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Granted Patent B2
US 9,503,837 · App. 14/048,836 · Granted Nov 22, 2016

Method and apparatus for performing HARQ process in wireless communication system

Inventors: Hak Seong Kim (Seoul, KR); Oh Soon Shin (Seoul, KR); Shan Ai Wu (Seoul, KR); Yo An Shin (Seoul, KR); Mo Chan Yang (Seoul, KR); E Rang Lim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
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Patent No.
US 9,503,837
App. No.
14/048,836
Granted
Nov 22, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system is provided. UEs that use the same application for D2D communications form a sharing group so that reliability of transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) among terminals that perform the D2D communications is guaranteed. In addition, among the terminals that perform the D2D communications, uplink transmission points in time determined in accordance with TDD configuration are checked and determined (calculated) so that the PUSCH and the PUCCH are correctly transmitted and received.

Claims (37)

1. A method of performing, by a device to device (D2D) terminal, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

overhearing a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted from a base station to a D2D transmitting terminal and decoding the PDCCH based on a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal,

wherein the PDCCH includes an uplink resource for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and an uplink resource for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

overhearing a PUSCH including D2D data transmitted from the D2D transmitting terminal to a D2D receiving terminal based on the PDCCH;

overhearing a PUCCH transmitted from the D2D receiving terminal to the D2D transmitting terminal based on the PDCCH, the PUCCH including an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) message with respect to the PUSCH including the D2D data; and

transmitting the D2D data in accordance with the ACK/NACK message to the D2D receiving terminal when the ACK/NACK message indicates NACK for performing cooperative HARQ,

wherein the D2D terminal, the D2D transmitting terminal and the D2D receiving terminal are included in a D2D group, and

wherein each terminal belonging to the D2D group knows the C-RNTI of each of the other terminals belonging to the D2D group such that each terminal is capable of overhearing signals associated with the other terminals.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the D2D receiving terminal obtains the C-RNTI corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal when D2D connection is configured with the D2D transmitting terminal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the D2D terminal obtains the C-RNTI corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal when the D2D group is formed.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining resource information of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for the D2D communications through the PDCCH.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the D2D data is transmitted through the PUSCH and the ACK/NACK message is transmitted through the PUCCH.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

checking the D2D data transmitted through the PUSCH; and

transmitting a response signal to the data to the D2D transmitting terminal or the base station through the PUCCH.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

checking whether the D2D data is retransmitted by the D2D transmitting terminal.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining configuration information on whether a frequency division duplex (FDD) method or a time division duplex (TDD) method is used from the base station,

wherein the D2D data and the ACK/NACK message are transmitted in different sub-frames determined in accordance with the used configuration information.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein if the FDD method is configured, the PDCCH is overheard in an nth sub-frame, the D2D data is overheard in an (n+4) th sub-frame, the ACK/NACK message is overheard in an (n+8) th sub-frame and the D2D data in accordance with the ACK/NACK message is transmitted in an (n+12) th sub-frame.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the TDD method is configured, sub-frames for uplink transmission are determined according to a specific TDD configuration selected among a plurality of TDD configurations, and

wherein the PDCCH is overheard in a first sub-frame among the sub-frames, the D2D data is overheard in a second sub-frame among the sub-frames in which uplink transmission is performed after the first sub-frame, the ACK/NACK message is overheard in a third sub-frame among the sub-frames in which uplink transmission is performed after the second sub-frame and the D2D data in accordance with the ACK/NACK message is transmitted in a fourth sub-frame among the sub-frames in which uplink transmission is performed after the third sub-frame.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein if an index of the specific TDD configuration is 5, the cooperative HARQ is not performed.

12. A method of receiving device to device (D2D) data by a D2D receiving terminal, the method comprising:

overhearing a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted from a base station to a D2D transmitting terminal and decoding the PDCCH based on a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal,

wherein the PDCCH includes an uplink resource for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and an uplink resource for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

receiving, from the D2D transmitting terminal, a PUSCH including the D2D data based on the PDCCH;

transmitting a PUCCH based on the PDCCH to the D2D transmitting terminal, the PUCCH including an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) message with respect to the D2D data; and

re-receiving the D2D data in accordance with the ACK/NACK message from the D2D transmitting terminal and at least one group D2D terminal respectively,

wherein the D2D receiving terminal, the D2D transmitting terminal and the at least one group D2D terminal are included in a D2D group, and

wherein each terminal belonging to the D2D group knows the C-RNTI of each of the other terminals belonging to the D2D group such that each terminal is capable of overhearing signals associated with the other terminals.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the at least one group D2D terminal obtains the C-RNTI corresponding to the D2D transmitting terminal when the D2D group is formed.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

obtaining configuration information on whether a frequency division duplex (FDD) method or a time division duplex (TDD) method is used from the base station,

wherein the D2D data and the ACK/NACK message are transmitted in different sub-frames determined in accordance with the used configuration information.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE TITLE OF THE APPLICATION WAS INCORRECT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 031367 FRAME 0087. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ENTIRE RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION FILED AS SERIAL NO. 14/048,836 TO LG ELECTRONICS INC.. Recorded Oct 18, 2013
From: KIM, HAK SEONG; SHIN, OH SOON; WU, SHAN AI; SHIN, YO AN; YANG, MO CHAN; LIM, E RANG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 031454/0137 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 8, 2013
From: KIM, HAK SEONG; SHIN, OH SOON; WU, SHAN AI; SHIN, YO AN; YANG, MO CHAN; LIM, E RANG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.; SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR
Reel/Frame 031367/0087 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61710780 · Oct 8, 2012
Related Publication 20140098719A1 · Apr 10, 2014