Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for determining a resource for an acknowledgement signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving an index associated with a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) for transmission of an uplink control signal in an operating bandwidth; and determining an RB for transmission of the acknowledgement signal, based on the index.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for the transmission of physical downlink control signaling. In one method, a User Equipment (UE) receives information associated with a physical resource block (PRB) for enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from a base station. Based on either first information received on physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) or second information received on higher layer signaling, the UE determines a starting orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) symbol on which EPDCCH transmission starts. The UE receives control information on the EPDDCH based on the information associated with the PRB and the determined starting OFDM symbol.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for a User Equipment (UE) to receive signaling of UE-common Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a set of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) over a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) are provided. The UE demodulates UE-common DCI using a Reference Signal (RS) that is scrambled by a UE-common scrambling sequence. The UE may assume that RS having a same precoding is transmitted in the set of PRBs over different TTIs. The UE may determine the scrambling sequence implicitly from an identity of a point transmitting the UE-common DCI or explicitly by higher layer signaling. The UE may determine the PRBs of UE-common DCI transmission by broadcast signaling or by higher layer signaling.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are described for transmitting acknowledgement information in response to a plurality of data TBs received on one or more downlink data channels over TTIs by a UE in a TDD communication system. A method includes generating acknowledgement information comprising four acknowledgement bits, jointly representing a state of reception results for the plurality of data TBs, if a first condition applies, wherein a number of the data TBs is greater than a number of the acknowledgement bits; generating acknowledgement information respectively representing a reception result for each data TB by a corresponding acknowledgement bit, if a second condition applies; encoding the acknowledgement bits; multiplexing the encoded acknowledgement bits with uplink data; and transmitting the multiplexed acknowledgement bits and the uplink data on an uplink data channel.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset and information for a transmission type of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) are received. Downlink control information (DCI), transmitted using at least one antenna port of a base station on the EPDCCH using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs), are received. A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the at least one of CCEs, information in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information if the transmission type of the EPDCCH is distributed transmission. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal is transmitted on the resource to the base station.
Abstract:
Methods and user equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided to transmit a control signal using a first sequence or a second sequence in response to a detected control channel. The method includes identifying, through higher layer signaling, a configuration; determining a resource for control signal transmission from a sum of a lowest control channel element (CCE) index of the detected control channel and either a first offset or a second offset based on the identified configuration; and transmitting the control signal in the resource using the first sequence or the second sequence.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for a User Equipment (UE) to receive control information. A Downlink Control Information (DCI) format to be monitored is identified. An aggregation level and a number of Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) candidates are identified based on the identified DCI format. Control information is received based on the identified aggregation level and the identified number of EPDCCH candidates.
Abstract:
Methods are described for a Node B to transmit and for a User Equipment (UE) to receive ACKnowledgement (ACK) information associated with the use of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ), also known as HARQ-ACK signaling, in a communication system that includes multiple downlink component carriers or multiple uplink component carriers. An HARQ-ACK signal to a UE is in response to a data packet transmission from the UE and may consist of 2 information bits when the UE has 2 or more transmitter antennas. The HARQ-ACK signal is always located in the same downlink component carrier as the scheduling assignment resulting to the data packet transmission from the UE.
Abstract:
A multicarrier-based data transmission method and an apparatus for use in a mobile communication system are provided. A Radio Network Temporary Identity (RNTI) reception method of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting inter-evolved Node B (eNB) carrier aggregation includes receiving cell information on at least one activated cell under control of an eNB, configuring first and second RNTIs allocated by the eNB, monitoring the at least one activated cell for the first RNTI, and monitoring a primary cell among the at least one activated cell for the second RNTI.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving first and second cell specific parameters; receiving a third UE specific parameter; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the third parameter; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the first reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled.