Method of Handling Latency Impact on Feedback Operation and Related Communication Device

• US 20120182919A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Jen, Yu-Chih
• Application Number:
  US13/351,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182919A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1819 with retransmission of additional or different redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1822 involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1825 Adaptation of specific ARQ protocol parameters according to transmission conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1893 Physical mapping arrangements physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0092 Error control systems characterised by the topology of the transmission link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control

Abstract

A method of handling control information for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device is configured with a coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP) operation by network of the wireless communication system. The method comprises determining at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point of the network involving in the CoMP operation or involving in downlink (DL) transmissions to the mobile device or uplink (UL) receptions from the mobile device; and feeding back the control information to the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point on at least one UL channel.

Claims

1. A method of handling control information for a mobile device in a wireless communication system, the mobile device being configured with a coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP) operation by network of the wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point of the network involving in the CoMP operation or involving in downlink (DL) transmissions to the mobile device or uplink (UL) receptions from the mobile device; and

feeding back the control information to the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point on at least one UL channel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point is configured to receive or detect the control information on a common channel or at least one independent channel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device determines the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point involving in the CoMP operation or involving in the DL transmissions to the mobile device or the UL receptions from the mobile device, according to a configuration indicated by the network or a measurement result obtained by the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the configuration is indicated via at least one of a CoMP configuration, a transmission and reception mode configuration, a feedback configuration, a scheduling grant and a DL assignment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point is configured with the same cell identity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the control information is scrambled by the same cell identity or at least one cell identity of the at least one cooperating cell.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein another mobile device without being configured the CoMP operation and the mobile device are assigned independent or non-overlapped identities.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the control information comprises at least one of an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), channel quality information (CQI), precoding matrix information (PMI), rank indication (RI) and sounding reference signal (SRS).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the control information comprises a combination of ACKs/NACKs, CQIs, PMIS, RIs and SRSs in a control information transmission.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to transmit the control information on a common channel or at least one independent channel to the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point.

11. A method of handling control information for a mobile device in a wireless communication system, the mobile device being configured with a coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP) operation by network of the wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving the control information on at least one downlink (DL) channel from at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point of the network; and

determining the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point of the network according to a configuration indicated by the network, wherein the control information is transmitted by the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point to the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is configured to receive or detect the control information on a common channel or at least one independent channel.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the configuration is indicated via at least one of a CoMP configuration, a transmission and reception mode configuration, a feedback configuration, a scheduling grant and a DL assignment.

14. A method of handling at least one uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP) transmission or signaling for a mobile device in a wireless communication system, the mobile device being configured with a CoMP operation by a network of the wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point of the network involving in receiving the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling from the mobile device or involving in the CoMP operation; and

transmitting the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling to the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point on at least one UL channel.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point is configured to receive or detect the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling on a common channel or at least one independent channel.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile device is configured to transmit the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling on a common channel or at least one independent channel.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile device determines that the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point involves in receiving the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling from the mobile device according to a configuration indicated by the network, and the configuration is indicated via at least one of a CoMP configuration, a transmission and reception mode configuration, a feedback configuration, a scheduling grant and a DL assignment.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one cooperating cell or cooperating point is configured with the same cell identity.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling is scrambled by the same cell identity or at least one cell identity of the at least one cooperating cell.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein another mobile device without being configured the CoMP operation and the mobile device are assigned independent or non-overlapped identities.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least one UL CoMP transmission or signaling is the same or different data transmissions over a UL multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration.