Background
Currently, an existing LEE (Long Term Evolution) system is a scheduling-based system on the one hand, that is, a base station allocates time-frequency resources to carry data, and a terminal (UE) receives downlink data or transmits uplink data according to a control command of the base station: for example, for downlink data transmission, the base station configures a downlink Control Channel and downlink data for the terminal, and the terminal first decodes a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) Channel, and if there is a downlink Control command for the terminal, demodulates the downlink data transmitted by the base station according to information such as a frequency resource position and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) specified in the Control command.
On the other hand, the LTE system is also based on HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request), that is, after receiving the transmitted data, the receiving end sends feedback information ACK/NACK to the sending end according to whether demodulation is correct or not, so as to determine whether the transmission block needs to be retransmitted: for example, downlink data transmission is received and fed back by the terminal, and the base station determines whether to retransmit the downlink data according to downlink feedback information sent by the terminal. In the same cell, because the UE is located at different positions, the channel quality of the UE often differs greatly, so to ensure the reliability of HARQ feedback, an ACK/NACK repetition mechanism (ACK/NACK repetition) is introduced in the LTE system: the repeated ACK/NACK mechanism is configured and released by a high layer, and is not started under the default condition, namely the UE only needs to send uplink feedback to downlink data on one subframe under the default condition; and, the repetition number of the repeated ACK/NACK mechanism is configured by a higher layer, and may be 2, 4, 6 or reserved, where reserved represents a reservation; when the mechanism is started, the UE sends ACK/NACK feedback on a plurality of continuous uplink subframes, and for TDD, the middle may cross a downlink subframe and a special subframe, so that the absolute duration is greater than the repetition times of the repeated ACK/NACK mechanism; meanwhile, during the period of sending feedback, the UE does not send other uplink signaling.
For example, as shown in fig. 1, subframes 1 to 6 are all Uplink subframes, and ACK/NACK is fed back on a PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel); when the system configures the UE to perform 4 times of ACK/NACK retransmission, the first feedback of the UE is performed on the PUCCH1, and the high layer configures the repeated ACK/NACK of the UE to be performed on the PUCCH4 through RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling, so that the UE has 3 times of ACK/NACK feedback to continue transmission on the PUCCH 4.
However, the LTE system has only one component carrier (component carrier), and thus implementation of the duplicate ACK/NACK mechanism is easy; for the LTE-a (LTE-advanced) system, as shown in fig. 2, since a carrier aggregation (carrier aggregation) technology that can link a plurality of component carriers with different frequencies and conveniently extend a bandwidth is introduced, a plurality of component carriers can be provided, and in such a case that carrier aggregation is adopted, a transmission mode of a repeated ACK/NACK mechanism is not implemented at present.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention solves the problem of how to implement the ACK/NACK retransmission mechanism in the LTE-a system under the condition of carrier aggregation.
In order to solve the above problems, the technical scheme provided by the invention is as follows:
a method of implementing duplicate ACK/NACK transmissions, comprising:
acquiring the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers;
and completing the transmission of repeated ACK/NACK on the sub-frame of the member carrier wave by adopting the frequency hopping mode according to the acquired content.
Preferably, the method comprises receiving a notification which is sent by a base station and contains the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers; and determining the number of the sub-frames for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers according to the notification.
Preferably, the notification is received through RRC signaling.
Preferably, the method comprises receiving a notification which is sent by a base station and contains the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers; and determining the number of the sub-frames for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers according to the notification, wherein the subsequent frequency hopping modes on different member carriers adopt a fixed mode.
Preferably, the frequency hopping pattern specifically includes: the continuously repeated ACK/NACK transmissions occupy the same component carrier.
Preferably, the frequency hopping pattern specifically includes: the repeated ACK/NACK transmissions alternate between different component carriers.
Preferably, the physical uplink control channels for completing the repeated ACK/NACK transmission on different sub-frames of each component carrier are different.
An apparatus for enabling duplicate ACK/NACK transmissions, the apparatus comprising:
the device comprises an acquisition unit for acquiring the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers, and a transmission unit for completing the repeating ACK/NACK transmission on the subframes of the member carriers by adopting the frequency hopping patterns according to the content acquired by the acquisition unit.
Preferably, the acquiring unit includes: the device comprises a receiving module and an extracting module; wherein,
the receiving module is used for receiving the notification which is sent by the base station and contains the number of the sub-frames for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information and the frequency hopping modes on different member carriers;
the extracting module is used for extracting and determining the number of the sub-frames for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers from the notification received by the receiving module.
Preferably, the acquiring unit further includes: and a notification module for notifying the transmission unit to subsequently perform repeated ACK/NACK transmission by using a fixed frequency hopping pattern after the extraction module determines the frequency hopping pattern for performing repeated ACK/NACK transmission.
A base station, comprising: a first processing unit and a second processing unit; the first processing unit is used for determining the number of subframes for the UE to perform repeated ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers;
the second processing unit is configured to notify the UE of various parameters determined by the first processing unit through a higher layer signaling.
Preferably, the frequency hopping mode determined by the first processing unit is that continuous ACK/NACK transmission occupies the same component carrier, or that repeated ACK/NACK transmission is performed alternately among different component carriers.
It can be seen that, by adopting the method and the device of the invention, different member carriers, the number of sub-frames for carrying out repeated ACK/NACK transmission and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers are configured for the repeated ACK/NACK transmission of the same UE in an LTE-A system, so that the UE can adopt the frequency hopping patterns to complete the repeated ACK/NACK transmission on the sub-frames of the corresponding member carriers after acquiring the parameters, thereby realizing a repeated ACK/NACK transmission mechanism under the condition of carrier aggregation, further enabling the UE to obtain frequency diversity gain, and further improving the uplink coverage capability.
Detailed Description
The basic idea of the invention is to configure different member carriers for the repeated ACK/NACK transmission of the same UE in an LTE-A system, namely, the UE is made to know the number of sub-frames for performing the repeated ACK/NACK transmission in multiple modes, and the UE is made to know which member carriers are required to perform the repeated ACK/NACK transmission and frequency hopping patterns (hopping patterns) on different member carriers when performing the repeated ACK/NACK transmission, and the UE adopts the frequency hopping patterns to complete the repeated ACK/NACK transmission on the sub-frames of the corresponding member carriers after knowing the parameters, thereby realizing the repeated ACK/NACK transmission mechanism under the condition of carrier aggregation, further enabling the UE to obtain frequency diversity gain, and improving the uplink coverage capability.
The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention; it is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Embodiment 1 of the present invention provides a method for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, as shown in fig. 3, the method includes:
in step 301, acquiring the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information, and a frequency hopping pattern on different member carriers;
in step 302, the frequency hopping pattern is adopted to complete the transmission of repeated ACK/NACK on the sub-frame of the component carrier according to the obtained content;
in the embodiment of the invention, the UE can acquire the number of the sub-frames for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information and the frequency hopping modes on different member carriers in a plurality of ways; for example, the parameters can be obtained by receiving a high-level signaling notification, wherein the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information, and the frequency hopping pattern on different member carriers are indicated by the state information of high-level signaling bits; in addition, after the frequency hopping mode is selected, the base station does not inform the UE of the frequency hopping mode for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, but the UE adopts the fixed frequency hopping mode for repeating ACK/NACK transmission and the like; the following two ways are taken as examples to describe in detail, wherein different physical uplink control channels on different sub-frames of different component carriers when repeating ACK/NACK transmission are taken as examples, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the following ways are not limited thereto:
1) the UE acquires various parameters for repeating ACK/NACK transmission by receiving the notification of the high-level signaling; specifically, the UE receives a notification including the number of subframes for repeated ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information, and a frequency hopping pattern on different member carriers sent by the base station through a high-level signaling, then determines the number of subframes for repeated ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information, and the frequency hopping pattern on different member carriers according to the notification, and determines parameters again according to the notification every time the repeated ACK/NACK transmission is performed; wherein the higher layer signaling may be, but is not limited to, RRC signaling;
it should be noted that, when repeating ACK/NACK transmission is performed, the frequency hopping pattern may be a frequency hopping pattern in which continuous repeated ACK/NACK transmission occupies one component carrier, taking a frequency hopping pattern in which two continuous feedbacks occupy one component carrier as an example, and taking a system configuration UE to perform 6 times of ACK/NACK repetition transmission as an example, as shown in fig. 4, where subframes 1 to 6 are all uplink subframes, and ACK/NACK is fed back on a PUCCH: the first feedback of the UE is performed on the PUCCH1 of the component carrier 1, the first repetition ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 1, the second and third repetition ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 2, and the fourth and fifth repetition ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 3;
of course, another frequency hopping mode may be adopted, that is, each ACK/NACK transmission is performed alternately on different component carriers; other parameters are the same as the above example and are not described again; as shown in fig. 5: wherein, the subframes 1 to 6 are all uplink subframes, and ACK/NACK is fed back on a PUCCH; the first feedback and RRC signaling of the UE configure the UE to perform the third feedback on the PUCCH1 of the component carrier 1, while the first and fourth repeated ACK/NACK transmissions of the RRC signaling configured UE are performed on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 2, and the second and fifth repeated ACK/NACK transmissions of the RRC signaling configured UE are performed on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 3.
