Method for efficiently transmitting physical channel in multi-carrier aggregation state to support broadband

• US 9,681,423 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2009
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Yeong Hyeon, Han, Seung Hee, Kim, So Yeon, Chung, Jae Hoon, Lee, Moon Il
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Asefa, Debebe
• Application Number:
  US13/126,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20110268032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,784 Days
• Field of Search: 370254-350, 709201-213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless connection system, and more specifically to a method for efficiently transmitting a control channel in a multi-carrier aggregation state. According to one aspect of the invention, a method for enabling a terminal to transmit data in a broadband wireless connection system that supports multiband comprises the steps of: receiving uplink acknowledgement information from a base station through a first downlink component carrier among plural downlink component carriers available in the terminal; transmitting data to the base station through an uplink resource indicated by the uplink acknowledge information; and receiving feedback information from the base station through the first control channel of the first downlink component carrier, wherein the feedback information indicates whether there is an error in the reception of the transmitted data.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting data by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless access system supporting multi-carriers, the method comprising:

receiving an uplink (UL) grant information for a first UL component carrier (CC) from a base station (BS) through a first downlink (DL) CC among a plurality of DL CCs, wherein the first UL CC is linked with a second DL CC other than the first DL CC;

transmitting UL data to the BS through UL resources of the first UL CC indicated by the UL grant information; and

receiving, from the base station and through the first DL CC through which the UL grant information was received, feedback information indicating a reception status of the transmitted UL data,

wherein the first DL CC among the plurality of DL CCs is specified as a DL CC for receiving the feedback information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reception of the feedback information is performed at a subframe which comes after a predetermined number of subframes from a subframe indicated by the UL grant information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the UL grant information is received through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of the first DL CC, and

wherein the feedback information is received through a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) of the first DL CC.

4. A method for receiving data by a base station (BS) in a wireless access system supporting multi-carriers, the method comprising:

transmitting an uplink (UL) grant information for a first UL component carrier (CC) to a user equipment (UE) through a first downlink (DL) CC among a plurality of DL CCs, wherein the first UL CC is linked with a second DL CC other than the first DL CC;

receiving UL data from the UE through UL resources of the first UL CC indicated by the UL grant information;

determining a reception status of the received UL data; and

transmitting, to the UE and through the first DL CC through which the UL grant information was transmitted, feedback information indicating the determined reception status of the received UL data,

wherein the first DL CC among the plurality of DL CCs is specified as a DL CC for receiving the feedback information.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the feedback information is transmitted through the first DL CC only.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the transmission of the feedback information is performed irrespective of a ratio between the number of DL CCs available in the user equipment (UE) and the number of UL CCs available in the user equipment (UE).

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the UL grant information is transmitted through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of the first DL CC, and

wherein the feedback information is transmitted through a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) of the first DL CC.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the reception of the feedback information is performed at a subframe which comes after a predetermined number of subframes from a subframe indicated by the UL grant information.

9. A user equipment (UE) operated in a wireless access system supporting multi-carriers, the UE comprising:

a processor; and

a radio frequency (RF) module for transceiving a radio frequency (RF) signal externally under a control of the processor,

wherein the processor, upon receiving an uplink (UL) grant information for a first UL component carrier (CC) from a base station (BS) through a first downlink (DL) CC among a plurality of DL CCs, transmits UL data to the BS through UL resources of the first UL CC indicated by the UL grant information, and receives, from the base station and through the first DL CC through which the UL grant information was received, feedback information indicating a reception status of the transmitted UL data,

wherein the first UL CC is linked with a second DL CC other than the first DL CC, and

wherein the first DL CC among the plurality of DL CCs is specified as a DL CC for receiving the feedback information.

10. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to receive the feedback information through the first DL CC, irrespective of a ratio between the number of DL CCs available in the user equipment (UE) and the number of UL CCs available in the user equipment (UE).

11. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to receive the feedback information at a subframe which comes after a predetermined number of subframes from a subframe indicated by the UL grant information.

12. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 9, wherein the UL grant information is received through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of the first DL CC, and

wherein the feedback information is received through a Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) of the first DL CC.