Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving uplink signal, and method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving downlink signal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9288028-B2
Application number	US-201214130249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2012
Priority date	Jun 28, 2011
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for scheduling an uplink and a method for scheduling a downlink for a user equipment group comprising a plurality of user equipments in similar channel situations. In the present invention, which relates to the method for scheduling the uplink, a primary user equipment for a user equipment group is configured, and information according to a random access procedure that is performed by the primary user equipment is shared by means of other user equipments in the user equipment group. In the present invention, which relates to the method for scheduling the downlink, each of the user equipment in the user equipment group attempt to detect downlink data by a random access preamble transmission timing, and transmits a pertinent random access preamble to a base station at the random access preamble transmission timing, thereby notifying the base station of a failure to receive the downlink data, when the detection of the downlink data by the random access preamble transmission timing fails.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for transmitting, by a user equipment, an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, by the user equipment from a base station, machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information for a group of user equipments (MTC group);
receiving, by the user equipment from the base station, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH, with or without transmitting, by the user equipment, the random access preamble to the base station according to whether the user equipment is a primary user equipment of the MTC group or not;
transmitting, by the user equipment to the base station, uplink data to the base station based on the RA response PDSCH;
receiving, by the user equipment from the base station, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group (DL feedback PDSCH); and
retransmitting, by the user equipment to the base station, the uplink data when acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of the user equipment, included in the DL feedback PDSCH, indicates NACK.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and
the uplink data is transmitted or retransmitted to the base station based on the timing advance information.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for a user equipment of which ACK/NACK information indicates NACK.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group corresponding to the MTC group configuration information is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.

6. A user equipment for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) unit; and
a processor configured to control the RF unit,
wherein the processor is further configured to:
control the RF unit to receive, from a base station, machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information for a group of user equipments (MTC group),
control the RF unit to receive, from the base station, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH, with or without transmitting, by the user equipment, the random access preamble to the base station according to whether the user equipment is a primary user equipment of the MTC group or not,
control the RF unit to transmit, to the base station, uplink data based on the RA response PDSCH,
control the RF unit to receive, from the base station, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group (DL feedback PDSCH), and
control the RF unit to retransmit, to the base station, the uplink data when acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of the user equipment, included in the DL feedback PDSCH, indicates NACK.

7. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein:
the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and
the processor controls the RF unit to transmit or retransmit the uplink data to the base station based on the timing advance information.

8. The user equipment according to claim 7 , wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for a user equipment of which ACK/NACK information indicates NACK.

9. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group corresponding to the MTC group configuration information is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

10. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein the RA response PDSCH carries uplink resource allocation information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group.

11. A method for receiving, by a base station, an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
transmitting, by the base station to a group of user equipments (MTC group), machine type communication (MTC) group configuration information;
receiving, by the base station from only a primary user equipment among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group, a random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information;
transmitting, by the base station to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access response physical downlink control channel (RA response PDCCH) corresponding to the random access preamble based on the MTC group configuration information and a random access response physical downlink shared channel (RA response PDSCH) based on the RA response PDCCH;
receiving, by the base station from the MTC group, uplink data based on the RA response PDSCH;
for the user equipment group;
transmitting, by the base station to each user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a PDSCH carrying downlink feedback information for the MTC group; and
receiving, by the base station, uplink data retransmitted by a user equipment (NACK user equipment), of which acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicates NACK, among the user equipments belonging to the MTC group.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein:
the RA response PDSCH carries timing advance information for the MTC group, and
the uplink data transmitted or retransmitted by the NACK user equipment is received or re-received from the NACK user equipment based on the timing advance information.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the DL feedback PDSCH carries ACK/NACK information per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, and uplink resource allocation information for the NACK user equipment.

14. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the MTC group configuration information includes at least information indicating which user equipment in the MTC group is the primary user equipment, a common identifier for the MTC group, a unique identifier per user equipment belonging to the MTC group, a random access radio network temporary identifier for the MTC group, a random access preamble information dedicated to the MTC group, or a random access radio resource information for the MTC group.

15. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the RA response

Assignees

• Yang Suckchel
• Kim Mingyu
• Ahn Joonkui
• Seo Dongyoun
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Yang Suckchel
• Kim Mingyu
• Ahn Joonkui
• Seo Dongyoun

Classifications

• H04L1/1887

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04L1/1854 Primary

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04L5/0055 Primary

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

• H04L1/1864

  ARQ related signaling (H04L1/1607 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04W72/04

  Wireless resource allocation · CPC title