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US 9,065,621 · App. 14/371,958 · Granted Jun 23, 2015

Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in wireless communication system

Inventors: Suckchel Yang (Anyang-si, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Anyang-si, KR); Dongyoun Seo (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0055H04L5/001H04L1/1607H04W72/042
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Patent No.
US 9,065,621
App. No.
14/371,958
Granted
Jun 23, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, particularly, a method in which a terminal transmits control information in a CA-based wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method, the method comprising: configuring a first cell and a second cell having different subframe configurations, wherein the second cell has any one of UL-DL configuration #0 to #6; receiving a DC) format including a DAI field, for the second cell; and transmitting HARQ-ACK information relating to the downlink DCI format. For HARQ-ACK timing, in cases where a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is any one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6, the DAI field is used in a process of transmitting the HARQ-ACK information. For HARQ-ACK timing, in cases where a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is #0, the DAI field is not used in a process of transmitting the HARQ-ACK information.

Claims (211)

1. A method for transmitting control information by a user equipment (UE) in a carrier aggregation (CA)-based wireless communication system, the UE configured with a first cell set to one of uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations #0 to #6 and a second cell set to another of UL-DL configurations #0 to #6, the method comprising:

receiving a downlink control information (DCI) having a DL DCI format comprising a downlink assignment index (DAI) field, for the second cell; and

transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information related to the DCI,

wherein, for HARQ-ACK timing, if a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6, the DAI field is used in a procedure for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information,

wherein, for HARQ-ACK timing, if a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is UL-DL configuration #0, the DAI field is not used in a procedure for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information, and

wherein subframe configurations according to the UL-DL configurations #0 to #6 are given as shown in the following table:

UL-DL

Subframe Number

Configuration

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

D

S

U

U

U

D

S

U

U

U

1

D

S

U

U

D

D

S

U

U

D

2

D

S

U

D

D

D

S

U

D

D

3

D

S

U

U

U

D

D

D

D

D

4

D

S

U

U

D

D

D

D

D

D

5

D

S

U

D

D

D

D

D

D

D

6

D

S

U

U

U

D

S

U

U

D

where, D denotes a DL subframe, U denotes a UL subframe, and S denotes a special subframe.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first cell is set to UL-DL configuration #0, and the second cell is set to one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell (PCell), and the second cell is a secondary cell (SCell).

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the DL DCI format further comprises a carrier indicator field (CIF).

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the DL DCI format comprises DCI format 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 2, 2A, 2B, 2C, or 2D.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information comprises at least one of

acknowledgement information about a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal indicated by the DCI, or

acknowledgement information about a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal comprising the DCI and indicating semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release.

7. A user equipment (UE) used in a carrier aggregation (CA)-based wireless communication system, the UE configured with a first cell set to one of uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations #0 to #6 and a second cell set to another of UL-DL configurations #0 to #6, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a downlink control information (DCI) format comprising a downlink assignment index (DAI) field, for the second cell; and

transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information related to the DCI,

wherein, for HARQ-ACK timing, if a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6, the DAI field is used in a procedure for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information,

wherein, for HARQ-ACK timing, if a reference UL-DL configuration applied to the second cell is UL-DL configuration #0, the DAI field is not used in a procedure for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information, and

wherein subframe configurations according to the UL-DL configurations are given as shown in the following table:

UL-DL

Subframe Number

Configuration

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

D

S

U

U

U

D

S

U

U

U

1

D

S

U

U

D

D

S

U

U

D

2

D

S

U

D

D

D

S

U

D

D

3

D

S

U

U

U

D

D

D

D

D

4

D

S

U

U

D

D

D

D

D

D

5

D

S

U

D

D

D

D

D

D

D

6

D

S

U

U

U

D

S

U

U

D

where, D denotes a DL subframe, U denotes a UL subframe, and S denotes a special subframe.

8. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the first cell is set to UL-DL configuration #0, and the second cell is set to one of UL-DL configurations #1 to #6.

9. The UE according to claim 8 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell (PCell), and the second cell is a secondary cell (SCell).

10. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the DL DCI format further comprises a carrier indicator field (CIF).

11. The UE according to claim 10 , wherein the DL DCI format comprises DCI format 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 2, 2A, 2B, 2C, or 2D.

12. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information comprises at least one of

acknowledgement information about a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal indicated by the DCI, or

acknowledgement information about a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal comprising the DCI and indicating semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2014
From: YANG, SUCKCHEL; AHN, JOONKUI; SEO, DONGYOUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2013-0004625 · Jan 15, 2013 · national
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