terminal and radiocommunication method

专利摘要:
beam failure detection and / or beam recovery are performed correctly. a user terminal according to the present invention has a reception section that receives a downlink control channel (dl) and a control section that configures at least part of one or more beams configured to monitor a beam failure, to monitor the dl control channel, and the control section configures at least part of one or more beams configured for measurement and / or reporting of channel state information (csi), to receive a downlink data channel ( dl).
公开号:BR112019019620A2
申请号:R112019019620
申请日:2017-03-23
公开日:2020-04-22
发明作者:Harada Hiroki；Jiang Huiling；Wang Jing；Liu Liu；Nagata Satoshi
申请人:Ntt Docomo Inc；
IPC主号:

专利说明:

RADIOCOMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD
Technical Field [001] The present invention relates to a user terminal and a radiocommunication method in state-of-the-art mobile communication systems.
Fundamentals of Technique [002] In the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network, LTE (Long Term Evolution) specifications were developed with the purpose of further increasing high-speed data rates, providing lower latency and so on. onwards (see Non-Patent Literature 1). In addition, the LTE-A specifications (also referred to as LTE-Advanced, LTE Rei. 10, LTE Rei. 11 or LTE Rei. 12) have been designed for additional broadbandization and speed increase in addition to LTE (also referred to as LTE King . 8 or LTE King. 9), and successors LTE systems (also referred to as, for example, FRA (Future wireless Access), 5G (mobile communication system 5th generation), NR (New Radio) NX ( Access via New Radio), FX (Radio access by future generation), LTE Rei. 13, LTE Rei. 14, LTE Rei. 15 or later versions) are under study.
[003] In LTE Rei. 10/11, the CA (Carrier Aggregation) to integrate multiple CCs (Component Carriers) is introduced in order to obtain broadbandization. Each CC is configured with the bandwidth of the LTE Rei system. 8 as 1 unit. In addition, in AC, multiple CCs under the same radio base station (also known as eNB (eNóB)) are configured on a user terminal (also referred to as UE (User Equipment)).
[004] However, in LTE Rei. 12, the DC (Dual Connectivity), in which several CGs (Cell Groups) formed by different radio base stations,
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2/79 are configured in the UE, is also introduced. Each group of cells is composed of at least 1 cell (or CC). Since several CCs from different radio base stations are aggregated in DC, DC is also referred to as interbase station CA (inter-eNB CA) and the like.
[005] In existing LTE systems (for example, LTE King. 8 to 13), a user terminal receives downlink control (DCI) information through a downlink control (DL) channel (for example, PDCCH (Downlink Control Channel), EPDCCH (Enhanced Downlink Control Channel), MPDCCH (Machine Type Communication (MTC) Downlink Control Channel), etc.). Based on these DCIs, the user terminal receives DL data channels (for example, PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel)) and / or transmits UL data channels (for example, PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) )).
List of Citations
Non-Patented Literature [006] Non-Patented Literature 1: 3GPP TS36.300 V8.12.0 Access by Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio (E-UTRA) and Access Network by Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio (E-UTRAN); General description; Step 2 (Release 8), April 2010
Summary of the Invention
Technical Problem [007] Predicting future radio communication systems (for example, 5G, NR, etc.), research is being carried out to use higher frequency bands (for example, 3 to 40 GHz) than the existing frequency bands , to achieve high speeds and large capacity (for example, as in enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). In general,
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3/79 higher frequencies suffer greater attenuation induced by distance and this makes it difficult to guarantee coverage. Therefore, studies on MIMO (also known as multiple input multiple output, massive MIMO and so on), which uses a large number of antenna elements, are in progress.
[008] At MIMO, which uses a large number of antenna elements, it is possible to form beams (antenna directives) controlling the amplitude and / or the phase of the signals transmitted or received by each antenna element (this is known as formation of beam (BF). For example, when the antenna elements are arranged two-dimensionally, the higher the frequency, the greater the number of antenna elements that can be arranged in a predetermined area. When the number of antenna elements in a given area increases , the beam width decreases (becomes narrower), so that the gain in beam formation increases, so when beam formation is used, the loss of propagation (loss of path) can be reduced and coverage can be ensured even in high frequency bands.
[009] However, when beamforming is used (for example, when narrower beams are expected to be used in higher frequency bands), the quality of the beams (also known as, for example, BPLs (Pair Links) and similar) may deteriorate due to blockage caused by obstacles and / or similar factors, and as a result, an RLF (Radio Link Failure) may occur frequently. When an RLF occurs, cell connections need to be reestablished, so if an RLF occurs frequently, there may be a decline in system performance.
[010] Therefore, to prevent the occurrence of RLFs, it is preferable to take
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4/79 appropriate measures, such as the detection of beam failures (BFs), in which the quality of specific beams deteriorates, passing to other beams of better quality (also known as L1 / L2 beam recovery) and so on.
[Oil] The present invention was made in view of the above, and it is, therefore, an objective of the present invention to provide a user terminal and a radio communication method, by which beam failures can be detected and / or the beams can be recovered properly.
Solution to the Problem [012] According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a downlink control (DL) channel and a control section that configures at least part of one or more beams configured to monitor a beam failure, to monitor the DL control channel, and the control section configures at least part of one or more beams configured for measurement and / or reporting of channel state information (CSI), to receive a downlink data channel (DL).
Advantageous Effects of the Invention [013] According to the present invention, beam failures can be detected and / or the beams can be recovered accordingly.
Brief Description of the Drawings [014] FIGs. IA and 1B are conceptual diagrams to show examples of beam management;
FIG. 2 is a diagram to show an example of beam failure detection initiated by the user terminal and / or beam recovery operations;
FIG. 3 is a diagram to show an example of beam failure detection;
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5/79 to FIG. 4 is a diagram to show an example from case 1 according to a first example of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a diagram to show another example from case 1 according to the first example;
FIG. 6 is a diagram to show an example from case 2 according to the first example;
FIG. 7 is a diagram to show an example from case 3 according to the first example;
FIG. 8 is a diagram to show an example from case 4 according to the first example;
FIG. 9 is a diagram to show an example from case 5 according to the first example;
FIG. 10 is a diagram to show an example from case 6 according to the first example;
FIG. 11 is a diagram to show an example of a first condition for a beam failure event according to a second example of the present invention;
FIG. 12 is a diagram for showing an example of a second condition for a beam failure event according to the second example;
FIG. 13 is a diagram to show an example of a third condition for a beam failure event according to the second example;
FIG. 14 is a diagram to show an example of the beam recovery process according to a fourth example of the present invention;
FIG. 15 is a diagram to show another example of the beam recovery process according to the fourth example;
FIG. 16 is a diagram to show an exemplary schematic structure of a radio communication system in accordance with the present embodiment;
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6/79 to FIG. 17 is a diagram to show an exemplary general structure of a radio base station in accordance with the present embodiment;
FIG. 18 is a diagram for showing an exemplary functional structure of a radio base station in accordance with the present embodiment;
FIG. 19 is a diagram to show an exemplary general structure of a user terminal in accordance with the present embodiment;
FIG. 20 is a diagram for showing an exemplary functional structure of a user terminal in accordance with the present embodiment; and FIG. 21 is a diagram to show an exemplary hardware structure of a radio base station and a user terminal in accordance with the present embodiment.
Description of Modalities [015] Future radio communication systems (eg 5G, NR, etc.) assume use cases characterized by, for example, high speed and large capacity (eg eMBB), a very large number of terminals ( for example, massive MTC (Machine-type Communication), ultra-high reliability and low latency (for example, URLLC (Ultra-Trusted and Low-Latency Communications), and so on. Assuming these use cases, for example, studies are in progress to communicate using beam formation (BF) in future radio communication systems.
[016] Beam formation (BF) includes digital BF and analog BF. Digital BF refers to the method of performing pre-coding signal processing in the base band (for digital signals). In this case, the fast inverse Fourier transform (IFFT) / digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) / RF (Radio frequency) needs to be performed in parallel processes, on the same number of antenna ports (RF chains). However, it is possible to form a number of beams to correspond to the number of RF chains at any time.
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7/79 [017] Analog BF refers to the method of using phase shift devices in RF. In this case, since it is only necessary to rotate the phase of the RF signals, the analog BF can be implemented with simple and inexpensive configurations, but it is still not possible to form a plurality of beams at the same time. To be more specific, when analog BF is used, each phase shift device can form only 1 beam at a time.
[018] Thus, if a radio base station (referred to as, for example, gNB (gNóB), transmission and reception point (TRP), eNB (eNode B), base station (BS) and so on) has only a phase diverter, the radio base station can form only 1 beam at any one time. Therefore, when multiple beams are transmitted using only the analog BF, these beams cannot be transmitted simultaneously using the same resource, and the beams need to be switched, inverted and so on, over time.
[019] Note that it is also possible to adopt a hybrid CR design that combines digital CR and analog CR. Although, for future radio communication systems (for example, 5G, NR, etc.), studies are underway to introduce MIMO (for example, massive MIMO), which uses a large number of antenna elements, trying to form a huge number of beams using digital CRF alone can lead to expensive circuit structures. For this reason, there is a possibility that hybrid BF will be used in future radio communication systems.
[020] When BF (including digital BF, analog BF, hybrid BF and so on) is used as described above, the quality of the beams (also referred to as, for example, BPLs (Beam Pair Links)) may deteriorate due to obstruction caused by obstacles and / or similar factors and, as a result, an RLF (Radio Link Failure) can occur frequently.
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When an RLF occurs, cell connections need to be reestablished, so that if an RLF occurs frequently, this can lead to a degradation in system performance. Therefore, there is a plan to introduce beam management in order to ensure the robustness of GLPs.
[021] FIGs. 1 provide diagrams to show examples of beam management. FIG. AI shows beam management for use in signals (mobility measurement signals) for use in mobility measurements (also called RRM (Radio Resource Management) measurements, L3 measurements (Layer 3), L3-RSRP measurements (Layer 3 Reference Signal Received Power), L3 mobility measurements and so on). The beams used for mobility measurement signals can be thick beams that have relatively wide beam widths. In addition, since one or more bundles with relatively narrow beam widths (also called thin bundles, narrower bundles and / or the like) may be arranged within a thick bundle, a thick bundle may be called a bundle bundle.
[022] Here, mobility measurement signals can also be referred to as SS (Synchronization Signal) blocks, MRSs (Mobility Reference Signals), CSI-RSs (Channel State Information Reference Signals), signals beam-specific, cell-specific signals, and so on. An SS block refers to a group of signals that includes at least one of a PSS (Primary Sync Signal), an SSS (Secondary Sync Signal) and a broadcast channel (for example, a PBCH (Broadcast Channel) Physicist)). In this way, a mobility measurement signal can be at least one from PSS, SSS, PBCH, MRS and CSI-RS, or it can be a signal formed by improving and / or modifying at least one from PSS, SSS, PBCH, MRS and CSI-RS (for example, a signal that is formed by changing the density and / or the cycle
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[023] Note that, referring to FIG. IA, a user terminal can be in the mode connected to the RRC or in idle mode, and the user terminal must only be in a mode in which the user terminal can identify the settings of the mobility measurement signals. In addition, the user terminal does not need to form Rx beams (receiver beams).
[024] In FIG. IA, a radio base station (also called TRP) transmits mobility measurement signals (for example, blocks of SS and / or CSIRSs) associated with beams Bl to B3. In FIG. AI, the analog BF is used, so that the mobility measurement signals associated with the Bl to B3 beams are all transmitted at different times (for example, in different symbols, slots and so on) (this is also known as beam). Note that when digital BF is used, the mobility measurement signals associated with Bl to B3 beams can be transmitted at the same time.
[025] The user terminal (UE) performs L3 measurements using the mobility measurement signals associated with beams Bl to B3. Note that in L3 measurements, the received power (for example, at least one from RSRP and RSSI (Reference Signal Strength Indicator)) and / or the quality received (for example, at least one from RSRQ (Received Quality) Reference Signal Ratio), SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and SINR (Signal to Interference Ratio plus Noise Power Ratio) of the mobility measurement signals must be measured.
[026] The user terminal transmits a measurement report (MR) that contains the identifiers of one or more beams (also called beam IDs, beam indexes (Bis) and so on) and / or the measurement results of these beams, using upper layer signaling (for example, RRC signaling). Note that the features of the mobility measurement signals,
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10/79 antenna ports etc. can be reported instead of beam IDs. For example, in FIG. IA, the user terminal transmits a measurement report including the BI and / or RSRP of beam B2, which shows the best RSRP.
