WO2009022749A2 - Downlink multiplexing - Google Patents

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WO2009022749A2
WO2009022749A2 PCT/JP2008/064675 JP2008064675W WO2009022749A2 WO 2009022749 A2 WO2009022749 A2 WO 2009022749A2 JP 2008064675 W JP2008064675 W JP 2008064675W WO 2009022749 A2 WO2009022749 A2 WO 2009022749A2
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  • the present invention relates to the communication of data within a mobile (cellular) communication system.
  • the invention has particular, although not exclusive relevance to the allocation of sub-carriers used in a wireless communication system.
  • OFDMA and single carrier FDMA have been selected as the downlink and uplink multiple access schemes for the E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access) air interface currently being studied in 3GPP (which is a standard based collaboration looking at the future evolution of third generation mobile telecommunication systems).
  • E-UTRA Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
  • 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • a base station which communicates with a number of user devices allocates the total amount of time/frequency resource (depending on bandwidth) among as many simultaneous users as possible, in order to enable efficient and fast link adaptation and to attain maximum multi-user diversity gain.
  • the E-UTRA system provides for both real time (RT) services, such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and non-real time (NRT) services, such as web browsing.
  • RT real time
  • NRT non-real time
  • the time/frequency resources that allow user devices to use these services may be allocated dynamically (ie on demand at the time that they are needed) or persistently depending on the service used.
  • RT real time
  • NRT non-real time
  • the time/frequency resources that allow user devices to use these services may be allocated dynamically (ie on demand at the time that they are needed) or persistently depending on the service used.
  • real time services such as VoIP
  • the user devices can be allocated the resources in advance (persistently allocated), for example at the time of the call setup.
  • bursty traffic such as web browsing traffic
  • the resources would be allocated dynamically based on the amount of data to be transmitted between the user device and the network at the time.
  • the current working assumption in RAN1 is that if the user device has persistently allocated resources in a given Transmission Time Interval (TTI); no other resources could be allocated to the user device for data/signalling within the same TTI, except within the Dynamic Broadcasting Channel (DBCH).
  • TTI Transmission Time Interval
  • DBCH Dynamic Broadcasting Channel
  • the present invention provides a system in which user devices can use both dynamically and persistently allocated resources within the same TTI, to receive downlink data from the network.
  • One exemplary embodiment provides a method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; receiving control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used; determining if the received control data includes a predefined bit pattern; and depending on whether or not said determining step determines that said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating with said other node using the resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
  • control data has a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when the control data is for defining a reallocation of said persistently allocated resources, at least one of said one or more other fields includes said predefined bit pattern instead of one or more of said parameters and wherein the node uses previous parameters for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
  • control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and an antenna data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said antenna data field.
  • control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and a transport format data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said transport format data field.
  • control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said HARQ data field.
  • ID field for ID data identifying the node
  • allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources
  • HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
  • control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field.
  • predefined bit pattern is defined by a reserved value not used to define the corresponding parameter value.
  • the transport format data field will include a subfield for a modulation scheme to use and a subfield for defining a payload size of data packets to be communicated using the assigned resources and wherein the predefined bit pattern is located within one of those subfields.
  • the resource allocations are preferably for allocating downlink resources, although in other exemplary embodiments, they may be used to define uplink resources.
  • the node may also transmit multiple ACK/NACKs.
  • a multi-bit modulation scheme is preferably used, such as QPSK (Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying) instead of the usual binary modulation scheme such as BPSK (Binary Phase-Shift Keying).
  • QPSK Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying
  • BPSK Binary Phase-Shift Keying
  • An exemplary embodiment also provides a method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; generating control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used; determining whether or not to include a predefined bit pattern within the control data, depending on whether or not the new resources are to be used in addition to the persistently allocated resources or instead of the persistently allocated resources; transmitting the generated control data to the other node for controlling the resources used; and depending on whether or not said control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating with said other node using the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
  • the generating step generates control data having a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when said determining step determines that the new resources are to be used instead of said persistently allocated resources, said generating step sets one or more of said other fields with said predefined bit pattern instead of the corresponding one or more parameters and wherein when communicating with the other node using the new resources, the node uses the corresponding one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
  • the invention provides, for all methods disclosed, corresponding computer programs or computer program products (computer implementable instructions product) for execution on corresponding equipment, the equipment itself (user equipment, nodes or components thereof) and methods of updating the equipment.
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates a communication system comprising a number of user mobile (cellular) telephones which communicate with a base station connected to the telephone network;
  • cellular user mobile
  • Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the structure of the Transmission Time Intervals used in the communication system shown in
  • Figure 3 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of the base station shown in Figure 1 ; and Figure 4 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of one of the mobile telephones shown in Figure 1.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a mobile (cellular) telecommunication system 1 in which users of mobile telephones 3-0, 3-1 , and 3-2 can communicate with other users (not shown) via a base station 5 and a telephone network 7.
  • the base station 5 uses an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique in which the data to be transmitted to the mobile telephones 3 is modulated onto a plurality of sub-carriers. Different sub-carriers are allocated to each mobile telephone 3 depending on the amount of data to be sent to the mobile telephone 3.
  • the base station 5 also allocates the sub-carriers used to carry the data to the respective mobile telephones 3 in order to try to maintain a uniform distribution of the mobile telephones 3 operating across the base station's bandwidth.
  • OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
  • the base station 5 dynamically allocates sub-carriers for each mobile telephone 3 and signals the allocations for each time point (sub-frame) to each of the scheduled mobile telephones 3.
  • the base station 5 may dynamically allocate resources for downlink transmissions during transmission intervals in which the mobile telephone 3 is already scheduled to receive persistently scheduled data.
