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- the application relates to a method utilized in a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of handling resources carrying hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement messages in a wireless communication system.
- LTE long-term evolution
- 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
- UMTS universal mobile telecommunication system
- the LTE system includes a new radio interface and a new radio network architecture that provides high data rate, low latency, packet optimization, and improved system capacity and coverage.
- a radio access network known as an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) includes multiple evolved Node-Bs (eNBs) for communicating with multiple UEs, and communicating with a core network including a mobility management entity (MME), a serving gateway, etc., for Non-Access Stratum (NAS) control.
- E-UTRAN evolved universal terrestrial radio access network
- eNBs evolved Node-Bs
- MME mobility management entity
- serving gateway etc.
- NAS Non-Access Stratum
- LTE-advanced (LTE-A) system is an evolution of the LTE system.
- the LTE-A system targets faster switching between power states, improves performance at the coverage edge of an eNB, and includes advanced techniques, such as carrier aggregation (CA), coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP), uplink (UL) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), etc.
- CA carrier aggregation
- CoMP coordinated multipoint transmission/reception
- UL multiple-input multiple-output
- MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
- the UE and the eNB must support standards developed for the LTE-A system, such as the 3GPP Rel-10 standard or later versions.
- enhanced physical downlink channels are provided to improve the related abilities.
- ePDCCHs enhanced physical downlink channels
- An obvious case is the heterogeneous network scenarios, where the ePDCCHs could be coordinated to avoid interference between macro and low power nodes.
- PDSCH packet downlink shared channel
- the uplink transmission will also benefit from the cell splitting gains, which will lead to a problem of collisions between physical indicator channels (PHICH).
- PHICH physical indicator channels
- the present invention therefore provides a method for handling hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement responses in a wireless communication system, to improve the capacity of acknowledgement transmission.
- a method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system comprises the network selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and the network responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
- HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
- a method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system comprises the network selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system; the network deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and the network responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
- HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
- a communication apparatus for a wireless communication system comprises a processing means; and a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps: selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
- a communication apparatus for a wireless communication system comprises a processing means; and a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps: selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system; deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system according to an example of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a communication apparatus according to an example of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process according to an example of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a process according to an example of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system 10 according to an example of the present invention.
- the wireless communication system 10 is briefly composed of a network and a plurality of communication devices.
- the network and the communication devices are simply utilized for illustrating the structure of the wireless communication system 10 .
- the network can be a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) comprising a plurality of Node-Bs (NBs) in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS).
- UTRAN universal terrestrial radio access network
- NBs Node-Bs
- UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
- the network can be an evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN) comprising a plurality of evolved NBs (eNBs) and/or relays in a long term evolution (LTE) system or a LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system.
- E-UTRAN evolved UTRAN
- eNBs evolved NBs
- LTE-A LTE-Advanced
- the network can also include both the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and a core network, wherein the core network includes network entities such as Mobility Management Entity (MME), Serving Gateway (S-GW), Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway (P-GW), Self-Organizing Networks (SON) server and/or Radio Network Controller (RNC), etc.
- MME Mobility Management Entity
- S-GW Serving Gateway
- PDN Packet Data Network
- P-GW Packet Data Network Gateway
- SON Self-Organizing Networks
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- the network may be processed only by the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and decisions corresponding to the information are made at the UTRAN/E-UTRAN.
- the UTRAN/E-UTRAN may forward the information to the core network, and the decisions corresponding to the information are made at the core network after the core network processes the information.
- the information can be processed by both the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and the core network, and the decisions are made after coordination and/or cooperation are performed by the
- the communication devices can be mobile communication devices such as user equipments for performing speech and data communication through the network such as the UMTS, the LTE system or the LTE-A system.
- the network and a communication device can be seen as a transmitter or a receiver according to transmission direction, e.g., for an uplink (UL), the communication device is the transmitter and the network is the receiver, and for a downlink (DL), the network is the transmitter and the communication device is the receiver.
- the communication devices can be machine-type communication (MTC) devices for performing MTC with the network.
- MTC machine-type communication
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a communication apparatus 20 according to an example of the present invention.
- the communication apparatus 20 can be the network shown in FIG. 1 , such as an eNB, but is not limited herein.
- the communication apparatus 20 may include a processing means 200 such as a microprocessor or Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a storage unit 210 and a communication interfacing unit 220 .
- the storage unit 210 may be any data storage device that can store a program code 214 , accessed and executed by the processing means 200 . Examples of the storage unit 210 include but are not limited to read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, random-access memory (RAM), CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk and optical data storage device.
- the communication interfacing unit 220 is preferably a transceiver and is used to transmit and receive signals (e.g., messages or packets) according to processing results of the processing means 200 .
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process 30 according to an example of the present invention.
- the process 30 is utilized in the wireless communication system 10 shown in FIG. 1 , for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in the network.
- HARQ acknowledgement responses represent positive or negative HARQ acknowledgement responses, which should be well-known in this art.
- the process 30 can be implemented in the communication apparatus 20 and may be compiled into the program code 214 .
- the process 30 includes the following steps:
- Step 300 Start.
- Step 302 Select a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system 10 when the plurality of communication devices conform to a specified rule.
- Step 304 Always responding positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices.
- Step 306 End.
- the network selects a plurality of communication devices conforming to a specified rule and always responds positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices. Therefore, the plurality of communication devices can not be triggered to retransmit uplink data temporarily due to the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages, such that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be saved.
- the specified rule utilized for selecting the plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system is determined according to buffer status reports, data radio bearers and pre-defined probabilities of the plurality of communication devices.
- the network always responds the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices. Since the HARQ acknowledgement messages are transmitted via physical indicator channels (PHICHs), which should be well-known in this art, the network has to decide resources for the PHICHs to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices.
- PHICHs physical indicator channels
- a resource for the PHICHs to always carry a positive HARQ acknowledgement message to one of the plurality of communication devices may be decided by a location of a first resource block and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to an uplink transmission from the one of the plurality of communication devices to the network.
- the first resource block denotes a lowest resource block index in the uplink transmission.
- an amount of the resources of the PHICHs to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages can be dynamically decided by the network.
- the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices can be reduced to one or more than one via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to a plurality of uplink transmissions, so that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is sufficiently reduced.
- the network of the present invention selects the plurality of communication devices and always responds positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices via the PHICHs, so that the plurality of communication devices are not triggered to retransmit previous uplink data.
- the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to always carry positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices can be reduced via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to a plurality of uplink transmissions. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is reduced.
- the process 30 is an example of the present invention.
- the uplink transmission may be granted by downlink control information (DCI) which is allocated in control channels such as physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) or enhanced physical downlink control channels (ePDCCHs).
- DCI downlink control information
- the specified rule can further include other criterions, such as acknowledgement mode, delay tolerance, reliability, real-time service and so on.
- the location to always transmit the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages can be decided by other parameters or even fixed in a specific location, but is not limited herein.
- the network is able to change the resources determined to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages and to change the plurality of communication devices which are selected to always receive the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a process 40 according to an example of the present invention.
- the process 40 is utilized in the wireless communication system 10 shown in FIG. 1 , for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in the network.
- HARQ acknowledgement responses represent positive or negative HARQ acknowledgement responses, which should be well-known in this art.
- the process 40 can be implemented in the communication apparatus 20 and may be compiled into the program code 214 .
- the process 40 includes the following steps:
- Step 400 Start.
- Step 402 Select a plurality of uplink transmissions from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system when the plurality of uplink transmissions conforms to a specified rule.
- Step 404 Decide a HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm.
- Step 406 Respond HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the HARQ acknowledgement response to the at least one communication device.
- Step 408 End.
- the network selects a plurality of uplink transmissions conforming to a specified rule and responds HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying a HARQ acknowledgement response to at least one communication device in the wireless communication system. Since the HARQ acknowledgement messages carry the same HARQ acknowledgement response, an amount of the resources to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages can be decided by the network and reduced to one or more than one, such that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be saved.
- the concept of the process 40 is extended from that of the process 30 .
- the selecting method in the process 40 is utilized for selecting the plurality of uplink transmissions from the at least one communication device to the network.
- the HARQ acknowledgement response in the process 40 can be determined to be positive or negative instead of being always positive in the process 30 .
