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Granted Patent B2
US 10,212,738 · App. 15/573,435 · Granted Feb 19, 2019

Method for adjusting contention window size on basis of HARQ-ACK information in wireless access system supporting unlicensed band, and device for supporting same

Inventors: Seonwook Kim (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR); Kijun Kim (Seoul, KR); Byounghoon Kim (Seoul, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Seoul, KR); Hanjun Park (Seoul, KR); Daesung Hwang (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W74/085H04L1/00H04L1/18H04L1/1812H04L1/1887H04L5/00H04W28/0289H04W28/26H04W76/28
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Patent No.
US 10,212,738
App. No.
15/573,435
Granted
Feb 19, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless access system that supports an unlicensed band, and provides various methods for adjusting a contention window size, methods for determining the time when the adjusted contention window size is applied, methods for distinguishing between a collision and a channel error, and devices for supporting the same. As an embodiment of the present invention, a method for adjusting a contention window size in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band may comprise the steps of: performing a channel access procedure; when it is determined through the performed channel access procedure that a serving cell (Scell) in the unlicensed band is in an idle state, transmitting a transmission burst including a downlink signal through the unlicensed band; receiving hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information corresponding to the transmission burst; and adjusting the CWS using the number of DTX states in the HARQ-ACK information when the transmission burst is scheduled in a self-carrier scheduling scheme.

Claims (18)

1. A method for adjusting a contention window size (CWS) in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band, the method comprising:

performing a channel access procedure;

transmitting a transmission burst including a downlink signal in the unlicensed band, when it is determined as a result of the channel access procedure that a serving cell (SCell) of the unlicensed band is an idle state;

receiving hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information corresponding to the transmission burst; and

adjusting the CWS based on a number of discontinuous transmission (DTX) states in the HARQ-ACK information, when the transmission burst is scheduled by a self-carrier scheduling.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a DTX state is counted as a negative ACK (NACK) state for adjusting the CWS.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a NACK/DTX state and an ANY state in the HARQ-ACK information are also counted as the NACK state.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the DTX states in the HARQ-ACK information are not used for adjusting the CWS, when the transmission burst is scheduled by a cross-carrier scheduling.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information used for adjusting the CWS is HARQ-ACK information corresponding to a first subframe of the transmission burst.

6. A transmission node configured to adjust a contention window size (CWS) in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band, the transmission node comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor for supporting CWS adjustment,

wherein the processor controls the transmitter and the receiver in order to perform a channel access procedure, controls the transmitter to transmit a transmission burst including a downlink signal in the unlicensed band when it is determined as a result of the channel access procedure that a serving cell (SCell) of the unlicensed band is an idle state, controls the receiver to receive hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information corresponding to the transmission burst, and adjusts the CWS based on a number of discontinuous transmission (DTX) states in the HARQ-ACK information, when the transmission burst is scheduled by a self-carrier scheduling.

7. The transmission node according to claim 6 , wherein a DTX state is counted as a negative ACK (NACK) state to adjust the CWS.

8. The transmission node according to claim 7 , wherein a NACK/DTX state or an ANY state in the HARQ-ACK information is also counted as the NACK state.

9. The transmission node according to claim 6 , wherein the DTX states in the HARQ-ACK information are not used for the CWS adjustment when the transmission burst is scheduled by a cross-carrier scheduling.

10. The transmission node according to claim 6 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information used for the CWS adjustment is HARQ-ACK information corresponding to a first subframe of the transmission burst.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2017
From: KIM, SEONWOOK; AHN, JOONKUI; YANG, SUCKCHEL; KIM, KIJUN; KIM, BYOUNGHOON; SEO, HANBYUL; PARK, HANJUN; HWANG, DAESUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (9)
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Provisional Application 62237587 · Oct 6, 2015
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Provisional Application 62165158 · May 21, 2015
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