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- the present invention relates to a terminal that executes wireless communication, and more particularly to a terminal that can determine a combination of compatible frequency bands, a wireless base station, and a wireless communication method.
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- LTE-Advanced LTE-Advanced
- 5th generation mobile communication system for the purpose of further speeding up LTE.
- Specifications also called 5G, New Radio (NR) or Next Generation (NG) are also underway.
- 3GPP Release 15 stipulates a notification method for a combination (Band combination) of frequency bands (hereinafter, abbreviated as bands) in which a terminal (User Equipment, UE) can send and receive radio signals (specifically, carriers).
- bands frequency bands
- UE User Equipment
- 3GPP Release 15 defines a fallback band combination as the capacity of the terminal (Non-Patent Document 2).
- a Fallback band combination is a combination of bands resulting from a combination of at least one secondary cell, or another band by releasing the uplink (UL) setting of the secondary cell or secondary cell group (SCG).
- a combination of discontinuous bands within a band may not be considered a fallback band combination of continuous band combinations within a band.
- the terminal will drop the fall from the list of candidate band combinations.
- the back band combination will be eliminated.
- SA band combination a part of the NR stand-alone (SA) band combination, which is another NE-DC (NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity) fallback band combination, will be deleted.
- SA band combination is no longer perfect.
- the network needs to combine the SA band combination of the NR container and the SA band combination of the MR-DC (Multi-RAT Dual Connectivity) container in order to acquire all the SA band combinations supported by the terminal. Yes, and the implementation is complicated.
- the following disclosure is made in view of such a situation, and an object thereof is to provide a terminal, a wireless base station, and a wireless communication method that can avoid complicated network implementation related to band combination processing. ..
- One aspect of the present disclosure is a terminal (UE200), in which the receiving unit (capacity information processing unit 250) that receives the capability inquiry information of the terminal from the network corresponds to the terminal based on the capability inquiry information.
- a control unit (control unit 240) for determining a candidate for a combination of frequency bands is provided, and the control unit excludes the combination from the candidate list of the combination when the combination is a fallback band combination. ..
- the combination of the transmission unit that transmits the capability inquiry information of the terminal to the terminal and the frequency band supported by the terminal is a fallback band combination
- the combination is described from the candidate list of the combination. It is a radio base station including a receiving unit that receives capability information from which combinations are excluded.
- One aspect of the present disclosure includes a step of receiving the capability inquiry information of the terminal and a step of determining a candidate for a combination of frequency bands supported by the terminal based on the capability inquiry information.
- the wireless communication method excludes the combination from the candidate list of the combination.
- FIG. 1 is an overall schematic configuration diagram of the wireless communication system 10.
- FIG. 2 is a functional block configuration diagram of the UE 200.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a notification sequence of UE Capability Information.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation flow regarding reporting of UE Capability Information of UE 200.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of frequency band combinations reported by UE200.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the UE 200.
- FIG. 1 is an overall schematic configuration diagram of the wireless communication system 10 according to the present embodiment.
- the wireless communication system 10 is a wireless communication system that complies with Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G New Radio (NR), and is a wireless access network 20 (hereinafter, RAN20, and a user terminal 200 (hereinafter, UE200)). including.
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- NR 5G New Radio
- RAN20 wireless access network 20
- UE200 user terminal 200
- RAN20 is an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) and Next It is a radio access network including the Generation-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN).
- E-UTRAN Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
- NG-RAN Generation-Radio Access Network
- RAN20 includes radio base stations 100A and 100B (hereinafter, eNB100A and gNB100B).
- eNB100A and gNB100B The specific configuration of the wireless communication system 10 including the number of eNBs, gNBs, and UEs is not limited to the example shown in FIG.
- RAN20 actually includes multiple RANNodes, specifically LTE eNBs and NR gNBs, and is connected to a core network (EPC / 5GC, not shown) according to LTE / 5G.
- the RAN20 and the core network may be simply expressed as a network.
- the eNB100A and gNB100B execute wireless communication with UE200 according to LTE or 5G.
- eNB100A, gNB100B and UE200 are MIMO that generates a beam with higher directivity by controlling radio signals transmitted from multiple antenna elements, and carrier aggregation (CA) that uses multiple component carriers (CC) in a bundle.
- CA carrier aggregation
- DC dual connectivity
- the wireless communication system 10 supports NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity (NE-DC), which is a DC between LTE and NR.
- NE-DC NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity
- the wireless communication system 10 may support other DCs, specifically, NR-NR Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) or E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC).
- UE200 creates one band combination (Band combination) by combining the frequency band numbers (band numbers) supported by its own terminal, and notifies the network of the created Band combination as capability information (UE Capability Information). be able to.
- FIG. 2 is a functional block configuration diagram of the UE 200.
- the UE 200 includes a wireless transmission unit 210, a wireless reception unit 220, a band combination determination unit 230, a control unit 240, and a capacity information processing unit 250.
- the wireless transmitter 210 transmits an uplink signal (UL signal) according to NR.
- the wireless receiver 220 receives the downlink signal (DL signal) according to the NR.
- the wireless transmission unit 210 and the wireless reception unit 220 execute wireless communication via a control channel or a data channel.
- Control channels include PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel), PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel), PBCH (Physical Broadcast Channel), and the like.
- the data channels include PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) and PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel).
- PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
- PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
- the reference signal includes Demodulation reference signal (DMRS), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTSS), and Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS).
- DMRS Demodulation reference signal
- SRS Sounding Reference Signal
- PTSS Phase Tracking Reference Signal
- CSI-RS Channel State Information-Reference Signal
- the signal may also include channel and reference signals.
- the data may mean data transmitted via a data channel.
- the band combination determination unit 230 determines the combination of frequency bands supported (supported) by the UE 200. Specifically, the band combination determination unit 230 determines the combination of frequency bands (Band combination) in which the UE 200 can transmit and receive radio signals.
- the radio signal may be read as a carrier, a frequency carrier, or a component carrier (CC).
- the frequency band may be simply expressed as a band, or may be expressed as a frequency band or the like.
- the band combination determination unit 230 creates one Band combination by combining the numbers (band numbers) of the corresponding frequency bands.
- the band combination determination unit 230 can create a plurality of such Band combinations.
- the combination of frequency bands may include a band combination for fallback (Fallback band combination).
- a Fallback band combination is a combination of bands resulting from a combination of at least one secondary cell (SCell), or another band combination by releasing the uplink (UL) setting of the secondary cell or secondary cell group (SCG). May be interpreted.
- the control unit 240 controls each functional block constituting the UE 200.
- the control unit 240 causes the band combination determination unit 230 to determine the frequency band combination supported by the UE 200 based on the frequency band information.
- control unit 240 determines candidate band combinations (candidate band combinations) of the frequency bands supported by the UE 200 based on the capacity inquiry (UECapabilityEnquiry) of the UE 200 received by the capacity information processing unit 250. Can be done.
- the control unit 240 selects the frequency band combination from the candidate list of the combination, specifically, the list of candidate band combinations. It may be removed.
- the control unit 240 is used.
- the combination of the frequency bands may be excluded from the list of candidate band combinations.
- the UE shall:... 1> for each band combination included in the list of "candidate band combinations": 2> if it is regarded as a fallback band combination with the same capabilities of another band combination included in the list of "candidate band combinations", and 2> if it is not the fallback band combination resulted from another band combination by releasing SCG:
- the capability information processing unit 250 executes processing of information (UE Capability Information) related to the capability of the UE 200.
- the capability information processing unit 250 can receive UECapabilityEnquiry, which is information for inquiring about the capability of UE200, from the network.
- the capability information processing unit 250 constitutes a receiving unit.
- the capability information processing unit 250 can transmit information (UE Capability Information) indicating the capability of the UE 200 regarding wireless communication and the like to the network.
- UE Capability Information information indicating the capability of the UE 200 regarding wireless communication and the like.
- the capability information processing unit 250 can send and receive UECapabilityEnquiry and UECapabilityInformation by using the signaling of the upper layer (for example, the radio resource control layer (RRC)).
- RRC radio resource control layer
- the ability information processing unit 250 can transmit the ability information including the Band combination.
- the ability information of the Band combination may include the Fallback band combination.
- FIG. 3 shows an example of a notification sequence of UE Capability Information.
- the UE 200 returns UE Capability Information (S20) in response to an inquiry (UE Capability Inquiry) from the network (S10).
