USER EQUIPMENT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20170099121A1
• Filed: 02/09/2016
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchino, Tooru, Takeda, Kazuki, Takahashi, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US15/315,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20170099121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1822 involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1845 Combining techniques, e.g. code combining
• 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 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Decoding control techniques are disclosed for achieving low latency communication. One aspect of the present invention relates to user equipment, comprising: a carrier aggregation control unit configured to control carrier aggregation communication with a base station; and a MAC processing unit configured to configure HARQ sharing to manage multiple HARQ processes configured for component carriers in the carrier aggregation communication as common HARQ processes.

Claims

1. User equipment, comprising:

a carrier aggregation control unit configured to control carrier aggregation communication with a base station; and

a MAC processing unit configured to configure HARQ sharing to manage multiple HARQ processes configured for component carriers in the carrier aggregation communication as common HARQ processes.

2. The user equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing unit determines the HARQ processes managed as the common HARQ processes in accordance with a configuration instruction of the HARQ sharing from the base station.

3. The user equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the MAC processing unit statically configures the HARQ processes managed as the common HARQ processes in accordance with association of multiple component carriers with the HARQ processes received from the base station, the HARQ sharing being configured for the multiple component carrier and the HARQ processes.

4. The user equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the MAC processing unit dynamically configures the HARQ processes managed as the common HARQ processes in accordance with association of component carriers with the HARQ processes indicated for respective downlink transmissions scheduled by the base station.

5. The user equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein the association of component carriers with the HARQ processes indicated for respective downlink transmissions scheduled by the base station is indicated by a bit or scheduling information included in a downlink control channel.

6. The user equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing unit includes:

a soft buffer configured to store data received from the base station; and

a temporary buffer configured to temporarily store data received from the base station during decoding data in the soft buffer.

7. The user equipment as claimed in claim 6, wherein upon receiving data retransmitted from the base station, the MAC processing unit decodes the retransmitted data by combining with data stored in the soft buffer and activates an operation on data temporarily stored in the temporary buffer in accordance with a decoding result of the retransmitted data.

8. The user equipment as claimed in claim 6, wherein upon receiving data retransmitted from the base station, the MAC processing unit decodes the retransmitted data by combining with data stored in the soft buffer and decodes data received from the base station during decoding the retransmitted data and stored in the temporary buffer in parallel.

9. The user equipment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the MAC processing unit reports all or a portion of decoding results on the retransmitted data to the base station.

11. The user equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the MAC processing unit includes:

a soft buffer configured to store data received from the base station; and

a temporary buffer configured to temporarily store data received from the base station during decoding data in the soft buffer.

12. The user equipment as claimed in claim 3, wherein the MAC processing unit includes:

a soft buffer configured to store data received from the base station; and

a temporary buffer configured to temporarily store data received from the base station during decoding data in the soft buffer.

13. The user equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein the MAC processing unit includes:

a soft buffer configured to store data received from the base station; and

a temporary buffer configured to temporarily store data received from the base station during decoding data in the soft buffer.

14. The user equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the MAC processing unit includes:

a soft buffer configured to store data received from the base station; and

a temporary buffer configured to temporarily store data received from the base station during decoding data in the soft buffer.

15. The user equipment as claimed in claim 8, wherein the MAC processing unit reports all or a portion of decoding results on the retransmitted data to the base station.

10. A radio communication method by user equipment, comprising:

activating carrier aggregation communication with a base station;

configuring HARQ processes for component carriers in the carrier aggregation communication;

configuring HARQ sharing to manage the configured HARQ processes as common HARQ processes; and

performing radio communication with the base station.