Carrier aggregation acknowledgement bits

1. A method for transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bits for carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell by a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

reordering ACK/NACK bit positions of at least one of an ACK/NACK bit position for the first cell or an ACK/NACK bit position of the second cell, wherein the reordering comprises:

transmitting a last ACK/NACK bit for the second cell using a bit position of one of a last ACK/NACK bit or a next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell, the last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE, and the next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame that is transmitted immediately prior to the sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the first cell are of a different configuration than sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK/NACK bit position for the first or the second cell is described in a table, the table associating combinations of ACK/NACK bits to ACK/NACK signals transmitted by the UE.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell is zero; and

indicating with an ACK/NACK Resource Indicator (ARI) a number of resources, the number of resources being equal to a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell and the second cell is a secondary cell.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second cell is a primary cell and the first cell is a secondary cell.

7. A device for transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bits for carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell by a User Equipment (UE), the device comprising:

a memory; and

at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to:

reorder ACK/NACK bit positions of at least one of an ACK/NACK bit position for the first cell or an ACK/NACK bit position of the second cell, wherein the reordering comprises:

transmitting a last ACK/NACK bit for the second cell using a bit position of one of a last ACK/NACK bit or a next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell, the last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE, and the next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame that is transmitted immediately prior to the sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE.

8. The device of claim 7 , further comprising:

determining that sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the first cell are of a different configuration than sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

9. The device of claim 7 , wherein the ACK/NACK bit position for the first or the second cell is described in a table, the table associating combinations of ACK/NACK bits to ACK/NACK signals transmitted by the UE.

10. The device of claim 7 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:

determine that a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell is zero; and

indicate with an ACK/NACK Resource Indicator (ARI) a number of resources, the number of resources being equal to a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

11. The device of claim 7 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell and the second cell is a secondary cell.

12. The device of claim 7 , wherein the second cell is a primary cell and the first cell is a secondary cell.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operable when executed by data processing apparatus to perform operations for transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bits for carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell by a User Equipment (UE), the operations comprising:

reordering ACK/NACK bit positions of at least one of an ACK/NACK bit position for the first cell or an ACK/NACK bit position of the second cell, wherein the reordering comprises:

transmitting a last ACK/NACK bit for the second cell using a bit position of one of a last ACK/NACK bit or a next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell, the last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE, and the next to last ACK/NACK bit for the first cell corresponds to a sub-frame that is transmitted immediately prior to the sub-frame on the first cell that is transmitted last to the UE.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the first cell are of a different configuration than sub-frames that correspond to the ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the ACK/NACK bit position for the first or the second cell is described in a table, the table associating combinations of ACK/NACK bits to ACK/NACK signals transmitted by the UE.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell is zero; and

indicating with an ACK/NACK Resource Indicator (ARI) a number of resources, the number of resources being equal to a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell and the second cell is a secondary cell.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the second cell is a primary cell and the first cell is a secondary cell.