A base station according to a sixth embodiment and other embodiments is connectable to a user terminal. The base station comprises: a controller configured to execute a communication scheme by which traffic belonging to an identical data bearer or different data bearers is transmitted and received by using both first communication between the base station and the user terminal, and second communication between another node connected to the base station via a direct interface and the user terminal; and a receiver configured to receive, from the user terminal, a buffer state report indicating an amount of untransmitted data of the user terminal. The controller decides, on the basis of the buffer state report, a ratio between a radio resource allocated to the user terminal in an uplink of the first communication and a radio resource allocated to the user terminal in an uplink of the second communication.
In the sixth embodiment, the communication scheme is cellular/WLAN aggregation by which the traffic is transmitted and received by using both cellular communication that is the first communication, and WLAN communication that is the second communication between an access point that is the another node and the user terminal.
In the other embodiments, the communication scheme is a dual connectivity scheme by which the traffic is transmitted and received by using both first cellular communication that is the first communication, and second cellular communication that is the second communication between another base station that is the another node and the user terminal.