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US 8,948,066 · App. 13/702,959 · Granted Feb 3, 2015

Method for performing a HARQ process and apparatus using same

Inventors: Hakseong Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Anyang-si, KR); Byounghoon Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Kijun Kim (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W72/005H04B7/15507H04L1/1861H04W72/042H04L1/1812H04L2001/0097
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Patent No.
US 8,948,066
App. No.
13/702,959
Granted
Feb 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present description relates to a method for performing a HARQ process operation in a wireless communication system and to an apparatus using the method. A base station device which performs a HARQ process operation comprises a transmitter which transmits to a relay an uplink (UL) grant in a downlink backhaul subframe n which is a subframe having an index n among the allocated downlink backhaul subframes, and transmits, if downlink data sent from the relay in accordance with the uplink grant is not successfully received, a non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal in a downlink backhaul subframe n+N which is a downlink backhaul subframe that comes after N which is a predetermined number of HARQ processes counted from the downlink backhaul subframe n among the allocated downlink backhaul subframes.

Claims (37)

1. A method of performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process operation using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting information regarding a number of HARQ processes between the BS and a relay node (RN) to the RN,

wherein the number of the HARQ processes depends on at least one subframe configured for transmission between the BS and the RN,

wherein each of the HARQ processes is assigned to at least one subframe configured for RN-to-BS transmission according to the number of the HARQ processes, and

wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned must be a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information is transmitted as a type of 8-bit bitmap.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes is determined by decimal equivalent of the binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes corresponds to a number of bit represented by “1” among at least one binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information is transmitted through a higher layer signaling.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information is transmitted through a higher layer signaling.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned corresponds to subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, or 9.

8. A method of performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process operation using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure at a relay node (RN) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving information regarding a number of HARQ processes between a base station (BS) and the RN from the BS,

wherein the number of the HARQ processes depends on at least one subframe configured for transmission between the BS and the RN,

wherein each of the HARQ processes is assigned to at least one subframe configured for RN-to-BS transmission according to the number of the HARQ processes, and

wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned must be a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the information is received as a type of 8-bit bitmap.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes is determined by decimal equivalent of the binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes corresponds to a number of bit represented by “1” among at least one binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the information is received through a higher layer signaling.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned corresponds to subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, or 9.

14. A base station (BS) of performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process operation using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit information regarding a number of HARQ processes between the BS and a relay node (RN) to the RN,

wherein the number of the HARQ processes depends on at least one subframe configured for transmission between the BS and the RN,

wherein each of the HARQ processes is assigned to at least one subframe configured for RN-to-BS transmission according to the number of the HARQ processes, and

wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned must be a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe.

15. The BS of claim 14 , wherein the information is transmitted as a type of 8-bit bitmap.

16. The BS of claim 14 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes is determined by decimal equivalent of the binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

17. The BS of claim 16 , wherein the number of the HARQ processes corresponds to a number of bits represented by “1” among at least one binary number representing the 8-bit bitmap.

18. The BS of claim 14 , wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned corresponds to subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, or 9.

19. A relay node (RN) of performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process operation using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure at a relay node (RN) in a wireless communication system, the RN comprising:

a receiver configured to receive information regarding a number of HARQ processes between a base station (BS) and the RN from the BS;

a processor configured to acquire the number of the HARQ processes,

wherein the number of the HARQ processes depends on at least one subframe configured for transmission between the BS and the RN,

wherein each of the HARQ processes is assigned to at least one subframe configured for RN-to-BS transmission according to the number of the HARQ processes, and

wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned must be a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe.

20. The RN of claim 19 , wherein the at least one subframe to which each of the HARQ processes is assigned corresponds to subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, or 9.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2012
From: KIM, HAKSEONG; SEO, HANBYUL; KIM, BYOUNGHOON; KIM, KIJUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 029440/0076 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2011-0055687 · Jun 9, 2011 · national
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