Control information feedback method, user equipment, and base station

1. A control information feedback method, the method comprising:

determining, by an apparatus, an uplink association index k′ according to an uplink reference configuration;

receiving, by the apparatus, an uplink grant (UL Grant) of a serving cell c in a subframe n−k′, wherein the UL Grant is used to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a subframe n, n being an integer and k′ being the uplink association index;

determining, by the apparatus, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback mode, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode does not include HARQ-ACK bundling;

determining, by the apparatus, HARQ-ACK information according to a downlink reference configuration of the serving cell c and the HARQ-ACK feedback mode, wherein the downlink reference configuration is used to determine a downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } and Mc is an integer greater than 0; and

transmitting, by the apparatus, the HARQ-ACK information by a PUSCH in the subframe n, wherein transmitting the HARQ-ACK information comprises transmitting the HARQ-ACK information by the PUSCH according to the HARQ-ACK feedback mode in the subframe n; and

wherein the apparatus is configured with a dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink configuration, and wherein the uplink reference configuration of the serving sell c is different from the downlink reference configuration.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode determined by the apparatus is a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection or a PUCCH format 3.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5, a uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0, a uplink-downlink configuration 1 or a uplink-downlink configuration 6.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5 or a uplink-downlink configuration 2, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0 or a uplink-downlink configuration 1; or wherein the downlink reference configuration is the uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4 or the uplink-downlink configuration 5, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 6.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink reference configuration comprises:

determining the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } of the subframe n according to the downlink reference configuration; and

determining the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein only the serving cell c is configured for the terminal device apparatus, and wherein determining the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } comprises determining, according to a number of elements of the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, that a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information is M c , and wherein M c is a number of elements of the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein N cell serving cells are configured for the apparatus, wherein N cell >0, the N cell serving cells comprising the serving cell c, and wherein determining the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } comprises:

determining, according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, a number B c DL of downlink subframes for which HARQ-ACK information needs to be fed back on the serving cell c;

determining a transmission mode of the serving cell c; and

when the transmission mode of the serving cell c supports one transport block or uses a spatial HARQ-ACK bundling, determining that a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information of the serving cell c is B c DL ; or

when the transmission mode of the serving cell c supports two transport blocks and does not use the spatial HARQ-ACK bundling, determining that the number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information of the serving cell c is 2B c DL .

8. An apparatus comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor communicatively connected to the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine an uplink association index k′ according to an uplink reference configuration;

detect an uplink grant (UL Grant) of a serving cell c received by the receiver in a subframe n−k′, wherein the UL Grant is used to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a subframe n, n being an integer and k′ being the uplink association index; and

determine hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information according to a downlink reference configuration of the serving cell c and a HARQ-ACK feedback mode excluding HARQ-ACK bundling, wherein the downlink reference configuration is used to determine a downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, Mc is an integer greater than 0; and

wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit, to a base station, the HARQ-ACK information by a PUSCH in the subframe n according to the HARQ-ACK feedback mode, and wherein the apparatus is configured with a dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink configuration, and the uplink reference configuration of the serving sell c is different from the downlink reference configuration.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the receiver is configured to receive HARQ-ACK feedback mode information before the HARQ-ACK information is determined, and wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode information indicates the HARQ-ACK feedback mode n .

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode is a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection or a PUCCH format 3.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5, a uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0, a uplink-downlink configuration 1 or a uplink-downlink configuration 6.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5 or a uplink-downlink configuration 2, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0 or a uplink-downlink configuration 1; or wherein the downlink reference configuration is the uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4 or the uplink-downlink configuration 5, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 6.

13. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the HARQ-ACK information by:

determining the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } of the subframe n according to the downlink reference configuration; and

determining the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein only the serving cell c is configured for the apparatus, wherein the processor is configured to determine the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } as follows: determining, according to a number of elements of the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, that a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information is M c , wherein M c is the number of elements of the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein N cell serving cells are configured for the apparatus, wherein N cell >0, the N cell serving cells comprise the serving cell c, wherein the processor is configured to determine the HARQ-ACK information according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 } as follows:

determining, according to the downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, a number B c DL of downlink subframes for which HARQ-ACK information needs to be fed back on the serving cell c; and

determining a transmission mode of the serving cell c;

when the transmission mode of the serving cell c supports one transport block or uses a spatial HARQ-ACK bundling, determining that a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information of the serving cell c is B c DL ; or

when the transmission mode of the serving cell c supports two transport blocks and does not use the spatial HARQ-ACK bundling, determining that the number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information of the serving cell c is 2B c DL .

16. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for:

determining an uplink association index k′ according to an uplink reference configuration;

receiving an uplink grant (UL Grant) of a serving cell c in a subframe n−k′, wherein the UL Grant is used to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a subframe n, n being an integer and k′ being the uplink association index;

determining hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information according to a downlink reference configuration of the serving cell c and a HARQ-ACK feedback mode excluding HARQ-ACK bundling, wherein the downlink reference configuration is used to determine a downlink association set {k 0 , k 1 , . . . , k M c −1 }, and wherein Mc is an integer greater than 0; and

transmitting the HARQ-ACK information by a PUSCH in the subframe n according to the HARQ-ACK feedback mode, wherein the apparatus is configured with a dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink configuration, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is different from the downlink reference configuration.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16 , further comprising instructions for, before determining the HARQ-ACK information, receiving HARQ-ACK feedback mode information, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode information indicates the HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback mode is a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection or a PUCCH format 3.

19. The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5, a uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4, and the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0, a uplink-downlink configuration 1 or a uplink-downlink configuration 6.

20. The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the downlink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 5 or a uplink-downlink configuration 2, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 0 or a uplink-downlink configuration 1; or wherein the downlink reference configuration is the uplink-downlink configuration 2 or a uplink-downlink configuration 4 or the uplink-downlink configuration 5, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is a uplink-downlink configuration 6.