- the network of the present invention selects the plurality of uplink transmissions and responds the HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the same HARQ acknowledgement response to the at least one communication device via the PHICHs, such that the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the at least communication device can be reduced via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is reduced.
- the process 40 is an example of the present invention.
- the specified rule can be changed to include identities, geographical locations, pre-defined probabilities of the plurality of communication devices.
- the specified algorithm can be a logical AND operation (i.e. as long as one of HARQ acknowledgement responses corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions is negative, the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be negative), or a counting and comparing operation (i.e.
- the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be positive; otherwise, the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be negative), and so on.
- the network affording a large loading of HARQ acknowledgement messages selects the plurality of uplink transmissions or communication devices and transmits the HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the same HARQ response, so that the amount of the resources to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages can be reduced. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be reduced and the capacity of acknowledgement transmissions can be further increased.
- the present invention provides a method for handling the HARQ acknowledgement responses via a reduction of resources for acknowledgement transmissions, to reduce the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions and further increase the capacity of acknowledgement transmissions.
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A method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system includes the network selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system; and the network responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message. The plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network.
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- This application is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/710,387 filed on Dec. 10, 2012 and entitled “Method of Handling Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Resources in Wireless Communication System”, which claims both the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/583,614, filed on Jan. 6, 2012, entitled “Method for assigning HARQ-ACK resource and Apparatus using the same”, and the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/706,790, filed on Sep. 28, 2012, entitled “Method for assigning HARQ-ACK resource and Apparatus using the same”. The above-mentioned applications are included in their entirety herein by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The application relates to a method utilized in a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of handling resources carrying hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement messages in a wireless communication system.
- 2. Description of the Prior Art
- A long-term evolution (LTE) system supporting the 3GPP Rel-8 standard and/or the 3GPP Rel-9 standard are developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a successor of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) for further enhancing performance of the UMTS to satisfy increasing needs of users. The LTE system includes a new radio interface and a new radio network architecture that provides high data rate, low latency, packet optimization, and improved system capacity and coverage. In the LTE system, a radio access network known as an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) includes multiple evolved Node-Bs (eNBs) for communicating with multiple UEs, and communicating with a core network including a mobility management entity (MME), a serving gateway, etc., for Non-Access Stratum (NAS) control.
- A LTE-advanced (LTE-A) system, as its name implies, is an evolution of the LTE system. The LTE-A system targets faster switching between power states, improves performance at the coverage edge of an eNB, and includes advanced techniques, such as carrier aggregation (CA), coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP), uplink (UL) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), etc. For a UE and an eNB to communicate with each other in the LTE-A system, the UE and the eNB must support standards developed for the LTE-A system, such as the 3GPP Rel-10 standard or later versions.
- In the LTE-A system, since the advanced techniques are supported, such as new carrier type, frequency domain inter cell interference coordination (ICIC), spatial reuse of the resources in coordinated CoMP transmission and downlink MIMO, enhanced physical downlink channels (ePDCCHs) are provided to improve the related abilities. An obvious case is the heterogeneous network scenarios, where the ePDCCHs could be coordinated to avoid interference between macro and low power nodes. In a shared cell scenario, spatial reuse for the same enhanced control channel resource and a downlink transmission on a packet downlink shared channel (PDSCH) within the cell is possible, which provides higher spectrum efficiency. In the CoMP, the uplink transmission will also benefit from the cell splitting gains, which will lead to a problem of collisions between physical indicator channels (PHICH).
- Therefore, a method for handling hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement responses is necessary for increasing the rate of uplink transmissions, reducing the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions and further increasing the capacity of acknowledgement transmissions.
- The present invention therefore provides a method for handling hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement responses in a wireless communication system, to improve the capacity of acknowledgement transmission.
