Many network applications, eg, industrial control, demand ultra-low latency (ULL) However, traditional packet networks can only reduce the end-to-end latencies to the order of tens of milliseconds The IEEE 8021 time sensitive networking (TSN) standard and related research studies have sought to provide link layer support for ULL networking, while the emerging IETF deterministic networking (DetNet) standards seek to provide the complementary network layer ULL support This paper provides an up-to-date comprehensive survey of the IEEE TSN and IETF DetNet standards and the related research studies The survey of these standards and research studies is organized according to the main categories of flow concept, flow synchronization, flow management, flow control, and flow integrity ULL networking mechanisms play a critical role in the emerging fifth generation (5G) network access chain from wireless devices via access, backhaul, and core networks We survey the studies that specifically target the support of ULL in 5G networks, with the main categories of fronthaul, backhaul, and network management Throughout, we identify the pitfalls and limitations of the existing standards and research studies This survey can thus serve as a basis for the development of standards enhancements and future ULL research studies that address the identified pitfalls and limitations

Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Networks: The IEEE TSN and IETF DetNet Standards and Related 5G ULL Research

According to the present invention, there are provided a base station device, a terminal device, a communication method, and an integrated circuit capable of performing communication more efficiently when the terminal device transmits an uplink signal based on scheduling by the base station device. The terminal device includes a setting unit that sets a first uplink-downlink configuration, a second uplink-downlink configuration, and a third uplink-downlink configuration, a reception unit that monitors a physical downlink control channel accompanied with a downlink control information format which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel in a downlink subframe based on the third uplink-downlink configuration and includes information making a request for transmitting a sounding reference signal, and a transmission unit that transmits or drops the sounding reference signal and transmit an HARQ-ACK for transmission with the physical downlink shared channel.

Terminal device, base station device, communication method, and integrated circuit

In order that a user terminal properly identifies a connection cell in a radio communication system (LTE-U) for operating LTE in an unlicensed band, a user terminal for communicating with a radio base station in an unlicensed band is provided with a detection section that detects a synchronization signal transmitted from a radio base station using a dummy cell ID used in common among a plurality of radio base stations, an estimation section that performs channel estimation using a reference signal, and a reception processing section that performs reception processing of system information transmitted from a radio base station using a channel estimation result.

User terminal, wireless base station, and wireless communication method

A first UL-DL configuration configured by using a common RRC message is set; an antenna port for one enhanced physical downlink control channel in a subframe is set based on whether or not the subframe is a predetermined special subframe in the first UL-DL configuration; and in a case where a second UL-DL configuration indicated by downlink control information which is transmitted on a physical downlink control channel is set, an antenna port for one enhanced physical downlink control channel in the subframe is set based on whether or not the subframe is the predetermined special subframe in the second UL-DL configuration.

Terminal device, base station device, and communication method

The present invention is designed to enable adequate transmission power control when inter-base station CA is employed. When inter-base station CA is employed, radio base stations detect when a user terminal's transmission power reaches the maximum transmission power, and execute control to cancel this. For example, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits an uplink physical channel to each component carrier, a power headroom generating section that generates power headroom, which is extra transmission power of the subject terminal, and a control section that, when the value of the power headroom becomes 0 or less, executes control so that the power headroom is triggered and reported to the radio base stations.

User terminal and radio communication method

This user terminal is characterized by having: a transmission unit that uses an uplink control channel resource in a prescribed bandwidth part (BWP) and sends uplink control information; and a control unit that determines the correspondence between said uplink control channel resource and a prescribed index, on the basis of prescribed information, and specifies the uplink control channel resource. As a result of the present invention, reduction in communication throughput can be suppressed even when performing control on the basis of BWP.

User terminal and wireless communication method

The present invention is designed to reduce the decrease of uplink throughput in the event a user terminal connects with a plurality of radio base stations. A user terminal (20) according to an example of the present invention provides a user terminal that connects with a plurality of radio base stations (10) including a first radio base station and a second radio base station, and this user terminal has a transmission section (203) that transmits uplink signals of a plurality of types to each radio base station, and a control section (401) that controls the transmission power of the uplink signals based on the priorities of the uplink signals for each radio base station, and, every time there are uplink signals of the same type, the control section configures the priority for the first radio base station higher than the priority for the second radio base station.

User terminal, wireless base station, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system

-To alleviate network congestion and improve the spectrum efficiency, it is natural to consider operating Long Term Evolution (LTE) on unlicensed spectrum, which is called Unlicensed LTE (U-LTE). In order to get practical experience with U-LTE, NTT DOCOMO and Huawei built up a U-LTE trial system operating over bandwidth of 20MHz in 5.8 GHz unlicensed bands and a field trial was conducted in 2014. The U-LTE system operated in real time and was field tested in typical indoor environments. In this paper, we report the field trial results for both U- LTE and Wi-Fi systems. Our objective is twofold: firstly, coverage and capacity performance in single cell are presented to confirm the potential effectiveness of using U-LTE in the operator network. Secondly, the intra-Radio-Access-Technology (RAT) coexistence performance conducted in different interference scenarios disclosed a challenging problem, i.e., the straightforward introduction of LTE into the unlicensed spectrum is not recommended and interference avoidance technology is necessary in U-LTE.

A Field Trial of Unlicensed LTE (U-LTE) in 5.8 GHz Band

The present invention is designed so that, in a radio communication system in which a plurality of component carriers (CCs) are used in each small cell within a macro cell, the load of measurements, the amount of information to report and so on in user terminals are reduced. The macro base station of the present invention transmits, to a user terminal, measurement indication information that includes a measurement indication for the received power of a measurement signal of a specific CC in each small cell, and receives, from the user terminal, a measurement report that includes the received power of the measurement signal of the specific CC. Also, the macro base station calculates the received quality of the measurement signals of the plurality of CCs based on the received power of the measurement signal of the specific CC.

Radio base station, user terminal and communication control method

The present invention is designed so that communication can be carries out adequately even when the number of component carriers that can be configured in a user terminal is expanded from that in existing systems. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal communicates by using a plurality of component carriers (CCs), and has a data buffering section that stores uplink data, a generating section that generates a BSR MAC CE (Medium Access Control Control Element), in which a given index corresponding to a buffer size is included, based on BSR (Buffer Status Report) tables, in which amounts of uplink data that is stored (buffer sizes) and indices are associated, and a transmission section that transmits the BSR MAC CE, and one of the BSR tables is a first BSR table for use when more than five CCs are configured in the user terminal.

Wang Lihui

Papers

User terminal and wireless communication method

User terminal, wireless base station, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system

A Field Trial of Unlicensed LTE (U-LTE) in 5.8 GHz Band

Radio base station, user terminal and communication control method

User terminal and radio base station