US 11,750,355 B2
Base station, terminal, and communication method
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kanagawa (JP); Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Hessen (DE); Lilei Wang, Beijing (CN); Ayako Horiuchi, Kanagawa (JP); and Hidetoshi Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/476,338.
Application 17/476,338 is a continuation of application No. 16/471,852, granted, now 11,153,057, previously published as PCT/CN2017/070379, filed on Jan. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006597 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0092 (2013.01) [H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication apparatus comprising:
circuitry, which, in operation, determines 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 the communication apparatus, 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 subcarrier spacing for the second band is same or different from a subcarrier spacing for the first band; and
a transceiver, which is coupled to the circuitry and which, in operation, communicates with a base station 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, and the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band are values that are a power of two.