Physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission time interval (TTI) bundling

• US 8,817,734 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Khoryaev, Alexey, Chervyakov, Andrey, Shilov, Mikhail A., Maltsev, Alexander, Fwu, Jong-Kae, Panteleev, Sergey
• Primary Examiner(s): Elpenord, Candal
• Application Number:
  US13/620,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20130242889A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/329
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Abstract

Technology for organizing physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions is disclosed. One method can include a node generating transmission time interval (TTI) bundling configuration information with instructions to bundle PUSCH transmissions for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process in at least 20 TTIs in an approximately 50 subframe time interval in at least one PUSCH TTI bundle. The node can transmit the TTI bundling configuration information to a wireless device to enable the wireless device to transmit a PUSCH signal in the at least one PUSCH TTI bundle within an approximately 50 subframe time interval.

Claims

1. A method for organizing physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, comprising:

generating, at a node, transmission time interval (TTI) bundling configuration information with instructions to bundle PUSCH transmissions for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process in at least 20 TTIs in a time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes in at least one PUSCH TTI bundle; and

transmitting the TTI bundling configuration information to a wireless device to enable the wireless device to transmit a PUSCH signal using the at least one PUSCH TTI bundle within the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes is a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) air-interface latency constraint for each packet, the at least 20 TTIs is a maximum number of TTIs allocated to each packet, and each packet has a VoIP packet arrival rate of 20 TTIs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each TTI is a one millisecond (ms) subframe of a radio frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least part of the TTI bundling configuration information is transmitted to the wireless device via higher layer radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes 4 contiguous TTIs with a 12 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay and up to 5 HARQ retransmissions for the wireless device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes 20 contiguous TTIs and a HARQ feedback indicator associated with the PUSCH TTI bundle or a plurality of intermediate HARQ feedback indicators associated with the PUSCH TTI bundle with each HARQ feedback indicator configured to provide feedback for at least 4 TTIs in the PUSCH TTI bundle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes 20 interleaved TTIs, wherein each interleaved TTI is separated by a TTI not in the PUSCH TTI bundle, and a HARQ feedback indicator associated with the PUSCH TTI bundle or a plurality of intermediate HARQ feedback indicators associated with the PUSCH TTI bundle with each HARQ feedback indicator configured to provide feedback for at least 4 TTIs in the PUSCH TTI bundle.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes 10 contiguous TTIs with a 20 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay or a 30 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the PUSCH TTI bundle corresponding to an initial HARQ transmission and the PUSCH TTI bundle corresponding to a subsequent HARQ retransmission occupy a different number of TTIs.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle is associated with one instance of an initial PUSCH transmission or a subsequent HARQ retransmission of a PUSCH transmission where the initial and subsequent HARQ retransmissions have different or a same TTI bundle size or configuration.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the PUSCH TTI bundle corresponding to the initial PUSCH transmission includes 8 contiguous TTIs, and a remaining PUSCH TTI bundles corresponding to HARQ retransmissions includes 4 contiguous TTIs with a 16 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein a PUSCH TTI bundle carries different redundancy versions to maximize mutual information and extract maximum coding and diversity gain of TTI bundled transmission and retransmissions.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adaptively configuring a user equipment (UE) specific TTI bundle size based on link adaptation information, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle can include a TTI bundle size of 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, or 20 subframes, and the TTI bundling configuration information includes the TTI bundle size.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adaptively combining at least two hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, wherein each HARQ process includes the PUSCH TTI bundle, and the TTI bundling configuration information includes redundancy version (RV) information or simple sequence repetition information for each TTI bundle.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from the wireless device a PUSCH signal transmission including the at least one PUSCH TTI bundle within the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes;

decoding data from the received PUSCH signal; and

transmitting at least one hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback to the wireless device based on the TTI bundling configuration information and the decoded data.

16. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions adapted to be executed to implement the method of claim 1.

17. A node device of a node configured for organizing physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, comprising:

a processing module configured to generate transmission time interval (TTI) bundling configuration information with instructions to bundle PUSCH transmissions for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process in at least 20 TTIs, in a time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes, in at least one TTI bundle; and

a transceiver module configured to transmit the TTI bundling configuration information to a wireless device to enable the wireless device to transmit a PUSCH signal using the at least one TTI bundle within the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes.

