Patent ID: 9088977
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A device, at a processor residing on a User Equipment (UE), to support Hybrid Automatic Retransmission re-Quest (HARQ) for Carrier Aggregation (CA), comprising: a sizing module configured to determine a first size of a first bundling window for a first Component Carrier (CC) and a second size of a second bundling window for a second CC; a window module configured to: generate a first virtual window comprising a selected number of DownLink (DL) sub-frames in the first bundling window that are added to DL sub-frames in the second bundling window, wherein the selected number of DL sub-frames is proportional to a difference between the first size and the second size; and generate a second virtual window comprising remaining DL sub-frames from the first bundling window that are not added to the first virtual window.