IP Library Granted Patent US 9,265,037
Granted Patent B2
US 9,265,037 · App. 14/024,855 · Granted Feb 16, 2016

Transmitting and receiving uplink control channel

Inventors: Min Seok Noh (Seoul, KR); Woo-Jin Choi (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: KT CORPORATION
H04W72/0413H04L1/0026H04L1/1671H04L5/143H04L1/1896H04L5/001H04L5/0023H04L5/0028H04L5/0048H04L5/0053H04W88/085
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Patent No.
US 9,265,037
App. No.
14/024,855
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure is related to transmitting a control channel, multiplexing an uplink control channel, and multiplexing a sounding reference signal for user equipment configured with carrier aggregation.

Claims (56)

1. A method of transmitting an uplink control channel at user equipment configured with physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3, the method comprising:

receiving a first parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, from a transmission/reception point, wherein the first parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and channel state information (CSI) on PUCCH format 2/2a/2b;

receiving a second parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, from the transmission/reception point, wherein the second parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of multiple HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3; and

performing simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 according to configurations of the first parameter and the second parameter.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing simultaneous transmission comprises:

performing simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing simultaneous transmission comprises:

performing simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is single HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing simultaneous transmission comprises:

performing simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a time division duplex (TDD) and if the user equipment is configured with one cell.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing simultaneous transmission comprises:

performing simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the second parameter is set FALSE and if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD).

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing simultaneous transmission comprises:

transmitting HARQ ACK/NACK on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 and dropping periodic CSI if the first parameter is set FALSE and if the second parameter is set FALSE.

7. A method of receiving an uplink control channel at a transmission/reception point, the method comprising:

transmitting a first parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, to user equipment, wherein the first parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and channel state information (CSI) on physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 2/2a/2b;

transmitting a second parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, to the user equipment, wherein the second parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of multiple HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI using PUCCH format 3; and

receiving a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 according to configurations of the first parameter and the second parameter if the user equipment is configured with the PUCCH format 3.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the receiving a PUCCH comprises:

receiving a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the receiving a PUCCH comprises:

receiving a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is single HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the receiving a PUCCH comprises:

receiving a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE and if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a time division duplex (TDD) and if the user equipment is configured with one cell.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the receiving a PUCCH comprises:

receiving a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the second parameter is set FALSE and if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD).

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the receiving a PUCCH comprises:

receiving a PUCCH that transmits HARQ ACK/NACK on one of the PUCCH 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 and drops periodic CSI if the first parameter is set FALSE and if the second parameter is set FALSE.

13. User equipment configured with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3, the user equipment comprising;

a receiver configured to receive a first parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, from a transmission/reception point, wherein the first parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and channel state information (CSI) on PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and to receive a second parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, from the transmission/reception point, wherein the second parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of multiple HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3; and

a transmitter configured to perform simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 according to configurations of the first parameter and the second parameter.

14. The user equipment of claim 13 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

perform simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

15. The user equipment of claim 13 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

perform simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is single HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

16. The user equipment of claim 13 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

perform simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a time division duplex (TDD) and if the user equipment is configured with one cell.

17. The user equipment of claim 13 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

perform simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the second parameter is set FALSE and if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD).

18. The user equipment of claim 13 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

transmit HARQ ACK/NACK on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 and drop periodic CSI if the first parameter is set FALSE and if the second parameter is set FALSE.

19. A transmission/reception point comprising:

a transmitter configured to:

transmit a first parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, to user equipment, wherein the first parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and channel state information (CSI) on physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 2/2a/2b, and

transmit a second parameter, through an associated higher layer signaling, to the user equipment, wherein the second parameter instructs simultaneous transmission of multiple HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on PUCCH format 3; and

a receiver is configured to receive a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 according to configurations of the first parameter and the second parameter if the user equipment is configured with the PUCCH format 3.

20. The transmission/reception point of claim 19 , wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

21. The transmission/reception point of claim 19 , wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is single HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) and if the user equipment is configured with more than one cell.

22. The transmission/reception point of claim 19 , wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 3 if the second parameter is set TRUE if the HARQ ACK/NACK is multiple HARQ ACK/NACK if a duplex mode is a time division duplex (TDD) and if the user equipment is configured with one cell.

23. The transmission/reception point of claim 19 , wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive a PUCCH that performs simultaneous transmission of HARQ ACK/NACK and CSI on the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b if the first parameter is set TRUE if the second parameter is set FALSE and if a duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD).

24. The transmission/reception point of claim 19 , wherein the receiver is configured to:

receive a PUCCH that transmits HARQ ACK/NACK on one of the PUCCH format 2/2a/2b and the PUCCH format 3 and drops periodic CSI if the first parameter is set FALSE and if the second parameter is set FALSE.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2017
From: KT CORPORATION
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 043778/0700 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2013
From: NOH, MIN SEOK; CHOI, WOO-JIN
To: KT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031191/0727 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2012-0102352 · Sep 14, 2012 · national
KR 10-2012-0146600 · Dec 14, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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