# US 2019/0174540 A1 · Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit

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- Number: US 2019/0174540 A1
- Document ID: US20190174540A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 16/324,152
- Filed: 2017-08-09
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Earliest claimed: 2016-08-09
- Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha; FG Innovation Company Limited
- Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha; FG Innovation Company Limited
- Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA; Wataru OUCHI; Shoichi SUZUKI; Liqing LIU; Kimihiko IMAMURA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190174540A1

## CPC

- H04W 74/0808: using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]
- H04L 1/1819: {with retransmission of additional or different redundancy}
- H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)}
- H04L 5/0083: {symbol-by-symbol}
- H04L 27/26: Systems using multi-frequency codes (H04L27/32 takes precedence)
- H04W 52/146: {Uplink power control}
- H04W 52/262: {taking into account adaptive modulation and coding [AMC] scheme}
- H04W 52/50: at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment
- H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
- H04W 72/0473: {the resource being transmission power}
- H04W 72/20: Control channels or signalling for resource management
- H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
- H04B 7/0626: {Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]}
- H04B 7/0632: {Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]}
- H04B 7/0639: {Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection}
- H04L 5/0005: {Time-frequency}
- H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated}
- H04L 27/0006: {Assessment of spectral gaps suitable for allocating digitally modulated signals, e.g. for carrier allocation in cognitive radio (for spectrum sharing between different networks H04W16/14)}
- H04L 27/2607: {Cyclic extensions}
- H04L 27/2636: {with FFT or DFT modulators, e.g. standard single-carrier frequency-division multiple access [SC-FDMA] transmitter or DFT spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [DFT-SOFDM]}
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04B: TRANSMISSION

## Abstract

An apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a transport block on PUSCH; and a physical layer processing unit configured to calculate transmit power of the PUSCH, at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for PUSCH initial transmission for the transport block, wherein the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given at least based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols NULsymb included in an uplink slot, and a value of NLBT is 1 in a case that a time continuous signal of a first SC-FDMA symbol included in the PUSCH is generated based on a content of a resource element corresponding to a second SC-FDMA symbol following the first SC-FDMA symbol.

## Claims

### Claim at position 1

1-12. (canceled)

### Claim 13

A terminal apparatus comprising:
transmission circuitry configured to and/or programmed to transmit a transport block on a PUSCH, and
physical layer processing circuitry configured to and/or programmed to determine transmit power for the PUSCH at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for an initial transmission of the PUSCH for the transport block, wherein
the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols included in a uplink slot NULsymb, and
the NLBT is 1 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The terminal apparatus according to claim 13, wherein
the NLBT is 0 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is not generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.

### Claim 15

A base station apparatus comprising:
reception circuitry configured to and/or programmed to receive a transport block on a PUSCH, and
physical layer processing circuitry configured to and/or programmed to determine transmit power for the PUSCH at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for an initial transmission of the PUSCH for the transport block, wherein
the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols included in a uplink slot NULsymb, and
the NLBT is 1 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The base station apparatus according to claim 15, wherein
the NLBT is 0 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is not generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.

### Claim 17

A communication method used for a terminal apparatus, comprising:
transmitting a transport block on a PUSCH, and
determining transmit power for the PUSCH at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for an initial transmission of the PUSCH for the transport block, wherein
the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols included in a uplink slot NULsymb, and
the NLBT is 1 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.

### Claim 18

A communication method used for a base station apparatus, comprising:
receiving a transport block on a PUSCH, and
determining transmit power for the PUSCH at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for an initial transmission of the PUSCH for the transport block, wherein
the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols included in a uplink slot NULsymb, and
the NLBT is 1 in a case that a signal of a SC-FDMA symbol with index I is generated based on a content for resource elements corresponding to a SC-FDMA symbol with index I+1.