Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, method for mapping a response signal, and method for determining a response signal resource

• US 9,485,781 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2014
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Original Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Inventors: Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Alexander, Fukuoka, Masaru, Nishio, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Michael T
• Application Number:
  US14/250,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20140269568A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 370 32-329, 455/450, 455/452.2, 455433-434
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• 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: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis for respective radio communication mobile stations by the frequency scheduling and generates allocation information indicating which upstream line resource block has been allocated to which radio communication mobile station device; and an arrangement unit (109) which arranges a response signal to the radio communication mobile station device in the downstream line control channels distributed/arranged on the frequency axis while being correlated to the continuous upstream line resource blocks according to the allocation information.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

allocate, to a mobile station, a plurality of uplink resource block, the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain and indices of the plurality of consecutive resources blocks being respectively associated with a plurality of resources of downlink which are different in a frequency domain;

map an ACK or NACK signal for uplink data to one of the resources of downlink, the one of the resources being determined from an index of the allocated resource block within the indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks; and

transmitter configured to transmit the mapped ACK or NACK signal to the mobile station;

wherein the ACK or NACK signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and the processor is configured to map the ACK or NACK signal to the resource to which the hybrid ARQ indicator channel is mapped.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit allocation information indicating the allocated resource block(s) to the mobile station.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said processor is configured to map the ACK or NACK signal in accordance with an index of resource block(s) which are used for a transmission in the uplink at the mobile station.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to map the ACK or NACK signal to a plurality of respective resources.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, the processor is configured to spread the ACK or NACK signal, wherein the processor is configured to map the spread ACK or NACK signal to the resource.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, the processor is further configured to generate a plurality of the same ACK or NACK signal with a repetition, and wherein the processor is further configured to map the plurality of the same ACK or NACK signals to a plurality of resources distributed in the frequency domain, respectively.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to map a plurality of the ACK or NACK signals to the resource with code-multiplexing.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an index of the resource block is associated with the resource depending on a cell.

9. The base station apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to map ACK or NACK signals respectively associated with at least two uplink resource blocks that are consecutive in the frequency domain to different groups of frequency bands.

10. The base station apparatus according to claim 9, wherein each group of the frequency bands comprises subcarrier groups, which are non-consecutive in the frequency domain and each of which comprises consecutive subcarriers.

11. The base station apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to map ACK or NACK signals respectively associated with uplink resources blocks that are non-consecutive in the frequency domain to a same group of downlink frequency bands.

12. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to map the ACK or NACK signal to a plurality of resources distributed in the frequency domain.

13. A base station apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

allocate, to a mobile station, a plurality of uplink resource block(s) the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain and indices of the plurality of consecutive resources blocks being respectively associated with a plurality of resources of downlink which are different in a frequency domain;

map an ACK or NACK signal for uplink data to one of the resources of downlink, the one of the resources being determined from an index of the allocated resource block within the indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks; and

transmitter configured to transmit the mapped ACK or NACK signal to the mobile station;

wherein the ACK or NACK signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and the processor is configured to map a plurality of the ACK or NACK signals to the resource, to which a plurality of the hybrid ARQ indicator channels are mapped, with code-multiplexing.

14. A mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, allocation information indicating a plurality of uplink resource block(s), the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain; and

indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks being respectively associated with a plurality of resources of downlink which are different in a frequency domain; and

a processor configured to determine, based on the allocation information, one of the resources of downlink, to which an ACK or NACK signal for uplink data is mapped, from an index of the associated resource block within the indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks, the ACK or NACK signal being received from the base station;

wherein the ACK or NACK signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH) in the base station, and the ACK or NACK signal is mapped to the resource to which the hybrid ARQ indicator channel is mapped.

15. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a transmitter configured to transmit data using the allocated resource block(s) based on the allocation information,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine resource(s), to which the ACK or NACK signal is mapped, from an index of the resource block(s) used for transmitting the data.

16. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the ACK or NACK signal is mapped to a plurality of resources distributed in the frequency domain.

17. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the ACK or NACK signal is spread in the base station, and the spread ACK or NACK signal is mapped to the resource.

18. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of the same ACK or NACK signals are generated with a repetition in the base station, and the plurality of the same ACK or NACK signals are mapped to a plurality of respective resource.

19. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of the ACK or NACK signals are mapped to the resource with code-multiplexed.

20. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the index of the resource block is associated with the resource depending on a cell.

21. The mobile station apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to map ACK or NACK signals respectively associated with at least two uplink resource blocks that are consecutive in the frequency domain to different groups of frequency bands.

22. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 21, wherein each group of the frequency bands comprises subcarrier groups, which are non-consecutive in the frequency domain and each of which comprises consecutive subcarriers.

23. The mobile station apparatus of claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to map ACK or NACK signals respectively associated with uplink resource blocks that are non-consecutive in the frequency domain to a same group of frequency bands.

24. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of the same ACK or NACK signals are generated with a repetition in the base station, and the plurality of the same ACK or NACK signals are mapped to a plurality of the resource distributed in the frequency domain, respectively.

25. A mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a base station allocation information indicating a plurality of uplink resource block(s), the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain; and

indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks being respectively associated with a plurality of resources of downlink which are different in a frequency domain; and

a processor configured to determine, based on the allocation information, one of the resources of downlink, to which an ACK or NACK signal for uplink data is mapped, from an index of the associated resource block within the indices of the plurality of consecutive resource blocks, the ACK or NACK signal being received from the base station,

wherein the ACK or NACK signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH) in the base station, and a plurality of the ACK or NACK signals are mapped to the resource, to which a plurality of the hybrid ARQ indicator channels are mapped, with code-multiplexed.

26. A method for mapping a response signal comprising:

allocating, with a processor, to a mobile station, one or a plurality of resource block(s) of uplink; and

mapping, with the processor, ACK or NACK signals respectively associated with at least two uplink resource blocks that are consecutive in the frequency domain to different groups of frequency bands;

wherein the response signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and the processor is configured to map the ACK or NACK signal to the resource to which the hybrid ARQ indicator channel is mapped.