Method and device for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system

• US 9,025,560 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Han, Seung Hee, Ko, Hyun Soo, Chung, Jae Hoon, Lee, Moon II
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jangbahadur, Lakeram
• Application Number:
  US13/642,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20130107854A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/330
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0669 using different channel coding between antennas space-time coding H04L1/0618
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0671 using different delays between antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2633 using partial FFTs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2636 with FFT or DFT modulators, e.g. standard single-carrier frequency-division multiple access [SC-FDMA] transmitter or DFT spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [DFT-SOFDM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless system and to a device therefore, the method comprising the following steps: receiving a first modulation symbol and a second modulation symbol from the control information; diffusing in a frequency domain, the first modulation symbol to a plurality of subcarriers; diffusing in a time domain, the first modulation symbol diffused in the frequency domain to a plurality of contiguous first SC-FDMA symbols; diffusing in the frequency domain, the second modulation symbol to a plurality of subcarriers; diffusing in the time domain, the second modulation symbol diffused in the frequency domain to the plurality of contiguous first SC-FDMA symbols; and transmitting the diffused first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol through the PUCCH.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting control information through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE having a plurality of antenna ports including a first antenna port and a second antenna port, the method comprising:

obtaining a modulation symbol from the control information;

spreading the modulation symbol using a first cyclic shift and a first orthogonal sequence to obtain first spread modulation symbols for the first antenna port;

spreading the modulation symbol spread using a second cyclic shift and a second orthogonal sequence to obtain second spread modulation symbols for the second antenna port;

obtaining an additional modulation symbol from the control information;

spreading the additional modulation symbol using a third cyclic shift and a third orthogonal sequence to obtain third spread modulation symbols for the first antenna port;

transmitting the first and third spread modulation symbols via a first PUCCH on the first antenna port and the second spread modulation symbols via a second PUCCH on the second antenna port,

wherein the first and third spread modulation symbols and the second spread modulation symbols are transmitted in a same slot,

wherein the third spread modulation symbols are mapped to a same physical resource block with the first spread modulation symbols,

wherein each of the first and second cyclic shifts and each of the first and second orthogonal sequences are determined based on PUCCH resource index information for each antenna port,

wherein PUCCH resource index information for the first antenna port is determined by a lowest control channel element (CCE) index used for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission, and

wherein PUCCH resource index information for the second antenna port is obtained by adding 1 to a value of the PUCCH resource index information for the first antenna port.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said spreading the modulation symbol includes:

cyclic shifting the modulation symbol by a corresponding cyclic shift from among the first cyclic shift and the second cyclic shift, and

multiplying the cyclic shifted modulation symbol by a corresponding orthogonal sequence from among the first orthogonal sequence and the second orthogonal sequence.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cyclic shift is same as the second cyclic shift.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cyclic shift is different from the second cyclic shift.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first orthogonal sequence is same as the second orthogonal sequence.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

spreading the additional modulation symbol using a fourth cyclic shift and a fourth orthogonal sequence to obtain fourth spread modulation symbols for the second antenna port;

transmitting the fourth spread modulation symbols via the second PUCCH on the second antenna port;

wherein the fourth spread modulation symbols are mapped to a same physical resource block with the second spread modulation symbols.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first orthogonal sequence is different from the second orthogonal sequence.

7. A user equipment (UE) configured to transmit control information through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system comprising:

a plurality of antenna ports including a first antenna port and a second antenna port;

a radio frequency (RF) device; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to;

obtain a modulation symbol from the control information;

spread the modulation symbol using a first cyclic shift and a first orthogonal sequence to obtain first spread modulation symbols for the first antenna port;

spread the modulation symbol spread using a second cyclic shift and a second orthogonal sequence to obtain second spread modulation symbols for the second antenna port;

obtain an additional modulation symbol from the control information;

spread the additional modulation symbol using a third cyclic shift and a third orthogonal sequence to obtain third spread modulation symbols for the first antenna port;

transmit the first and third spread modulation symbols via a first PUCCH on the first antenna port and the second spread modulation symbols via a second PUCCH on the second antenna port,

wherein the first and third spread modulation symbols and the second spread modulation symbols are transmitted in a same slot,

wherein the third spread modulation symbols are mapped to a same physical resource block with the first spread modulation symbols,

wherein each of the first and second cyclic shifts and each of the first and second orthogonal sequences are determined based on PUCCH resource index information for each antenna port,

wherein PUCCH resource index information for the first antenna port is determined by a lowest control channel element (CCE) index used for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission, and

wherein PUCCH resource index information for the second antenna port is obtained by adding 1 to a value of the PUCCH resource index information for the first antenna port.

8. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein said spreading the modulation symbol includes:

cyclic shifting the modulation symbol by a corresponding cyclic shift from among the first cyclic shift and the second cyclic shift, and

multiplying the cyclic shifted modulation symbol by a corresponding orthogonal sequence from among the first orthogonal sequence and the second orthogonal sequence.

9. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein the first cyclic shift is same as the second cyclic shift.

10. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein the first cyclic shift is different from the second cyclic shift.

11. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein the first orthogonal sequence is same as the second orthogonal sequence.

12. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to:

spread the additional modulation symbol using a fourth cyclic shift and a fourth orthogonal sequence to obtain fourth spread modulation symbols for the second antenna port, and

transmit the fourth spread modulation symbols via the second PUCCH on the second antenna port,

wherein the fourth spread modulation symbols are mapped to a same physical resource block with the second spread modulation symbols.

14. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7, wherein the first orthogonal sequence is different from the second orthogonal sequence.