- S20 UE Capability Information
- S10 UE Capability Inquiry
- the UE Capability Information may include information on a combination of frequency bands that the UE 200 can support (support), specifically, a Band combination including a Fallback band combination.
- FIG. 5 shows an example of frequency band combinations reported by UE200.
- the combination of BC and BC contained in the NR container (NR stand-alone (SA) configuration) is shown.
- FIG. 4 shows an operation flow for reporting UE Capability Information of UE200. As shown in FIG. 4, the UE 200 receives the UECapabilityEnquiry (S110).
- the UE200 determines a compatible frequency band combination and determines whether or not the combination is regarded as a fallback band combination having the same ability as other band combinations (S115).
- similar abilities may be interpreted as the same abilities (same capabilities), or may be interpreted as abilities that are not necessarily the same but can be treated as substantially the same.
- the capability is not particularly limited as long as it affects the capability of wireless communication, such as the bandwidth of the frequency band and the resource block in the related frequency direction (and / or time direction).
- the UE200 determines whether or not the combination is a Fallback band combination (S120).
- the UE 200 allows the combination from another band combination by releasing the uplink (UL) setting of at least one secondary cell (SCell), or secondary cell or secondary cell group (SCG). It may be determined whether or not it is a combination of generated bands.
- UL uplink
- SCell secondary cell
- SCG secondary cell or secondary cell group
- the release is not necessarily limited to the release of the UL setting of SCell, and may be, for example, the release of some setting related to SCG.
- UE200 excludes the combination from the list of candidate band combinations when the combination is not a Fallback band combination (S130).
- the corresponding combination is deleted from the list of candidate band combinations (combination candidate list) that may include a combination of a plurality of frequency bands.
- UE200 transmits UECapability Information including frequency band combinations (BandCombination) to the network based on the contents of list of candidate band combinations determined by the processing up to S130 (S140).
- BandCombination frequency band combinations
- the network specifically, RAN20, executes scheduling of UE200 based on UECapability Information received from UE200.
- the following action / effect can be obtained.
- the UE 200 can exclude a determined frequency band combination from the list of candidate band combinations when the determined frequency band combination is not a Fallback band combination.
- the UE200 is a list of candidate when the determined frequency band combination is regarded as a fallback band combination having the same ability as other band combinations and the frequency band combination is not a Fallback band combination.
- the combination of the frequency bands may be excluded from the band combinations.
- the UE 200 simply lists of candidate band combinations even when the determined frequency band combination is regarded as a fallback band combination having the same ability as other band combinations. ) Does not exclude the fallback band combination, and if it is clearly not a Fallback band combination, the frequency band combination is excluded from the list of candidate band combinations.
- the network combines the SA band combination of the NR container and the SA band combination of the MR-DC (Multi-RAT Dual Connectivity) container in order to acquire all the SA band combinations supported by the UE200. do not have to.
- SA NR stand-alone
- NE-DC has been described as an example, but when it is applied to another DC (NR-DC, EN-DC), the above-mentioned operation is also applied to the DC. You may.
- each functional block is realized by any combination of at least one of hardware and software.
- the method of realizing each functional block is not particularly limited. That is, each functional block may be realized using one physically or logically coupled device, or two or more physically or logically separated devices can be directly or indirectly (eg, for example). , Wired, wireless, etc.) and may be realized using these plurality of devices.
- the functional block may be realized by combining the software with the one device or the plurality of devices.
- Functions include judgment, decision, judgment, calculation, calculation, processing, derivation, investigation, search, confirmation, reception, transmission, output, access, solution, selection, selection, establishment, comparison, assumption, expectation, and assumption. Broadcasting, notifying, communicating, forwarding, configuring, reconfiguring, allocating, mapping, assigning, etc., but limited to these I can't.
- a functional block that makes transmission function is called a transmitting unit (transmitting unit) or a transmitter (transmitter).
- transmitting unit transmitting unit
- transmitter transmitter
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the UE 200.
- the UE 200 may be configured as a computer device including a processor 1001, a memory 1002, a storage 1003, a communication device 1004, an input device 1005, an output device 1006, a bus 1007, and the like.
- the word “device” can be read as a circuit, device, unit, etc.
- the hardware configuration of the device may be configured to include one or more of the devices shown in the figure, or may be configured not to include some of the devices.
