Method and apparatus of controlling downlink HARQ timing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9584267-B2
Application number	US-201414527708-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2014
Priority date	Nov 1, 2013
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for controlling a downlink (DL) Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) timing in a system supporting a TDD-FDD joint operation and an FDD-TDD joint operation environment. A base station transmits a PDSCH and a UE transmits an HARQ response in response to the PDSCH. In the TDD-FDD joint operation, the interval between the PDSCH transmission and the HARQ response may be determined based on an FDD mode configuration when the PDSCH is transmitted through a TDD-based primary serving cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) response from a User Equipment (UE) to a base station, the method comprising:
establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the base station through a first serving cell, the first serving cell supporting a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode;
receiving, at the UE, an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising carrier aggregation (CA) configuration information, the CA configuration information comprising information of a second serving cell supporting a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode, and the first serving cell and the second serving cell being aggregated by an FDD-TDD CA scheme;
receiving at least one of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and an Enhanced PDCCH through the second serving cell;
detecting, based on resource allocation information included in the at least one of the PDCCH and the EPDCCH, a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmitted from the base station through the second serving cell, the PDSCH being received in a subframe n−4, wherein n−4 is an integer, and the PDSCH comprises Downlink Shared Channel (DL-SCH) transmitted from the base station to the UE; and
transmitting, from the UE to the base station, an HARQ response responsive to the detected PDSCH through the first serving cell, the HARQ response being transmitted in a subframe n, wherein n is an integer.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein an interval between the subframe n−4 and the subframe n is determined by a subframe n−1, a subframe n−2, and a subframe n−3, and
wherein the subframe n−1, the subframe n−2, and the subframe n−3 exist between the subframe n−4 and the subframe n.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE transmits a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) that includes the HARQ response.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first serving cell is a primary serving cell (PCell), and the second serving cell is a secondary serving cell (SCell).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein an uplink/downlink configuration for the second serving cell comprises at least one of uplink/downlink configurations 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 as shown in the following table:

Uplink/downlink
Subframe number

configuration
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

0
D
S
U
U
U
D
S
U
U
U

1
D
S
U
U
D
D
S
U
U
D

2
D
S
U
D
D
D
S
U
D
D

3
D
S
U
U
U
D
D
D
D
D

4
D
S
U
U
D
D
D
D
D
D

5
D
S
U
D
D
D
D
D
D
D

6
D
S
U
U
U
D
S
U
U
 D,

where D denotes a downlink (DL) subframe, U denotes an uplink (UL) subframe, and S denotes a special subframe.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, through the second serving cell, a PDCCH that indicates release of Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS)transmitted from the base station, the PDCCH that indicates release of SPS being received in a subframe m−4, wherein m−4 is an integer; and
transmitting, from the UE to the base station through the first serving cell, an HARQ response responsive to the received PDCCH that indicates release of SPS, the HARQ response responsive to the received PDCCH that indicates release of SPS being transmitted in a subframe m, wherein m is an integer.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the PDCCH and the EPDCCH is received in the subframe n−4 in which the PDSCH is received.

8. A method of receiving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) response, the method comprising:
establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a User Equipment (UE) through a first serving cell, the first serving cell supporting a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode;
transmitting, from a base station to the UE, an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising carrier aggregation (CA) configuration information, the CA configuration information comprising information of a second serving cell supporting a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode, and the first serving cell and the second serving cell being aggregated by an FDD-TDD CA scheme;
transmitting, from the base station to the UE, at least one of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and an Enhanced PDCCH through the second serving cell, wherein resource allocation information for the PDSCH is included in the at least one of the PDCCH and the EPDCCH;
transmitting, from the base station to the UE, a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) through the second serving cell, the PDSCH being transmitted in a subframe n−4, wherein n−4 is an integer, and the PDSCH comprises Downlink Shared Channel (DL-SCH) to be transmitted from the base station to the UE; and
receiving an HARQ response responsive to the transmitted PDSCH through the first serving cell, the HARQ response being transmitted from the UE and received in a subframe n, wherein n is an integer.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein an interval between the subframe n−4 and the subframe n is determined by a subframe n−1, a subframe n−2, and a subframe n−3, and
wherein the subframe n−1, the subframe n−2, and the subframe n−3 exist between the subframe n−4 and the subframe n.

10. The method o

Assignees

• Innovative Tech Lab Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Dong Hyun

Classifications

• H04W72/23 Primary

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

• H04L5/14

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

• H04L1/1812

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04L5/0055

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

• H04L1/1854

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title