Systems and methods for carrier aggregation

An evolved Node B (eNB) for performing carrier aggregation, comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory in electronic communication with the processor, wherein instructions stored in the memory are executable to:
• determine a duplex method of each of at least two serving cells for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell of the at least two serving cells is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell and a secondary cell of the at least two serving cells is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell;
• determine a primary cell uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration, wherein the primary cell UL/DL configuration is one of UL/DL configurations 0 through 6;
• determine a downlink (DL) association set for the primary cell and a downlink (DL) association set for the secondary cell based on the primary cell UL/DL configuration;
• determine physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission timing for the primary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the primary cell;
• determine PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the secondary cell;
• and
• receive PDSCH HARQ-ACK information of the primary cell and the secondary cell in a subframe which corresponds to (a) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell and (b) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information of the primary cell and the secondary cell is generated based on the DL association set for the primary cell and the DL association set for the secondary cell.

A method of performing carrier aggregation by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• determining a duplex method of each of at least two serving cells for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell of the at least two serving cells is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell and a secondary cell of the at least two serving cells is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell;
• determining a primary cell uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration, wherein the primary cell UL/DL configuration is one of UL/DL configurations 0 through 6;
• determining a downlink (DL) association set for the primary cell and a downlink (DL) association set for the secondary cell based on the primary cell UL/DL configuration;
• determining physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission timing for the primary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the primary cell;
• determining PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the secondary cell;
• generating PDSCH HARQ-ACK information of the primary cell and the secondary cell based on the DL association set for the primary cell and the DL association set for the secondary cell;
• and
• sending the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information in a subframe which corresponds to (a) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell and (b) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell.

A method of performing carrier aggregation by an evolved Node B (eNB), comprising:

• determining a duplex method of each of at least two serving cells for carrier aggregation, wherein a primary cell of the at least two serving cells is a time-division duplexing (TDD) cell and a secondary cell of the at least two serving cells is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) cell;
• determining a primary cell uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration, wherein the primary cell UL/DL configuration is one of UL/DL configurations 0 through 6;
• determining a downlink (DL) association set for the primary cell and a downlink (DL) association set for the secondary cell based on the primary cell UL/DL configuration;
• determining physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission timing for the primary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the primary cell;
• determining PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell is determined based on the DL association set for the secondary cell;
• and
• receiving PDSCH HARQ-ACK information of the primary cell and the secondary cell in a subframe which corresponds to (a) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the primary cell and (b) the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the secondary cell, wherein the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information of the primary cell and the secondary cell is generated based on the DL association set for the primary cell and the DL association set for the secondary cell.