Method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request processes per transmission time interval

• US 10,225,049 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2017
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Terry, Stephen E., Olesen, Robert L., Wang, Jin, Chandra, Arty
• Primary Examiner(s): LaMarre, Guy J
• Application Number:
  US15/439,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20170164362A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0632 Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1607 Details of the supervisory signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs).

Claims

1. A base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a physical layer signal using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), wherein the physical layer signal is divided into a plurality of time units and a plurality of frequency units, and wherein the physical layer signal includes a data part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and an associated control part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and reference signals interspersed on time and frequency units among the control part and the data part, wherein a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) are sent to a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) in the data part;

wherein the control part includes at least a first time unit of the plurality of time units and carries control information associated with each TB of the plurality of TBs;

wherein the control information includes for each TB a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and HARQ information;

wherein the HARQ information for each TB includes a redundancy version;

wherein the data part includes other time units of the plurality of time units, and has a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each TB sent in the data part;

wherein each TB of the plurality of TBs has a format indicated by the control information.

2. The base station of claim 1, wherein the data part does not include the first time unit.

3. The base station of claim 1, wherein the physical layer signal is divided into 7 time units.

4. The base station of claim 1, wherein the physical layer signal is 0.5 ms long.

5. The base station of claim 1, wherein the control part includes an allocation for each TB of the plurality of TBs to a different spatial stream.

6. The base station of claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver configured to receive an uplink message including HARQ feedback information for each of the plurality of TBs.

7. The base station of claim 6, wherein the uplink message further includes channel quality indicator information.

8. The base station of claim 6, wherein an acknowledgement feedback for each TB is concatenated.

9. The base station of claim 6, wherein an acknowledgement feedback is received with channel quality indicator feedback.

10. The base station of claim 1, wherein the at least a first time unit of the plurality of time units is the first time unit of the plurality of time units in time in the physical layer signal.

11. A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

receiving a physical layer signal sent using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), wherein the physical layer signal is divided into a plurality of time units and a plurality of frequency units, and wherein the physical layer signal includes a data part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and an associated control part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and reference signals interspersed on time and frequency units among the control part and the data part;

wherein the control part includes at least a first time unit of the plurality of time units and carries control information associated with each TB of the plurality of TBs;

wherein the control information includes for each TB a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and HARQ information;

wherein the HARQ information for each TB includes a redundancy version;

wherein the data part includes other time units of the plurality of time units, and has a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each TB sent in the data part; and

utilizing the control information to process the plurality of TBs.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

transmitting an uplink message including HARQ feedback information for each of the plurality of TBs.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the uplink message further includes channel quality indicator information.

14. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

circuitry configured to receive a physical layer signal sent using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), wherein the physical layer signal is divided into a plurality of time units and a plurality of frequency units, and wherein the physical layer signal includes a data part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and an associated control part that comprises a plurality of time and frequency units, and reference signals interspersed on time and frequency units among the control part and the data part;

wherein the control part includes at least a first time unit of the plurality of time units TB of a plurality of TBs;

wherein the control information includes for each TB a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and HARQ information;

wherein the HARQ information for each TB includes a redundancy version;

wherein the data part includes other time unites of the plurality of time units and carries the plurality of TBs and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each TB; and

circuitry configured to utilize the control information to process the plurality of TBs.

15. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the data part does not include the first time unit.

16. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the control part includes control information associated with at least one other WTRU, and the data part includes data that is associated with the control information associated with the at least one other WTRU.

17. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the control information is associated with at least one other WTRU.

18. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the physical layer signal is 0.5 ms long.

19. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the control part includes an allocation for each TB of the plurality of TBs to a different spatial stream.

20. The WTRU of claim 14 further comprising:

circuitry configured to transmit an uplink message including HARQ feedback information for each of the plurality of TBs.

21. The WTRU of claim 20, wherein the uplink message further includes channel quality indicator information.

22. The WTRU of claim 20, further comprising circuitry configured to, based on the amount of feedback, select a coding scheme and determine whether to include a CRC with the uplink message.

23. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the first the first time unit is the first time unit in time in the physical layer signal.

24. The WTRU of claim 14, wherein the control information for each TB is concatenated.