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 transmitter which, in operation, transmits downlink data to a communication partner apparatus 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;
a receiver which, in operation, receives from the communication partner apparatus a response signal indicative of a plurality of error detection results of the downlink data, wherein, when a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is activated for the first component carrier to periodically assign resources, the response signal is mapped to either one of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and a second PUCCH resource respectively indicated by a first PUCCH resource index and a second PUCCH resource index, the first PUCCH resource index is a PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value of a transmission power control (TPC) command for an uplink control channel, and the second PUCCH resource index is another PUCCH resource index which is a value obtained by adding 1 to the first PUCCH resource index; and
a retransmission controller which, in operation, retransmits the downlink data based on the received response signal.
2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first PUCCH resource index and the second PUCCH resource index are selected from a plurality of PUCCH resource indices.
3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein:
the plurality of PUCCH resource indices includes 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.
4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first component carrier is a primary cell (PCell), which is paired with an uplink component carrier on which the response signal is received; and
the transmitter transmits the downlink data on the second component carrier which is a secondary cell (SCell) different from the primary cell.
5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the plurality of error detection results are 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.
6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the TPC command is included in downlink control information which indicates activation of the SPS.
7. A communication method comprising:
transmitting downlink data to a communication partner apparatus 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;
receiving from the communication partner apparatus a response signal indicative of a plurality of error detection results of the downlink data, wherein, when a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is activated for the first component carrier to periodically assign resources, the response signal is mapped to either one of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and a second PUCCH resource respectively indicated by a first PUCCH resource index and a second PUCCH resource index, the first PUCCH resource index is a PUCCH resource index corresponding to a value of a transmission power control command (TPC command) for an uplink control channel, and the second PUCCH resource index is another PUCCH resource index which is a value generated by adding 1 to the first PUCCH resource index; and
retransmitting the downlink data based on the received response signal.
8. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein the first PUCCH resource index and the second PUCCH resource index are selected from a plurality of PUCCH resource indices.
9. The communication method according to claim 8 , wherein:
the plurality of PUCCH resource indices includes 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.
10. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein:
the first component carrier is a primary cell (PCell), which is paired with an uplink component carrier on which the response signal is received; and
the communication method comprises transmitting the downlink data on the second component carrier which is a secondary cell (SCell) different from the primary cell.
11. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein:
the plurality of error detection results are a combination of an acknowledgement (ACK) indicating that an error was not detected, a negative-acknowledgment (NACK) indicating that an error was detected, and a discontinuous transmission (DTX) indicating that reception of a downlink control signal has failed.
12. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein:
the TPC command is included in downlink control information which indicates activation of the SPS.