Systems and methods for carrier aggregation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9853779-B2
Application number	US-201414152759-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 10, 2014
Priority date	Jan 10, 2014
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A UE for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation. A primary cell is a FDD cell. When transmitting PDSCH HARQ-ACK information on a PUSCH or using a PUCCH format 3 in a later subframe, the UE generates two NACKs for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports up to two transport blocks, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell. The UE further generates a single NACK for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports a single transport block, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A user equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation, comprising:
a processor;
memory in electronic communication with the processor, wherein instructions stored in the memory are executable to:
determine a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell and a secondary cell is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell; and
for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1b with channel selection in a first subframe:
determine whether to use a PUCCH format 1b procedure for a single FDD serving cell or a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection procedure for multiple FDD serving cells based on whether a second subframe, which is a subframe four subframes before the first subframe, is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell; and
use the PUCCH format 1b procedure for the single FDD serving cell, in a case that the second subframe is the uplink subframe for the secondary cell.

2. The UE of claim 1 , further comprising instructions executable to determine whether the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell based on an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration defined by a radio resource control common secondary cell (RRCCommonSCell) message.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein when the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell, no HARQ-ACK bit for the second subframe is generated for the secondary cell.

4. An evolved Node B (eNB) for performing carrier aggregation, comprising:
a processor;
memory in electronic communication with the processor, wherein instructions stored in the memory are executable to:
determine a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell and a secondary cell is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell; and
for receiving hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1b with channel selection in a first subframe:
determine whether to use a PUCCH format 1b procedure for a single FDD serving cell or a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection procedure for multiple FDD serving cells based on whether a second subframe, which is a subframe four subframes before the first subframe, is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell; and
use the PUCCH format 1b procedure for the single FDD serving cell, in a case that the second subframe is the uplink subframe for the secondary cell.

5. The eNB of claim 4 , wherein determining whether the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell is based on an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration defined by a radio resource control common secondary cell (RRCCommonSCell) message.

6. The eNB of claim 4 , wherein when the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell, no HARQ-ACK bit for the second subframe is generated for the secondary cell.

7. A method for performing carrier aggregation by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell and a secondary cell is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell; and
for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1b with channel selection in a first subframe:
determining whether to use a PUCCH format 1b procedure for a single FDD serving cell or a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection procedure for multiple FDD serving cells based on whether a second subframe, which is a subframe four subframes before the first subframe, is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell; and
using the PUCCH format 1b procedure for the single FDD serving cell, in a case that the second subframe is the uplink subframe for the secondary cell.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining whether the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary-cell based on an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration defined by a radio resource control common secondary cell (RRCCommonSCell) message.

9. The method of claim 7 ,
wherein when the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell, no HARQ-ACK bit for the second subframe is generated secondary cell.

10. A method for performing carrier aggregation by an evolved Node B (eNB), comprising:
determining a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell and a secondary cell is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell; and
for receiving hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1b with channel selection in a first subframe:
determining whether to use a PUCCH format 1b procedure for a single FDD serving cell or a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection procedure for multiple FDD serving cells based on whether a second subframe, which is a subframe four subframes before the first subframe, is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell; and
using the PUCCH format 1b procedure for the single FDD serving cell, in a case that the second subframe is the uplink subframe for the secondary cell.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein determining whether the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell is based on an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration defined by a radio resource control common secondary cell (RRCCommonSCell) message.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein when the second subframe is an uplink subframe for the secondary cell, no HARQ-ACK bit for the second subframe is generated for the secondary cell.

Assignees

• Sharp Laboratories America Inc
• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Yin Zhanping
• Yamada Shohei

Classifications

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L1/1887 Primary

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04L1/1671

  the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

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

• H04L1/1861

  Physical mapping arrangements (for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053) · CPC title