- Each functional block of UE200 (see FIG. 2) is realized by any hardware element of the computer device or a combination of the hardware elements.
- each function in the UE 200 is such that the processor 1001 performs an operation by loading predetermined software (program) on the hardware such as the processor 1001 and the memory 1002, and controls the communication by the communication device 1004, or the memory 1002. And by controlling at least one of reading and writing of data in the storage 1003.
- predetermined software program
- Processor 1001 operates, for example, an operating system to control the entire computer.
- the processor 1001 may be composed of a central processing unit (CPU) including an interface with peripheral devices, a control device, an arithmetic unit, a register, and the like.
- CPU central processing unit
- the processor 1001 reads a program (program code), a software module, data, etc. from at least one of the storage 1003 and the communication device 1004 into the memory 1002, and executes various processes according to these.
- a program program code
- a program that causes a computer to execute at least a part of the operations described in the above-described embodiment is used.
- the various processes described above may be executed by one processor 1001 or may be executed simultaneously or sequentially by two or more processors 1001.
- Processor 1001 may be implemented by one or more chips.
- the program may be transmitted from the network via a telecommunication line.
- the memory 1002 is a computer-readable recording medium, and is composed of at least one such as ReadOnlyMemory (ROM), ErasableProgrammableROM (EPROM), Electrically ErasableProgrammableROM (EEPROM), and RandomAccessMemory (RAM). May be done.
- the memory 1002 may be referred to as a register, a cache, a main memory (main storage device), or the like.
- the memory 1002 can store a program (program code), a software module, or the like that can execute the method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the storage 1003 is a computer-readable recording medium, for example, an optical disk such as a Compact Disc ROM (CD-ROM), a hard disk drive, a flexible disk, an optical magnetic disk (for example, a compact disk, a digital versatile disk, or a Blu-ray). It may consist of at least one (registered trademark) disk), smart card, flash memory (eg, card, stick, key drive), floppy (registered trademark) disk, magnetic strip, and the like.
- Storage 1003 may be referred to as auxiliary storage.
- the recording medium described above may be, for example, a database, server or other suitable medium containing at least one of memory 1002 and storage 1003.
- the communication device 1004 is hardware (transmission / reception device) for communicating between computers via at least one of a wired network and a wireless network, and is also referred to as, for example, a network device, a network controller, a network card, a communication module, or the like.
- the communication device 1004 includes, for example, a high frequency switch, a duplexer, a filter, a frequency synthesizer, etc. in order to realize at least one of frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD). It may be composed of.
- FDD frequency division duplex
- TDD time division duplex
- the input device 1005 is an input device (for example, keyboard, mouse, microphone, switch, button, sensor, etc.) that accepts input from the outside.
- the output device 1006 is an output device (for example, a display, a speaker, an LED lamp, etc.) that outputs to the outside.
- the input device 1005 and the output device 1006 may have an integrated configuration (for example, a touch panel).
- Bus 1007 may be configured using a single bus or may be configured using different buses for each device.
- the device includes hardware such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor: DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).
- the hardware may implement some or all of each functional block.
- processor 1001 may be implemented using at least one of these hardware.
- information notification includes physical layer signaling (eg Downlink Control Information (DCI), Uplink Control Information (UCI), higher layer signaling (eg RRC signaling, Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling, broadcast information (Master Information Block)). (MIB), System Information Block (SIB)), other signals or a combination thereof.
- DCI Downlink Control Information
- UCI Uplink Control Information
- RRC signaling eg RRC signaling, Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling, broadcast information (Master Information Block)).
- MIB System Information Block
- SIB System Information Block
- RRC signaling may also be referred to as an RRC message, for example, RRC Connection Setup. ) Message, RRC Connection Reconfiguration message, etc. may be used.
- LTE LongTermEvolution
- LTE-A LTE-Advanced
- SUPER3G IMT-Advanced
- 4G 4th generation mobile communication system
- 5G 5th generation mobile communication system
- FutureRadioAccess FAA
- NewRadio NR
- W-CDMA registered trademark
- GSM registered trademark
- CDMA2000 Code Division Multiple Access 2000
- UMB UltraMobile Broadband
- IEEE802.11 Wi-Fi (registered trademark)
- IEEE802.16 WiMAX®
- IEEE802.20 Ultra-WideBand (UWB), Bluetooth®, and other systems that utilize appropriate systems and at least one of the next-generation systems extended based on them.
