METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF DOWNLINK HARQ-ACK AND SR

• US 20150124670A1
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Innovative Tech Lab Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Innovative Tech Lab Company Limited
• Inventors: PARK, Dong Hyun
• Application Number:
  US14/530,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20150124670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/281
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1893 Physical mapping arrangements physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for supporting a simultaneous transmission of a downlink HARQ-ACK and a SR in a TDD-FDD CA, FDD-TDD CA or a dual connectivity environment.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) response from a User Equipment (UE) to a base station, the method comprising:

establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the base station through a first serving cell, the first serving cell supporting a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode;

receiving, at the UE, an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising carrier aggregation (CA) configuration information, the CA configuration information comprising information of a second serving cell supporting a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode, and the first serving cell and the second serving cell being aggregated by an FDD-TDD CA scheme;

receiving a transport block through the first serving cell;

mapping a bit for the HARQ response in association with the received transport block; and

transmitting the HARQ response using resources for a Scheduling Request (SR) in a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), the PUCCH being transmitted to the base station through the first serving cell.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reception of the transport block comprises:

detecting one or two transport blocks in a subframe n of the first serving cell,

wherein the subframe n is configured with an uplink subframe for the second serving cell.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission of the HARQ response comprises:

transmitting the bit for the HARQ response using the resources for the SR in the PUCCH in a subframe n+4.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein one bit for the HARQ response is transmitted by the resources for the SR in the PUCCH in the subframe n+4 if one transport block is detected from the subframe n of the first serving cell.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein two bits for the HARQ response are transmitted by the resources for the SR in the PUCCH in the subframe n+4 if two transport blocks are detected from the subframe n of the first serving cell.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, if two transport blocks are transmitted through the first serving cell, the bit for the HARQ response is determined without applying a bundling.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the mapping comprises:

determining the bit for the HARQ response based on the number of downlink subframes of the first serving cell associated with an uplink subframe for transmitting the HARQ response for the transport block and the number of downlink subframes of the second serving cell associated with the uplink subframe for transmitting the HARQ response for the transport block.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission of the HARQ response comprises:

detecting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or an Enhanced PDCCH through the first serving cell, the PDCCH or the EPDCCH indicating a downlink Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release or the transport block of a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH),

wherein the UE transmits the HARQ response and the SR with a PUCCH format 1a/1b through the first serving cell.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the HARQ response for the first serving cell through which the one transport block is detected is one bit for the HARQ response corresponding to the PDCCH or the EPDCCH indicating the transport block or the downlink SPS release, if the PDCCH or the EPDCCH indicating one transport block or a downlink SPS release is detected from the first serving cell and the second serving cell does not include a downlink subframe included in a downlink subframe set associated with an uplink frame.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the HARQ response is transmitted by using a PUCCH format 1a through the first serving cell.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the HARQ response for the first cell through which the two transport blocks are detected is two bits for the HARQ response corresponding to b(0) and b(1), respectively and the bits for the HARQ response are transmitted using a PUCCH format 1b, if two transport blocks are detected through the first serving cell and the second serving cell does not include a downlink subframe, which belongs to a downlink subframe set associated with an uplink subframe.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the HARQ response for the first serving cell is set as a negative acknowledgement (NACK), if neither the PDSCH transmission nor a PDCCH or an EPDCCH indicating the downlink SPS release is detected.