  • the base station 5 encodes appropriate data into the control channel used to carry the data defining the new allocation. It does this, in this exemplary embodiment, without changing the DL L1/L2 control channel structure used to signal the resource allocations.
  • the available transmission bandwidth is divided into a number of resource blocks, each of which comprises a number of contiguous sub-carriers (i.e. 12 subcarriers) arranged in contiguous blocks.
  • Different mobile telephones 3 are allocated different resource block(s) (sub- carriers) for transmitting/receiving their data.
  • Figure 2 illustrates E-UTRA's latest definition of the transmission channel as comprising a sequence of 1ms Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) 11-1 , 11-2, each of which consists of two 0.5ms slots 13-1 and 13-2.
  • TTIs Transmission Time Intervals
  • each mobile telephone 3 is scheduled to transmit its uplink data and receive its downlink data in selected slots 13 and in selected resource block (RB) 15. It is also possible each mobile telephone 3 to be assigned multiple resource blocks (RBs).
  • RBs resource blocks
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of the base station 5 used in this exemplary embodiment.
  • the base station 5 includes a transceiver circuit 21 which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the mobile telephones 3 via one or more antennae 23 (using the above described sub-carriers) and which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the telephone network 7 via a network interface 25.
  • the operation of the transceiver circuit 21 is controlled by a controller 27 in accordance with software stored in memory 29.
  • the software includes, among other things, an operating system 31 and a resource allocation module 33.
  • the resource allocation module 33 is operable for allocating the sub-carriers used by the transceiver circuit 21 in its communications with the mobile telephones 3.
  • the resource allocation module 33 includes control parameter generator module 35 for generating the required control parameters for defining the allocated resources.
  • Mobile Telephone Figure 4 schematically illustrates the main components of each of the mobile telephones 3 shown in Figure 1.
  • the mobile telephones 3 include a transceiver circuit 71 which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the base station 5 via one or more antennae 73.
  • the mobile telephone 3 also includes a controller 75 which controls the operation of the mobile telephone 3 and which is connected to the transceiver circuit 71 and to a loudspeaker 77, a microphone 79, a display 81 , and a keypad 83.
  • the controller 75 operates in accordance with software instructions stored within memory 85. As shown, these software instructions include, among other things, an operating system 87 and a communications module 89.
  • the communications module 89 includes a control parameter interpreter module 91 for interpreting received control parameters that define a resource allocation.
  • the base station 5 and the mobile telephones 3 are described for ease of understanding as having a number of discrete modules (such as the resource allocation module, control parameter generator module, communications module and control parameter interpreter module). Whilst these modules may be provided in this way for certain applications, for example where an existing system has been modified to implement the invention, in other applications, for example in systems designed with the inventive features in mind from the outset, these modules may be built into the overall operating system or code and so these modules may not be discernible as discrete entities. Operation The current E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
  • resources Physical resource blocks (PRBs) and Modulation & coding scheme (MCS)
  • PRBs physical resource blocks
  • MCS Modulation & coding scheme
  • a mobile telephone 3 always monitors the L1/L2 control channel(s) in order to find a possible allocation when its downlink reception is enabled (activity governed by DRX - discontinuous reception).
  • E-UTRAN can allocate predefined downlink resources for the first HARQ transmissions to mobile telephones 3.
  • retransmissions are explicitly signalled via the L1/L2 control channel(s).
  • the mobile telephone 3 In the sub-frames where the mobile telephone 3 has been pre-assigned resources, if the mobile telephone 3 cannot find its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), a downlink transmission according to any pre-defined allocation that the mobile telephone 3 has been assigned in the TTI is assumed.
  • the mobile telephone 3 performs blind decoding of the pre-defined resources (the subset of pre-defined resources shall be set in accordance with the mobile telephone's capability).
  • the L1/L2 control channel allocation overrides the predefined allocation for that TTI and the mobile telephone 3 does not perform blind decoding of the pre-defined resources.
  • the base station 5 needs to dynamically allocate downlink resources in the same TTI where predefined downlink resources (persistently scheduled) for the first HARQ transmissions are scheduled for the mobile telephone 3, a mechanism has to be provided which will enable the mobile telephone 3 to interpret the DL resource allocation differently without changing the DL control channel structure.
  • Persistently scheduled allocations are not signalled in the DL L1/L2 control channel; as they are signalled from higher layers (i.e. L3).
  • the base station 5 whenever a dynamic allocation is being made or whenever the persistently scheduled resources are to be reallocated, the base station 5 must generate and transmit control data over a control channel to the mobile telephone 3 to define the desired change.
  • the last row of the table defines the situation where the base station 5 wishes to provide a dynamic allocation of the resources to be used in the current TTI and at the same time change the persistently allocated resources. This will require the use of two control channels within the same TTI to carry the appropriate control data to the mobile telephone 3.
  • the proposal is to have a maximum of one control channel within each TTI for each mobile telephone 3. Therefore, the situation defined in the last row of Table 1 would not be supported by the current proposal. However, if the current proposal changes to allow the transmission of two control channels for a single mobile telephone 3 in the same TTI, then this situation would also be supported.
  • the two cases that need to be distinguished by the mobile telephone 3 within the same TTI are: 1) Reallocation of predefined (persistently scheduled) downlink resources; and
  • the DL Control Channel Parameters that are generated by the base station 5 and transmitted to the mobile telephone 3 are shown in Table 2 below. The inventors believe that the required distinction can be achieved if the base station 5 sets the Transport Format or HARQ related information differently for the two cases and the mobile telephone 3 interprets the control data accordingly.
