WO2019028835A1

WO2019028835A1 - Techniques for utilizinguplink control channel resources

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Publication number: WO2019028835A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/097105
Authority: WO
Inventors: Xianghui HAN; Shuqiang Xia; Chunli Liang; Wei Gou; Jing Shi; Wen Zhang
Original assignee: Zte Corporation
Priority date: 2017-08-11
Filing date: 2017-08-11
Publication date: 2019-02-14
Also published as: CN110945932A; CN110945932B

Abstract

Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) can be effectively managed and utilized by base stations and mobile stations. In an exemplary embodiment, a mobile station receives from a base station an allocation of channel resources. The base station assigns at least one of the allocated channel resources to the mobile station. The mobile station uses the channel resources to transmit messages to the base station.

Description

TECHNIQUES FOR UTILIZINGUPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCES

TECHNICAL FIELD

This disclosure is directed generally to digital wireless communications.

BACKGROUND

Mobile telecommunication technologies are moving the world toward an increasingly connected and networked society. In comparison with the existing wireless networks, next generation systems and wireless communication techniques will need to support a much wider range of use-case characteristics and provide a more complex and sophisticated range of access requirements and flexibilities.

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless communication for mobile devices and data terminals developed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . LTE Advanced (LTE-A) is a wireless communication standard that enhances the LTE standard. The 5th generation of wireless system, known as 5G, advances the LTE and LTE-A wireless standards and is committed to supporting higher data-rates, large number of connections, ultra-low latency, high reliability and other emerging business needs.

SUMMARY

This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and devices for managing physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.

An exemplary embodiment discloses a wireless communication method for a mobile station. The method comprisesreceiving, by a mobile station, a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station, receiving, by the mobile station, a second indication of at least one channel resource which is within the first plurality of channel resources and is assigned to the mobile station, and transmitting, by the mobile station, one or more messages using asecond plurality of channel resources, the second plurality of channel resources including the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station.

In some embodiments, the mobile station is operated to determine the second plurality of channel resources. In some embodiments, the one or more messages are transmitted overone or more physical resource blocks. In some embodiments, the operating of the mobile station to use the one or more physical resource blocks further comprises dividing a channel resource value of the second plurality of channel resources by an uplink sequence length to obtain a value, and rounding down the value to a nearest integer value.

In some embodiments, the receiving of the first indication comprises receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message allocating the first plurality of channel resources to the mobile station. In some embodiments, the receiving of the second indication comprises receiving a downlink control information (DCI) assigning at least one channel resource of the first plurality of channel resources allocated to the mobile station.

In an exemplary embodiment, at least a subset of the first plurality of channel resources is divided into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two channel resources. In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, the transmitting of the one or more messages includes transmitting any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message and a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, a first cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a first threshold value for transmission of the acknowledgment (ACK) message, a second cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the first group and the second cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the second group is less than a second threshold value for transmission of the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, andthe first threshold value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.

In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a threshold value. In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is less than a threshold value.

In some embodiments, the plurality of groups is identified to the mobile station through any one of the radio resource control (RRC) message and the downlink control information (DCI) . In an exemplary embodiment, the first and the second plurality of channel resources are a plurality of physical uplink control channel resources.

In some embodiments, the one or more messages includes any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message, a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message. In some embodiments, the exemplary method further includes determining, by the mobile station, one or more cyclic shift values for transmission of one or more messages.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a final cyclic shift value to represent the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, wherein the final cyclic shift value is associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits one or more cyclic shift (CS) values to represent the scheduling request (SR) message, wherein the one or more cyclic shift valuesare not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgement (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a cyclic shift value associated with transmission of the scheduling request (SR) message.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and any one of any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a value obtained by multiplying data from the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message with a phase offset factor e^jθ, wherein θ is any one of a cell-specific configuration parameter, a group-specific configuration parameter, and the mobile station specific configuration parameter.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits the scheduling request (SR) message using a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the mobile station transmits a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message using a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.

Another exemplary embodiment discloses a wireless communication method performed in a base station. The exemplary method comprises transmitting a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for each of a plurality of mobile stations, transmitting a second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to each of the plurality of mobile stations, andreceiving, from at least one of the plurality of mobile stations, one or more messages on a second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the one or more messages includes a message indicating acknowledgement (ACK) , a non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a final cyclic shift value representing the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, wherein the final cyclic shift value is associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station one or more cyclic shift (CS) values to represent the scheduling request (SR) message, wherein the one or more cyclic shift valuesare not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgement (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non- acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a cyclic shift value associated with transmission of the scheduling request (SR) message.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and any one of any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a value obtained by the at least one mobile station by multiplying data from the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message with a phase offset factor e^jθ, wherein θ is any one of a cell-specific configuration parameter, a group-specific configuration parameter, and the mobile station specific configuration parameter.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station the scheduling request (SR) message on a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.

In some embodiments, the base station receives from the at least one mobile stationa combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message on a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the from the at least one mobile station.

In some embodiments, the first plurality of channel resources is allocated using a radio resource control (RRC) message transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations. In some embodiments, the at least one channel resource is withinthe first plurality of channel resources is assigned to each of the plurality of mobile stations using downlink control information (DCI) transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations.

In some embodiments, at least a subset of the first plurality of channel resources is divided into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two channel resources. In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, the receiving of the one or more messages includes receiving any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message and a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, afirst cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a first threshold value for receiving of the acknowledgment (ACK) message, a second cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the first group and the second cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the second group is less than a second threshold value for receiving of the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, andthe first threshold value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.

In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, anda cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a threshold value.

In some embodiments, the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, anda cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is less than a threshold value.

In some embodiments, the base station identifies the plurality of groups to the mobile station by transmitting any one of the radio resource control (RRC) message and the downlink control information (DCI) . In some embodiments, the first and second plurality of channel resources is a plurality of physical uplink control channel resources. In some embodiments, the plurality of mobile stations is three mobile stations.

In yet another exemplary aspect, the above-described methods are embodied in the form of processor-executable code and stored in a computer-readable program medium.

In yet another exemplary embodiment, a device that is configured or operable to perform the above-described methods is disclosed.

The above and other aspects and their implementations are described in greater detail in the drawings, the descriptions, and the claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 showsan exemplary base station and mobile stations managing and utilizing the PUCCH channel resources.

FIG. 2 shows an exemplary flowchart for a mobile station to determine channel resources for transmission of one or more messages.

FIG. 3 shows an exemplary flowchart for a base station to allocate channel resources for multiple mobile stations.

FIG. 4 shows an exemplary block diagram for a mobile station utilizing channel resources.

FIG. 5 shows an exemplary block diagram for a base station managing channel resources.

FIG. 6 shows an exemplary (s) PUCCHs multiplexing with different TTI lengths.

FIG. 7 shows an exemplary PUCCH resource mapping.

FIG. 8 shows another exemplary PUCCH resource mapping.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In some wireless systems, the transmission time interval (TTI) length (e.g., 1ms) is relatively long and the latency caused by this TTI, while acceptable for some existing applications, will not meet future demand for ultra-low latency in wireless communications. One solution in the 5G system or other future wireless networksis to reduce the length of the transmission time for a shortened physical channel such asthe Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) . The PUCCH is a wireless channel used to transmit information from the mobile stations to the base station. For example, the mobile station may use the PUCCH to transmit information such as an Acknowledgement (ACK) , Non-Acknowledgement (NACK) , and scheduling request (SR) . The mobile station transmits ACK/NACK to the base station to inform the base station whether the mobile station has properly decoded the data transmitted by the base station. A scheduling request (SR) is used by the mobile station to request uplink resources to transmit data.

In LTE, LTE-Aand 5G systems, a sequenceselection transmission scheme allows transmission of 1 to two bits of acknowledgement (ACK) message or non-acknowledgement (NACK) message on the shortened PUCCH solution. Thus, channel resource sequencesare used to carry information. But, carrying the information on the channel resources sequences also consumes more resources. For example, the transmission of one bit requires two channelresources, and transmission two bits requirefourchannelresources. Thus, there is a need for reduction of the use of channel resources and for improving of the efficiency of system reuse.

In addition, each UE uses only one PUCCH channel resource on each antenna for a PUCCHtransmission format in existing systems. In some implementations, the sequenceselection scheme requires multiple PUCCH channel resources. In some existing systems, there is no effective allocation method for managing and utilizing multiple PUCCH channel resources. Thus, it would be beneficial to redesign the PUCCH channel resources for base stations and mobile stations to effectively manage and utilize the PUCCH channel resource. In some embodiments, a channel resource allocation method is disclosed. In some other embodiments, the resource utilization for transmission of ACK, NACK and scheduling resource (SR) is reduced.

FIG. 1 shows an exemplary base station and mobile stations managing and utilizing the PUCCH channel resources. The base station (120) transmits channel resources (104a-140c) allocated to the plurality of mobile stations (110a-110c) . The mobile stations (110a-110c) transmitting information using PUCCH channel resources (130a-130c) to the base station (120) . In some embodiments, the base station (120) manages the channel resources for three mobile stations (110a-110c) . For the PUCCH format in which 1 to two bits of information is transmitted based on the sequence selection, each mobile station or user equipment (UE) obtains a plurality of PUCCH channel resources. The present embodiment provides a plurality of channel resource allocation schemes.

Channelization of Channel Resources

Configuration Example 1

FIG. 1 shows a base station (120) transmitting, for example, four PUCCH channel resources allocated to one of the mobile station (110a) using the upper layer radio resource control (RRC) . The mobile station (110a) receives a first indication (140a) of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for a mobile station. The base station (120) transmits the first indication to the mobile station (110a) .

The base station (120) assigns or instructs one of the channel resources to the mobile station (110a) through the downlink control information (DCI) . The one channel resource assigned to the mobile station (110a) is referred to as

where p is the antenna port index. The assignment of a value of

allows the mobile station (110a) to identify the first channel resource assigned to that mobile station. The mobile station (110a) receives a second indication (150a) of at least one channel resource, for example,

assigned to the mobile station (110a) , where the first plurality of channel resources comprises the least one channel resource.

Subsequently, the mobile station determines a second plurality of channel resources, where the second plurality of channel resources comprise the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station. The mobile station (110a) obtains the value of and identifies the other remaining channel resources

by calculating the following equation:

where the maximum value ofi is equal to one less than the number of PUCCH channel resources needed by the mobile station. Thus, in some embodiments, i may be one less that the number of the second plurality of channel resources. In the example disclosed above, i＝1, 2, 3.

is a cyclic shift difference between two adjacent PUCCH channel resources.

can be a semi-static configured value obtained from RRC transmitted by the base station (120) , or

can be obtained by DCI dynamic indication transmitted by the base station (120) . C is a constant, the default value for Cis 1.

The channelization for the PUCCH channel resourcecan be determined by the following equations:

where L is the sequence length, n_s is slot index, l is the symbol index,

is a constant configured by the high-level semi-static configuration, such as RRC.

is randomization parameters for the inter-cell. The channelization is further based on the obtained channel resources to further obtain the specific resource block (RB) position required for transmitting the information and the frequency domain phase rotation factor

of the sequence. The cyclic shift α_p (n_s， l) is a phase for a channel resource. Applying a phase rotation in frequency domain is equivalent to applying a cyclic shift in time domain. Thus, the frequency domain phase rotation value is equal to the cyclic shift value in time domain.

The following example assumes

L＝12. Assuming that the first channel resource

, dynamically obtained by DCI, is equal to 0, where

and n_PRB＝ 0. In Configuration Example 1, the first plurality of channel resources allocated by the base station is 0, 1, 2, and 3, and the second plurality of channel resources determined by the mobile station is 0, 3, 6, and 9. Thus, the PUCCH channel resources determined by the mobile station may be different from the PUCCH channel resources configured by RRC as allocated by the base station. Further, n_PRB is determined by dividing a channel resource value, for example

by the sequence length, for example L ＝ 12. The result of the division is a value that is rounded down to the nearest integer value. Thus, in Configuration Example 1, n_PRB＝ 0.

The frequency domain phase rotation factor

is 0, 3, 6, 9 for

and

respectively. That is, the resource finally obtained by the mobile station (110a) for transmitting the uplink control information is to transmit four sequences with the frequency domain phase rotation factor of 0, 3, 6, and 9, respectively, in resource block 0, RB #0.

In another example, where

L＝12, assuming that the channel resource obtained by, for example, DCI, is

then the mobile station calculates the following values:

n_PRB＝ 0, and

n_PRB＝ 1. The frequency domain phase rotation factor is 0 for

and

and the frequency domain phase rotation factor is 6 for

and

That is, the resource obtained by the mobile station (110a) for transmitting the uplink control information is a sequence in which the frequency domain rotation factor is 0 and 6 are both used in the RB #0 and RB #1.

In some embodiments, the calculations disclosed in this document can be used to allow a mobile station to configure two channel resources to send one bit ACK /NACK information.

FIG. 2 shows an exemplary flowchart for a mobile station to determine channel resources for transmission of one or more messages. At the receiving first indication operation 202, the mobile station receives a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station. At the receiving second indication operation 204, the mobile station receives a second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station. The first plurality of channel resources comprises the at least one channel resource. At the transmitting operation 206, the mobile station transmits one or more messages using asecond plurality of channel resources. The second plurality of channel resources includes the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station.

FIG. 3 shows an exemplary flowchart for a base station to allocate channel resources for multiple mobile stations. At the transmitting a first indication operation 302, the base station transmits a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for each of a plurality of mobile stations. At the transmitting a second indication operation 304, the base station transmits second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to each of the plurality of mobile station. In some embodiments, the first plurality of channel resources comprises the at least one channel resource. At the receiving operation 306, the base station receives from a mobile station one or more messages on a second plurality of channel resources.

Configuration Example 2

In another example, the mobile station (110b) may use, for example, four PUCCH channel resources to transmit two bit ACK /NACK information. The base station (120) configures four channel resource groups to the mobile station (110b) through the upper layer RRC. Each group has four channel resources. The base station (120) indicates one group of the four channel resource groups through the two bits in the DCI to the mobile station (110b) . Thus, in some embodiments, the first plurality of channel resources comprises four channel resource groups, and the second plurality of channel resources can be one group of the four channel resource groups. Thus, the second plurality of channel resources may be a subset of the first plurality of channel resources allocated to the mobile station.

After obtaining the four channel resources, the mobile station (110b) can obtain the specific RB position and sequence frequency rotation factor using the exemplary channelization method mentioned in this patent document, for example, in Configuration Example 1. Subsequently, the mobile station transmits one or more messages, such as any one or more of ACK, NACK, and SR, using the channel resources as described for Configuration Example 1.

In some other embodiments, the base station (120) configures four channel resource groups to the mobile station (110b) through the upper layer RRC. Each grouphas, for example, three channel resources. The base station (120) indicates one group of the fourchannel resource groups through the two bits in the DCI to the mobile station (110b) . The three channel resources in the indicated group can be used for ACK transmission. The base station (120) configures another channel resource to the mobile station (110b) through the upper layer RRC. This channel resource configured by RRC is only used for NACK transmission. Thus, in some embodiments, the configuration methods utilized for ACK transmission and NACK transmission are different. Further, the configuration of the ACK channel resources and the NACK channel resources is done separately.

Configuration Example 3

In yet another example, the mobile station (110c) may use, for example, four PUCCH channel resources to transmit two bit ACK /NACK information. The base station (120) configures four channel resource groups to the mobile station (110c) through the upper layer RRC, for example, the first packet, the second packet, the third packet and the fourth packet. Each of the four channel resource groups has at least two channel resources. In some embodiments, each of the four channel resource groups has four channel resources. The base station (120) indicates to the mobile station (110c) through the first two bits within the DCI a channel resource group within the first packetto the mobile station (110c) . The base station (120) indicates to the mobile station (110c) through the second two bits within the DCI a channel resource group within the second packet to the mobile station (110c) . The base station (120) indicates to the mobile station (110c) through the third two bitswithin the DCI a channel resource group within the third packet to the mobile station (110c) . And, the base station (120) indicates to the mobile station (110c) throughthe fourth two bits within the DCI a channel resource group within the fourth packet to the mobile station (110c) . Thus, a first plurality of channel resources is divided into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two channel resources. After obtaining the four channel resources, the mobile station (110c) can obtain the specific RB position and sequence frequency rotation factor using the exemplary channelization method mentioned in this patent document. Thus, Configuration Example 3 is more flexible than Configuration Example 2.

In another example, the mobile stationmay use, for example, two PUCCH channel resources to transmit one bit ACK /NACK information. The base station configures four channel resource groups to the mobile station through the upper layer RRC, which is the first packet and the second packet, each has four channel resources. The base station indicates a channel resource group within the first packet to the mobile stationthrough two bits within the DCI. The base station indicates a channel resource group within the second packet to the mobile stationthrough another two bits within the DCI. After obtaining the two channel resources, the mobile stationcan obtain the specific RB position and sequence frequency domain rotation factor using the exemplary channelization method mentioned in this patent document. Subsequently, the mobile station transmits one or more messages, such as any one or more of ACK, NACK, and SR, using the channel resource group.

In some embodiments, a difference in the cyclic shift valuesXbetween a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of a first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of another group is given by the following equation:

X＝min (|α_i-α_j|modL， (12-|α_i-α_j|) modL)

where α_i is a first cyclic shift value associated with a first channel resource of a first group, and α_j is the second cyclic shift value associated with a first channel resource of a second group.

