Communication apparatus and retransmission control method

• US 10,484,155 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2018
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Horiuchi, Ayako, Nishio, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Jr., Otis L
• Application Number:
  US16/157,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20190044684A1
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1822 involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/125 Arrangements for preventing errors in the return channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit determines whether a received signal in a PHICH region is an ACK signal or a NACK signal. When doing so, the PHICH reception unit does not receive a PHICH in a subframe in which a terminal monitors an E-PDCCH. A control signal reception unit outputs a retransmission prompting signal to a signal allocation unit when the signal outputted from the PHICH reception unit is a NACK signal and when a UL grant was not detected. Meanwhile, when a UL grant was detected, the control signal reception unit outputs the detected UL grant to the signal allocation unit. The signal allocation unit maps the transmission signal in accordance with the retransmission prompting signal and the UL grant and transmits the transmission signal from a wireless transmission unit.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver, which, in operation, in case of carrier aggregation aggregating a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, receives a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) including an ACK or NACK transmitted from another communication apparatus in the primary cell and not in the one or more secondary cells;

a retransmission controller, which, in operation, controls retransmission of data to the other communication apparatus in the primary cell based on the PHICH and assignment control information received in the primary cell, and

controls retransmission of data to the other communication apparatus in the one or more secondary cells based on assignment control information received in one of the primary cell and the one or more secondary cells and not based on the PHICH; and

a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the retransmission data on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the PHICH in only one of two subsets of subframes, wherein the only one subset is either in a channel state information (CSI) measurement set or in a mobility measurement set.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the PHICH in a MBSFN (multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network) subframe and not in a non-MBSFN subframe.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the PHICH in a non-MBSFN (multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network) subframe and not in a MBSFN subframe.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the PHICH out of a number of PHICHs configured by a higher layer.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the assignment control information via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH).

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, which supports Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP).

8. A retransmission control method comprising:

in case of carrier aggregation aggregating a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, a first communication apparatus receiving a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) including an ACK or NACK transmitted from a second communication apparatus in the primary cell and not in the one or more secondary cells;

the first communication apparatus controlling retransmission of data to the second communication apparatus in the primary cell based on the PHICH and assignment control information received in the primary cell;

the first communication apparatus controlling retransmission of data to the second communication apparatus in the one or more secondary cells based on assignment control information received in one of the primary cell and the one or more secondary cells and not based on the PHICH; and

the first communication apparatus transmitting the retransmission data on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

9. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, comprising:

the first communication apparatus receiving the PHICH in only one of two subsets of subframes, wherein the only one subset is either in a channel state information (CSI) measurement set or in a mobility measurement set.

10. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, comprising:

the first communication apparatus receiving the PHICH in a MBSFN (multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network) subframe and not in a non-MBSFN subframe.

11. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, comprising:

the first communication apparatus receiving the PHICH in a non-MBSFN (multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network) subframe and not in a MBSFN subframe.

12. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, comprising:

the first communication apparatus receiving the PHICH out of a number of PHICHs configured by a higher layer.

13. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, comprising:

the first communication apparatus receiving the assignment control information via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH).

14. The retransmission control method according to claim 8, wherein:

the first communication apparatus supports Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP).