Selection of acknowledgment timing in wireless communications
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- identifying a reference time division duplex (TDD) configuration based on a first TDD configuration of a primary serving cell (PCell) and a second TDD configuration of a secondary serving cell (SCell); and
transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal associated with downlink data received through the SCell according to a HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration, wherein;
only HARQ-ACK signals associated with the downlink data of the SCell are to be transmitted according to the HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration; and
HARQ-ACK signals associated with downlink data of the PCell are to be transmitted only according to the HARQ timing of the first TDD configuration.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method including communicating, by a mobile device, with a base station via first and second component carriers having different frequency bands and time division duplexing (TDD) configurations. The method may include receiving one or more downlink transmissions via the second component carrier. The method may include selecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing sequence based on the TDD configurations of the first and second component carriers. The method may include transmitting one or more positive acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signals, associated with the one or more downlink transmissions, according to the selected HARQ timing sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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29 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying a reference time division duplex (TDD) configuration based on a first TDD configuration of a primary serving cell (PCell) and a second TDD configuration of a secondary serving cell (SCell); and transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal associated with downlink data received through the SCell according to a HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration, wherein; only HARQ-ACK signals associated with the downlink data of the SCell are to be transmitted according to the HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration; and HARQ-ACK signals associated with downlink data of the PCell are to be transmitted only according to the HARQ timing of the first TDD configuration. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that, upon execution by a processor, are to cause the processor to:
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identify a reference time division duplex (TDD) configuration based on a first TDD configuration of a primary serving cell (PCell) and a second TDD configuration of a secondary serving cell (SCell); and transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal associated with downlink data received through the SCell according to a HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration, wherein; only HARQ-ACK signals associated with the downlink data of the SCell are to be transmitted according to the HARQ timing of the reference TDD configuration; and HARQ-ACK signals associated with downlink data of the PCell are to be transmitted only according to the HARQ timing of the first TDD configuration. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that, upon execution by a processor in mobile device, are to cause the mobile device to:
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establish communication with one or more base stations through a primary serving cell (PCell) and a secondary serving (SCell), the PCell associated with a first component carrier established with a first time-division duplexing (TDD) configuration, the SCell including a second component carrier established with a second TDD configuration; receive downlink data through the SCell; select a reference TDD configuration based on the first and second TDD configurations; and transmit acknowledgement information to be associated with the downlink data according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing of the reference TDD configuration, wherein the instructions further causes the mobile device to; select the first TDD configuration as the reference TDD configuration if downlink subframes of the second TDD configuration are a subset of downlink subframes of the first TDD configuration unless; the first TDD configuration is TDD downlink/uplink (DL/UL) configuration 1 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3; the first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 2 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3 or 4; the first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 1 or TDD DL/UL configuration 2;
orthe first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 4 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 2; and select the second TDD configuration as the reference TDD configuration if downlink subframes of the second TDD configuration are a superset of downlink subframes of the first TDD configuration unless; the first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 1 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3; the first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 2 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3 or 4; the first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 3 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 1 or 2;
orthe first TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 4 and the second TDD configuration is TDD DL/UL configuration 2. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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