In some embodiments, the difference in the cyclic shift values between a first cyclic shift of a first channel resource of a first group and a second cyclic shift of a first channel resource of another group is greater than a first threshold value for transmission of an acknowledgement (ACK) message. The difference in the cyclic shift values between a first cyclic shift of a first channel resource of a first group and a second cyclic shift of a first channel resource of another group is less than a second threshold value for transmission of a non- acknowledgement (NACK) message. The first threshold value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.

Thus, in some embodiments, a mobile station may transmit an acknowledgment (ACK) message using a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group or a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group. The cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value and the second cyclic shift value is greater than a threshold value.

In some embodiments, a mobile station may transmit a non-acknowledgment (NACK) message using a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group ora second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group. The cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value and the second cyclic shift value is less than a threshold value.

In another embodiment, the difference in the cyclic shift values between a first cyclic shift of a first channel resource of a first group and a second cyclic shift of a first channel resource of another group is less than a first threshold value for transmission of an acknowledgement (ACK) message. The difference in the cyclic shift values between a first cyclic shift of a first channel resource of a first group and a second cyclic shift of a first channel resource of another group is greater than a second threshold value for transmission of a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message. The first threshold value is less than or equal to the second threshold value.

Transmission of NACK

In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of mobile stations share a resource for transmitting NACKs for a PUCCH format in which 1 to two bits of information is transmitted based on the sequence selection.

NACK Transmission Example 1

When a mobile station sends a one bit ACK /NACK message, the mobile station may require, for example, two sequences for characterization. A sequence or a cyclic shift represents an ACK, and another sequence or another cyclic shift represents a NACK. Table 1 shows the sequence resources required for three mobile stations, UE1, UE2, and UE3, to send a one bit ACK /NACK message. In this example, the sequences used by UE1, UE2 and UE3 are CS_1, CS_2, and CS_3, respectively. In Table 1, the sequence of NACK is the same for all UEs. Thus, all UEs use sequence CS_N for transmission of NACK. From the point of view of channel resources, different channel resources used to characterize ACKs are different, and the channel resources used to characterize NACK are the same.

CS is the cyclic shift value that can be determined based on the equation described for the exemplary channelization method. In this example, each UE only need two channel resources, which belongs to the second plurality of channel resources. Thus, CS_1 refers to the cyclic shift value associated with the first channel resource of UE1. CS_2 refers to the cyclic shift value associated with the first channel resource of UE2, and so on. CS_N refers to the final cyclic shift value associated with the final channel resource allocated to a mobile device.

Table 1 -One bit ACK/NACK transmission based on sequence selection PUCCH

At the detection end, when the base station receives an ACK or NACK message, the base station processes that message. For example, if the base station detects that the ACK sequence of a mobile station is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the base station determines that the mobile station transmitted an ACK message. The predetermined threshold can be the false alarm value. In another example, if the base station detects the NACK sequence to be greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value and when the ACK sequence is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, then the base station determines that the mobile station transmitted the NACK, otherwise the base station determines that the message was a discontinuous transmission (DTX) . The base station detecting an ACK or NACK sequence means that the base station obtains a peak in association with a received signal on a predetermined resource with a local ACK or NACK sequence. A channel resource for transmitting an ACK for a UE is independently indicated for a channel resource for transmitting a NACK. The channel resource allocation scheme for transmitting an ACK for a certain UE is different from the channel resource allocation scheme for transmitting the NACK. The channelization of a channel resource for transmitting an ACK for a UE is different from the channel resource channel used to transmit the NACK.

NACK Transmission Example 2

In another example, when the mobile station sends a two bit ACK /NACK message, it is represented by “11, ” “10, ” “01, ” and “00” as shown in Table 2. Each of the two bits represents the ACK or NACK message for each of the two transport blocks received by a mobile station. The mobile stationmay use, for example, four channel resources for characterization. Table 2 shows the sequence resources required for two mobile stations to send two bit ACK /NACK messages. In this example, the sequence used to characterize the packets containing the ACK information is different, but only the sequence of the NACK information is the same. Thus, all the UEs use the same sequence NN. From the point of view of channel resources, different mobile stationsuse different channel resources for the ACK message, and different mobile stationsuse the same channel resources for NACK.

Table 2 –two bits ACK/NACK transmission based on sequence selection PUCCH

When sending NACK information, the UE multiplies the transmission sequence by a certain phase offset factor e^jθ, where θ is either a cell-specific configuration parameter or a group-specific configurationparameter, or a mobile station-specific configuration parameter. Different users may have a differentθparameter.

NACK Transmission Example 3

In another example, when a partial UE transmits a one bit ACK /NACK message and a partial UE transmits a two bit ACK /NACK message, two channel resources are allocated for the UE transmitting the one bit, and four channel resources are allocated for the mobile station transmitting the two bit. Table 3 shows the resource configuration tables for which two UEs transmit one bit and two bit ACK /NACK messages, respectively. The channel resource for transmitting the one bit user for transmitting the NACK is the same as the channel resource for transmitting the two bit user for transmitting only the NACK information.

Table 3 –One bit ACK/NACK transmission based on sequence selection PUCCH

Transmission of ACK, NACK, and SR

In some embodiments, when the mobile station simultaneously transmits the ACK /NACK message and the scheduling request (SR) message. In such an embodiment, the mobile sends the ACK /NACK message using the channel resource of the SR message to realize efficient reuse of both. Since the ACK /NACK requires multiple channel resources, the SR also requires multiple channel resources. Therefore, the exemplary method realizes a reduction of SR channel resource consumption.

ACK, NACK, and SR Transmission Example 1

In an example, the base station allocates four PUCCH channel resources to the mobile station. The mobile station transmits the two bit ACK /NACK message using the four channel resources without the SR transmission opportunity, as shown in Table 4. CS1 to CS4 can be four cyclic shift values associated with four different channel resources. Thus, CS1 to CS4 are four channel resources allocated to the mobile station.

