WO2021229774A1

WO2021229774A1 - Terminal and communication method

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Publication number: WO2021229774A1
Application number: PCT/JP2020/019355
Authority: WO
Inventors: 翔平吉岡; 聡永田
Original assignee: 株式会社Ｎｔｔドコモ
Priority date: 2020-05-14
Filing date: 2020-05-14
Publication date: 2021-11-18

Abstract

This terminal is provided with: a reception unit for receiving information relating to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process from another terminal; a control unit for determining control relating to a transmission to the other terminal on the basis of the information relating to the HARQ process; and a transmission unit for transmitting, in the case where the control unit determines to transmit a transport block, the transport block to the other terminal.

Description

Terminal and communication method

The present invention relates to a terminal and a communication method in a wireless communication system.

In LTE (Long Term Evolution) and LTE successor systems (for example, LTE-A (LTE Advanced), NR (New Radio) (also referred to as 5G)), terminals communicate directly with each other without going through a base station. (Device to Device) technology is being studied (for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

D2D reduces the traffic between the terminal and the base station, and enables communication between the terminals even if the base station becomes unable to communicate due to a disaster or the like. In 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), D2D is referred to as "sidelink", but in this specification, D2D, which is a more general term, is used. However, in the description of the embodiment described later, a side link is also used if necessary.

D2D communication includes D2D discovery (also referred to as D2D discovery) for discovering other terminals that can communicate, and D2D communication (D2D direct communication, D2D communication, direct communication between terminals) for direct communication between terminals. It is also roughly divided into communication, etc.). Hereinafter, when D2D communication, D2D discovery, etc. are not particularly distinguished, they are simply referred to as D2D. Further, a signal transmitted / received by D2D is called a D2D signal. Various use cases of services related to V2X (Vehicle to Everything) in NR are being studied (for example, Non-Patent Document 2).

There is an upper limit to the number of HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) processes that terminals can handle in direct communication between terminals, and it is defined as UE capability. However, since the terminal cannot know the upper limit of the number of HARQ processes of other terminals or the number of HARQ processes in use, there is a possibility that the transport block is not received by the receiving terminal even if it is transmitted.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to execute transmission / reception processing according to the number of HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) processes in direct communication between terminals.

According to the disclosed technology, a receiving unit that receives information related to a HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) process from another terminal and a control related to transmission to the other terminal based on the information related to the HARQ process are controlled. A terminal having a control unit for determining and a transmission unit for transmitting the transport block to the other terminal when the control unit decides to transmit the transport block is provided.

According to the disclosed technology, in direct communication between terminals, transmission / reception processing according to the number of HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) processes can be executed.

It is a figure for demonstrating V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (1) of the transmission mode of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (2) of the transmission mode of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (3) of the transmission mode of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (4) of the transmission mode of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (5) of the transmission mode of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (1) of the communication type of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (2) of the communication type of V2X. It is a figure for demonstrating the example (3) of the communication type of V2X. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (1) of V2X. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (2) of V2X. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (3) of V2X. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (4) of V2X. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the functional structure of the base station 10 in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the functional structure of the terminal 20 in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the hardware composition of the base station 10 or the terminal 20 in embodiment of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The embodiments described below are examples, and the embodiments to which the present invention is applied are not limited to the following embodiments.

Existing technology is appropriately used in the operation of the wireless communication system according to the embodiment of the present invention. However, the existing technology is, for example, an existing LTE, but is not limited to the existing LTE. Further, the term "LTE" used in the present specification has a broad meaning including LTE-Advanced, a method after LTE-Advanced (eg, NR), or a wireless LAN (Local Area Network), unless otherwise specified. Shall have.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the duplex system may be a TDD (Time Division Duplex) system, an FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) system, or any other system (for example, Flexible Duplex, etc.). Method may be used.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, "configuring" the radio parameter or the like may mean that a predetermined value is set in advance (Pre-configure), or the base station 10 or The wireless parameters notified from the terminal 20 may be set, or may be predetermined by the specifications.

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining V2X. In 3GPP, it is considered to realize V2X (Vehicle to Everything) or eV2X (enhanced V2X) by expanding the D2D function, and specifications are being promoted. As shown in FIG. 1, V2X is a part of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) which means a communication mode between vehicles, and a roadside installed between a vehicle and a roadside. V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure), which means the communication mode between the machine (RSU: Road-Side Unit), V2N (Vehicle to Network), which means the communication mode between the vehicle and the ITS server, and , Is a general term for V2P (Vehicle to Pedestrian), which means a communication mode between a vehicle and a mobile terminal possessed by a pedestrian.

Also, in 3GPP, V2X using LTE or NR cellular communication and terminal-to-terminal communication is being studied. V2X using cellular communication is also referred to as cellular V2X. In NR V2X, studies are underway to realize large capacity, low delay, high reliability, and QoS (Quality of Service) control.

Regarding LTE or NR V2X, it is expected that studies not limited to 3GPP specifications will be promoted in the future. For example, ensuring interoperability, reducing costs by implementing higher layers, using or switching between multiple RATs (RadioAccess Technology), compliance with regulations in each country, data acquisition, distribution, database management, and LTE or NR V2X platform. It is expected that the usage method will be examined.

In the embodiment of the present invention, it is mainly assumed that the communication device is mounted on the vehicle, but the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the embodiment. For example, the communication device may be a terminal held by a person, the communication device may be a device mounted on a drone or an aircraft, and the communication device may be a base station, an RSU, a relay station (relay node), or the like. It may be a terminal or the like having a scheduling ability.

In addition, SL (Sidelink) may be distinguished based on any one or combination of UL (Uplink) or DL (Downlink) and the following 1) -4). Further, SL may have another name.
1) Resource allocation in the time domain 2) Resource allocation in the frequency domain 3) Synchronization signal to be referenced (including SLSS (Sidelink Synchronization Signal))
4) Reference signal used for path loss measurement for transmission power control

Also, regarding SL or UL OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), CP-OFDM (Cyclic-Prefix OFDM), DFT-S-OFDM (DiscreteFourierTransform-Spread-OFDM), Transform-precoded OFDM or Transfercoded Any of the OFDMs that are used may be applied.

In LTE SL, Mode 3 and Mode 4 are specified regarding the allocation of SL resources to the terminal 20. In Mode3, transmission resources are dynamically allocated by DCI (Downlink Control Information) transmitted from the base station 10 to the terminal 20. In addition, SPS (SemiPersistent Scheduling) is also possible in Mode3. In Mode 4, the terminal 20 autonomously selects a transmission resource from the resource pool.

The slot in the embodiment of the present invention may be read as a symbol, a mini slot, a subframe, a wireless frame, and a TTI (Transmission Time Interval). Further, the cell in the embodiment of the present invention may be read as a cell group, a carrier component, a BWP, a resource pool, a resource, a RAT (RadioAccess Technology), a system (including a wireless LAN), and the like.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal 20 is not limited to the V2X terminal, and may be any type of terminal that performs D2D communication. For example, the terminal 20 may be a terminal owned by a user such as a smartphone, or may be an IoT (Internet of Things) device such as a smart meter.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example (1) of the transmission mode of V2X. In the sidelink communication transmission mode shown in FIG. 2, in step 1, the base station 10 transmits the sidelink scheduling to the terminal 20A. Subsequently, the terminal 20A transmits PSCCH (Physical Sidelink Control Channel) and PSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel) to the terminal 20B based on the received scheduling (step 2). The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 2 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 3 in LTE. In LTE sidelink transmission mode 3, Uu-based sidelink scheduling is performed. Uu is a wireless interface between UTRAN (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network) and UE (User Equipment). The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 2 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 1 in NR.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an example (2) of the transmission mode of V2X. In the side-link communication transmission mode shown in FIG. 3, in step 1, the terminal 20A transmits the PSCCH and the PSCH to the terminal 20B using the autonomously selected resource. The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 3 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 4 in LTE. In the side link transmission mode 4 in LTE, the UE itself executes resource selection.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example (3) of the transmission mode of V2X. In the side-link communication transmission mode shown in FIG. 4, in step 1, the terminal 20A transmits the PSCCH and the PSCH to the terminal 20B using the autonomously selected resource. Similarly, terminal 20B uses autonomously selected resources to transmit PSCCH and PSCH to terminal 20A (step 1). The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 4 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 2a in NR. In the side link transmission mode 2 in NR, the terminal 20 itself executes resource selection. In the NR, the mode in which the terminal 20 selects a resource and performs sidelink transmission may be called a resource allocation mode 2 (Resource allocation mode 2, RA mode 2).

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example (4) of the transmission mode of V2X. In the side link communication transmission mode shown in FIG. 5, in step 0, the base station 10 transmits the side link grant to the terminal 20A via the RRC (Radio Resource Control) setting. Subsequently, the terminal 20A transmits the PSCH to the terminal 20B based on the received resource pattern (step 1). The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 5 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 2c in NR.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an example (5) of the transmission mode of V2X. In the sidelink communication transmission mode shown in FIG. 6, in step 1, the terminal 20A transmits the sidelink scheduling to the terminal 20B via the PSCCH. Subsequently, the terminal 20B transmits the PSCH to the terminal 20A based on the received scheduling (step 2). The transmission mode of the side link communication shown in FIG. 6 may be referred to as the side link transmission mode 2d in NR. In the NR, the mode in which the base station 10 allocates resources to the terminal 20 and performs side link transmission may be referred to as resource allocation mode 1 (Resource allocation mode 1, RA mode 1).

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an example (1) of the communication type of V2X. The sidelink communication type shown in FIG. 7 is unicast. Terminal 20A transmits PSCCH and PSCH to terminal 20. In the example shown in FIG. 7, the terminal 20A unicasts to the terminal 20B and also unicasts to the terminal 20C.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining an example (2) of the communication type of V2X. The sidelink communication type shown in FIG. 8 is group cast. Terminal 20A transmits PSCCH and PSCH to the group to which one or more terminals 20 belong. In the example shown in FIG. 8, the group includes the terminal 20B and the terminal 20C, and the terminal 20A performs a group cast to the group.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an example (3) of the communication type of V2X. The sidelink communication type shown in FIG. 9 is broadcast. Terminal 20A transmits PSCCH and PSCH to one or more terminals 20. In the example shown in FIG. 9, the terminal 20A broadcasts to the terminal 20B, the terminal 20C, and the terminal 20D. The terminal 20A shown in FIGS. 7 to 9 may be referred to as a header UE.

In addition, it is expected that HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) will be supported for sidelink unicast and groupcast in NR-V2X. Further, in NR-V2X, SFCI (Sidelink Feedback Control Information) including HARQ response is defined. Further, it is being considered that SFCI is transmitted via PSFCH (Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel).

In the following explanation, PSFCH is used in the transmission of HARQ-ACK on the side link, but this is an example. For example, PSCCH may be used to transmit HARQ-ACK on the sidelink, PSCH may be used to transmit HARQ-ACK on the sidelink, or other channels may be used. It may be used to transmit HARQ-ACK on the side link.

In the following, for convenience, all the information reported by the terminal 20 in HARQ will be referred to as HARQ-ACK. This HARQ-ACK may be referred to as HARQ-ACK information. More specifically, a codebook applied to the HARQ-ACK information reported from the terminal 20 to the base station 10 or the like is called a HARQ-ACK codebook. The HARQ-ACK codebook defines a bit string of HARQ-ACK information. In addition to ACK, NACK is also transmitted by "HARQ-ACK".

FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example (1) of V2X. As shown in FIG. 10, the wireless communication system according to the embodiment of the present invention may have a terminal 20A and a terminal 20B. Although there are actually a large number of user devices, FIG. 10 shows terminals 20A and terminals 20B as examples.

Hereinafter, when the

terminals

20A, 20B, etc. are not particularly distinguished, they are simply described as "terminal 20" or "user device". Although FIG. 10 shows a case where both the terminal 20A and the terminal 20B are within the coverage of the cell as an example, the operation in the embodiment of the present invention can be applied even when the terminal 20B is outside the coverage.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the terminal 20 is a device mounted on a vehicle such as an automobile, and has a cellular communication function as a UE in LTE or NR and a side link function. There is. The terminal 20 may be a general mobile terminal (smartphone or the like). Further, the terminal 20 may be an RSU. The RSU may be a UE type RSU having a function of a UE, or may be a gNB type RSU having a function of a base station device.

Note that the terminal 20 does not have to be a device in one housing, and for example, even when various sensors are distributed and arranged in the vehicle, the device including the various sensors may be the terminal 20.

Further, the processing content of the transmission data of the side link of the terminal 20 is basically the same as the processing content of UL transmission in LTE or NR. For example, the terminal 20 scrambles and modulates the codeword of the transmission data to generate complex-valued symbols, maps the complex-valued symbols (transmission signal) to one or two layers, and performs precoding. Then, precoded complex-valued symbols are mapped to resource elements to generate a transmission signal (example: complex-valued time-domain SC-FDMA signal) and transmitted from each antenna port.

The base station 10 has a cellular communication function as a base station in LTE or NR, and a function for enabling communication of the terminal 20 in the present embodiment (example: resource pool setting, resource allocation, etc.). have. Further, the base station 10 may be an RSU (gNB type RSU).

Further, in the wireless communication system according to the embodiment of the present invention, the signal waveform used by the terminal 20 for SL or UL may be OFDMA, SC-FDMA, or other signal waveform. It may be.

In step S101, the terminal 20A autonomously selects a resource to be used for PSCCH and PSCH from a resource selection window having a predetermined period. The resource selection window may be set from the base station 10 to the terminal 20.

In step S102 and step S103, the terminal 20A transmits SCI (Sidelink Control Information) by PSCCH and / or PSCH using the resource autonomously selected in step S101, and also transmits SL data by PSCH. For example, the terminal 20A may transmit the PSCCH with the same time resource as at least a part of the time resource of the PSCH, using the frequency resource adjacent to the frequency resource of the PSCH.

The terminal 20B receives the SCI (PSCCH and / or PSSCH) and SL data (PSSCH) transmitted from the terminal 20A. The received SCI may include information on PSFCH resources for the terminal 20B to transmit HARQ-ACK for receiving the data. The terminal 20A may include the information of the resource selected autonomously in the SCI and transmit it.

In step S104, the terminal 20B transmits HARQ-ACK for the received data to the terminal 20A by using the resource of PSFCH determined from the received SCI.

In step S105, the terminal 20A retransmits the PSCCH and PSCH to the terminal 20B when the HARQ-ACK received in step S104 indicates that the retransmission is requested, that is, when it is NACK (negative response). Terminal 20A may retransmit PSCCH and PSCH using autonomously selected resources.

If HARQ control is not executed, steps S104 and S105 may not be executed.

FIG. 11 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example (2) of V2X. Blind retransmissions without HARQ control may be performed to improve transmission success rate or reach.

In step S201, the terminal 20A autonomously selects a resource to be used for PSCCH and PSCH from a resource selection window having a predetermined period. The resource selection window may be set from the base station 10 to the terminal 20.

In step S202 and step S203, the terminal 20A uses the resource autonomously selected in step S201 to transmit SCI by PSCCH and / or PSCH, and also transmits SL data by PSCH. For example, the terminal 20A may transmit the PSCCH with the same time resource as at least a part of the time resource of the PSCH, using the frequency resource adjacent to the frequency resource of the PSCH.

In step S204, the terminal 20A retransmits the SCI by PSCCH and / or the SL data by PSCH to the terminal 20B by using the resource autonomously selected in step S201. The retransmission in step S204 may be executed a plurality of times.

If the blind retransmission is not executed, step S204 may not be executed.

FIG. 12 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example (3) of V2X. The base station 10 may schedule the side link. That is, the base station 10 may determine the resource of the side link used by the terminal 20 and transmit the information indicating the resource to the terminal 20. Further, when HARQ control is applied, the base station 10 may transmit information indicating a resource of PSFCH to the terminal 20.

In step S301, the base station 10 performs SL scheduling by sending DCI (Downlink Control Information) to the terminal 20A by PDCCH. Hereinafter, for convenience, the DCI for SL scheduling will be referred to as SL scheduling DCI.

Further, in step S301, it is assumed that the base station 10 also transmits DCI for DL scheduling (which may be called DL allocation) to the terminal 20A by PDCCH. Hereinafter, for convenience, the DCI for DL scheduling is referred to as DL scheduling DCI. The terminal 20A that has received the DL scheduling DCI receives the DL data by PDSCH using the resource specified by the DL scheduling DCI.

In step S302 and step S303, the terminal 20A transmits SCI (Sidelink Control Information) by PSCCH and / or PSCH using the resource specified by SL scheduling DCI, and also transmits SL data by PSCH. In SL scheduling DCI, only PSCH resources may be specified. In this case, for example, the terminal 20A may transmit the PSCCH with the same time resource as at least a part of the time resource of the PSCH, using the frequency resource adjacent to the frequency resource of the PSCH.

The terminal 20B receives the SCI (PSCCH and / or PSSCH) and SL data (PSSCH) transmitted from the terminal 20A. The SCI received by the PSCCH and / or the PSSCH contains information on the resources of the PSFCH for the terminal 20B to transmit the HARQ-ACK for the reception of the data.

The information of the resource is included in the DL scheduling DCI or SL scheduling DCI transmitted from the base station 10 in step S301, and the terminal 20A acquires the information of the resource from the DL scheduling DCI or the SL scheduling DCI and SCI. Include in. Alternatively, the DCI transmitted from the base station 10 may not include the information of the resource, and the terminal 20A may autonomously include the information of the resource in the SCI and transmit the information.

In step S304, the terminal 20B transmits HARQ-ACK for the received data to the terminal 20A by using the resource of PSFCH determined from the received SCI.

In step S305, the terminal 20A has a PUCCH (or SL scheduling DCI) designated by the DL scheduling DCI (or SL scheduling DCI) at the timing specified by the DL scheduling DCI (or SL scheduling DCI) (for example, slot unit timing). (Physical uplink control channel) The HARQ-ACK is transmitted using the resource, and the base station 10 receives the HARQ-ACK. The HARQ-ACK codebook may include an ARQ-ACK generated based on the HARQ-ACK received from the terminal 20B or a PSFCH not received, and a HARQ-ACK for DL data. However, if DL data is not assigned, HARQ-ACK for DL data is not included. NR Rel. In 16, the HARQ-ACK codebook does not include HARQ-ACK for DL data.

If HARQ control is not executed, steps S304 and S305 may not be executed.

FIG. 13 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example (4) of V2X. As mentioned above, in the sidelink of NR, it is supported that the HARQ response is transmitted by PSFCH. As the PSFCH format, for example, the same format as the PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) format 0 can be used. That is, the PSFCH format may have a PRB (Physical Resource Block) size of 1, and ACK and NACK may be sequence-based formats identified by sequence differences. The format of PSFCH is not limited to this. The resources of the PSFCH may be arranged in the symbol at the end of the slot or the multiple symbols at the end. Further, whether or not the period N is set in the PSFCH resource is specified in advance. The period N may be set or predetermined in slot units.

In FIG. 13, the vertical axis corresponds to the frequency domain and the horizontal axis corresponds to the time domain. The PSCCH may be arranged in one symbol at the beginning of the slot, may be arranged in a plurality of symbols from the beginning, or may be arranged in a plurality of symbols from a symbol other than the beginning. The PSFCH may be arranged in one symbol at the end of the slot, or may be arranged in a plurality of symbols at the end of the slot. In the example shown in FIG. 13, three subchannels are set in the resource pool, and two PSFCHs are arranged after three slots of the slot in which the PSSCH is arranged. The arrow from PSSCH to PSFCH shows an example of PSFCH associated with PSSCH.

If the HARQ response in the NR-V2X group cast is option 2 to send ACK or NACK, it is necessary to determine the resource to be used for sending and receiving PSFCH. As shown in FIG. 13, in step S401, the terminal 20A, which is the transmitting side terminal 20, performs a group cast to the terminal 20B, the terminal 20C, and the terminal 20D, which are the receiving side terminals 20, via the SL-SCH. In a subsequent step S402, the terminal 20B uses PSFCH # B, the terminal 20C uses PSFCH # C, and the terminal 20D uses PSFCH # D to transmit a HARQ response to the terminal 20A. Here, as shown in the example of FIG. 13, when the number of available PSFCH resources is less than the number of receiving terminals 20 belonging to the group, it is necessary to determine how to allocate the PSFCH resources. .. The transmitting side terminal 20 may know the number of receiving side terminals 20 in the group cast.

Here, there is an upper limit to the number of HARQ processes that the terminal 20 can support. The upper limit of the number of HARQ processes is defined as UE capability. For example, as the UE capability related to NR side link reception, the number of received HARQ processes may correspond to a value A, or a plurality of values may be set to the value A. Similarly, as the UE capability related to the NR side link transmission, the number of transmission HARQ processes may correspond to the value B, or a plurality of values may be set to the value B.

In the existing technology, the transmitting terminal 20 cannot know 1) and 2) shown below.

1) The number of HARQ processes that the receiving terminal 20 can handle (hereinafter referred to as "N").
2) Number of HARQ processes in use by the receiving terminal 20 (hereinafter referred to as "M")

If N and M are equal in the receiving terminal 20, a new HARQ process cannot be performed without discarding or terminating the HARQ process in use. On the other hand, since the transmitting side terminal 20 does not know the state, there is a possibility that the transmitting side terminal 20 newly transmits the transport block to the receiving side terminal 20. Since the receiving terminal 20 may not execute the receiving process for the new transport block, an important transport block may be dropped. Hereinafter, the transport block is also referred to as TB (Transport block).

Therefore, as a process related to the number of HARQ processes in the side link, the terminal 20 may notify the other terminal 20 of the number of HARQ processes N that can be supported and / or the number M of HARQ processes in use.

FIG. 14 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example in the embodiment of the present invention. In step S501, the terminal 20A transmits information related to the HARQ process to the terminal 20B. The information related to the HARQ process may be the number of received HARQ processes that can be supported, the number of transmitted HARQ processes that can be supported, the number of received HARQ processes in use, or the number of used HARQ processes. It may be the number of transmit HARQ processes in it, or it may be a combination of some or all of them. Hereinafter, the "number of HARQ processes" may correspond to the "number of received HARQ processes".

Further, the information related to the HARQ process may include the priority associated with each of the M HARQ processes in use (for example, the priority associated with the TB being processed in a certain HARQ process). Further, when the terminal 20 transmits an ACK in a certain HARQ process, the terminal 20 does not have to be included in the number of HARQ processes in use as the said HARQ process is unused.

In step S502, the terminal 20B performs control based on the received information related to the HARQ process, and transmits the transport block to the terminal 20A. For example, if N and M are equal in the received information about the HARQ process, terminal 20B may stop or postpone transmission to terminal 20A.

Further, the transmission operation may be determined based on the priority. For example, if N and M are equal in the received information about the HARQ process, it may decide whether to send the transport block based on the priority associated with each of the M notified HARQ processes. .. If the priority of the transport block to be transmitted is higher than at least one of the priorities associated with each of the M notified HARQ processes, terminal 20B may transmit the transport block. Further, if the priority of the transport block to be transmitted is lower than any of the priorities associated with each of the notified M HARQ processes, the terminal 20B may stop or postpone the transmission of the transport block. good. The high priority may mean that the value of the parameter indicating the priority is small.

Further, for example, a parameter X is set for each priority of the transport block to be transmitted, and when X <M (or X <= M), the terminal 20B transmits the transport block, and X> = M ( Alternatively, in the case of X> M), the terminal 20B may suspend or postpone the transmission of the transport block.

The above priority may be a priority in SCI or a priority in a higher layer. In addition, the above priority may be determined based on the cast type (unicast, group cast or broadcast).

As described above, by being notified of the information related to the HARQ process, the transmitting side terminal 20 can determine whether or not to transmit according to the status of the HARQ process of the receiving side terminal 20.

Further, the receiving terminal 20 may give priority to PSCCH / PSSCH having a high priority (a value indicating the priority is small). The PSCCH / PSSCH carries SCI and / or TB, and the priority may be the priority in the SCI or the priority in the upper layer.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing an operation example in the embodiment of the present invention. In step S601, the terminal 20 receives the SCI and / or TB. Subsequently, the terminal 20 determines whether or not the received SCI and TB are new SCIs and / or TBs (S602). If the terminal 20 has a new SCI and / or TB (YES in S602), the terminal 20 proceeds to step S603, and if it is not a new SCI (NO in S602), the terminal 20 does not execute step S603.

In step S603, the terminal 20 has the same UE-ID and HARQ process ID in the new SCI and / or TB received when N and M are equal in the received information relating to the HARQ process. When the HARQ process ID is not included in the M HARQ processes, the operations shown in 1) -3) below may be executed. It should be noted that the transmitting side terminal 20 may assume that the receiving side terminal 20 executes the operation shown in 1) -3) below.

1) If the priority associated with the new SCI and / or TB is higher than at least one of the priorities associated with each of the M TBs associated with each of the M HARQ processes. The HARQ process associated with the lowest TB may be discarded and the HARQ process may be used to process a new TB. If there are multiple HARQ processes associated with the lowest priority TB, terminal 20 may choose to discard one, discard all, or use the oldest HARQ process in time. You may discard it.

2) If the priority associated with the new SCI and / or TB is lower than any of the priorities associated with each of the M TBs associated with each of the M HARQ processes, the terminal 20 is new. SCI and / or TB may be discarded.

3) If the priority associated with the new SCI and / or TB is the same as the lowest priority associated with each of the M TBs associated with each of the M HARQ processes, the terminal 20 is new. SCI and / or TB may be destroyed, any of the HARQ processes associated with the lowest priority TB may be selected and destroyed, all may be destroyed, and the most time You may discard the old HARQ process.

As mentioned above, by processing the transport block and HARQ process based on the associated priority, it is possible to maintain the transmission and reception of more important data.

