Method for retransmitting data in wireless communication system

• US 9,602,250 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Xu, Jian, Yuk, Young Soo, Lim, Dong Guk, Cho, Han Gyu, Kim, Yong Ho, Kwak, Jin Sam
• Primary Examiner(s): Sefcheck, Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): Esmaeilian, Majid
• Application Number:
  US13/388,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20120127897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,584 Days
• Field of Search: 370/279, 370/328, 370/281, 370/315
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements

Abstract

A method for retransmitting data in wireless communication system is disclosed. MS can receive a NACK (Not-Acknowledge) signal from a base station (BS) through a specific downlink subframe of a specific frame in a first superframe, and the MS can retransmits the data using a second uplink subframe in a first frame in a second superframe subsequent to a first superframe. In this case, a index of the second uplink subframe may be 1. The wireless communication system can support the Half-Frequency Division Duplex (H-FDD) scheme. A first uplink subframe in the first frame of the second superframe can be punctured.

Claims

1. A method for retransmitting data in wireless communication system of H-FDD (Half-Frequency Division Duplex), the method performed by a mobile station (MS) and comprising:

receiving, from a base station (BS), a NACK (Not-ACKnowledge) signal for an uplink data transmission;

determining a first uplink subframe, which has a subframe index 0 in an uplink frequency band, for retransmitting the uplink data based on the NACK signal;

receiving, from the BS, a superframe header (SFH) in a first downlink subframe of a first frame of a first superframe in a downlink frequency band, wherein the first downlink subframe is overlapped in time with the first uplink subframe and the first uplink subframe for retransmitting the uplink data is punctured to receive the SFH; and

retransmitting, to the BS, the uplink data in a second uplink subframe which has a subframe index 1 in the uplink frequency band, instead of the first uplink subframe which has the subframe index 0,

wherein indices of uplink subframes are increased by 1, in ascending order from 0, and the second uplink subframe which has the subframe index 1 is a subsequent subframe of the first subframe which has the subframe index 0, and

wherein indices of uplink subframes other than the first uplink subframe are maintained regardless of puncturing of the first uplink subframe.

2. The method according to claim 1, a group index of the MS is 2.

3. A mobile station (MS) apparatus for retransmitting data in wireless communication system of H-FDD (Half-Frequency Division Duplex), the MS apparatus comprising:

a receiving module;

a transmit module; and

a processor that;

receives, from a base station (BS), a NACK (Not-ACKnowledge) signal for an uplink data transmission through the receiving module,

determines a first uplink subframe, which has a subframe index 0 in an uplink frequency band, for retransmitting the uplink data based on the NACK signal,

receives, from the BS, a superframe header (SFH) in a first downlink subframe of a first frame of a first superframe in a downlink frequency band, wherein the first downlink subframe is overlapped in time with the first uplink subframe and the first uplink subframe for retransmitting the uplink data is punctured to receive the SFH through the receiving module, and

retransmits, to the BS, the uplink data in a second uplink subframe which has a subframe index 1 in the uplink frequency band, instead of the first uplink subframe which has the subframe index 0, through the transmit module,

wherein indices of uplink subframes are increased by 1, in ascending order from 0, and the second uplink subframe which has the subframe index 1 is a subsequent subframe of the first subframe which has the subframe index 0, and

wherein indices of uplink subframes other than the first uplink subframe are maintained regardless of puncturing of the first uplink subframe.