,f,c(i, l) may be based on an accumulated value of δPUSCH,b,f,c(m, l).
When TPC accumulation is disabled, fb,f,c(i, l) may be δPUSCH,b,f,c(i, l) (absolute value).
When information (TPC-Accumulation) indicating disablement (disabled) of TPC accumulation is not configured (when information indicating disablement of TPC accumulation is not provided, when TPC accumulation is configured to be enabled), the UE accumulates TPC command values and determines transmission power (applies the TPC command values through accumulation) based on accumulation results (power control state).
When the information (TPC-Accumulation) indicating disablement of TPC accumulation is configured (when the information indicating disablement of TPC accumulation is provided, when TPC accumulation is configured to be disabled), the UE does not accumulate TPC command values and determines transmission power based on the TPC command values (power control state) (applies the TPC command values without using accumulation).
δPUSCH,b,f,c(i, l) may be a TPC command value included in DCI format 0_0 or DCI format 0_1 for scheduling the PUSCH transmission occasion i on the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c, or a TPC command value coded by being combined with another TPC command in DCI format 2_2 having a CRC scrambled with a specific RNTI (Radio Network Temporary Identifier) (for example, a TPC-PUSCH-RNTI).
Σm=0C(Di)−1δPUCCH,b,f,c(m, l) may be a sum of TPC command values in a set Di of TPC command values having cardinality C (Di). Di may be a set of TPC command values received by the UE between KPUSCH(i−i0)−1 symbols before a PUSCH transmission occasion i−i0 and KPUSCH(i) symbols before a PUSCH transmission occasion i on the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c for a PUSCH power control adjustment state 1. i0 may be such a minimum positive integer that causes KPUSCH(i−i0) symbols before the PUSCH transmission occasion i−i0 to be earlier than KPUSCH(i) symbols before the PUSCH transmission occasion i.
If PUSCH transmission is scheduled by DCI format 0_0 or DCI format 0_1, KPUSCH(i) may be the number of symbols in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c after the last symbol of corresponding PDCCH reception and before the first symbol of the PUSCH transmission. If PUSCH transmission is configured by configured grant configuration information (ConfiguredGrantConfig), KPUSCH(i) may be the number of KPUSCH,min symbols equal to a product of the number Nsymbslot of symbols per slot and a minimum value of a value provided by k2 in PUSCH common configuration information (PUSCH-ConfigCommon) in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
Whether the power control adjustment state has a plurality of states (for example, two states) or has a single state may be configured by a higher layer parameter. When a plurality of power control adjustment states are configured, one of the plurality of power control adjustment states may be identified by the index l (for example, l∈{0, 1}).
In NR, transmission power of the PUCCH is controlled based on a TPC command (also referred to as a value, an increased or decreased value, a correction value, an indication value, or the like) that is indicated by a value of a field (also referred to as a TPC command field, a first field, or the like) in the DCI.
For example, using an index l of the power control adjustment state (PUCCH power control adjustment state), transmission power (PPUCCH,b,f,c(i, qu, qd, l)) [dBm] of the PUCCH in a PUCCH transmission occasion (also referred to as a transmission period or the like) i regarding the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c may be based on at least one of PCMAX,f,c(i), PO_PUCCH,b,f,c(qu), MPUCCHRB,b,f,c(i), PLb,f,c(qd), ΔF_PUCCH(F), ΔTF,b,f,c(i), and gb,f,c(i, l).
The PUCCH transmission occasion i is a period in which the PUCCH is transmitted, and may include, for example, one or more symbols, one or more slots, or the like.
PCMAX,f,c(i) is, for example, transmission power (also referred to as maximum transmission power, UE maximum output power, or the like) of a user terminal configured for the carrier f of the serving cell c in the transmission occasion i. PO_PUCCH,b,f,c(qu) is, for example, a parameter related to target received power configured for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c in the transmission occasion i (for example, also referred to as a parameter related to a transmission power offset, a transmission power offset P0, a target received power parameter, or the like).
MPUCCHRB,b,f,c(i) is, for example, the number of resource blocks (bandwidth) allocated to the PUCCH for the transmission occasion i in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and a subcarrier spacing μ. PLb,f,c(qd) is, for example, path loss (path loss estimation [dB], path loss compensation) calculated in the user terminal using an index qd of a reference signal (a path loss reference RS, a pathloss (PL)-RS, an RS for path loss reference, a DL-RS for path loss measurement, PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS) for a downlink BWP associated with the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
If the UE is not given the path loss reference RS (pathlossReferenceRSs) or before the UE is given a dedicated higher layer parameter, the UE calculates the path loss PLb,f,c(qd) using an RS resource obtained from an SS/PBCH block used by the UE to acquire an MIB.
If the UE is given path loss reference RS information (pathlossReferenceRSs in PUCCH power control information (PUCCH-PowerControl)) and is not given the PUCCH spatial relation information (PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo), the UE acquires a value of a reference signal (referencesignal) in a path loss reference RS for the PUCCH from a path loss reference RS-ID for the PUCCH (PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS-Id) having index 0 in the path loss reference RS information for the PUCCH (PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS). The reference signal resource is present either on the same serving cell, or on the serving cell indicated by a value of path loss reference association information (pathlossReferenceLinking) if being given. The path loss reference association information indicates which DL of a special cell (SpCell) and a secondary cell (SCell) corresponding to the UL is applied by the UE as a path loss reference. The SpCell may be a primary cell (PCell) in a master cell group (MCG), or may be a primary secondary cell (PSCell) in a secondary cell group (SCG). The path loss reference RS information indicates a set of reference signals (for example, CSI-RS configurations or SS/PBCH blocks) to be used for PUCCH path loss estimation.
ΔF_PUCCH(F) is a higher layer parameter given for each PUCCH format. ΔTF,b,f,c(i) is a transmission power adjustment component (offset) for the UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
gb,f,c(i, l) is a value (for example, a power control adjustment state, an accumulated value of TPC commands, a value using a closed loop, a PUCCH power adjustment state) based on the TPC command of the power control adjustment state index l of the active UL BWP of the serving cell c and the carrier f of the transmission occasion i. For example, gb,f,c(i, l) may be based on δPUCCH,b,f,c(i, l).
When TPC accumulation is enabled, gb,f,c(i, l) may be based on an accumulated value of δPUCCH,b,f,c(i, l).
When TPC accumulation is disabled, gb,f,c(i, l) may be δPUCCH,b,f,c(i, l) (absolute value).
Here, δPUCCH,b,f,c(i, l) is a TPC command value, and may be included in DCI format 1_0 or DCI format 1_1 detected by the UE in the PUCCH transmission occasion i of the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c, or coded by being combined with another TPC command in DCI format 2_2 having a CRC scrambled with a specific RNTI (Radio Network Temporary Identifier) (for example, a TPC-PUSCH-RNTI).
Σm=0C(Ci)−1δPUCCH,b,f,c(m, l) may be a sum of TPC command values in a set Ci of TPC command values having cardinality C (Ci). Ci may be a set of TPC command values received by the UE between KPUCCH(i−i0)−1 symbols before a PUCCH transmission occasion i−i0 and KPUCCH(i) symbols before a PUSCH transmission occasion i on the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c for a PUCCH power control adjustment state 1. i0 may be such a minimum positive integer that causes KPUCCH(i−i0) symbols before the PUSCH transmission occasion i−i0 to be earlier than KPUCCH (i) symbols before the PUSCH transmission occasion i.
If PUCCH transmission is in accordance with detection of DCI format 1_0 or DCI format 1_1 by the UE, KPUCCH(i) may be the number of symbols in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c after the last symbol of corresponding PDCCH reception and before the first symbol of the PUCCH transmission. If PUCCH transmission is configured by configured grant configuration information (ConfiguredGrantConfig), KPUSCH(i) may be the number of KPUCCH,min symbols equal to a product of the number Nsymbslot of symbols per slot and a minimum value of a value provided by k2 in PUSCH common configuration information (PUSCH-ConfigCommon) in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
If the UE is provided with information (twoPUCCH-PC-AdjustmentStates) indicating use of two PUCCH power control adjustment states and the PUCCH spatial relation information (PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo), 1 may be equal to {0, 1}, whereas if the UE is not provided with the information indicating use of two PUCCH power control adjustment states or the PUCCH spatial relation information, 1 may be equal to 0.
If the UE obtains a TPC command value from DCI format 1_0 or 1_1 and the UE is provided with the PUCCH spatial relation information, the UE may obtain mapping between a PUCCH spatial relation information ID (pucch-SpatialRelationInfoId) value and a closed loop index (closedLoopIndex, power adjustment state index l) by an index provided by a PUCCH P0 ID (p0-PUCCH-Id in p0-Set in PUCCH-PowerControl in PUCCH-Config). When the UE receives an activation command including the value of the PUCCH spatial relation information ID, the UE may determine the value of the closed loop index for providing the value of l via a link to a corresponding PUCCH P0 ID.
