Terminal device, base station device, transmitting method and receiving method
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.
1. A communication apparatus comprising:
a receiver which, in operation, receives downlink data transmitted on a first component carrier and a second component carrier, wherein a transmission mode is set to support up to two transport blocks on the first component carrier;
an error detector which, in operation, performs error detection on the downlink data;
control circuitry which, responsive to activation of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), selects, from a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indices, a first 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 corresponding to a value obtained by adding 1 to the first PUCCH resource index; 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 and the second component carrier, to either one of a first PUCCH resource indicated by the first PUCCH resource index or a second PUCCH resource indicated by 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 include 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 the uplink component carrier on which the response signal is transmitted; and
the second component carrier is a secondary cell (SCell) that is different from the primary cell.
4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of error detection results are each 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 the SPS.
6. A communication method comprising:
receiving downlink data transmitted on a first component carrier and a second component carrier, wherein a transmission mode is set to support up to two transport blocks on the first component carrier;
performing error detection on the downlink data;
responsive to activation of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), selecting, from a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indices, a first 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 corresponding to a value obtained by adding 1 to the selected first PUCCH resource index; and
mapping a response signal, which is indicative of a plurality of error detection results of the downlink data of the first component carrier and the second component carrier, to either one of a first PUCCH resource indicated by the first PUCCH resource index or a second PUCCH resource indicated by 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 include 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 the uplink component carrier on which the response signal is transmitted; and
the second component carrier is a secondary cell (SCell) that is different from the primary cell.
9. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein
the plurality of error detection results are each 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 the SPS.