Systems and methods for carrier aggregation

• US 9,480,052 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2015
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yin, Zhanping, Yamada, Shohei, Kowalski, John Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): CHO, HONG SOL
• Application Number:
  US14/807,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20150334682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• 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 5/0053 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 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling

Abstract

A User Equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines an uplink control information (UCI) transmission cell in a wireless communication network with at least one frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell and at least one time-division duplexing (TDD) cell. The UE also selects a first cell for FDD and TDD carrier aggregation. The UE further determines a set of downlink subframe associations for the first cell that indicate at least one UCI transmission uplink subframe of the UCI transmission cell. The UE additionally sends Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in the UCI transmission uplink subframe of the UCI transmission cell.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) for performing FDD-TDD carrier aggregation, comprising:

a processor configured and/or programmable to

perform the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation;

determine Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission timing for each cell; and

adjust the corresponding PUSCH transmission for a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) cell in subframe n+4 according to the Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) and/or Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel (EPDCCH) and Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator CHannel (PHICH) information in a case that at least one FDD cell and at least one Time Division Duplexing (TDD) cell are configured for the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation and the UE detects a PDCCH and/or EPDCCH with DCI format 0 or 4 and/or a PHICH transmission in subframe n.

2. An evolved NodeB (eNB) for performing FDD-TDD carrier aggregation, comprising:

a processor configured and/or programmable to

perform the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation;

schedule Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission timing for each cell; and

receive the PUSCH, wherein the corresponding PUSCH transmission for a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) cell is adjusted in subframe n+4 according to the Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) and/or Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel (EPDCCH) and Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator CHannel (PHICH) information in a case that at least one FDD cell and at least one Time Division Duplexing (TDD) cell are configured for a user equipment (UE) for the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation and the UE detects a PDCCH and/or EPDCCH with DCI format 0 or 4 and/or a PHICH transmission in subframe n.

3. A method for performing FDD-TDD carrier aggregation by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

performing the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation;

determining Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission timing for each cell; and

adjusting the corresponding PUSCH transmission for a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) cell in subframe n+4 according to the Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) and/or Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel (EPDCCH) and Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator CHannel (PHICH) information in a case that at least one FDD cell and at least one Time Division Duplexing (TDD) cell are configured for the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation and the UE detects a PDCCH and/or EPDCCH with DCI format 0 or 4 and/or a PHICH transmission in subframe n.

4. A method for performing FDD-TDD carrier aggregation by an evolved NodeB (eNB), comprising:

performing the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation;

scheduling Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission timing for each cell; and

receiving the PUSCH, wherein the corresponding PUSCH transmission for a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) cell is adjusted in subframe n+4 according to the Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) and/or Enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannel (EPDCCH) and Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator CHannel (PHICH) information in a case that at least one FDD cell and at least one Time Division Duplexing (TDD) cell are configured for a user equipment (UE) for the FDD-TDD carrier aggregation and the UE detects a PDCCH and/or EPDCCH with DCI format 0 or 4 and/or a PHICH transmission in subframe n.