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- This disclosure relates to data transmission in wireless communication systems, and more particularly, to systems and methods for handling of an uplink transmission collision with an acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) signal.
- ACK acknowledgement
- NACK negative acknowledgement
- new data transmissions or retransmissions may result in the transmission of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) in the form of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transport block.
- UL-SCH uplink shared channel
- MAC medium access control
- PDU protocol data unit
- the UL-SCH is an uplink transport channel mapped directly to the PUSCH physical channel.
- a physical layer ACK/NACK transmission is used in the E-UTRAN network to provide feedback information to the transmitter regarding whether a transmitted downlink transport block on the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) is successfully received or not.
- PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
- an ACK/NACK may be repeatedly transmitted on the uplink in consecutive uplink subframes to allow better reception quality at the receiver side when the channel conditions are poor.
- a method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network includes determining, by the UE, that a scheduled an uplink transmission is scheduled to collide collides with a transmission of an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal. The UE refrains from transmitting the scheduled uplink transmission and refrains from transmitting a subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- ACK/NACK acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement
- FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an example wireless cellular communication system based on 3GPP long term evolution (LTE).
- LTE long term evolution
- FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating various layers of an access node and user equipment in a wireless communication network according to one embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram illustrating an access node device according to one embodiment.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a user equipment device according to one embodiment.
- FIG. 5A is a schematic block diagram illustrating an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARM) entity at a user equipment device.
- HARM uplink hybrid automatic repeat request
- FIG. 5B is a schematic block diagram illustrating an uplink HARQ process at a user equipment device.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic timing diagram illustrating a synchronous uplink HARQ operation at a user equipment device.
- FIG. 7 is a process flow chart illustrating a method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a physical layer at a user equipment device.
- FIG. 8 is a process flow chart illustrating a method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a MAC layer at a user equipment device.
- FIG. 9 is a process flow chart illustrating an alternative method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a MAC layer at a user equipment device.
- Embodiments are described herein in the context of an LTE wireless network or system, but can be adapted for other wireless networks or systems.
- the LTE wireless network described herein is generally in compliance with the 3GPP LTE standard, including, but not limited to, Releases 8 , Release 9 , Release 10 , Release 11 , and beyond.
- a UE can refer to wireless devices and similar devices or other User Agents (“UA”) that have telecommunications capabilities.
- UA User Agents
- a UE may refer to a mobile, wireless device.
- UE may also refer to devices that have similar capabilities, but that are not generally transportable, such as desktop computers or set-top boxes.
- Examples of user equipment include, but are not limited to, a mobile phone, a smart phone, a telephone, a television, a remote controller, a set-top box, a computer monitor, a computer (including a tablet computer such as a BlackBerry® Playbook tablet, a desktop computer, a handheld or laptop computer, a netbook computer), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a microwave, a refrigerator, a stereo system, a cassette recorder or player, a DVD player or recorder, a CD player or recorder, a VCR, an MP3 player, a radio, a camcorder, a camera, a digital camera, a portable memory chip, a washer, a dryer, a washer/dryer, a copier, a facsimile machine, a scanner, a multi-functional peripheral device, a wristwatch, a clock, and a game device,
- a UE might include a device and its associated removable memory module, such as a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) that includes
- a UE might include the device itself without such a module.
- the term “UE” can also refer to any hardware or software component that can terminate a communication session for a user.
- the terms “user equipment,” “UE,” “user equipment device,” “user agent,” “UA,” “user device,” and “mobile device” can be used synonymously herein.
- transmission equipment in a base station or other network node transmits signals throughout a geographical region known as a cell.
- This advanced equipment might include, for example, an E-UTRAN evolved Node B (eNB) rather than a base station or other systems and devices that are more highly evolved than the equivalent equipment in a traditional wireless telecommunications system.
- eNB E-UTRAN evolved Node B
- eNB can be interchangeably used with an “evolved node B” or an “enhanced node B.”
- Such advanced or next generation equipment may be referred to herein as long-term evolution (LTE) equipment, and a packet-based network that uses such equipment can be referred to as an evolved packet system (EPS).
- LTE long-term evolution
- EPS evolved packet system
- LTE-A LTE Advanced
- base station may refer to any component or network node, such as a traditional base station or an LTE or LTE-A base station (including eNBs), that can provide a UE with access to other components in a telecommunications system.
- the present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for handling of an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal.
- the collision may occur when a UE is configured to transmit a physical shared channel (PUSCH) transmission and an ACK/NACK signal at the same subframe.
- PUSCH physical shared channel
- FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an example wireless cellular communication system 100 based on the third generation partnership project (3GPP) LTE, also known as Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA).
- the cellular network system 100 shown in FIG. 1 includes a plurality of base stations 112 a and 112 b .
- the base stations are shown as evolved Node Bs (eNBs) 112 a and 112 b .
- eNBs evolved Node Bs
- the base station may operate in any mobile environment, including macro cell, femto cell, pico cell, or the base station may operate as a node that can relay signals for other mobile and/or base stations.
- radio access networks 110 may include one or a plurality of radio access networks 110 , core networks (CNs) 120 , and external networks 130 .
- the radio access networks may be E-UTRANs.
- core networks 120 may be evolved packet cores (EPCs).
- EPCs evolved packet cores
- there may be one or more mobile electronic devices 102 a , 102 b operating within the LTE system 100 .
- 2G/3G systems 140 e.g., Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access) may also be integrated into the LTE telecommunication system 100 .
- GSM Global System for Mobile communication
- IS-95 Interim Standard 95
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- CDMA2000 Code Division Multiple Access
- the EUTRAN 110 includes eNB 112 a and eNB 112 b .
- Cell 114 a is the service area of eNB 112 a and Cell 114 b is the service area of eNB 112 b .
- UEs 102 a and 102 b operate in Cell 114 a and are served by eNB 112 a .
- the EUTRAN 110 can include one or a plurality of eNBs 112 a , 112 b and one or a plurality of UEs 102 a , 102 b can operate in a cell.
- the eNBs 112 a and 112 b communicate directly to the UEs 102 a and 102 b .
- the eNB 112 a or 112 b may be in a one-to-many relationship with the UEs 102 a and 102 b , e.g., eNB 112 a in the example LTE system 100 can serve multiple UEs 102 (i.e., UE 102 a and UE 102 b ) within its coverage area Cell 114 a , but each of UE 102 a and UE 102 b may be connected only to one eNB 112 a at a time.
- the eNBs 112 a and 112 b may be in a many-to-many relationship with the UEs, e.g., UE 102 a and UE 102 b can be connected to eNB 112 a and eNB 112 b .
- the eNB 112 a may be connected to eNB 112 b with which handover may be conducted if one or both of the UEs 102 a and UE 102 b travels from cell 114 a to cell 114 b .
- the UEs 102 a and 102 b may be any wireless electronic device used by an end-user to communicate, for example, within the LTE system 100 .
- the UE 102 a or 102 b may be referred to as mobile electronic device, user device, mobile station, subscriber station, or wireless terminal.
- the UE 102 a or 102 b may be a cellular phone, personal data assistant (PDA), smart phone, laptop, tablet personal computer (PC), pager, portable computer, or other wireless communications device.
- PDA personal data assistant
- PC personal computer
- the UEs 102 a and 102 b may transmit voice, video, multimedia, text, web content and/or any other user/client-specific content.
- the transmission of some of these contents, e.g., video and web content may require high channel throughput to satisfy the end-user demand.
- the channel between UEs 102 a , 102 b and eNBs 112 a , 112 b may be contaminated by multipath fading, due to the multiple signal paths arising from many reflections in the wireless environment. Accordingly, the UEs' transmission may adapt to the wireless environment.
- the UEs 102 a and 102 b generate requests, send responses or otherwise communicate in different means with Evolved Packet Core (EPC) 120 and/or Internet Protocol (IP) networks 130 through one or more eNBs 112 a and 112 b.
- EPC Evolved Packet Core
- IP Internet Protocol
- a radio access network is part of a mobile telecommunication system which implements a radio access technology, such as UMTS, CDMA2000 and 3GPP LTE.
- a radio access technology such as UMTS, CDMA2000 and 3GPP LTE.
- the Radio Access Network (RAN) included in an LTE telecommunications system 100 is called an EUTRAN 110 .
- the EUTRAN 110 can be located between the UEs 102 a , 102 b and EPC 120 .
- the EUTRAN 110 includes at least one eNB 112 a or 112 b .
- the eNB can be a radio base station that may control all or at least some radio related functions in a fixed part of the system.
- the at least one eNB 112 a or 112 b can provide radio interface within their coverage area or a cell for the UEs 102 a , 102 b to communicate.
- the eNBs 112 a and 112 b may be distributed throughout the cellular network to provide a wide area of coverage.
- the eNBs 112 a and 112 b directly communicate with one or a plurality of UEs 102 a , 102 b , other eNBs, and the EPC 120 .
- the eNBs 112 a and 112 b may be the end point of the radio protocols towards the UEs 102 a , 102 b and may relay signals between the radio connection and the connectivity towards the EPC 120 .
- the EPC 120 is the main component of a core network (CN).
- the CN can be a backbone network, which may be a central part of the telecommunications system.
- the EPC 120 can include a mobility management entity (MME), a serving gateway (SGW), and a packet data network gateway (PGW).
- MME mobility management entity
- SGW serving gateway
- PGW packet data network gateway
- the MME may be the main control element in the EPC 120 responsible for the functionalities comprising the control plane functions related to subscriber and session management.
- the SGW can serve as a local mobility anchor, such that the packets are routed through this point for intra EUTRAN 110 mobility and mobility with other legacy 2G/3G systems 140 .
- the SGW functions may include the user plane tunnel management and switching.
- the PGW may provide connectivity to the services domain comprising external networks 130 , such as the IP networks.
- the UEs 102 a , 102 b , EUTRAN 110 , and EPC 120 are sometimes referred to as the evolved packet system (EPS). It is to be understood that the architectural evolvement of the LTE system 100 is focused on the EPS.
- the functional evolution may include both EPS and external networks 130 .
- cellular telecommunication systems may be described as cellular networks made up of a number of radio cells, or cells that are each served by a base station or other fixed transceiver. The cells are used to cover different areas in order to provide radio coverage over an area.
- Example cellular telecommunication systems include Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) protocols, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), and others.
- GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- LTE 3GPP Long Term Evolution
- wireless broadband communication systems may also be suitable for the various implementations described in the present disclosure.
- Example wireless broadband communication systems include IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX network, etc.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram 200 illustrating various layers of an access node and user equipment in a wireless communication network according to one embodiment.
- the illustrated system 200 includes a UE 205 and an eNB 215 .
- the eNB 215 can be referred to as a “network,” “network component,” “network element,” “access node,” or “access device.”
- FIG. 2 shows only these two devices (alternatively, referred to as “apparatuses” or “entities”) for illustrative purposes, and a skilled artisan will appreciate that the system 200 can further include one or more of such devices, depending on the needs.
- the eNB 215 can communicate wirelessly with the UE 205 .
- Each of the devices 205 and 215 includes a protocol stack for communications with other devices via wireless and/or wired connection.
- the UE 205 can include a physical (PHY) layer 202 , a medium access control (MAC) layer 204 , a radio link control (RLC) layer 206 , a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer 208 , a radio resource control (RRC) layer 210 , and a non-access stratum (NAS) layer 212 .
- the UE 205 may also include one or more antennas 214 coupled to the PHY layer 202 .
- a “PHY layer” can also be referred to as “layer 1 .”
- the other layers (MAC layer, RLC layer, PDCP layer, RRC layer and above) can be collectively referred to as a “higher layer(s).”
- the eNB 215 can also include a physical (PHY) layer 216 , a medium access control (MAC) layer 218 , a radio link control (RLC) layer 220 , a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer 222 , and a radio resource control (RRC) layer 224 . In case of user plane communication for data traffic, the RRC layer is not involved.
- the eNB 215 may also include one or more antennas 226 coupled to the PHY layer 216 .
- Communications between the devices generally occur within the same protocol layer between the two devices.
- communications from the RRC layer 224 at the eNB 215 travel through the PDCP layer 222 , the RLC layer 220 , the MAC layer 218 , and the PHY layer 216 , and are sent over the PHY layer 216 and the antenna 226 to the UE 205 .
- the communications travel through the PHY layer 202 , the MAC layer 204 , the RLC layer 206 , the PDCP layer 208 to the RRC layer 210 of the UE 205 .
- Such communications are generally done utilizing a communications sub-system and a processor, as described in more detail below.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram 300 illustrating an access node device according to one embodiment.
- the illustrated device 300 includes a processing module 302 , a wired communication subsystem 304 , and a wireless communication subsystem 306 .
- the processing module 302 can include one or more processing components (alternatively referred to as “processors” or “central processing units” (CPUs)) capable of executing instructions related to one or more of the processes, steps, or actions described above in connection with one or more of the embodiments disclosed herein.
- the processing module 302 can also include other auxiliary components, such as random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), secondary storage (for example, a hard disk drive or flash memory).
- RAM random access memory
- ROM read only memory
- secondary storage for example, a hard disk drive or flash memory
- the processing module 302 can form at least part of the layers described above in connection with FIG. 2 .
- the processing module 302 can execute certain instructions and commands to provide wireless or wired communication, using the wire
- FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram 400 illustrating a user equipment device according to one embodiment.
- the illustrated device 400 includes a processing unit 402 , a computer readable storage medium 404 (for example, ROM or flash memory), a wireless communication subsystem 406 , a user interface 408 , and an I/O interface 410 .
- the processing unit 402 can include one or more processing components (alternatively referred to as “processors” or “central processing units” (CPUs)) configured to execute instructions related to one or more of the processes, steps, or actions described above in connection with one or more of the embodiments disclosed herein.
- the processing unit 402 can also include other auxiliary components, such as random access memory (RAM) and read only memory (ROM).
- RAM random access memory
- ROM read only memory
- the computer readable storage medium 404 can store an operating system (OS) of the device 400 and various other computer executable software programs for performing one or more of the processes, steps, or actions described above.
- OS operating system
- the wireless communication subsystem 406 is configured to provide wireless communication for data and/or control information provided by the processing unit 402 .
- the wireless communication subsystem 406 can include, for example, one or more antennas, a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator, a mixer, and a digital signal processing (DSP) unit.
- DSP digital signal processing
- the subsystem 406 can support multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmissions.
- MIMO multiple input multiple output
- the user interface 408 can include, for example, one or more of a screen or touch screen (for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light emitting display (LED), an organic light emitting display (OLED), a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display), a keyboard or keypad, a trackball, a speaker, and a microphone.
- a screen or touch screen for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light emitting display (LED), an organic light emitting display (OLED), a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display), a keyboard or keypad, a trackball, a speaker, and a microphone.
- the I/O interface 410 can include, for example, a universal serial bus (USB) interface.
- USB universal serial bus
- FIG. 5A is a schematic block diagram illustrating an uplink (UL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity at a user equipment device 500 .
- an uplink HARQ entity 508 maintains a number of parallel uplink HARQ processes 510 - 514 allowing uplink transmissions to take place continuously while waiting for the HARQ feedback on the successful or unsuccessful reception of previous transmissions.
- a resource assignments and ACK/NACK status entity 504 may inform the uplink HARQ entity 508 about uplink transmission resource assignments and the received ACK/NACK status from the physical layer 202 (shown in FIG. 2 ).
- the uplink HARQ entity 508 may interact with a multiplexing and assembly entity 502 at the UE to obtain a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for transmission from the multiplexing and assembly entity 502 .
- the uplink HARQ entity 508 may instruct a data for transmission entity 506 to generate a new transmission, an adaptive retransmission, or a non-adaptive retransmission after receiving resource assignments, or ACK/NACK notification from the resource assignments and ACK/NACK status entity 504 .
- the uplink HARQ entity 508 , multiplexing and assembly entity 502 , and the HARQ processes 510 - 514 may be located at a MAC layer 204 of the user equipment device (shown in FIG. 2 ).