Further, for example, in a certain receiving terminal 20, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each transmitting terminal 20 may be specified, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each UE-ID may be specified, or the maximum number of HARQ processes may be specified for each cast type. The maximum number of HARQ processes may be specified, or the maximum number of HARQ processes as a whole may be specified. From the receiving terminal 20, at least one of the maximum number of HARQ processes for each transmitting terminal 20, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each UE-ID, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each cast type, and the maximum number of HARQ processes in total is It may be notified to a certain transmitting terminal 20. The transmitting terminal 20 may assume that the maximum number of received HARQ processes is the number of received HARQ processes that the receiving terminal 20 can handle.

As described above, by specifying the maximum number of HARQ processes of various types and notifying the transmitting terminal 20, if the number of HARQ processes that can be supported and the number of HARQ processes in use are the same, an additional HARQ process is required. It is possible to avoid receiving the transport block.

According to the above embodiment, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20. In addition, the receiving terminal 20 can control the receiving process of the new transport block according to the status of the number of HARQ processes in use and the priority associated with the HARQ process.

That is, in direct communication between terminals, transmission / reception processing can be executed according to the number of HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) processes.

(Device configuration)
Next, a functional configuration example of the base station 10 and the terminal 20 that execute the processes and operations described so far will be described. The base station 10 and the terminal 20 include a function for carrying out the above-described embodiment. However, the base station 10 and the terminal 20 may each have only a part of the functions in the embodiment.

<Base station 10>
FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the base station 10. As shown in FIG. 16, the base station 10 has a transmission unit 110, a reception unit 120, a setting unit 130, and a control unit 140. The functional configuration shown in FIG. 16 is only an example. Any function classification and name of the functional unit may be used as long as the operation according to the embodiment of the present invention can be performed.

The transmission unit 110 includes a function of generating a signal to be transmitted to the terminal 20 side and transmitting the signal wirelessly. The receiving unit 120 includes a function of receiving various signals transmitted from the terminal 20 and acquiring information of, for example, a higher layer from the received signals. Further, the transmission unit 110 has a function of transmitting NR-PSS, NR-SSS, NR-PBCH, DL / UL control signal, DL reference signal and the like to the terminal 20.

The setting unit 130 stores preset setting information and various setting information to be transmitted to the terminal 20 in the storage device, and reads them out from the storage device as needed. The content of the setting information is, for example, information related to the setting of D2D communication.

As described in the embodiment, the control unit 140 performs processing related to the setting for the terminal 20 to perform D2D communication. Further, the control unit 140 transmits the scheduling of D2D communication and DL communication to the terminal 20 via the transmission unit 110. Further, the control unit 140 receives information related to the HARQ response of the D2D communication and the DL communication from the terminal 20 via the reception unit 120. The function unit related to signal transmission in the control unit 140 may be included in the transmission unit 110, and the function unit related to signal reception in the control unit 140 may be included in the reception unit 120.

<Terminal 20>
FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the terminal 20. As shown in FIG. 17, the terminal 20 has a transmission unit 210, a reception unit 220, a setting unit 230, and a control unit 240. The functional configuration shown in FIG. 17 is only an example. Any function classification and name of the functional unit may be used as long as the operation according to the embodiment of the present invention can be performed.

The transmission unit 210 creates a transmission signal from the transmission data and wirelessly transmits the transmission signal. The receiving unit 220 wirelessly receives various signals and acquires a signal of a higher layer from the received signal of the physical layer. Further, the receiving unit 220 has a function of receiving NR-PSS, NR-SSS, NR-PBCH, DL / UL / SL control signal, reference signal and the like transmitted from the base station 10. Further, for example, the transmission unit 210 may use PSCCH (Physical Sidelink Control Channel), PSSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel), PSDCH (Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel), PSBCH (Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel) on another terminal 20 as D2D communication. Etc. are transmitted, and the receiving unit 220 receives PSCCH, PSSCH, PSDCH, PSBCH, etc. from the other terminal 20.

The setting unit 230 stores various setting information received from the base station 10 or the terminal 20 by the receiving unit 220 in the storage device, and reads it out from the storage device as needed. The setting unit 230 also stores preset setting information. The content of the setting information is, for example, information related to the setting of D2D communication.

The control unit 240 controls D2D communication with another terminal 20 as described in the embodiment. Further, the control unit 240 performs processing related to HARQ of D2D communication and DL communication. Further, the control unit 240 transmits information related to the HARQ response of the D2D communication and the DL communication from the base station 10 to the other terminal 20 scheduled to the base station 10. Further, the control unit 240 may schedule D2D communication to another terminal 20. Further, the control unit 240 may autonomously select a resource to be used for D2D communication from the resource selection window based on the sensing result. In addition, the control unit 240 performs a process of transmitting information related to the HARQ process to another terminal or receiving information from the other terminal. The function unit related to signal transmission in the control unit 240 may be included in the transmission unit 210, and the function unit related to signal reception in the control unit 240 may be included in the reception unit 220.

(Hardware configuration)
The block diagram (FIGS. 16 and 17) used in the description of the above embodiment shows a block of functional units. These functional blocks (components) are realized by any combination of at least one of hardware and software. Further, 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. For example, a functional block (configuration unit) that makes transmission function is called a transmitting unit (transmitting unit) or a transmitter (transmitter). In each case, as described above, the realization method is not particularly limited.

For example, the base station 10, the terminal 20, and the like in one embodiment of the present disclosure may function as a computer that processes the wireless communication method of the present disclosure. FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the base station 10 and the terminal 20 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. The above-mentioned base station 10 and terminal 20 are physically configured as a computer device including a processor 1001, a storage device 1002, an auxiliary storage device 1003, a communication device 1004, an input device 1005, an output device 1006, a bus 1007, and the like. May be good.

In the following explanation, the word "device" can be read as a circuit, device, unit, etc. The hardware configuration of the base station 10 and the terminal 20 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.

For each function in the base station 10 and the terminal 20, by loading predetermined software (program) on the hardware such as the processor 1001 and the storage device 1002, the processor 1001 performs an calculation and controls the communication by the communication device 1004. It is realized by controlling at least one of reading and writing of data in the storage device 1002 and the auxiliary storage device 1003.

The processor 1001 operates, for example, an operating system to control the entire computer. The processor 1001 may be configured by a central processing unit (CPU: Central Processing Unit) including an interface with a peripheral device, a control device, an arithmetic unit, a register, and the like. For example, the above-mentioned control unit 140, control unit 240, and the like may be realized by the processor 1001.

Further, the processor 1001 reads a program (program code), a software module, data, or the like from at least one of the auxiliary storage device 1003 and the communication device 1004 into the storage device 1002, and executes various processes according to these. As the program, a program that causes a computer to execute at least a part of the operations described in the above-described embodiment is used. For example, the control unit 140 of the base station 10 shown in FIG. 16 may be realized by a control program stored in the storage device 1002 and operated by the processor 1001. Further, for example, the control unit 240 of the terminal 20 shown in FIG. 17 may be realized by a control program stored in the storage device 1002 and operated by the processor 1001. Although it has been described that the various processes described above are executed by one processor 1001, they may be executed simultaneously or sequentially by two or more processors 1001. Processor 1001 may be mounted by one or more chips. The program may be transmitted from the network via a telecommunication line.

