Method for processing NDI in random access procedure and a method for transmitting and receiving a signal using the same

• US 8,374,144 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Sung Jun, Yi, Seung June, Lee, Young Dae, Chun, Sung Duck
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TOAN D
• Application Number:
  US12/982,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20110099447A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/338, 370/341, 370/348
• US Class Current: 370/329
• 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 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal, the method including receiving a first downlink control channel identified by a temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI) from a base station, the first downlink control channel including a first downlink assignment signal having a new data indicator (NDI) with a first value; receiving a second downlink control channel identified by a cell identifier (C-RNTI) from the base station, the second downlink control channel including a second downlink assignment signal having the NDI with a second value; and determining if the NDI has been toggled compared to the NDI previously received from the base station. Further, the UE ignores the NDI with the first value received through the first downlink control channel identified by the temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI). The method also includes receiving the downlink signal based on the determining.

Claims

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal, the method comprising:

receiving a first downlink control channel identified by a temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI) from a base station, the first downlink control channel comprising a first downlink assignment signal having a new data indicator (NDI) with a first value;

receiving a second downlink control channel identified by a cell identifier (C-RNTI) from the base station, the second downlink control channel comprising a second downlink assignment signal having the NDI with a second value;

determining if the NDI has been toggled compared to the NDI previously received from the base station, wherein the UE ignores the NDI with the first value received through the first downlink control channel identified by the temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI);

receiving the downlink signal; and

processing the received downlink signal based on the determining.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the NDI previously received from the base station comprises the NDI received through a third downlink control channel identified by the cell identifier (C-RNTI), the third downlink control channel received before receiving the second downlink control channel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second value of the NDI is associated with a specific HARQ process, and

wherein the determining comprises determining if the second value of the NDI has been toggled compared to the value of the NDI in a previous reception of the specific HARQ process.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the UE considers the received downlink signal as new data, when the second value of the NDI has been toggled compared to the value in the previous reception of the specific HARQ process.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the UE considers the received downlink signal as retransmission data, when the second value of the NDI has not been toggled compared to the value in the previous reception of the specific HARQ process.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first downlink assignment signal is received during a random access procedure, and

wherein the second downlink assignment signal is received after the random access procedure.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first downlink assignment signal is received at a timing associated to a first HARQ process, the random access procedure is successfully completed by a random access using a second HARQ process, and the second downlink assignment signal is received at a timing associated to the first HARQ process, and

wherein when determining if the second value of the NDI has been toggled compared to the value in the previous reception of the first HARQ process, the UE ignores the NDI received at the timing associated to the first HARQ process during the random access procedure.

8. A user equipment comprising:

a physical layer module including a receiving module and a transmitting module, the receiving module for receiving a downlink control channel and a downlink shared channel, the downlink control channel including a new data indicator (NDI) toggled if a base station indicates new transmission; and

a MAC layer module including a plurality of HARQ process modules, a plurality of buffers respectively corresponding to the plurality of HARQ process modules, and a single HARQ entity, the HARQ entity controlling the plurality of HARQ process modules to allow a specific one of the HARQ process modules to process the downlink control channel and the downlink shared channel received by the receiving module,

wherein the HARQ entity or the specific HARQ process module compares an NDI bit value previously stored in a specific buffer corresponding to the specific HARQ process module with an NDI value received in correspondence with the specific HARQ process module to determine whether the downlink shared channel received by the receiving module comprises a retransmitted information from the base station depending on whether the NDI bit value has been toggled, and ignores the NDI received using a temporary cell identifier when the HARQ entity or the specific HARQ process module determines whether the NDI bit value has been toggled.