- the resource assignments and ACK/NACK status entity 504 and data for transmission entity 506 may be located at a physical layer 202 of the user equipment device (shown in FIG. 2 ). Although 8 uplink HARQ processes ( 510 , 512 , 514 ) are shown in FIG. 5A , this is illustrative only and more or fewer than 8 uplink HARQ processes may be present.
- FIG. 5B is a schematic block diagram illustrating the uplink HARQ process module 510 .
- the uplink HARQ process module 510 may be located at a MAC layer 204 of the user equipment device.
- the illustrated uplink HARQ process module 510 includes an uplink transmission buffer 516 and various uplink HARQ parameters 518 .
- the uplink HARQ transmission buffer 516 stores the information bits which are transmitted. It may also be referred to as an HARQ buffer.
- the uplink HARQ parameters 518 may include various transmission parameters such as transport block size, new data indicator (NDI) flag, modulation and coding scheme (MCS), resource block allocation, frequency hopping parameters, demodulation reference signal (DMRS) cyclic shift, and number of transmission attempts, etc.
- NDI new data indicator
- MCS modulation and coding scheme
- DMRS demodulation reference signal
- FIG. 6 is a schematic timing diagram 600 illustrating a synchronous uplink HARQ operation at a user equipment device.
- uplink HARQ transmission is synchronous in nature. That is, the uplink HARQ process index associated with a particular transmission time interval (TTI) is a function of the TTI value and is not explicitly signaled from the eNB to the UE in any (re)transmission instructions.
- TTI transmission time interval
- each of eight uplink HARQ processes has a transmission opportunity occurring every 8 ms (or every 8 subframes, with each subframe being lms in length) for a frequency division duplexing (FDD) system.
- FDD frequency division duplexing
- the uplink HARQ entity can use the current frame and subframe indices to determine which uplink HARQ process is associated with the current TTI.
- each sub-block 602 - 620 represents a subframe and the subframe index is indicated in the center of each sub-block.
- a new uplink transmission 622 for uplink process 0 may occur at subframe 0 (shown as sub-block 602 ).
- the uplink HARQ ACK/NACK feedback 624 from the eNB for uplink HARQ process 0 arrives at 4 subframes after the initial new uplink transmission 622 .
- a retransmission 626 for uplink HARQ process 0 can occur at subframe 8 (shown as sub-block 618 ), which is 8 subframes after the initial transmission 622 at subframe 0 . If an ACK is received at subframe 4 , the UE would consider that the new uplink transmission 622 is received successfully at the eNB and will not conduct subsequent non-adaptive retransmissions.
- the timing relationships shown in FIG. 6 are illustrative of an EUTRA frequency division duplexing (FDD) system.
- FDD frequency division duplexing
- TDD time division duplexing
- the uplink HARQ process associated with that transmission opportunity may be instructed by the uplink HARQ entity to perform one of the following actions: a new data transmission, an adaptive retransmission, a non-adaptive retransmission, or nothing.
- a new data transmission may be ordered by reception of an uplink grant on the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), by reception of an uplink grant in a Random Access Response (RAR), or by an uplink grant being generated from a configured UL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (UL SPS) grant.
- An adaptive retransmission may be ordered via reception of an appropriately configured downlink control information (DCI) 0 on the PDCCH for the uplink HARQ process.
- DCI downlink control information
- An adaptive retransmission may be performed with different physical resources and/or parameters (signaled via the DCI 0 ) from the most recent transmission for the same transport block.
- a non-adaptive retransmission may be ordered via reception of a NACK on the physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) for the preceding transmission opportunity for the same uplink HARQ process.
- a non-adaptive retransmission is performed with the same frequency resources and MCS as the most recent transmission for the same transport block, but with a different HARQ redundancy version.
- the HARQ redundancy version may be 0, 1, 2, or 3. None occurs if the transmission buffer of the uplink HARQ process is empty or if the current HARQ feedback for that uplink HARQ process is considered to be an ACK.
- new data transmissions, adaptive retransmissions, and non-adaptive retransmissions may all be referred to as uplink transmissions, and each one results in an uplink transmission of an UL-SCH MAC PDU in the form of a PUSCH transport block.
- the UL-SCH is an uplink transport channel which is mapped directly to the PUSCH physical channel.