If the UE is provided with a configuration of a PO_PUCCH,b,f,c(qu) value for a corresponding PUCCH power adjustment state l for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c by a higher layer, gb,f,c(i, l)=0 and k=0, 1, . . . , i. If the UE is provided with the PUCCH spatial relation information, the UE may determine the value of l from the value of qu, based on the PUCCH spatial relation information associated with the PUCCH P0 ID corresponding to qu and the closed loop index value corresponding to l.
qu may be the PUCCH P0 ID (p0-PUCCH-Id) indicating a PUCCH P0 (P0-PUCCH) in a PUCCH P0 set (p0-Set).
If the UE not provided with the PUCCH spatial relation information (PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo), the UE obtains a PUCCH P0 value (p0-PUCCH-Value) from a value of a PUCCH P0-ID equal to a minimum value of the PUCCH P0-ID (p0-PUCCH-Id) in the P0 set (p0-Set).
If the UE is provided with the path loss reference RS (pathlossReferenceRSs) and is not provided with the PUCCH spatial relation information (PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo), the UE obtains a value of the reference signal (referenceSignal) in the PUCCH path loss reference RS from the PUCCH path loss reference RS-ID (pucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id) having index 0 in the PUCCH path loss reference RS (PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS). The obtained RS resource is present either on the primary cell, or on the serving cell indicated by a value of path loss reference linking if the path loss reference linking (pathlossReferenceLinking) is provided.
If the UE is provided with a fact that the number of PUCCH power control adjustment states maintained by the UE is 2 (twoPUCCH-PC-AdjustmentStates) and the PUCCH spatial relation information, the following holds true: PUCCH power control adjustment state (closed loop) index l∈{0, 1}. If the UE is not provided with the fact that the number of PUCCH power control adjustment states maintained by the UE is 2 or the PUCCH spatial relation information, the following holds true: PUCCH power control adjustment state (closed loop) index l=0.
In other words, if the UE is not provided with the PUCCH spatial relation information, P0, PL-RS, and the closed loop index are determined in accordance with a rule. In this case, a minimum PUCCH P0-ID is applied, PUCCH path loss reference RS-ID=0 is applied, and l=0 is applied.
In an RRC information element (IE), a PUCCH power control information element (PUCCH-PowerControl) includes the P0 set (p0-Set) being a set of “PUCCH P0”s (P0-PUCCH) and the path loss reference RS (pathlossReferenceRSs) being a set of PUCCH path loss reference RSs (PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS). The PUCCH P0 includes the PUCCH P0-ID (P0-PUCCH-Id) and the PUCCH P0 value (p0-PUCCH-Value). The PUCCH path loss reference RS includes the PUCCH path loss reference RS-ID (PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS-Id) and the reference signal (referenceSignal, an SSB index, or an NZP-CSI-RS resource ID).
For example, using an index l of the power control adjustment state, transmission power (PSRS,b,f,c(i, qs, l)) of the SRS in an SRS transmission occasion (also referred to as a transmission period or the like) i regarding the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c may be based on at least one of PCMAX,f,c(i), PO_SRS,b,f,c(qs), MSRS,b,f,c(i), αSRS,b,f,c(qs), PLb,f,c(qd), and hb,f,c(i, l).
The SRS transmission occasion i is a period in which the SRS is transmitted, and may include, for example, one or more symbols, one or more slots, or the like.
Here, PCMAX,f,c(i) is, for example, UE maximum output power for the carrier f of the serving cell c in the SRS transmission occasion i. PO_SRS,b,f,c(qs) is a parameter related to target received power provided by p0 for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and an SRS resource set qs (provided by SRS-ResourceSet and SRS-ResourceSetId) (for example, also referred to as a parameter related to a transmission power offset, a transmission power offset P0, a target received power parameter, or the like).
MSRS,b,f,c(i) is an SRS bandwidth represented by the number of resource blocks for the SRS transmission occasion i on the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and the subcarrier spacing μ.
αSRS,b,f,c(qs) is provided by α (for example, alpha) for the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and the subcarrier spacing μ and the SRS resource set qs.
PLb,f,c(qd) is a DL path loss estimation value [dB] (path loss estimation [dB], path loss compensation) calculated by the UE using the RS resource index qd for the active DL BWP of the serving cell c and the SRS resource set qs. The RS resource index qd is a path loss reference RS (an RS for path loss reference, a pathloss (PL)-RS, a DL-RS for path loss measurement, being provided by pathlossReferenceRS, for example) associated with the SRS resource set qs, and is an SS/PBCH block index (for example, ssb-Index) or a CSI-RS resource index (for example, csi-RS-Index).
If the UE is not given the path loss reference RS (pathlossReferenceRSs) or before the UE is given a dedicated higher layer parameter, the UE calculates PLb,f,c(qd) using an RS resource obtained from an SS/PBCH block used by the UE to acquire an MIB.
hp,f,c(i, l) is an SRS power control adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the carrier f of the serving cell c in the SRS transmission occasion i. When a configuration of the SRS power control adjustment state (for example, srs-PowerControlAdjustmentStates) indicates the same power control adjustment state for SRS transmission and PUSCH transmission, it is the current PUSCH power control adjustment state fb,f,c(i, l). On the other hand, when the configuration of the SRS power control adjustment state indicates an independent power control adjustment state for SRS transmission and PUSCH transmission, the SRS power control adjustment state hb,f,c(i) may be based on δSSRs,b,f,c(m).
When TPC accumulation is enabled, hb,f,c(i) may be based on an accumulated value of δSRS,b,f,c(m).
When TPC accumulation is disabled, hb,f,c(i) may be δSRS,b,f,c(i) (absolute value).
Here, δSRS,b,f,c(m) may be a TPC command value coded by being combined with another TPC command in the PDCCH having DCI (for example, DCI format 2_3). Σm=0C(Si)−1δSRS,b,f,c(m) may be a sum of TPC commands in a set Si of TPC command values having cardinality C (Si) received by the UE between KSRS(i−i0)−1 symbols before an SRS transmission occasion i−i0 and KSRS(i) symbols before an SRS transmission occasion i on the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c and the subcarrier spacing μ. Here, i0 may be such a minimum positive integer that causes KSRS(i−i0)−1 symbols of the SRS transmission occasion i−i0 to be earlier than KSRS(i) symbols of the SRS transmission occasion i.
If SRS transmission is aperiodic, KSRS(i) may be the number of symbols in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c after the last symbol of a corresponding PDCCH for triggering the SRS transmission and before the first symbol of the SRS transmission. If SRS transmission is semi-persistent or periodic, KSRS(i) may be the number of KSRS,min symbols equal to a product of the number Nsymbslot of symbols per slot and a minimum value of a value provided by k2 in PUSCH common configuration information (PUSCH-ConfigCommon) in the active UL BWP b of the carrier f of the serving cell c.
In path loss measurement for a unified TCI framework, a scheme in which a pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) (configured for path loss calculation) is included in a UL TCI state or a joint TCI state (if applicable) or it is associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (if applicable) has been under study. The association may be configured/indicated by an RRC IE/MAC CE.
A scheme in which the UE receives reporting as to whether or not to support a beam misalignment between a DL source RS in a UL or joint TCI state for providing a spatial relation indication and a PL-RS as a UE capability has been under study. A scheme in which the UE maintains a PL-RS of an activated UL or joint TCI state has been under study. Reporting of a maximum number of activated UL TCI states or joint TCI states for each band or for each cell as a UE capability has been under study.
For each of the PUSCH and the PUCCH, a setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index can be associated with a UL or joint (if applicable) TCI state for each BWP. In this case, a plurality of settings are configured. Each setting can be associated with at least one TCI state. For one given TCI state at a certain time point, only one setting for the PUSCH and only one setting for the PUCCH are associated. For each of the PUSCH and the PUCCH, each of the activated UL or joint (if applicable) TCI states is associated with one of the plurality of settings. If the association for each of the PUSCH and the PUCCH is not present, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for each channel/signal and for each BWP is independent of (unrelated to) the UL or joint TCI state.
For the SRS, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index can be associated with a UL or joint (if applicable) TCI state for each BWP. If the association for the SRS is not present, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the SRS for each BWP is independent of (unrelated to) the UL or joint (if applicable) TCI state. This is available only for an SRS set using TCI states of Rel. 17 for determination of spatial relation.
In other words, a setting of a TPC parameter (P0/alpha/closed loop index) except for the PL-RS for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS is associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (if applicable) for each BWP for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS via an RRC IE. When the plurality of settings of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS are associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state for each BWP for each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS, an individual setting may be associated with each of the UL or joint TCI state in one BWP.
However, a method of indication/configuration/update of the TPC parameter is not clarified. Unless such a method is clarified, reduction of throughput/communication quality may be caused.
In view of this, the inventors of the present invention came up with the idea of a method of determining the TPC parameter.
Embodiments according to the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the drawings as follows. The radio communication methods according to respective embodiments may each be employed individually, or may be employed in combination.
In the present disclosure, “A/B” and “at least one of A and B” may be interchangeably interpreted. In the present disclosure, “A/B/C” may mean “at least one of A, B, and C”.
In the present disclosure, activate, deactivate, indicate, select, configure, update, determine, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted. In the present disclosure, “support,” “control,” “controllable,” “operate,” “operable”, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, radio resource control (RRC), an RRC parameter, an RRC message, a higher layer parameter, an information element (IE), a configuration, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted. In the present disclosure, a Medium Access Control control element (MAC Control Element (CE)), an update command, an activation/deactivation command, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, the higher layer signaling may be, for example, any one or combinations of Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling, broadcast information, and the like.
In the present disclosure, the MAC signaling may use, for example, a MAC control element (MAC CE), a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU), or the like. The broadcast information may be, for example, a master information block (MIB), a system information block (SIB), minimum system information (Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI)), other system information (OSI), or the like.
In the present disclosure, physical layer signaling may be, for example, downlink control information (DCI), uplink control information (UCI), or the like.
In the present disclosure, an index, an identifier (ID), an indicator, a resource ID, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted. In the present disclosure, a sequence, a list, a set, a group, a cluster, a subset, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, a panel, a UE panel, a panel group, a beam, a beam group, a precoder, an Uplink (UL) transmission entity, a transmission/reception point (TRP), a base station, spatial relation information (SRI), a spatial relation, an SRS resource indicator (SRI), a control resource set (CORESET), a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), a codeword (CW), a transport block (TB), a reference signal (RS), an antenna port (for example, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port), an antenna port group (for example, a DMRS port group), a group (for example, a spatial relation group, a code division multiplexing (CDM) group, a reference signal group, a CORESET group, a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) group, or a PUCCH resource group), a resource (for example, a reference signal resource or an SRS resource), a resource set (for example, a reference signal resource set), a CORESET pool, a downlink Transmission Configuration Indication state (TCI state) (DL TCI state), an uplink TCI state (UL TCI state), a unified TCI state, a common TCI state, a quasi-co-location (QCL), a QCL assumption, and the like may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, a common beam, a common TCI, a common TCI state, a unified TCI, a unified TCI state, a TCI state applicable to the DL and the UL, a TCI state applied to a plurality (plurality of types) of channels/RSs, a TCI state applicable to a plurality of types of channels/RSs, a TCI state for a plurality of types of signals, a TCI state for a plurality of types of channels/RSs, a TCI state, a unified TCI state, a TCI state of the UL and the DL for a joint TCI indication, a UL only TCI state for a separate TCI indication, and a DL only TCI state for a separate TCI indication may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, a plurality of TCI states configured by RRC, a plurality of TCI states activated by MAC CE, a pool, a TCI state pool, an active TCI state pool, a common TCI state pool, a joint TCI state pool, a separate TCI state pool, a common TCI state pool for the UL, a common TCI state pool for the DL, a common TCI state pool configured/activated by RRC/MAC CE, and TCI state information may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, a DL TCI, a DL only TCI, a separate DL only TCI, a DL common TCI, a DL unified TCI, a common TCI, and a unified TCI may be interchangeably interpreted. In the present disclosure, a UL TCI, a UL only TCI, a separate UL only TCI, a UL common TCI, a UL unified TCI, a common TCI, and a unified TCI may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, the channel/RS to which the unified TCI is applied may be the PDSCH/PDCCH/CSI-RS/PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS.
In the present disclosure, a BWP, a CC (cell), and a CC (cell)/BWP may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, information related to one or more TCI states, a TCI state configuration, a TCI state list, and a TCI state pool may be interchangeably interpreted.
In the present disclosure, a TPC parameter, a power control parameter, a UL PC parameter, a P0/alpha/closed loop index, and a power control parameter except a PL-RS may be interchangeably interpreted.
In each embodiment, the unified TCI state may be simply referred to as a TCI state.
In each embodiment, a MAC CE may be transmitted for one of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS, or may be transmitted for two or more of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS.
In each embodiment, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index may be indicated/updated by a MAC CE. In each embodiment, the setting of the closed loop index may be indicated/updated by a MAC CE, and the setting of P0/alpha may be indicated/configured/updated by an RRC IE and need not be indicated/updated by a MAC CE.
In each embodiment, a case in which the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is associated with the TCI state, a case in which the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the TCI state is configured/indicated/updated, and a case in which the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is configured/indicated/updated for each TCI state may be interchangeably interpreted.
The embodiment relates to update/configuration of P0/alpha/closed loop index associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available).
For each of the PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS, a plurality of settings of P0/alpha/closed loop index may be associated with one UL TCI state or one joint TCI state (when it is available) for each BWP (may be configured with one UL TCI state or one joint TCI state).
The MAC CE may select/indicate one setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) for each BWP for each of the PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS.
In an example of
For the PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS, a plurality of settings of P0/alpha/closed loop index may be configured.
An association (setting) between the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index and the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) may be indicated for the PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS by a MAC CE for each BWP.
In an example of
According to the embodiment, an association between the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index and the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state can be appropriately indicated.
In existing specifications, when alpha or P0 for the PUSCH is updated (by a higher layer), accumulation of closed loop (CL)-power control (PC) states (power control adjustment states) (accumulation of TPC commands) is reset (set to 0).
As described above, the power control adjustment state for the PUSCH may be reused for the SRS.
The embodiment relates to a case in which a correspondence between the TCI state and the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is configured/indicated/updated by an RRC IE/MAC CE.
If the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) for each BWP for each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS, and a reset condition is satisfied, the UE may reset accumulation of the CL-PC states (may set to 0). The reset condition may include at least one of the following conditions 1 to 3.
Condition 1 may be a condition that alpha or P0 for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS is updated (by an RRC IE/MAC CE). The condition may be a condition similar to that of Rel. 15. The condition may be interpreted as a condition that an association between the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS and the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) is updated for each BWP (by an RRC IE/MAC CE). The condition may be interpreted as a condition that the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS is configured/updated for each BWP (by an RRC IE/MAC CE).
Condition 2 may be a condition that the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) is updated/configured (by an RRC IE/MAC CE).
Condition 3 may be a condition that the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) is indicated (by an RRC IE/MAC CE/DCI). For example, when the unified TCI state is updated by DCI, the UE may reset accumulation of the CL-PC states.
The PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS in the embodiment may be only the PUSCH, may be at least one of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS, or may be all of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS.
According to the embodiment, the CL-PC state can be appropriately controlled.
The embodiment relates to a case in which a correspondence between the TCI state and the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is not configured/indicated/updated by an RRC IE/MAC CE.
If the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is not associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) for each BWP for each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for each channel/signal is independent of (unrelated to) the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) for each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS. For each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS, the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index irrespective of the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state is configured/indicated by an RRC IE/MAC CE (for each BWP).
If the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index is not associated with the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) for each BWP for each of the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS, and a reset condition is satisfied, the UE may reset accumulation of the CL-PC states (may set to 0). The reset condition may include at least one of the following conditions 1 to 3.
Condition 1 may be a condition that alpha or P0 for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS is updated (by an RRC IE/MAC CE). The condition may be a condition similar to that of Rel. 15. The condition may be interpreted as a condition that the setting of P0/alpha/closed loop index for the PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS is configured/updated for each BWP (by an RRC IE/MAC CE).
Condition 2 may be a condition that the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) is updated/configured (by an RRC IE/MAC CE).
Condition 3 may be a condition that the UL TCI state or the joint TCI state (when it is available) is indicated (by an RRC IE/MAC CE/DCI). For example, when the unified TCI state is updated by DCI, the UE may reset accumulation of the CL-PC states.
The PUSCH/PUCCH/SRS in the embodiment may be only the PUSCH, may be at least one of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS, or may be all of the PUSCH, the PUCCH, and the SRS.
According to the embodiment, the CL-PC state can be appropriately controlled.
A higher layer parameter (RRC IE)/UE capability corresponding to a function (feature) in each embodiment described above may be defined. The higher layer parameter may indicate whether or not the function is to be enabled. The UE capability may indicate whether or not the UE supports the function.
The UE configured with the higher layer parameter corresponding to the function may perform the function. “The UE not configured with the higher layer parameter corresponding to the function does not perform the function (for example, in accordance with Rel. 15/16)” may be defined.
The UE that reports/transmits the UE capability indicating support of the function may perform the function. “The UE that does not report the UE capability indicating support of the function does not perform the function (for example, in accordance with Rel. 15/16)” may be defined.
