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Granted Patent B2
US 10,333,679 · App. 15/539,424 · Granted Jun 25, 2019

Method for transmitting ACK/NACK in wireless communication system and device using same

Inventors: Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0055H04L1/003H04L1/0026H04L1/1861H04L1/1896H04L5/00H04W72/042H04W72/0446H04W72/12
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Patent No.
US 10,333,679
App. No.
15/539,424
Granted
Jun 25, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system and a device using the same. The device receives DL control information having a downlink (DL) grant and an ACK/NACK resource indicator (ARI), and receives a DL transmission block based on the basis of the DL grant. On the basis of the ARI, the device selects a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format, and decides on a PUCCH resource for the selected PUCCH format. The device transmits the ACK/NACK of the DL transmission block by using the selected PUCCH format.

Claims (23)

1. A method for transmitting a positive-acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a wireless device and comprising:

receiving a plurality of downlink (DL) grants in a plurality of DL subframes on a plurality of serving cells, each DL grant including a counter downlink assignment index (DAI), a total DAI and an ACK/NACK resource indicator (ARI), the counter DAI indicating an accumulative number of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) received by the wireless device in a DL subframe for a corresponding DL grant, the total DAI indicating a total number of PDSCHs received by the wireless device in a DL subframe for a corresponding DL grant;

receiving a plurality of PDSCHs associated with the plurality of DL grants in the plurality of DL subframes;

selecting one of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format and a second PUCCH format based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI), the UCI including ACK/NACK bits for the plurality of PDSCHs; and

transmitting the UCI by using the selected PUCCH format,

wherein a PUCCH resource for the selected PUCCH format is determined based on an ARI included in a most recently received DL grant among the plurality of DL grants.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PUCCH format comprises 24 data symbols, and the second PUCCH format comprises more than 24 data symbols.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first PUCCH format comprises 4 OFDM symbols for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a subframe, and the second PUCCH format comprises 2 OFDM symbols for the DMRS in the subframe.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein only one resource block is allocated in the first PUCCH format, and one or more resource blocks are allocated in the second PUCCH format.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ARI has two bits.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PUCCH format is a PUCCH format 3, and the second PUCCH has larger payload size than the first PUCCH format.

7. An apparatus for transmitting a positive-acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a radio signal; and

a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to:

control the transceiver to receive a plurality of downlink (DL) grants in a plurality of DL subframes on a plurality of serving cells, each DL grant including a counter downlink assignment index (DAI), a total DAI and an ACK/NACK resource indicator (ART), the counter DAI indicating an accumulative number of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) received by the apparatus in a DL subframe for a corresponding DL grant, the total DAI indicating a total number of PDSCHs received by the apparatus in a DL subframe for a corresponding DL grant;

control the transceiver to receive a plurality of PDSCHs associated with the plurality of DL grants in the plurality of DL subframes;

select one of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format and a second PUCCH format based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI), the UCI including ACK/NACK bits for the plurality of PDSCHs; and

control the transceiver to transmit the UCI by using the selected PUCCH format,

wherein a PUCCH resource for the selected PUCCH format is determined based on an ARI included in a most recently received DL grant among the plurality of DL grants.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PUCCH format comprises 24 data symbols, and the second PUCCH format comprises more than 24 data symbols.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein only one resource block is allocated in the first PUCCH format, and one or more resource blocks are allocated in the second PUCCH format.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the ARI has two bits.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PUCCH format is a PUCCH format 3, and the second PUCCH has larger payload size than the first PUCCH format.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 26, 2017
From: AHN, JOONKUI; YANG, SUCKCHEL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 042816/0704 →
Continuity (9)
Provisional Application 62098347 · Dec 31, 2014
Provisional Application 62161225 · May 13, 2015
Provisional Application 62161869 · May 14, 2015
Provisional Application 62190721 · Jul 9, 2015
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Provisional Application 62216346 · Sep 9, 2015
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