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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for sending hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for component carrier aggregation
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Application No.: US13970012Application Date: 2013-08-19
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Publication No.: US09960896B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan , Allan Y. Tsai , Robert L. Olesen , Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar
- Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US DE Wilmington
- Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US DE Wilmington
- Agency: Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP
- Main IPC: H04L5/00
- IPC: H04L5/00 ; H04L1/16 ; H04L1/18

Abstract:
Techniques for sending hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for transmissions received via a plurality of aggregated component carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receive a plurality of codewords via a plurality of component carriers and decodes the codewords. The component carriers are grouped into a plurality of groups, and the WTRU may generate a bundled positive/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) for each group of component carriers. The WTRU may be assigned a plurality of uplink control channel resources and may implement a channel selection scheme for indicating the ACK/NACKs. The WTRU selects one of the uplink control channel resources, and sets the HARQ feedback based the ACK/NACKs or bundled ACK/NACKs in a way that a different uplink control channel resource is selected and HARQ feedback bits are set differently based on the ACK/NACKs or bundled ACK/NACKs. Each physical uplink control channel (PUCCHs) may be mapped to a particular antenna.
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