Multicarrier retransmission feedback

• US 8,885,479 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2010
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Damnjanovic, Jelena M., Chen, Wanshi, Gaal, Peter, Montojo, Juan, Bhushan, Naga, Khandekar, Aamod Dinkar
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGO, NGUYEN HOANG
• Application Number:
  US12/774,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20110116457A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: 370/216, 370/236, 370/242, 370/252, 370/328, 370/394
• US Class Current: 370/236
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0042 intra-user or intra-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating feedback parameters for multiple single carrier assignments, multicarrier assignments, and/or the like according to single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), relaxed SC-FDMA, etc. Feedback in relaxed SC-FDMA can be bundled by a mobile device to conserve power. In addition, a downlink assignment indicator (DAI) can be utilized to detect and indicate lost grants.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a plurality of downlink resource grants related to a plurality of carriers for data transmission;

obtaining a downlink assignment index (DAI) related to each of the plurality of downlink resource grants; and

determining one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on the DAI related to each of the plurality of downlink resource grants, wherein the determining one or more lost downlink resource grants includes;

determining a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

performing one or more comparison operations based on a total number of the plurality of downlink resource grants and the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point; and

wherein the total number of resource grants refers to the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers in a given subframe or the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers and a plurality of subframes.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising indicating a non-acknowledgement feedback parameter for the one or more lost downlink resource grants.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with one or more additional feedback parameters to a device, wherein the plurality of downlink resource grants are received from the device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmitting the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with the one or more additional feedback parameters includes indicating the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter and the one or more additional feedback parameters in bits represented by one or more cyclic shifts or orthogonal sequences utilized in transmitting related uplink communications to the device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining one or more lost downlink resource grants includes:

determining a sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants from the DAI related to each of the plurality of downlink resource grants; and

detecting an absent sequence number related to one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on the sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining the sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants includes applying a mapping or a function based at least in part on the DAI related to each of the plurality of downlink resource grants.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants relates to a sequence of each downlink resource grant within the plurality of downlink resource grants across the plurality of carriers.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving the plurality of downlink resource grants includes receiving the plurality of downlink resource grants related to the plurality of carriers across the plurality of subframes.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants relates to a sequence of each downlink resource grant within the plurality of downlink resource grants with respect to each independent carrier of the plurality of carriers over the plurality of subframes.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the sequence number for each of the plurality of downlink resource grants relates to a sequence of each downlink resource grant within the plurality of downlink resource grants across the plurality of carriers in each of the plurality of subframes.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining one or more lost downlink resource grants further includes:

determining a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

detecting the absent sequence number related to the one or more lost downlink resource grants based further in part on the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting an acknowledgment over a feedback resource related to a last downlink resource grant that indicates acknowledgment before a downlink resource grant that indicates a non-acknowledgment.

13. A wireless communications apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

obtain a plurality of downlink resource grants related to a plurality of carriers;

determine a downlink assignment index (DAI) related to at least one of the plurality of downlink resource grants; and

detect one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on the DAI by determining a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

performing one or more comparison operations based on a total number of the plurality of downlink resource grants and the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point, wherein the total number of resource grants refers to the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers in a given subframe or the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers and a plurality of subframes; and

a memory coupled to the at least one processor.

14. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to associate a non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with the one or more lost downlink resource grants.

15. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 14, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with one or more additional feedback parameters to an access point.

16. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit an acknowledgment over a feedback resource related to a last downlink resource grant that indicates acknowledgment before a downlink resource grant that indicates a non-acknowledgment.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

means for receiving a plurality of downlink resource grants related to a plurality of carriers for data transmission; and

means for detecting one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on a downlink assignment index (DAI) for at least one of the plurality of downlink resource grants, wherein the means for detecting one or more lost downlink resource grants includes;

means for determining a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

means for performing one or more comparison operations based on a total number of the plurality of downlink resource grants and the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point; and

wherein the total number of resource grants refers to the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers in a given subframe or the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers and a plurality of subframes.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising means for indicating a non-acknowledgement feedback parameter for the one or more lost downlink resource grants.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the means for indicating the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter includes means for transmitting the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with one or more additional feedback parameters to an access point.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

means for transmitting an acknowledgment over a feedback resource related to a last downlink resource grant that indicates acknowledgment before a downlink resource grant that indicates a non-acknowledgment.

21. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable medium comprising;

code for causing at least one computer to obtain a plurality of downlink resource grants related to a plurality of carriers;

code for causing the at least one computer to determine a downlink assignment index (DAI) related to at least one of the plurality of downlink resource grants; and

code for causing the at least one computer to detect one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on the DAI, wherein the code for causing the at least one computer to detect one or more lost downlink resource grants includes;

code for causing the at least one computer to determine a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

code for causing the at least one computer to perform one or more comparison operations based on a total number of the plurality of downlink resource grants and the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point; and

wherein the total number of resource grants refers to the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers in a given subframe or the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers and a plurality of subframes.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises code for causing the at least one computer to associate a non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with the one or more lost downlink resource grants.

23. The computer program product of claim 22, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises code for causing the at least one computer to transmit the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with one or more additional feedback parameters to an access point.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises code for causing the at least one computer to transmit an acknowledgment over a feedback resource related to a last downlink resource grant that indicates acknowledgment before a downlink resource grant that indicates a non-acknowledgment.

25. An apparatus, comprising:

a downlink grant receiving component configured to obtain a plurality of downlink resource grants related to a plurality of carriers for data transmission; and

a lost grant determining component configured to detect one or more lost downlink resource grants based at least in part on a downlink assignment index (DAI) for at least one of the plurality of downlink resource grants, wherein the lost grant determining component is further configured to;

determine a total number of resource grants transmitted by an access point from the DAI; and

perform one or more comparison operations based on a total number of the plurality of downlink resource grants and the total number of resource grants transmitted by the access point; and

wherein the total number of resource grants refers to the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers in a given subframe or the total number of resource grants across the plurality of carriers and a plurality of subframes.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising a hybrid automatic repeat/request (HARQ) indicating component configured to specify a non-acknowledgement feedback parameter for the one or more lost downlink resource grants.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the HARQ indicating component is further configured to transmit the non-acknowledgement feedback parameter with one or more additional feedback parameters to an access point.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising a transmit component configured to transmit an acknowledgment over a feedback resource related to a last downlink resource grant that indicates acknowledgment before a downlink resource grant that indicates a non-acknowledgment.