[027] In addition, the radio base station can select (group) beams (groups of beams) for the user terminal based on the measurement report (MR). For example, in FIG. IA, the user terminal and the radio base station can classify beam B2 as an active beam and Beams B1 and B3 as inactive beams (backup beams). Here, an active beam can refer to a beam that can be used for a DL control channel (hereinafter also called NR-PDCCH, PDCCH, etc.) and / or a DL data channel (hereinafter also referred to as PDSCH) and an inactive beam can refer to a beam (prospective beam) that is not an active beam. A set of one or more active beams can be called an active beam set and so on, and a set of one or more inactive beams can be called an inactive beam set and so on. Note that the user terminal can select (group) beams based on the L3 measurement results and report the selection result to the radio base station.
[028] FIG. 1B shows LI beam management (physical layer) (also called beam measurements, LI measurements (Layer 1), CSI measurements (Channel State Information), Ll-RSRP measurements, and so on). The signals for beam measurements (beam measurement signals) can be at least one from CSI-RS, SS block, PSS, SSS, PBCH and MRS, or they can be signals formed by the improvement and / or modification of at least one of these signals (for example, signals that are formed by changing the density and / or the cycle of at least one of these signals).
[029] For example, in Ll beam management, the beams (also called Tx beams, transmission beams and / or the like) for
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11/79 use in the transmission of NR-PDCCH and / or PDSCH (hereinafter also referred to as NR-PDCCH / PDSCH) and / or beams (also called Rx beams, receiver beams and / or the like) for use in receiving these NR -PDCCH / PDSCH are managed.
[030] In FIG. IB, the radio base station (TRP) transmits configuration information regarding the CSI-RS K resources (here, K = 4) # 1 to # 4, associated with the Tx K B21 to B24 beams, to the user terminal.
[031] A CSI-RS resource is, for example, at least one of a NZP (Non-Zero-Power) CSI-RS resource and a ZP (ZeroPower) CSI-RS resource for IM (Measurements of Interference). The user terminal measures the CSI for each CSI process in which one or more CSI-RS features are configured. A CSI-RS resource can be replaced by a CSI-RS (including NZP-CSI-RS, ZP-CSI-RS, etc.) transmitted using this CSI-RS resource.
[032] The user terminal (UE) measures the CSI-RS # 0 to # 3 resources that are configured. To be more specific, the user terminal performs LI measurements (for example, CSI measurements and / or Ll-RSRP measurements) for CSI-RS K resources (here, K = 4) that are associated respectively with the Tx beams K B21 to B24, and generates CSI and / or Ll-RSRP based on the measurement results.
[033] Here, the CSI can include at least one of a CQI (Channel Quality Indicator), a PMI (Precoding Matrix Indicator), an RI (Position Indicator) and a CRI (CSI-RS Resource Indicator) ). As mentioned earlier, Tx beams are associated with CSIRS resources, so that it is possible to say that a CRI specifies a Tx beam.
[034] Based on the measurement results of the Tx K beams (or CSI-RS K resources corresponding to these Tx beams), the user terminal selects
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12/79 beams Tx N (K <N). Here, the number of Tx beams, or N, can be determined in advance, configured by upper layer signaling or specified by physical layer signaling.
[035] The user terminal can determine which Rx beam is suitable for each selected Tx beam and select the beam pair link (GLP). Here, a GLP refers to an ideal combination of a Tx beam and an Rx beam. For example, in FIG. IB, the combination of beam Tx B23 and beam Rx b3 is selected as the best BPL and the combination of beam Tx B22 and beam Rx b2 is selected as the second best BPL.
[036] The user terminal transmits CRIs N, which correspond to the selected Tx N beams, and at least one of the CQIs, Ris and PMIs of the Tx N beams derived from the N CRIs to the radio base station. In addition, the user terminal can transmit Tx N beam RSRPs to the radio base station. In addition, the user terminal can transmit the Rx beam IDs (also referred to as Rx beam IDs, Bls, beam IDs and / or the like) corresponding to the Tx N beams.
[037] The radio base station selects the TX (or BPL) beam to be used for the NR-PDCCH and / or the PDSCH (NR-PDCCH / PDSCH) and indicates this beam Tx (or BPL) for the user. To be more specific, the radio base station can select the Tx beam to be used for NR-PDCCH and / or PDSCH (NRPDCCH / PDSCH) based on CSIs N (for example, CRIs N, at least one of CQIs , Ris and PMIs of the Tx beams, as shown by these CRIs of N and so on) and / or Ll-RSRPs of the user terminal. In addition, the radio base station can select the GLP based on the Rx beam ID of the Rx beam corresponding to this Tx beam.
[038] Beams can be displayed from the radio base station to the user terminal based on how the antenna ports (DMRS ports) of the
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13/79 NR-PDCCH / PDSCH demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) and CSI-RS resources are associated (QCL (Quasi-Co-Location)). Note that the QCL between DMRS ports and CSI-RS resources can be indicated separately for NR-PDCCH and PDSCH.
[039] For example, in FIG. 1C, the information to show the association between the CSI-RS # 2 feature of the best BPL (beam Tx B23 and beam Rx b3) in FIG. 1B and DMRS port # 0, and the association between the CSI-RS # 1 feature of the second best BPL (beam Tx B23 and beam Rx b3) and the DMRS port # 1 is reported from the radio base station to the user via upper layer signaling and / or physical layer signaling (for example, DCI).
[040] In FIG. 1C, the user terminal demodulates the NR-PDCCH / PDSCH on the assumption that, on the DMRS port # 0, this NR-PDCCH is transmitted using the Tx B23 beam, where the best measurement result of the CSI-RS # feature 2 was obtained. In addition, the user terminal can demodulate the NR-PDCCH / PDSCH using beam Rx b3, which corresponds to beam Tx B23.
[041] The user terminal demodulates the NR-PDCCH / PDSCH on the assumption that, on the DMRS port # 1, the NR-PDCCH is transmitted using the Tx B22 beam, where the best measurement result of the CSI-RS resource # 1 was obtained. In addition, the user terminal can demodulate the NR-PDCCH / PDSCH using beam Rx b2, which corresponds to beam Tx B22.
[042] Below the beam management described above is implemented, when the quality of a particular beam (or BPL) deteriorates, it is desirable to prevent a Radio Link Failure (RLF) from occurring by properly detecting the beam failure caused by this beam and / or properly executing the switching process to another beam (beam recovery).
[043] At present, beam failure detection and / or beam recovery can be initiated and performed by a radio base station or can
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14/79 be initiated and executed by a user terminal. Since a user terminal monitors DL signals (for example, at least one of the CSI measurement, Ll-RSRP measurement, NR-PDCCH monitoring (also known as PDCCH monitoring, blind decoding, etc.), receiving PDSCH and so on), beam failure detection and / or beam recovery, when initiated by a user terminal, can be effectively accelerated. Therefore, the present inventors studied how to allow a user terminal to initiate and perform beam failure detection and / or beam recovery correctly, and arrived at the present invention.
[044] Now, the modalities of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that although the beam formation according to the modalities contained herein of the present invention presupposes digital BF, analog BF and hybrid BF can be used as appropriate. In addition, although GLPs are described first in the description below, a beam according to the present invention need not be a beam pair link (GLP) composed of a Tx beam and an Rx beam, and may be a Tx beam or an Rx beam.
[045] FIG. 2 is a diagram to show an example of beam failure detection initiated by the user terminal and / or beam recovery operations. As shown in FIG. 2, in step S101, a radio base station (TRP) transmits configuration information for beam measurements. This configuration information includes, for example, configuration information for at least one CSI measurement, Ll-RSRP measurement, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receipt and monitoring for beam failure detection (GLP monitoring).
[046] In step S102, a user terminal (UE) performs beam measurement (for example, the CSI measurement of FIG. 1B and / or Ll-RSRP measurement). Beyond
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In addition, the user terminal monitors the PDCCH and / or receives the PDSCH (see, for example, FIG. 1C).
[047] In step S103, the user terminal (UE) detects a beam failure based on the monitoring result for beam failure detection (GLP monitoring). To be more specific, the user terminal detects a beam failure based on the result of comparing the quality of a predetermined number of active beam BPLs with a certain limit.
[048] FIG. 3 is a diagram to show an example of beam failure detection. For example, referring to FIG. 3, BPLs Y (Y = 3 here) are configured on the user terminal for BPL monitoring, and a beam failure event occurs when the state in which the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here ) is less than a certain continuous limit predetermined by or more than the period T1. Note that at least one of the Y BPLs can be associated with an N-PDCCH.
[049] In addition, as for the signal to detect beam failures (and / or candidate GLPs to switch to), for example, at least one of the mobility measurement signals, CSI-RS, the tracking reference signal of time and / or frequency, the SS block, the PDCCH DMRS and the PDSCH DMRS can be used. Note that the PDCCH DMRS here can be a PDCCH DMRS that is used in common by one or more user terminals in a group (UE group) and / or it can be a PDCCH DMRS specific to a particular user terminal.
[050] In step S104 of FIG. 2, the user terminal (UE) reports that a beam failure has been detected and / or transmits a UL signal to request beam recovery (also known as a beam recovery signal). In step S105, the radio base station performs the beam recovery process based on that beam recovery signal. In step S106, the station
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[051] In the event that beam failure detection and / or beam recovery is initiated by a user terminal, as described above, the problem lies in how to configure a set of one or more GLPs that are subject to GLP monitoring (and which is also referred to as a GLP set, bundle set, etc.). Therefore, the first example will describe below the configuration of the GLP suite that is subject to GLP monitoring.
[052] Furthermore, as described above, with reference to step S103 of FIG. 2, when a user terminal detects a beam failure based on the result of comparing the GLP quality of the active beams with a predetermined limit, there is a danger that adequate beam recovery is not possible. Therefore, a second example describes below the conditions for the detection of beam failure that allows the proper recovery of the beam.
[053] In addition, which UL signal should be used as a beam recovery signal in step S104 of FIG. 2 and / or how this signal is to be transmitted are also problems. Therefore, a third example below describes which UL signal is used as a beam recovery signal and / or how this beam recovery signal is transmitted.
[054] In addition, what type of beam recovery process should the radio base station perform in step S105 of FIG. 2 and / or what response signal the radio base station should transmit in step S106 are other problems. Therefore, a fourth example will describe below the process of beam retrieval and transmission of response signals at the radio base station in response to beam retrieval signals from a user terminal.
[055] (First Example)
In addition to GLP monitoring, a user terminal can perform
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[056] For example, in PDCCH monitoring, the user terminal monitors (decodes blindly) a predetermined number of BPLs to detect a DL control channel (for example, PDCCH). In addition, upon receipt of the PDSCH, the user terminal receives a DL data channel (for example, PDSCH) using one or more BPLs. In addition, in CSI measurement / reporting, the user terminal measures and / or reports the CSI against one or more GLPs.
[057] In addition, in Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, the user terminal measures the RSRP of one or more BPLs (or Tx beams) using a predetermined measurement signal (for example, CSI-RS block and / or SS) and reports the RSRP measured through LI signaling (for example, PUSCH or PUCCH).
[058] When configuring separate GLP sets for GLP monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting like this, there is a danger that these GLP sets cannot be configured efficiently.
[059] Thus, with the first example, the configuration of the GLP sets is made efficient by making at least the GLP set for BPL monitoring and the BPL sets for PDCCH monitoring common. Now, as the BPL sets for BPL monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting are related to each other, they will be defined below.
[060] To be more specific, the GLP sets for monitoring the PDCCH are included in the GLP sets for monitoring the GLP.
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In this way, beam failures can be detected using BPLs associated with the PDCCH. Note that BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are preferably the same as BPL sets for monitoring BPL, but both may not be the same as long as they are mutually inclusive.
[061] In addition, BPL sets for receiving PDSCH may be included in BPL sets for CSI measurement / reporting. By this means, the radio base station can acquire the CSI of the GLP for use in the transmission of the PDSCH. Note that BPL sets for receiving PDCCH are preferably the same as BPL sets for BPL monitoring, but both may not be the same as long as they are mutually inclusive.
[062] In addition, these BPL sets for measuring / reporting CSI can be included in the sets of bundles for measuring / reporting LlRSRP. In this way, the radio base station can select BPLs for CSI measurement / reporting from among the BPLs whose RSRPs were reported based on the Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting. Note that BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are preferably the same as BPL sets for monitoring BPL, but both may not be the same as long as they are mutually inclusive.
[063] In addition, BPL sets for receiving PDSCH may or may not be included in BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH.
