US9560646B2

5G,4G

Title

COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

Application Number:

US201615046332

Publication Date:

31-01-2017

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Application Date:

17-02-2016

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

12-10-2010

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Abstract  Abstract

A communication apparatus and a communication method capable of suppressing an increase of bits used for a request to send a reference signal and flexibly setting a resource used for sending a reference signal. In a base station a transmission processing unit transmits in one of a plurality of formats control information containing a request to send a sounding reference signal (A-SRS) and a reception processing unit receives the transmitted A-SRS using the resource specified by the format of the transmitted control information. Then the plurality of formats is associated with each different SRS resource by a setting unit.

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