Method and apparatus for controlling data traffic in a TDD system that uses multi-component carriers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9236986-B2
Application number	US-201214128449-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2012
Priority date	Jun 23, 2011
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling data traffic in a time-division duplex (TDD) system that uses multi-component carriers. The method for controlling data traffic in a TDD system that uses multi-component carriers according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: a base station transmitting, to a user equipment, a wireless signal including data through one or more component carriers among a component carrier group including a first element carrier which is a primary cell (PCell) and a second element carrier (SCell) which is a secondary cell, wherein the Pcell and the Scell consist of uplink and downlink subframes in a time division duplex system; and the base station receiving, from the user terminal, a wireless signal including response control information for the data through the second component carrier.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling data traffic by a base station in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system using multiple component carriers, the method comprising:
transmitting a wireless signal including data to a user equipment through any one or more component carriers in a component carrier set which comprises a first component carrier corresponding to a primary cell and a second component carrier corresponding to a secondary cell, in which uplink and downlink subframes are configured according to a TDD scheme; and
receiving a wireless signal including response control information to the data from the user equipment through the second component carrier,
wherein the second component carrier is different in band from the first component carrier, the second component carrier has a TDD configuration which is different from a TDD configuration of the first component carrier in terms of a structure of downlink and uplink subframes, and an uplink subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier exists in the second component carrier.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when there exists a third component carrier which is overlapped on the second component carrier in terms of an uplink subframe and includes a subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier, the base station controls the user equipment to identify the second component carrier by using any one of a cell index of the second component carrier or the third component carrier, predetermined information between the base station and the user equipment, and radio resource control.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising receiving the wireless signal including the response control information to the data from the user equipment through the first component carrier, when an uplink subframe which is different in time region from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier does not exist in the second component carrier.

4. A method for controlling data traffic by a user equipment in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system using multiple component carriers, the method comprising:
receiving a wireless signal including data from a base station through any one or more component carriers in a component carrier set which comprises a first component carrier corresponding to a primary cell and a second component carrier corresponding to a secondary cell, in which uplink and downlink subframes are configured according to a TDD scheme; and
transmitting a wireless signal including response control information to the data to the base station through the second component carrier,
wherein the second component carrier is different in band from the first component carrier, the second component carrier has a TDD configuration which is different from a TDD configuration of the first component carrier in terms of a structure of downlink and uplink subframes, and an uplink subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier exists in the second component carrier.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein when there exists a third component carrier which is overlapped on the second component carrier in terms of an uplink subframe and in which there exists a subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier, the second component carrier is capable of being identified by using any one of a cell index of the second component carrier or the third component carrier, predetermined information between the user equipment and the base station, and radio resource control.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising transmitting the wireless signal including the response control information to the data to the base station through the first component carrier, when an uplink subframe which is different in time region from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier does not exist in the second component carrier.

7. A base station comprising:
a transmitter to transmit a wireless signal to a user equipment;
a receiver to receive a wireless signal from the user equipment; and
a controller to control a transmitter to transmit a wireless signal including data to a user equipment through any one or more component carriers in a component carrier set which comprises a first component carrier corresponding to a primary cell and a second component carrier corresponding to a secondary cell, in which uplink and downlink subframes are configured according to a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme, and to control the receiver to receive response control information to the data from the user equipment through the second component carrier,
wherein the second component carrier is different in band from the first component carrier, the second component carrier has a TDD configuration which is different from a TDD configuration of the first component carrier in terms of a structure of downlink and uplink subframes, and an uplink subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier exists in the second component carrier.

8. A user equipment comprising:
a transmitter to transmit a wireless signal to a base station;
a receiver to receive a wireless signal from the base station; and
a controller to control the receiver to receive a wireless signal including data from the base station through any one or more component carriers in a component carrier set which comprises a first component carrier corresponding to a primary cell and a second component carrier corresponding to a secondary cell, in which uplink and downlink subframes are configured according to a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme, and to control a transmitter to transmit a wireless signal including response control information to the data to the base station through the second component carrier,
wherein the second component carrier is different in band from the first component carrier, the second component carrier has a TDD configuration which is different from a TDD configuration of the first component carrier in terms of a structure of downlink and uplink subframes, and an uplink subframe different from an uplink subframe of the first component carrier exists in the second component carrier.

Assignees

• Park Donghyun
• Pantech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Donghyun

Classifications

• H04B7/2615 Primary

  using hybrid frequency-time division multiple access [FDMA-TDMA] · CPC title

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L5/0044 Primary

  Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH · CPC title

• H04L5/14

  Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex · CPC title

• H04L5/22

  using time-division multiplexing · CPC title