- a plurality of systems may be applied in combination (for example, a combination of at least one of LTE and LTE-A and 5G).
- the specific operation performed by the base station in the present disclosure may be performed by its upper node.
- various operations performed for communication with a terminal are performed by the base station and other network nodes other than the base station (for example, MME or). It is clear that it can be done by at least one of (but not limited to, S-GW, etc.).
- S-GW network node
- the case where there is one network node other than the base station is illustrated above, it may be a combination of a plurality of other network nodes (for example, MME and S-GW).
- Information and signals can be output from the upper layer (or lower layer) to the lower layer (or upper layer).
- Input / output may be performed via a plurality of network nodes.
- the input / output information may be stored in a specific location (for example, memory) or may be managed using a management table. Input / output information can be overwritten, updated, or added. The output information may be deleted. The input information may be transmitted to another device.
- the determination may be made by a value represented by 1 bit (0 or 1), by a boolean value (Boolean: true or false), or by comparing numerical values (for example, a predetermined value). It may be done by comparison with the value).
- the notification of predetermined information (for example, the notification of "being X") is not limited to the explicit notification, but is performed implicitly (for example, the notification of the predetermined information is not performed). May be good.
- Software whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or by any other name, is an instruction, instruction set, code, code segment, program code, program, subprogram, software module.
- Applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executable files, execution threads, procedures, features, etc. should be broadly interpreted.
- software, instructions, information, etc. may be transmitted and received via a transmission medium.
- a transmission medium For example, a website, where the software uses at least one of wired technology (coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twist pair, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), etc.) and wireless technology (infrared, microwave, etc.).
- wired technology coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twist pair, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), etc.
- wireless technology infrared, microwave, etc.
- the information, signals, etc. described in this disclosure may be represented using any of a variety of different techniques.
- data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, chips, etc. that may be referred to throughout the above description are voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or magnetic particles, light fields or photons, or any of these. It may be represented by a combination of.
- a channel and a symbol may be a signal (signaling).
- the signal may be a message.
- the component carrier (CC) may be referred to as a carrier frequency, a cell, a frequency carrier, or the like.
- system and “network” used in this disclosure are used interchangeably.
- the information, parameters, etc. described in the present disclosure may be expressed using absolute values, relative values from predetermined values, or using other corresponding information. It may be represented.
- the radio resource may be one indicated by an index.
- Base Station BS
- Wireless Base Station Wireless Base Station
- NodeB NodeB
- eNodeB eNodeB
- gNodeB gNodeB
- Base stations are sometimes referred to by terms such as macrocells, small cells, femtocells, and picocells.
- the base station can accommodate one or more (for example, three) cells (also called sectors). When a base station accommodates multiple cells, the entire base station coverage area can be divided into multiple smaller areas, each smaller area being a base station subsystem (eg, a small indoor base station (Remote Radio)). Communication services can also be provided by Head: RRH).
- a base station subsystem eg, a small indoor base station (Remote Radio)
- Communication services can also be provided by Head: RRH).
- cell refers to a base station that provides communication services in this coverage, and part or all of the coverage area of at least one of the base station subsystems.
- MS mobile station
- UE user equipment
- terminal terminal
- Mobile stations can be used by those skilled in the art as subscriber stations, mobile units, subscriber units, wireless units, remote units, mobile devices, wireless devices, wireless communication devices, remote devices, mobile subscriber stations, access terminals, mobile terminals, wireless. It may also be referred to as a terminal, remote terminal, handset, user agent, mobile client, client, or some other suitable term.
- At least one of the base station and the mobile station may be called a transmitting device, a receiving device, a communication device, or the like.
- At least one of the base station and the mobile station may be a device mounted on the mobile body, the mobile body itself, or the like.
- the moving body may be a vehicle (eg, car, airplane, etc.), an unmanned moving body (eg, drone, self-driving car, etc.), or a robot (manned or unmanned). ) May be.
- at least one of the base station and the mobile station includes a device that does not necessarily move during communication operation.
- at least one of a base station and a mobile station may be an Internet of Things (IoT) device such as a sensor.
- IoT Internet of Things
- the base station in the present disclosure may be read as a mobile station (user terminal, the same applies hereinafter).
- communication between a base station and a mobile station has been replaced with communication between a plurality of mobile stations (for example, it may be called Device-to-Device (D2D), Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), etc.).
- D2D Device-to-Device
- V2X Vehicle-to-Everything
- Each aspect / embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to the configuration.
- the mobile station may have the functions of the base station.
- words such as "up” and “down” may be read as words corresponding to communication between terminals (for example, "side”).
- the upstream channel, the downstream channel, and the like may be read as a side channel.
- the mobile station in the present disclosure may be read as a base station.
- the base station may have the functions of the mobile station.
- the radio frame may be composed of one or more frames in the time domain. Each one or more frames in the time domain may be referred to as a subframe. Subframes may further consist of one or more slots in the time domain.
- the subframe may have a fixed time length (eg, 1 ms) that is independent of numerology.
- the numerology may be a communication parameter that applies to at least one of the transmission and reception of a signal or channel.
- Numerology includes, for example, SubCarrier Spacing (SCS), bandwidth, symbol length, cyclic prefix length, transmission time interval (TTI), number of symbols per TTI, wireless frame configuration, transmission / reception.
- SCS SubCarrier Spacing
- TTI transmission time interval
- At least one of a specific filtering process performed by the machine in the frequency domain, a specific windowing process performed by the transmitter / receiver in the time domain, and the like may be indicated.
- the slot may be composed of one or more symbols (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM) symbol, Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbol, etc.) in the time domain. Slots may be in numerology-based time units.
- OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
- SC-FDMA Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access
- the slot may include a plurality of mini slots. Each minislot may consist of one or more symbols in the time domain.
- the mini-slot may also be referred to as a sub-slot.
- a minislot may consist of a smaller number of symbols than the slot.
- PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted in time units larger than the minislot may be referred to as PDSCH (or PUSCH) mapping type A.
- the PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted using the minislot may be referred to as PDSCH (or PUSCH) mapping type B.
- the wireless frame, subframe, slot, minislot and symbol all represent the time unit when transmitting a signal.
- the radio frame, subframe, slot, minislot and symbol may have different names corresponding to each.
- one subframe may be referred to as a transmission time interval (TTI)
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI transmission time interval
- TTI slot or one minislot
- at least one of the subframe and TTI may be a subframe (1ms) in existing LTE, a period shorter than 1ms (eg, 1-13 symbols), or a period longer than 1ms. It may be.
- the unit representing TTI may be called a slot, a mini slot, or the like instead of a subframe.
- TTI refers to, for example, the minimum time unit of scheduling in wireless communication.
- a base station schedules each user terminal to allocate radio resources (frequency bandwidth that can be used in each user terminal, transmission power, etc.) in TTI units.
- the definition of TTI is not limited to this.
- the TTI may be a transmission time unit such as a channel-encoded data packet (transport block), a code block, or a code word, or may be a processing unit such as scheduling or link adaptation.
- the time interval for example, the number of symbols
- the transport block, code block, code word, etc. may be shorter than the TTI.
- one or more TTIs may be the minimum time unit for scheduling. Further, the number of slots (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 called a normal TTI (TTI in LTE Rel.8-12), a normal TTI, a long TTI, a normal subframe, a normal subframe, a long subframe, a slot, or the like.
- TTIs shorter than normal TTIs may also be referred to as shortened TTIs, short TTIs, partial TTIs (partial or fractional TTIs), shortened subframes, short subframes, minislots, subslots, slots, and the like.
- the long TTI (for example, normal TTI, subframe, etc.) may be read as a TTI having a time length of more than 1 ms
- the short TTI (for example, shortened TTI, etc.) may be read as less than the TTI length of the long TTI and 1 ms. It may be read as a TTI having the above TTI length.
- a resource block is a resource allocation unit in the time domain and frequency domain, and may include one or more consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain.
- the number of subcarriers contained in RB may be the same regardless of numerology, and may be, for example, 12.
- the number of subcarriers contained in the RB may be determined based on numerology.
- the time domain of RB may include one or more symbols, and may have a length of 1 slot, 1 mini slot, 1 subframe, or 1 TTI.
- Each 1TTI, 1 subframe, etc. may be composed of one or a plurality of resource blocks.