[064] Now, the cases (cases 1 to 6) will be described below in detail, in which the GLP sets for PDCCH monitoring are the same as the GLP sets for BPL monitoring and in which the GLP sets for receiving PDSCH are the same as the GLP sets for CSI measurement / reporting. In cases 1 to 3, the GLP sets for measuring / reporting CSI and the GLP sets for measuring / reporting LlRSRP are the same. In cases 4 to 6, the GLP sets for measuring / reporting
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CSI and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting bundle sets are configured separately.
<Case 1>
[065] In case 1, the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for monitoring BPL, the BPL sets for receiving PDSCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for measuring / reporting CSI, the BPL sets for measuring / reporting CSI are set up the same as BPL sets for measuring / reporting Ll-RSRP, and BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are set up the same as BPL sets for receiving PDSCH.
[066] In case 1, the radio base station configures, for a user terminal, one or more sets of GLP that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring, GLP monitoring, PDSCH receipt, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / report, using superior signaling.
[067] FIG. 4 is a diagram to show an example from case 1 according to a first example of the present invention. In FIG. 4, the radio base station configures a single set of BPL that applies in common to PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, at the user terminal. In FIG. 4, this common set of BPL includes Y BPLs (here, Y = 4). Note that the radio base station can transmit the NR-PDCCH using at least one of the Y BPLs or change the BPLs for PDCCH transmission on a dynamic basis.
[068] For example, in FIG 4, a beam failure event occurs when the state in which the beam quality (for example, the RSRP and / or the RSRQ) of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here ), of Y BPLs, is less than a predetermined limit
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20/79 continuous for or longer than the Tl period. When a beam failure event occurs, the user terminal reports a beam recovery signal (for example, 1 bit), which indicates that a beam failure has occurred, to the radio base station.
[069] In FIG. 4, when the radio base station receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station can configure a new set of BPL for the user terminal by means of upper layer signaling. This set of GLP can be selected based on the result of thick beam measurements at the user terminal (see FIG. IA).
[070] Furthermore, in case 1, upon receiving a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station can return to the PDCCH transmission using thick beams based on a robust beam measurement report from the user terminal. user (see FIG. IA). In this case, the radio base station can configure, at the user terminal, the information that is necessary to receive the PDCCH using thick beams (for example, the PDCCH's time and / or frequency resources, the CSI-RS configuration ( CSI-RS resource) for CSI measurement / reporting, etc.).
[071] FIG. 5 is a diagram to show another example from case 1 according to the first example. In FIG. 5, the radio base station configures a single set of BPL that applies in common to PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, at the user terminal. The radio base station can report one or more sets of GLP to be used (also called active GLP sets), among these various GLP sets, using a MAC control element (MAC CE) or DCI.
[072] For example, in FIG. 5, the 3 sets of GLP 1 to 3, which apply
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21/79 in common to PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting are configured. BPL sets 1, 2 and 3 include BPLs X, Y and Z ', respectively. Here Y = Z = Z '= 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. In addition, suppose that the GLP set 1 is reported to the user terminal as an active GLP set, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[073] With reference to FIG. 5, a beam failure event occurs when the state where the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the BPL set 1 is below a predetermined continuous limit by one TI period or more. The user terminal transmits a beam recovery signal (for example, 1 bit) to the radio base station.
[074] When the radio base station receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to another BPL set. Note that for which GLP set the active GLP set is switched, it can be selected based on the L3 measurement result (for example, L3-RSRP). For example, in the case of FIG. 5, the active GLP set changes from GLP set 1 to the GLP set 2.
[075] Alternatively, the radio base station can transmit a MAC CE or DCI that carries information to trigger LL-RSRP measurement / reporting and / or CSI measurement / reporting for other GLP sets (here, GLP sets 2 and 3 ).
[076] When the number of BPLs, Y, in the active BPL set is greater than the limit X above to trigger a beam failure event, this MAC CE or DCI can be transmitted in other BPLs from Y to X in this set of Active GLP. On the other hand, when the number of BPLs is equal to limit X above, the MAC CE or DCI
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22/79 can be transmitted in a thick beam selected based on a predetermined rule. Note that DCIs can be transmitted in user-specific research spaces (also called USS (EU Specific Research Spaces)) or can be transmitted in a shared research space in common by one or more user terminals that constitute a group (also known as CSS (Common Research Space), group research space, etc.).
[077] According to case 1, the GLP sets used in common in PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting are configured so that it is It is possible to efficiently configure the GLP sets and switch the GLP sets when beam failures are detected.
<Case 2>
[078] In case 2, similar to case 1, the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for monitoring BPL, the BPL sets for receiving PDSCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for measuring / CSI reporting, and the BPL sets for measuring / reporting CSI are set up the same as the BPL sets for measuring / reporting Ll-RSRP. However, case 2 is different from case 1 in which the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are included in the BPL sets for receiving PDSCH. The differences in case 1 will be described first below.
[079] In case 2, the radio base station configures, for a user terminal, one or more sets of GLP that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report on active GLP sets for PDCCH monitoring and
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BPL, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[080] In addition, the radio base station configures several sets of GLP that apply in common to the receipt of PDSCH, CSI measurement / report and Ll-RSRP measurement / report, using upper layer signaling. These various GLP sets include a GLP set configured for PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring and other GLP sets. The radio base station may report active GLP sets that are common to at least 2 PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, or report individual active GLP sets, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[081] FIG. 6 is a diagram to show an example from case 2 according to the first example of the present invention. In FIG. 6, the radio base station configures the BPL 1 set for monitoring PDCCH and monitoring BPL in common. In addition, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1 to 3, at the user terminal, for receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, in common. BPL sets 1, 2 and 3 include BPLs Y, Z and Z ', respectively. Here Y = Z = Z '= 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting.
[082] With reference to FIG. 6, a beam failure event occurs when the state where the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the set of BPL 1 is below a predetermined continuous limit by or more than one Tl period. The user terminal transmits an UL signal (for example, 1 bit), which indicates that a beam failure has occurred, to the radio base station.
[083] When the radio base station receives the UL signal to indicate that a beam failure has occurred, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to
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24/79 another set of GLP. In FIG. 6, GLP sets 1 through 3 are configured for CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, so that the radio base station can decide which GLP set to switch the active GLP set on, based on in CSI and / or Ll-RSRP of each GLP in GLP sets 1 through 3.
[084] For example, in FIG. 6, the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring and the BPL monitoring is changed from BPL set 1 to the BPL set 2. In addition, the radio base station can update the active GLP set for CSI measurement / reporting and / or Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[085] In case 2, a larger number of GLP sets are configured for common use in receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, than common GLP sets for monitoring PDCCH and GLP monitoring, so that it is possible to switch the GLP sets correctly and quickly when a beam failure occurs.
<Case 3>
[086] In case 3, similar to case 1, the BPL sets for monitoring the PDCCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for monitoring the BPL, the BPL sets for receiving the PDSCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for measuring / CSI report and BPL sets for measurement / CSI report are set up the same as BPL sets for measurement / Ll-RSRP report. However, case 3 is different from case 1, in which the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are included in the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH. The differences in case 1 will be described first below.
[087] In case 3, the radio base station configures, for a
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25/79 user, a number of GLP sets that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report the active GLP sets for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[088] In addition, the radio base station configures, in at least one of these multiple sets of GLP, a subset that applies in common to receiving PDSCH, measuring / reporting CSI and measuring / reporting LlRSRP, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report subsets (active subsets) for use in receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[089] FIG. 7 is a diagram to show an example from case 3 according to the first example of the present invention. For example, in FIG. 7, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1, 2 and 3 for PDCCH monitoring and for BPL monitoring, in common, at the user terminal. In addition, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1 to 3, at the user terminal, for receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, in common.
[090] BPL sets 1, 2 and 3 include BPLs Y, Z and Z ', respectively. Here Y = Z = Z '= 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. Subset 1 of BPL set 1 contains Y or less BPLs (here, BPLs 1 and 2), subset 2 of BPL set 2 contains Z or less BPLs (here, BPLs 3 and
4) and subset 3 of the BPL set 3 contains Z 'or less BPLs (here, BPL
5).
[091] Suppose, in FIG. 7, the GLP set 1 is the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring. Besides that,
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26/79 suppose that GLP sets 1 to 3 are the active subsets for receiving PDSCH, measuring / reporting CSI and measuring / reporting LlRSRP.
[092] With reference to FIG. 5, a beam failure event occurs when the state in which the beam quality of X (X <YeX = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the BPL set 1 is below a predetermined continuous limit by or more than the period Tl. The user terminal transmits a beam recovery signal (for example, 1 bit) to the radio base station.
[093] When the radio base station receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to another BPL set. In FIG. 7, subsets 1, 2 and 3 are configured for CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, and these subsets 1, 2 and 3 are the active subsets. Consequently, which BPL set the active BPL set can be switched to can be determined based on the CSI and / or Ll-RSRP of each BPL from subsets 1 to 3. Alternatively, for which set of BPL the active BPL set can switching can also be determined based on L3-RSRP.
[094] For example, in FIG. 7, the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring is changed from BPL set 1 to BPL set 2. In addition, the radio base station can update the active GLP set for CSI measurement / reporting and / or Ll-RSRP measurement / report, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[095] In case 3, in at least one of the GLP sets used in PDCCH monitoring and in common GLP monitoring, a subset that is used in common in receiving the PDSCH, measuring / reporting CSI and measuring / reporting Ll-RSRP is configured, so
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27/79 so that the CSI measurement / report load and / or LlRSRP measurement / report at the user terminal can be reduced based on Ll-RSRP.
<Case 4>
[096] In case 4, similar to case 1 to case 3, the BPL sets for monitoring the PDCCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for monitoring the BPL and the BPL sets for receiving the PDSCH are set up the same as the BPL sets for CSI measurement / reporting. However, case 4 is different from case 1 to case 3, in which the GLP sets for measuring / reporting CSI are included in the GLP sets for measuring / reporting Ll-RSRP. The differences in case 1 will be described first below.
[097] In case 4, the radio base station configures, for a user terminal, one or more sets of GLP that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring, GLP monitoring, PDSCH receipt and CSI measurement / reporting, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station may report active GLP sets that are common to at least 2 PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving and CSI measurement / reporting, or report individual active GLP sets to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[098] In addition, the radio base station configures several sets of GLP for measurement / reporting of Ll-RSRP using upper layer signaling. These various BPL sets can include BPL sets configured for PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH reception and CSI measurement / reporting and, in addition, other BPL sets.
[099] FIG. 8 is a diagram to show an example from case 4 according to the first example of the present invention. For example, in FIG. 8, the radio base station sets up GLP sets 1 to 3 for monitoring
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28/79 PDCCH, BPL monitoring, receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting, in common. In addition, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1 to 4 for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting.
[0100] BPL sets 1, 2, 3 and 4 include BPLs Y, Z, Z 'and Z, respectively. Here Y = Z = Z '= Z = 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. Furthermore, suppose that, in FIG. 8, the BPL set 1 is the active BPL set for PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving and CSI measurement / reporting.
[0101] With reference to FIG. 8, a beam failure event occurs when the state where the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the BPL set 1 is below a predetermined continuous limit by one TI period or more. The user terminal transmits a beam recovery signal (for example, 1 bit) to the radio base station.
[0102] When the radio base station receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to another GLP set . In FIG. 8, GLP sets 1 through 4 are configured for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting. The radio base station decides which BPL set to switch the active BPL set to, based on the LlRSRP of each BPL in BPL sets 1 through 4. For example, in FIG. 8, the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring and PDSCH receipt and CSI measurement / reporting is changed from GLP set 1 to GLP set 2.
[0103] In case 4, a larger number of GLP sets for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting are configured than the BPL set used in common in PDSCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receiving and CSI measurement / reporting, so that it is possible to switch the GLP from
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<Case 5>
[0104] In case 5, similar to case 4, the GLP sets for receiving PDSCH are configured equal to the GLP sets for monitoring the GLP and the same as the GLP sets for measuring / reporting the CSI, and the GLP sets for CSI measurement / reporting are set up the same as the GL-RSRP measurement / reporting GLP sets. However, case 5 is different from case 4, in which the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH are included in the BPL sets for receiving PDSCH. The differences in case 4 will be described first below.
[0105] In case 5, the radio base station configures, for a user terminal, one or more sets of GLP that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report the active GLP sets for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[0106] In addition, the radio base station configures one or more sets of GLP that apply in common to PDSCH reception and CSI measurement / reporting, using upper layer signaling. These various BPL sets can include BPL sets that are configured for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring and, in addition, other BPL sets. The radio base station can report sets of active GLPs that they apply in common to receiving PDSCH and CSI measurement / reporting, or report sets of individual active GLPs to the user terminal using a MAC CE or DCI.
