Base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and communication control method

A mobile terminal apparatus connected to a base station apparatus which shares at least a part of a frequency band with another base station apparatus that covers a small-scale cell, covers a large-scale cell, and is capable of transmitting a downlink transmission frame at transmission timing different from the another base station apparatus, comprising:

• a blank resource information acquiring section configured to, when the downlink transmission frame includes a Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe in which a blank period is set except for a downlink control channel and a reference signal and the downlink transmission frame is subframe-shifted in a time-axis direction relative to another downlink transmission frame of the another base station apparatus to make the blank period of the MBSFN subframe coincident with a downlink control channel of the another downlink transmission frame, acquire blank resource information to identify radio resources in a subframe other than the MBSFN subframe in the downlink transmission frame as blank resources set in the base station apparatus, the radio resources interfering with the downlink control channel of the another downlink transmission frame;
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• a user data demodulation section configured to demodulate user data received from the base station apparatus while avoiding the blank resources, based on the blank resource information, wherein
• the blank resources of the downlink radio frame of the large-scale cell are set based on a shift amount of transmission timing of downlink radio frames of the small-scale cell and the large-scale cell.

A communication control method in a base station apparatus which shares at least a part of a frequency band with another base station apparatus that covers a small-scale cell, covers a large-scale cell, and is capable of transmitting a downlink transmission frame at transmission timing different from the another base station apparatus, comprising:

• when the downlink transmission frame includes a Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe in which a blank period is set except for a downlink control channel and a reference signal and the downlink transmission frame is subframe-shifted in a time-axis direction relative to another downlink transmission frame of the another base station apparatus to make the blank period of the MBSFN subframe coincident with a downlink control channel of the another downlink transmission frame, setting radio resources in a subframe other than the MBSFN subframe in the downlink transmission frame as blank resources, the radio resources interfering with the downlink control channel of the another downlink transmission frame;
• assigning user data to the downlink transmission frame while avoiding the blank resources;
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• transmitting the downlink transmission frame assigned with the user data to a mobile terminal apparatus, wherein
• the blank resources of the downlink radio frame of the large-scale cell are set based on a shift amount of transmission timing of downlink radio frames of the small-scale cell and the large-scale cell.