US 2012/0069826 A1Published application

Terminal device and signal multiplexing control method

AssigneePanasonic Corporation

InventorsSeigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura

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Abstract

Provided is a terminal device which achieves an improvement in the quality of uplink data while the power consumption of the terminal is suppressed even when the uplink data and a response signal are simultaneously transmitted in carrier aggregation. Specifically provided is a terminal device (200) which communicates with a base station device using a unit band group configured from N (N is a natural number of 2 or more) downlink unit bands and uplink unit bands, wherein when only uplink assignment control information is received in a first downlink unit band of the unit band group and only downlink assignment control information is received in a second downlink unit band different from the first downlink unit band when uplink data and a response signal are transmitted within the same transmission unit time, a control unit (208); time-multiplexes and transmits response signals with respect to the uplink data and downlink data transmitted through a downlink data channel indicated by the downlink assignment control information received in the second downlink unit band, through an uplink data channel indicated by the uplink assignment control information received in the first downlink unit band.

A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus using a component band group comprised of N (where N is a natural number equal to 2 or above) downlink component bands and uplink component bands, and transmits a response signal based on an error detection result of downlink data arranged in a downlink component band through an uplink control channel in an uplink component band corresponding to the downlink component band, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a control information receiving section that receives uplink allocation control information and downlink allocation control information transmitted through downlink control channels of the N downlink component bands;
a downlink data receiving section that receives downlink data transmitted through a downlink data channel indicated by the downlink allocation control information;
an uplink data transmission section that transmits uplink data through an uplink data channel indicated by the uplink allocation control information;
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a control section that controls transmission of the response signal based on the uplink allocation control information and the downlink allocation control information, wherein:
the control section receives, when transmitting the uplink data and the response signal within the same transmission unit time, only the uplink allocation control information in a first downlink component band of the component band group, and time-multiplexes, when receiving only the downlink allocation control information in a second downlink component band different from the first downlink component band, the uplink data and the response signal for the downlink data transmitted through the downlink data channel indicated by the downlink allocation control information received in the second downlink component band, in the uplink data channel indicated by the uplink allocation control information received in the first downlink component baud, and transmits the time-multiplexed signal.

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