Patent ID: 8531997
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of determining a radio resource for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a time-division-duplex (TDD) communication system, performed by a user equipment, the method comprising: receiving a first downlink assignment on a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first downlink subframe; receiving a second downlink assignment on a second PDCCH in a second downlink subframe; receiving first downlink data in the first downlink subframe using a radio resource identified by the first downlink assignment; receiving second downlink data in the second downlink subframe using a radio resource identified by the second downlink assignment; and determining an ACK/NACK resource for the first downlink data and the second downlink data in an uplink subframe, wherein the ACK/NACK resource is determined based on a number of linked downlink subframes associated with the uplink subframe and a control channel element (CCE) used for at least one of the linked downlink subframes, the linked downlink subframes including the first downlink subframe and the second downlink subframe, wherein the ACK/NACK resource is determined for an ACK/NACK signal, and wherein the ACK/NACK signal is not transmitted when at least one of the first downlink assignment and the second downlink assignment is determined to be missed.