- a downlink (DL) transport block When a downlink (DL) transport block is received on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a UE, the UE will signal a corresponding ACK (i.e., the PDSCH transport block was successfully decoded) or NACK (i.e., the PDSCH transport block was not successfully decoded) on the uplink.
- a PUSCH transmission is being made in the same subframe, then the encoded downlink ACK/NACK information is punctured into that PUSCH transmission. If there is no PUSCH transmission being made in the same subframe, then the downlink ACK/NACK information is signaled via the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
- PUCCH physical uplink control channel
- the eNB may configure that UE with ACK/NACK repetition.
- an ACK/NACK transmitted on the uplink in response to a downlink reception on the PDSCH is repeated multiple times, for example, 2, 4, or 6 times (depending upon the configured repetition factor) in consecutive uplink subframes.
- the ACK/NACK signal which is part of an ACK/NACK repetition sequence is transmitted on an appropriate PUCCH resource. Collisions may occur when an uplink transmission is scheduled at the same subframe as part of the ACK/NACK repetition sequence is scheduled to transmit.
- the scheduled uplink transmission is refrained and the ACK/NACK signal will be transmitted on PUCCH when collisions occur.
- the eNB may identify that the scheduled uplink transmission for the UE collides with the ACK/NACK signal from the UE and thus refrain from decoding the scheduled uplink transmission. Since the scheduled PUSCH transmission is never actually made, the UE's physical layer does not attempt to receive uplink HARQ ACK/NACK on PHICH. The HARQ FEEDBACK state variable of the corresponding uplink HARQ process consequently remains set at NACK.
- this NACK value of HARQ FEEDBACK will automatically trigger a non-adaptive retransmission which may not be expected by the eNB.
- the eNB may have allocated those uplink resources elsewhere and the unexpected non-adaptive retransmission by the first UE may cause uplink interference to uplink transmissions by other UEs. This may degrade the uplink system throughput which is undesirable.
- Embodiments to avoid the unexpected uplink non-adaptive retransmission are described in this disclosure such that potential uplink interference caused by the unexpected non-adaptive retransmissions is reduced.
- FIG. 7 is a process flowchart 700 illustrating a method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a physical layer at a user equipment device.
- a UE checks whether a PUSCH transport block was transmitted in associated uplink subframe at step 702 .
- the associated uplink subframe occurs 4 subframes earlier than the downlink subframe i. For example, if the downlink subframe index i is 6, the associated uplink subframe would be subframe 2 within the same radio frame.
- the relative timing offset between a downlink subframe and the associated uplink subframe may be different than for an EUTRA FDD system, but this relative timing offset is known by the user equipment device.
- the UE further checks whether an ACK is decoded on PHICH at step 704 . If an ACK is decoded, the physical layer delivers the ACK for the PUSCH transport block to higher layers at step 706 .
- the higher layers may include a MAC layer 204 at the UE (shown in FIG. 2 ). If there is no ACK decoded on PHICH, the UE checks whether the PUSCH transport block was disabled by PDCCH at step 708 .
- the physical layer delivers an ACK for that transport block at step 706 . Otherwise, if the transport block is not disabled by PDCCH, the physical layer delivers a NACK for that transport block to higher layers at step 710 .
- Steps 704 - 710 occur when a PUSCH transport block was transmitted in the associated uplink subframe. If there was an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal for the associated uplink subframe, no PUSCH transport block would be transmitted in the associated uplink subframe and the UE would not follow steps 704 - 710 . Instead, the UE checks whether an ACK/NACK repetition is configured at step 712 . If the ACK/NACK repetition is not configured, the physical layer would not deliver any ACK or NACK to high layers and the uplink HARQ feedback processing for this particular downlink subframe i is completed. If the ACK/NACK repetition is configured at the UE, the UE continues to check whether a TTI bundling is configured at step 714 .
- a transmission opportunity is a single lms subframe and is associated with a single transport block.
- a transmission opportunity is a set of multiple consecutive uplink subframes, e.g., 4 consecutive uplink subframes.
- the UE checks whether all transport blocks of the TTI bundle collided with the ACK/NACK repetition sequence at step 716 . If there is no collision or only partial collision between the transport blocks of the TTI bundle and the ACK/NACK signals, the physical layer would not deliver any ACK or NACK to higher layers and the uplink HARQ feedback processing for this particular downlink subframe i is completed.
- the physical layer would deliver an ACK for that transport block to higher layers at step 718 .
- the higher layers would consider that the eNB does not wish a non-adaptive retransmission of the PUSCH transport block at the current time and thereby subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the PUSCH transport block is refrained.
- the eNB may refrain from decoding the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the eNB can allocate the uplink resources for other UEs.
- the eNB may order an adaptive retransmission for the PUSCH transport block such that the UE would transmit the PUSCH transport block using resources allocated for the adaptive retransmission.
- the UE would check whether the scheduled PUSCH transport block in the associated uplink subframe collided with an ACK/NACK signal at step 720 .
- the ACK/NACK signal may be part of an ACK/NACK repetition sequence. If there was a collision between the PUSCH transport block and the ACK/NACK signal, the physical layer would deliver an ACK for that transport block to higher layers at step 718 . By delivering an ACK to the higher layers at step 718 , the higher layers would consider that the eNB does not wish a non-adaptive retransmission of the PUSCH transport block at the current time and thereby subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the PUSCH transport block is refrained. If there was no collision, the physical layer would not deliver any ACK or NACK to higher layers and the uplink HARQ feedback processing for this particular downlink subframe i is completed.
- FIG. 8 is a process flowchart 800 illustrating a method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a MAC layer at a user equipment device.
- the MAC layer HARQ process first checks whether a measurement gap occurs at a time of a scheduled transmission at step 802 .
- a UE may need to make measurements of other cells which either are E-UTRA but which operate on a different frequency band or which belong to a different radio access technology (RAT) completely.
- RAT radio access technology
- an eNB may configure a UE with measurement gaps, during which the UE is allowed to tune away from the operating frequency band of its serving cell. Consequently, a UE cannot receive from nor transmit to the serving cell during a configured measurement gap. If a measurement gap occurs at the time of a scheduled transmission, the transmission does not take place. Otherwise, the MAC layer HARQ process instructs the physical layer to generate a transmission at step 804 and increments the current redundancy version index by 1 at step 806 .
- the transmission at step 804 may be an uplink transmission for new data, an uplink non-adaptive retransmission, or an uplink adaptive retransmission on the UL-SCH or PUSCH.
- the MAC layer HARQ process After incrementing the redundancy version index at step 806 , the MAC layer HARQ process checks whether a measurement gap occurs at the time of HARQ feedback reception corresponding to the uplink transmission at step 808 . If a measurement gap occurs at the time of HARQ feedback reception, the UE would not be able to receive the HARQ feedback. As a result, the MAC layer HARQ process would consider that the eNB does not wish a non-adaptive retransmission of the PUSCH transport block at the current time and set HARQ feedback to ACK at step 816 . If no measurement gap occurs at the time of HARQ feedback reception, the MAC layer HARQ process checks whether an ACK/NACK repetition is configured at the UE at step 810 .
- the MAC layer further checks whether a TTI bundling is configured at step 812 . If TTI bundling is configured, the MAC layer checks whether all transmissions of the TTI bundle collide with the transmission of an ACK/NACK signal belonging to an ACK/NACK repetition sequence at step 818 . If no collision or only partial collision between the transmissions of the TTI bundle and the ACK/NACK signals is identified, the MAC layer HARQ process would not set the HARQ feedback value.
- the transmission of the TTI bundle would be refrained and the MAC layer HARQ process would set HARQ feedback to ACK at step 816 .
- the ACK/NACK transmissions colliding with the transmissions of the TTI bundle may belong to the same ACK/NACK repetition sequence or multiple different ACK/NACK repetition sequences. Consequently, subsequent non-adaptive retransmissions for the uplink transmission at step 804 are refrained at the UE.
- the UE would check whether the UL-SCH transmission at step 804 collides with an ACK/NACK transmission at step 814 .
