HARQ timelines for TDD-FDD carrier aggregation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9538565-B2
Application number	US-201414318143-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2014
Priority date	Sep 26, 2013
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments include an end-to-end UE and eNB HARQ protocol design for various TDD-FDD joint operation wireless network configurations. Designs for timing of HARQ feedback in response to PDSCH and PUSCH transmissions (or simply, PDSCH and PUSCH) include both HARQ feedback from a UE, and HARQ feedback from an eNB. The PUSCH HARQ timeline embodiments also include both self-scheduling and cross-carrier scheduling scenarios for PUSCH transmissions. In addition, designs for the cross-carrier scheduling scenarios contemplate an FDD scheduling cell or a TDD scheduling cell.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A user equipment (UE) configured for cross-carrier scheduled carrier aggregation, the UE comprising:
circuitry configured to:
decode a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a scheduling cell to obtain information for scheduling physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), the PUSCHs including a first PUSCH in the scheduling cell and a second PUSCH in a scheduled cell, the scheduling cell having a first duplex mode, the scheduled cell having a second duplex mode that is different from the first duplex mode;
detect from the PHICH, a first HARQ in response to the first PUSCH, in which the first HARQ is detected according to a first predefined HARQ timing corresponding to the first duplex mode; and
detect from the PHICH, a second HARQ in response to the second PUSCH, in which the second HARQ is detected according to a second predefined HARQ timing corresponding to the first duplex mode or the second duplex mode, in which, in response to the UE receiving during a subframe index value of n a PDCCH or a PHICH associated with the scheduled cell, the second PUSCH is configured to be transmitted during a subframe index value of n+k, where k≧4 and where k is based on a preconfigured time division duplex (TDD) configuration type.

2. The UE of claim 1 , in which the first duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode and the second duplex mode is a TDD mode.

3. The UE of claim 2 , in which the second predefined HARQ timing corresponds to an FDD mode, in which the second predefined HARQ timing specifies that the second PUSCH transmitted during the subframe index value of n has an associated HARQ message carried in the PHICH during a subframe index value of n+4.

4. The UE of claim 2 , in which the second predefined HARQ timing corresponds to a TDD mode, and in which the second predefined HARQ timing specifies that the second PUSCH transmitted during the subframe index value of n has an associated HARQ message carried in the PHICH during the subframe index value of n+k.

5. The UE of claim 1 , in which the first duplex mode is a TDD mode and the second duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode.

6. The UE of claim 5 , in which the second predefined HARQ timing corresponds to the TDD mode, and in which the second predefined HARQ timing specifies that the second PUSCH transmitted during the subframe index value of n has an associated HARQ message carried in the PHICH during the subframe index value of n+k.

7. A user equipment (UE) configured for cross-carrier scheduled carrier aggregation, the UE comprising:
circuitry configured to:
decode a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a scheduling cell to obtain information for scheduling physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), the PUSCHs including a first PUSCH in the scheduling cell and a second PUSCH in a scheduled cell, the scheduling cell having a first duplex mode, the scheduled cell having a second duplex mode that is different from the first duplex mode;
detect from the PHICH, a first HARQ in response to the first PUSCH, in which the first HARQ is detected according to a first predefined HARQ timing corresponding to the first duplex mode; and
detect from the PHICH, a second HARQ in response to the second PUSCH, in which the second HARQ is detected according to a second predefined HARQ timing that corresponds to a time division duplex (TDD) mode, and in which the second predefined HARQ timing specifies that the second PUSCH transmitted during a subframe index value of n has an associated HARQ message carried in the PHICH during a subframe index value of n+k, where k≧4 and where k is based on a preconfigured TDD configuration type.

8. The UE of claim 7 , in which the first duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode and the second duplex mode is the TDD mode.

9. The UE of claim 8 , in which, in response to the UE receiving during the subframe index value of n a PDCCH or a PHICH associated with the scheduled cell, the second PUSCH is configured to be transmitted during the subframe index value of n+k.

10. The UE of claim 7 , in which the first duplex mode is the TDD mode and the second duplex mode is a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode.

11. The UE of claim 10 , in which, in response to the UE receiving during the subframe index value of n a PDCCH or a PHICH associated with the scheduled cell, the second PUSCH is configured to be transmitted during the subframe index value of n+k.

12. The UE of claim 7 , in which, in response to the UE receiving during the subframe index value of n a PDCCH or a PHICH associated with the scheduled cell, the second PUSCH is configured to be transmitted during the subframe index value of n+k.

Assignees

• Intel Ip Corp

Inventors

• He Hong
• Fwu Jong-Kae
• Han Seunghee
• Xiong Gang

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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

• H04L1/1887

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04W8/005 Primary

  Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals · CPC title

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title