When the UE reports/transmits the UE capability indicating support of the function and is configured with the higher layer parameter corresponding to the function, the UE may perform the function. “When the UE does not report/transmit the UE capability indicating support of the function or is not configured with the higher layer parameter corresponding to the function, the UE does not perform the function (for example, in accordance with Rel. 15/16)” may be defined.
Which of the embodiments/options/choices/functions in the plurality of embodiments described above is used may be configured by a higher layer parameter, may be reported by the UE as a UE capability, may be defined in a specification, or may be determined by a reported UE capability and a configuration of a higher layer parameter.
The UE capability may indicate whether or not the UE supports at least one of the following functions.
According to the UE capabilities/higher layer parameters described above, the UE can implement the above functions while maintaining compatibility with existing specifications.
Hereinafter, a structure of a radio communication system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure will be described. In this radio communication system, the radio communication method according to each embodiment of the present disclosure described above may be used alone or may be used in combination for communication.
The radio communication system 1 may support dual connectivity (multi-RAT dual connectivity (MR-DC)) between a plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The MR-DC may include dual connectivity (E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC)) between LTE (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)) and NR, dual connectivity (NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity (NE-DC)) between NR and LTE, and so on.
In EN-DC, a base station (eNB) of LTE (E-UTRA) is a master node (MN), and a base station (gNB) of NR is a secondary node (SN). In NE-DC, a base station (gNB) of NR is an MN, and a base station (eNB) of LTE (E-UTRA) is an SN.
The radio communication system 1 may support dual connectivity between a plurality of base stations in the same RAT (for example, dual connectivity (NR-NR Dual Connectivity (NN-DC)) where both of an MN and an SN are base stations (gNB) of NR).
The radio communication system 1 may include a base station 11 that forms a macro cell C1 of a relatively wide coverage, and base stations 12 (12a to 12c) that form small cells C2, which are placed within the macro cell C1 and which are narrower than the macro cell C1. The user terminal 20 may be located in at least one cell. The arrangement, the number, and the like of each cell and user terminal 20 are by no means limited to the aspect shown in the diagram. Hereinafter, the base stations 11 and 12 will be collectively referred to as “base stations 10,” unless specified otherwise.
The user terminal 20 may be connected to at least one of the plurality of base stations 10. The user terminal 20 may use at least one of carrier aggregation (CA) and dual connectivity (DC) using a plurality of component carriers (CCs).
Each CC may be included in at least one of a first frequency band (Frequency Range 1 (FR1)) and a second frequency band (Frequency Range 2 (FR2)). The macro cell C1 may be included in FR1, and the small cells C2 may be included in FR2. For example, FR1 may be a frequency band of 6 GHz or less (sub-6 GHz), and FR2 may be a frequency band which is higher than 24 GHz (above-24 GHz). Note that frequency bands, definitions and so on of FR1 and FR2 are by no means limited to these, and for example, FR1 may correspond to a frequency band which is higher than FR2.
The user terminal 20 may communicate using at least one of time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) in each CC.
The plurality of base stations 10 may be connected by a wired connection (for example, optical fiber in compliance with the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), the X2 interface and so on) or a wireless connection (for example, an NR communication). For example, if an NR communication is used as a backhaul between the base stations 11 and 12, the base station 11 corresponding to a higher station may be referred to as an “Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) donor,” and the base station 12 corresponding to a relay station (relay) may be referred to as an “IAB node.”
The base station 10 may be connected to a core network 30 through another base station 10 or directly. For example, the core network 30 may include at least one of Evolved Packet Core (EPC), 5G Core Network (5GCN), Next Generation Core (NGC), and so on.
The user terminal 20 may be a terminal supporting at least one of communication schemes such as LTE, LTE-A, 5G, and so on.
In the radio communication system 1, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless access scheme may be used. For example, in at least one of the downlink (DL) and the uplink (UL), Cyclic Prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM), Discrete Fourier Transform Spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and so on may be used.
The wireless access scheme may be referred to as a “waveform.” Note that, in the radio communication system 1, another wireless access scheme (for example, another single carrier transmission scheme, another multi-carrier transmission scheme) may be used for a wireless access scheme in the UL and the DL.
In the radio communication system 1, a downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), which is used by each user terminal 20 on a shared basis, a broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)), a downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)) and so on, may be used as downlink channels.
In the radio communication system 1, an uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)), which is used by each user terminal 20 on a shared basis, an uplink control channel (Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)), a random access channel (Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH)) and so on may be used as uplink channels.
User data, higher layer control information, System Information Blocks (SIBs) and so on are communicated on the PDSCH. User data, higher layer control information and so on may be communicated on the PUSCH. The Master Information Blocks (MIBs) may be communicated on the PBCH.
Lower layer control information may be communicated on the PDCCH. For example, the lower layer control information may include downlink control information (DCI) including scheduling information of at least one of the PDSCH and the PUSCH.
Note that DCI for scheduling the PDSCH may be referred to as “DL assignment,” “DL DCI,” and so on, and DCI for scheduling the PUSCH may be referred to as “UL grant,” “UL DCI,” and so on. Note that the PDSCH may be interpreted as “DL data”, and the PUSCH may be interpreted as “UL data”.
For detection of the PDCCH, a control resource set (CORESET) and a search space may be used. The CORESET corresponds to a resource to search DCI. The search space corresponds to a search area and a search method of PDCCH candidates. One CORESET may be associated with one or more search spaces. The UE may monitor a CORESET associated with a certain search space, based on search space configuration.
One search space may correspond to a PDCCH candidate corresponding to one or more aggregation levels. One or more search spaces may be referred to as a “search space set.” Note that a “search space,” a “search space set,” a “search space configuration,” a “search space set configuration,” a “CORESET,” a “CORESET configuration” and so on of the present disclosure may be interchangeably interpreted.
Uplink control information (UCI) including at least one of channel state information (CSI), transmission confirmation information (for example, which may be also referred to as Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK), ACK/NACK, and so on), and scheduling request (SR) may be communicated by means of the PUCCH. By means of the PRACH, random access preambles for establishing connections with cells may be communicated.
Note that the downlink, the uplink, and so on in the present disclosure may be expressed without a term of “link.” In addition, various channels may be expressed without adding “Physical” to the head.
In the radio communication system 1, a synchronization signal (SS), a downlink reference signal (DL-RS), and so on may be communicated. In the radio communication system 1, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a positioning reference signal (PRS), a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), and so on may be communicated as the DL-RS.
For example, the synchronization signal may be at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS). A signal block including an SS (PSS, SSS) and a PBCH (and a DMRS for a PBCH) may be referred to as an “SS/PBCH block,” an “SS Block (SSB),” and so on. Note that an SS, an SSB, and so on may be also referred to as a “reference signal.”
In the radio communication system 1, a sounding reference signal (SRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and so on may be communicated as an uplink reference signal (UL-RS). Note that DMRS may be referred to as a “user terminal specific reference signal (UE-specific Reference Signal).”
Note that, the present example primarily shows functional blocks that pertain to characteristic parts of the present embodiment, and it is assumed that the base station 10 may include other functional blocks that are necessary for radio communication as well. Part of the processes of each section described below may be omitted.
The control section 110 controls the whole of the base station 10. The control section 110 can be constituted with a controller, a control circuit, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The control section 110 may control generation of signals, scheduling (for example, resource allocation, mapping), and so on. The control section 110 may control transmission and reception, measurement and so on using the transmitting/receiving section 120, the transmitting/receiving antennas 130, and the communication path interface 140. The control section 110 may generate data, control information, a sequence and so on to transmit as a signal, and forward the generated items to the transmitting/receiving section 120. The control section 110 may perform call processing (setting up, releasing) for communication channels, manage the state of the base station 10, and manage the radio resources.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 may include a baseband section 121, a Radio Frequency (RF) section 122, and a measurement section 123. The baseband section 121 may include a transmission processing section 1211 and a reception processing section 1212. The transmitting/receiving section 120 can be constituted with a transmitter/receiver, an RF circuit, a baseband circuit, a filter, a phase shifter, a measurement circuit, a transmitting/receiving circuit, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 may be structured as a transmitting/receiving section in one entity, or may be constituted with a transmitting section and a receiving section. The transmitting section may be constituted with the transmission processing section 1211, and the RF section 122. The receiving section may be constituted with the reception processing section 1212, the RF section 122, and the measurement section 123.