- A method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the network selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and the network responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
- A method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the network selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system; the network deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and the network responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
- A communication apparatus for a wireless communication system is disclosed. The communication apparatus comprises a processing means; and a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps: selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
- A communication apparatus for a wireless communication system is disclosed. The communication apparatus comprises a processing means; and a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps: selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system; deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
- These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system according to an example of the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a communication apparatus according to an example of the present invention. -
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process according to an example of the present invention. -
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a process according to an example of the present invention. - Please refer to
FIG. 1 , which is a schematic diagram of awireless communication system 10 according to an example of the present invention. Thewireless communication system 10 is briefly composed of a network and a plurality of communication devices. InFIG. 1 , the network and the communication devices are simply utilized for illustrating the structure of thewireless communication system 10. Practically, the network can be a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) comprising a plurality of Node-Bs (NBs) in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS). Alternatively, the network can be an evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN) comprising a plurality of evolved NBs (eNBs) and/or relays in a long term evolution (LTE) system or a LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system. - Furthermore, the network can also include both the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and a core network, wherein the core network includes network entities such as Mobility Management Entity (MME), Serving Gateway (S-GW), Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway (P-GW), Self-Organizing Networks (SON) server and/or Radio Network Controller (RNC), etc. In other words, after the network receives information transmitted by a communication device, the information may be processed only by the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and decisions corresponding to the information are made at the UTRAN/E-UTRAN. Alternatively, the UTRAN/E-UTRAN may forward the information to the core network, and the decisions corresponding to the information are made at the core network after the core network processes the information. Besides, the information can be processed by both the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and the core network, and the decisions are made after coordination and/or cooperation are performed by the UTRAN/E-UTRAN and the core network.
- The communication devices can be mobile communication devices such as user equipments for performing speech and data communication through the network such as the UMTS, the LTE system or the LTE-A system. Besides, the network and a communication device can be seen as a transmitter or a receiver according to transmission direction, e.g., for an uplink (UL), the communication device is the transmitter and the network is the receiver, and for a downlink (DL), the network is the transmitter and the communication device is the receiver. Alternatively, the communication devices can be machine-type communication (MTC) devices for performing MTC with the network.
- Please refer to
FIG. 2 , which is a schematic diagram of acommunication apparatus 20 according to an example of the present invention. Thecommunication apparatus 20 can be the network shown inFIG. 1 , such as an eNB, but is not limited herein. Thecommunication apparatus 20 may include a processing means 200 such as a microprocessor or Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), astorage unit 210 and acommunication interfacing unit 220. Thestorage unit 210 may be any data storage device that can store aprogram code 214, accessed and executed by the processing means 200. Examples of thestorage unit 210 include but are not limited to read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, random-access memory (RAM), CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk and optical data storage device. Thecommunication interfacing unit 220 is preferably a transceiver and is used to transmit and receive signals (e.g., messages or packets) according to processing results of the processing means 200. - Please refer to
FIG. 3 , which is a flowchart of aprocess 30 according to an example of the present invention. Theprocess 30 is utilized in thewireless communication system 10 shown inFIG. 1 , for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in the network. The HARQ acknowledgement responses represent positive or negative HARQ acknowledgement responses, which should be well-known in this art. Theprocess 30 can be implemented in thecommunication apparatus 20 and may be compiled into theprogram code 214. Theprocess 30 includes the following steps: - Step 300: Start.
- Step 302: Select a plurality of communication devices of the
wireless communication system 10 when the plurality of communication devices conform to a specified rule. - Step 304: Always responding positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices.
- Step 306: End.
- According to the
process 30, the network selects a plurality of communication devices conforming to a specified rule and always responds positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices. Therefore, the plurality of communication devices can not be triggered to retransmit uplink data temporarily due to the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages, such that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be saved. - In detail, in
step 302, the specified rule utilized for selecting the plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system is determined according to buffer status reports, data radio bearers and pre-defined probabilities of the plurality of communication devices. Instep 304, the network always responds the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices. Since the HARQ acknowledgement messages are transmitted via physical indicator channels (PHICHs), which should be well-known in this art, the network has to decide resources for the PHICHs to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices. A resource for the PHICHs to always carry a positive HARQ acknowledgement message to one of the plurality of communication devices may be decided by a location of a first resource block and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to an uplink transmission from the one of the plurality of communication devices to the network. The first resource block denotes a lowest resource block index in the uplink transmission. In addition, an amount of the resources of the PHICHs to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages can be dynamically decided by the network. For example, the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices can be reduced to one or more than one via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to a plurality of uplink transmissions, so that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is sufficiently reduced. - In brief, the network of the present invention selects the plurality of communication devices and always responds positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices via the PHICHs, so that the plurality of communication devices are not triggered to retransmit previous uplink data. Besides, the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to always carry positive HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the plurality of communication devices can be reduced via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to a plurality of uplink transmissions. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is reduced.
