Patent ID: 9160475
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of determining hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) resource of an uplink (UL) subframe for an advanced communication device, the method comprising: determining a first new association set of the UL subframe according to an association set of the UL subframe of a first UL/downlink (DL) configuration of a legacy communication device; replacing a subset of the first new association set by a subset of an association set of the UL subframe of a second UL/DL configuration of the advanced communication device, when the legacy communication device is not able to perform a reception in at least one subframe corresponding to the subset of the first new association set; configuring a mapping between at least one sequence index of the UL subframe of the first UL/DL configuration and the first new association set according to the first UL/DL configuration; and determining the HARQ resource of the UL subframe according to the mapping and the first new association set; wherein the first UL/DL configuration is a System Information Block Type 1 (SIB 1) configuration.