The transmitting/receiving antennas 130 can be constituted with antennas, for example, an array antenna, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 may transmit the above-described downlink channel, synchronization signal, downlink reference signal, and so on. The transmitting/receiving section 120 may receive the above-described uplink channel, uplink reference signal, and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 may form at least one of a transmit beam and a receive beam by using digital beam forming (for example, precoding), analog beam forming (for example, phase rotation), and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 (transmission processing section 1211) may perform the processing of the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, the processing of the Radio Link Control (RLC) layer (for example, RLC retransmission control), the processing of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer (for example, HARQ retransmission control), and so on, for example, on data and control information and so on acquired from the control section 110, and may generate bit string to transmit.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 (transmission processing section 1211) may perform transmission processing such as channel coding (which may include error correction coding), modulation, mapping, filtering, discrete Fourier transform (DFT) processing (as necessary), inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) processing, precoding, digital-to-analog conversion, and so on, on the bit string to transmit, and output a baseband signal.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 (RF section 122) may perform modulation to a radio frequency band, filtering, amplification, and so on, on the baseband signal, and transmit the signal of the radio frequency band through the transmitting/receiving antennas 130.
On the other hand, the transmitting/receiving section 120 (RF section 122) may perform amplification, filtering, demodulation to a baseband signal, and so on, on the signal of the radio frequency band received by the transmitting/receiving antennas 130.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 (reception processing section 1212) may apply reception processing such as analog-digital conversion, fast Fourier transform (FFT) processing, inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) processing (as necessary), filtering, de-mapping, demodulation, decoding (which may include error correction decoding), MAC layer processing, the processing of the RLC layer and the processing of the PDCP layer, and so on, on the acquired baseband signal, and acquire user data, and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 (measurement section 123) may perform the measurement related to the received signal. For example, the measurement section 123 may perform Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement, Channel State Information (CSI) measurement, and so on, based on the received signal. The measurement section 123 may measure a received power (for example, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP)), a received quality (for example, Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR), a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR)), a signal strength (for example, Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)), channel information (for example, CSI), and so on. The measurement results may be output to the control section 110.
The communication path interface 140 may perform transmission/reception (backhaul signaling) of a signal with an apparatus included in the core network 30 or other base stations 10, and so on, and acquire or transmit user data (user plane data), control plane data, and so on for the user terminal 20.
Note that the transmitting section and the receiving section of the base station 10 in the present disclosure may be constituted with at least one of the transmitting/receiving section 120, the transmitting/receiving antennas 130, and the communication path interface 140.
The transmitting/receiving section 120 may transmit information related to one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for a plurality of types of signals and one or more settings of a power control parameter for uplink transmission in the plurality of the types of the signals. The control section 110 may determine the power control parameter, based on the one or more settings.
Note that, the present example primarily shows functional blocks that pertain to characteristic parts of the present embodiment, and it is assumed that the user terminal 20 may include other functional blocks that are necessary for radio communication as well. Part of the processes of each section described below may be omitted.
The control section 210 controls the whole of the user terminal 20. The control section 210 can be constituted with a controller, a control circuit, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The control section 210 may control generation of signals, mapping, and so on. The control section 210 may control transmission/reception, measurement and so on using the transmitting/receiving section 220, and the transmitting/receiving antennas 230. The control section 210 generates data, control information, a sequence and so on to transmit as a signal, and may forward the generated items to the transmitting/receiving section 220.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may include a baseband section 221, an RF section 222, and a measurement section 223. The baseband section 221 may include a transmission processing section 2211 and a reception processing section 2212. The transmitting/receiving section 220 can be constituted with a transmitter/receiver, an RF circuit, a baseband circuit, a filter, a phase shifter, a measurement circuit, a transmitting/receiving circuit, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may be structured as a transmitting/receiving section in one entity, or may be constituted with a transmitting section and a receiving section. The transmitting section may be constituted with the transmission processing section 2211, and the RF section 222. The receiving section may be constituted with the reception processing section 2212, the RF section 222, and the measurement section 223.
The transmitting/receiving antennas 230 can be constituted with antennas, for example, an array antenna, or the like described based on general understanding of the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may receive the above-described downlink channel, synchronization signal, downlink reference signal, and so on. The transmitting/receiving section 220 may transmit the above-described uplink channel, uplink reference signal, and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may form at least one of a transmit beam and a receive beam by using digital beam forming (for example, precoding), analog beam forming (for example, phase rotation), and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 (transmission processing section 2211) may perform the processing of the PDCP layer, the processing of the RLC layer (for example, RLC retransmission control), the processing of the MAC layer (for example, HARQ retransmission control), and so on, for example, on data and control information and so on acquired from the control section 210, and may generate bit string to transmit.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 (transmission processing section 2211) may perform transmission processing such as channel coding (which may include error correction coding), modulation, mapping, filtering, DFT processing (as necessary), IFFT processing, precoding, digital-to-analog conversion, and so on, on the bit string to transmit, and output a baseband signal.
Note that, whether to apply DFT processing or not may be based on the configuration of the transform precoding. The transmitting/receiving section 220 (transmission processing section 2211) may perform, for a certain channel (for example, PUSCH), the DFT processing as the above-described transmission processing to transmit the channel by using a DFT-s-OFDM waveform if transform precoding is enabled, and otherwise, does not need to perform the DFT processing as the above-described transmission process.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 (RF section 222) may perform modulation to a radio frequency band, filtering, amplification, and so on, on the baseband signal, and transmit the signal of the radio frequency band through the transmitting/receiving antennas 230.
On the other hand, the transmitting/receiving section 220 (RF section 222) may perform amplification, filtering, demodulation to a baseband signal, and so on, on the signal of the radio frequency band received by the transmitting/receiving antennas 230.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 (reception processing section 2212) may apply a receiving process such as analog-digital conversion, FFT processing, IDFT processing (as necessary), filtering, de-mapping, demodulation, decoding (which may include error correction decoding), MAC layer processing, the processing of the RLC layer and the processing of the PDCP layer, and so on, on the acquired baseband signal, and acquire user data, and so on.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 (measurement section 223) may perform the measurement related to the received signal. For example, the measurement section 223 may perform RRM measurement, CSI measurement, and so on, based on the received signal. The measurement section 223 may measure a received power (for example, RSRP), a received quality (for example, RSRQ, SINR, SNR), a signal strength (for example, RSSI), channel information (for example, CSI), and so on. The measurement results may be output to the control section 210.
Note that the transmitting section and the receiving section of the user terminal 20 in the present disclosure may be constituted with at least one of the transmitting/receiving section 220 and the transmitting/receiving antennas 230.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may receive information related to one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for a plurality of types of signals and one or more settings of a power control parameter for uplink transmission in the plurality of the types of the signals. The control section 210 may determine the power control parameter, based on the one or more settings.
The transmitting/receiving section 220 may receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating an association between the one or more TCI states and the one or more settings.
When one of the one or more settings is associated with one of the one or more TCI states, and a condition is satisfied, the control section 210 may reset accumulation of a power control adjustment state.
When one of the one or more settings is not associated with one of the one or more TCI states, and a condition is satisfied, the control section 210 may reset accumulation of a power control adjustment state.
Note that the block diagrams that have been used to describe the above embodiments show blocks in functional units. These functional blocks (components) may be implemented in arbitrary combinations of at least one of hardware and software. Also, the method for implementing each functional block is not particularly limited. That is, each functional block may be realized by one piece of apparatus that is physically or logically coupled, or may be realized by directly or indirectly connecting two or more physically or logically separate pieces of apparatus (for example, via wire, wireless, or the like) and using these plurality of pieces of apparatus. The functional blocks may be implemented by combining softwares into the apparatus described above or the plurality of apparatuses described above.
Here, functions include judgment, determination, decision, calculation, computation, processing, derivation, investigation, search, confirmation, reception, transmission, output, access, resolution, selection, designation, establishment, comparison, assumption, expectation, considering, broadcasting, notifying, communicating, forwarding, configuring, reconfiguring, allocating (mapping), assigning, and the like, but function are by no means limited to these. For example, functional block (components) to implement a function of transmission may be referred to as a “transmitting section (transmitting unit),” a “transmitter,” and the like. The method for implementing each component is not particularly limited as described above.
For example, a base station, a user terminal, and so on according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may function as a computer that executes the processes of the radio communication method of the present disclosure.
Note that in the present disclosure, the words such as an apparatus, a circuit, a device, a section, a unit, and so on can be interchangeably interpreted. The hardware structure of the base station 10 and the user terminal 20 may be configured to include one or more of apparatuses shown in the drawings, or may be configured not to include part of apparatuses.
For example, although only one processor 1001 is shown, a plurality of processors may be provided. Furthermore, processes may be implemented with one processor or may be implemented at the same time, in sequence, or in different manners with two or more processors. Note that the processor 1001 may be implemented with one or more chips.
Each function of the base station 10 and the user terminals 20 is implemented, for example, by allowing certain software (programs) to be read on hardware such as the processor 1001 and the memory 1002, and by allowing the processor 1001 to perform calculations to control communication via the communication apparatus 1004 and control at least one of reading and writing of data in the memory 1002 and the storage 1003.
