Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mapping for carrier aggregation (CA)

• US 9,439,095 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: He, Hong, Han, Seunghee, Fwu, Jong-Kae, Huang, Rui
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Marcus R
• Application Number:
  US13/867,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20140092786A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: None
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Abstract

Technology to dynamically alter hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest (HARQ) mapping for carrier aggregation (CA) is disclosed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) operable to dynamically alter hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest (HARQ) mapping for carrier aggregation (CA) can include computer circuitry configured to: Determine a secondary HARQ bundling window size for a secondary cell (SCell), when a primary HARQ bundling window size for a primary cell (PCell) is zero; determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmission of a HARQ-ACKnowledge (ACK) feedback using the secondary HARQ bundling window size; and transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback in the PUCCH resource.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) operable to dynamically alter hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest (HARQ) mapping for carrier aggregation (CA), having computer circuitry configured to:

determine a secondary HARQ bundling window size for a subframe for a secondary cell (SCell) based on uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration of the SCell, wherein the secondary HARQ bundling window includes at least one of a number of downlink (DL) subframes or a previous radio frame, when a primary HARQ bundling window size for a primary cell (PCell) is zero;

determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmission of a HARQ-ACKnowledge (ACK) feedback for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the PCell and the SCell based on a number of a first Control Channel Element (CCE) used to construct a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for transmission of a corresponding PDSCH in the secondary HARQ bundling window of the SCell; and

transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback in the determined PUCCH resource, wherein the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH^{(1,{tilde over (p)})} for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a {tilde over (p)} mapped to an antenna port p for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}0)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna port p₀ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE is a number of a first CCE index used for transmission of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_m and the corresponding m, where k_m is the smallest value in set K such that UE detects a PDCCH in subframe n−

k_m,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

n_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}1)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+1+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna port p₁ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 and a two port transmission is configured.

2. The computer circuitry of claim 1, wherein:

the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾=(M−

i−

1)·

N_c+i·

N_c+1+N_CCE,i+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission indicated by a detection of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a PDCCH indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release in sub-frame n−

k_i on the SCell, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE,i is a first CCE index number used for transmission of the corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell, where k_iε

K and K is a set of M elements {k₀, k₁, . . . k<sub>M−

1</sub>} and 0≦

i≦

M_s−

1,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

n_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ where the value for n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ is determined according to higher layer signaling and a table for PUCCH resource value for downlink SPS when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for the PDSCH transmission where there is not a corresponding PDCCH in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell.

3. The computer circuitry of claim 2, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is represented as HARQ-ACK(i) and includes a combination of ACK, negative ACK (NACK), or discontinuous transmission (DTX) responses from sub-frame n−

k_i on the SCell, where k_iε

K and K is a set of M elements {k₀, k₁, . . . k<sub>M−

1</sub>} and 0≦

i≦

M_s−

1.

4. The computer circuitry of claim 1, further configured to:

perform channel selection based on a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, where Ms is the secondary HARQ bundling window size, wherein;

the computer circuitry uses a Table 10.1.3-5 in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 Technical Specification (TS) 36.213 when Ms=2;

the computer circuitry uses a Table 10.1.3-6 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=3;

or

the computer circuitry uses a Table 10.1.3-7 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=4,

wherein the Table 10.1.3-5 in the TS 36.213 is;

5. The computer circuitry of claim 4, wherein computer circuitry configured to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback is further configured to:

determine a value of constellation bits b(0) and b(1) and the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ based on the HARQ-ACK feedback using tables for Ms equal to 2, 3, or 4.

6. The computer circuitry of claim 1, wherein the UE includes an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, internal memory, or a non-volatile memory port.

7. A method for hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest (HARQ) bundling used in carrier aggregation (CA) at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, at the UE, an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration for a primary cell (PCell) and an UL-DL configuration for a secondary cell (SCell);

determining a secondary HARQ bundling window size for a subframe based on the UL-DL configuration for the SCell and a primary HARQ bundling window size for the subframe based on the UL-DL configuration for the PCell, wherein the secondary HARQ bundling window includes at least one of a number of downlink (DL) subframes or a previous radio frame;

determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for transmission of a HARQ-ACKnowledge (ACK) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the PCell and the SCell based on a number of a first Control Channel Element (CCE) used to construct a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for transmission of a corresponding PDSCH using the secondary HARQ bundling window of the SCell;

generating a HARQ-ACK for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the SCell; and

transmitting the HARQ-ACK in the determined PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾, wherein the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a {tilde over (p)} mapped to an antenna port p for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}0)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna port p₀, for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE is a number of a first CCE index used for transmission of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_m and the corresponding m, where k_m is the smallest value in set K such that UE detects a PDCCH in subframe n−

k_m,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

n_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}1)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+1+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna port p₁ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 and a two port transmission is configured.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾=(M−

i−

1)·

N_c+i·

N_c+1+n_CCE,i+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for time Division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission indicated by a detection of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a PDCCH indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release in sub-frame n−

k_i on the SCell, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE,i is a first CCE index number used for transmission of the corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell, where k_iε

K and K is a set of M elements {k₀, k₁, . . . k<sub>M−

1</sub>} and 0≦

i≦

M_s−

1,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

n_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ where the value for n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ is determined according to higher layer signaling and a table for PUCCH resource value for downlink SPS when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for the PDSCH transmission where there is not a corresponding PDCCH in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

channel selecting based on a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, where Ms is the secondary HARQ bundling window size, using;

a Table 10.1.3-5 in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 Technical Specification (TS) 36.213 when Ms=2;

a Table 10.1.3-6 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=3;

or

a Table 10.1.3-7 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=4,

perform channel selection based on a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, where Ms is the secondary HARQ bundling window size, wherein;

the Table 10.1.3-5 in the TS 36.213 is;

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining a value of constellation bits b(0) and b(1) and the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ based on the HARQ-ACK using tables for Ms equal to 2, 3, or 4.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the UL-DL configuration for the PCell is included in a system information block 1 (SIB1) transmitted on the PCell and the UL-DL configuration for the SCell is included in a SIB1 transmitted on the SCell.

12. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions adapted to be executed to implement the method of claim 7.

13. A device at a node configured to detect a hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest (HARQ) bundle used in carrier aggregation (CA), comprising:

a transceiver to receive constellation bits in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a subframe transmitted in a primary cell (PCell) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a secondary cell (SCell), wherein the PUCCH resource is determined for transmission of a HARQ-ACKnowledge (ACK) response for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the PCell and the SCell based on a number of a first Control Channel Element (CCE) used to construct a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for transmission of a corresponding PDSCH in a secondary HARQ bundling window of the SCell; and

a processor to;

determine the secondary HARQ bundling window size for a subframe based on an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration for the SCell and a primary HARQ bundling window size for the subframe based on an UL-DL configuration for the PCell, wherein the secondary HARQ bundling window includes at least one of a number of downlink (DL) subframes or a previous radio frame, and

determine a HARQ-ACKnowledge (ACK) response for the subframe for the SCell using the secondary HARQ bundling window size and the PUCCH resource, when the primary HARQ bundling window size is zero, wherein the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH^{(1,{tilde over (p)})} for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a {tilde over (p)} mapped to an antenna port p for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}0)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna port p₀, for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE is a number of a first CCE index used for transmission of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_m and the corresponding m, where k_m is the smallest value in set K such that UE detects a PDCCH in subframe n−

k_m,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

n_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i^{(1,{tilde over (p)}1)}=(M−

m−

1)·

N_c+m·

N_c+1+n_CCE+1+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for antenna oport p₁ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms=1 and primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 and a two port transmission is configured.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein:

the PUCCH resource n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for transmission of the HARQ-ACK in a subframe n for a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 PUCCH format 1a or 1b, is represented by;

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾=(M−

i−

1)·

N_c+i·

N_c+1+n_CCE,i+N_CCE,i+N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ for time division duplex (TDD) when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission indicated by a detection of a corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a PDCCH indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release in sub-frame n−

k_i on the SCell, where a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, n_CCE,i is a first CCE index number used for transmission of the corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell, where k_iε

K and K is a set of M elements {k₀, k₁, . . . k<sub>M−

1</sub>} and 0≦

i≦

M_s−

1,

N_c=max{0,└

[N_RB^DL·

(N_sc^RB·

c−

4)]/36┘

} where c is a value out of {0, 1, 2, 3} such that N_c≦

N_CCE<

N_c+1, N_RB^DL is a downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of N_sc^RB, N_sc^RB is a resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers, and N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a starting PUCCH channel index for a PUCCH region in an uplink subframe and is configured by high layers for each UE; and

n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ where the value for n_PUCCH,i⁽¹⁾ is determined according to higher layer signaling and a table for PUCCH resource value for downlink SPS when the secondary HARQ bundling window size Ms>

1 and the primary HARQ bundling window size Mp=0 for the PDSCH transmission where there is not a corresponding PDCCH in subframe n−

k_i on the SCell.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the HARQ-ACK response is represented as HARQ-ACK(i) and includes a combination of ACK, negative ACK (NACK), or discontinuous transmission (DTX) responses from sub-frame n−

k_i on the SCell, where k_iε

K and K is a set of M elements {k₀, k₁, . . . k<sub>M−

1</sub>} and 0≦

i≦

M_s−

1.

16. The device of claim 14, wherein higher layer signaling includes radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the HARQ-ACK response for the subframe for the SCell by applying the values of the constellation bits and the PUCCH resource to a HARQ-ACK multiplexing look-up table based on a HARQ bundling window size M=Ms, where Ms is the secondary HARQ bundling window size, wherein the HARQ-ACK multiplexing look-up table is represented by;

a Table 10.1.3-5 in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 Technical Specification (TS) 36.213 when Ms=2;

a Table 10.1.3-6 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=3;

or

a Table 10.1.3-7 in the TS 36.213 when Ms=4,

wherein the Table 10.1.3-5 in the TS 36.213 is;

18. The device of claim 13, wherein the node is selected from the group consisting of 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 a central processing module (CPM).