Abstract:
A loop gain calibration apparatus has an exciting signal generator, an exciting signal extracting circuit, and a loop gain control circuit. The exciting signal generator generates a first exciting signal and injects the first exciting signal into a timing recovery loop while the timing recovery loop is operating in response to a reception signal received under a normal reception mode. The exciting signal extracting circuit extracts a second exciting signal from the timing recovery loop after the first exciting signal is injected into the timing recovery loop. The loop gain control circuit receives the first exciting signal from the exciting signal generator, receives the second exciting signal from the exciting signal extracting circuit, and controls a loop gain of the timing recovery loop according to the first exciting signal and the second exciting signal.
Abstract:
A Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback scheme that employs a multi-state NACK feedback processing is proposed. A transport block (TB) contains a plurality of code blocks (CBs). When all CBs of the TB are successfully decoded, a one-bit TB ACK is feedback. When at least one CB of the TB is not correctly decoded, a one-bit TB NACK is feedback. In addition, a multi-bit HARQ CB NACK feedback is provided. The multi-bit HARQ CB NACK can point more precisely to the erroneous parts of the TB and trigger efficient retransmission by skipping retransmission of successfully decoded CBs. The network can disable the multi-bit CB NACK for certain UEs, e.g., to reduce overhead. The UE can disable the multi-bit CB NACK, e.g., to save power.