[0107] In addition, the radio base station configures several sets of BPL for measurement / reporting of Ll-RSRP using layer signaling
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Higher 30/79. These various BPL sets may include a BPL set configured for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring and / or a BPL set configured for receiving PDSCH and CSI measurement / reporting and, in addition, other BPL sets.
[0108] FIG. 9 is a diagram to show an example of case 5 according to the first example of the present invention. For example, in FIG. 9, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1, 2 and 3 for PDCCH monitoring and for BPL monitoring, in common, at the user terminal. In addition, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1 to 3, at the user terminal, for receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting. In addition, the radio base station sets up GLP sets 1 through 4 on the user terminal for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting.
[0109] BPL sets 1, 2, 3 and 4 include BPLs Y, Z, Z 'and Z, respectively. Here, Y = Z = Z '= Z = 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. Furthermore, suppose that, in FIG. 9, the GLP set 1 is the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring, BPL monitoring, PDSCH receipt and CSI measurement / reporting.
[0110] With reference to FIG. 9, a beam failure event occurs when the state where the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the BPL set 1 is below a predetermined threshold continues for one TI period or more. The user terminal transmits a beam recovery signal (for example, 1 bit) to the radio base station.
[0111] When the radio base station receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to another GLP set . In FIG. 9, GLP sets 1 through 4 are configured for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting. The radio base station decides which
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31/79 BPL set to switch the active BPL set, based on Ll-RSRP of each BPL in the BPL sets 1 to 4. For example, in FIG. 9, the active GLP set for PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring is changed from GLP set 1 to GLP set 2.
[0112] In case 5, a greater number of GLP sets for common use in receiving and measuring / reporting CSI from the PDSCH than the GLP sets used in PDCCH monitoring and in common GLP monitoring are configured, so that it is possible to switch the GLP sets properly and quickly when a beam failure occurs.
<Case 6>
[0113] In case 6, similar to case 4, the GLP sets for receiving PDSCH are configured equal to the GLP sets for monitoring GLP and the same as the GLP sets for measuring / reporting CSI, and the GLP sets for CSI measurement / reporting are set up the same as the GL-RSRP measurement / reporting GLP sets. However, case 6 is different from case 1, in which the BPL sets for receiving PDCCH are included in the BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH. The differences in case 4 will be described first below.
[0114] In case 6, the radio base station configures, for a user terminal, several sets of GLP that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report the active GLP sets for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[0115] In addition, the radio base station configures, in at least one of these several sets of GLP, a subset that applies in common to the
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32/79 receipt of PDSCH and measurement / report of CSI, using upper layer signaling. The radio base station can report a subset for use in receiving PDSCH, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, to the user terminal, using a MAC CE or DCI.
[0116] In addition, the radio base station configures several sets of GLP for measurement / reporting of Ll-RSRP, at the user terminal, using upper layer signaling. These various BPL sets can include BPL sets configured for PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring and, in addition, other BPL sets.
[0117] FIG. 10 is a diagram to show an example from case 6 according to the first example of the present invention. For example, in FIG. 10, the radio base station configures the sets of GLP 1, 2 and 3 for PDCCH monitoring and for GLP monitoring, in common, at the user terminal. In addition, the radio base station configures the GLP sets 1 to 3, at the user terminal, for receiving PDSCH and measuring / reporting CSI in common. In addition, the radio base station configures BPL sets 1 to 4, for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, at the user terminal.
[0118] BPL sets 1, 2, 3 and 4 include BPLs Y, Z, Z 'and Z, respectively. Here Y = Z = Z '= 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. Subset 1 of BPL set 1 contains Y or less BPLs (here, BPLs 1 and 2), subset 2 of BPL set 2 contains Z or less BPLs (here, BPLs 3 and 4) and subset 3 of set 3 of BPL contains Z 'or less BPLs (here, BPL 5).
[0119] Suppose also that, in FIG. 10, GLP pool 1 is the active GLP pool for PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring. Beyond
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33/79 of this, suppose that GLP sets 1 to 3 are the active subsets for receiving PDSCH and measuring / reporting CSI.
[0120] With reference to FIG. 10, a beam failure event occurs when the state where the beam quality of BPLs X (X <Y and X = 2 here) between the Y BPLs that make up the BPL set 1 is below a predetermined continuous limit by or more than the Tl period. The user terminal transmits an UL signal (for example, 1 bit), which indicates that a beam failure has occurred, to the radio base station.
[0121] When the radio base station receives the UL signal to indicate that a beam failure has occurred, the radio base station transmits a MAC CE or DCI that carries a command to change an active GLP set to another GLP set . In FIG. 10, GLP sets 1 through 4 are configured for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting. The radio base station decides which GLP is configured to switch the active GLP to, based on the Ll-RSRP of each GLP in GLP sets 1 through 4. For example, in FIG. 6, the active GLP pool for PDCCH monitoring and GLP monitoring is changed from GLP pool 1 to GLP pool 2.
[0122] In case 6, a greater number of GLP sets for Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting are configured than the GLP sets that apply in common to PDCCH monitoring and BPL monitoring, so that it is possible to switch the GLP sets properly and quickly when a beam failure occurs.
[0123] As described above, according to the first example, the relationship between each beam defined for GLP monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, CSI measurement / reporting and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting is defined for that GLP sets can be configured efficiently.
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34/79 (Second Example) [0124] With the second example, the conditions for detecting a beam failure (conditions for a beam failure event) will be described.
[0125] As explained in the first example, studies are underway to generate a beam failure event when the state in which the quality of X (X <Y) BPLs, between Y BPLs in an active BPL set, is below predetermined limit continues for or more than a predetermined period. If a beam failure event is generated based on this condition, the beam recovery can be triggered even when there are no BPLs available for use in addition to the Y BPLs above, and this may result in beam recovery failure.
[0126] Therefore, according to the second example, the conditions for a beam failure event are configured based not only on the quality of the BPLs in an active BPL set, but also on the quality of the BPLs in a set of BPL that serves as a candidate to switch the active GLP pool (also known as a backup GLP pool, candidate GLP pool, non-active GLP pool, etc.).
[0127] Now, the first to third conditions for a beam failure event according to a second example of the present invention will be described below. To be more specific, the first to third conditions, which will be described below, are configured so that the BPL sets for monitoring the PDCCH are included in the BPL sets for monitoring the BPL. In addition, according to the second example, the radio base station configures BPL sets for monitoring PDCCH and BPL sets for monitoring BPL, in a user terminal, using upper layer signaling. In addition, the following first to third conditions can be configured at the
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<First Condition>
[0128] According to the first condition, even when a TI period has not passed from the quality of the GLP X (X <Y), between the GLP Y in an active GLP set, it has remained below a predetermined limit, if a period T2 passed after the quality of BPLs P (P <Z) between BPLs Z in a set of backup BPL reached a predetermined limit, a beam failure event is generated.
[0129] FIG. 11 is a diagram to show an example of the first condition for a beam failure event according to the second example of the present invention. For example, FIG. 11 assumes that the GLP 1 set is configured for PDCCH monitoring, and the GLP 1 and 2 sets are configured for BPL monitoring. The sets of GLP 1 and 2 include GLP Y and Z, respectively. Here Y = Z = 2 is valid, but this is by no means limiting. In addition, in FIG. 11, the above limits X and P are both 2, but this is by no means limiting as long as X <YeP <Zse remains.
[0130] In FIG. 11, an IT period or more has passed since the quality of GLP 2 in the active GLP set (BPL set 1) has fallen below a predetermined threshold, but a T2 period or more has not passed after the quality of GLP 1 has fallen below the predetermined limit. However, the period T2 or more passed after the quality of the BPLs P - that is, BPLs 3 and 4 - in the backup BPL set (set of BPL 2) became better than a predetermined limit. Thus, the user terminal generates a beam failure event, regardless of the state of the active GLP set, and transmits a beam recovery signal to the radio base station.
<Second Condition>
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36/79 [0131] According to the first condition, even when a Tl period has not passed since the quality of the GLP X (X <Y), between the BLP Y in an active GLP set, it has fallen below a predetermined limit, if a T2 period has passed after the quality of P BPLs (P <Z) between BPLs Z in a backup BPL set has reached a predetermined limit, a beam failure event is generated.
[0132] FIG. 11 is a diagram to show an example of a first condition for a beam failure event according to a second example of the present invention. FIG. 12 is similar to FIG. 11, except that the period Tl or more has passed since the quality of BPL1 fell below a predetermined limit.
[0133] In FIG. 12, a period Tl or more has passed since the quality of BPLs X 1 and 2 in an active BPL set (set of BPL 1) has fallen below a predetermined threshold and a period T2 or more has passed after the quality of PPL BPLs - that is, BPLs 3 and 4 - in the backup BPL set (set of BPL 2) have become better than the predetermined limit. Thus, the user terminal generates a beam failure event, regardless of the state of the active GLP set, and transmits a beam recovery signal to the radio base station.
<Third Condition>
[0134] According to the third condition, when the quality of the P BPLs in a backup BPL set is better, the quality of the best BPL among the Y BPLs in an active BPL defined by an index or more, a failure event beam is produced.
[0135] FIG. 13 is a diagram to show an example of the third condition for a beam failure event according to the second example of the present invention. FIG. 13 assumes that the quality of GLP2 is the best in the set of active GLP (set of GLP 1). The other conditions are
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37/79 same as in FIG. 11) [0136] In FIG. 13, the quality of BPLs P - that is, BPLs 3 and 4 - in a set of backup BPLs is better than the quality of BPL 2 by an index or more. Thus, the user terminal generates a beam failure event and transmits a beam recovery signal to the radio base station.
[0137] According to the second example, the conditions for a beam failure event are configured based not only on the quality of the GLPs in an active GLP set, but also on the quality of the GLPs in a GLP set that serves as candidate to switch the active BPL set to (also called a backup BPL set, candidate BPL set, etc.). Consequently, it is possible to prevent the beam recovery from being triggered when there are no GLPs available for use in addition to the Y GLPs in an active GLP pool.
(Third Example) [0138] A third example of the present invention will describe below which UL signal is used as a beam recovery signal and / or how this beam recovery signal is transmitted.
<Beam Recovery Signal Content>
[0139] The beam recovery signal is a signal to indicate that a beam failure has been detected (a beam failure event has occurred) at a user terminal. This beam recovery signal can be, for example, explicit 1-bit information or it can be information that implicitly indicates that a beam failure has been detected.
[0140] In addition, the beam recovery signal may indicate that a beam failure has been detected at a user terminal and may also indicate the beam ID of one or more candidate beams to which to switch (or the
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38/79 a group of bundles comprised of one or more bundles). This beam ID (or beam group ID) can be any information, as long as it represents a beam (or a group of beams) (for example, a CRI to show a CSI-RS resource associated with a beam).
[0141] In addition, one or more candidate beams to be switched can be thick beams (for example, Bl beams to B3 in FIG. IA) or thin beams (for example, Tx beams B21 to B24 in FIG. 1B).
[0142] Note that when a DL beam failure (L1 / L2 beam failure) is detected at the user terminal, it can be estimated that an UL beam failure (L1 / L2 beam failure) or an DL beam failure and UL beam failure can be detected separately.
<Transmission of the Beam Recovery Signal>
[0143] For example, one of (1) a physical random access channel (preamble to PRACH (also known as preamble to RACH), (2) a poll reference signal (SRS), (3) a scheduling request UL (SR), (4) a PUSCH that is scaled by the radio base station's DCI (UL grant) in response to an SR and (5) a PUCCH can be used as a beam recovery signal.
[0144] (1) When a RACH preamble is used as a beam recovery signal, a user terminal transmits the RACH preamble using a feature that is configured by the upper layer signaling. This feature is configured in addition to the features for initial access procedures.
[0145] When transmitting a RACH preamble using a resource that is configured in addition to the resources for initial access procedures, the radio base station can recognize the RACH preamble as a beam recovery signal. In that case, the radio base station can transmit a
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39/79 signal of response to the beam recovery signal, using a RAR, instead of the RAR (message 2) for initial access procedures.
[0146] Note that the preamble ID or beam retrieval signal feature can implicitly indicate one or more candidate beams to switch to. In that case, the mobility reference signals (for example, SS blocks and / or CSI-RS resources) from these one or more bundles can be associated with the above resource or preamble ID.
[0147] (2) When an SRS is used as a beam recovery signal, a user terminal transmits this SRS using a feature that is configured by the upper layer signaling. This feature is configured in addition to the features for initial access procedures. Thus, an SRS is transmitted using a resource that is configured in addition to the polling resources, so that the radio base station can recognize the SRS as a beam recovery signal.
[0148] (3) When an SR is used as a beam recovery signal, a user terminal transmits this SR using a feature that is configured by the upper layer signaling. This feature is configured in addition to the feature for an escalation request. Thus, an SR is transmitted using a resource that is configured in addition to the resource for an escalation request, the radio base station can recognize the preamble of the RACH as a beam retrieval signal.
[0149] (4) When a beam recovery signal is transmitted using a PUSCH scaled by an UL concession, the beam recovery signal can be included in the uplink control (UCI) information or can be included in a MAC control element (MAC CE). New features can be configured for UCI which serves as a beam recovery signal.
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40/79 [0150] (5) When a beam recovery signal is transmitted using a PUCCH, the beam recovery signal is transmitted using a newly configured PUCCH field. When transmitting a PUCCH using a resource in a newly configured PUCCH field, the radio base station can identify this PUCCH as a beam recovery signal.
[0151] As for the PUCCH format, for example, the PUCCH format la, lb or 3 can be reused. The resource index in the newly configured PUCCH field can be assigned to the beam recovery signal, by signaling the user terminal's specific upper layer.
[0152] Note that existing UCIs (for example, delivery confirmation information for the PDSCH (also known as HARQ-ACK, ACK / NACK, A / N etc. etc. and / or CSI) can be transmitted using the PUCCH, simultaneously with the beam recovery signal, in this case, the beam recovery signal can be transmitted using a resource in the new PUCCH field, and the existing UCIs can be transmitted in the existing PUCCH field. Existing ICUs are transmitted using a resource in a new PUCCH field, an implicit indication to the effect that existing UCIs are beam recovery signals can be provided.
(Fourth Example) [0153] A fourth example of the present invention will describe below the process of beam retrieval and transmission of response signals at the radio base station in response to beam retrieval signals from a user terminal.
[0154] FIG. 14 is a diagram to show an example of the beam recovery process according to the fourth example of the present invention. FIG. 14 assumes that the user terminal generates a beam failure event
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41/79 because the TI period passed after the quality of a predetermined number of thin beams (for example, the Tx B21 to B24 beams in FIG. 1B) (also called BPLs) fell below a predetermined limit, but the conditions for triggering a beam failure event are not limited to this.
[0155] In addition, the user terminal measures the quality (for example, the Ll-RSRP or L3-RSRP) of thick bundles. Mobility measurement signals (for example, CSI-RSs and / or SS blocks) can be used to measure these robust beams.
[0156] For example, referring to FIG. 14, when a beam failure event occurs, the user terminal can include information to represent robust beam beam IDs of equal or better quality than a predetermined threshold in a beam recovery signal and transmit this.
[0157] The radio base station can reconfigure one or more thin beams based on the thick beams reported from the user terminal. For example, in FIG. 1B, when a thick beam B2 is reported from the user terminal, the radio base station can reconfigure thin beams B21 to B24. In this case, the radio base station can transmit information about the reconfiguration of one or more thinner beams (for example, the association between each thin beam and the CSI-RS resources, etc.) in a response signal.
[0158] Alternatively, based on the robust beam report from the user terminal, the radio base station can return to PDCCH transmission using thick beams. In this case, the radio base station can configure, at the user terminal, the information that is necessary to receive the PDCCH using thick beams (for example, the PDCCH's time and / or frequency resources, the CSI-RS configuration ( CSI-RS resource) for CSI measurement / reporting, etc.).
[0159] FIG. 15 is a diagram to show another example of the process
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42/79 beam recovery according to the fourth example. FIG. 15 assumes that the user terminal generates a beam failure event because the period Tl has passed after the quality of a predetermined number of beams in the BPL set to monitor the PDCCH has fallen below a predetermined threshold, but the conditions for triggering an event beam failure are in no way limited to this.
[0160] FIG. 15 assumes that the user terminal generates a beam failure event the user terminal can include information to represent the thick beam IDs of quality equal to or better than a predetermined threshold in a beam recovery signal and transmit it.
[0161] The radio base station can transmit a command to switch the active BPL set from the BPL set 1 to the BPL set 2 in a response signal using the beam ID in the beam recovery signal from the user, a MAC CE or DCI. In addition, the response signal may contain information that triggers the CSI measurement / report for each beam in the GLP 2 set.
[0162] Alternatively, if the beam recovery signal from the user terminal only indicates that a beam failure has occurred, the radio base station may decide to switch to the BPL 2 set based on the Ll-RSRP measurement / report and / or CSI measurement / reporting, and transmit a command to switch to the set of 2 GLPs in a response signal.
(Other Examples) [0163] The number of GLP sets to be configured on a user terminal in the examples contained herein can be limited to 2. Assuming that only 2 GLP sets are configured on a user terminal, when the base station radio receives a beam recovery signal from the user terminal, the radio base station can transmit
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43/79 response, including a command to switch to another set of BPL, using DCI or a MAC control element.
(Radiocommunication System) [0164] Now, the structure of the radiocommunication system according to the present modality will be described below. In this radio communication system, communication is performed using one or a combination of radio communication methods according to the modalities contained herein of the present invention.
[0165] FIG. 16 is a diagram to show an example of a schematic structure of a radio communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention. A radio communication system 1 can adopt carrier aggregation (CA) and / or dual connectivity (DC) to group a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks (component carriers) into one, where the bandwidth of the LTE system (for example, 20 MHz) constitutes a unit.
[0166] Note that radio communication system 1 can be referred to as LTE (Long Term Evolution), LTE-A (LTE-Advanced), LTE-B (LTE-Beyond), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4G (system mobile communication 4geração), 5G (mobile communication system 5th generation), FRA (Future wireless Access), New RAT (Access Technology radio) and so forth, or it can be seen as a system for implement these.
[0167] Radio communication system 1 includes a radio base station 11 that forms a macro cell C1, with a relatively wide coverage, and radio base stations 12a through 12c that are placed inside the macro cell C1 and that form small cells C2 , which are narrower than the Cl macro cell. Also, user terminals 20 are placed in the macro cell C1 and in each small cell C2.
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44/79 [0168] User terminals 20 can connect to both radio base station 11 and radio base stations 12. User terminals 20 can use macro cell C1 and small cells C2 at the same time for AC or DC. In addition, user terminals 20 can be applied to AC or DC using a plurality of cells (CCs) (for example, five or less CCs or six or more CCs).
[0169] Between user terminals 20 and radio base station 11, communication can be performed using a carrier of a relatively low frequency band (eg 2 GHz) and a narrow bandwidth (referred to as, for example, example, an existing carrier, a legacy carrier, and so on). In addition, between user terminals 20 and radio base stations 12, a carrier of a relatively high frequency band (for example, 3 to 40 GHz) and a broadband width can be used, or the same carrier as that used in the radio base station 11 can be used. Note that the structure of the frequency band for use on each radio base station is not limited to these.
[0170] A structure can be used here in which the wired connection (for example, means in compliance with the CPRI (Public Radio Common Interface) such as optical fiber, the X2 interface and so on) or the wireless connection it is established between radio base station 11 and radio base station 12 (or between two radio base stations 12).
[0171] Radio base station 11 and radio base stations 12 are each connected with a top station device 30, and are connected with a core network 40 through the top station device 30. Note that the upper station 30 can be, for example, access gateway apparatus, a radio network controller (RNC), a mobility management entity (MME) and so on, but are not limited to
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45/79 these. Also, each radio base station 12 can be connected to the upper station apparatus 30 via radio base station 11.
[0172] Note that radio base station 11 is a radio base station having relatively broad coverage, and can be referred to as a macro base station, a central node, an eNB (eNóB), a transmit / receive point and so on. Also, radio base stations 12 are radio base stations having local coverage, and can be referred to as small base stations, micro base stations, peak base stations, femto base stations, HeNBs (eNóBs Home), RRHs (Remote Radio Heads) , transmit / receive points, and so on. In the following, radio base stations 11 and 12 will be collectively referred to as radio base stations 10, unless otherwise specified.
[0173] User terminals 20 are terminals to support various communication schemes such as LTE, LTE-A and so on, and can be mobile communication terminals (mobile stations) or stationary communication terminals (fixed stations).
[0174] In radio communication system 1, as radio access schemes, multiple access by orthogonal frequency division (OFDMA) is applied to the downlink and multiple access by single carrier frequency division (SC-FDMA) and / or OFDMA are applied to the uplink.
[0175] OFDMA is a multi-carrier communication scheme for performing communication by dividing a frequency bandwidth into a plurality of narrow frequency bandwidths (subcarriers) and mapping data to each subcarrier. SC-FDMA is a single carrier communication scheme to mitigate interference between terminals by dividing the system's bandwidth into bands formed with one or more blocks of continuous resources per terminal, and allowing a
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46/79 plurality of terminals for using mutually different bands. Note that uplink and downlink radio access schemes are not limited to these combinations, and other radio access schemes can be used.
[0176] In the radiocommunication system 1, a DL data channel (PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel)), which is used by each user terminal 20 on a shared basis, a diffusion channel (PBCH (Communication Channel) Physical Diffusion)), L1 / L2 downlink control channels and so on are used as DL (Downlink) channels. User data, upper layer control information and SIBs (System Information Blocks) are communicated on the PDSCH. Also, the MIB (Master Information Block) is communicated in the PBCH.
[0177] The L1 / L2 downlink control channels include a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), an EPDCCH (Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel), a PCFICH (Physical Control Format Indicator Channel) , a PHICH (Physical ARQ-Hybrid Indicator Channel) and so on. Downlink control (DCI) information, which includes PDSCH and / or PUSCH scheduling information, is communicated by the PDCCH. The number of OFDM symbols to be used for the PDCCH is reported by the PCFICH. HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeated Request) delivery confirmation information (also referred to as, for example, relay control information, HARQ-ACKs, ACK / NACKs and / or the like) in response to PUSCH is transmitted by PHICH. The EPDCCH is multiplexed by frequency division with the PDSCH and used to communicate DCI and so on, like the PDCCH. PDCCH and / or EPDCCH are also referred to as DL, NR-PDCCH and the like control channel.
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47/79 [0178] In radio communication system 1, a UL data channel (PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel)), which is used by each user terminal 20 on a shared basis, a UL control channel (PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel)), a random access channel (PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel)) and so on are used as UL (Uplink Link) channels. User data, upper layer control information is communicated by PUSCH. Also, downlink radio quality information (CQI (Channel Quality Indicator)), delivery confirmation information and so on are communicated by PUCCH. Through PRACH, the preambles of random access to establish connections with cells are communicated.
[0179] In radio communication system 1, the cell-specific reference signal (CRS), the channel status information reference signal (CSI-RS), the demodulation reference signal (DMRS), the reference signal positioning (PRS), the mobility reference signal (MRS) and so on are communicated as downlink reference signals. Also, in the radiocommunication system 1, measurement reference signals (SRS (Sounding Reference Signal)), demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and so on are communicated as UL reference signals. Note that DMRSs can be referred to as a user terminal specific reference signal (EU Specific Reference Sign). Also, the reference signals to be communicated are not limited to these. In the radiocommunication system 1, the synchronization signals (PSS and / or SSS), a broadcast channel (PBCH) and others are communicated on the downlink.
(Radio Base Station) [0180] FIG. 17 is a diagram to show an example of a
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48/79 general structure of a radio base station according to the present modality. A radio base station 10 has a plurality of transmit / receive antennas 101, amplification sections 102, transmit / receive sections 103, a baseband signal processing section 104, a call processing section 105 and an interface communication path 106. Note that one or more transmit / receive antennas 101, amplification sections 102 and transmit / receive sections 103 can be provided.
[0181] The user data to be transmitted from the radio base station 10 to a user terminal 20 on the downlink are inserted from the upper station apparatus 30 to the baseband signal processing section 104, via of the communication path interface 106.
[0182] In the baseband signal processing section 104, user data is subjected to transmission processes, including a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer process, splitting and coupling of user data, RLC (Radio Link Control) layer transmission processes such as RLC relay control, MAC (Media Access Control) relay control (for example, a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeated Request) transmission process) , scaling, transport format selection, channel encoding, a fast inverse Fourier transform (IFFT) process and a precoding process, and the result is forwarded to each transmit / receive section 103. In addition, DL controls are also subjected to transmission processes such as channel coding and a fast inverse Fourier transform, and forwarded to each transmission / reception section 103.
[0183] Baseband signals that are precoded and emitted from
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49/79 of the baseband signal processing section 104 on an antenna basis are converted to a radio frequency band in the transmit / receive sections 103, and then transmitted. The radio frequency signals having undergone frequency conversion in the transmit / receive sections 103 are amplified in the amplification sections 102, and transmitted from the transmit / receive antennas 101. The transmit / receive sections 103 may be constituted by transmitters / receivers, transmit / receive circuits or transmit / receive devices that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. Note that a transmit / receive section 103 can be structured as a transmit / receive section in an entity, or it can consist of a transmit section and a receive section.
[0184] In addition, as for UL signals, the radio frequency signals that are received at the transmit / receive antennas 101 are each amplified in amplification sections 102. The transmit / receive sections 103 receive UL signals amplified in amplification sections 102. Received signals are converted to the baseband signal through frequency conversion in the transmit / receive sections 103 and output to the baseband signal processing section 104.
[0185] In the baseband signal processing section 104, user data that is included in the UL signals that are inserted is subjected to a fast Fourier transform (FFT) process, a reverse Fourier discrete transform process (IDFT), error correction decoding, a MAC retransmission control reception process, and PDCP layer and RLC layer reception processes, and forwarded to the upper station device 30 via the communication path interface
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106. The call processing section 105 performs call processing such as adjusting and releasing communication channels, manages the state of radio base stations 10 and manages radio resources.
[0186] The interface section of the communication path 106 transmits and receives signals to and from the upper station apparatus 30 through a predetermined interface. Also, the communication path interface 106 can transmit and receive signals (backhaul signaling) with other radio base stations 10 through an interbase station interface (which is, for example, optical fiber that is compliant with the CPRI (Interface Common Public Radio), the X2 interface, etc.).
[0187] Note that the transmit / receive sections 103 may, in addition, have an analog beam forming section that form analog beams. The analog beam-forming section may consist of an analog beam-forming circuit (for example, a phase diverter, a phase-shift circuit, etc.) or analog beam-forming apparatus (for example, a device phase shift) that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. In addition, the transmitting / receiving antennas 101 may consist of, for example, array antennas. In addition, the transmit / receive sections 103 are structured so that the operations of a single BF or multiple BFs can be used.
[0188] The transmit / receive sections 103 transmit DL signals (for example, at least one of NR-PDCCH / PDSCH, mobility measurement signals, CSI-RSs, DMRSs, DCI and DL data) and receive the signals UL (for example, at least one of PUCCH, PUSCH, beam recovery signals, measurement report, beam report, CSI report, Ll-RSRP report, UL and UCI data).
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51/79 [0189] In addition, the transmit / receive sections 103 transmit configuration information related to beam measurements (for example, the relationship between BPL sets for BPL monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, measurement / CSI report, Ll-RSRP measurement / report, etc.). In addition, the transmit / receive sections 103 transmit at least one piece of information to show the configuration of the mobility measurement signals, information to show the configuration of CSI-RS resources, information that shows the association between DMRS and CSI ports -RSs, and information to show the association with mobility measurement signals (for example, the mobility measurement signal antenna ports or resources) and UL capabilities for recovery signals, and so on.
[0190] Also, the transmit / receive sections 103 can receive a PRACH preamble as a beam recovery signal and transmit a RAR as a response signal to the beam recovery signal. Also, the transmit / receive sections 103 can receive an SR, an SRS, a PUSCH or a PUCCH scaled by an UL grant, as well as a beam recovery signal.
[0191] FIG. 18 is a diagram to show an example of a functional structure of a radio base station in accordance with the present embodiment. Note that, although this example shows mainly functional blocks that belong to the characteristic parts of the present modality, the radio base station 10 has other functional blocks that are also necessary for radio communication.
[0192] The baseband signal processing section 104 has a control section (scheduler) 301, a transmission signal generation section 302, a mapping section 303, a processing section
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52/79 of received signal 304 and measurement section 305. Note that these configurations only have to be included in the radio base station 10, and some or all of these configurations may not be included in the baseband signal processing section 104 .
[0193] The control section (scheduler) 301 controls the entire radio base station 10. The control section 301 may consist of a controller, a control circuit or a control device that can be described based on the general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0194] Control section 301, for example, controls signal generation in transmission signal generation section 302, signal allocation by mapping section 303, and so on. In addition, the control section 301 controls the signal reception processes in the received signal processing section 304, the signal measurements in the measurement section 305 and so on.
[0195] Control section 301 controls the scaling of DL data channels and UL data channels, and controls the generation and transmission of DCI that scale the DL data channels (DL assignments) and DCI that scale the UL data channels (UL grants).
[0196] Control section 301 can exercise control so that Tx beams and / or Rx beams are formed using digital BF (for example, precoding) by the baseband signal processing section 104 and / or analog BF ( for example, phase rotation) through the transmit / receive sections 103.
[0197] Control section 301 controls the beams (Tx beams and / or Rx beams) that are used to transmit and / or receive DL signals (for example, the NRPDCCH / PDSCH). To be more specific, control section 301 can control these bundles based on CSI at least one of CRI, CQI, PMI and RI) of user terminals 20.
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53/79 [0198] Control section 301 can control the beams to be used to transmit and / or receive mobility measurement signals (for example, CSIRSs and / or SS blocks). Control section 301 can control the beams to be used to transmit and / or receive mobility measurement signals (for example, CSI-RSs and / or SS blocks).
[0199] In addition, control section 301 can control beam recovery (switching) based on beam recovery signals from user terminals 20. To be more specific, control section 301 can identify the best beam from each user terminal 20 based on beam recovery signals, and control the reconfiguration of CSI-RS resources, reconfiguration of DMRS ports and CSI-RS resources and so on.
[0200] In addition, control section 301 can exercise control so that information to represent the configuration of the reconfigured CSI-RS resources and / or information to represent the QCL between DMRS ports and CSI-RS resources is included in the signals response to recovery and transmitted signals.
[0201] In addition, control section 301 can control the association with UL resources for mobility measurement signals (or beam measurement signals) and recovery signals and control the transmission of information showing the association.
[0202] Control section 301 can also configure at least part of one or more beams that are configured for BPL (beam failure monitoring) monitoring, for use in PDCCH (DL control channel monitoring) monitoring (see cases 1 to 6 of the first example). In addition, control section 301 can also configure at least part of one or more beams configured for CSI measurement / reporting for use in receiving PDSCH (receiving DL data channel)
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54/79 (see cases 1 to 6 of the first example).
[0203] In addition, control section 301 can configure one or more beams configured for CSI measurement / reporting to be at least part of one or more beams configured for measurement and / or reporting of received signal strength (RSRP) ) (see cases 1 to 6 in the first example).
[0204] In addition, control section 301 can configure one or more beams for PDCCH monitoring to receive PDSCH (see cases 1 and 4 of the first example). In addition, control section 301 can configure one or more beams for monitoring PDCCH for use in receiving PDSCH (see cases 2 and 5 of the first example). Control section 301 can configure part of one or more beams for PDCCH monitoring to receive PDSCH (see cases 3 and 6 of the first example).
[0205] The transmission signal generation section 302 generates DL signals based on the commands in the control section 301, and sends these signals to the mapping section 303. The transmission signal generation section 302 can consist of a signal generator, a signal generating circuit or signal generating apparatus that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0206] Transmission signal generation section 302 generates DCI (DL assignment, UL grant, etc.) based on the commands in control section 301, for example. In addition, a DL data channel (PDSCH) is subjected to an encoding process, a modulation process, a beamforming process (precoding process), based on the encoding rates, modulation schemes and others, which are determined based on, for example, CSI of each user terminal 20.
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55/79 [0207] Mapping section 303 maps the DL signals generated in the broadcast signal generation section 302 to predetermined radio resources based on the commands in control section 301, and issues these to the transmit / receive sections 103. Mapping section 303 may consist of a mapper, mapping circuit or mapping apparatus that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0208] The received signal processing section 304 performs the reception processes (for example, demapping, demodulation, decoding and so on) of received signals that are inserted from the transmit / receive sections 103. Here, the signals received are, for example, UL transmitted signals from user terminal 20. For the received signal processing section 304, a signal processor, a signal processing circuit or signal processing apparatus that can be described based on the general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs can be used.
[0209] The received signal processing section 304 sends the decoded information acquired through the reception processes to the control section 301. For example, when the feedback information (for example, CSI, HARQ-ACK, etc.) reaches from the user terminal, this feedback information is sent to the control section 301. Also, the received signal processing section 304 emits the received signals, the signals after the reception processes and so on, to the 305 measurement section .
[0210] Measurement section 305 conducts measurements with respect to received signals. The measuring section 305 may consist of a meter, a measuring circuit or a measuring device that can be described based on the
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56/79 general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0211] Measurement section 305 can measure, for example, the received power (for example, RSRP and / or RSSI), the received quality (for example, at least one of RSRQ, the signal to interference plus noise ratio ( SINR) and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), channel states and so on of the received signals The measurement results can be sent to control section 301.
(User Terminal) [0212] FIG. 19 is a diagram to show an example of a general structure of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. A user terminal 20 has a plurality of transmit / receive antennas 201, amplification sections 202, transmit / receive sections 203, a baseband signal processing section 204 and an application section 205. Note that one or more transmit / receive antennas 201, amplification sections 202 and transmit / receive sections 203 can be provided.
[0213] Radio frequency signals that are received at the transmit / receive antennas 201 are amplified in the amplification sections 202. The transmit / receive sections 203 receive the DL signals amplified in the amplification sections 202. The received signals are subjected to frequency conversion and converted to the baseband signal in the transmit / receive sections 203, and output to the baseband signal processing section 204. A transmit / receive section 203 may consist of a transmitter / receiver, a circuit transmission / reception or transmission / reception apparatus that can be described based on the general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. Note that a transmit / receive section 203 can be structured as a
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57/79 transmission / reception in an entity, or it can consist of a transmission section and a reception section.
[0214] In the baseband signal processing section 204, the baseband signal that is inserted, is subjected to an FFT process, error correction decoding, a retransmission control receiving process and so on. Downlink user data is forwarded to application section 205. Application section 205 performs processes related to the upper layers above the physical layer and the MAC layer, and so on. In addition, in downlink data, broadcast information can also be forwarded to application section 205.
[0215] In addition, uplink user data is inserted from application section 205 to baseband signal processing section 204. Baseband signal processing section 204 performs a control transmission process retransmission (for example, a HARQ transmission process), channel coding, pre-coding, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) process, an IFFT process, and so on, and the result is forwarded to the transmit / receive 203. Baseband signals that are emitted from the baseband signal processing section 204 are converted to a radio frequency band in the transmit / receive sections 203 and transmitted. The radio frequency signals that are subjected to frequency conversion in the transmit / receive sections 203 are amplified in the amplification sections 202 and transmitted from the transmit / receive antennas 201.
[0216] Note that the transmit / receive sections 203 may, in addition, have an analog beam-forming section that forms the analog beams. The analog beam-forming section may consist of
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58/79 an analog beam-forming circuit (for example, a phase diverter, a phase-shift circuit, etc.) or an analog beam-forming apparatus (for example, a phase-shift device) that can be described on the basis of a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. In addition, the transmit / receive antennas 201 may consist of, for example, array antennas. In addition, the transmit / receive sections 203 are structured so that they are capable of single BF and multiple BF operations.
[0217] The transmit / receive sections 203 receive DL signals (for example, at least one from NR-PDCCH / PDSCH, a mobility measurement signal, a beam measurement signal, a CSI-RS, a DMRS, DCI, DL data and SS blocks) and transmit a UL signal (for example, at least one from a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a beam recovery signal, a measurement report, a beam report, a CSI, UL and UCI data).
[0218] In addition, the transmit / receive sections 203 receive configuration information related to beam measurements (for example, the relationship between BPL sets for BPL monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, measurement / reporting of CSI, Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting, etc.). In addition, the transmit / receive sections 203 transmit at least one piece of information to show the configuration of mobility measurement signals, information to show the configuration of CSI-RS resources, information to show the association between DMRS and CSI ports -RSs, and information to show the association with mobility measurement signals (for example, the mobility measurement signal antenna ports or resources) and UL capabilities for recovery signals, and so on.
[0219] In addition, the transmit / receive sections 203 can transmit a preamble of PRACH as a beam recovery signal and
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59/79 receive a RAR as a response signal to the beam recovery signal. Also, the transmit / receive sections 203 can transmit an SR, an SRS, a PUSCH or a PUCCH scaled by an UL grant, as a beam recovery signal.