Table 4 –two bits ACK/NACK transmission in a slot without SR transmitting opportunities

As shown in Table 5, in the time slot with the SR transmission opportunity, the mobile station uses the 2 resources of the four resources if only SR is sent, such as the following two channel resources CS3 and CS4 for sending SR, which can characterize two kinds of SR type, such as triggering eMBB or triggering URLLC two SR types. When the mobile station transmits only ACK /NACK, the two bit information can be first combined or bundled with the AND operation to one bit, and then the two channel resources CS1 and CS2 can be used to represent or denote ACK /NACK as discussed in this patent document. If the UE simultaneously sends ACK and SR, or both NACK and SR are transmitted, two channel resources, for example, CS3 and CS4, are sent.

Table 5 –two bits ACK/NACK transmission in a slot with SR transmitting opportunities

In another example, as shown in Table 6, when the mobile station has only the SR to transmit, the mobile station can use the default resource of the four resources. For example, the mobile station may use resource for bundled NACK + SR (CS4) for transmission.

Table 6 –two bits ACK/NACK transmission in a slot with SR transmitting opportunities

In another example, as shown in Table 7, when the mobile station or user equipment (UE) transmits a one bit ACK /NACK message with an SR transmission opportunity, three different channel resources are allocated for each mobile station. The three different channel resources are assumed to correspond to three different sequences. Table 7shows the resource allocation tables for 2 UEs sending one bit ACK /NACK and/or SR. For example, when UE1 and UE2 send only SR, the two UEs can use different scheduling request channel resources, for example, SR_1 and SR_2. When two UEs send NACK, the two UEs may use channel resourceCS_N for transmission of NACK. Table 7 also shows that when UE1 and UE2send NACK and SR at the same time, UE1 and UE2 use SR_1 and SR_2, respectively. When UE1 and UE2 send ACK and SR at the same time, UE1 and UE2 use CS_1 and CS_2, respectively. The scheduling request channel resources are allocated by the base station to the UEs. The UEcan also send the ACK and SR at the same time using the sequence request channel resource allocated by the base station to the UE.

Table 7 –Transmission of one bit ACK/NACK and/or SR

Channel Resource Sharing

In an exemplary embodiment, a first exemplary embodiment for channelization is combined with a second exemplary embodiment for NACK transmission to solve the resource allocation problem when considering channel resource sharing.

Example 1

In one example, the mobile station may use, for example, four PUCCH channel resources to transmit two bit ACK /NACK information. The base station configures or allocates four channel resources to the UE through the upper layer RRC. The base station transmits to the UE an indication using, for example, a DCI message, identifying one of the channel resources of the allocated channel resources to the UE. The UE derives two more channel resources from the one channel resource identified by the base station to the UE. The three channel resources obtained by the UE may be used by the UE to send information, such as a two-bit ACK message, or a message that includes one bit for ACK and another bit for NACK.

The base station configures or allocates another UE-specific channel resource of the UE through the upper layer semi-static, such as RRC. The allocated channel resource may be used by the UE to transmit information containing only the NACK message that includes, for example, when both of the two-bits are NACK. In the above example, a channel resource for transmitting a packet containing an ACK is independently indicated from a channel resource for transmitting a NACK for a UE. Further, a channel resource allocation scheme for transmitting a packet containing an ACK is different from a channel resource allocation scheme for transmitting a NACK for a certain UE.

Alternatively, after the base station instructs or assigns one of the channel resources to the UE through the DCI, the UE uses the channel resources to derive the remaining three channel resources. In this example, the channel resource allocation mode for transmitting an ACK for a certain UE is the same for transmitting a NACK, but different channels are used when channel resources are channeled. For example, the configuration of

mentioned in Configuration Example 1 may be different.

Example 2

In another example, the mobile station may use, for example, four PUCCH channel resources to transmit two bit ACK /NACK information. The base station configures four channel resource groups to the UE through the upper layer RRC. Each group has three channel resources. The base station indicates to the UE one ofthe channels resource groups through the two bits in the DCI. The UE uses the three channel resources obtained in this way to send the information containing the ACK message. The base station configures another group-specific channel resource bysending to the UE a semi-static configuration, such as RRC, for the UE to transmit information containing only the NACK message using the group assigned to the UE.

FIG. 4 shows an exemplary block diagram for a mobile station 400 utilizing channel resources. The mobile station400 includes at least one processor 410 and a memory 405 having instructions stored thereupon. The instructions upon execution by the processor 410 configure the mobile station 400 to perform several operations using the various modules. The receiver 420 receives a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station 400. The allocated channel resources module 425 processes the first indication to identify the first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station 400.

The receiver 420 also receives a second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station 400. The first plurality of channel resources comprises the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station 400. The assigned channel resource module 430 processes the second indication to identify the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station 400.

In some embodiments, the mobile station 400 further includes a determination of channel resources module 435. The determination of channel resources module 435 determines a second plurality of channel resources as further described in this patent document. The second plurality of channel resources comprises the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station. The transmitter 415 transmits one or more messages using the second plurality of channel resources. The one or more message includes an acknowledgement (ACK) message, a non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message.

FIG. 5 shows an exemplary block diagram for a base station 500 managing channel resources. The base station500 includes at least one processor 510 and a memory 505 having instructions stored thereupon. The instructions upon execution by the processor 510 configure the base station 500 to perform several operations using the various modules.

The allocate channel resources module 525 determines the channel resources to allocate to the plurality of mobile stations. As described in this patent document, the base station uses a first indication to convey to a mobile station the first plurality of channel resources allocated to the mobile station. The base station 500 uses the transmitter 515 to transmita first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for each of a plurality of mobile stations.

The assign channel resource module 530 determines the identity or value of at least one channel resource to assign to a mobile station. As described in this patent document, the base station uses a second indication to convey to a mobile station at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station. The base station uses a transmitter 515 to transit a second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to each of the plurality of mobile station. The first plurality of channel resources comprises the at least one channel resource.

The receiver 520 receives from at least one of the plurality of mobile stations, one or more messages on a second plurality of channel resources. The one or more message includes an acknowledgement (ACK) message, a non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message.

The features described above are further described in the three sections below.