The processor 1001 controls the whole computer by, for example, running an operating system. The processor 1001 may be configured with a central processing unit (CPU), which includes interfaces with peripheral apparatus, control apparatus, computing apparatus, a register, and so on. For example, at least part of the above-described control section 110 (210), the transmitting/receiving section 120 (220), and so on may be implemented by the processor 1001.
Furthermore, the processor 1001 reads programs (program codes), software modules, data, and so on from at least one of the storage 1003 and the communication apparatus 1004, into the memory 1002, and executes various processes according to these. As for the programs, programs to allow computers to execute at least part of the operations of the above-described embodiments are used. For example, the control section 110 (210) may be implemented by control programs that are stored in the memory 1002 and that operate on the processor 1001, and other functional blocks may be implemented likewise.
The memory 1002 is a computer-readable recording medium, and may be constituted with, for example, at least one of a Read Only Memory (ROM), an Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM), an Electrically EPROM (EEPROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), and other appropriate storage media. The memory 1002 may be referred to as a “register,” a “cache,” a “main memory (primary storage apparatus)” and so on. The memory 1002 can store executable programs (program codes), software modules, and the like for implementing the radio communication method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.
The storage 1003 is a computer-readable recording medium, and may be constituted with, for example, at least one of a flexible disk, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a magneto-optical disk (for example, a compact disc (Compact Disc ROM (CD-ROM) and so on), a digital versatile disc, a Blu-ray (registered trademark) disk), a removable disk, a hard disk drive, a smart card, a flash memory device (for example, a card, a stick, and a key drive), a magnetic stripe, a database, a server, and other appropriate storage media. The storage 1003 may be referred to as “secondary storage apparatus.”
The communication apparatus 1004 is hardware (transmitting/receiving device) for allowing inter-computer communication via at least one of wired and wireless networks, and may be referred to as, for example, a “network device,” a “network controller,” a “network card,” a “communication module,” and so on. The communication apparatus 1004 may be configured to include a high frequency switch, a duplexer, a filter, a frequency synthesizer, and so on in order to realize, for example, at least one of frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD). For example, the above-described transmitting/receiving section 120 (220), the transmitting/receiving antennas 130 (230), and so on may be implemented by the communication apparatus 1004. In the transmitting/receiving section 120 (220), the transmitting section 120a (220a) and the receiving section 120b (220b) can be implemented while being separated physically or logically.
The input apparatus 1005 is an input device that receives input from the outside (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, a switch, a button, a sensor, and so on). The output apparatus 1006 is an output device that allows sending output to the outside (for example, a display, a speaker, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp, and so on). Note that the input apparatus 1005 and the output apparatus 1006 may be provided in an integrated structure (for example, a touch panel).
Furthermore, these types of apparatus, including the processor 1001, the memory 1002, and others, are connected by a bus 1007 for communicating information. The bus 1007 may be formed with a single bus, or may be formed with buses that vary between pieces of apparatus.
Also, the base station 10 and the user terminals 20 may be structured to include hardware such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and so on, and part or all of the functional blocks may be implemented by the hardware. For example, the processor 1001 may be implemented with at least one of these pieces of hardware.
Note that the terminology described in the present disclosure and the terminology that is needed to understand the present disclosure may be replaced by other terms that convey the same or similar meanings. For example, a “channel,” a “symbol,” and a “signal” (or signaling) may be interchangeably interpreted. Also, “signals” may be “messages.” A reference signal may be abbreviated as an “RS,” and may be referred to as a “pilot,” a “pilot signal,” and so on, depending on which standard applies. Furthermore, a “component carrier (CC)” may be referred to as a “cell,” a “frequency carrier,” a “carrier frequency” and so on.
A radio frame may be constituted of one or a plurality of periods (frames) in the time domain. Each of one or a plurality of periods (frames) constituting a radio frame may be referred to as a “subframe.” Furthermore, a subframe may be constituted of one or a plurality of slots in the time domain. A subframe may be a fixed time length (for example, 1 ms) independent of numerology.
Here, numerology may be a communication parameter applied to at least one of transmission and reception of a certain signal or channel. For example, numerology may indicate at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS), a bandwidth, a symbol length, a cyclic prefix length, a transmission time interval (TTI), the number of symbols per TTI, a radio frame structure, a particular filter processing performed by a transceiver in the frequency domain, a particular windowing processing performed by a transceiver in the time domain, and so on.
A slot may be constituted of one or a plurality of symbols in the time domain (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols, and so on). Furthermore, a slot may be a time unit based on numerology.
A slot may include a plurality of mini-slots. Each mini-slot may be constituted of one or a plurality of symbols in the time domain. A mini-slot may be referred to as a “sub-slot.” A mini-slot may be constituted of symbols less than the number of slots. A PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted in a time unit larger than a mini-slot may be referred to as “PDSCH (PUSCH) mapping type A.” A PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted using a mini-slot may be referred to as “PDSCH (PUSCH) mapping type B.”
A radio frame, a subframe, a slot, a mini-slot, and a symbol all express time units in signal communication. A radio frame, a subframe, a slot, a mini-slot, and a symbol may each be called by other applicable terms. Note that time units such as a frame, a subframe, a slot, mini-slot, and a symbol in the present disclosure may be interchangeably interpreted.
For example, one subframe may be referred to as a “TTI,” a plurality of consecutive subframes may be referred to as a “TTI,” or one slot or one mini-slot may be referred to as a “TTI.” That is, at least one of a subframe and a TTI may be a subframe (1 ms) in existing LTE, may be a shorter period than 1 ms (for example, 1 to 13 symbols), or may be a longer period than 1 ms. Note that a unit expressing TTI may be referred to as a “slot,” a “mini-slot,” and so on instead of a “subframe.”
Here, a TTI refers to the minimum time unit of scheduling in radio communication, for example. For example, in LTE systems, a base station schedules the allocation of radio resources (such as a frequency bandwidth and transmit power that are available for each user terminal) for the user terminal in TTI units. Note that the definition of TTIs is not limited to this.
TTIs may be transmission time units for channel-encoded data packets (transport blocks), code blocks, or codewords, or may be the unit of processing in scheduling, link adaptation, and so on. Note that, when ITIs are given, the time interval (for example, the number of symbols) to which transport blocks, code blocks, codewords, or the like are actually mapped may be shorter than the TTIs.
Note that, in the case where one slot or one mini-slot is referred to as a TTI, one or more TTIs (that is, one or more slots or one or more mini-slots) may be the minimum time unit of scheduling. Furthermore, the number of slots (the number of mini-slots) constituting the minimum time unit of the scheduling may be controlled.
A TTI having a time length of 1 ms may be referred to as a “normal TTI” (TTI in 3GPP Rel. 8 to Rel. 12), a “long TTI,” a “normal subframe,” a “long subframe,” a “slot” and so on. A TTI that is shorter than a normal TTI may be referred to as a “shortened TTI,” a “short TTI,” a “partial or fractional TTI,” a “shortened subframe,” a “short subframe,” a “mini-slot,” a “sub-slot,” a “slot” and so on.
Note that a long TTI (for example, a normal TTI, a subframe, and so on) may be interpreted as a TTI having a time length exceeding 1 ms, and a short TTI (for example, a shortened TTI and so on) may be interpreted as a TTI having a TTI length shorter than the TTI length of a long TTI and equal to or longer than 1 ms.
A resource block (RB) is the unit of resource allocation in the time domain and the frequency domain, and may include one or a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. The number of subcarriers included in an RB may be the same regardless of numerology, and, for example, may be 12. The number of subcarriers included in an RB may be determined based on numerology.
Also, an RB may include one or a plurality of symbols in the time domain, and may be one slot, one mini-slot, one subframe, or one TTI in length. One TTI, one subframe, and so on each may be constituted of one or a plurality of resource blocks.
Note that one or a plurality of RBs may be referred to as a “physical resource block (Physical RB (PRB)),” a “sub-carrier group (SCG),” a “resource element group (REG),” a “PRB pair,” an “RB pair” and so on.
Furthermore, a resource block may be constituted of one or a plurality of resource elements (REs). For example, one RE may correspond to a radio resource field of one subcarrier and one symbol.
A bandwidth part (BWP) (which may be referred to as a “fractional bandwidth,” and so on) may represent a subset of contiguous common resource blocks (common RBs) for certain numerology in a certain carrier. Here, a common RB may be specified by an index of the RB based on the common reference point of the carrier. A PRB may be defined by a certain BWP and may be numbered in the BWP.
The BWP may include a UL BWP (BWP for the UL) and a DL BWP (BWP for the DL). One or a plurality of BWPs may be configured in one carrier for a UE.