  • the DL Control Channel parameters that need to be set for the two cases are:
  • Multi-antenna info/Transport Format /HARQ related Information can be set to specific pattern. Because, some of the information carried on the Multi-antenna info, Transport Format and HARQ related Information are not changed during re- allocation of the persistently allocated resources, the pattern can be the two bits of the Multi-antenna info (for example bit pattern 11), and/or the last two bits of the Modulation scheme (for example bit pattern 11) in the Transport Format and/or the last three bits of the HARQ process number (for example bit pattern 111). Which part of the control parameters would be set in this pattern is, in this exemplary embodiment, determined in advance and known to the mobile telephone 3 and the base station 5.
  • New Resource allocation for Data/Signalling All the control channel parameters would be set as usual for dynamically scheduled packet data. Therefore, if the mobile telephone 3 receives DL control channel parameters in a current TTI in which it has persistently allocated resources, it first checks to see if the received parameters contain the predefined bit pattern in the appropriate location. If it finds the pattern, then it interprets the allocation as a reallocation of the persistently allocated resources; and if it does not find the pattern, then it treats the allocation as a new allocation for dynamically scheduled packet data. If it is a reallocation of the persistently allocated resources, the missing parameter information replaced by the bit pattern is taken from the control data that originally signalled the persistent allocation.
  • the mobile telephone 3 assumes that this information is not changed and uses the multi-antenna information that is stored for the persistently allocated resources (and which was signalled to the mobile telephone 3 at the time that the persistent allocation was originally signalled).
  • ACK/NACK Feedback The proposed DL multiplexing deals only with a mixture of persistently scheduled and dynamically scheduled services. In this case, two HARQ processes are possible at maximum, resulting in two ACK/NACKs (2 bits) to be sent on the UL feedback (as opposed to one bit currently). This data can be sent using QPSK modulation and so, with this proposal, no modification is required for the UL control signalling either.
  • a mobile telephone based telecommunication system was described in which the above described signalling techniques were employed.
  • the signalling of such resource allocation data can be employed in any communication system that uses a plurality of sub-carriers.
  • the signalling techniques described above can be used in wire or wireless based communications either using electromagnetic signals or acoustic signals to carry the data.
  • the base station would be replaced by a communication node which communicates with a number of different user devices.
  • User devices may include, for example, personal digital assistants, laptop computers, web browsers, etc.
  • the software modules may be provided in compiled or un-compiled form and may be supplied to the base station or to the mobile telephone as a signal over a computer network, or on a recording medium. Further, the functionality performed by part or all of this software may be performed using one or more dedicated hardware circuits. However, the use of software modules is preferred as it facilitates the updating of base station 5 and the mobile telephones 3 in order to update their functionalities.
  • UE could receive both a persistently scheduled (e.g. VOIP) packet and a dynamically scheduled (data) packet in the same sub-frame in the DL transmissions.
  • a persistently scheduled (e.g. VOIP) packet e.g. VOIP
  • data data
  • Resources for RRC/L2 signalling /Data could be dynamically allocated in the same sub frame in which VoIP packets are persistently scheduled.
  • E-UTRAN can dynamically allocate resources (PRBs and MCS) to UEs at each TTI via the C-RNTI on L1/L2 control channel(s).
  • PRBs and MCS resources
  • a UE always monitors the L1/L2 control channel(s) in order to find possible allocation when its downlink reception is enabled (activity governed by DRX).
  • E-UTRAN can allocate predefined downlink resources for the first HARQ transmissions to UEs.
  • retransmissions are explicitly signalled via the L1/L2 control channel(s).
  • the UE In the sub-frames where the UE has been pre-assigned resources, if the UE cannot find its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), a downlink transmission according to any pre-defined allocation that the UE has been assigned in the TTI is assumed.
  • the UE performs blind decoding of the pre-defined resources (the subset of predefined resources shall be set in accordance to UE's capability).
  • the L1/L2 control channel allocation overrides the pre-defined allocation for that TTI and the UE does not perform blind decoding of the pre-defined resources.
  • Persistently scheduled allocation does not use DL L1 L2 control channel, but it is being signalled from higher layers (i.e. L3).
  • DL Control Channel parameters that need to be set by for two cases are:
  • Multi-antenna info/Transport Format /HARQ related Information can be set to specific pattern. Because, some of the information carried on the Multi-antenna info, Transport Format and HARQ related Information are not changed during re- allocation of the persistently allocated resources.
  • the pattern can be the last three bits of the Multi-antenna info (11), and or the last two bits of the Modulation scheme (11) in the Transport Format and or the last three bits of the HARQ process number (111).
  • the proposed DL multiplexing deals only a mixture of persistently scheduled and dynamic scheduled services. In this case, two HARQ processes are possible at maximum, resulting 2 ACK/NACKs (2 bits) to be sent on the UL feedback using QPSK modulation. So, with this proposal, no modification is required for the UL control signalling.

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Abstract

A communications system is provided in which persistently allocated resources used by a node to communicate data with another node of the communications system can be reallocated or new dynamic resources can be allocated to allow the node to communicate using both the persistently allocated resources and the dynamically allocated resources. The system does this without changing the structure of a control channel used to communicate resource allocations.

Description

DESCRIPTION
DOWNLINK MULTIPLEXING
TECHNICAL FIELD:
The present invention relates to the communication of data within a mobile (cellular) communication system. The invention has particular, although not exclusive relevance to the allocation of sub-carriers used in a wireless communication system.
BACKGROUND ART:
OFDMA and single carrier FDMA have been selected as the downlink and uplink multiple access schemes for the E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access) air interface currently being studied in 3GPP (which is a standard based collaboration looking at the future evolution of third generation mobile telecommunication systems). Under the E-UTRA system, a base station which communicates with a number of user devices allocates the total amount of time/frequency resource (depending on bandwidth) among as many simultaneous users as possible, in order to enable efficient and fast link adaptation and to attain maximum multi-user diversity gain.
