Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system

• US 9,042,357 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2011
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Dong Youn, Kim, Min Gyu, Yang, Suck Chel, Ahn, Joon Kui
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hanh N
• Application Number:
  US13/812,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20130322355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,400 Days
• Field of Search: 455/450, 455/452.1, 370/329, 370/345, 370/328, 370/341, 370/344, 370/377, 370/468, 370/426, 370/431, 370/438, 370/439, 714/48, 714/746, 714/748, 714/749
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• 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 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for a terminal, in which a plurality of serving cells is established, to transmit uplink control information in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe via a first serving cell from among the plurality of serving cells in a first subframe; receiving at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) via at least one serving cell from among the plurality of serving cells in the first subframe based on said at least on PDCCH; and transmitting, in a second subframe, an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) which indicates whether or not a decoding for said at least one PDSCH has succeeded. The ACK/NACK is transmitted using a first resource through only the first serving cell, and transmitted using a second resource in the second subframe if said at least one PDSCH is received through two or more serving cells from among the plurality of serving cells. The first resource is dynamically allocated through the PDCCH which schedules the first serving cell, and the second resource is designated in advance.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting uplink control information of a user equipment (UE) for which a plurality of serving cells are configured in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving downlink control information on at least one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe through a first serving cell among the plurality of serving cells;

receiving data on at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the first subframe through at least one serving cell among the plurality of serving cells based on the downlink control information; and

transmitting acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicating success or failure of decoding of the data in a second subframe,

wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted by using first resource within the second subframe when one PDSCH is received only through the first serving cell,

wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted by using a second resource within the second subframe when a plurality of PDSCHs are received through two or more serving cells from among the plurality of serving cells,

wherein the first resource is allocated dynamically by a PDCCH which schedules the first serving cell, and the second resource is predetermined,

wherein, among the at least one PDCCH, a PDCCH which schedules a serving cell except for the first serving cell includes PDSCH aggregate information indicating a total number of PDSCHs transmitted through the plurality of serving cells in the first subframe, and

wherein the PDSCH aggregate information is transmitted through a transmission power control (TPC) field of an uplink component carrier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first serving cell is a primary cell in which the UE carries out a procedure of establishing an initial connection to a base station or a procedure of re-establishing a connection.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first serving cell includes a first downlink component carrier and a first uplink component carrier, wherein the at least one PDCCH is received through the first downlink component carrier and the ACK/NACK is transmitted through the first uplink component carrier.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first resource is determined based on a resource of a PDCCH which schedules the first downlink component carrier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second resource is indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, if a number of PDSCH received successfully through the at least one serving cell is the same as a number of PDSCHs indicated by the PDSCH aggregate information, one ACK is transmitted through the second resource.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, if a number of PDSCH received successfully through the at least one serving cell is smaller than a number of PDSCHs indicated by the PDSCH aggregate information, one NACK is transmitted through the second resource.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein ACK/NACK transmitted through the second resource represents a number of PDSCHs received successfully through the at least one serving cell or a number of PDSCHs not received successfully.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting ACK/NACK comprises:

obtaining the first resource from a PDCCH which schedules a PDSCH received through the first serving cell;

generating a modulation symbol by modulating the ACK/NACK;

determining a cyclic shift value based on the first resource;

generating a cyclic-shifted sequence by applying a cyclic shift to a base sequence by the cyclic shift value;

spreading the modulation symbol to the cyclic-shifted sequence; and

transmitting the spread sequence.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of serving cells operate according to a frequency division duplex (FDD) scheme which uses different frequencies in the uplink and downlink.

11. A user equipment, comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit transmitting or receiving radio signals; and

a processor connected to the RF unit,

wherein the processor receives downlink control information on at least one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe through a first serving cell among a plurality of serving cells, receives data on at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in the first subframe through at least one serving cell among the plurality of serving cells based on the downlink control information, and transmits acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicating success or failure of decoding of the data in a second subframe,

wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted by using a first resource within the second subframe when one PDSCH is received only through the first serving cell;

wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted by using a second resource within the second subframe when a plurality of PDSCHs are received through two or more serving cells among the plurality of serving cells,

wherein the first resource is allocated dynamically through a PDCCH which schedules the first serving cell, and the second resource is predetermined,

wherein, among the at least one PDCCH, a PDCCH which schedules a serving cell except for the first serving cell includes PDSCH aggregate information indicating a total number of PDSCHs transmitted through the plurality of serving cells in the first subframe, and

wherein the PDSCH aggregate information is transmitted through a transmission power control (TPC) field of an uplink component carrier.