- Note that, the
process 30 is an example of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should readily make combinations, modifications and/or alterations on the abovementioned description and examples. For example, the uplink transmission may be granted by downlink control information (DCI) which is allocated in control channels such as physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) or enhanced physical downlink control channels (ePDCCHs). Besides, the specified rule can further include other criterions, such as acknowledgement mode, delay tolerance, reliability, real-time service and so on. Moreover, the location to always transmit the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages can be decided by other parameters or even fixed in a specific location, but is not limited herein. In other words, when the specified rule or the parameters corresponding to the uplink transmission are changed, the network is able to change the resources determined to always carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages and to change the plurality of communication devices which are selected to always receive the positive HARQ acknowledgement messages. - Please refer to
FIG. 4 , which is a flowchart of aprocess 40 according to an example of the present invention. Theprocess 40 is utilized in thewireless communication system 10 shown inFIG. 1 , for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in the network. The HARQ acknowledgement responses represent positive or negative HARQ acknowledgement responses, which should be well-known in this art. Theprocess 40 can be implemented in thecommunication apparatus 20 and may be compiled into theprogram code 214. Theprocess 40 includes the following steps: - Step 400: Start.
- Step 402: Select a plurality of uplink transmissions from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system when the plurality of uplink transmissions conforms to a specified rule.
- Step 404: Decide a HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm.
- Step 406: Respond HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the HARQ acknowledgement response to the at least one communication device.
- Step 408: End.
- According to the
process 40, the network selects a plurality of uplink transmissions conforming to a specified rule and responds HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying a HARQ acknowledgement response to at least one communication device in the wireless communication system. Since the HARQ acknowledgement messages carry the same HARQ acknowledgement response, an amount of the resources to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages can be decided by the network and reduced to one or more than one, such that the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be saved. - The concept of the
process 40 is extended from that of theprocess 30. In detail, the selecting method in theprocess 40 is utilized for selecting the plurality of uplink transmissions from the at least one communication device to the network. Besides, the HARQ acknowledgement response in theprocess 40 can be determined to be positive or negative instead of being always positive in theprocess 30. - In brief, the network of the present invention selects the plurality of uplink transmissions and responds the HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the same HARQ acknowledgement response to the at least one communication device via the PHICHs, such that the amount of the resources for the plurality of physical indicator channels to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages in response to the at least communication device can be reduced via the setting of first resource blocks and cyclic shifts of demodulation reference signals corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions is reduced.
- Note that, the
process 40 is an example of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should readily make combinations, modifications and/or alterations on the abovementioned description and examples. For example, the specified rule can be changed to include identities, geographical locations, pre-defined probabilities of the plurality of communication devices. Besides, the specified algorithm can be a logical AND operation (i.e. as long as one of HARQ acknowledgement responses corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions is negative, the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be negative), or a counting and comparing operation (i.e. if a total number of the positive HARQ acknowledgement responses corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions is equal or larger than a total number of the negative HARQ acknowledgement responses corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmissions, the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be positive; otherwise, the HARQ acknowledgement response is chosen to be negative), and so on. - In the present invention, the network affording a large loading of HARQ acknowledgement messages selects the plurality of uplink transmissions or communication devices and transmits the HARQ acknowledgement messages carrying the same HARQ response, so that the amount of the resources to carry the HARQ acknowledgement messages can be reduced. Therefore, the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions can be reduced and the capacity of acknowledgement transmissions can be further increased.
- To sum up, the present invention provides a method for handling the HARQ acknowledgement responses via a reduction of resources for acknowledgement transmissions, to reduce the overhead of acknowledgement transmissions and further increase the capacity of acknowledgement transmissions.
- Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
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1. A method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
the network selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and
the network responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first communication devices is selected when the plurality of first communication devices conform to a specified rule, wherein the specified rule is determined according to buffer status reports, data radio bearers, pre-defined probabilities or their combinations for the plurality of communication devices.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network transmits the positive HARQ acknowledgement message in response to the plurality of first communication devices via a physical indicator channel.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein determination of a resource for the physical indicator channel to carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement message in response to the plurality of first communication devices is related to a location of a first resource block and a cyclic shift of a demodulation reference signal.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first resource block is a lowest resource block index in an uplink transmission.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the network selecting a plurality of second communication devices from the plurality of communication devices and responding to the plurality of second communication devices with a plurality of HARQ acknowledgement messages.
