Sending feedback for multiple downlink carriers

• US 8,514,820 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2011
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cai, Lujing, Pelletier, Benoit, Zhang, Hong O., Xi, Fengjun, Li, Yan, Li, Yingxue K., Cave, Christopher R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Asad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jensen, Nicholas A
• Application Number:
  US13/026,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20110249656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 370/336, 370/328
• US Class Current: 370/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0073 Special arrangements for feedback channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03808 Transmission of equaliser coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 Power control of control or pilot channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation

Abstract

Feedback information for multiple serving cells are transmitted on high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH). A slot format for transmitting feedback information is determined based on the number of configured secondary serving cells and whether multiple input multiple-output (MIMO) is configured in the serving cells. Spreading factor is reduced to 128 when two secondary serving cells are configured and MIMO is configured in at least one of the two configured secondary serving cells, or when three secondary serving cells are configured. The serving cells are grouped into feedback groups, each feedback group having one or more serving cells. Channel coding may be applied to feedback information for the feedback groups. The resulting encoded feedback information for the feedback groups is concatenated to form composite feedback information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining a slot format for transmitting feedback information for a plurality of serving cells via high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) based on a number of configured secondary serving cells and whether multiple input multiple-output (MIMO) is configured in the plurality of serving cells;

sending the feedback information in accordance with the determined slot format, wherein when the plurality of serving cells comprises a primary serving cell and two enabled secondary serving cells, and the two enabled secondary serving cells comprises an active secondary serving cell and a deactivated secondary serving cell, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the primary serving cell and HARQ feedback for the active secondary serving cell is jointly encoded to form a jointly coded HARQ feedback, wherein the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is sent in a first portion of a time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission, and the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is repeated in a second portion of the time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback information comprises HARQ positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and channel quality indication (CQI) information, wherein the CQI information comprises at least one of a CQI report, or a precoding control indication (PCI)/CQI report.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a first slot format when two secondary serving cells are configured and MIMO is configured in at least one of the two configured secondary serving cells, the first slot format indicating at least one the following:

a spreading factor for HS-DPCCH is 128;

a subframe carries 60 bits;

a channel bit rate is 30 kilobits per second (kbps);

a time slot carries 20 bits; and

three slots are transmitted per subframe.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a first slot format when three secondary serving cells are configured, the first slot format indicating at least one the following:

a spreading factor for HS-DPCCH is 128;

a subframe carries 60 bits;

a channel bit rate is 30 kilobits per second (kbps);

a time slot carries 20 bits; and

three slots are transmitted per subframe.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a second slot format when more than two secondary serving cells are configured and less than two secondary serving cells are active, the second slot format indicating at least one the following:

a spreading factor for HS-DPCCH is 256;

a subframe carries 30 bits;

a channel bit rate is 15 kilobits per second (kbps);

a time slot carries 10 bits; and

three slots are transmitted per subframe.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

grouping the plurality of serving cells into a first feedback group and a second feedback group, each feedback group comprising at least one serving cell;

sending CQI feedback for the first feedback group in a first time slot allocated for CQI feedback transmission; and

sending CQI feedback for the second feedback group in a second time slot allocated for CQI feedback transmission.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a first slot format is used when two secondary serving cells are configured and MIMO is configured in at least one of the two configured secondary serving cells or when three secondary serving cells are configured, and a second slot format is used when less than two secondary serving cells are configured.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is repeated to fill a whole HARQ slot in an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when the plurality of serving cells comprises the primary serving cell and three configured secondary serving cells, and the three configured secondary serving cells comprises an active secondary serving cell and two deactivated secondary serving cells, the method further comprising:

jointly encoding HARQ feedback for the primary serving cell and HARQ feedback for the active secondary serving cell to form a second jointly coded HARQ feedback;

sending the jointly encoded HARQ feedback in the first portion of the time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission; and

repeating the jointly encoded HARQ feedback in the second portion of the time slot.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises an active serving cell and at least one deactivated serving cell, the method further comprising:

repeating CQI feedback for the active serving cell to fill two time slots allocated for CQI feedback transmission in an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein CQI feedback for a deactivated cell is not transmitted.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises one or two active serving cells, the method further comprising:

repeating feedback information for the active serving cells to fill an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.

13. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the WTRU comprising:

a processor configured to;

determine a slot format for transmitting feedback information for a plurality of serving cells via high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) based on a number of configured secondary serving cells and whether multiple input multiple-output (MIMO) is configured in the plurality of serving cells; and

send the feedback information in accordance with the determined slot format, wherein when the plurality of serving cells comprises a primary serving cell and two enabled secondary serving cells, and the two enabled secondary serving cells comprises an active secondary serving cell and a deactivated secondary serving cell, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the primary serving cell and HARQ feedback for the active secondary serving cell is jointly encoded to form a jointly coded HARQ feedback, the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is sent in a first portion of a time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission, and the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is repeated in a second portion of the time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission.

14. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises channel quality indication (CQI) information, and wherein the processor is further configured to independently encode CQI information for each serving cell.

15. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises channel quality indication (CQI) information, and wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a discontinuous transmission (DTX) message in a field in an HS-DPCCH subframe allocated for CQI information transmission for a deactivated serving cell.

16. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises a deactivated serving cell, and wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a discontinuous transmission (DTX) message in a field in a HS-DPCCH subframe allocated for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information for the deactivated serving cell.

17. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, and MIMO is configured in a serving cell, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with a quantized amplitude ratio (A_hs) translated from a signaled value Δ

_ACK+2 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises at least one ACK and no NACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from the signaled value Δ

_NACK+2 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises at least one NACK and no ACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs that translated from the maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+2 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+2 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises ACK and NACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from the maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+2 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+2 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises a PRE; and

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs that translated from a maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+2 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+2 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises a POST.

18. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, and MIMO is not configured in a serving cell, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with a quantized amplitude ratio (A_hs) translated from a signaled value Δ

_ACK+1 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises at least one ACK and no NACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from a signaled value Δ

_NACK+1 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises at least one NACK and no ACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from a maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+1 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+1 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises ACK and NACK;

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from the maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+1 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+1 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises a PRE; and

send the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the A_hs translated from the maximum value between the signaled value Δ

_ACK+1 and the signaled value Δ

_NACK+1 if the HARQ ACK/NACK information comprises a POST.

19. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the feedback information with a quantized amplitude ratio of 48/15 when at least one of a signaled value Δ

_ACK, a signaled value Δ

_NACK and a signaled value Δ

_CQI is 10.

20. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send an HARQ preamble PRE/PRE in a slot allocated to HARQ-ACK in sub-frame n−

1, unless at least one of ACK and NACK for a serving cell is to be transmitted in sub-frame n−

1.

21. The WTRU of claim 20, wherein in sub-frame n, feedback information received on high speed-shared control channel (HS-SCCH) that is not discarded.

22. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send a HARQ postamble POST/POST in a slot allocated to HARQ-ACK in sub-frame n+2×

N_acknack_transmit-2, wherein N_acknack_transmit comprises a repetition factor of ACK/NACK, wherein HARQ-ACK is transmitted a feedback group is transmitted sub-frame n, unless at least one of ACK and NACK is to be transmitted in subframe n+2×

N_acknack_transmit-2.

23. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send an HARQ preamble PRE/PRE in a slot allocated to HARQ-ACK in a subframe, when a DTX codeword is to be transmitted in the subframe for each serving cell in the subframe, and at least one of ACK and NACK is to be transmitted in a subsequent subframe.

24. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send an HARQ postamble POST/POST in a slot allocated to HARQ-ACK in a subframe, when a DTX codeword is to be transmitted in the subframe for each serving cell.

25. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

avoid transmitting channel quality indication (CQI) information on a first slot allocated for CQI information, wherein the first slot overlaps with an uplink transmission gap on an associated dedicated physical channel (DPCH).

26. The WTRU of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send end CQI information on a second slot allocated for CQI information, the second slot being in the same sub-frame as the first slot, wherein the second slot does not overlap with the uplink transmission gap on the associated dedicated physical channel (DPCH).

27. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

adjust a spreading factor for the HS-DPCCH based on the determined slot format, wherein a spreading factor associated with a first slot format is lower than a spreading factor associated with a second slot format.

28. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the feedback information comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and channel quality indication (CQI) information, wherein the CQI information comprises at least one of a CQI report, or a precoding control indication (PCI)/CQI report.

29. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein a first slot format is selected when two secondary serving cells are configured and MIMO is configured in at least one of the two configured secondary serving cells, and the first slot format indicates at least one the following:

a spreading factor for HS-DPCCH is 128;

a subframe carries 60 bits;

a channel bit rate is 30 kilobits per second (kbps);

a time slot carries 20 bits; and

three slots are transmitted per subframe.

30. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein a second slot format is selected when more than two secondary serving cells are configured and less than two secondary serving cells are active, and the second slot format indicates at least one the following:

a spreading factor for HS-DPCCH is 256;

a subframe carries 30 bits;

a channel bit rate is 15 kilobits per second (kbps);

a time slot carries 10 bits; and

three slots are transmitted per subframe.

31. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

group the plurality of serving cells into a first feedback group and a second feedback group, each feedback group comprising at least one serving cell;

send HARQ feedback for the first feedback group in a first portion of a time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission; and

send HARQ feedback for the second feedback group in a second portion of the time slot.

32. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

group the plurality of serving cells into a first feedback group and a second feedback group, each feedback group comprising at least one serving cell;

send CQI feedback for the first feedback group in a first time slot allocated for CQI feedback transmission; and

send CQI feedback for the second feedback group in a second time slot allocated for CQI feedback transmission.

33. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to use a first slot format when two secondary serving cells are configured and MIMO is configured in at least one of the two configured secondary serving cells or when three secondary serving cells are configured, and to use a second slot format when less than two secondary serving cells are configured.

34. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the jointly encoded HARQ feedback is repeated to fill a whole HARQ slot in an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.

35. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein when the plurality of serving cells comprises the primary serving cell and three configured secondary serving cells, and the three configured secondary serving cells comprises an active secondary serving cell and two deactivated secondary serving cells, the processor is configured to:

jointly encode HARQ feedback for the primary serving cell and HARQ feedback for the active secondary serving cell to form a second jointly coded HARQ feedback;

send the jointly encoded HARQ feedback in the first portion of the time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission; and

repeat the jointly encoded HARQ feedback in the second portion of the time slot allocated for HARQ feedback transmission.

36. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises an active serving cell and at least one deactivated serving cell, the processor is further configured to:

repeat CQI feedback for the active serving cell to fill two time slots allocated for CQI feedback transmission of in an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.

37. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein CQI feedback for a deactivated cell is not sent.

38. The WTRU of claim 13, wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises one or two active serving cells, the processor is further configured to:

repeat feedback information for an active serving cell to fill an HS-DPCCH sub-frame.