At least one of configured BWPs may be active, and a UE does not need to assume to transmit/receive a certain signal/channel outside active BWPs. Note that a “cell,” a “carrier,” and so on in the present disclosure may be interpreted as a “BWP”.
Note that the above-described structures of radio frames, subframes, slots, mini-slots, symbols, and so on are merely examples. For example, structures such as the number of subframes included in a radio frame, the number of slots per subframe or radio frame, the number of mini-slots included in a slot, the numbers of symbols and RBs included in a slot or a mini-slot, the number of subcarriers included in an RB, the number of symbols in a TTI, the symbol length, the cyclic prefix (CP) length, and so on can be variously changed.
Also, the information, parameters, and so on described in the present disclosure may be represented in absolute values or in relative values with respect to certain values, or may be represented in another corresponding information. For example, radio resources may be specified by certain indices.
The names used for parameters and so on in the present disclosure are in no respect limiting. Furthermore, mathematical expressions that use these parameters, and so on may be different from those expressly disclosed in the present disclosure. For example, since various channels (PUCCH, PDCCH, and so on) and information elements can be identified by any suitable names, the various names allocated to these various channels and information elements are in no respect limiting.
The information, signals, and so on described in the present disclosure may be represented by using any of a variety of different technologies. For example, data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, chips, and so on, all of which may be referenced throughout the herein-contained description, may be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or photons, or any combination of these.
Also, information, signals, and so on can be output in at least one of from higher layers to lower layers and from lower layers to higher layers. Information, signals, and so on may be input and/or output via a plurality of network nodes.
The information, signals, and so on that are input and/or output may be stored in a specific location (for example, a memory) or may be managed by using a management table. The information, signals, and so on to be input and/or output can be overwritten, updated, or appended. The information, signals, and so on that are output may be deleted. The information, signals, and so on that are input may be transmitted to another apparatus.
Reporting of information is by no means limited to the aspects/embodiments described in the present disclosure, and other methods may be used as well. For example, reporting of information in the present disclosure may be implemented by using physical layer signaling (for example, downlink control information (DCI), uplink control information (UCI)), higher layer signaling (for example, Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, broadcast information (master information block (MIB), system information blocks (SIBs), and so on), Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling and so on), and other signals or combinations of these.
Note that physical layer signaling may be referred to as “Layer 1/Layer 2 (L1/L2) control information (L1/L2 control signals),” “L1 control information (L1 control signal),” and so on. Also, RRC signaling may be referred to as an “RRC message,” and can be, for example, an RRC connection setup message, an RRC connection reconfiguration message, and so on. Also, MAC signaling may be reported using, for example, MAC control elements (MAC CEs).
Also, reporting of certain information (for example, reporting of “X holds”) does not necessarily have to be reported explicitly, and can be reported implicitly (by, for example, not reporting this certain information or reporting another piece of information).
Determinations may be made in values represented by one bit (0 or 1), may be made in Boolean values that represent true or false, or may be made by comparing numerical values (for example, comparison against a certain value).
Software, whether referred to as “software,” “firmware,” “middleware,” “microcode,” or “hardware description language,” or called by other terms, should be interpreted broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program codes, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executable files, execution threads, procedures, functions, and so on.
Also, software, commands, information, and so on may be transmitted and received via communication media. For example, when software is transmitted from a website, a server, or other remote sources by using at least one of wired technologies (coaxial cables, optical fiber cables, twisted-pair cables, digital subscriber lines (DSL), and so on) and wireless technologies (infrared radiation, microwaves, and so on), at least one of these wired technologies and wireless technologies are also included in the definition of communication media.
The terms “system” and “network” used in the present disclosure can be used interchangeably. The “network” may mean an apparatus (for example, a base station) included in the network.
In the present disclosure, the terms such as “precoding,” a “precoder,” a “weight (precoding weight),” “quasi-co-location (QCL),” a “Transmission Configuration Indication state (TCI state),” a “spatial relation,” a “spatial domain filter,” a “transmit power,” “phase rotation,” an “antenna port,” an “antenna port group,” a “layer,” “the number of layers,” a “rank,” a “resource,” a “resource set,” a “resource group,” a “beam,” a “beam width,” a “beam angular degree,” an “antenna,” an “antenna element,” a “panel,” and so on can be used interchangeably.
In the present disclosure, the terms such as a “base station (BS),” a “radio base station,” a “fixed station,” a “NodeB,” an “eNB (eNodeB),” a “gNB (gNodeB),” an “access point,” a “transmission point (TP),” a “reception point (RP),” a “transmission/reception point (TRP),” a “panel,” a “cell,” a “sector,” a “cell group,” a “carrier,” a “component carrier,” and so on can be used interchangeably. The base station may be referred to as the terms such as a “macro cell,” a small cell,” a “femto cell,” a “pico cell,” and so on.
A base station can accommodate one or a plurality of (for example, three) cells. When a base station accommodates a plurality of cells, the entire coverage area of the base station can be partitioned into multiple smaller areas, and each smaller area can provide communication services through base station subsystems (for example, indoor small base stations (Remote Radio Heads (RRHs))). The term “cell” or “sector” refers to part of or the entire coverage area of at least one of a base station and a base station subsystem that provides communication services within this coverage.
In the present disclosure, the terms “mobile station (MS),” “user terminal,” “user equipment (UE),” and “terminal” may be used interchangeably.
A mobile station may be referred to as a “subscriber station,” “mobile unit,” “subscriber unit,” “wireless unit,” “remote unit,” “mobile device,” “wireless device,” “wireless communication device,” “remote device,” “mobile subscriber station,” “access terminal,” “mobile terminal,” “wireless terminal,” “remote terminal,” “handset,” “user agent,” “mobile client,” “client,” or some other appropriate terms in some cases.
At least one of a base station and a mobile station may be referred to as a “transmitting apparatus,” a “receiving apparatus,” a “radio communication apparatus,” and so on. Note that at least one of a base station and a mobile station may be a device mounted on a moving object or a moving object itself, and so on.
The moving object is a movable object with any moving speed, and naturally a case where the moving object is stopped is also included. Examples of the moving object include a vehicle, a transport vehicle, an automobile, a motorcycle, a bicycle, a connected car, a loading shovel, a bulldozer, a wheel loader, a dump truck, a fork lift, a train, a bus, a trolley, a rickshaw, a ship and other watercraft, an airplane, a rocket, a satellite, a drone, a multicopter, a quadcopter, a balloon, and an object mounted on any of these, but these are not restrictive. The moving object may be a moving object that autonomously travels based on a direction for moving.
The moving object may be a vehicle (for example, a car, an airplane, and the like), may be a moving object which moves unmanned (for example, a drone, an automatic operation car, and the like), or may be a robot (a manned type or unmanned type). Note that at least one of a base station and a mobile station also includes an apparatus which does not necessarily move during communication operation. For example, at least one of a base station and a mobile station may be an Internet of Things (IoT) device such as a sensor.
The driving section 41 includes, for example, at least one of an engine, a motor, and a hybrid of an engine and a motor. The steering section 42 at least includes a steering wheel, and is configured to steer at least one of the front wheels 46 and the rear wheels 47, based on operation of the steering wheel operated by a user.
The electronic control section 49 includes a microprocessor 61, a memory (ROM, RAM) 62, and a communication port (for example, an input/output (IO) port) 63. The electronic control section 49 receives, as input, signals from the various sensors 50 to 58 included in the vehicle. The electronic control section 49 may be referred to as an Electronic Control Unit (ECU).
Examples of the signals from the various sensors 50 to 58 include a current signal from the current sensor 50 for sensing current of a motor, a rotational speed signal of the front wheels 46/rear wheels 47 acquired by the rotational speed sensor 51, a pneumatic signal of the front wheels 46/rear wheels 47 acquired by the pneumatic sensor 52, a vehicle speed signal acquired by the vehicle speed sensor 53, an acceleration signal acquired by the acceleration sensor 54, a depressing amount signal of the accelerator pedal 43 acquired by the accelerator pedal sensor 55, a depressing amount signal of the brake pedal 44 acquired by the brake pedal sensor 56, an operation signal of the shift lever 45 acquired by the shift lever sensor 57, and a detection signal for detecting an obstruction, a vehicle, a pedestrian, and the like acquired by the object detection sensor 58.
The information service section 59 includes various devices for providing (outputting) various pieces of information such as drive information, traffic information, and entertainment information, such as a car navigation system, an audio system, a speaker, a display, a television, and a radio, and one or more ECUs that control these devices. The information service section 59 provides various pieces of information/services (for example, multimedia information/multimedia service) for an occupant of the vehicle 40, using information acquired from an external apparatus via the communication module 60 and the like.
The information service section 59 may include an input device (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, a switch, a button, a sensor, a touch panel, and the like) for receiving input from the outside, or may include an output device (for example, a display, a speaker, an LED lamp, a touch panel, and the like) for implementing output to the outside.
A driving assistance system section 64 includes various devices for providing functions for preventing an accident and reducing a driver's driving load, such as a millimeter wave radar, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), a camera, a positioning locator (for example, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the like), map information (for example, a high definition (HD) map, an autonomous vehicle (AV)) map, and the like), a gyro system (for example, an inertial measurement apparatus (inertial measurement unit (IMU)), an inertial navigation apparatus (inertial navigation system (INS)), and the like), an artificial intelligence (AI) chip, and an AI processor, and one or more ECUs that control these devices. The driving assistance system section 64 transmits and receives various pieces of information via the communication module 60, and implements a driving assistance function or an autonomous driving function.
The communication module 60 can communicate with the microprocessor 61 and the constituent elements of the vehicle 40 via the communication port 63. For example, via the communication port 63, the communication module 60 transmits and receives data (information) to and from the driving section 41, the steering section 42, the accelerator pedal 43, the brake pedal 44, the shift lever 45, the right and left front wheels 46, the right and left rear wheels 47, the axle 48, the microprocessor 61 and the memory (ROM, RAM) 62 in the electronic control section 49, and the various sensors 50 to 58, which are included in the vehicle 40.
The communication module 60 can be controlled by the microprocessor 61 of the electronic control section 49, and is a communication device that can perform communication with an external apparatus. For example, the communication module 60 performs transmission and reception of various pieces of information to and from the external apparatus via radio communication. The communication module 60 may be either inside or outside the electronic control section 49. The external apparatus may be, for example, the base station 10, the user terminal 20, or the like described above. The communication module 60 may be, for example, at least one of the base station 10 and the user terminal 20 described above (may function as at least one of the base station 10 and the user terminal 20).
The communication module 60 may transmit at least one of signals from the various sensors 50 to 58 described above input to the electronic control section 49, information obtained based on the signals, and information based on an input from the outside (a user) obtained via the information service section 59, to the external apparatus via radio communication. The electronic control section 49, the various sensors 50 to 58, the information service section 59, and the like may be referred to as input sections that receive input. For example, the PUSCH transmitted by the communication module 60 may include information based on the input.
The communication module 60 receives various pieces of information (traffic information, signal information, inter-vehicle distance information, and the like) transmitted from the external apparatus, and displays the various pieces of information on the information service section 59 included in the vehicle. The information service section 59 may be referred to as an output section that outputs information (for example, outputs information to devices, such as a display and a speaker, based on the PDSCH received by the communication module 60 (or data/information decoded from the PDSCH)).
The communication module 60 stores the various pieces of information received from the external apparatus in the memory 62 that can be used by the microprocessor 61. Based on the pieces of information stored in the memory 62, the microprocessor 61 may perform control of the driving section 41, the steering section 42, the accelerator pedal 43, the brake pedal 44, the shift lever 45, the right and left front wheels 46, the right and left rear wheels 47, the axle 48, the various sensors 50 to 58, and the like included in the vehicle 40.
Furthermore, the base station in the present disclosure may be interpreted as a user terminal. For example, each aspect/embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to the structure that replaces a communication between a base station and a user terminal with a communication between a plurality of user terminals (for example, which may be referred to as “Device-to-Device (D2D),” “Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X),” and the like). In this case, user terminals 20 may have the functions of the base stations 10 described above. The words “uplink” and “downlink” may be interpreted as the words corresponding to the terminal-to-terminal communication (for example, “sidelink”). For example, an uplink channel, a downlink channel, and so on may be interpreted as a sidelink channel.
Likewise, the user terminal in the present disclosure may be interpreted as base station. In this case, the base station 10 may have the functions of the user terminal 20 described above.
Actions which have been described in the present disclosure to be performed by a base station may, in some cases, be performed by upper nodes. In a network including one or a plurality of network nodes with base stations, it is clear that various operations that are performed to communicate with terminals can be performed by base stations, one or more network nodes (for example, Mobility Management Entities (MMEs), Serving-Gateways (S-GWs), and so on may be possible, but these are not limiting) other than base stations, or combinations of these.
The aspects/embodiments illustrated in the present disclosure may be used individually or in combinations, which may be switched depending on the mode of implementation. The order of processes, sequences, flowcharts, and so on that have been used to describe the aspects/embodiments in the present disclosure may be re-ordered as long as inconsistencies do not arise. For example, although various methods have been illustrated in the present disclosure with various components of steps in exemplary orders, the specific orders that are illustrated herein are by no means limiting.
The aspects/embodiments illustrated in the present disclosure may be applied to Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LTE-Beyond (LTE-B), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4th generation mobile communication system (4G), 5th generation mobile communication system (5G), 6th generation mobile communication system (6G), xth generation mobile communication system (xG (where x is, for example, an integer or a decimal)), Future Radio Access (FRA), New-Radio Access Technology (RAT), New Radio (NR), New radio access (NX), Future generation radio access (FX), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM (registered trademark)), CDMA 2000, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.20, Ultra-WideBand (UWB), Bluetooth (registered trademark), systems that use other adequate radio communication methods and next-generation systems that are enhanced, modified, created, or defined based on these. A plurality of systems may be combined (for example, a combination of LTE or LTE-A and 5G, and the like) and applied.
The phrase “based on” (or “on the basis of”) as used in the present disclosure does not mean “based only on” (or “only on the basis of”), unless otherwise specified. In other words, the phrase “based on” (or “on the basis of”) means both “based only on” and “based at least on” (“only on the basis of” and “at least on the basis of”).
Reference to elements with designations such as “first,” “second,” and so on as used in the present disclosure does not generally limit the quantity or order of these elements. These designations may be used in the present disclosure only for convenience, as a method for distinguishing between two or more elements. Thus, reference to the first and second elements does not imply that only two elements may be employed, or that the first element must precede the second element in some way.
The term “judging (determining)” as in the present disclosure herein may encompass a wide variety of actions. For example, “judging (determining)” may be interpreted to mean making “judgments (determinations)” about judging, calculating, computing, processing, deriving, investigating, looking up, search and inquiry (for example, searching a table, a database, or some other data structures), ascertaining, and so on.
Furthermore, “judging (determining)” may be interpreted to mean making “judgments (determinations)” about receiving (for example, receiving information), transmitting (for example, transmitting information), input, output, accessing (for example, accessing data in a memory), and so on.
In addition, “judging (determining)” as used herein may be interpreted to mean making “judgments (determinations)” about resolving, selecting, choosing, establishing, comparing, and so on. In other words, “judging (determining)” may be interpreted to mean making “judgments (determinations)” about some action.
In addition, “judging (determining)” may be interpreted as “assuming,” “expecting,” “considering,” and the like.
“The maximum transmit power” according to the present disclosure may mean a maximum value of the transmit power, may mean the nominal maximum transmit power (the nominal UE maximum transmit power), or may mean the rated maximum transmit power (the rated UE maximum transmit power).
The terms “connected” and “coupled,” or any variation of these terms as used in the present disclosure mean all direct or indirect connections or coupling between two or more elements, and may include the presence of one or more intermediate elements between two elements that are “connected” or “coupled” to each other. The coupling or connection between the elements may be physical, logical, or a combination thereof. For example, “connection” may be interpreted as “access.”
In the present disclosure, when two elements are connected, the two elements may be considered “connected” or “coupled” to each other by using one or more electrical wires, cables and printed electrical connections, and, as some non-limiting and non-inclusive examples, by using electromagnetic energy having wavelengths in radio frequency regions, microwave regions, (both visible and invisible) optical regions, or the like.
In the present disclosure, the phrase “A and B are different” may mean that “A and B are different from each other.” Note that the phrase may mean that “A and B is each different from C.” The terms “separate,” “be coupled,” and so on may be interpreted similarly to “different.”
When terms such as “include,” “including,” and variations of these are used in the present disclosure, these terms are intended to be inclusive, in a manner similar to the way the term “comprising” is used. Furthermore, the term “or” as used in the present disclosure is intended to be not an exclusive disjunction.
For example, in the present disclosure, when an article such as “a,” “an,” and “the” in the English language is added by translation, the present disclosure may include that a noun after these articles is in a plural form.
Now, although the invention according to the present disclosure has been described in detail above, it should be obvious to a person skilled in the art that the invention according to the present disclosure is by no means limited to the embodiments described in the present disclosure. The invention according to the present disclosure can be implemented with various corrections and in various modifications, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention defined by the recitations of claims. Consequently, the description of the present disclosure is provided only for the purpose of explaining examples, and should by no means be construed to limit the invention according to the present disclosure in any way.
The present application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2021-171201 filed on Oct. 19, 2021, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-171201 | Oct 2021 | JP | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2022/037540 | 10/7/2022 | WO |
