Method for enabling terminal to transmit ACK/NACK response in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor

• US 9,699,771 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Hakseong, Lee, Daewon, Lee, Seungmin, Seo, Hanbyul
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Dung B
• Application Number:
  US14/112,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20140044084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,888 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present application relates to a method for enabling a terminal to transmit an uplink ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/negative ACK) response to a base station in a time-division multiplexing wireless communication system. Specifically, the method includes the steps of: receiving a setting for an uplink-downlink subframe from the base station; receiving downlink control information and downlink data information scheduled through the downlink control information, from the base station based on the setting for the uplink-downlink subframe; and transmitting an ACK/NACK response for the downlink data information to the base station, wherein the subframe to which the ACK/NACK response is transmitted is determined according to whether an ending symbol of the downlink control information is after a particular symbol of the sub-frame for receiving the downlink control information.

Claims

1. A method for receiving downlink signals from a base station at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring a starting symbol of a first physical downlink control channel in a subframe comprising a plurality of symbols based on a first parameter signaled via a higher layer;

receiving a physical control format indicator channel including a second parameter in the subframe, wherein the second parameter indicates a number of symbols for a control channel region in the subframe;

receiving at least one of the first physical downlink control channel or a second physical downlink control channel in the subframe;

receiving at least one of a first physical downlink data channel corresponding to the first physical downlink control channel or a second physical downlink data channel corresponding to the second physical downlink control channel in the subframe; and

transmitting a first physical uplink control channel corresponding to the first physical downlink data channel or a second physical uplink control channel corresponding to the second physical downlink data channel to the base station,

wherein a starting symbol of the first physical downlink data channel is the same as the starting symbol of the first physical downlink control channel configured based on the first parameter signaled via the higher layer,

wherein a starting symbol of the second physical downlink data channel in the subframe is a next symbol of a last symbol for the control channel region in the subframe,

wherein, if an index of an ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel is less than or equal to a threshold value, a subframe index in which the first physical uplink control channel is transmitted is the same as a subframe index in which the second physical uplink control channel is transmitted, and

wherein, if the index of the ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel is greater than the threshold value, the subframe index in which the first physical uplink control channel is transmitted is greater than the subframe index in which the second physical uplink control channel is transmitted.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first physical downlink control channel includes scheduling information for the first physical downlink data channel and the second physical downlink control channel includes scheduling information for the second physical downlink data channel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first physical downlink control channel is an EPDCCH (Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel) and the second physical downlink control channel is a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel and the first physical downlink data channel in the subframe is determined based on the first parameter.

5. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor connected with the RF unit and configured to;

receive information about a starting symbol of a first physical downlink control channel in a subframe comprising a plurality of symbols based on a first parameter signaled via a higher layer,

receive a physical control format indicator channel including a second parameter in the subframe, to receive at least one of the first physical downlink control channel or a second physical downlink control channel in the subframe,

receive at least one of a first physical downlink data channel corresponding to the first physical downlink control channel or a second physical downlink data channel corresponding to the second physical downlink control channel in the subframe, and

transmit a first physical uplink control channel corresponding to the first physical downlink data channel or a second physical uplink control channel corresponding to the second physical downlink data channel,

wherein the second parameter indicates a number of symbols for a control channel region in the subframe,

wherein a starting symbol of the first physical downlink data channel is the same as the starting symbol of the first physical downlink control channel configured based on the first parameter signaled via the higher layer,

wherein a starting symbol of the second physical downlink data channel in the subframe is a next symbol of a last symbol for the control channel region in the subframe,

wherein, if an index of an ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel is less than or equal to a threshold value, a subframe index in which the first physical uplink control channel is transmitted is the same as a subframe index in which the second physical uplink control channel is transmitted, and

wherein, if the index of the ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel is greater than the threshold value, the subframe index in which the first physical uplink control channel is transmitted is greater than the subframe index in which the second physical uplink control channel is transmitted.

6. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the first physical downlink control channel includes scheduling information for the first physical downlink data channel and the second physical downlink control channel includes scheduling information for the second physical downlink data channel.

7. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the first physical downlink control channel is an EPDCCH (Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel) and the second physical downlink control channel is a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel).

8. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the ending symbol of the first physical downlink control channel and the first physical downlink data channel in the subframe is determined based on the first parameter.