The storage device 1002 is a computer-readable recording medium, and is, for example, by at least one of ROM (ReadOnlyMemory), EPROM (ErasableProgrammableROM), EEPROM (ElectricallyErasableProgrammableROM), RAM (RandomAccessMemory), and the like. It may be configured. The storage device 1002 may be referred to as a register, a cache, a main memory (main storage device), or the like. The storage device 1002 can store a program (program code), a software module, or the like that can be executed to implement the communication method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.

The auxiliary storage device 1003 is a computer-readable recording medium, and is, for example, an optical disk such as a CD-ROM (Compact Disc ROM), a hard disk drive, a flexible disk, an optical magnetic disk (for example, a compact disk, a digital versatile disk, Blu). -It may be composed of at least one of a ray (registered trademark) disk), a smart card, a flash memory (for example, a card, a stick, a key drive), a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a magnetic strip, and the like. The storage medium described above may be, for example, a database, server or other suitable medium containing at least one of the storage device 1002 and the auxiliary storage device 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, and the like in order to realize at least one of frequency division duplex (FDD: Frequency Division Duplex) and time division duplex (TDD: Time Division Duplex). It may be composed of. For example, the transmission / reception antenna, the amplifier unit, the transmission / reception unit, the transmission line interface, and the like may be realized by the communication device 1004. The transmission / reception unit may be physically or logically separated from each other in the transmission unit and the reception unit.

The input device 1005 is an input device (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, a switch, a button, a sensor, etc.) that accepts an 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).

Further, each device such as the processor 1001 and the storage device 1002 is connected by a bus 1007 for communicating information. The bus 1007 may be configured by using a single bus, or may be configured by using a different bus for each device.

Further, the base station 10 and the terminal 20 are hardware such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP: Digital Signal Processor), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), a PLD (Programmable Logic Device), and an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). It may be configured to include, and a part or all of each functional block may be realized by the hardware. For example, processor 1001 may be implemented using at least one of these hardware.

(Summary of embodiments)
As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the above is based on the receiving unit that receives the information related to the HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) process from another terminal and the information related to the HARQ process. A terminal having a control unit that determines control related to transmission to another terminal, and a transmission unit that transmits the transport block to the other terminal when the control unit determines to transmit a transport block. Is provided.

With the above configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20. In addition, the receiving terminal 20 can control the receiving process of the new transport block according to the status of the number of HARQ processes in use and the priority associated with the HARQ process. That is, in direct communication between terminals, transmission / reception processing according to the number of HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) processes can be executed.

The information related to the HARQ process is the number of first HARQ processes indicating the number of HARQ processes that the other terminal can handle and the number of second HARQ processes indicating the number of HARQ processes being used by the other terminal. When the number of the first HARQ processes and the number of the second HARQ processes are the same, the control unit may cancel the transmission to the other terminal. With this configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20.

The information relating to the HARQ process further includes a priority associated with each of the HARQ processes in use, and the control unit controls the number of the first HARQ processes, the number of the second HARQ processes, and at least one of the priorities. Based on the above, it may be decided whether or not to transmit the transport block to the other terminal. With this configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20.

The control unit has the same number of first HARQ processes and the same number of second HARQ processes, and the priority of the transport block is at least one of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use. If it is higher than, the transport block is determined to be transmitted to the other terminal, and the control unit has the same number of the first HARQ processes and the second HARQ process, and the transformer has the same number of processes. If the priority of the port block is lower than any of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use, it may be decided to stop transmitting the transport block to the other terminal. With this configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20.

The control unit has the same number of first HARQ processes and the same number of second HARQ processes, and the priority of the transport block is at least one of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use. If it is higher than, it may be determined to send the transport block to the other terminal, and it may be assumed that the HARQ process in use with the lowest associated priority is destroyed. .. With this configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20.

The information related to the HARQ process is at least among the maximum number of HARQ processes for each transmitting terminal, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each UE-ID, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each cast type, and the maximum number of HARQ processes for the entire receiving terminal. One may be further included. With this configuration, by receiving the information related to the HARQ process from the receiving terminal 20, the transmitting terminal 20 can transmit the transport block according to the status of the HARQ process in the receiving terminal 20.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving procedure for receiving the information related to the HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) process from the other terminal and the information related to the HARQ process to the other terminal are used. A communication method in which a terminal executes a control procedure for determining control related to transmission and a transmission procedure for transmitting the transport block to the other terminal when the control procedure determines to transmit the transport block. Is provided.

(Supplement to the embodiment)
Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the disclosed inventions are not limited to such embodiments, and those skilled in the art will understand various modifications, modifications, alternatives, substitutions, and the like. There will be. Although explanations have been given using specific numerical examples in order to promote understanding of the invention, these numerical values are merely examples and any appropriate value may be used unless otherwise specified. The classification of items in the above description is not essential to the present invention, and the items described in two or more items may be used in combination as necessary, and the items described in one item may be used in another item. May apply (as long as there is no conflict) to the matters described in. The boundary of the functional part or the processing part in the functional block diagram does not always correspond to the boundary of the physical component. The operation of the plurality of functional units may be physically performed by one component, or the operation of one functional unit may be physically performed by a plurality of components. Regarding the processing procedure described in the embodiment, the processing order may be changed as long as there is no contradiction. For convenience of processing, the base station 10 and the terminal 20 have been described with reference to functional block diagrams, but such devices may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination thereof. The software operated by the processor of the base station 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention and the software operated by the processor of the terminal 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention are random access memory (RAM), flash memory, and read-only memory, respectively. It may be stored in (ROM), EPROM, EEPROM, registers, hard disk (HDD), removable disk, CD-ROM, database, server or any other suitable storage medium.

Further, the notification of information is not limited to the embodiment / embodiment described in the present disclosure, and may be performed by using another method. For example, information notification includes physical layer signaling (for example, DCI (Downlink Control Information), UCI (Uplink Control Information)), higher layer signaling (for example, RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling, MAC (Medium Access Control) signaling, etc. It may be carried out by broadcast information (MIB (Master Information Block), SIB (System Information Block)), other signals, or a combination thereof. RRC signaling may be referred to as an RRC message, for example, RRC. It may be a connection setup (RRCConnectionSetup) message, an RRC connection reconfiguration (RRCConnectionReconfiguration) message, or the like.

