IP Library Granted Patent US 9,083,497
Granted Patent B2
US 9,083,497 · App. 13/983,745 · Granted Jul 14, 2015

Method and device for setting backhaul link subframe in wireless communication system having carrier aggregation technique applied thereto

Inventors: Seungmin Lee (Anyang-si, KR); Hakseong Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Anyany-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04L5/0053H04L1/1854H04L5/001H04L5/0055H04L5/0092H04L5/1469H04W72/0406H04W84/047H04L2001/0093H04L2001/0097
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Patent No.
US 9,083,497
App. No.
13/983,745
Granted
Jul 14, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention is a method for a base station to set a backhaul link subframe for a relay node in a wireless communication system, to which a carrier aggregation technique is applied. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: determining one of the plurality of subframe settings as a first subframe setting for a main component carrier allocated to the relay node; composing subframe setting candidates for one or more subcomponent carriers allocated to the relay node, on the basis of the determined first subframe setting; and determining a second subframe setting for each of the one or more subcomponent carriers, using the composed subframe setting candidates, wherein a subframe aggregation according to the first subframe setting and subframe aggregations according to each of the subframe setting candidates do not overlap when downlink subframes and uplink subframes of the different component carriers are identical, and a downlink subframe aggregation according to the second subframe setting is included in a downlink subframe aggregation according to the first subframe setting.

Claims (26)

1. A method for processing signals at a user equipment in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring different subframe configurations to at least two serving cells;

receiving a control channel via a first cell of the at least two serving cells from a network at a first subframe; and

transmitting an uplink shared channel based on the control channel via a second cell of the at least two serving cells to the network at a second subframe,

wherein a second uplink subframe set defined by a second subframe configuration for the second cell is a subset of a first uplink subframe set defined by a first subframe configuration for the first cell,

wherein a relationship between the first subframe and the second subframe is defined based on the first subframe configuration.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the control channel includes scheduling information of the uplink shared channel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink shared channel transmitted based on the control channel is a retransmission signal of the uplink shared channel which was transmitted previously.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the control channel includes ACK(ACKnowledgement)/NACK(Negative-ACK) information of an uplink shared channel which was transmitted previously.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first subframe is a subframe #n and the second subframe is a subframe #(n+k), and

‘k’ is an integer determined based on the first subframe configuration.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving information on the different subframe configurations via a higher layer.

7. A method for processing signals at a network in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring different subframe configurations to at least two serving cells;

transmitting a control channel via a first cell of the at least two serving cells to a user equipment at a first subframe; and

receiving an uplink shared channel transmitted based on the control channel via a second cell of the at least two serving cells from the user equipment at a second subframe,

wherein a second uplink subframe set defined by a second subframe configuration for the second cell is a subset of a first uplink subframe set defined by a first subframe configuration for the first cell,

wherein a relationship between the first subframe and the second subframe is defined based on the first subframe configuration.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the control channel includes scheduling information of the uplink shared channel.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the uplink shared channel transmitted based on the control channel from the user equipment is a retransmission signal of the uplink shared channel which was received previously.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the control channel includes ACK(ACKnowledgement)/NACK(Negative-ACK) information of an uplink shared channel which was received previously.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein:

the first subframe is a subframe #n and the second subframe is a subframe #(n+k), and

‘k’ is an integer determined based on the first subframe configuration.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising transmitting information on the different subframe configurations via a higher layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2013
From: LEE, SEUNGMIN; KIM, HAKSEONG; SEO, HANBYUL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 030944/0354 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61449098 · Mar 4, 2011
Related Publication 20130315135A1 · Nov 28, 2013