Base station, terminal, and communication method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsTetsuya YAMAMOTO, Ayako HORIUCHI, Takashi IWAI
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Abstract
A terminal includes a receiver, which, in operation, receives time unit information related to an amount of an uplink time resource per a time unit, and receives a number of repetitions over a plurality of the time units, wherein the time unit includes a downlink time resource for a downlink signal and the uplink time resource for a response signal. The amount of the uplink time resource is expressed as a fixed number of consecutive symbols that remains the same number over the plurality of the time units over which the response signal is repeatedly transmitted. The terminal includes a transmitter, which, in operation, repeatedly transmits the response signal over the plurality of the time units.
Claims12
An integrated circuit, comprising:
- transmission circuitry, which, in operation, controls transmitting control information relating to a number of symbols for an uplink time resource in a time unit, the time unit including a downlink time resource for a downlink transmission and the uplink time resource for a transmission of a response signal,
- wherein in a case where the response signal is repeated, a same number of symbols is indicated by the control information for each of a plurality of time units;
- and
- reception circuitry, which, in operation, controls receiving the response signal over the plurality of time units,
- wherein a number of repetitions of the response signal is determined based on a number of bits in the response signal.
A base station, comprising:
- a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits control information relating to a number of symbols for an uplink time resource in a time unit, the time unit including a downlink time resource for a downlink transmission and the uplink time resource for a transmission of a response signal,
- wherein in a case where the response signal is repeated, a same number of symbols is indicated by the control information for each of a plurality of time units;
- and
- a receiver, which, in operation, receives the response signal over the plurality of time units,
- wherein a number of repetitions of the response signal is determined based on a number of bits in the response signal.
A communication method, comprising:
- transmitting control information relating to a number of symbols for an uplink time resource in a time unit, the time unit including a downlink time resource for a downlink transmission and the uplink time resource for a transmission of a response signal,
- wherein in a case where the response signal is repeated, a same number of symbols is indicated by the control information for each of a plurality of time units;
- and
- receiving the response signal over the plurality of time units,
- wherein a number of repetitions of the response signal is determined based on a number of bits in the response signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.