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US 12,712,696 · App. 18/403,528 · Granted Aug 18, 2026

Apparatus and method for performing hybrid automatic repeat request operation in wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation

Inventor: Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
H04L5/0055H04B7/0413H04L1/1812H04W72/23
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,712,696
App. No.
18/403,528
Filed
Jan 3, 2024
Granted
Aug 18, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2463
USPC
370/329
Abstract

Provided is a method of performing HARQ by a UE in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation (CA). The method includes: receiving, from an evolved nodeB (eNB), a downlink grant on a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the downlink grant including an accumulated downlink assignment indicator (A-DAI) field and a total DAI (T-DAI) field; receiving a first PDSCH indicated by the first PDCCH, the first PDSCH being transmitted from the eNB; receiving, from the eNB, an uplink grant on a second PDCCH, the uplink grant indicating a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH); determining a size of a HARQ-ACK codebook to which a HARQ-ACK with respect to the first PDSCH is to be mapped, based on the A-DAI and the T-DAI; and transmitting, to the eNB, the HARQ-ACK with respect to the first PDSCH on the PUSCH.

Claims (63)

1 . One or more computing devices comprising:

one or more antennas;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to:

transmit, via a first serving cell and via a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe, a first downlink grant comprising a first accumulated downlink assignment indicator (A-DAI) field and a first total DAI (T-DAI) field, wherein a value of the first T-DAI field indicates an integer T1, wherein a value of the first A-DAI field indicates an integer A smaller than or equal to the integer T1, and wherein the value of the first T-DAI field is mapped to a set including a plurality of T-DAI values;

transmit, via a second serving cell and via a second PDCCH in the first subframe, a second downlink grant comprising a second A-DAI field and a second T-DAI field, wherein a value of the second T-DAI field indicates the integer T1, and wherein a value of the second A-DAI field indicates an integer B smaller than or equal to the integer T1;

transmit a first PDSCH indicated by the first PDCCH and transmit a second PDSCH indicated by the second PDCCH, wherein the integer B is the highest value among values indicated by A-DAI field values associated with PDCCHs-transmitted in the first subframe;

transmit, to a wireless user device, an uplink grant indicating a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH);

determine a size of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook to which an HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and an HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH are to be mapped, wherein the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on one of the plurality of T-DAI values, and wherein the one of the plurality of T-DAI values is the closest integer to the integer B; and

receive, via the PUSCH, the HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and the HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH.

2 . The one or more computing devices of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to:

transmit, via a third serving cell and via a third PDCCH in a second subframe, a third downlink grant comprising a third A-DAI field and a third T-DAI field, wherein a value of the third T-DAI field indicates an integer T2, and wherein a value of the third A-DAI field indicates an integer C larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2; and

transmit, via a fourth serving cell and via a fourth PDCCH in the second subframe, a fourth downlink grant comprising a fourth A-DAI field and a fourth T-DAI field, wherein a value of the fourth T-DAI field indicates the integer T2, and wherein a value of the fourth A-DAI field indicates an integer D larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2.

3 . The one or more computing devices of claim 2 , wherein the first T-DAI field and the second T-DAI field indicate that total T1 number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) release, are scheduled for the wireless user device in the first subframe, and

wherein total T1 number of different serving cells transmit, in the first subframe, PDCCHs comprising values of A-DAI and T-DAI.

4 . The one or more computing devices of claim 3 , wherein the third T-DAI field and the fourth T-DAI field indicate that total (T2-T1) number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release, are scheduled for the wireless user device in the second subframe, and

wherein total (T2−T1) number of different serving cells transmit, in the second subframe, PDCCHs comprising a value pair of A-DAI and T-DAI fields.

5 . The one or more computing devices of claim 4 , wherein one or more downlink SPS PDSCH transmissions are excluded in determining the values of first T-DAI field, the second T-DAI field, the third T-DAI field, and the fourth T-DAI field.

6 . The one or more computing devices of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to determine to increase the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook based on one or more downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH transmissions.

7 . One or more computing devices comprising:

one or more antennas;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to:

transmit, via a first serving cell and via a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe, a first downlink grant comprising a first accumulated downlink assignment indicator (A-DAI) field and a first total DAI (T-DAI) field, wherein a value of the first T-DAI field indicates an integer T1, and wherein a value of the first A-DAI field indicates an integer A smaller than or equal to the integer T1;

transmit, via a second serving cell and via a second PDCCH in the first subframe, a second downlink grant comprising a second A-DAI field and a second T-DAI field, wherein a value of the second T-DAI field indicates the integer T1, and wherein a value of the second A-DAI field indicates an integer B smaller than or equal to the integer T1;

transmit, to a wireless user device, a first PDSCH indicated by the first PDCCH and transmit a second PDSCH indicated by the second PDCCH;

transmit an uplink grant indicating a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH);

determine a size of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook to which an HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and an HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH are to be mapped, wherein determining the size of the HARQ-ACK comprises determining to increase the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook based on one or more downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH transmissions; and

receive, via the PUSCH, the HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and the HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH.