Each aspect / embodiment described in the present disclosure includes LTE (Long Term Evolution), LTE-A (LTE-Advanced), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4G (4th generation mobile communication system), and 5G (5th generation mobile communication). system), FRA (Future Radio Access), NR (new Radio), W-CDMA (registered trademark), GSM (registered trademark), CDMA2000, UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi (registered trademark)) )), LTE 802.16 (WiMAX®), IEEE 802.20, UWB (Ultra-WideBand), Bluetooth®, and other systems that utilize appropriate systems and have been extended based on these. It may be applied to at least one of the next generation systems. Further, 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 order of the processing procedures, sequences, flowcharts, etc. of each aspect / embodiment described in the present specification may be changed as long as there is no contradiction. For example, the methods described in the present disclosure present elements of various steps using exemplary order, and are not limited to the particular order presented.

In some cases, the specific operation performed by the base station 10 in the present specification may be performed by its upper node (upper node). In a network consisting of one or more network nodes having a base station 10, various operations performed for communication with the terminal 20 are performed by the base station 10 and other network nodes other than the base station 10 ( For example, MME, S-GW, etc. are conceivable, but it is clear that it can be done by at least one of these). In the above example, the case where there is one network node other than the base station 10 is illustrated, but the other network node may be a combination of a plurality of other network nodes (for example, MME and S-GW). ..

The information, signals, etc. described in the present disclosure 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 and the like may be stored in a specific location (for example, a memory) or may be managed using a management table. Information to be input / output may be overwritten, updated, or added. The output information and the like may be deleted. The input information or the like may be transmitted to another device.

The determination in the present disclosure may be made by a value represented by 1 bit (0 or 1), by a boolean value (Boolean: true or false), or by comparison of numerical values (for example). , Comparison with a predetermined value).

Software, whether called software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or other names, 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.

Further, software, instructions, information, etc. may be transmitted and received via a transmission medium. For example, the software may use at least one of wired technology (coaxial cable, optical fiber cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL: Digital Subscriber Line), etc.) and wireless technology (infrared, microwave, etc.) to create a website. When transmitted from a server or other remote source, at least one of these wired and wireless technologies is included within the definition of transmission medium.

The information, signals, etc. described in this disclosure may be represented using any of a variety of different techniques. For example, 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.

The terms described in the present disclosure and the terms necessary for understanding the present disclosure may be replaced with terms having the same or similar meanings. For example, at least one of a channel and a symbol may be a signal (signaling). Also, the signal may be a message. Further, the component carrier (CC: Component Carrier) may be referred to as a carrier frequency, a cell, a frequency carrier, or the like.

The terms "system" and "network" used in this disclosure are used interchangeably.

Further, the information, parameters, etc. described in the present disclosure may be expressed using an absolute value, a relative value from a predetermined value, or another corresponding information. It may be represented. For example, the radio resource may be one indicated by an index.

The names used for the above parameters are not limited in any respect. Further, mathematical formulas and the like using these parameters may differ from those expressly disclosed in this disclosure. Since the various channels (eg, PUCCH, PDCCH, etc.) and information elements can be identified by any suitable name, the various names assigned to these various channels and information elements are in any respect limited names. is not it.

In this disclosure, "base station (BS: Base Station)", "wireless base station", "base station", "fixed station", "NodeB", "eNodeB (eNB)", "gNodeB (gNodeB) gNB) ”,“ access point ”,“ transmission point ”,“ reception point ”,“ transmission / reception point ”,“ cell ”,“ sector ”,“ Terms such as "cell group", "carrier", and "component carrier" may be used interchangeably. Base stations are sometimes referred to by terms such as macrocells, small cells, femtocells, and picocells.

The base station can accommodate one or more (eg, 3) cells. 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 (RRH:)). Communication services can also be provided by Remote Radio Head). The term "cell" or "sector" is a part or all of the coverage area of at least one of the base stations and base station subsystems that provide communication services in this coverage. Point to.

In the present disclosure, terms such as "mobile station (MS: Mobile Station)", "user terminal", "user device (UE: User Equipment)", and "terminal" may be used interchangeably. ..

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, a 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. It should be noted that at least one of the base station and the mobile station includes a device that does not necessarily move during communication operation. For example, at least one of a base station and a mobile station may be an IoT (Internet of Things) device such as a sensor.

Further, the base station in the present disclosure may be read by the user terminal. For example, the communication between the base station and the user terminal is replaced with the communication between a plurality of terminals 20 (for example, it may be referred to as D2D (Device-to-Device), V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything), etc.). Each aspect / embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to the configuration. In this case, the terminal 20 may have the functions of the base station 10 described above. Further, words such as "up" and "down" may be read as words corresponding to communication between terminals (for example, "side"). For example, the upstream channel, the downstream channel, and the like may be read as a side channel.

Similarly, the user terminal in the present disclosure may be read as a base station. In this case, the base station may have the functions of the above-mentioned user terminal.

The terms "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). It may include (eg, searching in a table, database or another data structure), ascertaining as "judgment" or "decision". Also, "judgment" and "decision" are receiving (for example, receiving information), transmitting (for example, transmitting information), input (input), output (output), and access. It may include (for example, accessing data in memory) to be regarded as "judgment" or "decision". In addition, "judgment" and "decision" are considered to be "judgment" and "decision" when 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 terms "connected", "coupled", or any variation thereof, mean 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 connection or connection between the elements may be physical, logical, or a combination thereof. For example, "connection" may be read as "access". As used in the present disclosure, 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. Can be considered to be "connected" or "coupled" to each other using electromagnetic energy having wavelengths in the microwave and light (both visible and invisible) regions.

The reference signal can also be abbreviated as RS (Reference Signal), and may be called a pilot (Pilot) depending on the applied standard.

The statement "based on" used in this disclosure does not mean "based on" unless otherwise stated. In other words, the statement "based on" means both "based only" and "at least based on".

Any reference to elements using designations such as "first" and "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, or that the first element must somehow precede the second element.

The "means" in the configuration of each of the above devices may be replaced with a "part", a "circuit", a "device", or the like.

When "include", "including" and variations thereof are used in the present disclosure, these terms are as inclusive as the term "comprising". Is intended. Moreover, the term "or" used in the present disclosure is intended not to be an exclusive OR.

The wireless 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. The subframe may further be composed of one or more slots in the time domain. The subframe may have a fixed time length (eg, 1 ms) that does not depend on numerology.

The numerology may be a communication parameter applied to at least one of transmission and reception of a signal or channel. Numerology includes, for example, subcarrier interval (SCS: SubCarrier Spacing), bandwidth, symbol length, cyclic prefix length, transmission time interval (TTI: Transmission Time Interval), number of symbols per TTI, wireless frame configuration, and transceiver. It may indicate at least one of a specific filtering process performed in the frequency domain, a specific windowing process performed by the transceiver in the time domain, and the like.

The slot may be composed of one or more symbols (OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol, SC-FDMA (Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) symbol, etc.) in the time domain. Slots may be time units based on numerology.

The slot may include a plurality of mini slots. Each minislot may be composed of one or more symbols in the time domain. Further, the mini slot may be referred to as a sub slot. The minislot may consist of a smaller number of symbols than the slot. A PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted in time units larger than the minislot may be referred to as a 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 use different names corresponding to each.

For example, one subframe may be called a transmission time interval (TTI), a plurality of consecutive subframes may be called TTI, and one slot or one minislot may be called TTI. You may. That is, at least one of the subframe and TTI may be a subframe (1 ms) in existing LTE, a period shorter than 1 ms (eg, 1-13 symbols), or a period longer than 1 ms. May be. The unit representing TTI may be called a slot, a mini slot, or the like instead of a subframe.

Here, TTI refers to, for example, the minimum time unit of scheduling in wireless communication. For example, in the LTE system, the base station schedules each terminal 20 to allocate radio resources (frequency bandwidth that can be used in each terminal 20, transmission power, etc.) in TTI units. The definition of TTI is not limited to this.

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. When a TTI is given, the time interval (for example, the number of symbols) to which the transport block, code block, code word, etc. are actually mapped may be shorter than the TTI.

When one slot or one mini slot is called TTI, one or more TTIs (that is, one or more slots or one or more mini slots) 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 referred to as 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. A TTI shorter than a normal TTI may be referred to as a shortened TTI, a short TTI, a partial TTI (partial or fractional TTI), a shortened subframe, a short subframe, a minislot, a subslot, a slot, and the like.

The long TTI (eg, normal TTI, subframe, etc.) may be read as a TTI having a time length of more than 1 ms, and the short TTI (eg, shortened TTI, etc.) may be read as a TTI less than the TTI length of the long TTI and 1 ms. It may be read as TTI having the above TTI length.

The resource block (RB) is a resource allocation unit in the time domain and the frequency domain, and may include one or a plurality of continuous subcarriers in the frequency domain. The number of subcarriers contained in the RB may be the same regardless of the numerology, and may be, for example, 12. The number of subcarriers contained in the RB may be determined based on numerology.

Further, the time domain of the 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 (PRB: Physical RB), a sub-carrier group (SCG: Sub-Carrier Group), a resource element group (REG: Resource Element Group), a PRB pair, an RB pair, and the like. May be called.

Further, the resource block may be composed of one or a plurality of resource elements (RE: Resource Element). For example, 1RE may be a radio resource area of 1 subcarrier and 1 symbol.

The bandwidth part (BWP: Bandwidth Part) (which may also be called partial bandwidth) may represent a subset of consecutive common resource blocks (RBs) for a certain neurology in a carrier. Here, 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.

The BWP may include a BWP for UL (UL BWP) and a BWP for DL (DL BWP). One or more BWPs may be set in one carrier for the terminal 20.

At least one of the configured BWPs may be active, and the terminal 20 does not have to assume that a predetermined signal / channel is transmitted or received outside the active BWP. In addition, "cell", "carrier" and the like in this disclosure may be read as "BWP".

The above-mentioned structures such as wireless frames, subframes, slots, mini-slots and symbols are merely examples. For example, the number of subframes contained in a radio frame, the number of slots per subframe or radioframe, the number of minislots contained within a slot, the number of symbols and RBs contained in a slot or minislot, included in the RB. The number of subcarriers, the number of symbols in TTI, the symbol length, the cyclic prefix (CP: Cyclic Prefix) length, and other configurations can be changed in various ways.

In the present disclosure, if articles are added by translation, for example, a, an and the in English, the disclosure may include the plural nouns following these articles.

In the present disclosure, 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".

Each aspect / embodiment described in the present disclosure may be used alone, in combination, or may be switched and used according to the execution. Further, the notification of predetermined information (for example, the notification of "being X") is not limited to the explicit one, but is performed implicitly (for example, the notification of the predetermined information is not performed). May be good.

Although the present disclosure has been described in detail above, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments described in the present disclosure. The present disclosure may be implemented as amendments and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as determined by the description of the scope of claims. Therefore, the description of this disclosure is for purposes of illustration and does not have any limiting meaning to this disclosure.

10 Base station 110 Transmitter 120 Receiver 130 Setting unit 140 Control unit 20 Terminal 210 Transmitter 220 Receiver 230 Setting unit 240 Control unit 30 GNSS
1001 Processor 1002 Storage device 1003 Auxiliary storage device 1004 Communication device 1005 Input device 1006 Output device

Claims

A receiver that receives information related to the HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) process from other terminals,
A control unit that determines control related to transmission to the other terminal based on the information related to the HARQ process.
A terminal having a transmission unit that transmits the transport block to the other terminal when the control unit determines to transmit the transport block.
The information related to the HARQ process is at least one of a first HARQ process number indicating the number of HARQ processes that the other terminal can handle and a second HARQ process number indicating the number of HARQ processes being used by the other terminal. And
The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control unit cancels transmission to the other terminal when the number of the first HARQ processes and the number of the second HARQ processes are the same.
The information relating to the HARQ process further includes priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use.
The control unit determines whether or not to transmit the transport block to the other terminal based on at least one of the first HARQ process number, the second HARQ process number, and the priority. The terminal according to claim 2.
The control unit has the same number of first HARQ processes and the same number of second HARQ processes, and the priority of the transport block is at least one of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use. If it is higher than, it is decided to send the transport block to the other terminal.
The control unit has the same number of first HARQ processes and the same number of second HARQ processes, and the priority of the transport block is higher than any of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein if it is low, it is determined to stop transmitting the transport block to the other terminal.
The control unit has the same number of first HARQ processes and the same number of second HARQ processes, and the priority of the transport block is at least one of the priorities associated with each of the HARQ processes in use. If higher than, it is determined to send the transport block to the other terminal, and it is assumed that the HARQ process in use, which has the lowest associated priority, is destroyed. Described terminal.
The information related to the HARQ process is at least among the maximum number of HARQ processes for each transmitting terminal, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each UE-ID, the maximum number of HARQ processes for each cast type, and the maximum number of HARQ processes for the entire receiving terminal. The terminal according to claim 2, further comprising one.
A reception procedure for receiving information related to the HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) process from other terminals, and
A control procedure for determining control related to transmission to the other terminal based on the information related to the HARQ process, and
A communication method in which a terminal executes a transmission procedure for transmitting the transport block to the other terminal when it is determined by the control procedure to transmit the transport block.