Section 1 –shortened PUCCH (sPUCCH) Resource Management

The cyclic shift randomization of sequence-based sPUCCH is re-used from 1 ms operation to support multiplexing with legacy PUCCH. The legacy PUCCH mentioned here refers to legacy PUCCH Format 1/1a/1b, but not PUCCH Format 2/2a/2b. Because the sTTI design is not optimized for N_PRB <＝ 10. However, the multiplexing of legacy PUCCH Format 1/1a/1b and PUCCH Format 2/2a/2b in a mixed RB is usually limited in case of small system bandwidth.

To support the multiplexing between sequence-based sPUCCH and legacy PUCCH Format 1/1a/1b, the disclosed exemplary embodiments consider thesPUCCH resource indication and the mapping rules from sPUCCH resource to PRB index and cyclic shift index.

Section 1. A. –sPUCCH resource indication

In LTE, only one PUCCH resource is required for PUCCH Format 1/1a/1b on each antenna. For sequence-based sPUCCH, two or four sPUCCH resources may be needed for 1/2-bit ACK/NACK transmission. Following are three embodiments that could be considered for sPUCCH resource indication.

In the first exemplary embodiment, UE may use resource

which may depend on the lowest CCE index and a resource offset configured by higher layers. For the antenna port p, one of the sPUCCH resources is determined by

the rest can be implicitly indicated by

In the secondexemplary embodiment, besides CCE index and the resource offset configured by higher layers, additional HARQ-ACK resource offset (ARO) in DCI may be used. For example, the possible values of ARO are 0, -1, -2 and 2 for 2-bit ARO. For the antenna port p,

, the other resources can be implicitly indicated by

or explicitly indicated by a different ARO.

In the third exemplary embodiment, a fixed number of resource values can be first configured by higher layers. And the specific resource value (s) are further determined by HARQ-ACK resource indication (ARI) in DCI. For example, 2-bit ARI can be used to choose one group from the four sPUCCH resource groups configured by RRC. For two antenna ports, the ARI maps to two sPUCCH resource groups with the first group for the antenna port p0 and the second group for the antenna port p1.

FIG. 6 shows an exemplary (s) PUCCHs multiplexing with different TTI lengths. As depicted, HARQ-ACKs corresponding to 1ms PDSCH transmitted in sub-frame #n, 7-symbol sPDSCH in sub-frame (n+2) and 2-symbol sPDSCH in sub-frame (n+3) need to feedback in UL sub-frame (n+4) .

To allow the multiplexing of different TTI lengths from different UEs in the same PRB, the latter sPUCCH should avoid the collision with the former (s) PUCCH. Therefore the first exemplary embodiment with semi-dynamic indication may not always work. For the second exemplary embodiment, the indication method would be either inflexible if only one sPUCCH resource is indicated by ARO or cause a high DCI overhead if all resources are indicated by ARO. However, the thirdexemplary embodiment offers a flexible way to indicate all sPUCCH resources to the UE together by defining several sPUCCH resource groups. Each sPUCCH resource group may contain two or four sPUCCH resources. Thus, for sequence-based sPUCCH, eNB can use 2bits in DCI to indicate one of the four sPUCCH resource groups configured by RRC.

Section 1. B. –AsPUCCH resource mapping to ACK/NACK

For 2/3-OS sequence-based sPUCCH Format 1a (1-bit) , two sPUCCH resources

may be allocated to a UE for the antenna port ^p . For 2/3-OS sPUCCH format 1b (2-bit) , four sPUCCH resources

are allocated to a UE.

Regarding to the mapping rule from sPUCCH resources to the ACK/NACK transmission, there may be two ways here.

In a first option, ACK/NACK information can maps to different PUCCH resources. An example is shown in FIG. 7 to elaborate the mapping progress for 2-OS sPUCCH Format 1a. In FIG. 7, if 1-bit ACK is to be transmitted, the UE may use the cyclic shift

on symbol l and use the cyclic shift

on symbol l+1 . Both

and

are derived by

If 1-bit NACK is to be transmitted, the UE may use the cyclic shift

on symbol l and use the cyclic shift

on symbol l+1 . Both

and

are derived by

In a second option, ACK/NACK information maps to different combinations of PUCCH resources. An example is shown in FIG. 8 for 3-OS sPUCCH Format 1a. In FIG. 8, if 1-bit ACK is to be transmitted, the UE may use the cyclic shift

on symbol l,

on symbol l+1, and use the cyclic shift

on symbol l+2.

is determined by

but

and

are derived by

If 1-bit NACK is to be transmitted, the UE may use the cyclic shift

on symbol l ,

on symbol l+1, and use the cyclic shift

on symbol l+2 . Both

and

are derived by

but

is derived by

For both the first option and the second option, the ACK/NACK information all maps to different cyclic shifts at the end. And it is expected that the first option and the second optionhave a similar performance. But in most cases, first option only uses one PUCCH resource, e.g., the resource for ACK, since UE would send ACK most probably. This may not be beneficial for interference randomization. Therefore, the second option may be preferred for PUCCH resource mapping to ACK/NACK. Thus, for sequence based sPUCCH, ACK/NACK information can maps to different combinations of PUCCH resources.

Based on the allocated sPUCCH resources, the UE can further determine the sPRB index and cyclic shift used on each symbol. In the following sections, the equations used are derived from the legacy PUCCH operation.

Section 2 –Enhanced sequence selection PUCCH

Sequence based design without RS only for small (1～2) payload size case is referred to as sequence-based or sequence selection PUCCH. The following section further discusses the sequence selection PUCCH, and also discloses exemplary embodiments.

Regarding sequence selection PUCCH in sTTI and new radio (NR) specification, we generally assume all the sequences allocated to a UE are distributed in one PRB. In an exemplary embodiment, to enlarge the distance of cyclic shifts for ACK and NACK, cyclic shifts {#i, #i+6} are assumed for 1-bit ACK/NACK {0, 1} respectively, and cyclic shifts {#j, #j+3, #j+6, #j+9} for 2bits ACK/NACK {00, 01, 11, 10} respectively, where i＝0, 1, .., 5 and j＝0, 1, 2. Another advantage is there are 6 or 3 common tones to enable coherent detection at the receiver side.