- the ACK/NACK transmission may be an ACK/NACK signal that is part of an ACK/NACK repetition sequence. If the UL-SCH transmission collides with an ACK/NACK transmission, the scheduled UL-SCH transmission would be refrained and the MAC layer HARQ process would set the HARQ feedback to ACK at step 816 . Non-adaptive retransmissions for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission would be refrained as a result.
- the eNB may identify that a scheduled UL-SCH transmission for the UE collides with the ACK/NACK transmission and correspondingly choose to refrain from decoding the scheduled UL-SCH transmission. Furthermore, the eNB may identify that a scheduled UL-SCH transmission for the UE collides with the ACK/NACK transmission and correspondingly choose to refrain from decoding a subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH if there is a collision between the scheduled UL-SCH transmission and the ACK/NACK transmission. The eNB may order a subsequent adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH to request the UE to transmit the scheduled UL-SCH.
- FIG. 9 is a process flowchart 900 illustrating an alternative method for handling an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal by a MAC layer at a user equipment device.
- successive non-adaptive retransmissions are triggered but with a non-incremented redundancy version index to ensure that a particular redundancy version in the redundancy version cycle is not missed. If the transmission corresponding to a particular redundancy version is not made, this may affect the decoding performance at the eNB. For example, if redundancy version 0 is not transmitted, which may contain the systematic bits from the transport block, it becomes more difficult to decode the transport block at the eNB receiver.
- the illustrated embodiment 900 allows a complete cycle through a set of four redundancy versions associated with the scheduled UL-SCH uplink transmission such that improved eNB decoding performance may be achieved.
- the MAC layer HARQ process first checks whether a measurement gap occurs at the time of a scheduled uplink transmission at step 902 .
- the scheduled uplink transmission may be an UL-SCH uplink transmission that would be mapped to a physical layer PUSCH transmission. If there is a measurement gap at the time of the scheduled uplink transmission, the scheduled uplink transmission would be refrained from transmitting and no further changes to the HARQ process would be made. If no measurement gap occurs at the time of the scheduled uplink transmission, the HARQ process continues to check whether an ACK/NACK repetition is configured at the UE at step 904 .
- the HARQ process checks whether the scheduled UL-SCH transmission collides with an ACK/NACK transmission at step 906 .
- the ACK/NACK transmission may be an ACK/NACK signal that is part of an ACK/NACK repetition sequence. If a collision between the scheduled UL-SCH transmission and the ACK/NACK transmission is determined at the UE, the UE would refrain from transmitting the scheduled UL-SCH transmission.
- the eNB may identify that a scheduled UL-SCH transmission for the UE collides with the ACK/NACK transmission and correspondingly choose to refrain from decoding the scheduled UL-SCH transmission.
- the MAC layer HARQ process of the UE would refrain from incrementing the HARQ redundancy version index for a subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission.
- a subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission would be transmitted, but with the same HARQ redundancy version index as the HARQ redundancy version index for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission.
- the HARQ redundancy version index may be one of 0, 1, 2 and 3, and indexes into an HARQ redundancy version cycle of ⁇ 0, 2, 3, 1 ⁇ . Any increments of the HARQ redundancy version index are performed modulo 4.
- the subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission may occur at 8 subframes (for an EUTRA FDD system) after refraining from transmitting the scheduled UL-SCH by the UE.
- the eNB may identify that a scheduled UL-SCH transmission for the UE collides with the ACK/NACK transmission and correspondingly refrain from incrementing the HARQ redundancy version index for decoding the subsequent non-adaptive retransmission for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission from the UE.
- the MAC layer HARQ process at the UE would instruct the physical layer at the UE to generate a PUSCH transmission for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission at step 908 .
- the MAC layer HARQ process would increment the current HARQ redundancy version index by 1 at step 910 to prepare for a next non-adaptive retransmission. Then the MAC layer HARQ process checks whether a measurement gap occurs at the time of HARQ feedback reception for the scheduled UL-SCH transmission at step 912 .
- the MAC layer HARQ process would set the HARQ feedback to ACK at step 914 , such that non-adaptive retransmissions for the scheduled UL-SCH uplink would not occur. Otherwise, the HARQ feedback value would not be set by the MAC layer HARQ process at this instance.
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