Methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system

1. A method for controlling re-transmission in a user equipment supporting uplink spatial multiplexing, the method comprising the steps of

detecting an uplink grant on a physical downlink control channel, the uplink grant being valid for at least one transport block;

detecting that at least one transport block is disabled, such that no grant is associated with the at least one disabled transport block;

the method being characterized by the step of

interpreting the at least one disabled transport block as an acknowledgement, ACK, of a previous transmission corresponding to said disabled transport block irrespective of which indication is received on the reception status feedback channel for said previous transmission.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said detecting steps are carried out at a first protocol layer, whereby said interpreting step comprises that the first protocol layer delivers an indication of acknowledgement, ACK, to a second protocol layer.

3. The method according to claim 2 , the method further comprising setting a flag to ACK, wherein the indication of ACK is delivered to the second protocol layer.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first protocol layer is a physical layer and the second protocol layer is a higher protocol layer.

5. The method according to claim 1 , said interpreting step comprises that a second protocol layer assumes, upon reception from a first protocol layer of one or more grants valid for fewer transport blocks than a total number of transport blocks able to be spatially multiplexed, that an acknowledgement, ACK, has been received for a previous transmission for a transport block for which no grant have been forwarded to the second layer from the first layer.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said acknowledgement is used as input in a HARQ process corresponding to said disabled transport block in an uplink data transfer procedure.

7. A user equipment for supporting uplink spatial multiplexing for controlling re-transmission, the user equipment comprising:

circuitry operable to:

detect an uplink grant on a physical downlink control channel, the grant being valid for at least one transport block;

detect that at least one transport block is disabled, such that no grant is associated with the at least one disabled transport block; characterized in that the user equipment is operable to:

interpret the at least one disabled transport block as an acknowledgement, ACK, of previous transmission corresponding to said disabled transport block irrespective of which indication is received on the reception status feedback channel for said previous transmission.

8. The user equipment according to claim 7 , wherein the user equipment is further operable to deliver an indication of acknowledgement, ACK, from a first protocol layer to a second protocol layer.

9. The user equipment according to claim 8 , wherein the user equipment is further operable to set a flag to ACK, wherein the indication of ACK is delivered to the second protocol layer.

10. The user equipment according to claim 7 , the user equipment is further operable to assume, at a second protocol layer, that an acknowledgement, ACK, has been received for a previous transmission corresponding to a transport block for which no grant have been forwarded to the higher layer from a first protocol layer, upon reception of one or more grants valid for fewer transport blocks than a total number of transport blocks able to be spatially multiplexed from the first protocol layer.

11. The user equipment according to claim 7 , wherein the first protocol layer is a physical layer and the second protocol layer is a higher protocol layer.

12. The user equipment according to claim 7 , wherein the user equipment is further operable to use said acknowledgement as input in a HARQ process corresponding to said disabled transport block in an uplink data transfer procedure.