However, an error floor is found for 2bits ACK/NACK transmission when the four sequences {0, 3, 6, 9} are all mapped into one PRB, with SCS＝ 60kHz and DS ＝1000ns.

Each cyclic shift in a specific PRB may correspond to one unique PUCCH resource in higher layer. From the perspective of higher layer, it seems more accurate to use resource selection as the terminology for sequence selection PUCCH. That is the ACK/NACK information maps to different PUCCH resources, and each PUCCH resource corresponds to a specific cyclic shift in a specific PRB. Whether the cyclic shifts are in one or more PRBs depends on the PUCCH resources assigned to the UE. For example, it should allow a case that eNB allocates four PUCCH resources and they are corresponding to two cyclic shifts {#0, #6} in PRB#m and two cyclic shifts {#0, #6} in PRB#n to a UE for 2bits ACK/NACK transmission. In Since the distance of cyclic shifts in each PRB is enlarged to 6, the error floor issue is solved. Thus, there may not be a need to limit the sequences allocated to a UE be mapped into one PRB. Thus, ACK/NACK information can maps to different PUCCH resources in high layer, and each PUCCH resource corresponds to a specific cyclic shift in a specific PRB.

For sequence selection PUCCH, two or four PUCCH resources may be needed for 1 or 2 bits ACK/NACK transmission for each antenna. The multiplexing capacity is lower than the method based on DMRS like in LTE. However, we find that the resources used for NACK transmission between different UEs could be the same in some cases. In Table 8, the two UEs share the same NACK resources in high layer, and the cyclic shift corresponds to this NACK resource is CS#8. In this case, 25％PUCCH resource overhead is saved. Theoretically, maximum 11 UEs with 1 bit ACK/NACK can be multiplexed in one PRB.

Table8 –NACK resource sharing for 1-bit ACK/NACK transmission between 2 UEs

There would be no ambiguity at eNB side by a wise detector. If one of the sharing UEs misses its PDCCH, eNB would detect a NACK if the other UE sends a NACK, or detect a DTX if the other UE sends a ACK.

Section 3 –PUCCH resource allocation for sequence selection PUCCH

In regard to NR PUCCH resource allocation for HARQ-ACK transmission, a set of PUCCH resources is configured by high layer signaling and a PUCCH resource within the configured set is indicated by DCI. However, more than one PUCCH resources may be needed for the exemplary sequence selection PUCCH. There are two possible ways to tackle this issue.

In the first exemplary embodiment, only one PUCCH resource is explicitly indicated by DCI.

One PUCCH resource, defined asn_PUCCH, 0, within the configured set is indicated by DCI. The other PUCCH resources can be implicitly indicated by n_PUCCH, 0. For example,

in which i ＝1, 2. . N-1. N is the total number of PUCCH resources needed.

In the second exemplary embodiment, all the PUCCH resources are explicitly indicated by DCI. One way is to indicate each PUCCH resource from a set of resources by DCI separately. But this would increase the DCI overhead. Another alternative is define four groups of PUCCH resources, and each group contains N PUCCH resources. Two bits in DCI can be used to indicate one group to a UE.

The first and the second exemplary embodiments show that PUCCH resource allocation for sequence selection PUCCH should be further considered. If the NACK resource sharing mechanism proposed in Section 2is selected, in some embodiments, the PUCCH resource for NACK can be directly RRC configured. Thus, in some embodiments, only the resources for ACK transmission are configured by the two alternatives mentioned above.

In new radio (NR) discussion, the mobile station feeds back the ACK/NACK information based on Transport Block (TB) or Code Block Group (CBG) . The first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station contains two types of channel resources. The first type of channel resources is used for the feedback based on TB. The second type of channel resources is used for the feedback based on CBG. When the station indicates one or more the first type of channel resources to the mobile station, the mobile station will transmit ACK/NACK information based on TB. If the station indicates one or more the second type of channel resources to the mobile station, the mobile station will transmit ACK/NACK information based on CBG.

Each channel resource of the first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station is a set of more than one parameters. Specifically, one channel resource is a set of {PRB index, cyclic shift index } or a set of {starting symbol, PUCCH length, PRB index, cyclic shift index} . Then there is no need to use the channelization of channel resources. For example, if one of the channel resources allocated to the mobile station is {0, 6} , that means the mobile station will transmit one or more messages on PRB#0 with cyclic shift #6.

The term “exemplary” is used to mean “an example of” and, unless otherwise stated, does not imply an ideal or a preferred embodiment.

Some of the embodiments described herein are described in the general context of methods or processes, which may be implemented in one embodiment by a computer program product, embodied in a computer-readable medium, including computer-executable instructions, such as program code, executed by computers in networked environments. A computer-readable medium may include removable and non-removable storage devices including, but not limited to, Read Only Memory (ROM) , Random Access Memory (RAM) , compact discs (CDs) , digital versatile discs (DVD) , etc. Therefore, the computer-readable media can include a non-transitory storage media. Generally, program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Computer-or processor-executable instructions, associated data structures, and program modules represent examples of program code for executing steps of the methods disclosed herein. The particular sequence of such executable instructions or associated data structures represents examples of corresponding acts for implementing the functions described in such steps or processes.

Some of the disclosed embodiments can be implemented as devices or modules using hardware circuits, software, or combinations thereof. For example, a hardware circuit implementation can include discrete analog and/or digital components that are, for example, integrated as part of a printed circuit board. Alternatively, or additionally, the disclosed components or modules can be implemented as an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and/or as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Some implementations may additionally or alternatively include a digital signal processor (DSP) that is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing associated with the disclosed functionalities of this application. Similarly, the various components or sub-components within each module may be implemented in software, hardware or firmware. The connectivity between the modules and/or components within the modules may be provided using any one of the connectivity methods and media that is known in the art, including, but not limited to, communications over the Internet, wired, or wireless networks using the appropriate protocols.

