Hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement information feedback method, terminal device, and network device

1. A hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information feedback method, the method comprising:

performing, by a communication device, data channel detection on a first downlink subframe;

performing, by the communication device, data channel detection on a second downlink subframe, wherein the second downlink subframe does not overlap with the first downlink subframe in time domain;

sending, by the communication device, first HARQ-ACK information to a network device by using a first uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe comprises a first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe does not comprise a second downlink data channel,

wherein the first HARQ-ACK information indicates a receiving status of the first downlink data channel and that wherein a first length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first downlink data channel is greater than a second length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second downlink data channel; and

sending, by the communication device, second HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using a second uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe comprises the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel, wherein the second HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel, and wherein a radio resource occupied by the first uplink channel is different from that occupied by the second uplink channel, and

wherein a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink channel is greater than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink channel.

2. The feedback method according to claim 1 , wherein the second uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

3. The feedback method according to claim 1 , Wherein when the communication device sends the second HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using the second uplink channel, the second HARQ-ACK information further indicates a receiving status of the second downlink data channel.

4. The feedback method according to claim 1 , further comprising, when determining that the first downlink subframe comprises the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel, sending, by the communication device, seventh HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using a seventh uplink channel when determining that the second downlink subframe comprises an eighth downlink data channel, wherein the seventh HARQ-ACK information is used to indicate the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and a receiving status of the eighth downlink data channel, and wherein the eighth downlink data channel not overlapping with the second downlink data channel in time domain and the seventh uplink channel not overlapping with the second uplink channel in time domain.

5. The feedback method according to claim 4 , wherein the seventh uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

6. The feedback method according to claim 1 , further comprising sending, by the communication device, fourth HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using the second uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe does not comprise the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel, wherein the fourth HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and the receiving status of the second downlink data channel, and wherein the second uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

7. The feedback method according to claim 6 , wherein the receiving status of the first downlink data channel fed back in the fourth HARQ-ACK information is a negative acknowledgement (NACK).

8. The feedback method according to claim 6 , further comprising, when determining that the first downlink subframe does not comprise the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel,

sending, by the communication device, eighth HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using an eighth uplink channel when further determining that the second downlink subframe comprises a ninth downlink data channel, wherein the eighth HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and a receiving status of the ninth downlink data channel, and wherein the ninth downlink data channel does not overlap with the second downlink data channel in time domain and the eighth uplink channel does not overlap with the second uplink channel in time domain.

9. The feedback method according to claim 8 , wherein the eighth uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

10. The feedback method according to claim 8 , wherein the receiving status of the first downlink data channel fed back in the eighth HARQ-ACK information is a NACK.

11. The feedback method according to claim 1 , wherein the first downlink sub frame is located before the second downlink subframe.

12. A device comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing program instructions; and

at least one processor in communication with the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

perform data, channel detection on a first downlink subframe;

perform data channel detection on a second downlink subframe, wherein the second downlink subframe does not overlap with the first downlink subframe in time domain; and

send first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to a network device by using a first uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe comprises a first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe does not comprise a second downlink data channel,

wherein the first HARQ-ACK information indicates a receiving status of the first downlink data channel, and

wherein that a first length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first downlink data channel is greater than a second length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second downlink data channel; and

send second HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using a second uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe comprises the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel, and

wherein that a radio resource occupied by the first uplink channel is different from that occupied by the second uplink channel, and

wherein a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink channel is greater than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink channel.

13. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the second uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

14. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the second HARQ-ACK information further indicates a receiving status of the second downlink data channel when sending the second HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using the second uplink channel.

15. The device according to claim 12 , further comprising the instructions to send seventh HARQ-ACK information to the network device, by using a seventh uplink channel when determining that the second downlink subframe comprises an eighth downlink data channel, wherein the seventh HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and a receiving status of the eighth downlink data channel, and wherein the eighth downlink data channel does not overlap with the second downlink data channel in time domain and the seventh uplink channel does not overlap with the second uplink channel in time domain.

16. The device according to claim 12 , further comprising the instructions to send fourth HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using the second uplink channel when determining that the first downlink subframe does not comprise the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel, wherein the fourth HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and the receiving status of the second downlink data channel, and wherein the second uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

17. The device according to claim 16 , further comprising the instructions to send eighth HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using an eighth uplink channel when determining that the second downlink subframe comprises a ninth downlink data channel, wherein the eighth HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel and a receiving status of the ninth downlink data channel, and wherein the ninth downlink data channel does not overlap with the second downlink data, channel in time domain and the eighth uplink channel does not overlap with the second uplink channel in time domain.

18. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the first downlink subframe is located before the second downlink subframe.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

perform data channel detection on a first downlink subframe;

perform data channel detection on a second downlink subframe, wherein the second downlink subframe does not overlap with the first downlink subframe in time domain; and

send first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to a network device by using a first uplink channel when a detector determines that the first downlink subframe comprises a first downlink data channel and that the second downlink

subframe does not comprise a second downlink data, channel,

wherein the first HARQ-ACK information indicates a receiving status of the first downlink data channel and

wherein that a first length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first downlink data channel is greater than a second length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second downlink data channel; and

send second HARQ-ACK information to the network device by using a second uplink channel when the detector determining that the first downlink subframe comprises the first downlink data channel and that the second downlink subframe comprises the second downlink data channel,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK information indicates the receiving status of the first downlink data channel,

wherein that a radio resource occupied by the first uplink channel is different from that occupied by the second uplink channel, and

wherein a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink channel is greater than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink channel.

20. The device according to claim 15 , wherein the seventh uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

21. The device according to claim 17 , wherein the eighth uplink channel overlaps with the first uplink channel in time domain.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 19 , wherein the first downlink subframe is located before the second downlink subframe.