Patent ID: 9094198
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An arrangement in a base station for handling an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) message from a terminal, the base station and the terminal in a telecommunication system, the arrangement comprising: a sending unit configured to send a number of downlink subframes including transport blocks to the terminal and to signal to the terminal in each downlink subframe a downlink assignment index (DAI) that represents a number of previous assigned downlink subframes and that enables the terminal to establish if any downlink subframe transmitted by the base station has been missed by comparing a number k of received downlink assignments with a DAI; and a receiving unit configured to receive from the terminal for the k downlink assignments one encoded ACK message that includes k, the number of downlink assignments detected by the terminal, when each transport block in the downlink subframes in which the terminal has detected a downlink assignment is estimated as correctly received by the terminal, wherein the receiving unit is further being configured to receive from the terminal one encoded NAK message that is modulated into a constellation point that is different from a constellation point into which the ACK message would have been modulated when a downlink assignment transmitted by the base station to the terminal has been established to be missed by the terminal, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive the encoded ACK message modulated such that the constellation point depends on k, the number of subframes being acknowledged, and to receive the encoded NAK message modulated using a constellation point different from the constellation point that would have been used for modulating the ACK message, and wherein a received ACK/NAK message uses quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulation including a first QPSK constellation point, a second QPSK constellation point, a third QPSK constellation point, and a fourth QPSK constellation point; the first QPSK constellation point is used for the encoded NAK message; the second QPSK constellation point is used for the encoded ACK message for k downlink assignments when k=1 or k=4; the third QPSK constellation point is used for the encoded ACK message for k downlink assignments when k=2; and the fourth QPSK constellation point is used for the encoded ACK message for k downlink assignments when k=3.