18. The node device of claim 17, wherein each TTI bundle includes 4 contiguous TTIs with a 12 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay and up to 5 HARQ retransmissions for the wireless device, and the time interval is 52 millisecond (ms).

19. The node device of claim 17, wherein each TTI bundle includes 20 contiguous TTIs or 20 interleaved TTIs, wherein each interleaved TTI is separated by a TTI not in the TTI bundle, and a HARQ feedback indicator associated with the TTI bundle or a plurality of intermediate HARQ feedback indicators associated with the TTI bundle with each HARQ feedback indicator configured to provide feedback for at least 4 TTIs in the TTI bundle.

20. The node device of claim 17, wherein each TTI bundle includes 10 contiguous TTIs with a 20 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay or a 30 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay.

21. The node device of claim 17, wherein:

the transceiver module is further configured to receive a PUSCH signal transmission including the at least 20 TTIs in at least one TTI bundle within the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes;

the processing module is further configured to decode data from the received PUSCH signal; and

the transceiver module is further configured to transmit at least one hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (ACK) HARQ-ACK) feedback to the wireless device based on the TTI bundling configuration information and the decoded data.

22. The node device of claim 17, wherein the node is selected from the group consisting of an a base station (BS), a Node B (NB), an evolved Node B (eNB), a baseband unit (BBU), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), a remote radio unit (RRU), and combinations thereof.

23. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions adapted to be executed to implement a method for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission time interval (TTI) bundling, comprising:

receiving, at a wireless device, from a node TTI bundling configuration information including instructions to bundle PUSCH transmissions for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process in at least 20 TTIs;

bundling up to the at least 20 TTIs to form at least one PUSCH TTI bundle; and

transmitting the at least one PUSCH TTI bundle up to the at least 20 TTIs to the node within a time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes.

24. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes 4 contiguous TTIs with a 12 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay and up to 5 HARQ retransmissions for the wireless device, and the time interval is 52 millisecond (ms).

25. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein each TTI bundle includes 20 contiguous TTIs or 20 interleaved TTIs, wherein each interleaved TTI is separated by a TTI not in the TTI bundle, and a HARQ feedback indicator associated with the TTI bundle or a plurality of intermediate HARQ feedback indicators associated with the TTI bundle with each HARQ feedback indicator configured to provide feedback for at least 4 TTIs in the TTI bundle.

26. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein each TTI bundle includes 10 contiguous TTIs with a 20 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay or a 30 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay.

27. A wireless device configured for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission time interval (TTI) bundling, comprising:

a transceiver module configured to receive from a node TTI bundling configuration information including instructions to bundle PUSCH transmissions for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process in at least 20 TTIs; and

a processing module configured to TTI bundle up to the at least 20 TTIs to form at least one PUSCH TTI bundle;

wherein the transceiver module is further configured to transmit the at least one PUSCH TTI bundle up to the at least 20 TTIs to the node within a time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes.

28. The wireless device of claim 27, wherein each PUSCH TTI bundle includes at least one of:

4 contiguous TTIs with a 12 subframe TTI bundle retransmission delay and up to 5 HARQ retransmissions;

20 contiguous TTIs or 20 interleaved TTIs, wherein each interleaved TTI is separated by a TTI not in the TTI bundle, and a HARQ feedback indicator associated with the TTI bundle or a plurality of intermediate HARQ feedback indicators associated with the TTI bundle with each HARQ feedback indicator configured to provide feedback for at least 4 TTIs in the TTI bundle;

10 contiguous TTIs; and

8 contiguous TTIs.

29. The wireless device of claim 27, wherein the transceiver module is further operable to transmit a PUSCH signal configured for TTI bundling of at least 20 TTIs within the time interval ranging from 45 to 55 subframes, and retransmitting a PUSCH signal based on negative acknowledgement (NACK) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback from the node.

30. The wireless device of claim 27, wherein the wireless device is selected from the group consisting of a user equipment (UE) and a mobile station (MS), and the wireless device includes at least one of an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, internal memory, a non-volatile memory port, and combinations thereof.