While this document contains many specifics, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of an invention that is claimed or of what may be claimed, but rather as descriptions of features specific to particular embodiments. Certain features that are described in this document in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination. Moreover, although features may be described above as acting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excised from the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to a sub-combination or a variation of a sub-combination. Similarly, while operations are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results.

Only a few implementations and examples are described and other implementations, enhancements and variations can be made based on what is described and illustrated in this disclosure.

Claims

A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile station, a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for the mobile station；

receiving, by the mobile station, a second indication of at least one channel resource which is within the first plurality of channel resources and is assigned to the mobile station； and

transmitting, by the mobile station, one or more messages using a second plurality of channel resources, the second plurality of channel resources including the at least one channel resource assigned to the mobile station.
The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile station is operated to determine the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more messages are transmitted over one or more physical resource blocks.
The method of claim 3, furthercomprising:

dividing a channel resource value of the second plurality of channel resources by an uplink sequence length to obtain a value, and

rounding down the value to a nearest integer value.
The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the first indication comprises receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message allocating the first plurality of channel resources to the mobile station.
The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the second indication comprises receiving a downlink control information (DCI) assigning at least one channel resource of the first plurality of channel resources allocated to the mobile station.
The method of claim 1, wherein at least a subset of the first plurality of channel resources is divided into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two channel resources.
The method of claim 7, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group,

the transmitting of the one or more messages includes transmitting any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message and a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message,

a first cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a first threshold value for transmission of the acknowledgment (ACK) message,

a second cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the first group and the second cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the second group is less than a second threshold value for transmission of the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and

the first threshold value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.
The method of claim 7, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and

a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a threshold value.
The method of claim 7, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and

a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is less than a threshold value.
The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of groups is identified to the mobile station through any one of the radio resource control (RRC) message and the downlink control information (DCI) .
The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second plurality of channel resources are a plurality of physical uplink control channel resources.
The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more messages includes any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message, a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message.
The method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining, by the mobile station, one or more cyclic shift values for transmission of one or more messages.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits a final cyclic shift value to represent the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, wherein the final cyclic shift value is associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits one or morecyclic shift (CS) values to represent the scheduling request (SR) message, wherein the one or more cyclic shift valuesare not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgement (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a cyclic shift value associated with transmission of the scheduling request (SR) message.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination ofthe scheduling request (SR) message and any one of any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message.
The method of claim 13, wherein the mobile station transmits a value obtained by multiplying data from the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message with a phase offset factor e^jθ, wherein θ is any one of a cell-specific configuration parameter, a group-specific configuration parameter, and the mobile station specific configuration parameter.
The method of claim 13, wherein the mobile station transmits the scheduling request (SR) message using a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.
The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile station transmits a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 13, wherein the mobile station transmits a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message using a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.
A wireless communication method performed in a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting a first indication of a first plurality of channel resources allocated for each of a plurality of mobile stations；

transmitting a second indication of at least one channel resource assigned to each of the plurality of mobile stations； and

receiving, from at least one of the plurality of mobile stations, one or more messages on a second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 24, wherein the one or more messages includes a message indicating acknowledgement (ACK) , a non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and a scheduling request (SR) message.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a final cyclic shift value representing the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message, wherein the final cyclic shift value is associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station one or more cyclic shift (CS) values to represent the scheduling request (SR) message, wherein the one or more cyclic shift valuesare not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgement (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a cyclic shift value associated with transmission of the scheduling request (SR) message.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and any one of any one of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non- acknowledgment (NACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to cyclic shift values associated with transmissions of the acknowledgment (ACK) message and the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a value obtained by the at least one mobile station by multiplying data from the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message with a phase offset factor e^jθ, wherein θ is any one of a cell-specific configuration parameter, a group-specific configuration parameter, and the mobile station specific configuration parameter.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station the scheduling request (SR) message on a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the mobile station.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile station a cyclic shift (CS) value to represent a combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the acknowledgement (ACK) message, wherein the cyclic shift value is not equal to a final cyclic shift value associated with a final channel resource of the second plurality of channel resources.
The method of claim 25, wherein the base station receives from the at least one mobile stationa combination of the scheduling request (SR) message and the non-acknowledgement (NACK) message on a scheduling request channel resource allocated to the from the at least one mobile station.
The method of claim 24, wherein the first plurality of channel resources is allocated using a radio resource control (RRC) message transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations.
The method of claim 24, wherein the at least one channel resource is within the first plurality of channel resources is assigned to each of the plurality of mobile stations using downlink control information (DCI) transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations.
The method of claim 24, wherein at least a subset of the first plurality of channel resources is divided into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two channel resources.
The method of claim 37, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group,

the receiving of the one or more messages includes receiving any one or more of an acknowledgement (ACK) message and a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message,

a first cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a first threshold value for receiving of the acknowledgment (ACK) message,

a second cyclic shift difference value between the first cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the first group and the second cyclic shift value of the first channel resource of the second group is less than a second threshold value for receiving of the non-acknowledgment (NACK) message, and

the first threshold value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.
The method of claim 37, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and

a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is greater than a threshold value.
The method of claim 37, wherein

the plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group, and

a cyclic shift difference value between a first cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the first group and a second cyclic shift value of a first channel resource of the second group is less than a threshold value.
The method of claim 37, wherein the base station identifies the plurality of groups to the mobile station by transmitting any one of the radio resource control (RRC) message and the downlink control information (DCI) .
The method of claim 24, wherein the first and second plurality of channel resources is a plurality of physical uplink control channel resources.
The method of claim 24, wherein the plurality of mobile stations is three mobile stations.
An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the processor reads code from the memory and implements a method recited in any of claims 1 to 23.
An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the processor reads code from the memory and implements a method recited in any of claims 24to 43.
A computer readable program storage medium having code stored thereon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method recited in any of claims 1 to 23.
A computer readable program storage medium having code stored thereon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method recited in any of claims 24 to 43.