2) The UE acquires various parameters for repeating ACK/NACK transmission by receiving the notification of the high-level signaling, and after the UE selects the frequency hopping mode, the base station does not notify the UE of the frequency hopping mode for repeating ACK/NACK transmission any more, but the UE adopts the fixed frequency hopping mode for repeating ACK/NACK transmission; specifically, the UE receives a notification which is sent by a base station through a high-level signaling and contains the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers, and then determines the number of the subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information and the frequency hopping patterns on the different member carriers according to the notification; when repeated ACK/NACK transmission needs to be carried out again, a new frequency hopping mode does not need to be received, and the fixed frequency hopping mode is adopted for transmission;
it is also worth noting that in this manner, similar to manner 1) above, the frequency hopping pattern may also be of a different form; for example, when repeating ACK/NACK transmission is performed, the frequency hopping pattern may be a frequency hopping pattern in which continuous repeated ACK/NACK transmission occupies one component carrier, taking a frequency hopping pattern in which two continuous feedbacks occupy one component carrier as an example, and taking a system configuration UE to perform 4 times of ACK/NACK repetition transmission as an example, as shown in fig. 6, where subframes 1 to 6 are all uplink subframes, and ACK/NACK is fed back on a PUCCH; according to the configuration of high-layer signaling, the first feedback of the UE is carried out on the PUCCH1 of the component carrier 1, the first repeated ACK/NACK of the UE configured by RRC signaling is carried out on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 1, and the remaining 2 times of ACK/NACK feedback of the UE are continuously transmitted on the PUCCH4 of the component carrier 2;
in another frequency hopping mode, ACK/NACK transmission is performed alternately on different member carriers each time, and other parameters are the same as those in the above example and are not described again; as shown in fig. 7, also taking the system configuration UE to perform 4 repeated ACK/NACK transmissions as an example, the first feedback of the UE is performed on PUCCH1 of component carrier 1, the first repeated ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on PUCCH4 of component carrier 2, the second repeated ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on PUCCH4 of component carrier 1, and the third repeated ACK/NACK of the RRC signaling configuration UE is performed on PUCCH4 of component carrier 2;
if a frequency hopping mode fixing mode is adopted in the LTE-A system, the follow-up repeated ACK/NACK transmission of the UE is carried out by adopting the same frequency hopping mode; otherwise, the subsequent UE needs to perform the repeated ACK/NACK transmission according to the frequency hopping pattern notified by the high-level signaling each time, which is not described herein again.
It can be seen that, by adopting the method of the embodiment of the present invention, different member carriers are configured for the repeated ACK/NACK transmission of the same UE in the LTE-a system, and the number of subframes for the repeated ACK/NACK transmission, the member carrier information, and the frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers are notified to the UE, so that the UE completes the repeated ACK/NACK transmission on the subframe of the corresponding member carrier by using the frequency hopping pattern after acquiring the above parameters, thereby implementing the repeated ACK/NACK transmission mechanism under the condition of carrier aggregation, and further enabling the UE to obtain frequency diversity gain, thereby improving the uplink coverage capability.
Based on the above idea, embodiment 2 of the present invention further proposes an apparatus for implementing repeated ACK/NACK transmission, as shown in fig. 8, the apparatus 800 includes: the device comprises an acquisition unit 810 for acquiring the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping patterns on different member carriers, and a transmission unit 820 for completing the repeating ACK/NACK transmission by adopting the frequency hopping patterns on the subframes of the member carriers according to the content acquired by the acquisition unit 810.
Wherein the obtaining unit 810 includes: a receiving module 811 and an extracting module 812; the receiving module 811 is configured to receive a notification that includes the number of subframes for repeating ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information, and a frequency hopping pattern on different member carriers, where the notification is sent by a base station; the extracting module 812 is configured to extract and determine the number of subframes for performing repeated ACK/NACK transmission, component carrier information, and frequency hopping patterns on different component carriers from the notification received by the receiving module 811;
it should be noted that the obtaining unit 810 further includes: a notification module 813 configured to notify the transmission unit 820 to perform repeated ACK/NACK transmission by using a fixed frequency hopping pattern after the extraction module determines the frequency hopping pattern for performing repeated ACK/NACK transmission.
In addition, embodiment 3 of the present invention further provides a base station, including: a first processing unit and a second processing unit; the first processing unit is used for determining the number of subframes for the UE to perform repeated ACK/NACK transmission, member carrier information and frequency hopping modes on different member carriers; the second processing unit is configured to notify the UE of various parameters determined by the first processing unit through a higher layer signaling.
The frequency hopping mode determined by the first processing unit is that continuous ACK/NACK transmission occupies the same member carrier, or repeated ACK/NACK transmission is alternately carried out among different member carriers.
Of course, those skilled in the art will understand that the apparatus for implementing repeated ACK/NACK transmission in embodiment 2 above may also be regarded as a user equipment or a part thereof when implemented specifically; the ue in the specific implementation includes the components included in the common ue and also includes the units included in the device described in the above embodiment, that is, the ue including the units of the device also includes within the scope of the present invention, but is not limited thereto, and is not described herein again.
Those of skill in the art would understand that information, messages, and signals may be represented using any of a variety of different technologies and techniques. For example, the messages and information mentioned in the above description can be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or any combination thereof.
Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative components and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both, and that the various illustrative components and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality in order to clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.
The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A software module may reside in Random Access Memory (RAM), memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.