Method and device for processing HARQ feedback, method and device for transmitting HARQ feedback

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10700819-B2
Application number	US-201616322901-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2016
Priority date	Aug 2, 2016
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing a HARQ feedback and a method and apparatus for transmitting a HARQ feedback. The method for processing the HARQ feedback includes: receiving ACK/NACK information transmitted by a terminal simultaneously through a PUSCH and a PUCCH; determining whether a specified record exists in a historical record, the specified record being used for indicating that DCI corresponding to uplink grant information has been transmitted, and the uplink grant information being assigned to the terminal on a PDSCH; and decoding the ACK/NACK information on the PUSCH and/or the PUCCH if the specified record exists. Through the present disclosure, the problem that all data that has been successfully transmitted needs to be retransmitted due to a loss of DCI corresponding to the uplink grant information is solved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for processing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, comprising:
receiving, by a network side device, acknowledgment (ACK)/negative-acknowledgment (NACK) information transmitted simultaneously by a terminal through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH);
determining, by the network side device, whether a specified record exists in a historical record, wherein the specified record is used for indicating that downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to uplink grant information has been transmitted, and wherein the uplink grant information is assigned to the terminal on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and
decoding, by the network side device, the ACK/NACK information on the PUSCH and/or the PUCCH in response to determining that the specified record exists in the historical record.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the historical record further comprises DCI corresponding to downlink resource assignment information, and the downlink resource assignment information is assigned to the terminal on the PDCCH.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a format of the DCI corresponding to the downlink resource assignment information comprises at least one of: DCI 1, DCI 1A and DCI 2A; and wherein a format of the DCI corresponding to the uplink grant information comprises at least one of: DCI 0 and DCI 4.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting the DCI corresponding to the uplink grant information to the terminal in a current transmission time interval (TTI).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the decoding the ACK/NACK information on the PUSCH and/or the PUCCH comprises:
determining whether the ACK/NACK information on the PUSCH is decoded successfully; and
decoding the ACK/NACK information on the PUCCH in response to determining that the ACK/NACK information on the PUSCH is not decoded successfully.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK is configured to instruct a network side device to transmit new downlink data to the terminal, and the NACK is configured to instruct the network side device to retransmit delivered downlink data to the terminal.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein decoding the ACK/NACK feedback on the PUSCH and/or the PUCCH further comprises:
determining that the ACK/NACK information is NACK in response to determining that the decoding of the ACK/NACK information fails.

8. A method for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal, first downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to downlink resource assignment information and second DCI corresponding to uplink grant information, wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are assigned to the terminal through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) by a network side device, and performing decoding;
receiving, by the terminal, data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) according to the first DCI;
determining, by the terminal, acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgment (NACK) information according to whether data received the PDSCH is successfully decoded;
encoding, by the terminal, the ACK/NACK information; and
transmitting, by the terminal, the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device simultaneously through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the encoded ACK/NACK information is transmitted through the PUSCH according to the second DCI.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a format of the first DCI comprises at least one of: DCI 1, DCI 1A and DCI 2A; and wherein a format of the second DCI comprises at least one of: DCI 0 and DCI 4.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein in a case where the second DCI corresponding to the uplink grant information assigned by the network side device on the PDCCH is not received, the method further comprises: transmitting the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device through the PUCCH.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein in a case where only one of the PUSCH and the PUCCH is allowed to transmit the ACK/NACK information to the network side device, the method further comprises: transmitting the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device through the PUSCH.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the ACK/NACK information is encoded according to a lowest control channel element (CCE) index corresponding to a last received DCI.

13. A terminal, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory communicably connected with the processor and for storing instructions executable by the processor,
wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to:
receive first downlink control information (DCI) indicating downlink resource assignment information and second DCI indicating uplink grant information, wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are transmitted by a network side device through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH);
receive data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) according to the first DCI;
determine acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgment (NACK) information according to whether the data received the PDSCH is successfully decoded;
encode the ACK/NACK information; and
transmit the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device simultaneously through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the encoded ACK/NACK information is transmitted through the PUSCH according to the second DCI.

14. The terminal of claim 13 , wherein a format of the first DCI comprises at least one of: DCI 1, DCI 1A and DCI 2A; and wherein a format of the second DCI comprises at least one of: DCI 0 and DCI 4.

15. The terminal of claim 13 , wherein in a case where the second DCI is not received, the terminal transmits the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device through the PUCCH.

16. The terminal of claim 13 , wherein in a case where only one of the PUSCH and the PUCCH is allowed to transmit the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device, the terminal transmits the encoded ACK/NACK information to the network side device through the PUSCH.

17. The terminal of claim 13 , wherein the ACK/NACK information is encoded according to a lowest control channel element (CCE) index corresponding to a last received DCI.

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Gao Minggang
• Ni Qingyu
• Bai Li
• Xue Jiaojiao

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04L5/0055 Primary

  Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861) · CPC title

• H04L1/16

  in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals · CPC title