Method for transmitting control signal and method for allocating communication resource to do the same

• US 8,644,227 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2007
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Noh, Min Seok, Han, Seung Hee, Kwon, Yeong Hyeon, Park, Hyun Hwa, Lee, Hyun Woo, Kim, Dong Cheol
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamza, Faruk
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, TITO Q
• Application Number:
  US12/444,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20100027485A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,315 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/343, 370/206, 370/208, 370/335, 375/260, 455/63, 455/422, 455/70, 455/101, 455/522
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0866 using a dedicated channel for access

Abstract

A method for transmitting a control signal together with RACH transmission and a method for allocation a communication resource for the control signal transmission are disclosed. In allocating a communication resource for a control signal transmission within a transmission unit resource region for performing an RACH transmission, the present invention includes the steps of setting a resource region used for the RACH transmission to a portion of the transmission unit resource region and allocating the control signal transmission resource region unused for the RACH transmission within the transmission unit resource region.

Claims

1. A method for allocating communication resource for control signal transmission within a transmission unit resource region for a random access channel (RACH) signal transmission, the method comprising:

configuring a user equipment with a RACH resource region for the RACH signal transmission, wherein the RACH resource region is specified by a time domain region and a frequency domain region;

allocating a first sequence set used only for a random access and a second sequence set used only for a control signal to the user equipment,

wherein the first sequence set includes at least one sequence for indicating the random access and the second sequence set includes at least one sequence for indicating the control signal, and the first sequence set is discriminated from the second sequence set by code division multiplexing; and

receiving a sequence selected by the user equipment from the user equipment,

wherein the selected sequence belongs to either the first sequence set or the second sequence set,

wherein, if the selected sequence belongs to the first sequence set, the RACH signal is transmitted by the user equipment by transmitting, within the time domain region and the frequency domain region configured as the RACH resource region, a sequence selected from the first sequence set,

wherein, if the selected sequence belongs to the second sequence set, the control signal is transmitted by the user equipment by transmitting, within the same time domain region and the same frequency domain region as the RACH resource region, a sequence selected from the second sequence set, and

wherein the control signal includes channel quality information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating the first sequence set and the second sequence set comprises:

designating a usage of each sequence of the second sequence set.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a correlation value between the at least one sequence of the first sequence set and the at least one sequence of the second sequence set is equal to or smaller than a threshold.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first sequence set and the second sequence set comprise one of a CAZAC sequence, a Walsh sequence, and a gold sequence.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the control signal further comprises:

at least one of ACK/NACK information and transmission format (TF) information.

6. A method for transmitting a control signal within a transmission unit resource region for a random access channel (RACH) signal transmission, the method comprising:

receiving configuration information configuring a user equipment with a RACH resource region for the RACH signal transmission, wherein the RACH resource region is specified by a time domain region and a frequency domain region;

obtaining sequence set allocation information allocating a first sequence set used only for a random access and a second sequence set used only for a control signal to the user equipment,

wherein the first sequence set includes at least one sequence for indicating the random access and the second sequence set includes at least one sequence for indicating the control signal, and the first sequence set is discriminated from the second sequence set by code division multiplexing;

selecting a sequence,

wherein the selected sequence belongs to either the first sequence set or the second sequence set; and

transmitting the selected sequence,

wherein, if the selected sequence belongs to the first sequence set, the RACH signal is transmitted by the user equipment by transmitting, within the time domain region and the frequency domain region configured as the RACH resource region, a sequence selected from the first sequence set,

wherein, if the selected sequence belongs to the second sequence set, the control signal is transmitted by the user equipment by transmitting, within the same time domain region and the same frequency domain region as the RACH resource region, a sequence selected from the second sequence set, and

wherein the control signal includes channel quality information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a usage of each sequence of the second sequence set is pre-designated.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein a correlation value between the at least one sequence of the first sequence set and the at least one sequence of the second sequence set is equal to or smaller than a threshold.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first sequence set and the second sequence set comprise one of a CAZAC sequence, a Walsh sequence, and a gold sequence.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the control signal further comprises:

at least one of ACK/NACK information and transmission format (TF) information.