Data transmission method, device, and system

• US 10,075,264 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2016
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Anquan, Wu, Jianming, Wang, Chongquan
• Primary Examiner(s): Yuen, Kan
• Application Number:
  US15/221,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1874 Buffer management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points

Abstract

The present invention provides a data transmission method, device, and system, and relates to the communications field, which can improve data transmission efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a second base station, that statuses of all HARQ processes in a first hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer are occupied states; and sending, by the second base station, a second data block to a user equipment UE by using an HARQ process in an idle state in a second HARQ buffer, where the first HARQ buffer and the second HARQ buffer are different HARQ buffers disposed in the second base station. The data transmission method, device, and system are applicable to data transmission in carrier aggregation.

Claims

1. A data transmission method, wherein the method comprises:

sending, by a base station, a first data block to a user equipment (UE) by using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process having a process number in a first HARQ buffer;

determining, by the base station, that statuses of all HARQ processes in a first hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer are in non-idle states;

receiving, by the base station, a feedback, for the first data block, of the UE, wherein

if the feedback comprises a negative acknowledgement (NACK), a second data block is a data block, corresponding to the NACK, in the first data block;

or, if the feedback comprises an acknowledgement ACK, the second data block is a data block different from the first data block; and

sending, by the base station, the second data block to the user equipment UE by using an HARQ process in an idle state in a second HARQ buffer, wherein

the first HARQ buffer and the second HARQ buffer are different HARQ buffers disposed in the base station.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein process numbers of the HARQ processes in the first HARQ buffer correspond to process numbers of HARQ processes in the second HARQ buffer in a one-to-one manner.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the feedback comprises an NACK, and a status of an HARQ process having the process number in the second HARQ buffer is an idle state, the sending, by the second base station, the second data block to the UE by using an HARQ process in an idle state in a second HARQ buffer comprises:

sending, by the base station, the second data block to the UE by using the HARQ process having the process number in the second HARQ buffer, and sending a downlink scheduling authorization message to the UE, wherein the downlink scheduling authorization message carries a value, and the value is the same as a value previously sent by the base station to the UE.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the feedback comprises an NACK, after the sending, by the base station, a second data block to a UE by using an HARQ process in an idle state in a second HARQ buffer, the method further comprises:

determining, by the base station, that the sending of the second data block by using the HARQ process in the idle state in the second HARQ buffer fails; and

sending, by the base station, information indicating the failure and a sequence number corresponding to the second data block to another base station, wherein the information indicating the failure is used for triggering the another base station to retransmit the second data block to the UE, wherein

the base station serves a secondary component carrier of the UE, and the another base station serves a primary component carrier of the UE.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the base station, a feedback, for the first data block, of the UE comprises:

receiving, by the base station, the feedback from another base station, wherein the feedback is sent by the UE to the another base station by using a first physical uplink control channel Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) code channel resource, wherein

an identifier of the first PUCCH code channel resource is determined and sent to the first base station and the UE by the base station;

or, an identifier of the first PUCCH code channel resource is received from the another base station after the base station requests allocation of a PUCCH code channel resource from the another base station.

6. A base station, comprising,

a bus;

a memory coupled to the bus; and

a processor coupled to the bus, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer instruction, and the processor is configured to the computer instruction to;

send a first data block to a user equipment (UE) by using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process having a process number in a first HARQ buffer;

determine that statuses of all HARQ processes in a first hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer are in non-idle states;

receive a feedback, for a first data block, of the UE, wherein

if the feedback comprises a negative acknowledgement NACK, a second data block is a data block, corresponding to the NACK, in the first data block;

or, if the feedback comprises an acknowledgement ACK, the second data block is a data block different from the first data block; and

send a second data block to the user equipment UE by using an HARQ process in an idle state in a second HARQ buffer, wherein

the first HARQ buffer and the second HARQ buffer are different HARQ buffers disposed in the base station.

7. The base station according to claim 6, wherein process numbers of the HARQ processes in the first HARQ buffer correspond to process numbers of HARQ processes in the second HARQ buffer in a one-to-one manner.

8. The base station according to claim 6, wherein if the feedback comprises an NACK, and a status of an HARQ process having the process number in the second HARQ buffer is an idle state, the processor executes the computer instruction to:

send the second data block to the UE by using the HARQ process having the process number in the second HARQ buffer, and send a downlink scheduling authorization message to the UE, wherein the downlink scheduling authorization message carries a value, and the value is the same as a value previously sent by the base station to the UE.

9. The base station according to claim 6, wherein if the feedback comprises an NACK, after the base station sends the second data block to the UE by using the HARQ process in the idle state in the second HARQ buffer, the processor executes the computer instruction to further:

determine that the sending of the second data block by using the HARQ process in the idle state in the second HARQ buffer fails; and

send information indicating the failure and a sequence number corresponding to the second data block to the first base station, wherein the information indicating the failure is used for triggering the first base station to retransmit the second data block to the UE, wherein

the base station serves a secondary component carrier of the UE, and the first base station serves a primary component carrier of the UE.

10. The base station according to claim 6, wherein the processor executes the computer instruction to:

receive the feedback from the first base station, wherein the feedback is sent by the UE to the first base station by using a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) code channel resource, wherein

an identifier of the first PUCCH code channel resource is determined and sent to the first base station and the UE by the base station;

or, an identifier of the first PUCCH code channel resource is received from the first base station after the base station requests allocation of a PUCCH code channel resource from the first base station.

11. The base station according to claim 6, wherein the first HARQ buffer and the second HARQ buffer are a part of the memory.