Method and apparatus for determining uplink control channel resources

• US 9,560,642 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Wang, Yi, Xu, Yueqiao, Zhou, Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): BHATTI, HASHIM S
• Application Number:
  US14/973,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

User equipment (UE), includes: a receiver configured to receive a specific parameter configured for a mapping manner of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) of the UE by an eNB, wherein the specific parameter configured for the mapping manner of the E-PDCCH corresponds to a localized mapping or a distributed mapping; and a processing circuit coupled to a memory configured to determine uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources of the UE according to the specific parameter corresponding to the localized or distributed mapping of the E-PDCCH of the UE and a PUCCH calculation formula.

Claims

1. User equipment (UE), comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a specific parameter configured for a mapping manner of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) of the UE by an eNB, wherein the specific parameter configured for the mapping manner of the E-PDCCH corresponds to a localized mapping or a distributed mapping; and

a processing circuit configured to determine physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources of the UE according to the specific parameter corresponding to the localized or distributed mapping of the E-PDCCH of the UE and a PUCCH calculation formula.

2. The UE according to claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive the specific parameter corresponding to the mapping manner of its E-PDCCH transmitted by the eNB;

or receive specific parameters configured for different mapping manners of the E-PDCCH transmitted by the eNB, and determine each specific parameter according to the mapping manner of its E-PDCCH.

3. An eNB, comprising:

a processing circuit configured to configure different specific parameters for different mapping manners of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) of user equipment (UE), wherein the different specific parameter configured for the different mapping manners of the E-PDCCH correspond to a localized mapping or a distributed mapping; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the different specific parameters to the UE, or transmit a specific parameter corresponding to the mapping manner of the E-PDCCH of the UE to the UE, so that the UE determines its physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources according to the specific parameter corresponding to the localized or distributed mapping of its E-PDCCH and an uplink control channel (PUCCH) calculation formula.

4. User equipment (UE), comprising:

a processing circuit configured to determine physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources of the UE according to a specific parameter configured by an eNB and a PUCCH calculation formula corresponding to a localized or distributed mapping of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) of the UE; and

a receiver configured to receive signals from the eNB.

5. The UE of claim 4, wherein the PUCCH calculation formula is different depending on whether the mapping manner is the localized or the distributed mapping manner.

6. The UE according to claim 4, wherein when the mapping of the E-PDCCH of the UE is the localized mapping, the processing circuit determines the PUCCH resources of the UE according to the following formula configured by the eNB for the UE:

n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾=N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾+Z×

N_RB^index+Y×

n_CCE;

where, N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a specific parameter semi-statically configured by a high layer, N_RB^index is an index of a physical resource block (PRB) occupied by the E-PDCCH, Z is a maximum number of pieces of downlink control information (DCI) carried in each PRB in the distributed mapping, Y is a ratio of the maximum number of pieces of DCI carried in each PRB in the distributed mapping and a maximum number of pieces of DCI carried in each PRB in the localized mapping, and n_CCE is an index of a control channel element (eCCE) in each PRB.

7. The UE according to claim 6, wherein n_CCE=0,1, . . . X−

1, and n_CCE is a lowest eCCE index corresponding to the E-PDCCH, or an eCCE index corresponding to the E-PDCCH and associated with a demodulation reference symbol (DM-RS) port.

8. The UE according to claim 6, wherein when the mapping of the E-PDCCH of the UE is the distributed mapping, the processing circuit determines the PUCCH resources of the UE according to the following formula configured by the eNB for the UE:

n_PUCCH⁽¹⁾=N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾+Z×

N_RB^index+n_CCE;

where, N_PUCCH⁽¹⁾ is a specific parameter semi-statically configured by a high layer, N_RB^index is an index of a PRB occupied by the E-PDCCH, Z is a maximum number of pieces of DCI carried in each PRB in the distributed mapping, and n_CCE is an index of a resource element group (eREG) or an eCCE or DCI in each PRB.

9. The UE according to claim 8, wherein n_CCE=0, 1, . . . Z−

1, and n_CCE is a lowest eCCE index corresponding to the E-PDCCH, or an eCCE index corresponding to the E-PDCCH and associated with a DM-RS port.

10. An eNB, comprising:

a processing circuit configured to configure different physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) calculation formulae for localized or distributed mapping of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) of a user equipment (UE), so that the UE determines its PUCCH resources according to a specific parameter configured by the eNB and a PUCCH calculation formula corresponding to the localized or distributed mapping of the E-PDCCH; and

a receiver configured to receive signals from the UE.

11. The eNB of claim 10, wherein the same and the PUCCH calculation formula is different depending on whether the mapping manner is the localized or the distributed mapping manner.