# US 11,121,804 B2 · Base station, radio terminal, radio communication system, radio communication control method, and program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,121,804 B2 - Document ID: US11121804B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/513,892 - Filed: 2019-07-17 - Published: 2020-01-23 - Granted: 2021-09-14 - Earliest claimed: 2018-07-18 - Assignees: NEC Corporation - Applicants: NEC Corporation - Inventors: Kohei Izui - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11121804B2 ## CPC - H04L 1/0026: {Transmission of channel quality indication} - H04L 1/1896: {ARQ related signaling} - H04L 1/1685: {the supervisory signal being transmitted in response to a specific request, e.g. to a polling signal} - H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements} - H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)} - H04L 5/006: {Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04W 76/27: Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states - H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A radio communication system (1000) according to the present disclosure includes a base station (100) that transmits transmission data, a radio terminal (200) that receives the transmission data from the base station (100) and transmits an acknowledgement for the transmission data to the base station (100). The radio terminal (200) transmits communication quality information measured for a communication status between the radio terminal (200) and the base station (100) to the base station (100). The base station (100) determines control information for controlling a process of the radio terminal (200) to transmit the acknowledgement based on the communication quality information received from the radio terminal (200), and transmits the control information to the radio terminal (200). The radio terminal (200) receives the control information from the base station (100), and transmits the acknowledgement to the base station (100) based on the control information. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A base station comprising: a determination unit configured to determine control information for controlling a process of a radio terminal to transmit an acknowledgement for transmission data based on communication quality information measured in the radio terminal for a communication status between the radio terminal which is a transmission destination of the transmission data and the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the control information to the radio terminal, wherein the determination unit determines the control information in such a way that, when the communication quality information is more satisfactory than a predetermined threshold, a frequency at which the radio terminal transmits the acknowledgement becomes greater than a preset lower limit value. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines the control information including a timing for the radio terminal to transmit the acknowledgement. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The base station according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit determines an acknowledgement request for requesting the radio terminal to transmit the acknowledgement as the transmission timing. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The base station according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit determines an acknowledgement frequency indicating the frequency at which the radio terminal transmits the acknowledgement as the transmission timing. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines the control information so as to integrate the acknowledgements for a plurality of pieces of the transmission data and transmit the integrated acknowledgement. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The base station according to claim 5, wherein the determination unit determines the control information so as to categorize each reception confirmation result for each of the plurality of pieces of the transmission data and include it in one acknowledgment packet to respond. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The base station according to claim 5, wherein the determination unit determines the control information in such a way that one reception confirmation result comprehensively determined from the respective reception confirmation results for the plurality of pieces of the transmission data is used to respond. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The base station according to claim 5, wherein the determination unit designates a plurality of subframes as the plurality of pieces of the transmission data and determines the control information. ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) The base station according to claim 5, wherein the determination unit designates a plurality of transport blocks including a plurality of subframes as the plurality of pieces of the transmission data and determines the control information. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit further determines a resource to be used by the radio terminal when the acknowledgement is transmitted, and the transmission unit includes designation of the determined resource in the control information and transmits the control information to the radio terminal. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit further determines a resource to be used by the radio terminal when the acknowledgement is transmitted, and the transmission unit further transmits designation of the determined resource to the radio terminal as second control information different from the control information. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The base station according to claim 11, wherein the transmission unit includes the control information in an RRC (Radio Resource Control) message and transmits the RRC message to the radio terminal, and the transmission unit includes the second information in DCI (Downlink Control Information) and transmits it to the radio terminal. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The base station according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines the control information for each transmission data. ### Claim 14 A radio terminal comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station, communication quality information measured for a communication status between the base station which is a transmission source of transmission data and the radio terminal; and a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station, control information which is determined by the base station based on the communication quality information and which is for controlling a process of transmitting an acknowledgement for the transmission data, wherein the transmission unit transmits the acknowledgement to the base station based on the control information, and wherein the control information is determined by the base station in such a way that, when the communication quality information is more satisfactory than a predetermined threshold, a frequency at which the radio terminal transmits the acknowledgement becomes greater than a preset lower limit value. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The radio terminal according to claim 14, wherein the control information includes a transmission timing of the acknowledgement. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The radio terminal according to claim 15, wherein the transmission timing is an acknowledgement request for requesting the radio terminal to transmit the acknowledgement. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The radio terminal according to claim 15, wherein the transmission timing is an acknowledgement frequency indicating the frequency at which the radio terminal transmits the acknowledgement. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The radio terminal according to claim 14, wherein the control information includes an instruction for integrating the acknowledgements for a plurality of pieces of the transmission data and transmits the integrated acknowledgement, and the transmission unit integrates the acknowledgements for the plurality of pieces of the transmission data and transmits the integrated acknowledgement to the base station when the reception unit receives the plurality of pieces of the transmission data corresponding to the instruction included in the control information. ### Claim 19 A radio communication control method comprising: determining, by a base station, control information for controlling a process of a radio terminal to transmit an acknowledgement for transmission data based on communication quality information measured in the radio terminal for a communication status between the radio terminal which is a transmission destination of the transmission data and the base station; and transmitting, by the base station, the control information to the radio terminal, and wherein the control information is determined by the base station in such a way that, when the communication quality information is more satisfactory than a predetermined threshold, a frequency at which the radio terminal transmits the acknowledgement becomes greater than a preset lower limit value.