Method, apparatus, and device for transmitting acknowledgement information

A device comprising:

• a receiver configured to receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a secondary serving cell;
• a processor configured to determine a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) time sequence relationship corresponding to the secondary serving cell, wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship is an HARQ time sequence relationship between the PDSCH received by the receiver and HARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information;
• and
• a transmitter configured to transmit, in a primary serving cell according to the HARQ time sequence relationship determined by the processor, the HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH;
• wherein the primary serving cell is a time division duplex (TDD) primary serving cell configured by a base station for a user equipment (UE), the secondary serving cell is a secondary serving cell in at least one TDD secondary serving cell configured by the base station for the UE;
• wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship comprises:
• an uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell that is any one of an uplink-downlink configuration 0, an uplink-downlink configuration 1, an uplink-downlink configuration 2, or an uplink-downlink configuration 6;
• and
• wherein:
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 0, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, a subframe 8, and a subframe 9, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 9 is fed back in the subframe 9 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 1, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 2, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2 and a subframe 7, wherein an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell;
• or
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 6, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by eight subframes and/or forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, and forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell.

A method comprising:

• determining to transmit, in a secondary serving cell, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE);
• transmitting, in the secondary serving cell, the PDSCH to the UE;
• determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) time sequence relationship corresponding to the secondary serving cell, wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship is an HARQ time sequence relationship between the PDSCH and HARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information;
• and
• receiving, in a primary serving cell according to the HARQ time sequence relationship, the HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH;
• wherein the primary serving cell is a time division duplex (TDD) primary serving cell configured by a base station for the UE, the secondary serving cell is a secondary serving cell in at least one TDD secondary serving cell configured by the base station for the UE;
• wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship comprises:
• an uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell that is any one of an uplink-downlink configuration 0, an uplink-downlink configuration 1, an uplink-downlink configuration 2, or an uplink-downlink configuration 6;
• and
• wherein:
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 0, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, a subframe 8, and a subframe 9, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 9 is fed back in the subframe 9 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 1, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 2, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2 and a subframe 7, wherein an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell;
• or
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 6, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by eight subframes and/or forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, and forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell.

A method comprising:

• receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a secondary serving cell;
• determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) time sequence relationship corresponding to the secondary serving cell, wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship is an HARQ time sequence relationship between the PDSCH and HARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information;
• and
• transmitting, in a primary serving cell according to the HARQ time sequence relationship, the HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH;
• wherein the primary serving cell is a time division duplex (TDD) primary serving cell configured by a base station for a user equipment (UE), the secondary serving cell is a secondary serving cell in at least one TDD secondary serving cell configured by the base station for the UE;
• wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship comprises:
• an uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell that is any one of an uplink-downlink configuration 0, then an uplink-downlink configuration 1, an uplink-downlink configuration 2, or an uplink-downlink configuration 6;
• and
• wherein:
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 0, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, a subframe 8, and a subframe 9, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 9 is fed back in the subframe 9 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 1, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 2, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2 and a subframe 7, wherein an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell;
• or
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 6, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by eight subframes and/or forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, and forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor in a user equipment (UE), cause the processor to:

• receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a secondary serving cell;
• determine a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) time sequence relationship corresponding to the secondary serving cell, wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship is an HARQ time sequence relationship between the PDSCH and HARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information;
• and
• transmit, in a primary serving cell according to the HARQ time sequence relationship, the HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH;
• wherein the primary serving cell is a time division duplex (TDD) primary serving cell configured by a base station for the UE, the secondary serving cell is a secondary serving cell in at least one TDD secondary serving cell configured by the base station for the UE;
• wherein the HARQ time sequence relationship comprises:
• an uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell that is any one of an uplink-downlink configuration 0, then an uplink-downlink configuration 1, an uplink-downlink configuration 2, or an uplink-downlink configuration 6;
• and
• wherein:
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 0, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, a subframe 8, and a subframe 9, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by five subframes and/or forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 9 is fed back in the subframe 9 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 1, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell;
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 2, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2 and a subframe 7, wherein an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by eight subframes, forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, forward offset by five subframes, and forward offset by four subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell;
• or
• when the uplink-downlink configuration of the primary serving cell is the uplink-downlink configuration 6, then uplink subframes of the primary serving cell comprise a subframe 2, a subframe 3, a subframe 4, a subframe 7, and a subframe 8, wherein an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by eight subframes and/or forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 2 is fed back in the subframe 2 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes and/or forward offset by six subframes from the corresponding subframe 3 is fed back in the subframe 3 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by six subframes and/or forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 4 is fed back in the subframe 4 of the primary serving cell, an HARQ-ACK of a subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to a subframe that is forward offset by seven subframes from the corresponding subframe 7 is fed back in the subframe 7 of the primary serving cell, and an HARQ-ACK of at least one subframe of the secondary serving cell corresponding to subframes that are forward offset by seven subframes, forward offset by six subframes, and forward offset by five subframes from the corresponding subframe 8 is fed back in the subframe 8 of the primary serving cell.