IP Library Granted Patent US 9,295,054
Granted Patent B2
US 9,295,054 · App. 14/729,922 · Granted Mar 22, 2016

Terminal device, base station device, transmitting method and receiving method

Inventors: Toru Oizumi (Kanagawa, JP); Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, JP); Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/042H04L1/00H04L1/1692H04L1/1854H04L1/1861H04L5/0055H04W52/54H04W72/02H04W72/0413H04W72/0453H04W72/12H04W76/048H04W28/06H04W88/02H04W88/08
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Patent No.
US 9,295,054
App. No.
14/729,922
Granted
Mar 22, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention pertains to a terminal device, which, when ARQ is used for communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band, and when a transmission mode that supports up to 2 TB in a PCell is set in the terminal, is capable of reducing the amount of signaling from a base station while eliminating a lack of PUCCH resources when semi-permanent scheduling (SPS) is used in the PCell. A control unit in this device selects one value among values obtained by adding 1 to four PUCCH resource indexes, which have been preset for PUCCH resource 1 by the base station, on the basis of values for transmission power control information (TPC command for PUCCH) in a PDCCH, for which notification has been received at the start of SPS.

Claims (36)

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver which, in operation, receives downlink data transmitted on a first component carrier, for which a transmission mode is set to support up to two transport blocks;

an error detector which, in operation, performs error detection on the downlink data;

a selector which, in operation, selects a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource index from a plurality of PUCCH resource indices by selecting a PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value of a transmission power control (TPC) command for an uplink control channel and selects a second PUCCH resource index from the plurality of PUCCH resource indices by selecting another PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value generated by adding 1 to the selected first PUCCH resource index, when a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is carried out for the first component carrier to periodically assign downlink resources; and

a transmitter which, in operation, maps a response signal, which is indicative of a plurality of error detection results of the downlink data of the first component carrier, to either one of a first PUCCH resource and a second PUCCH resource respectively indicated by the first PUCCH resource index and the second PUCCH resource index, and transmits the mapped response signal on an uplink component carrier.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of PUCCH resource indices includes four PUCCH resource indices 1 - 4 and the TPC command is indicated by two bits;

when the value of the TPC command is 00, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 1 ;

when the value of the TPC command is 01, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 2 ;

when the value of the TPC command is 10, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 3 ; and

when the value of the TPC command is 11, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 4 .

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the first component carrier is a primary cell (PCell), which is paired with said uplink component carrier; and

the receiver receives, in addition to the downlink data transmitted on the first component carrier, downlink data transmitted on a second component carrier that is a secondary cell (SCell) different from the primary cell.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of error detection results are a combination of an acknowledgement (ACK) indicating that an error was not detected, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) indicating that an error was detected, and a discontinuous transmission (DTX) indicating that reception of a downlink control signal has failed.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the TPC command is included in downlink control information, which indicates activation of said SPS.

6. A communication method comprising:

receiving downlink data transmitted on a first component carrier, for which a transmission mode is set to support up to two transport blocks;

performing error detection on the downlink data;

selecting a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource index from a plurality of PUCCH resource indices by selecting a PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value of a transmission power control (TPC) command for an uplink control channel and selecting a second PUCCH resource index from the plurality of PUCCH resource indices by selecting another PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value generated by adding 1 to the selected first PUCCH resource index, when a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is carried out for the first component carrier to periodically assign downlink resources; and

mapping a response signal, which is indicative of a plurality of error detection results of the downlink data of the first component carrier, to either one of a first PUCCH resource and a second PUCCH resource respectively indicated by the first PUCCH resource index and the second PUCCH resource index, and transmitting the mapped response signal on an uplink component carrier.

7. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein

the plurality of PUCCH resource indices includes four PUCCH resource indices 1 - 4 and the TPC command is indicated by two bits;

when the value of the TPC command is 00, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 1 ;

when the value of the TPC command is 01, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 2 ;

when the value of the TPC command is 10, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 3 ; and

when the value of the TPC command is 11, the first PUCCH resource index indicates PUCCH resource 4 .

8. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein

the first component carrier is a primary cell (PCell), which is paired with said uplink component carrier; and

the communication method further comprises receiving, in addition to the downlink data transmitted on the first component carrier, downlink data transmitted on a second component carrier that is a secondary cell (SCell) different from the primary cell.

9. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein

the plurality of error detection results are a combination of an acknowledgement (ACK) indicating that an error was not detected, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) indicating that an error was detected, and a discontinuous transmission (DTX) indicating that reception of a downlink control signal has failed.

10. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein

the TPC command is included in downlink control information, which indicates activation of said SPS.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2016
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SUN PATENT TRUST
Reel/Frame 038299/0156 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2011-000744 · Jan 5, 2011 · national
JP 2011-233007 · Oct 24, 2011 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14500792 · Sep 29, 2014
Continuation 13990395
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