USER TERMINAL, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

摘要

This invention allows more reliable small-cell detection without increasing the power consumption of a user terminal. This communication control method has the following steps: a step in which a macro base station provides a user terminal with measurement-gap pattern information, said measurement-gap pattern information indicating a repetition period equal to the transmission cycle of detection/measurement signals in a small cell and a length equal to the transmission duration of said detection/measurement signals, and the start offset of said transmission period; and a step in which the user terminal uses a start offset equal to the aforementioned start offset to set a measurement gap having the aforementioned repetition period and length.