8 . The one or more computing devices of claim 7 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to:

transmit, via a third serving cell and via a third PDCCH in a second subframe, a third downlink grant comprising a third A-DAI field and a third T-DAI field, wherein a value of the third T-DAI field indicates an integer T2, and wherein a value of the third A-DAI field indicates an integer C larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2; and

transmit, via a fourth serving cell and via a fourth PDCCH in the second subframe, a fourth downlink grant comprising a fourth A-DAI field and a fourth T-DAI field, wherein a value of the fourth T-DAI field indicates the integer T2, and wherein a value of the fourth A-DAI field indicates an integer D larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2.

9 . The one or more computing devices of claim 8 , wherein the first T-DAI field and the second T-DAI field indicate that total T1 number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) release, are scheduled for the wireless user device in the first subframe, and

wherein total T1 number of different serving cells transmit, in the first subframe, PDCCHs comprising values of A-DAI and T-DAI.

10 . The one or more computing devices of claim 9 , wherein the third T-DAI field and the fourth T-DAI field indicate that total (T2-T1) number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release, are scheduled for the wireless user device in the second subframe, and

wherein total (T2−T1) number of different serving cells transmit, in the second subframe, PDCCHs comprising a value pair of A-DAI and T-DAI fields.

11 . The one or more computing devices of claim 10 , wherein one or more downlink SPS PDSCH transmissions are excluded in determining the values of first T-DAI field, the second T-DAI field, the third T-DAI field, and the fourth T-DAI field.

12 . The one or more computing devices of claim 7 , wherein the value of the first T-DAI field is mapped to a set including a plurality of T-DAI values.

13 . The one or more computing devices of claim 12 , wherein the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on one of the plurality of T-DAI values,

wherein the one of the plurality of T-DAI values is the closest integer to the integer B, and

wherein the integer B is the highest A-DAI field value among values indicated by A-DAI field values associated with PDCCHs transmitted in the first subframe.

14 . One or more computing devices comprising:

one or more antennas;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to:

transmit, via a first serving cell and via a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe, a first downlink grant comprising a first accumulated downlink assignment indicator (A-DAI) field and a first total DAI (T-DAI) field, wherein a value of the first T-DAI field indicates an integer T1, and wherein a value of the first A-DAI field indicates an integer A smaller than or equal to the integer T1;

transmit, via a second serving cell and via a second PDCCH in the first subframe, a second downlink grant comprising a second A-DAI field and a second T-DAI field, wherein a value of the second T-DAI field indicates the integer T1, and wherein a value of the second A-DAI field indicates an integer B smaller than or equal to the integer T1;

transmit, via a third serving cell and via a third PDCCH in a second subframe, a third downlink grant comprising a third A-DAI field and a third T-DAI field, wherein a value of the third T-DAI field indicates an integer T2, and wherein a value of the third A-DAI field indicates an integer C larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2;

transmit, via a fourth serving cell and via a fourth PDCCH in the second subframe, a fourth downlink grant comprising a fourth A-DAI field and a fourth T-DAI field, wherein a value of the fourth T-DAI field indicates the integer T2, and wherein a value of the fourth A-DAI field indicates an integer D larger than the integer T1 and smaller than or equal to the integer T2;

transmit a first PDSCH indicated by the first PDCCH and transmit a second PDSCH indicated by the second PDCCH;

transmit an uplink grant indicating a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH);

determine a size of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook to which an HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and an HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH are to be mapped; and

receive, via the PUSCH, the HARQ-ACK associated with the first PDSCH and the HARQ-ACK associated with the second PDSCH,

wherein the first T-DAI field and the second T-DAI field indicate that total T1 number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) release, are scheduled for a wireless user device in the first subframe, and

wherein PDCCHs comprising values of A-DAI and T-DAI are transmitted, in the first subframe, from total T1 number of different serving cells.

15 . The one or more computing devices of claim 14 , wherein the third T-DAI field and the fourth T-DAI field indicate that total (T2-T1) number of downlink channels, comprising PDSCHs indicated by PDCCHs and comprising PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release, are scheduled for the wireless user device in the second subframe, and

wherein total (T2−T1) number of different serving cells transmit, in the second subframe, PDCCHs comprising a value pair of A-DAI and T-DAI fields.

16 . The one or more computing devices of claim 15 , wherein one or more downlink SPS PDSCH transmissions are excluded in determining the values of first T-DAI field, the second T-DAI field, the third T-DAI field, and the fourth T-DAI field.

17 . The one or more computing devices of claim 14 , wherein the value of the first T-DAI field is mapped to a set including a plurality of T-DAI values.

18 . The one or more computing devices of claim 17 , wherein the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on one of the plurality of T-DAI values,

wherein the one of the plurality of T-DAI values is the closest integer to the integer B, and

wherein the integer B is the highest A-DAI field value among values indicated by A-DAI field values associated with PDCCHs transmitted in the first subframe.

19 . The one or more computing devices of claim 14 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more computing devices to increase the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook based on one or more downlink semi persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH transmissions.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2015-0156038 · Nov 6, 2015 · national
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