Terminal apparatus and response signal mapping method

• US 9,094,171 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakao, Seigo, Imamura, Daichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US14/570,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20150098454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 225 Days
• Field of Search: 370/235, 370/236, 370/329, 370/337, 370/347
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/16 in which the time allocation to individual channels within a transmission cycle is variable, e.g. to accommodate varying complexity of signals, to vary number of channels transmitted H04J3/17, H04J3/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated

Abstract

This invention relates to a terminal apparatus that can possibly reduce situations in which upstream channel data are punctured by a plurality of response signals. When having received at least one piece of downstream allocation control information corresponding to a second downstream unit band, which is other than a first downstream unit band, of a plurality of unit bands, a control unit (208) maps a plurality of response signals, which are corresponding to the respective ones of the plurality of downstream unit bands established, to a first resource corresponding to the plurality of downstream unit bands established. When having received only the downstream allocation control information corresponding to the first downstream unit band of the plurality of unit bands established, the control unit (208) maps the response signal, which is corresponding to the first downstream unit band, to a second resource corresponding to the first downstream unit band.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station, using some or all of a plurality of configured downlink component carriers, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives downlink allocation control information portions transmitted through downlink control channels of the plurality of downlink component carriers and downlink data transmitted through a downlink data channel indicated by the downlink allocation control information portions;

a generating section that generates a response signal based on success or failure in receiving the downlink data, the response signal including a first response signal corresponding to a first downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers and a second response signal corresponding to a second downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers;

a coding section that separately encodes the first response signal and the second response signal; and

a mapping section that maps the first response signal and the second response signal to different regions in an uplink data channel region, respectively, while the first response signal and the second response signal are time-multiplexed with an uplink data, wherein

the mapping section maps the first response signal to the same region independently of a reception situation of the downlink allocation control information portions in the plurality of downlink component carriers.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, upon receipt of at least one of the downlink allocation control information portions that corresponds to the second downlink component carrier, the mapping section maps the second response signal to a region determined in accordance with a number of the second downlink component carriers configured in the terminal apparatus.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, upon receipt of at least one of the downlink allocation control information portions that corresponds to the second downlink component carrier, the mapping section maps the second response signal to a region determined in accordance with a number of all downlink component carriers configured in the terminal apparatus.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, upon receipt of at least one of the downlink allocation control information portions that corresponds to the second downlink component carrier, the mapping section maps the second response signal to a region contiguous to a region to which another control signal is mapped.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generating section determines a number of symbols of the first response signal and a number of symbols of the second response signal, independently.

6. A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station, using some or all of a plurality of configured downlink component carriers, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives downlink allocation control information portions transmitted through downlink control channels of the plurality of downlink component carriers and downlink data transmitted through a downlink data channel indicated by the downlink allocation control information portions;

a generating section that generates a response signal based on success or failure in receiving the downlink data, the response signal including a first response signal corresponding to a first downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers and a second response signal corresponding to a second downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers;

a coding section that separately encodes the first response signal and the second response signal; and

a mapping section that maps the first response signal and the second response signal to different regions in an uplink data channel region, respectively, while the first response signal and the second response signal are time-multiplexed with an uplink data, wherein

upon receipt of only at least one of the downlink allocation control information portions that corresponds to the second downlink component carrier, the mapping section does not map the first response to an uplink data channel region.

7. A response signal mapping method in a terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station, using some or all of a plurality of configured downlink component carriers, the method comprising:

receiving downlink allocation control information portions transmitted through downlink control channels of the plurality of downlink component carriers;

receiving downlink data transmitted through a downlink data channel indicated by the downlink allocation control information portions;

generating a response signal based on success or failure in receiving the downlink data, the response signal including a first response signal corresponding to a first downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers and a second response signal corresponding to a second downlink component carrier among the plurality of component carriers;

encoding the first response signal and the second response signal; and

mapping the first response signal to the same region in an uplink data channel region independently of a reception situation of the downlink allocation control information portions in the plurality of downlink component carriers, while the first response signal is time-multiplexed with an uplink data.