Method and device for transmitting uplink control information

• US 9,635,654 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2013
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Daesung, Yi, Yunjung, Kim, Bonghoe, Seo, Dongyoun
• Primary Examiner(s): Thier, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nowlin, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/420,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20150208402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2656 for structure of frame, burst
• 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: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

One embodiment of the present specification discloses a method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI). The method may be performed by a terminal and comprise receiving control information for setting such that an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel are not simultaneously transmitted on one uplink subframe; selecting one of the channels, if first uplink control information (UCI) for a first cell and second uplink control information (UCI) for a second cell are requested to be simultaneously transmitted on the one uplink subframe through the uplink control channel in case of the first uplink control information (UCI) and through the uplink shared channel in case of the second uplink control information (UCI); and transmitting at least one from among the first uplink control information (UCI) and the second uplink control information (UCI) on the uplink subframe through the selected channel.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting, by a User Equipment (UE), Uplink Control Information (UCI) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE, control information that configures an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to avoid being simultaneously transmitted on a single uplink subframe;

determining, by the UE, whether a collision between the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel is to occur, if first UCI for a first cell and second UCI for a second cell are required to be simultaneously transmitted through the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel, respectively, on a single uplink subframe;

if the UE determines that the collision is to occur, selecting, by the UE, any one of the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel; and

transmitting, by the UE, one or more pieces of the first UCI and the second UCI on the uplink subframe through the selected channel,

wherein the UE piggybacks a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) to another channel other than the selected channel and transmits the HARQ ACK/NACK if each of the one or more pieces of the first UCI and the second UCI comprises the HARQ ACK/NACK.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting further comprises selecting any one channel based on at least one of the first cell, the second cell, a type of UCI, and a container.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a priority is determined based on any one of the first cell, the second cell, the type of UCI, and the container.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising steps of:

receiving scheduling information from each of the first cell and the second cell on a downlink control channel; and

receiving downlink data from each of the first cell and the second cell based on the received scheduling information,

wherein each of the pieces of the first UCI and the second UCI comprises the HARQ ACK/NACK for each of the downlink data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a process for reducing a number of bits of the UCI to be transmitted through the selected channel is performed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein UCI to be transmitted through the other channel other than the selected channel from the uplink subframe.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

an IDentifier (ID) of the first cell is used for the transmission of the uplink control channel if the first UCI is transmitted to the first cell through the uplink control channel, and

an ID of the second cell is used for the transmission of the uplink shared channel if the second UCI is transmitted to the second cell through the uplink shared channel.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the ID of the first cell and the ID of the second cell are obtained through the first cell.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the uplink control channel to be transmitted to the first cell is scrambled using an IDentifier (ID) of the first cell, and

the uplink shared channel to be transmitted to the second cell is scrambled using an ID of the second cell.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first cell and the second cell belong to independent base stations.

11. A user equipment for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive control information that configures an uplink control channel and an uplink shared channel to avoid being simultaneously transmitted on a single uplink subframe; and

a processor operably coupled with the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to determine whether a collision between the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel is to occur, if first UCI for a first cell and second UCI for a second cell are required to be simultaneously transmitted through the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel, respectively, on the single uplink subframe,

wherein, if the processor determines that the collision is to occur, the processor is further configured to select any one of the uplink control channel and the uplink shared channel,

wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit one or more pieces of the first UCI and the second UCI on the uplink subframe through the channel selected by the processor, and

wherein the transceiver is further configured to piggyback a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) to another channel other than the selected channel and transmit the HARO ACK/NACK if each of the one or more pieces of the first UCI and the second UCI comprises the HARO ACK/NACK.

12. The user equipment of claim 11, wherein the processor performs a process for reducing a number of bits of the UCI to be transmitted through the selected channel.

13. The user equipment of claim 11, wherein the processor drops UCI to be transmitted through the other channel other than the selected channel from the uplink subframe.