APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL MESSAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING RELAYING

• US 20080209301A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chang, Young-Bin, Lee, Sung-Jin, Oh, Chang-Yoon, Kang, Hyun-Jeong, Son, Jung-Je, Lim, Hyoung-Kyu, Rakesh, Taori
• Granted Patent: US 8,201,044 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/749
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1607 Details of the supervisory signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays

Abstract

An apparatus and method for transmitting an ACK/NACK message from an RS in a wireless communication system using relaying is disclosed, in which the RS checks scheduling information for data transmission from a lower node, receives data from the lower node according to the scheduling information, checks errors in the data, generates error report information indicating whether the data has errors, and transmits the error report information to an upper node.

Claims

1. A retransmission method of a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using relaying, the method comprising:

checking scheduling information for data transmission from a lower node;

receiving data from the lower node according to the scheduling information;

checking for errors in the data;

generating error report information indicating whether the data has errors; and

transmitting the error report information to an upper node.

2. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information is received form the upper node.

3. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information is acquired by listening to the scheduling information, which is transmitted from the BS to the MS, for the MS to send data.

4. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the error report information is configured in the form of one of a physical channel defined for reporting presence or absence of errors, a control message, a Medium Access Control (MAC) subheader, and a MAC header.

5. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the error report information includes at least one of an Identifier (ID) of the RS, an ID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the sequence number of the data block.

6. The retransmission method of claim 5, wherein the indication bit represents one of a Negative ACKnowledgment (NACK) indicating the presence of errors, if the data has errors, and an ACKnowledgment (ACK) indicating the absence of errors, if the data has no errors.

7. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein if Medium Access Control (MAC) retransmission is performed, the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Block Sequence Number (BSN) identifying a data block received from the lower node, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the BSN of the data block.

8. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein if physical layer retransmission is performed, the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Channel ID (ACID) being a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, a SubPacket ID (SPID) identifying a subdata block in the ACID, an ARQ Identifier_Sequence Number (AI_SN) indicating whether the data is retransmission data, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors.

9. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the error report information in an area allocated for transmission of a message indicating whether data has errors in an uplink subframe according to a frame structure.

10. The retransmission method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting comprises:

detecting control information for transmission of the error report information in scheduling information received from the upper node; and

transmitting the error report information to the upper node according to the control information.

11. The retransmission method of claim 10, wherein the control information includes at least one of a time to transmit the error report information and resource allocation information for transmission of the error report information.

12. The retransmission method of claim 1, if an ACKnowledgment (ACK) representing the absence of errors in the data is transmitted to the upper node, further comprising:

checking scheduling information received from the upper node;

transmitting the data received from the lower node to the upper node according to the scheduling information; and

retransmitting the data to the upper node, upon receipt of a retransmission request signal from the upper node.

13. The retransmission method of claim 12, wherein the retransmission comprises:

checking scheduling information for data retransmission received from the upper node, upon receipt of a Negative ACKnowledgment (NACK) from the upper node; and

retransmitting the data to the upper node according to the scheduling information.

14. The retransmission method of claim 12, wherein the retransmission comprises, if scheduling information for data retransmission is received from the upper node, retransmitting the data to the upper node according to the scheduling information.

15. The retransmission method of claim 12, if the data is retransmitted, further comprising:

checking a lifetime for the retransmission; and

ending the data retransmission when the lifetime expires.

16. A retransmission method of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system using relaying, the method comprising:

transmitting to a Relay Station (RS) scheduling information for the RS to transmit error report information indicating whether data received from a lower node has errors;

determining whether the error report information has been received from the RS according to the scheduling information; and

determining whether the data has errors from the error report information, upon receipt of the error report information from the RS.

17. The retransmission method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting scheduling information for data transmission of the lower node to at least one of the lower node and the RS, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the scheduling information for transmission of the error report information to the RS, taking into account a data transmission time of the lower node.

18. The retransmission method of claim 16, wherein the error report information is configured in the form of one of a physical channel defined for reporting presence or absence of errors, a control message, a Medium Access Control (MAC) subheader, and a MAC header.

19. The retransmission method of claim 16, wherein the error report information includes at least one of an Identifier (ID) of the RS, an ID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the sequence number of the data block.

20. The retransmission method of claim 16, wherein if Medium Access Control (MAC) retransmission is performed, the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Block Sequence Number (BSN) identifying a data block received from the lower node, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the BSN of the data block.

21. The retransmission method of claim 16, wherein if physical layer retransmission is performed, the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Channel ID (ACID) being a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, a SubPacket ID (SPID) identifying a subdata block in the ACID, an ARQ Identifier_Sequence Number (AI_SN) indicating whether the data is retransmission data, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors.

22. The retransmission method of claim 16, if an ACKnowledgment (ACK) representing the absence of errors in the data from the RS, further comprising:

transmitting scheduling information to the RS so that the RS can transmit the data received from the lower node;

checking for errors in the data received from the RS, upon receipt of the data according to the scheduling information; and

requesting retransmission of the data to the RS, if errors are detected in the data.

23. The retransmission method of claim 22, wherein the retransmission requesting comprises:

transmitting a Negative ACK (NACK) representing the presence of errors to the RS; and

transmitting scheduling information for data retransmission to the RS.

24. The retransmission method of claim 22, wherein the retransmission requesting comprises transmitting scheduling information for data retransmission to the RS.

25. The retransmission method of claim 22, if the data is retransmitted, further comprising:

checking a lifetime for the retransmission; and

ending the data retransmission when the lifetime expires.

26. The retransmission method of claim 22, further comprising transmitting information indicating that the data has no errors to at least one of the RS and the lower node, if the data received from the RS has no errors.

27. The retransmission method of claim 16, wherein the scheduling information for transmission of the error report information includes at least one of a time to transmit the error report information and resource allocation information for transmission of the error report information.

28. The retransmission method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting an ACK representing the absence of errors to the MS, upon receipt of an ACK representing the absence of errors in the data received from the lower node from the RS.

29. A retransmission apparatus of a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using relaying, the apparatus comprising:

an error checker for checking for errors in data received from a lower node;

a data queue for storing data without errors;

a retransmission controller for controlling data retransmission, upon receipt of a retransmission request from an upper node;

an information generator for generating error report information indicating whether data received from the lower node has errors; and

a transmitter for transmitting the error report information to the upper node.

30. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, wherein the information generator generates the error report information in the form of one of a physical channel defined for reporting presence or absence of errors, a control message, a Medium Access Control (MAC) subheader, and a MAC header.

31. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, wherein the information generator generates the error report information so that the error report information includes at least one of an Identifier (ID) of the RS, an ID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the sequence number of the data block.

32. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, wherein if Medium Access Control (MAC) retransmission is performed, the information generator generates the error report information so that the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Block Sequence Number (BSN) identifying a data block received from the lower node, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors according to the BSN of the data block.

33. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, wherein if physical layer retransmission is performed, the information generator generates the error report information so that the error report information includes at least one of a Connection ID (CID) of the RS, a CID of the lower node that transmitted the data to the RS, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Channel ID (ACID) being a sequence number identifying a data block received from the lower node, a SubPacket ID (SPID) identifying a subdata block in the ACID, an ARQ Identifier_Sequence Number (AI_SN) indicating whether the data is retransmission data, a retransmission type, and an indication bit indicating whether the data block has errors.

34. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, further comprising a data generator for generating data to be retransmitted to the upper node using the data stored in the data queue under the control of the retransmission controller, wherein the transmitter transmits the data generated from the data generator to the upper node.

35. The retransmission apparatus of claim 29, further comprising a retransmission timer for managing a retransmission lifetime, if data is retransmitted, wherein the retransmission controller ends the data retransmission when the retransmission lifetime expires.