IP Library Granted Patent US 11,375,487
Granted Patent B2
US 11,375,487 · App. 16/628,276 · Granted Jun 28, 2022

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method

Inventors: Liqing Liu (Sakai, JP); Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, JP); Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, JP); Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, JP); Shohei Yamada (Sakai, JP)
Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
H04W72/042H04L1/1861
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Patent No.
US 11,375,487
App. No.
16/628,276
Granted
Jun 28, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal apparatus includes a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a HARQ process, and a physical layer processing unit configured to perform processing associated with a PUSCH transmission on a physical layer. A first HARQ process configured for the terminal apparatus determines whether or not to indicate to the physical layer processing unit to generate a transmission of the first HARQ process, based at least on whether or not the transmission of the first HARQ process and a transmission of a second HARQ process occur in the same transmission time. The transmission of the second HARQ process is scheduled so as to use short processing time.

Claims (32)

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including an uplink grant; and

a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity, wherein

the HARQ entity manages a first HARQ process and a second HARQ process in parallel,

in a case that the uplink grant is not indicated for the first HARQ process and a transmission time interval (TTI) and a HARQ buffer of the first HARQ process is not empty, the HARQ entity indicates to the first HARQ process to generate a non-adaptive retransmission, and

in a case that the non-adaptive retransmission of the first HARQ process collides with a transmission of the second HARQ process scheduled so as to use short processing time, the medium access control layer processing unit sets an ACK for a transport block in a state variable HARQ_FEEDBACK of the first HARQ process, based on an indication from the HARQ entity.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

for FDD, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission corresponding to the second HARQ process is performed in a third subsequent subframe from a subframe in which the uplink grant has been received.

3. A base station apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including an uplink grant; and

a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity, wherein

the HARQ entity manages a first HARQ process and a second HARQ process in parallel,

in a case that the uplink grant is not indicated for the first HARQ process and a transmission time interval (TTI) and a HARQ buffer of the first HARQ process is not empty, the HARQ entity indicates to the first HARQ process to generate a non-adaptive retransmission, and

in a case that the non-adaptive retransmission of the first HARQ process collides with a transmission of the second HARQ process scheduled so as to use short processing time, the medium access control layer processing unit sets an ACK for a transport block in a state variable HARQ_FEEDBACK of the first HARQ process, based on an indication from the HARQ entity.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein

for FDD, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) reception corresponding to the second HARQ process is performed in a third subsequent subframe from a subframe in which the uplink grant has been transmitted.

5. A communication method used for a terminal apparatus, the communication method comprising:

a reception step of receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including an uplink grant; and

a medium access control layer processing step of managing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity, wherein

the HARQ entity manages a first HARQ process and a second HARQ process in parallel,

in a case that the uplink grant is not indicated for the first HARQ process and a transmission time interval (TTI) and a HARQ buffer of the first HARQ process is not empty, the HARQ entity indicates to the first HARQ process to generate a non-adaptive retransmission, and

in a case that the non-adaptive retransmission of the first HARQ process collides with a transmission of the second HARQ process scheduled so as to use short processing time, the medium access control layer processing unit sets an ACK for a transport block in a state variable HARQ_FEEDBACK of the first HARQ process, based on an indication from the HARQ entity.

6. The communication method according to claim 5 , wherein

for FDD, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission corresponding to the second HARQ process is performed in a third subsequent subframe from a subframe in which the uplink grant has been received.

7. A communication method used for a base station apparatus, the communication method comprising:

a transmission step of transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including an uplink grant; and

a medium access control layer processing step of managing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity, wherein

the HARQ entity manages a first HARQ process and a second HARQ process in parallel,

in a case that the uplink grant is not indicated for the first HARQ process and a transmission time interval (TTI) and a HARQ buffer of the first HARQ process is not empty, the HARQ entity indicates to the first HARQ process to generate a non-adaptive retransmission, and

in a case that the non-adaptive retransmission of the first HARQ process collides with a transmission of the second HARQ process scheduled so as to use short processing time, the medium access control layer processing unit sets an ACK for a transport block in a state variable HARQ_FEEDBACK of the first HARQ process, based on an indication from the HARQ entity.

8. The communication method according to claim 7 , wherein

for FDD, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) reception corresponding to the second HARQ process is performed in a third subsequent subframe from a subframe in which the uplink grant has been transmitted.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 31, 2023
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; SHARP CORPORATION
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 063815/0589 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2023
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; SHARP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062389/0715 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 3, 2020
From: LIU, LIQING; YOSHIMURA, TOMOKI; OUCHI, WATARU; SUZUKI, SHOICHI; YAMADA, SHOHEI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 051465/0395 →