- One or more RBs include a physical resource block (Physical RB: PRB), a sub-carrier group (Sub-Carrier Group: SCG), a resource element group (Resource Element Group: REG), a PRB pair, an RB pair, and the like. May be called.
- Physical RB Physical RB: PRB
- SCG sub-carrier Group
- REG resource element group
- PRB pair an RB pair, and the like. May be called.
- the resource block may be composed of one or a plurality of resource elements (ResourceElement: RE).
- RE resource elements
- 1RE may be a radio resource area of 1 subcarrier and 1 symbol.
- Bandwidth Part (which may also be called partial bandwidth, etc.) may represent a subset of consecutive common RBs (common resource blocks) for a neurology in a carrier. good.
- the common RB may be specified by the index of the RB with respect to the common reference point of the carrier.
- PRBs may be defined in a BWP and numbered within that BWP.
- BWP may include BWP for UL (UL BWP) and BWP for DL (DL BWP).
- BWP for UL
- DL BWP BWP for DL
- One or more BWPs may be set in one carrier for the UE.
- At least one of the configured BWPs may be active, and the UE may not expect to send or receive a given signal / channel outside the active BWP.
- “cell”, “carrier” and the like in this disclosure may be read as “BWP”.
- the above-mentioned structures such as wireless frames, subframes, slots, minislots and symbols are merely examples.
- the number of subframes contained in a wireless frame the number of slots per subframe or wireless frame, the number of minislots contained within a slot, the number of symbols and RBs contained in a slot or minislot, and included in RB.
- the number of subcarriers, the number of symbols in the TTI, the symbol length, the cyclic prefix (CP) length, and other configurations can be changed in various ways.
- connection means any direct or indirect connection or connection between two or more elements, and each other. It can include the presence of one or more intermediate elements between two “connected” or “combined” elements.
- the connections or connections between the elements may be physical, logical, or a combination thereof.
- connection may be read as "access”.
- the two elements use at least one of one or more wires, cables and printed electrical connections, and, as some non-limiting and non-comprehensive examples, the radio frequency domain.
- Electromagnetic energies with wavelengths in the microwave and light (both visible and invisible) regions, etc. can be considered to be “connected” or “coupled” to each other.
- the reference signal can also be abbreviated as Reference Signal (RS) and may be called a pilot (Pilot) depending on the applicable standard.
- RS Reference Signal
- Pilot pilot
- each of the above devices may be replaced with a "part”, a “circuit”, a “device”, or the like.
- references to elements using designations such as “first”, “second” as used in this disclosure does not generally limit the quantity or order of those elements. These designations can be used in the present disclosure as a convenient way to distinguish between two or more elements. Therefore, references to the first and second elements do not mean that only two elements can be adopted there, or that the first element must somehow precede the second element.
- determining and “determining” used in this disclosure may include a wide variety of actions.
- “Judgment” and “decision” are, for example, judgment (judging), calculation (calculating), calculation (computing), processing (processing), derivation (deriving), investigation (investigating), search (looking up, search, inquiry). (For example, searching in a table, database or another data structure), ascertaining may be regarded as “judgment” or “decision”.
- judgment and “decision” are receiving (for example, receiving information), transmitting (for example, transmitting information), input (input), output (output), and access.
- Accessing (for example, accessing data in memory) may be regarded as "judgment” or “decision”.
- judgment and “decision” mean that the things such as solving, selecting, choosing, establishing, and comparing are regarded as “judgment” and “decision”. Can include. That is, “judgment” and “decision” may include considering some action as “judgment” and “decision”. Further, “judgment (decision)” may be read as “assuming”, “expecting”, “considering” and the like.
- the term "A and B are different” may mean “A and B are different from each other.”
- the term may mean that "A and B are different from C”.
- Terms such as “separate” and “combined” may be interpreted in the same way as “different”.
