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US 8,917,603 · App. 14/117,310 · Granted Dec 23, 2014

Method for transmitting control information and apparatus therefor

Inventors: Suckchel Yang (Anyang-si, KR); Mingyu Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Anyang-si, KR); Dongyoun Seo (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04J3/1694H04L5/001H04W72/0413H04L5/14
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Patent No.
US 8,917,603
App. No.
14/117,310
Granted
Dec 23, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In more detail, the present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier merging and operates in TDD, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one or more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH from a plurality of downlink sub frames according to a UL-DL configuration: determining a bit number of reception response information on the at least one of more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH by using a value indicated by a predetermined 2-bit field in a DCI format for UL scheduling; and transmitting the reception response information through PUSCH corresponding to the DIC format.

Claims (28)

1. A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation and operating in time division duplex (TDD), the method comprising:

receiving at least one of one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) and one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in a plurality of downlink subframes according to an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration:

determining a number of bits of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information on the at least one of one or more PDCCHs and the one or more PDSCHs using a value indicated by a predetermined 2-bit field in a downlink control information (DCI) format for UL scheduling; and

transmitting the number of bits of ACK/NACK information through a physical uplink shared chnnel (PUSCH) corresponding to the DCI format,

wherein the number of bits of ACK/NACK information is determined using:

V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐

wherein V DAI UL denotes the value indicated by the predetermined 2-bit field and is an integer in a range of 1 to 4, U max denotes a maximum value from among a plurality of PDSCH signals and PDCCH signals received in the plurality of downlink subframes for respective component carriers, and ┌ ┐ represents a ceiling function.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of bits of ACK/NACK information is identical to a value determined using:

V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐)×(C+C 2 )

wherein C denotes a number of configured component carriers, and C 2 denotes a number of component carriers supporting a maximum of 2 transport blocks and to which bundling is not applied.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of bits of ACK/NACK information indicate one or more component carriers and the number of bits of ACK/NACK information for a c-th component carrier is:

i) V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐) when a transmission mode supporting transmission of a single transport block is configured for the c-th component carrier or bundling is applied for the c-th component carrier; and

ii) 2×(V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐) when a transmission mode supporting transmission of two transport blocks is configured for the c-th component carrier and bundling is not applied thereto.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐ corresponds to a number of downlink subframes requiring feedback of ACK/NACK information for a corresponding component carrier.

5. A communication device configured to transmit uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation and operating in time division duplex (TDD), comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to receive at least one of one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) and one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in a plurality of downlink subframes according to an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration, to determine a number of bits of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/ACK) information on the at least one of one or more PDCCHs and the one or more PDSCHs using a value indicated by a predetermined 2-bit field in a downlink control information (DCI) format for UL scheduling, and to transmit the ACK/NACK information through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) corresponding to the DCI format,

wherein the number of bits of ACK/NACK information is determined using:

V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐

wherein V DAI UL denotes the value indicated by the predetermined 2-bit field and is an integer in a range of 1 to 4, U max denotes a maximum value from among a plurality of PDSCH signals and PDCCH signals received in the plurality of downlink subframes for respective component carriers and ┌ ┐ represents a ceiling function.

6. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein the number of bits of the ACK/NACK information is identical to a value determined using:

(V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐)×(C+C 2 )

wherein C denotes a number of configured component carriers, and C 2 denotes a number of component carriers supporting a maximum of 2 transport blocks and to which bundling is not applied.

7. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein the number of bits of ACK/NACK information indicate one or more component carriers and the number of bits of ACK/NACK information for a c-th component carrier is:

i) (V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐) when a transmission mode supporting transmission of a single transport block is configured for the c-th component carrier or bundling is applied for the c-th component carrier; and

ii) 2×(V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐) when a transmission mode supporting transmission of two transport blocks is configured for the c-th component carrier and bundling is not applied thereto.

8. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein V DAI UL +4┌(U max −V DAI UL )/4┐ corresponds to a number of downlink subframes requiring feedback of ACK/NACK information for a corresponding component carrier.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2013
From: YANG, SUCKCHEL; KIM, MINGYU; AHN, JOONKUI; SEO, DONGYOUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 031762/0765 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61485185 · May 12, 2011
Related Publication 20140105076A1 · Apr 17, 2014