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US 20140071868A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0071868 A1 Bergquist et al. (43) Pub. Date: Mar. 13, 2014 (54) APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR Publication Classi?cation MANAGING PENDING HARQ RETRANSMISSIONS (51) Int. Cl. H04W 76/04 (2006.01) (71) Applicants:Gunnar Bergquist, Kista (SE); Riikka H04L 1/18 (2006.01) Susitaival, Helsinki (Fl); Anders Ohlsson, Jarfalla (SE); Mikael (52) US. Cl. Wittberg, Uppsala (SE) CPC ......... .. H04W 76/048 (2013.01); H04L 1/1803 (2013.01) (72) Inventors: Gunnar Bergquist, Kista (SE); Riikka USPC ......................................... .. 370/311; 370/328 Susitaival, Helsinki (Fl); Anders Ohlsson, Jarfalla (SE); Mikael Wittberg, Uppsala (SE) (57) ABSTRACT (73) Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE) Methods and systems present solutions to, for example, the (21) Appl. No .: 13/825,462 problem of unnecessary preparedness for suspended retrans missions in the user equipment (UE) Which contributes to (22) PCT Filed: Nov. 9, 2012 poWer drain in the device battery. One method for monitoring a Physical DoWnlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for adaptive PCT No.: PCT/SE2012/051225 (86) retransmission grants in a radio communication system § 371 (0X1), includes: monitoring, by a user equipment (U E), the PDCCH (2), (4) Date: Mar. 21, 2013 for adaptive retransmission grants; receiving, by the UE, a Related US. Application Data hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledge (ACK) message, and ceasing, by the UE, to monitor the (60) Provisional application No. 61/646,757, ?led on May PDCCH for adaptive retransmission grants after receipt of the 14, 2012. HARQ ACK message. -------- -- RADIO BEARERS BCCH PCCH SEGM. 24 28 ARQ ETC f / / ------------ --+ --- SCHEDULING / PRIORITY HANDLING 2. 2. 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ACK MESSAGE, IN AMANNER WHICH IS BASED ON THE ADAPTIVE RETRANSSQII/IESION GRANT CONTROL ME E. FIG. 11 Patent Application Publication Mar. 13, 2014 Sheet 12 0f 15 US 2014/0071868 A1 MONITORING, BYA USER EOUIPMENT(UE), THE PDCCH /-200 FOR ADAPTIVE RETRANSMISSION GRANTS II RECEIVING, BY THE DE, A HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) /202 ACKNOWLEDGE (ACK) MESSAGE V CEASING, BY THE UE, TO MONITOR THE PDCCH FOR ADAPTIVE /204 RETRANSMISSION GRANTS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE HARQ ACK MESSAGE FIG. 12 Patent Application Publication Mar. 13, 2014 Sheet 13 0f 15 US 2014/0071868 A1 TRANSMITTING, BY AN NETWORK NODE, A MESSAGE WHICH INSTRUCTS A 300 USER EQUIPMENT TO CEASE MONITORING THE PDCCH AFTER RECEIPT OF / A HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) ACKNOWLEDGE (ACK) MESSAGE FIG. 13 Patent Application Publication Mar. 13, 2014 Sheet 14 0f 15 US 2014/0071868 A1 /400 404\\ PROCESSING CIRCUITRY NETWORK /4oa /J:—— INTERFACE RADIO . MEMORY FIG. 14 Patent Application Publication Mar. 13, 2014 Sheet 15 0f 15 US 2014/0071868 A1 '98 RADIO CiRCUiTRY PROCESSING <1 504"\ CIRCUITRY - FIG. 15 US 2014/0071868 A1 Mar. 13, 2014 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR either sends a positive acknoWledgment (“ACK”) (data block MANAGING PENDING HARQ is received or decoded successfully) or a negative acknoWl RETRANSMISSIONS edgement (“NACK”) (data block is undecodable). The trans mitter responds to a NACK by re-transmitting the informa TECHNICAL FIELD tion. [0001] The present disclosure generally relates to appara [0007] HARQ is a stop-and-Wait protocol. Being a stop and-Wait protocol, (re)transmissions are restricted to occur at tuses and methods for radio communications and, more spe ci?cally, to Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) and knoWn time instants, in betWeen Which the sender stops and Discontinuous Reception (DRX) algorithms. Waits for ACK/NACK feedback from the receiver. As used herein, “feedback”, and particularly HARQ feedback, includes both feedback of a positive acknoWledgement BACKGROUND (“ACK”) and feedback of negative acknoWledgement [0002] In the last years, mobile devices have become ubiq (“NACK”). Thus, subsequent transmission of neW data can uitous, applications for these mobile devices have ?ooded the take place only after Waiting to receive ACK/NACK from the market, and clients’ expectations for omnipresent high qual receiving entity. In case an ACK is received a neW transmis ity service have challenged the netWork service providers. sion occurs, otherWise a retransmission occurs. This scheme Among other things, users expect services to be delivered can be improved by using multiple channels for supporting With high quality, and some services require high quality in HARQ service. The HARQ receiver must transmit either the radio communications in order to be perceived by users as ACK or NACK, still of course there is the possibility that the being delivered satisfactorily. Unfortunately, in a radio envi sender detects neither. This is referred to as detection of a ronment, there Will be situations Where some, e.g., data pack Discontinuous Transmission (DTX). There are tWo possible ets, are not received properly by a user’s equipment and, in reasons for a DTX detection to occur, either the data Was lost such cases, it may be necessary to retransmit those data pack or the forWard transmission Was lost and not detected by the ets in order to provide an appropriate level of service. receiver. [0003] The telecommunications industry has used the [0008] When the HARQ transmitter has reached the maxi Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) layer 2 protocol for many mum number of retransmissions for a transport block Without years as a retransmission mechanism to ensure that data is getting an ACK, the HARQ transmitter Will stop transmitting sent reliably from one node to another. More recently, certain and let a higher layer ARQ take over, if any such higher layer standards, such as the Third Generation Partnership Project ARQ exists. Examples of such higher layers that engageARQ (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, have taken are the Radio Link Control (RLC), 3GPP TS 36.322 V11.0.0 advantage of a Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) process to counteract (2012-09), and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), errors. See FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 for the illustrations of the Layer RFC 2581 (1999-04). 2 architecture used in LTE. [0009] The standards document 3GPP TS 36.300, Evolved [0004] FIG. 1 shoWs the Layer 2 architecture for doWnlink Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved (DL) 2 used in LTE and includes the Packet Data Conver Universal Terrestrial Radio Access NetWork (E-UTRAN); gence Protocol (PDCP) sublayer 4, the Radio Link Control Overall description; Stage 2, version 11.3.0, sub-clause 9.1 (RLC) sublayer 6 and the Medium Access Control (MAC) explains some of the principles of LTE HARQ used by 3GPP. sublayer 8. The PDCP layer 4 includes