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Granted Patent B2
US 12,418,925 · App. 18/531,212 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving feedback information in communication system

Inventors: Hoi Yoon Jung (Daejeon, KR); Sung Ik Park (Daejeon, KR); Heung Mook Kim (Daejeon, KR); Nam Ho Hur (Sejong, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04W72/23H04L1/1812
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Patent No.
US 12,418,925
App. No.
18/531,212
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving feedback information in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, DCI #1 including scheduling information of PDSCH #1 and transmission resource information of HARQ response #1 with respect to PDSCH #1; receiving, from the base station, DCI #2 including scheduling information of PDSCH #2 and transmission resource information of HARQ response #2 with respect to PDSCH #2; and when the transmission resource information of HARQ response #1 is configured as undefined, transmitting, to the base station, HARQ response #1 and HARQ response #2 by using a resource indicated by the transmission resource information of HARQ response #2. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.

Claims (46)

1. A terminal, the terminal comprising:

at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor causes the terminal to:

receive downlink control information (DCI) #1 from a base station, the DCI #1 including scheduling information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) #1 and transmission resource information of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response #1 for the PDSCH #1;

receive DCI #2 from the base station, the DCI #2 including scheduling information of a PDSCH #2 and transmission resource information of a HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2;

receive the PDSCH #1 from the base station based on the scheduling information included in the DCI #1;

receive the PDSCH #2 from the base station based on the scheduling information included in the DCI #2; and

when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as an undefined value, transmit the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 to the base station by using a resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to a same PDSCH group, the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to different PDSCH groups, the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

4. The terminal of claim 3 , wherein the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are transmitted in form of a HARQ codebook, and the HARQ codebook is configured according to an order of the PDSCH group indexes respectively associated with the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2.

5. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to different PDSCH groups, the HARQ response #1 is not transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and the HARQ response #2 is transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

6. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #1 to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #2 to which the PDSCH #2 belongs and a group indicator indicating one or more PDSCH groups associated with one or more HARQ responses that can be transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2,

wherein when the group indicator is set to a first value, the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 is transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and

wherein when the group indicator is set to a second value, the HARQ response #1 for the PDSCH #1 belonging to the PDSCH group #1 and the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 are transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

7. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #1 to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #2 to which the PDSCH #2 belongs and a group indicator indicating one or more PDSCH groups associated with one or more HARQ responses that can be transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2,

wherein when the group indicator is set to a first value, the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 is transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and

wherein when the group indicator is set to a second value, HARQ responses for PDSCHs belonging to all PDSCH groups are transmitted by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

8. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor further causes the terminal to:

receive a radio resource message (RRC) message including information indicating HARQ candidate transmission resources from the base station before receiving the DCI #1,

wherein the transmission resource information of each of the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 indicates one HARQ candidate transmission resource among the HARQ candidate transmission resources.

9. The terminal of claim 8 , wherein the RRC message further includes information indicating whether to perform a detection operation of one or more DCIs including the PDSCH group index.

10. The terminal of claim 8 , wherein the RRC message further includes information indicating a number of PDSCH groups.

11. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are transmitted through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

12. A base station, the base station comprising:

at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor causes the base station to:

transmit downlink control information (DCI) #1 to a terminal, the DCI #1 including scheduling information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) #1 and transmission resource information of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response #1 for the PDSCH #1;

transmit DCI #2 to the terminal, the DCI #2 including scheduling information of a PDSCH #2 and transmission resource information of a HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2;

transmit the PDSCH #1 to the terminal based on the scheduling information included in the DCI #1;

transmit the PDSCH #2 to the terminal based on the scheduling information included in the DCI #2; and

when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as an undefined value, receive the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 from the terminal by using a resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

13. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to a same PDSCH group, the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

14. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to different PDSCH groups, the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

15. The base station of claim 14 , wherein the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 are received in form of a HARQ codebook, and the HARQ codebook is configured according to an order of the PDSCH group indexes respectively associated with the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2.

16. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group to which the PDSCH #2 belongs, and when the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #1 is configured as the undefined value and the PDSCH #1 and the PDSCH #2 belong to different PDSCH groups, the HARQ response #1 is not received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and the HARQ response #2 is received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

17. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #1 to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #2 to which the PDSCH #2 belongs and a group indicator indicating one or more PDSCH groups associated with one or more HARQ responses that can be transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2,

wherein when the group indicator is set to a first value, the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 is received in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and

wherein when the group indicator is set to a second value, the HARQ response #1 for the PDSCH #1 belonging to the PDSCH group #1 and the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 are received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

18. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the DCI #1 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #1 to which the PDSCH #1 belongs, and the DCI #2 further includes a PDSCH group index indicating a PDSCH group #2 to which the PDSCH #2 belongs and a group indicator indicating one or more PDSCH groups associated with one or more HARQ responses that can be transmitted in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2,

wherein when the group indicator is set to a first value, the HARQ response #2 for the PDSCH #2 belonging to the PDSCH group #2 is received in the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2, and

wherein when the group indicator is set to a second value, HARQ responses for PDSCHs belonging to all PDSCH groups are received by using the resource indicated by the transmission resource information of the HARQ response #2.

19. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the at least one processor further causes the base station to:

transmit a radio resource message (RRC) message including information indicating HARQ candidate transmission resources to the terminal before transmitting the DCI #1,

wherein the transmission resource information of each of the HARQ response #1 and the HARQ response #2 indicates one HARQ candidate transmission resource among the HARQ candidate transmission resources.

20. The base station of claim 19 , wherein the RRC message further includes information indicating whether to perform a detection operation of one or more DCIs including the PDSCH group index and information indicating a number of PDSCH groups.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2023
From: JUNG, HOI YOON; PARK, SUNG IK; KIM, HEUNG MOOK; HUR, NAM HO
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 065804/0556 →
Priority Claims (4)
KR 10-2019-0004061 · Jan 11, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0042533 · Apr 11, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0092309 · Jul 30, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0116088 · Sep 20, 2019 · national
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