IP Library Granted Patent US 9,344,263
Granted Patent B2
US 9,344,263 · App. 14/232,190 · Granted May 17, 2016

Method and apparatus for transmitting control information

Inventors: Seunghee Han (Anyang-si, KR); Hyukmin Son (Anyang-si, KR); Hyeyoung Choi (Anyang-si, KR); Hyunwoo Lee (Anyang-si, KR); Jinmin Kim (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04L5/14H04B7/0689H04L1/0073H04L1/1861H04L5/0053H04L5/0055H04B7/0602H04B7/0671H04B7/0695
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Patent No.
US 9,344,263
App. No.
14/232,190
Granted
May 17, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information, including the steps of: generating a plurality of HRAQ-ACKs (Hybrid ARQ Acknowledgements), selecting one or more PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) resource indexes corresponding to the HARQ-ACKs from a plurality of PUCCH resource indexes, and transmitting one or more modulation symbols corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs using resources corresponding to the one or more PUCCH resource indexes, in which, when a number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is two, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted only in a first multiple antenna transmission manner, and when a number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is three or more, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted in any one of a plurality of second multiple antenna transmission manners.

Claims (15)

1. A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system, comprising:

generating a plurality of HARQ-ACKs (hybrid ARQ acknowledgements);

selecting one or more PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) resource indexes corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs from a plurality of PUCCH resource indexes; and

transmitting one or more modulation symbols corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs using resources corresponding to the one or more PUCCH resource indexes, wherein, when the number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is two, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted using a first multiple antenna transmission scheme only, and when the number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is three or more, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted using a second multiple antenna transmission scheme,

wherein the first multiple antenna transmission scheme includes SORTD (spatial orthogonal resource transmit diversity), and

wherein the second multiple antenna transmission scheme comprises transmitting the one or more modulation symbols and a reference signal through a first antenna port using a first resource and a second resource obtained from the same PUCCH resource index and transmitting the one or more modulation symbols and the reference signal through a second antenna port using a third resource and a fourth resource respectively obtained from two different PUCCH resource indexes.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method is performed by a communication device for which two cells are configured, the communication device operating in an FDD (frequency division duplex) mode.

3. A communication device configured to transmit uplink control information in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to generate a plurality of HARQ-ACKs, to select one or more PUCCH resource indexes corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs from a plurality of PUCCH resource indexes and to transmit one or more modulation symbols corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs using resources corresponding to the one or more PUCCH resource indexes,

wherein, when the number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is two, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted using a first multiple antenna transmission scheme only, and when the number of the plurality of HARQ-ACKs is three or more, the one or more modulation symbols are transmitted using a second multiple antenna transmission scheme,

wherein the first multiple antenna transmission scheme includes SORTD (spatial orthogonal resource transmit diversity), and

wherein the second multiple antenna transmission scheme comprises transmission of the one or more modulation symbols and a reference signal through a first antenna port using a first resource and a second resource obtained from the same PUCCH resource index and transmission of the one or more modulation symbols and the reference signal through a second antenna port using a third resource and a fourth resource respectively obtained from two different PUCCH resource indexes.

4. The communication device according to claim 3 , wherein the method is performed by a communication device for which two cells are configured, the communication device operating in an FDD mode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2014
From: HAN, SEUNGHEE; SON, HYUKMIN; CHOI, HYEYOUNG; LEE, HYUNWOO; KIM, JINMIN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (8)
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