Determination of Carriers and Multiplexing for Uplink Control Information Transmission

• US 20120113831A1
• Filed: 04/29/2011
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pelletier, Ghyslain, Marinier, Paul, Nayeb Nazar, Shahrokh, Rudolf, Marian, Olesen, Robert L., Pan, Kyle Jung-Lin, Tsai, Allan Y., Beluri, Mihaela C., Koo, Changsoo, Shin, Sung-Hyuk H., Haim, John W., Stern-Berkowitz, Janet A.
• Application Number:
  US13/098,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20120113831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0058 Allocation criteria

Abstract

Embodiments contemplate methods and devices that may select uplink (UL) transmission resources for transmitting uplink control information (UCI). A determination may be made that UCI should be transmitted. A physical channel resource for transmission of the UCI may be selected and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WRTU) may transmit the UCI over a physical uplink channel capable of supporting multiple component carriers using the selected physical channel resource. The selection of the physical channel resource may include at least one of: selecting a pre-determined UL component carrier (CC) for uplink transmission on a physical uplink control shared channel (PUSCH) upon a PUSCH resource being available in a subframe, or, selecting a pre-determined UL CC for uplink transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) capable of UCI transmission in the subframe upon a PUSCH resource not being available in the subframe.

Claims

1. A method for selecting uplink (UL) transmission resources for transmitting uplink control information (UCI), the method comprising:

determining that an UCI should be transmitted;

selecting a physical channel resource for transmission of the UCI; and

transmitting, from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WRTU), the UCI over a physical uplink channel capable of supporting multiple component carriers using the selected physical channel resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the physical channel resource includes at least one of:

selecting a pre-determined UL component carrier (CC) for uplink transmission on a physical uplink control shared channel (PUSCH) upon a PUSCH resource being available in a subframe;

or

selecting a pre-determined UL CC for uplink transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) capable of UCI transmission in the subframe upon a PUSCH resource not being available in the subframe.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected physical channel resource is an uplink primary component carrier (UL PCC).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the physical channel resource comprises selecting a UL component carrier (CC) randomly from a plurality of active uplink component carriers.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the physical channel resource further includes:

determining an uplink component carrier (UL CC) based, at least in part, on at least one of the following;

a priority indication for the UL CC;

an explicit signal from a network resource;

a condition that the UL CC is currently used for transmission of UCI pertaining to an uplink/downlink CC pair;

or a characteristic of a physical uplink shared control channel (PUSCH) resource being used for transmission.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the characteristics of the PUSCH resource comprises at least one of:

a number of resource blocks allocated for a PUSCH transmission;

a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) allocated for the PUSCH transmission;

a power headroom available for the PUSCH transmission;

an available transmission power for the PUSCH transmission;

or a pathloss associated with a downlink component carrier (DL CC) associated with the UL CC.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the physical channel resource includes:

determining a number of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) allocations for transmission in a subframe; and

selecting a UL component carrier (CC) based, at least in part, on the number of PUSCH allocations for transmission, wherein the selected UL CC is at least one of the following;

a UL CC with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource upon no PUSCH allocation existing for the subframe;

a UL CC with a PUSCH allocation upon a PUSCH allocation existing for the subframe;

or one or more UL CCs with associated PUSCH allocations upon one or more PUSCH allocations existing for the subframe.

8. A method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) by a wireless transmit receive device (WTRU), comprising:

determining that UCI is to be transmitted;

identifying one or more coded symbols, the one or more coded symbols corresponding to the UCI; and

transmitting the UCI from the WTRU using the coded symbols simultaneously over a physical channel with multiple component carriers (CC).

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising determining a physical layer resource based, at least in part, on an offset parameter signaled from a first layer in communication with a second layer, the second layer including the physical channel.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the offset parameter is scaled to increase a maximum offset value.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining one or more first physical layer resources corresponding to a first transmission scheme, the first transmission scheme corresponding to a first set of offset parameters, and the first physical layer resources determined, based at least in part, on an at least one offset parameter of the first set of offset parameters identified by a first index value; and

determining one or more second physical layer resources corresponding to a second transmission scheme, the second transmission scheme corresponding to a second set of offset parameters, and the second physical layer resources determined, based at least in part, on at least one offset parameter of the second set of offset parameters, the at least one offset parameter of the second set of offset parameters identified by a differential value,

wherein the first index value, the first transmission scheme, and the second transmission scheme have respective logical positions and the differential value corresponds to a differential relative logical position between the first index value and a second index value.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying a first transmission power level per bit for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) wherein the first transmission power level per bit is determined based on a condition in which the UCI is not included in a first transmission block;

transmitting a second transmission block that includes the UCI with a second transmission power level per bit for the PUSCH; and

adjusting the second transmission power level per bit to a level substantially similar to the first transmission power level per bit.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the adjustment of the second transmission power level per bit is based, at least in part, on at least one of:

a type of UCI included in the second transmission block, wherein the type of UCI is at least one of an ACK/NACK, a PMI, a RI, or a CQI;

a total number of UCI bits included in the second transmission block;

a total number of data bits of the second transmission block in a single codeword transmission or a multiple codeword transmission;

a total number of PUSCH symbols used for transmission of the UCI, wherein the UCI comprises at least one of an ACK/NACK, a CQI, a PMI, or, a RI;

a total number of PUSCH symbols included in the second transmission block;

a modulation order of at least one PUSCH symbol included in the second transmission block;

a number of DL CCs for which the UCI is transmitted;

or a value from a first layer in communication with a second layer, the second layer including the physical channel.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

configuring at least one first offset parameter factor for a first codeword; and

configuring at least one second offset parameter factor for a second codeword, wherein the at least one second offset parameter compensates for a difference in at least one of a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) or a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) between the first codeword and the second codeword.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising multiplexing the UCI with uplink shared data (USD).

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising determining whether to use the original offset parameter or the scaled offset parameter based on at least on one of:

a number of configured downlink (DL) CCs at an identified subframe;

one or more codewords receivable in a DL CC in the identified subframe;

a number of activated DL CCs at the identified subframe;

at least one of a value or an indication received upon activation of a DL CC;

a number of decoded physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) in the identified subframe;

a signaled value corresponding to a number PDSCH assignment at the identified subframe;

or a number of DL CCs available in discontinuous reception (DRX) active time.

17. A method for multiplexing wireless data, the method comprising:

multiplexing a plurality of wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) data in a same resource block (RB) using different subcarriers within the same RB; and

allocating one or more resource blocks (RBs) for uplink control information (UCI) for multiple wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs).

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the number of different subcarriers, p, assigned to a multiplexed WTRU is

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising indexing a partitioned RB using a resource partition index.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the multiplexing comprises at least one of frequency division multiplexing, code division multiplexing, or time division multiplexing.