Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving uplink signal, and method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving downlink signal

• US 9,288,028 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Suckchel, Kim, Mingyu, Ahn, Joonkui, Seo, Dongyoun
• Primary Examiner(s): Rose, Kerri
• Application Number:
  US14/130,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20140133430A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1864 ARQ related signaling H04L1/1607 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for scheduling an uplink and a method for scheduling a downlink for a user equipment group comprising a plurality of user equipments in similar channel situations. In the present invention, which relates to the method for scheduling the uplink, a primary user equipment for a user equipment group is configured, and information according to a random access procedure that is performed by the primary user equipment is shared by means of other user equipments in the user equipment group. In the present invention, which relates to the method for scheduling the downlink, each of the user equipment in the user equipment group attempt to detect downlink data by a random access preamble transmission timing, and transmits a pertinent random access preamble to a base station at the random access preamble transmission timing, thereby notifying the base station of a failure to receive the downlink data, when the detection of the downlink data by the random access preamble transmission timing fails.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting, by a user equipment, an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the user equipment from a base station, machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information for a group of user equipments (MTC group);

receiving, by the user equipment from the base station, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH, with or without transmitting, by the user equipment, the random access preamble to the base station according to whether the user equipment is a primary user equipment of the MTC group or not;

transmitting, by the user equipment to the base station, uplink data to the base station based on the RA response PDSCH;

receiving, by the user equipment from the base station, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group (DL feedback PDSCH); and

retransmitting, by the user equipment to the base station, the uplink data when acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of the user equipment, included in the DL feedback PDSCH, indicates NACK.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and

the uplink data is transmitted or retransmitted to the base station based on the timing advance information.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for a user equipment of which ACK/NACK information indicates NACK.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group corresponding to the MTC group configuration information is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.

6. A user equipment for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor configured to control the RF unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

control the RF unit to receive, from a base station, machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information for a group of user equipments (MTC group),

control the RF unit to receive, from the base station, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH, with or without transmitting, by the user equipment, the random access preamble to the base station according to whether the user equipment is a primary user equipment of the MTC group or not,

control the RF unit to transmit, to the base station, uplink data based on the RA response PDSCH,

control the RF unit to receive, from the base station, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group (DL feedback PDSCH), and

control the RF unit to retransmit, to the base station, the uplink data when acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of the user equipment, included in the DL feedback PDSCH, indicates NACK.

7. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein:

the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and

the processor controls the RF unit to transmit or retransmit the uplink data to the base station based on the timing advance information.

8. The user equipment according to claim 7, wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for a user equipment of which ACK/NACK information indicates NACK.

9. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group corresponding to the MTC group configuration information is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

10. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.

11. A method for receiving, by a base station, an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the base station to a group of user equipments (MTC group), machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information;

receiving, by the base station from only a primary user equipment among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group, a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information;

transmitting, by the base station to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to the random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH;

receiving, by the base station from the MTC group, uplink data based on the RA response PDSCH;

for the user equipment group;

transmitting, by the base station to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group; and

receiving, by the base station, uplink data retransmitted by a user equipment (NACK user equipment), of which acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicates NACK, among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein:

the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and

the uplink data transmitted or retransmitted by the NACK user equipment is received or re-received from the NACK user equipment based on the timing advance information.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for the NACK user equipment.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.

16. A base station for receiving an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor configured to control the RF unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

control the RF unit to transmit, to a group of user equipments (MTC group), machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information,

control the RF unit to receive, from only a primary user equipment among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group, a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information,

control the RF unit to transmit, to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to the random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH,

control the RF unit to receive, from the MTC group, uplink data based on the RA response PDSCH),

control the RF unit to transmit, to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group, and

control the RF unit to receive uplink data retransmitted by a user equipment (NACK user equipment), of which acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicates NACK, among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group.

17. The base station according to claim 16, wherein:

the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and

the uplink data transmitted or retransmitted by the NACK user equipment is received or re-received from the NACK user equipment based on the timing advance information.

18. The base station according to claim 16, wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for the NACK user equipment.

19. The base station according to claim 16, wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

20. The base station according to claim 16, wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.