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Granted Patent B2
US 9,118,448 · App. 14/038,558 · Granted Aug 25, 2015

Method for transmitting control information and apparatus for same

Inventors: Suckchel Yang (Anyang-si, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Anyang-si, KR); Dongyoun Seo (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0055H04B7/26H04L1/18H04L1/1861H04W72/0413H04L1/0073H04L5/001H04L5/14
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Patent No.
US 9,118,448
App. No.
14/038,558
Granted
Aug 25, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation and operating in TDD includes: generating a first HARQ-ACK (hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement) set for a first cell using a value M; generating a second HARQ-ACK set for a second cell using the value M; and transmitting a bit value corresponding to a third HARQ-ACK set including the first HARQ-ACK set and the second HARQ-ACK set in an uplink subframe n, wherein M=max(M1, M2), max(M1, M2) representing a value being equal to or larger than not smaller between M1 and M2, wherein M1 corresponds to the number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the first cell, and M2 corresponds to the number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the second cell, wherein the first cell and the second cell have different UL-DL configurations.

Claims (32)

1. A method for transmitting, via a user equipment (UE), uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation and operating in a different uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration in a time division duplex (TDD), the method comprising:

determining at least one bit value corresponding to a third hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) set including a first HARQ-ACK set and a second HARQ-ACK set; and

transmitting the determined at least one bit value in an uplink subframe n,

wherein the first HARQ-ACK set is identified for a first cell using a value M,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK set is identified for a second cell using the value M.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein M=max(M1, M2), max(M1, M2) is the larger value of M1 or M2.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein:

M1 corresponds to a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the first cell, and

M2 corresponds to a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the second cell.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first cell and the second cell have different UL-DL configurations.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell (PCell) and the second cell is a secondary cell (SCell).

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein, when M1≠1 and M2≠0, the first HARQ-ACK set is followed by the second HARQ-ACK set in the third HARQ-ACK set.

7. The method according to claim 2 , wherein, when M1=0 and M2≠0, the second HARQ-ACK set is followed by the first HARQ-ACK set in the third HARQ-ACK set.

8. The method according to claim 2 , wherein, when M1<M2, the first HARQ-ACK set includes M1 HARQ-ACK responses and also includes (M2−M1) discontinuous transmissions (DTX)/negative acknowledgments (NACK).

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one bit value corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set is transmitted using a specific physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set, from among a plurality of PUCCHs.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one bit value corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set is transmitted via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

11. A communication device configured to transmit, via a user equipment (UE), uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation and operating in a different uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration in a time division duplex (TDD), the communication device comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and

a processor configured to determine at least one bit value corresponding to a third hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) set including a first HARQ-ACK set and a second HARQ-ACK set, and control the RF transceiver to transmit the determined at least one bit value in an uplink subframe n,

wherein the first HARQ-ACK set is identified for a first cell using a value M,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK set is identified for a second cell using the value M.

12. The communication device according to claim 11 , wherein M=max(M1, M2), max(M1, M2) is the larger value of M1 or M2.

13. The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein:

M1 corresponds to a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the first cell, and

M2 corresponds to a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe n in the second cell.

14. The communication device according to claim 11 , wherein the first cell and the second cell have different UL-DL configurations.

15. The communication device according to claim 11 , wherein the first cell is a primary cell (PCell) and the second cell is a secondary cell (SCell).

16. The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein, when M1≠1 and M2≠0, the first HARQ-ACK set is followed by the second HARQ-ACK set in the third HARQ-ACK set.

17. The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein, when M1=0 and M2≠0, the second HARQ-ACK set is followed by the first HARQ-ACK set in the third HARQ-ACK set.

18. The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein, when M1<M2, the first HARQ-ACK set includes M1 HARQ-ACK responses and also includes (M2−M1) discontinuous transmissions (DTX)/negative acknowledgments (NACK).

19. The communication device according to claim 11 , wherein the at least one bit value corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set is transmitted using a specific physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set, from among a plurality of PUCCHs.

20. The communication device according to claim 11 , wherein the at least one bit value corresponding to the third HARQ-ACK set is transmitted via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2013
From: YANG, SUCKCHEL; AHN, JOONKUI; SEO, DONGYOUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 031509/0532 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2012-0106158 · Sep 24, 2012 · national
Continuity (6)
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