Uplink resource collision reduction in FD-MIMO

1. An apparatus for a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry and hardware processing circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

transmit data to an evolved Node-B (eNB) on an uplink (UL) resource; and

receive an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to transmitting the data on the UL resource, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset, wherein the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset relative to a transport block (TB) index and first PRB index of a corresponding uplink shared channel, wherein a value for the PHICH offset is received in radio resource control (RRC) signaling, and wherein the value of the PHICH offset includes an additive value equal to 0 or 1 which is conveyed by a two-bit value.

2. An apparatus for a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry and hardware processing circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

transmit data to an evolved Node-B (eNB) on an uplink (UL) resource; and

receive an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to transmitting the data on the UL resource, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset, wherein the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset relative to a transport block (TB) index and first PRB index of a corresponding uplink shared channel; and wherein the group offset is a constant multiplicative factor multiplied by an Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) provided in downlink control information (DCI).

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the group offset is received in a system information block (SIB) on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).

4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the group offset is received in a master information block (MIB) on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH).

5. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the group offset additionally includes an additive component equal to 0 or 1.

6. An apparatus for an Evolved Node-B (eNB), the apparatus comprising hardware processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

receive uplink (UL) data from a plurality of user equipment (UEs); and

transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) of the uplink data, to at least one of the plurality of UEs, on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to receiving the UL data, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset based on collision conditions in a cell served by the eNB, wherein:

the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset defined relative to a transport block (TB) index and first PRB index of a corresponding uplink shared channel; and

the hardware processing circuitry includes circuitry to further configure the transceiver circuitry to determine a value for the group offset for at least two of the plurality of UEs such that the value for the group offset is the same for a set of UEs having a same ACK/NACK status.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the hardware processing circuitry to further configure the transceiver circuitry to:

determine a value for the group offset by determining a PRB in which at least two of the plurality of UEs share a same block error ratio (BLER).

8. The apparatus of claim 6 , further including eight or more antennas.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , further including 2 or more antenna ports.

10. An apparatus for an Evolved Node-B (eNB), the apparatus comprising hardware processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

receive uplink (UL) data from a plurality of user equipment (UEs); and

transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) of the uplink data, to at least one of the plurality of UEs, on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to receiving the UL data, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset based on collision conditions in a cell served by the eNB, wherein the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset and wherein the hardware processing circuitry includes circuitry to further configure the transceiver circuitry to determine a value for the group offset based on UL signal to noise ratios (SINRs) for the plurality of UEs.

11. An apparatus for an Evolved Node-B (eNB), the apparatus comprising hardware processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

receive uplink (UL) data from a plurality of user equipment (UEs); and

transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) of the uplink data, to at least one of the plurality of UEs, on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to receiving the UL data, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset based on collision conditions in a cell served by the eNB, wherein the PHICH offset is a time-based offset defined in terms of subframes, and wherein the PHICH offset is based on an uplink/downlink configuration in the cell served by the eNB.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform operations for communication by an Evolved Node-B (eNB), the operations to configure the one or more processors to:

decode uplink (UL) data received from a plurality of user equipment (UEs); and

configure an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (NACK) of the uplink data, for transmission to at least one of the plurality of UEs, on a physical HARQ-ACK indicator channel (PHICH), responsive to receiving the UL data, the PHICH being mapped to a physical resource block (PRB) that is offset by a PHICH offset that avoids collision, wherein a value for the PHICH offset is encoded for transmission via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, and wherein the value of the PHICH offset includes an additive value equal to 0 or 1 which is conveyed by a two-bit value.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein

the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset relative to a transport block (TB) index and first PRB index of a corresponding uplink shared channel, and wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to,

determine a value for the group offset for at least two of the plurality of UEs such that the value for the group offset is the same for a set of UEs having a same ACK/NACK status.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the PHICH offset includes a group offset and a sequence offset relative to a transport block (TB) index and first PRB index of a corresponding uplink shared channel, and wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to,

determine a value for the group offset based on UL signal to noise ratios (SINRs) for the plurality of UEs.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the PHICH offset is a time-based offset defined in terms of subframes, and wherein the PHICH offset is based on an uplink/downlink configuration in a cell served by the eNB.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to determine scheduling times for the plurality of UEs based on the uplink data; and

wherein the PHICH mapping is based on the scheduling times of the plurality of UEs.