# US 11,451,338 B2 · User terminal and radio communication method

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- Number: US 11,451,338 B2
- Document ID: US11451338B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/603,063
- Filed: 2017-04-05
- Published: 2020-04-09
- Granted: 2022-09-20
- Earliest claimed: 2017-04-05
- Assignees: Ntt Docomo, Inc.
- Applicants: Ntt Docomo, Inc.
- Inventors: Kazuki Takeda; Satoshi Nagata; Lihui Wang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11451338B2

## CPC

- H04L 1/1614: {using bitmaps}
- H04L 1/1671: {the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information}
- H04L 1/08: by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)}
- H04L 1/16: in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
- H04L 1/1635: {Cumulative acknowledgement, i.e. the acknowledgement message applying to all previous messages}
- H04L 1/1812: Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
- H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)}
- H04W 28/04: Error control
- H04W 72/20: Control channels or signalling for resource management
- H04L 1/0061: {Error detection codes}
- H04L 1/1685: {the supervisory signal being transmitted in response to a specific request, e.g. to a polling signal}
- H04W 72/0466: {the resource being a scrambling code}
- 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

The present invention is designed to control retransmission properly in smaller units than TBs (for example, in units of CBs or in units of CBGs). According to one example of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a transport block (TB) including one or more codeblock groups (CBG), a transmission section that transmits retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK in response to each CBG, and a control section that, when at least one CBG in the TB is subject to retransmission, determines the number of bits of the retransmission control information based on the total number of CBGs in the TB or the number of CBGs that are retransmitted.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A terminal comprising:
a receiver that receives a transport block (TB) including one or more codeblock groups (CBGs), the CBG including one or more codeblocks; and
a processor that controls transmission of retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK per CBG,
wherein, when at least one CBG in the TB is retransmitted and even if there is at least one CBG, other than the retransmitted CBG, in the TB that is not retransmitted, the processor, in response to all of the CBGs in the TB, controls transmission of ACKs for all CBGs that are successfully decoded and NACKs for all CBGs that have failed in decoding before retransmission of the CBG among all of the CBGs in the TB.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives information indicating the CBG that is subjected to retransmission.

### Claim 3

A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:
receiving a transport block (TB) including one or more codeblock groups (CBGs), the CBG including one or more codeblocks; and
controlling transmission of retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK per CBG;
wherein when at least one CBG in the TB is retransmitted and even if there is at least one CBG, other than the retransmitted CBG, in the TB that is not retransmitted, the terminal, in response to all of the CBGs in the TB, controls transmission of ACKs for all CBGs that are successfully decoded and NACKs for all CBGs that have failed in decoding before retransmission of the CBG among all of the CBGs in the TB.

### Claim 4

A base station comprising:
a transmitter that transmits a transport block (TB) including one or more codeblock groups (CBGs), the CBG including one or more codeblocks; and
a processor that controls reception of retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK per CBG,
wherein, when at least one CBG in the TB is retransmitted and even if there is at least one CBG, other than the retransmitted CBG, in the TB that is not retransmitted, the processor, in response to all of the CBGs in the TB, controls reception of ACKs for all CBGs that are successfully decoded and NACKs for all CBGs that have failed in decoding before retransmission of the CBG among all of the CBGs in the TB.

### Claim 5

A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein:
the terminal comprises:
a receiver that receives a transport block (TB) including one or more codeblock groups (CBGs), the CBG including one or more codeblocks; and
a processor that controls transmission of retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK per CBG,
wherein, when at least one CBG in the TB is retransmitted and even if there is at least one CBG, other than the retransmitted CBG, in the TB that is not retransmitted, the processor of the terminal, in response to all of the CBGs in the TB, controls transmission of ACKs for all CBGs that are successfully decoded and NACKs for all CBGs that have failed in decoding before retransmission of the CBG among all of the CBGs in the TB, and
the base station comprises:
a transmitter that transmits the TB including one or more CBGs; and
a processor that controls reception of the retransmission control information that indicates an ACK or a NACK per CBG,
wherein, when at least one CBG in the TB is retransmitted and even if there is at least one CBG, other than the retransmitted CBG, in the TB that is not retransmitted, the processor of the base station, in response to all of the CBGs in the TB, controls reception of ACKs for all CBGs that are successfully decoded and NACKs for all CBGs that have failed in decoding before retransmission of the CBG among all of the CBGs in the TB.