[0220] FIG. 20 is a diagram to show an example of a functional structure of a user terminal in accordance with the present embodiment. Note that, although this example shows mainly functional blocks that belong to the characteristic parts of the present modality, the user terminal 20 has other functional blocks that are also necessary for radio communication.
[0221] The baseband signal processing section 204 provided at user terminal 20 has at least one control section 401, a transmission signal generation section 402, a mapping section 403, a signal processing section received 404 and a measurement section 405. Note that these configurations only have to be included in user terminal 20, and some or all of these configurations may not be included in the baseband signal processing section 204.
[0222] Control section 401 controls the entire user terminal 20. For control section 401, a controller, control circuit or control device that can be described based on the general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs can be used.
[0223] The control section 401, for example, controls the generation of signals in the transmission signal generation section 402, the allocation of signals by the mapping section 403, and so on. In addition, the control section 401 controls the signal reception processes in the received signal processing section 404, the signal measurements in the measuring section 405, and so on.
[0224] Control section 401 acquires DL control signals (channels
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60/79 DL control) and DL data signals (DL data channels) transmitted from radio base station 10 from received signal processing section 404. Control section 401 controls the generation of UL control signals (for example, delivery confirmation information and so on) and / or UL data signals based on the results of deciding whether or not relay control is necessary, which is decided in response to signals DL control, DL data signals and so on.
[0225] Control section 401 may exercise control so that transmission beams and / or reception beams are formed using digital BF (eg, pre-coding) by the baseband signal processing section 204 and / or the analog BF (for example, phase rotation) through the transmit / receive sections 203.
[0226] Control section 401 controls the beams (Tx beams and / or Rx beams) that are used to transmit and / or receive DL signals (for example, the NRPDCCH / PDSCH).
[0227] In addition, control section 401 configures one or more beams (beam sets, BPL sets, etc.) to be used in at least one BPL monitoring, PDCCH monitoring, PDSCH receiving, measurement / reporting CSI and Ll-RSRP measurement / reporting.
[0228] To be more specific, control section 401 can configure at least part of one or more beams that are configured for BPL monitoring (beam failure monitoring) for use in monitoring PDCCH (monitoring control channel) DL) (see cases 1 to 6 of the first example). In addition, control section 401 can also configure at least part of one or more beams configured for CSI measurement / reporting for use in receiving PDSCH (receiving DL data channel) (see cases 1 to 6 of
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61/79 first example).
[0229] In addition, control section 401 may also configure one or more beams configured for CSI measurement / reporting to be at least part of one or more beams configured for measurement and / or reporting of received signal strength ( RSRP) (see cases 1 to 6 of the first example).
[0230] In addition, control section 401 can configure one or more beams for monitoring PDCCH for use in receiving PDSCH (see cases 1 and 4 in the first example). In addition, control section 401 can configure one or more beams for monitoring PDCCH to receive PDSCH (see cases 2 and 5 of the first example). Control section 401 can configure part of one or more beams for monitoring PDCCH to receive PDSCH (see cases 3 and 6 of the first example).
[0231] In addition, control section 401 can control the transmission of beam recovery signals based on the results of GLP monitoring (see the second example and the third example). The drive conditions for transmitting beam recovery signals are as described in the second example.
[0232] In addition, control section 401 controls the transmission of measurement reports based on the RRM measurement results, which were measured using the mobility measurement signals. A measurement report can include at least one beam ID and RSRP / RSRQ of a beam, whose RSRP / RSRQ meets a predetermined condition.
[0233] Also, based on information indicating the CSI-RS resource settings of radio base station 10, control section 401 can control measurements of CSI-RS resources through measurement section 405. In addition
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62/79 In addition, control section 401 can control the generation and / or reporting of CSI based on the beam measurement results (CSI measurement results), which were measured using the CSI-RS features. At least one from CRI, CQI, PMI and RI can be included in CSI.
[0234] In addition, control section 401 can control the process of receiving (demodulation and / or decoding) DL signals based on the information to show the QCL between the DMRS ports and the CSI-RS resources, provided from the radio base station 10. To be more specific, control section 401 may assume that the same beams as the CSI-RS resources associated with DMRS ports are used to transmit and / or receive DL signals.
[0235] In addition, control section 401 can control the reception processes (demodulation and / or decoding) of signals responding to beam recovery signals. To be more specific, control section 401 may assume that the beam to be used to transmit and / or receive a response signal (and / or the NR-PDCCH or the search spaces to scale this response signal) is used to transmit and / or receive the mobility measurement reference signal with the best RSRP / RSRQ.
[0236] Transmission signal generation section 402 generates UL signals (UL control signals, UL data signals, UL reference signals and so on) based on the commands in control section 401, and sends these signals to the mapping section 403. The transmission signal generation section 402 may consist of a signal generator, a signal generation circuit or signal generating apparatus that can be described based on the general understanding of the field to which the present invention belongs.
[0237] The transmission signal generation section 402 generates feedback information (for example, at least one from a HARQ-ACK, CSI and one
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63/79 escalation request) based on, for example, a command from control section 401. Also, the transmission signal generation section 402 generates uplink data signals based on commands from control section 401. For example, when a UL lease is included in a downlink control signal that is reported from the radio base station 10, the control section 401 commands the transmit signal generation section 402 to generate a transmission signal. uplink data.
[0238] Mapping section 403 maps the UL signals generated in the transmit signal generation section 402 to radio resources based on the commands in control section 401, and outputs the result to the transmit / receive sections 203. A Mapping section 403 may consist of a mapper, mapping circuit or mapping apparatus that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0239] The received signal processing section 404 performs the reception processes (for example, demapping, demodulation, decoding and so on) of received signals that are inserted from the transmit / receive sections 203. Here, the signals received include, for example, DL signals (DL control signals, DL data signals, downlink reference signals and so on) that are transmitted from the radio base station 10. The data processing section received signal 404 may consist of a signal processor, signal processing circuit or signal processing apparatus that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. Also, the received signal processing section 404 can constitute the receiving section according to the present invention.
[0240] The received signal processing section 404 issues the
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64/79 decoded information acquired through the reception processes for control section 401. The received signal processing section 404 issues, for example, broadcast information, system information, RRC signaling, DCI and so on, to the control section 401. Also, the received signal processing section 404 emits the received signals, the signals after the reception processes and so on, to the measuring section 405.
[0241] Measurement section 405 conducts measurements with respect to received signals. For example, measurement section 405 performs measurements using mobility measurement signals and / or CSI-RS resources transmitted from radio base station 10. Measurement section 405 may consist of a meter, a measurement circuit or an apparatus measurement that can be described based on a general understanding of the technical field to which the present invention belongs.
[0242] Measurement section 405 can measure, for example, the received power (for example, RSRP), the received quality (for example, RSRQ, reception SINR), the channel states and so on of the received signals. The measurement results can be output for control section 401.
(Hardware Structure) [0243] Note that the block diagram that was used to describe the above modes shows blocks in functional units. These function blocks (components) can be implemented in arbitrary combinations of hardware and / or software. Also, the means to implement each functional block is not particularly limited. That is, each functional block can be executed by a device part that is physically and / or logically aggregated, or it can be executed by directly connecting and / or indirectly two or more parts physically and / or logically separated from the device (through wireless or wireless, for example) and using these multiple
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[0244] For example, the radio base station, user terminals and so on according to the modalities of the present invention can function as a computer that performs the processes of the radiocommunication method of the present invention. FIG. 21 is a diagram to show an example of a hardware structure of a radio base station and a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Physically, the radio base stations 10 and user terminals 20 described above can be formed as a computer device that includes a processor 1001, memory 1002, storage 1003, communication device 1004, input device 1005, output 1006 and a bus 1007.
[0245] Note that, in the following description, the word device can be replaced by circuit, device, unit and so on. Note that the hardware structure of a radio base station 10 and a user terminal 20 can be designed to include one or more of each device shown in the drawings, or it can be designed to not include part of the device.
[0246] For example, although only one processor 1001 is shown, a plurality of processors can be provided. In addition, processes can be implemented with one processor, or processes can be implemented in sequence, or in different ways, on one or more processors. Note that the 1001 processor can be implemented with one or more chips.
[0247] Each function of the radio base station 10 and user terminal 20 is implemented by reading the predetermined software (program) in hardware such as processor 1001 and memory 1002, and controlling the
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66/79 calculations in processor 1001, communication in communication device 1004, and reading and / or writing data in memory 1002 and storage 1003.
[0248] The 1001 processor can control the entire computer, for example, by running an operating system. The 1001 processor can be configured with a central processing unit (CPU), which includes interfaces with a peripheral device, control device, computing device, a register and so on. For example, the baseband signal processing section 104 (204), call processing section 105 described above and so on can be implemented by processor 1001.
[0249] In addition, processor 1001 reads programs (program codes), software modules, data and so on from storage 1003 and / or communication device 1004, in memory 1002, and performs various processes accordingly with these. As for programs, programs that allow computers to perform at least part of the operations of the modalities described above can be used. For example, control section 401 of user terminals 20 can be implemented by control programs that are stored in memory 1002 and which operate on processor 1001, and other function blocks can be implemented in the same way.
[0250] Memory 1002 is a computer-readable recording medium, and may consist of, for example, at least one of a ROM (Read Only Memory), an EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM), an EEPROM (Electrically EPROM) ), RAM (Random Access Memory) and / or other appropriate storage media. Memory 1002 can be referred to as a register, a cache, a main memory
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67/79 primary storage) and so on. Memory 1002 can store executable programs (program codes), software modules and so on to implement radio communication methods in accordance with modalities of the present invention.
[0251] Storage 1003 is a computer-readable recording medium, and may consist of, for example, at least one of a floppy disk, a floppy disk (trademark), a magneto-optical disk (for example, a disk compact disc (CD-ROM (Compact Disc ROM) and so on), a versatile digital disc, a Blu-ray disc (trademark)), a removable disc, a hard drive, a smart card, a memory device flash (for example, a card, a stick, a key drive, etc.), a magnetic stripe, a database, a server and / or other appropriate storage media. Storage 1003 can be referred to as a secondary storage device.
[0252] Communication device 1004 is hardware (transmission / reception device) to allow communication between computers using wired and / or wireless networks, and can be referred to, for example, as a network device, a network controller, a network card, a communication module and so on. The communication device 1004 can be configured to include a high frequency switch, a duplexer, a filter, a frequency synthesizer and so on in order to perform, for example, frequency division duplex (FDD) and / or duplex by time division (TDD). For example, the transmit / receive antennas 101 (201), amplification sections 102 (202), transmit / receive sections 103 (203), communication path interface 106 and so on described above can be implemented by the communication 1004.
[0253] The input device 1005 is an input device for
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68/79 receive input from the outside (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, a switch, a button, a sensor, and so on). Output device 1006 is an output device to enable the output to be sent out (for example, a display, a speaker, an LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamp and so on). Note that the input device 1005 and the output device 1006 can be supplied in an integrated structure (for example, a touch panel).
[0254] In addition, these device parts, including processor 1001, memory 1002 and so on, are connected by bus 1007 in order to communicate information. The bus 1007 can be formed with a single bus, or it can be formed with buses that vary between the parts of the device.
[0255] Also, the radio base station 10 and user terminal 20 can be structured to include hardware such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), a PLD ( Programmable Logic Device), an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and so on, and some or all of the function blocks can be implemented by the hardware. For example, processor 1001 can be implemented with at least one of these pieces of hardware.
(Variations) [0256] Note that the terminology used in this specification and terminology that is necessary to understand this specification can be replaced by other terms that carry the same or similar meanings. For example, channels and / or symbols can be replaced by signs (or signaling). Also, signs can be messages. A reference signal can be abbreviated as an RS, and can be referred to as a
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69/79 pilot, a pilot signal, and so on, depending on which standard applies. In addition, a component carrier (CC) can be referred to as a cell, a frequency carrier, a carrier frequency, and so on.
[0257] In addition, a radio frame can be comprised of one or more periods (frames) in the time domain. Each of one or more periods (frames) that make up a radio frame can be referred to as a subframe. In addition, a subframe can be comprised of one or more time slot slots. A subframe can be a fixed time duration (for example, 1 ms) not dependent on numerology.
[0258] In addition, a slot can be comprised of one or more symbols in the time domain symbols (OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), SC-FDMA (Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) symbols, and so on). Also, a slot can be a unit of time based on numerology. Also, a slot can include a plurality of minislots. Each minislot can consist of one or more symbols in the time domain. Also, a minislot can be referred to as a subslot.