- Wireless communication system 20 RAN 100A eNB 100B gNB 200 UE 210 Wireless transmitter 220 Wireless receiver 230 Band combination determination unit 240 Control unit 250 Capacity Information processing unit 1001 Processor 1002 Memory 1003 Storage 1004 Communication device 1005 Input device 1006 Output device 1007 Bus
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を含み、前記決定するステップでは、前記組合せがフォールバック用バンド組合せである場合、前記組合せの候補リストから前記組合せを排除する無線通信方法である。
図1は、本実施形態に係る無線通信システム10の全体概略構成図である。無線通信システム10は、Long Term Evolution(LTE)及び5G New Radio(NR)に従った無線通信システムであり、無線アクセスネットワーク20(以下、RAN20、及びユーザ端末200(User Equipment 200、以下、UE200)を含む。
Generation-Radio Access Network(NG-RAN)を含む無線アクセスネットワークである。
次に、無線通信システム10の機能ブロック構成について説明する。具体的には、UE200の機能ブロック構成について説明する。図2は、UE200の機能ブロック構成図である。
1> for each band combination included in the list of "candidate band combinations":
2> if it is regarded as a fallback band combination with the same capabilities of another band combination included in the list of "candidate band combinations", and
2> if it is not the fallback band combination resulted from another band combination by releasing SCG:
能力情報処理部250は、UE200の能力に関する情報(UE Capability Information)の処理を実行する。具体的には、能力情報処理部250は、UE200の能力を問合せる情報であるUECapabilityEnquiryをネットワークから受信することができる。本実施形態において、能力情報処理部250は、受信部を構成する。
次に、無線通信システム10の動作について説明する。具体的には、UE200によるBand combinationの報告に関する動作について説明する。
図3は、UE Capability Informationの通知シーケンス例を示す。図3に示すように、UE200は、ネットワークからの問合せ(UE Capability Enquiry)に応じて(S10)、UE Capability Informationを返送する(S20)。
図4は、UE200のUE Capability Informationの報告に関する動作フローを示す。図4に示すように、UE200は、UECapabilityEnquiryを受信する(S110)。
combination)は、list of candidate band combinationsに含まれていてよい。
上述した実施形態によれば、以下の作用効果が得られる。具体的には、UE200は、決定した周波数バンドの組合せがFallback band combinationでない場合、周波数バンドの組合せの候補リスト(list of candidate band combinations)から当該組合せを排除することができる。
以上、実施例に沿って本発明の内容を説明したが、本発明はこれらの記載に限定されるものではなく、種々の変形及び改良が可能であることは、当業者には自明である。
無線フレームは時間領域において1つまたは複数のフレームによって構成されてもよい。
時間領域において1つまたは複数の各フレームはサブフレームと呼ばれてもよい。
サブフレームはさらに時間領域において1つまたは複数のスロットによって構成されてもよい。サブフレームは、ニューメロロジー(numerology)に依存しない固定の時間長(例えば、1ms)であってもよい。
RBに含まれるサブキャリアの数は、ニューメロロジーに関わらず同じであってもよく、例えば12であってもよい。RBに含まれるサブキャリアの数は、ニューメロロジーに基づいて決定されてもよい。
「離れる」、「結合される」などの用語も、「異なる」と同様に解釈されてもよい。
20 RAN
100A eNB
100B gNB
200 UE
210 無線送信部
220 無線受信部
230 バンド組合せ決定部
240 制御部
250 能力情報処理部
1001 プロセッサ
1002 メモリ
1003 ストレージ
1004 通信装置
1005 入力装置
1006 出力装置
1007 バス
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- 端末であって、
前記端末の能力問合せ情報を受信する受信部と、
前記能力問合せ情報に基づいて、前記端末が対応している周波数バンドの組合せの候補を決定する制御部と
を備え、
前記制御部は、前記組合せがフォールバック用バンド組合せである場合、前記組合せの候補リストから前記組合せを排除する端末。 - 前記制御部は、前記組合せがセカンダリーセルグループの解放による他のバンド組合せから生じたフォールバック用バンド組合せでない場合、前記組合せの候補リストから前記組合せを排除する請求項1に記載の端末。
- 端末の能力問合せ情報を前記端末に送信する送信部と、
前記端末が対応している周波数バンドの組合せがフォールバック用バンド組合せである場合、前記組合せの候補リストから前記組合せが排除された能力情報を受信する受信部と
を備える無線基地局。 - 端末の能力問合せ情報を受信するステップと、
前記能力問合せ情報に基づいて、前記端末が対応している周波数バンドの組合せの候補を決定するステップと
を含み、
前記決定するステップでは、前記組合せがフォールバック用バンド組合せである場合、前記組合せの候補リストから前記組合せを排除する無線通信方法。
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