Patent ID: 9749096
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, performed by a receiving node, for generating composite acknowledgement information for a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process, wherein said composite acknowledgement information is generated in response to transport blocks received from a transmitting node, wherein said method comprises: providing, for each transport block, a positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) indication for each of a plurality of transmissions of the transport block, to define a respective set of ACK/NAK indications; and generating said composite acknowledgement information based on the respective sets of ACK/NAK indications for said transport blocks over said plurality of transmissions, wherein A_i is the ACK/NAK indication for transmission number i, for a first transport block, and B_i is the ACK/NAK indication for transmission number i for a second transport block, and sets A and B, respectively are defined as: wherein an individual ACK is denoted by 1 and an individual NAK by 0, and wherein said composite acknowledgement information is defined as a composite acknowledgement: where max is defined as a maximum function operating on the respective set A, B of ACK/NAK indications.