IP Library Granted Patent US 12,432,014
Granted Patent B2
US 12,432,014 · App. 17/651,150 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback information transmission method and apparatus

Inventors: Jun Wang (Shanghai, CN); Wenjie Peng (Shanghai, CN); Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, CN); Junren Chang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
H04L1/1812H04L5/0053H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/20H04W72/56
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Patent No.
US 12,432,014
App. No.
17/651,150
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application provides a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback information transmission method and an apparatus, to flexibly determine a feedback manner type. The method includes: A first terminal device obtains a transmission resource, determines, based on a first correspondence, a feedback manner type corresponding to a current transmission, performs data packet assembly processing based on the feedback manner type, and sends the data packet by using the transmission resource.

Claims (64)

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a first terminal device, based on a first correspondence, a feedback manner type corresponding to a current transmission,

wherein the first correspondence comprises a correspondence between a first granularity and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback manner, wherein the first granularity comprises at least one of: a destination address identifier for unicast, a source address identifier, a service type, a service identifier, a communication type, a logical channel identifier, a sidelink radio bearer, a HARQ process identifier, a logical channel group identifier, a transmit-end user equipment (UE) identifier, or a receive-end UE identifier, and wherein the feedback manner type comprises HARQ enabled/disabled information, and the HARQ enabled/disabled information is used to indicate whether to perform feedback;

obtaining, by the first terminal device, a transmission resource;

when the transmission resource does not carry property information:

obtaining, by the first terminal device, the destination address identifier with a highest priority, and

using a HARQ feedback manner corresponding to the destination address identifier, as a HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

determining, by the first terminal device, from the first correspondence, at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

performing, by the first terminal device, data packet assembly processing based on the feedback manner type; and

sending, by the first terminal device, a data packet by using the transmission resource in the at least one logical channel.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first granularity further comprises at least one of: quality of service information or the transmission resource.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the first terminal device, a second transmission resource, wherein the second transmission resource carries property information, and wherein the property information indicates a second HARQ feedback manner supported by the second transmission resource;

determining, by the first terminal device, from the first correspondence based on the property information, second at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the second HARQ feedback manner supported by the second transmission resource; and

sending, by the first terminal device, on the second transmission resource, a second data packet in the second at least one logical channel.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

sending, by the first terminal device, second information to a second terminal device, wherein the second information is used by the second terminal device to determine the feedback manner type.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the second information comprises at least one of: the destination address identifier, a source identifier, the service type, the service identifier, the communication type, the logical channel identifier, the sidelink radio bearer, quality of service information, the transmission resource, the HARQ process identifier, the logical channel group identifier, the transmit-end UE identifier, or the receive-end UE identifier.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

sending, by the first terminal device, third information to a second terminal device, wherein the third information comprises one or more of: the communication type, a range threshold, or a manner of calculating a range between the first terminal device and the second terminal device.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first terminal device, the first correspondence from a network device or from another terminal device.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

when a HARQ feedback is required after the first terminal device sends the data packet by using the transmission resource, receiving, by the first terminal device, a corresponding feedback result on a corresponding feedback time-frequency resource.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the current transmission is a unicast transmission.

10. A method comprising:

obtaining, by a terminal device, a transmission resource;

when the transmission resource does not carry property information:

obtaining, by the terminal device, a destination address identifier with a highest priority, and

using a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback manner corresponding to the destination address identifier, as a used HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

when a number of group members of a group to which the terminal device belongs meets a preset condition, determining, by the terminal device, that the used HARQ feedback manner is a group negative acknowledgement (NACK) only;

selecting, by the terminal device, at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the used HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource; and

sending, by the terminal device, a data packet by using the transmission resource in the at least one logical channel.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the preset condition comprises: the number of group members being greater than a preset threshold.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the terminal device determines the used HARQ feedback manner.

13. A communication device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the non-transitory memory stores a program to be executed by the one or more processors, the program including instructions that cause the communication device to perform operations including:

obtaining a transmission resource;

when the transmission resource does not carry property information:

obtaining a destination address identifier with a highest priority, and

using a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback manner corresponding to the destination address identifier, as a used HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

when a number of group members of a group to which the communication device belongs meets a preset condition, determining that the used HARQ feedback manner is a group negative acknowledgement (NACK) only;

selecting at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the used HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource; and

sending a data packet by using the transmission resource in the at least one logical channel.

14. The communication device according to claim 13 , wherein the preset condition comprises: the number of group members being greater than a preset threshold.

15. The communication device according to claim 13 , wherein the communication device determines the used HARQ feedback manner.

16. A communication device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the non-transitory memory stores a program to be executed by the one or more processors, the program including instructions that cause the communication device to perform operations including:

determining based on a first correspondence, a feedback manner type corresponding to a current transmission,

wherein the first correspondence comprises a correspondence between a first granularity and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback manner, wherein the first granularity comprises at least one of: a destination address identifier for unicast, a source address identifier, a service type, a service identifier, a communication type, a logical channel identifier, a sidelink radio bearer, a HARQ process identifier, a logical channel group identifier, a transmit-end user equipment (UE) identifier, or a receive-end UE identifier, and wherein the feedback manner type comprises HARQ enabled/disabled information, and the HARQ enabled/disabled information is used to indicate whether to perform feedback;

obtaining a transmission resource;

when the transmission resource does not carry property information:

obtaining the destination address identifier with a highest priority, and

using a HARQ feedback manner corresponding to the destination address identifier, as a HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

determining from the first correspondence, at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the HARQ feedback manner supported by the transmission resource;

performing data packet assembly processing based on the feedback manner type; and

sending a data packet by using the transmission resource in the at least one logical channel.

17. The communication device according to claim 16 , wherein the first granularity further comprises at least one of: quality of service information or the transmission resource.

18. The communication device according to claim 16 , the operations further comprising:

obtaining a second transmission resource, wherein the second transmission resource carries property information, and wherein the property information indicates a second HARQ feedback manner supported by the second transmission resource;

determining from the first correspondence based on the property information, second at least one logical channel whose HARQ feedback manner is the same as the second HARQ feedback manner supported by the second transmission resource; and

sending on the second transmission resource, a second data packet in the second at least one logical channel.

Assignments (3)
COMMISSIONED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 31, 2025
From: SHANGHAI HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 072788/0760 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 13, 2025
From: WANG, JUN; PENG, WENJIE; CHANG, JUNREN
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 071410/0185 →
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 13, 2025
From: DAI, MINGZENG
To: SHANGHAI HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 072160/0833 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910760464.5 · Aug 16, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020109638 · Aug 17, 2020
Related Publication 20220173840A1 · Jun 2, 2022
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