RESOURCE INDEXING FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO RECEPTIONS OF MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENTS
First Claim
1. A method for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a resource for a transmission of an acknowledgement signal in an Uplink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) in response to a reception by the UE of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs), in a communication system wherein the UE receives multiple SAs transmitted by a base station and corresponds to respective multiple Downlink (DL) CCs, wherein each SA consists of Information Elements (IEs) that include a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE, with each IE having a value represented by binary elements, the method comprising the steps of:
- using by the UE the TPC IE value in the SA corresponding to a first DL CC, from the multiple DL CCs, for adjusting the transmission power of the acknowledgment signal;
using by the UE the TPC IE value in each SA corresponding to each of the remaining DL CCs, from the multiple DL CCs, for determining the resource used for the transmission of the acknowledgment signal; and
transmitting the acknowledgement signal.
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Abstract
User Equipment (UE) transmits an acknowledgement signal in response to the reception of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted by a base station. The SAs consist of Information Elements (IEs) including a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE providing adjustments for the transmission power of the acknowledgement signal. The TPC IE in a first SA of the multiple SAs is used to provide the previous adjustments and the TPC IEs in the remaining of the multiple SAs are used to provide an indication of the resource used for the transmission of the acknowledgment signal.
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1. A method for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a resource for a transmission of an acknowledgement signal in an Uplink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) in response to a reception by the UE of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs), in a communication system wherein the UE receives multiple SAs transmitted by a base station and corresponds to respective multiple Downlink (DL) CCs, wherein each SA consists of Information Elements (IEs) that include a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE, with each IE having a value represented by binary elements, the method comprising the steps of:
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using by the UE the TPC IE value in the SA corresponding to a first DL CC, from the multiple DL CCs, for adjusting the transmission power of the acknowledgment signal; using by the UE the TPC IE value in each SA corresponding to each of the remaining DL CCs, from the multiple DL CCs, for determining the resource used for the transmission of the acknowledgment signal; and transmitting the acknowledgement signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a resource for a transmission of an acknowledgement signal in response to a reception by the UE of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs), in a communication system wherein the UE receives multiple SAs transmitted by a base station, wherein each SA consists of Information Elements (IEs) that include a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE and a Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) IE providing a relative order for the multiple SAs, each IE having a value represented by binary elements, the method comprising the steps of:
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using by the UE the TPC IE value in the SA indicated by the respective DAI IE to be the first SA of the multiple SAs for adjusting the transmission power of the acknowledgment signal; using by the UE the TPC IE value in each SA indicated by the respective DAI IE to not be the first SA of the multiple SAs for determining the resource used for the transmission of the acknowledgment signal; and transmitting the acknowledgement signal. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A User Equipment (UE) apparatus for transmitting an acknowledgement signal in an Uplink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) of a communication system in response to the reception of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted by a base station for respective multiple Downlink (DL) CCs, wherein each SA consists of Information Elements (IEs) that include a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE, with each IE having a value represented by binary elements, the apparatus comprising:
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a transmission power unit for adjusting the transmission power of the acknowledgement signal in response to the TPC IE value in the SA for a first DL CC from the multiple DL CCs; a controller for selecting the resource for the acknowledgement signal transmission in response to the TPC IE value in each SA corresponding to each of the remaining DL CCs from the multiple DL CCs; and a transmitter transmitting the acknowledgement signal. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A User Equipment (UE) apparatus for transmitting an acknowledgement signal in response to the reception of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted by a base station, wherein each SA consists of Information Elements (IEs) that include a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE and a Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) IE providing a relative order for the multiple SAs, each IE having a value represented by binary elements, the apparatus comprising:
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a transmission power unit for adjusting the transmission power of the acknowledgement signal in response to the TPC IE value in the SA indicated by the DAI IE to be the first SA of the multiple SAs; a controller for selecting the resource for the acknowledgement signal transmission in response to the TPC IE value in each SA indicated by the respective DAI IE to not be the first SA of the multiple SAs; and a transmitter transmitting the acknowledgement signal. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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