Method for performing HARQ for device-to-device communication in wireless communication system and device for same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9705645-B2
Application number	US-201314389249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2013
Priority date	Apr 18, 2012
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed in the present application is a method for performing HARQ for device-to-device communication by a first user equipment in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises: receiving scheduling information for signal transmission from an eNode B to a second user equipment; transmitting data to the specific user equipment in a first subframe according to the scheduling information; and transmitting the data or new data to the second user equipment in a third subframe according to a response signal to the data, wherein the response signal is transmitted from the second UE to the eNode B in a second subframe positioned between the first subframe and the third subframe, and an interval between the first subframe and the third subframe, which is an HARQ period for the device-to-device communication, is set as a power number of an HARQ period between the first user equipment and the eNodeB.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of a first user equipment for performing HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat and reQuest) for device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving scheduling information for performing signal transmission to a second user equipment from a base station;
transmitting data on a first subframe to the second user equipment in accordance with the scheduling information;
receiving a response signal from the base station on a second subframe located between the first subframe and a third subframe, wherein the response signal is transmitted by the second user equipment in response to the transmitted data on the first subframe; and
transmitting the data or new data on the third subframe to the second user equipment in accordance with the response signal,
wherein an interval between the first subframe and the third subframe corresponds to a second HARQ cycle period for a second HARQ process between the first user equipment and the second user equipment,
wherein a first HARQ cycle period for a first HARQ process between the first user equipment and the base station is set to a multiple of the second HARQ cycle period,
wherein a predetermined time offset is applied to the first HARQ process and the second HARQ process, and
wherein the predetermined time offset is set to half of the second HARQ cycle period.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second subframe corresponds to an uplink subframe interconnected to a nearest downlink subframe after the first subframe.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second subframe corresponds to a nearest subframe after the first subframe.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the nearest subframe corresponds to an uplink subframe that is scheduled to transmit an ACK (Acknowledgement)/NACK (Negative-ACK) signal to the base station in uplink/downlink subframe configurations configured in the first user equipment.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the base station transmits scheduling information for reception of the data on a fourth subframe to the second user equipment.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving information related to the uplink/downlink subframe configurations for the device-to-device communication from the base station.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein an uplink subframe collection of the uplink/downlink subframe configurations for the device-to-device communication is included in or identical to an uplink subframe collection of the uplink/downlink subframe configurations for the device-to-base station communication.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the information related to the uplink/downlink subframe configurations for the device-to-base station communication is predetermined in advance through system information.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Seungmin
• Seo Hanbyul
• Kim Hakseong

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04W72/042

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L5/003

  Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path · CPC title

• H04L1/1812

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