7. A method of handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement response for a network of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
the network selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system;
the network deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and
the network responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of first uplink transmissions is selected when the plurality of first uplink transmissions conform to a specified rule, wherein the specified rule is determined according to identities, geographical locations, pre-defined probabilities or their combinations for the plurality of communication devices.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first HARQ acknowledgement response is a positive HARQ acknowledgement response or a negative HARQ acknowledgement response.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the specified algorithm is a logical AND operation or a counting and comparing operation.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the network transmits the first HARQ acknowledgement response in response to the plurality of first uplink transmissions via a physical indicator channel.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein determination of a resource for the physical indicator channel to carry the first HARQ acknowledgement response in response to the plurality of first uplink transmissions is related to a location of a first resource block and a cyclic shift of a demodulation reference signal.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first resource block is a lowest resource block index in one uplink transmission.
14. The method of claim 7 , further comprising the network selecting a plurality of second uplink transmissions from the plurality of uplink transmissions and responding to the plurality of second uplink transmissions with a plurality of second HARQ acknowledgement responses.
15. A communication apparatus for a wireless communication system, comprising:
a processing means; and
a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps:
selecting a plurality of first communication devices from a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system, wherein the plurality of communication devices transmits a plurality of uplink transmissions to the network; and
responding to the plurality of first communication devices with a positive HARQ acknowledgement message.
16. The communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of first communication devices is selected when the plurality of first communication devices conforms to a specified rule, wherein the specified rule is determined according to buffer status reports, data radio bearers, pre-defined probabilities or their combinations for the plurality of communication devices.
17. The communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the positive HARQ acknowledgement message is transmitted in response to the plurality of first communication devices via a physical indicator channel.
18. The communication apparatus of claim 17 , wherein determination of a resource for the physical indicator channel to carry the positive HARQ acknowledgement message in response to the plurality of first communication devices is related to a location of a first resource block and a cyclic shift of a demodulation reference signal.
19. The communication apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the first resource block is a lowest resource block index in an uplink transmission.
20. The communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the program code further instructs the processing unit to execute the step of selecting a plurality of second communication devices from the plurality of communication devices and responding to the plurality of second communication devices with a plurality of HARQ acknowledgement messages.
21. A communication apparatus for a wireless communication system, comprising:
a processing means; and
a storage unit, storing a program code, wherein the program code instructs the processing unit to execute the following steps:
selecting a plurality of first uplink transmissions from a plurality of uplink transmissions transmitted from at least one communication device to the network in the wireless communication system;
deciding a first HARQ acknowledgement response by a specified algorithm; and
responding to the plurality of first uplink transmissions with the first HARQ acknowledgement response.
22. The method of claim 21 , wherein the plurality of first uplink transmissions is selected when the plurality of first uplink transmissions conform to a specified rule, wherein the rule is determined according to identities, geographical locations, pre-defined probabilities or their combinations for the plurality of communication devices.
23. The method of claim 21 , wherein the first HARQ acknowledgement response is a positive HARQ acknowledgement response or a negative HARQ acknowledgement response.
24. The method of claim 21 , wherein the specified algorithm is a logical AND operation or a counting and comparing operation.
25. The method of claim 21 , wherein the first HARQ acknowledgement response is transmitted in response to the plurality of first uplink transmissions via a physical indicator channel.
26. The method of claim 25 , wherein determination of a resource for the physical indicator channel to carry the first HARQ acknowledgement response in response to the plurality of first uplink transmissions is related to a location of a first resource block and a cyclic shift of a demodulation reference signal.
27. The method of claim 26 , wherein the first resource block is a lowest resource block index in one uplink transmission.
28. The method of claim 21 , wherein the program code further instructs the processing unit to execute the step of selecting a plurality of second uplink transmissions from the plurality of uplink transmissions and responding to the plurality of second uplink transmissions with a plurality of second HARQ acknowledgement responses.
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