Uplink transmission method and uplink transmission device

• US 10,194,423 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2013
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Daesung, Yi, Yunjung, Kim, Bonghoe, Seo, Dongyoun
• Primary Examiner(s): Moutaouakil, Mounir
• Application Number:
  US14/427,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20150223235A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,003 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/066 Combined feedback for a number of channels, e.g. over several subcarriers like in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [OFDM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/12 using signalling between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

One embodiment of the present specification discloses an uplink transmission method in a multi-cell environment in which a single uplink resource is shared. The method may comprise: receiving control information that configures an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel so that the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel are not simultaneously transmitted on the same one uplink subframe, wherein the single uplink resource is shared by a first cell and a second cell; selecting any one of the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel if a first Scheduling Request (SR) for the first cell and Uplink Control Information (UCI) for the second cell are requested to be simultaneously transmitted on the same subframe through the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel, respectively; sending the selected channel on the uplink subframe.

Claims

1. An uplink transmission method, the method comprising:

determining, by a user equipment (UE) configured with a first cell group of a first base station and a second cell group of a second base station, whether a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission including a first scheduling request (SR) toward the first cell group is overlapped in a subframe with a second uplink channel transmission including a second SR toward the second cell group;

determining, by the UE, priorities of the first PUCCH transmission and the second uplink channel transmission when the overlap is determined in the subframe; and

performing, by the UE, both of the first PUCCH transmission including the first SR and the second uplink channel transmission including the second SR based on the determined priorities.

2. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein each of the first and the second SRs comprises information about a corresponding cell.

3. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, further comprising receiving control information on the second SR.

4. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a first uplink grant for the first SR; and

receiving a second uplink grant for the second SR,

wherein the first uplink grant and the second uplink grant are received on different subframes.

5. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, further comprising performing a hopping of radio resources for the second uplink channel.

6. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein the priorities are determined based on any one of a type of uplink control information (UCI) and a container.

8. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein if the second uplink channel further includes a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK), the second uplink channel corresponds to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

9. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein the second uplink channel corresponds to a second PUCCH.

10. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein if the second uplink channel further includes a HARQ ACK/NACK, the second uplink channel is prioritized over the first PUCCH.

11. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein if the second uplink channel does not include a HARQ ACK/NACK, the first PUCCH is prioritized over the second uplink channel.

12. The uplink transmission method of claim 1, wherein the priorities are determined in consideration of a transmission of a physical random access channel (PRACH).

7. A user equipment performing uplink transmission, the user equipment comprising:

a transceiver which is configured with a first cell group of a first base station and a second cell group of a second base station and transmits and receives signals; and

a processor operatively connected to the transceiver and is configured to;

determine whether a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission including a first scheduling request (SR) toward the first cell group is overlapped in a subframe with a second uplink channel transmission including a second SR toward the second cell group;

determine priorities of the first PUCCH transmission and the second uplink channel transmission when the overlap is determined in the subframe; and

perform both of the first PUCCH transmission including the first SR and the second uplink channel transmission including the second SR based on the determined priorities.

13. The user equipment of claim 7, wherein each of the first and the second SRs comprises information about a corresponding cell.

14. The user equipment of claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to perform a hopping of radio resources for the second uplink channel.