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US 9,490,943 · App. 14/378,841 · Granted Nov 8, 2016

Method for receiving or transmitting downlink signal and apparatus for same

Inventors: Jonghyun Park (Anyang-si, KR); Kijun Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Illsoo Sohn (Anyang-si, KR); Eunsun Kim (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04L1/1896H04L1/1812
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Patent No.
US 9,490,943
App. No.
14/378,841
Granted
Nov 8, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The method for receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: receiving, from a base station, a candidate seed list and downlink control information for the generation of a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal, wherein a seed value is selected from the candidate seed list on the basis of seed value indicating information contained in the downlink control information and the sequence of the downlink demodulation reference signal is generated by using the selected seed value. The candidate seed list may include a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers and virtual cell identifiers related to the plurality of HARQ process identifiers.

Claims (34)

1. A method for receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a list of a plurality of virtual cell identifiers and information of a mapping relationship between the plurality of virtual cell identifiers and a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers from a base station (BS);

receiving downlink control information (DCI) including a specific HARQ process identifier among the plurality of HARQ process identifiers from the BS;

selecting a specific virtual cell identifier from the plurality of virtual cell identifiers based on the mapping relationship and the specific HARP process identifier included in the DCI; and

generating a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal (DM RS) using the specific virtual cell identifier.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the mapping relationship indicates that each of the HARQ process identifiers corresponds to each of the virtual cell identifiers.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the mapping relationship indicates that at least two HARQ process identifiers from the plurality of HARQ process identifiers correspond to the specific virtual cell identifier.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selecting the specific virtual cell identifier includes:

if all HARQ process identifiers mapped to the specific virtual cell identifier are allocated so that the specific virtual cell identifier is no longer allocated to the UE, the selection of the specific virtual cell identifier is further based on auxiliary information included in the DCI.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the auxiliary information is scrambling identity information.

6. A method for transmitting, by a base station, a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a list of a plurality of virtual cell identifiers and information of a mapping relationship between the plurality of virtual cell identifiers and a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers to a user equipment (UE); and

transmitting downlink control information (DCI) including a specific HARQ process identifier among the plurality of HARQ process identifiers to the UE,

wherein the UE selects a specific virtual cell identifier from the plurality of virtual cell identifiers based on the mapping relationship and the specific HARQ process identifier included in the DCI, and generates a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal (DM RS) using the specific virtual cell identifier.

7. A user equipment (UE) configured to receive a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor configured to control the RF unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive a list of a plurality of virtual cell identifiers and information of a mapping relationship between the plurality of virtual cell identifiers and a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers from a base station (BS),

receive downlink control information (DCI) including a specific HARQ process identifier among the plurality of HARQ process identifiers from the BS,

select a specific virtual cell identifier from the plurality of virtual cell identifiers based on the mapping relationship and the specific HARQ process identifier included in the DCI, and

generate a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal (DM RS) using the specific virtual cell identifier.

8. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7 , wherein the mapping relationship indicates that each of the HARQ process identifiers corresponds to each of the virtual cell identifiers.

9. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7 , wherein the mapping relationship indicates that at least two HARQ process identifiers from among the plurality of HARQ process identifiers correspond to the specific virtual cell identifier.

10. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 7 , wherein:

when the processor selects the specific virtual cell identifier, if all HARQ process identifiers mapped to the specific virtual cell identifier are allocated so that the specific virtual cell identifier is no longer allocated to the UE, the processor is configured to select the specific virtual cell identifier further based on auxiliary information included in the DCI.

11. The user equipment (UE) according to claim 10 , wherein the auxiliary information is scrambling identity information.

12. A base station (BS) configured to transmit a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor configured to control the RF unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

transmit a list of a plurality of virtual cell identifiers and information of a mapping relationship between the plurality of virtual cell identifiers and a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers to a user equipment (UE), and

transmit downlink control information (DCI) including a specific HARQ process identifier among the plurality of HARQ process identifiers to the UE through the RF unit,

wherein the UE is configured to select a specific virtual cell identifier from the plurality of virtual cell identifiers based on the mapping relationship and the specific HARQ process identifier included in the DCI, and generate a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal (DM RS) using the specific virtual cell identifier.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2014
From: PARK, JONGHYUN; KIM, KIJUN; SOHN, ILLSOO; KIM, EUNSUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 033547/0771 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61601539 · Feb 21, 2012
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