Base station, terminal, and communication method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsTetsuya YAMAMOTO, Alexander GOLITSCHEK EDLER VON ELBWART, Lilei WANG, Ayako HORIUCHI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
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Abstract
A parameter required for an operation in a flexible bandwidth is appropriately determined. A base station (100) is disclosed in which: a controller (101) determines a parameter for a band composed of a first band and a segment that is an additional band for the first band, the band composed of the first band and the segment being referred to as a second band; and a transmitter (113) communicates with a terminal in the second band, using the parameter.
Claims19
1-9. (canceled)
A communication apparatus comprising:
- circuitry, which, in operation, sets a number of resource blocks that form a resource block group, wherein the resource block group is a unit used to allocate a resource to a terminal, in a first band or in a second band, wherein the second band is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded;
- and
- a transceiver, which is coupled to the circuitry and which, in operation, communicates with the terminal using the resource,
- wherein one of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other.
A communication method comprising:
- setting a number of resource blocks that form a resource block group, wherein the resource block group is a unit used to allocate a resource to a terminal, in a first band or in a second band, wherein the second band is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded;
- and
- communicating with the terminal using the resource,
- wherein one of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.