The E-UTRA system provides for both real time (RT) services, such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and non-real time (NRT) services, such as web browsing. The time/frequency resources that allow user devices to use these services may be allocated dynamically (ie on demand at the time that they are needed) or persistently depending on the service used. For example, for real time services such as VoIP, where the amount of resources needed is known in advance, the user devices can be allocated the resources in advance (persistently allocated), for example at the time of the call setup. For more "bursty" traffic, such as web browsing traffic, the resources would be allocated dynamically based on the amount of data to be transmitted between the user device and the network at the time.
The current working assumption in RAN1 is that if the user device has persistently allocated resources in a given Transmission Time Interval (TTI); no other resources could be allocated to the user device for data/signalling within the same TTI, except within the Dynamic Broadcasting Channel (DBCH).
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION: According to one exemplary aspect, the present invention provides a system in which user devices can use both dynamically and persistently allocated resources within the same TTI, to receive downlink data from the network.
One exemplary embodiment provides a method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; receiving control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used; determining if the received control data includes a predefined bit pattern; and depending on whether or not said determining step determines that said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating with said other node using the resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
Preferably, the control data has a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when the control data is for defining a reallocation of said persistently allocated resources, at least one of said one or more other fields includes said predefined bit pattern instead of one or more of said parameters and wherein the node uses previous parameters for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
In one exemplary embodiment, the control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and an antenna data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said antenna data field.
In another exemplary embodiment, the control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and a transport format data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said transport format data field.
In a further exemplary embodiment, the control data includes an ID field for ID data identifying the node, an allocation data field for allocation data defining the new resources and an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) data field and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by data within said HARQ data field.
In one exemplary embodiment the control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field. Preferably the predefined bit pattern is defined by a reserved value not used to define the corresponding parameter value.
In some exemplary embodiments, the transport format data field will include a subfield for a modulation scheme to use and a subfield for defining a payload size of data packets to be communicated using the assigned resources and wherein the predefined bit pattern is located within one of those subfields.
The resource allocations are preferably for allocating downlink resources, although in other exemplary embodiments, they may be used to define uplink resources. When the resource allocations relate to downlink allocations, the node may also transmit multiple ACK/NACKs. In this case, a multi-bit modulation scheme is preferably used, such as QPSK (Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying) instead of the usual binary modulation scheme such as BPSK (Binary Phase-Shift Keying). In this way, the up link control channel used for ACK/NACKs also does not need to change.
An exemplary embodiment also provides a method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; generating control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used; determining whether or not to include a predefined bit pattern within the control data, depending on whether or not the new resources are to be used in addition to the persistently allocated resources or instead of the persistently allocated resources; transmitting the generated control data to the other node for controlling the resources used; and depending on whether or not said control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating with said other node using the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
Preferably, the generating step generates control data having a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when said determining step determines that the new resources are to be used instead of said persistently allocated resources, said generating step sets one or more of said other fields with said predefined bit pattern instead of the corresponding one or more parameters and wherein when communicating with the other node using the new resources, the node uses the corresponding one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern. The invention provides, for all methods disclosed, corresponding computer programs or computer program products (computer implementable instructions product) for execution on corresponding equipment, the equipment itself (user equipment, nodes or components thereof) and methods of updating the equipment. These and various other aspects of the invention will become apparent, from the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments which are given by way of example only and which are described with reference to the accompanying Figures in which:
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Figure 1 schematically illustrates a communication system comprising a number of user mobile (cellular) telephones which communicate with a base station connected to the telephone network;
Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the structure of the Transmission Time Intervals used in the communication system shown in
Figure 1 ;
Figure 3 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of the base station shown in Figure 1 ; and Figure 4 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of one of the mobile telephones shown in Figure 1.
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION: Overview
Figure 1 schematically illustrates a mobile (cellular) telecommunication system 1 in which users of mobile telephones 3-0, 3-1 , and 3-2 can communicate with other users (not shown) via a base station 5 and a telephone network 7. In this exemplary embodiment, the base station 5 uses an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique in which the data to be transmitted to the mobile telephones 3 is modulated onto a plurality of sub-carriers. Different sub-carriers are allocated to each mobile telephone 3 depending on the amount of data to be sent to the mobile telephone 3. In this exemplary embodiment the base station 5 also allocates the sub-carriers used to carry the data to the respective mobile telephones 3 in order to try to maintain a uniform distribution of the mobile telephones 3 operating across the base station's bandwidth. To achieve these goals, the base station 5 dynamically allocates sub-carriers for each mobile telephone 3 and signals the allocations for each time point (sub-frame) to each of the scheduled mobile telephones 3. In this exemplary embodiment, the base station 5 may dynamically allocate resources for downlink transmissions during transmission intervals in which the mobile telephone 3 is already scheduled to receive persistently scheduled data. In order to ensure that the mobile telephone 3 interprets the dynamic allocation of resources correctly, the base station 5 encodes appropriate data into the control channel used to carry the data defining the new allocation. It does this, in this exemplary embodiment, without changing the DL L1/L2 control channel structure used to signal the resource allocations. Time/Frequency Resources In this exemplary embodiment, the available transmission bandwidth is divided into a number of resource blocks, each of which comprises a number of contiguous sub-carriers (i.e. 12 subcarriers) arranged in contiguous blocks. Different mobile telephones 3 are allocated different resource block(s) (sub- carriers) for transmitting/receiving their data. Figure 2 illustrates E-UTRA's latest definition of the transmission channel as comprising a sequence of 1ms Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) 11-1 , 11-2, each of which consists of two 0.5ms slots 13-1 and 13-2. As shown, the available transmission bandwidth is divided into S resource blocks (RBs) 15-1 to 15-s and each mobile telephone 3 is scheduled to transmit its uplink data and receive its downlink data in selected slots 13 and in selected resource block (RB) 15. It is also possible each mobile telephone 3 to be assigned multiple resource blocks (RBs). Base Station
Figure 3 is a block diagram illustrating the main components of the base station 5 used in this exemplary embodiment. As shown, the base station 5 includes a transceiver circuit 21 which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the mobile telephones 3 via one or more antennae 23 (using the above described sub-carriers) and which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the telephone network 7 via a network interface 25. The operation of the transceiver circuit 21 is controlled by a controller 27 in accordance with software stored in memory 29. The software includes, among other things, an operating system 31 and a resource allocation module 33. The resource allocation module 33 is operable for allocating the sub-carriers used by the transceiver circuit 21 in its communications with the mobile telephones 3. As shown in Figure 3, the resource allocation module 33 includes control parameter generator module 35 for generating the required control parameters for defining the allocated resources. Mobile Telephone Figure 4 schematically illustrates the main components of each of the mobile telephones 3 shown in Figure 1. As shown, the mobile telephones 3 include a transceiver circuit 71 which is operable to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the base station 5 via one or more antennae 73. As shown, the mobile telephone 3 also includes a controller 75 which controls the operation of the mobile telephone 3 and which is connected to the transceiver circuit 71 and to a loudspeaker 77, a microphone 79, a display 81 , and a keypad 83. The controller 75 operates in accordance with software instructions stored within memory 85. As shown, these software instructions include, among other things, an operating system 87 and a communications module 89.
In this exemplary embodiment, the communications module 89 includes a control parameter interpreter module 91 for interpreting received control parameters that define a resource allocation.
In the above description, the base station 5 and the mobile telephones 3 are described for ease of understanding as having a number of discrete modules (such as the resource allocation module, control parameter generator module, communications module and control parameter interpreter module). Whilst these modules may be provided in this way for certain applications, for example where an existing system has been modified to implement the invention, in other applications, for example in systems designed with the inventive features in mind from the outset, these modules may be built into the overall operating system or code and so these modules may not be discernible as discrete entities. Operation The current E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
Network) specification states that in the downlink, resources (physical resource blocks (PRBs) and Modulation & coding scheme (MCS)) can be dynamically allocated to a mobile telephone 3 at each TTI via the C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s). A mobile telephone 3 always monitors the L1/L2 control channel(s) in order to find a possible allocation when its downlink reception is enabled (activity governed by DRX - discontinuous reception).
In addition, E-UTRAN can allocate predefined downlink resources for the first HARQ transmissions to mobile telephones 3. When required, retransmissions are explicitly signalled via the L1/L2 control channel(s). In the sub-frames where the mobile telephone 3 has been pre-assigned resources, if the mobile telephone 3 cannot find its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), a downlink transmission according to any pre-defined allocation that the mobile telephone 3 has been assigned in the TTI is assumed. As a result, the mobile telephone 3 performs blind decoding of the pre-defined resources (the subset of pre-defined resources shall be set in accordance with the mobile telephone's capability). Otherwise, in the sub-frames where the mobile telephone 3 has been pre-assigned resources, if the mobile telephone 3 finds its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), the L1/L2 control channel allocation overrides the predefined allocation for that TTI and the mobile telephone 3 does not perform blind decoding of the pre-defined resources.
Given this current proposal, if the base station 5 needs to dynamically allocate downlink resources in the same TTI where predefined downlink resources (persistently scheduled) for the first HARQ transmissions are scheduled for the mobile telephone 3, a mechanism has to be provided which will enable the mobile telephone 3 to interpret the DL resource allocation differently without changing the DL control channel structure.
There are four possible allocations that can happen as shown in Table 1. Persistently scheduled allocations are not signalled in the DL L1/L2 control channel; as they are signalled from higher layers (i.e. L3).
Tablei. Four Possible Allocations that can happen
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As can be seen from Table 1 , whenever a dynamic allocation is being made or whenever the persistently scheduled resources are to be reallocated, the base station 5 must generate and transmit control data over a control channel to the mobile telephone 3 to define the desired change. The last row of the table defines the situation where the base station 5 wishes to provide a dynamic allocation of the resources to be used in the current TTI and at the same time change the persistently allocated resources. This will require the use of two control channels within the same TTI to carry the appropriate control data to the mobile telephone 3. Currently, the proposal is to have a maximum of one control channel within each TTI for each mobile telephone 3. Therefore, the situation defined in the last row of Table 1 would not be supported by the current proposal. However, if the current proposal changes to allow the transmission of two control channels for a single mobile telephone 3 in the same TTI, then this situation would also be supported.
As will be apparent from the above discussion, the two cases that need to be distinguished by the mobile telephone 3 within the same TTI are: 1) Reallocation of predefined (persistently scheduled) downlink resources; and
2) New dynamic allocated resources.
The DL Control Channel Parameters that are generated by the base station 5 and transmitted to the mobile telephone 3 are shown in Table 2 below. The inventors believe that the required distinction can be achieved if the base station 5 sets the Transport Format or HARQ related information differently for the two cases and the mobile telephone 3 interprets the control data accordingly.
Table 2. DL Control Channel Parameters
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As shown in table 2, the DL Control Channel parameters that need to be set for the two cases are:
Reallocation of Persistently Allocated Resources: Multi-antenna info/Transport Format /HARQ related Information can be set to specific pattern. Because, some of the information carried on the Multi-antenna info, Transport Format and HARQ related Information are not changed during re- allocation of the persistently allocated resources, the pattern can be the two bits of the Multi-antenna info (for example bit pattern 11), and/or the last two bits of the Modulation scheme (for example bit pattern 11) in the Transport Format and/or the last three bits of the HARQ process number (for example bit pattern 111). Which part of the control parameters would be set in this pattern is, in this exemplary embodiment, determined in advance and known to the mobile telephone 3 and the base station 5.
New Resource allocation for Data/Signalling: All the control channel parameters would be set as usual for dynamically scheduled packet data. Therefore, if the mobile telephone 3 receives DL control channel parameters in a current TTI in which it has persistently allocated resources, it first checks to see if the received parameters contain the predefined bit pattern in the appropriate location. If it finds the pattern, then it interprets the allocation as a reallocation of the persistently allocated resources; and if it does not find the pattern, then it treats the allocation as a new allocation for dynamically scheduled packet data. If it is a reallocation of the persistently allocated resources, the missing parameter information replaced by the bit pattern is taken from the control data that originally signalled the persistent allocation. For example if the bit pattern is included in the multi-antenna information field of the control data, then the mobile telephone 3 assumes that this information is not changed and uses the multi-antenna information that is stored for the persistently allocated resources (and which was signalled to the mobile telephone 3 at the time that the persistent allocation was originally signalled). ACK/NACK Feedback The proposed DL multiplexing deals only with a mixture of persistently scheduled and dynamically scheduled services. In this case, two HARQ processes are possible at maximum, resulting in two ACK/NACKs (2 bits) to be sent on the UL feedback (as opposed to one bit currently). This data can be sent using QPSK modulation and so, with this proposal, no modification is required for the UL control signalling either.
Conclusion
This patent application describes DL multiplexing for the case of simultaneous transmission of persistently scheduled and dynamically scheduled services. The advantages of doing so include:
1) From a scheduling point of view, having both Persistent and Dynamic allocation within one sub frame would be very efficient.
2) Resources for RRC/L2 signalling/Data could be dynamically allocated in the same sub frame in which VoIP packets are persistently scheduled.
3) Increases DL capacity.
4) Increased Battery life of the mobile telephone 3 as the "On-Duration" of the mobile telephone during DRX operation can be reduced.
5) Different HARQ profile for VoIP (having persistently allocated resource) and Data (having dynamically allocated resource) is possible by having separate ACK/NACK for the different bearer types.
In addition, no modification is required to the current DL or UL L1/L2 control structure to accommodate the proposed multiplexing. The only requirement is the provision of a mechanism that will allow the mobile telephone 3 to distinguish between reallocation of Persistently Allocated Resources and the allocation of New Dynamic resources, such as by putting a predefined bit pattern in one or more of the DL Control Channel Parameters for the reallocation of the persistently allocated resources. Modifications and Alternatives A number of detailed exemplary embodiments have been described above. As those skilled in the art will appreciate, a number of modifications and alternatives can be made to the above exemplary embodiments whilst still benefiting from the inventions embodied therein. By way of illustration only a number of these alternatives and modifications will now be described.
In the above exemplary embodiments, a mobile telephone based telecommunication system was described in which the above described signalling techniques were employed. As those skilled in the art will appreciate, the signalling of such resource allocation data can be employed in any communication system that uses a plurality of sub-carriers. In particular, the signalling techniques described above can be used in wire or wireless based communications either using electromagnetic signals or acoustic signals to carry the data. In the general case, the base station would be replaced by a communication node which communicates with a number of different user devices. User devices may include, for example, personal digital assistants, laptop computers, web browsers, etc.
In the above exemplary embodiments, a number of software modules were described. As those skilled will appreciate, the software modules may be provided in compiled or un-compiled form and may be supplied to the base station or to the mobile telephone as a signal over a computer network, or on a recording medium. Further, the functionality performed by part or all of this software may be performed using one or more dedicated hardware circuits. However, the use of software modules is preferred as it facilitates the updating of base station 5 and the mobile telephones 3 in order to update their functionalities.
The following is a detailed description of the way in which the present inventions may be implemented in the currently proposed 3GPP LTE standard. Whilst various features are described as being essential or necessary, this may only be the case for the proposed 3GPP LTE standard, for example due to other requirements imposed by the standard. These statements not, therefore, be construed as limiting the present invention in any way. Introduction The current assumption in RAN 1 is that if the UE is having persistently allocated resources in a given TTI for example VoIP Service; no other resources could be allocated to the UE for data/signalling within the same TTI except with Dynamic Broadcasting Channel (DBCH). The restriction of having one transport block per TTI for the unicast transmissions comes from the fact that there will be only 1 HARQ process for non-MIMO case. This issue was last discussed in RAN1#46bis in Seoul, October 06 and since then there have not been any further discussion on this topic in subsequent meetings. In this contribution, we revisit this working assumption and discuss if the working assumption needs to be modified for simultaneous reception of persistently scheduled and dynamically scheduled services for one user in a TTI for DL transmissions.
Discussion
The main reason for agreeing this working assumption was that the DL control Channel structure and the resources needed for sending HARQ
ACK/NACKS were not clear at that time. However, with progress on the DL Control channel structure: a) the proposal to separate out the ACK/NACK for persistently scheduled UE's and the dynamically scheduled UE's, b) the L1 L2 signaling is basically not used to assign resources to the persistently scheduled UEs, we believe that these restrictions are no longer necessary.
Further more, if multiple HARQ processes within one sub frame are allowed, UE could receive both a persistently scheduled (e.g. VOIP) packet and a dynamically scheduled (data) packet in the same sub-frame in the DL transmissions. The possible benefits this could bring are:
> From scheduling point of view, having both Persistent and Dynamic allocation within one sub frame would be very efficient.
> Resources for RRC/L2 signalling /Data could be dynamically allocated in the same sub frame in which VoIP packets are persistently scheduled.
> Increases DL capacity
> Increased Battery life of the UE as the "On-Duration" of UE during DRX operation can be reduced. > Different HARQ profile for VoIP (having persistently allocated resource) and
Data (having dynamically allocated resource) is possible by having separate ACK/NACK for different bearer type.
One could argue that this would increase UE complexity; however we believe that such functionality can be considered as a part of higher class/category UE. Early deployment UE may not implement such functionality.
Mechanism for differentiating new dynamic allocation and persistent reallocation Stage 2 Technical Specification states that:
"In the downlink, E-UTRAN can dynamically allocate resources (PRBs and MCS) to UEs at each TTI via the C-RNTI on L1/L2 control channel(s). A UE always monitors the L1/L2 control channel(s) in order to find possible allocation when its downlink reception is enabled (activity governed by DRX).
In addition, E-UTRAN can allocate predefined downlink resources for the first HARQ transmissions to UEs. When required, retransmissions are explicitly signalled via the L1/L2 control channel(s). In the sub-frames where the UE has been pre-assigned resources, if the UE cannot find its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), a downlink transmission according to any pre-defined allocation that the UE has been assigned in the TTI is assumed. As a result, the UE performs blind decoding of the pre-defined resources (the subset of predefined resources shall be set in accordance to UE's capability). Otherwise, in the sub-frames where the UE has been pre-assigned resources, if the UE finds its C-RNTI on the L1/L2 control channel(s), the L1/L2 control channel allocation overrides the pre-defined allocation for that TTI and the UE does not perform blind decoding of the pre-defined resources". Given this, if we need to dynamically allocate downlink resources in the same TTI where the predefined downlink resources (persistently scheduled) for the first HARQ transmissions are scheduled for a UEs, we need to define a mechanism which will enable the UE to interpret DL grant differently without changing the DL control channel structure.
The two cases that need to be distinguished by the UE within the same TTI are:
1) Reallocation of predefined (persistently scheduled) downlink resources
2) New dynamic allocated resources.
There are four possible allocations that can happen as shown on Table 1. Persistently scheduled allocation does not use DL L1 L2 control channel, but it is being signalled from higher layers ( i.e. L3).
Tablei. Four Possible Allocations that can happen
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DL Control Channel Parameters are shown in Table 2 below. We believe that the distinction can be done if eNB sets the Transport Format and HARQ related information differently for the two cases and the UE interprets it accordingly.
As shown on table, DL Control Channel parameters that need to be set by for two cases are:
Reallocation of Persistently Allocated Resources: Multi-antenna info/Transport Format /HARQ related Information can be set to specific pattern. Because, some of the information carried on the Multi-antenna info, Transport Format and HARQ related Information are not changed during re- allocation of the persistently allocated resources. The pattern can be the last three bits of the Multi-antenna info (11), and or the last two bits of the Modulation scheme (11) in the Transport Format and or the last three bits of the HARQ process number (111).
New Resource allocation of Data/Signalling: All the parameters would be set as usual for dynamically scheduled packet data.
Table 2. DL Control Channel Parameters
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ACK/NACK Feedback
The proposed DL multiplexing deals only a mixture of persistently scheduled and dynamic scheduled services. In this case, two HARQ processes are possible at maximum, resulting 2 ACK/NACKs (2 bits) to be sent on the UL feedback using QPSK modulation. So, with this proposal, no modification is required for the UL control signalling.
Conclusion
In this contribution, we have discussed and revisited the DL multiplexing for the case of simultaneous transmission of persistently scheduled and dynamic scheduled services. We highlighted the benefits of having such multiplexing for LTE downlink transmissions. In addition, no modification is required to the current DL/UL L1L2 control structure to accommodate the proposed multiplexing. It is only required to distinguish between reallocation of Persistently Allocated Resources and the allocation of New Dynamic resources by putting a unique pattern in some of the DL Control Channel Parameters for the reallocation of the Persistently Resources. So, we recommend RAN1/RAN2 to revisit the current working assumption and allow simultaneous reception of persistently scheduled and dynamically scheduled services for one user in a TTI for DL transmissions.
This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from United Kingdom Patent Application No. 0715822.3, filed on August 14 2007, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.

Claims

1. A method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; receiving control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used in a current transmission time interval in which the node is scheduled to communicate using said persistently allocated resources; determining if the received control data includes a predefined bit pattern; and depending on whether or not said determining step determines that said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said control data has a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources and wherein when said control data is for defining a reallocation of said persistently allocated resources, at least one of said one or more other fields includes said predefined bit pattern instead of one or more of said parameters and wherein the node uses one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and antenna data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said antenna data.
4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and transport format data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said transport format data.
5. A method according to claim 1 , wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and
HARQ data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said HARQ data.
6. A method according to claim 1 , wherein said control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field.
7. A method according to claim 6, wherein said predefined bit pattern is formed from a reserved value in one of said fields.
8. A method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein said transport format data field includes a subfield for a modulation scheme to use and a subfield for defining a payload size of data packets to be communicated using the assigned resources and wherein said predefined pattern is located within one of said subfields.
9. A method according to any of claims 1 to 8, wherein said resources are for defining downlink resources for the node to receive data from the other node.
10. A method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of transmitting two ACK/NACKs using QPSK data modulation from the node to the other node to acknowledge receipt of data using the persistently allocated resources and the resources allocated by the received control data.
11. A method according to any of claims 1 to 10, wherein if said determining step determines that said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern, the method communicates, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the allocated resources instead of the resources identified by the stored allocation data.
12. A method performed by a node of a communications system, the method comprising: storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals; generating control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used in a current transmission time interval in which the other node is scheduled to communicate using said persistently allocated resources; determining whether or not to include a predefined bit pattern within the control data, depending on whether or not the new resources are to be used in the current transmission time interval in addition to the persistently allocated resources or instead of the persistently allocated resources; transmitting the generated control data to the other node for controlling the resources used during the current transmission time interval; and depending on whether or not said control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
13. A method according to claim 12, wherein said generating step generates control data having a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when said determining step determines that the new resources are to be used instead of said persistently allocated resources, said generating step sets one or more of said other fields with said predefined bit pattern instead of the corresponding one or more parameters and wherein when communication with the other node using the new resources, the node uses the corresponding one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
14. A method according to claim 12, wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and antenna data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said antenna data.
15. A method according to claim 12, wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and transport format data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said transport format data.
16. A method according to claim 12, wherein said control data includes ID data identifying the node, allocation data defining the allocated resources and
HARQ data and wherein said predefined bit pattern is defined by said HARQ data.
17. A method according to claim 12, wherein said control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field.
18. A method according to claim 17, wherein said predefined bit pattern is formed from a reserved value in one of said fields.
19. A method according to claim 17 or 18, wherein said transport format data field includes a subfield for a modulation scheme to use and a subfield for defining a payload size of data packets to be communicated using the assigned resources and wherein said predefined pattern is located within one of said subfields.
20. A method according to any of claims 12 to 19, wherein said new resources are for defining downlink resources for the node to transmit data to the other node.
21. A method according to claim 20, further comprising the step of receiving two ACK/NACKs using QPSK data modulation from the other node, acknowledging receipt of data using the persistently allocated resources and the resources allocated by the received control data.
22. A method according to any of claims 12 to 21 , wherein said determining step determines that said control data include said predefined bit pattern if the new resources are to be used instead of the resources identified by the stored allocation data.
23. A communication node comprising: means for storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data with another communication node within predetermined transmission time intervals; means for receiving control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used in a current transmission time interval in which the communication node is scheduled to communicate using said persistently allocated resources; means for determining if the received control data includes a predefined bit pattern; and means, responsive to said determining means determining whether or not said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) for communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) for communicating, within the current transmission time interval, with said other communication node using the resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
24. A communication node according to claim 23, wherein said control data has a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources and wherein when said control data is for defining a reallocation of said persistently allocated resources, at least one of said one or more other fields includes said predefined bit pattern instead of one or more of said parameters and wherein the communication node is operable to use one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
25. A communication node according to claim 24, wherein said control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field.
26. A communication node according to claim 23, further comprising means for transmitting two ACK/NACKs using QPSK data modulation, to the other communication node to acknowledge receipt of data using the persistently allocated resources and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
27. A communication node according to any of claims 23 to 26, wherein if said determining means determines that said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern, the communication node is operable to communicate, within the current transmission time interval, with said other communication node using the allocated resources instead of the resources identified by the stored allocation data.
28. A communication node comprising: means for storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data with another communication node; means for generating control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used in communicating data; means for determining whether or not to include a predefined bit pattern within the control data, depending on whether or not the new resources are to be used in addition to the persistently allocated resources or instead of the persistently allocated resources; means for transmitting the generated control data to the other communication node for controlling the resources used; and means, responsive to whether or not said control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) for communicating with said other communication node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) for communicating with said other communication node using the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
29. A communication node according to claim 28, wherein said generating means is operable to generate control data having a predefined structure including an ID field for holding ID data identifying the node, an allocation field for holding data defining the new resources and one or more other fields for holding parameters required for communicating with the new resources, wherein when said determining means determines that the new resources are to be used instead of said persistently allocated resources, said generating means is operable to set one or more of said other fields with said predefined bit pattern instead of the corresponding one or more parameters and wherein when communication with the other communication node using the new resources, the communication node is operable to use the corresponding one or more parameters forming part of said stored allocation data for the one or more parameters replaced by said predefined bit pattern.
30. A communication node according to claim 28, wherein said control data includes predefined data fields for: ID data, resource assignment data, antenna data, transport format data and HARQ data, and wherein said predefined bit pattern is located within one or more of the antenna data field, the transport format data field and the HARQ data field.
31. A method according to claim 30, wherein said predefined bit pattern is formed from a reserved value in one of said fields.
32. A method according to any of claims 28 to 31 , wherein said determining means is operable to determine that said control data include said predefined bit pattern if the new resources are to be used instead of the resources identified by the stored allocation data.
33. A communication node comprising: a memory for storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data with another communication node; a receiver for receiving control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used; a controller operable to determine if the received control data includes a predefined bit pattern; and a transceiver operable, in response to said controller determining whether or not said received control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) to communicate with said other communication node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) to communicate with said other communication node using the resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
34. A communication node comprising: a memory for storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data with another communication node; an allocation module operable to generate control data defining an allocation of new resources to be used in communicating data; a controller operable to determine whether or not to include a predefined bit pattern within the control data, depending on whether or not the new resources are to be used in addition to the persistently allocated resources or instead of the persistently allocated resources; and a transceiver operable to transmit the generated control data to the other communication node for controlling the resources used; and operable, in response to whether or not said control data includes said predefined bit pattern: i) to communicate with said other communication node using the new resources instead of the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data; or ii) to communicate with said other communication node using the persistently allocated resources identified by the stored allocation data and the new resources allocated by the received control data.
35. A method of communicating between a user device and a base station, comprising: providing persistent allocation data defining resources to be used by the user device in communicating with the base station; during a transmission time interval in which the user device is scheduled to communicate with the base station using said resources defined by said persistent allocation data, receiving control data defining dynamic resources to be used in communicating data between said user device and said base station; and communicating data between the user device and the base station using both the persistently allocated resources and the dynamically allocated resources in the same transmission time interval.
36. A method according to claim 35, wherein said communicating step communicates data between the user device and the base station using both the persistently allocated resources and the dynamically allocated resources in the same sub-frame of the transmission time interval.
37. A computer implementable instructions product comprising computer implementable instructions for causing a programmable computer device to carry out the method of any one of claims 1 to 22, 35 or 36.
38. A computer implementable instructions product according to claim 37, stored on a computer readable medium.
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