Method and device for executing HARQ in TDD-based wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9705642-B2
Application number	US-201615200304-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2016
Priority date	Mar 21, 2011
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A method for a base station (BS) to perform a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The BS transmits an uplink (UL) grant for a first subframe of a second serving cell through a first serving cell. The BS receives UL data based on the UL grant in the first subframe, transmits an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) for the UL data through a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) in subframe i of the first serving cell and receives non-adaptively retransmitted UL data in a second subframe of the second serving cell if a NACK for the UL data has been transmitted through the PHICH in the subframe i of the first serving cell. The first serving cell and the second serving cell use different UL-DL configurations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) by a user equipment (UE) to which a plurality of serving cells based on Time Division Duplex (TDD) has been allocated, the method comprising:
receiving an uplink (UL) grant for a first subframe of a second serving cell through a first serving cell;
transmitting UL data in the first subframe based on the UL grant; and
performing a non-adaptive retransmission for the UL data in a second subframe of the second serving cell if a not-acknowledgement (NACK) for the UL data is received through a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) in a subframe i of the first serving cell,
wherein the first serving cell and the second serving cell use different uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations, and each of the UL-DL configurations is information on which each subframe within a TDD frame is configured as a UL subframe, a DL subframe or a special subframe,
wherein if a PHICH resource corresponding to the UL data is not present in the subframe i, the non-adaptive retransmission is not allowed in the second subframe of the second serving cell, and
wherein if a UL grant for the second subframe is received through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the subframe i, the UE performs a retransmission according to the UL grant for the second subframe.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UL grant for the second subframe comprises information indicative of whether or not the first UL data is to be retransmitted,
wherein if the information indicative of whether or not the UL data is to be retransmitted indicates retransmission, the first UL data is retransmitted in the second subframe, and
wherein if the information indicative of whether or not the UL data is to be retransmitted indicates new transmission, a second UL data is transmitted in the second subframe.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the second subframe, the UE performs a new transmission or a retransmission according to the UL grant for the second subframe regardless of the content of the PHICH in the subframe i.

4. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a Radio Frequency (RF) unit configured to transmit and receive radio signals; and
a processor connected with the RF unit,
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive an uplink (UL) grant for a first subframe of a second serving cell through a first serving cell,
transmit UL data in the first subframe based on the UL grant, and
perform a non-adaptive retransmission for the UL data in a second subframe of the second serving cell if a not-acknowledgement (NACK) for the UL data is received through a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) in a subframe i of the first serving cell,

wherein the first serving cell and the second serving cell use different uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations, and each of the UL-DL configurations is information on which each subframe within a TDD frame is configured as a UL subframe, a DL subframe or a special subframe,
wherein if a PHICH resource corresponding to the UL data is not present in the subframe i, the non-adaptive retransmission is not allowed in the second subframe of the second serving cell, and
wherein if a UL grant for the second subframe is received through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the subframe i, the UE performs a retransmission according to the UL grant for the second subframe.

5. The UE of claim 4 , wherein the UL grant for the second subframe comprises information indicative of whether or not the first UL data is to be retransmitted,
wherein if the information indicative of whether or not the UL data is to be retransmitted indicates retransmission, the first UL data is retransmitted in the second subframe, and
wherein if the information indicative of whether or not the UL data is to be retransmitted indicates new transmission, a second UL data is transmitted in the second subframe.

6. The UE of claim 4 , wherein, in the second subframe, the UE performs a new transmission or a retransmission according to the UL grant for the second subframe regardless of the content of the PHICH in the subframe i.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Seo Dong Youn
• Kim Min Gyu
• Seo Han Byul
• Ahn Joon Kui
• Yang Suck Chel

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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

• H04L1/1893

  Physical mapping arrangements (physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00) · CPC title

• H04L1/1887

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04L5/16

  Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals {non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission} · CPC title

• H04L1/1812 Primary

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