[0259] A frame, a subframe, a slot, a minislot and a radio symbol represent the unit of time in signal communication. A frame, a subframe, a slot, a minislot and a radio symbol can be called by other applicable names. For example, a subframe can be referred to as a transmission time slot (TTI), or a plurality of consecutive subframes can be referred to as a TTI, or a slot or minislot can be referred to as a TTI. That is, a subframe and / or a TTI can be a subframe (1 ms) in existing LTE, it can be a period shorter than 1 ms (for example, 1 to 13 symbols), or it can be a period of time
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70/79 longer than 1 ms. Note that the unit to represent the TTI can be referred to as a slot, a minislot ”and so on, instead of a subframe.
[0260] Here, a TTI refers to the minimum staggering time unit in radio communication, for example. For example, in LTE systems, a radio base station scales the radio resources (such as the frequency bandwidth and transmission power that can be used at each user terminal) to distribute each user terminal in units of TTI. Note that the definition of TTIs is not limited to this.
[0261] The TTI can be the unit of time for transmission of data packets encoded by channel (transport blocks), code blocks and / or code words, or it can be the processing unit for scaling, link adaptation and so on. Note that when a TTI is provided, the time interval (for example, the number of symbols) over which the transport blocks, code blocks and / or code words are actually mapped may be shorter than the TTI.
[0262] Note that when a slot or minislot is referred to as a TTI, one or more TTIs (ie, one or more slots or one or more minislots) can be the minimum scaling time unit. Also, the number of slots (the number of minislots) to constitute this minimum scaling time unit can be controlled.
[0263] A TTI having a time duration of 1 ms can be referred to as a normal TTI (TTI in LTE Rei. 8 to 12), a long TTI, a normal subframe, a long subframe, and so on. A TTI that is shorter than a normal TTI can be referred to as a shortened TTI, a short TTI, a partial TTI (or a partial TTI), a shortened subframe, a short subframe, a minislot, a subslot and so on .
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71/79 [0264] Note that a long TTI (for example, a normal TTI, a subframe, etc.) can be replaced with a TTI having a time duration exceeding 1 ms, and a short TTI (for example, a TTI shortened) can be replaced with a TTI having a TTI length less than the TTI length of a long TTI and not less than 1 ms.
[0265] A resource block (RB) is the unit of resource allocation in the time domain and in the frequency domain, and may include one or a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. Also, a RB can include one or more symbols in the time domain, and it can be 1 slot, 1 minislot, 1 subframe or 1 TTI in length. 1 TTI and 1 subframe can be comprised of one or more resource blocks. Note that one or more RBs can be referred to as a physical resource block (PRB (Physical RB)), a subcarrier group (SCG), a resource element group (REG), a PRB pair, a RB pair and so on.
[0266] In addition, a resource block can be comprised of one or more resource elements (REs). For example, 1 RE can be a 1 subcarrier and 1 symbol radio resource region.
[0267] Note that the structures of radio frames, subframes, partitions, minislots, symbols and so on described above are merely examples. For example, the settings pertaining to the number of subframes included in a radio frame, the number of slots included in a subframe or radio frame, the number of minislots included in a slot, the number of symbols and RBs included in a slot or a minislot, the number of subcarriers included in an RB, the number of symbols in a TTI, the symbol duration, the length of cyclic prefixes (CPs) and so on can be varied variably.
[0268] Also, the information and parameters described in this
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72/79 specification can be represented in absolute values or relative values with respect to predetermined values, or can be represented in other information formats. For example, radio resources can be specified by predetermined indexes. In addition, the equations for using these parameters and so on can be used, in addition to those explicitly disclosed in this specification.
[0269] The names used for parameters and so on in this specification are not limiting. For example, since multiple channels (PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel), PDCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) and so on) and information elements can be identified by any suitable names, the various names assigned these individual channels and information elements are not limiting.
[0270] The information, signals and / or others described in this specification can be represented using a variety of different technologies. For example, data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, chips and so on, all of which can be referenced throughout the description contained herein, can be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or photons, or any combination of these.
[0271] Also, information, signals and so on can be emitted from upper layers to lower layers and / or from lower layers to upper layers. Information, signals and so on can be inserted and sent through a plurality of network nodes.
[0272] The information, signals and so on that are inserted and / or emitted can be stored in a specific location (for example, a memory), or can be managed using a management table. At
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73/79 information, signals and so on to be inserted and / or emitted can be overwritten, updated or attached. The information, signals and so on that are emitted can be suppressed. The information, signals and so on that are entered can be transmitted to other parts of the device.
[0273] The information report is not limited to the aspects / modalities described in this specification, and other methods can also be used. For example, information reporting can be implemented using physical layer signaling (for example, downlink control (DCI) information, uplink control (UCI) information, upper layer signaling (for example, RRC (Radio Resource Control), broadcasting information (the master information block (MIB), system information blocks (SIBs), and so on), MAC (Media Access Control) signaling, and so on), and other signs and / or combinations thereof.
[0274] Note that physical layer signaling can be referred to as L1 / L2 control information (Layer 1 / Layer 2) (L1 / L2 control signals), LI control information (Ll control signal), and so on. . Also, the RRC signaling can be referred to as RRC messages, and can be, for example, an RRC connection configuration message, RRC connection reconfiguration message, and so on. Also, MAC signaling can be reported using, for example, MAC control elements (MAC CEs (Control Elements)).
[0275] Also, the predetermined information report (for example, information report in the sense that X is valid) does not necessarily have to be sent explicitly, and can be sent implicitly (for example, not informing this part of information).
[0276] Decisions can be made in values represented by 1 bit (0
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74/79 or 1), can be done in Boolean values that represent true or false, or can be done by comparing numerical values (for example, compared to a predetermined value).
[0277] Software, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode or hardware description language, or called by other names, must be interpreted broadly, to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, codes program, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executable files, threads of execution, procedures, functions and so on.
[0278] Also, software, commands, information and so on can be transmitted and received through the media. For example, when software is transmitted from a website, a server or other remote sources using wired technologies (coaxial cables, fiber optic cables, twisted pair cables, digital subscriber lines (DSL) and so on) and / or wireless technologies (infrared radiation, microwaves and so on), these wired technologies and / or wireless technologies are also included in the definition of media.
[0279] The terms system and network, as used herein, are used interchangeably.
[0280] As used herein, the terms base station (BS), radio base station, eNB, gNB, cell, sector, cell group, carrier and component carrier can be used interchangeably. A base station can be referred to as a fixed station, NóB, eNóB (eNB), access point, transmission point, reception point, femto cell, small cell and so on.
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75/79 [0281] A base station can accommodate one or more (for example, three) cells (also referred to as sectors). When a base station accommodates a plurality of cells, the entire base station coverage area can be partitioned into multiple smaller areas, and each smaller area can provide communication services through the base station subsystems (for example, small indoor base stations ( RRHs: Remote Radio Heads)). The term cell or sector refers to part or all of the coverage area of a base station and / or a base station subsystem that provides communication services within that coverage.
[0282] As used herein, the terms mobile station (MS), user terminal, user equipment (UE) and terminal can be used interchangeably. A base station can be referred to as a fixed station, NóB, eNóB (eNB), access point, transmission point, reception point, femto cell, small cell and so on.
[0283] A mobile station can be referred to by a person skilled in the art as a subscriber station, mobile unit, subscriber unit, wireless unit, remote unit, mobile device, wireless device, wireless communication device, device remote, mobile subscriber station, access terminal, mobile terminal, wireless terminal, remote terminal, cell phone, user agent, mobile client, customer or some other suitable terms.
[0284] In addition, radio base stations in this specification can be interpreted as user terminals. For example, each aspect / modality of the present invention can be applied to a configuration in which communication between a radio base station and a user terminal is replaced with communication between a plurality of user terminals (D2D (Device to Device) ). In this case, the
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76/79 user terminals 20 may have the functions of the radio base stations 10 described above. In addition, terms such as uplink and downlink can be interpreted as lateral. For example, an uplink channel can be interpreted as a side channel.
[0285] Likewise, user terminals in this specification can be interpreted as radio base stations. In this case, radio base stations 10 may have the functions of user terminals 20 described above.
[0286] Certain actions that have been described in this specification to be performed by base stations can, in some cases, be performed by higher nodes (higher nodes). In a network comprised of one or more network nodes with base stations, it is clear that several operations that are performed to communicate with terminals can be performed by base stations, one or more network nodes (for example, MMEs (Data Management Entities) Mobility),
S-GW (Gateways Servers), and so on may be possible, but these are not limiting) in addition to base stations, or combinations of these.
[0287] The examples / modalities illustrated in this specification can be used individually or in combinations, which can be switched depending on the mode of implementation. The order of processes, sequences, flowcharts and so on that were used to describe the examples / modalities here can be reordered, as long as there are no inconsistencies. For example, although several methods have been illustrated in this specification with several step components in exemplary orders, the specific orders that are illustrated here are not limiting.
[0288] The aspects / modalities illustrated in this specification can be applied to systems that use LTE (Long Term Evolution), LTE-A (Advanced LTE), LTE-B (LTE-Beyond), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4G ( system of
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77/79 generation mobile communication 4-), 5G (mobile communication system 5th generation), FRA (Future Radio Access), New-RAT (Radio Access Technology), NR (New Radio) NX ( New Radio Access), FX (Future Generation Radio Access), GSM (registered trademark) (Global System for Mobile communications), CDMA 2000, UMB (Ultra-Mobile Broadband), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi (registered trademark)) , IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.20, UWB (Ultra-Wide Band), Bluetooth (registered trademark) and other appropriate radio communication methods, and / or state-of-the-art systems that are improved based on these.
[0289] The phrase based on, as used in this specification, does not mean based on only, unless otherwise specified. In other words, the phrase based on means both based on only and based on at least.
[0290] The reference to elements with designations such as first, second and so on, as used herein, does not generally limit the number / quantity or order of these elements. These designations are used only for convenience, as a method of distinguishing between two or more elements. Thus, the reference to the first and second elements does not imply that only 2 elements can be used, or that the first element must precede the second element in some way.
[0291] The terms judge and determine, as used herein, may cover a wide variety of actions. For example, judging and determining, as used herein, can be interpreted as making judgments and determinations related to calculating, computing, processing, deriving, investigating, looking (for example, searching a table, a database or some other data structure ), ascertain, and so on. Furthermore, judging and determining, as used herein, can be interpreted as
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78/79 making judgments and determinations related to receiving (for example, receiving information), transmitting (for example, transmitting information), entering, issuing, accessing (for example, accessing data in a memory) and so on. In addition, judging and determining, as used herein, can be interpreted as making judgments and determinations related to resolving, selecting, choosing, establishing, comparing and so on. In other words, to judge and determine, as used herein, they can be interpreted as making judgments and determinations related to some action.
[0292] As used herein, the terms connected and coupled, or any variation of these terms, mean all direct or indirect connections or coupling between two or more elements, and may include the presence of one or more intermediate elements between 2 elements that are connected or coupled to each other. The coupling or connection between the elements can be physical, logical or a combination of these. For example, the connection can be interpreted as access. As used here, 2 elements can be considered connected or coupled to each other using one or more electrical wires, cables and / or printed electrical connections and, as several non-limiting and non-inclusive examples, using electromagnetic energy, such as electromagnetic energy having wavelengths in the radio frequency region, microwave regions and optical regions (both visible and invisible).
[0293] When terms such as include, understand and variations thereof are used in this specification or in the claims, these terms are intended to be inclusive, in a manner similar to the way the term provide is used. In addition, the term or, as used in this specification or in the claims, is intended not to be a
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79/79 exclusive disjunction.
[0294] Now, although the present invention has been described in detail above, it should be obvious to one skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the modalities described herein. The present invention can be implemented with several corrections and in several modifications, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention defined by the claims' claims. Consequently, the description contained herein is provided for the purpose of explaining examples only, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention in any way.
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Claims (5)
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1. Terminal characterized by the fact that it comprises:
a receiving section that receives configuration information to monitor a downlink control (DL) channel; and a control section that detects a beam failure based on the quality of a signal included in a set of detection signal features determined based on configuration information.
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2. Terminal, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that signals included in the set are used to receive a shared downlink (DL) channel.
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3. Terminal, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that when the quality of all signals included in the set is worse than a given limit, the control section generates an event to detect the beam failure.
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4. Terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that when the beam failure is detected, the control section controls to transmit a set of random access channel preamble (RACH) for a request beam recovery.
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5. Radio communication method for a terminal, characterized by the fact that it comprises:
receive configuration information to monitor a downlink control (DL) channel; and detecting a beam failure based on the quality of a signal included in a set of detection signal features determined based on configuration information.

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