Lg Electronics Inc.

Lg Information & Communications, Ltd.

Pantech Co., Ltd.

Sung Kwon Hong

Young Woo Yun

Sung Lark Kwon

Ki Jun Kim

Young Jo Lee

Ki Bum Kwon

Jae Hyun Ahn

The present description relates to an apparatus and method for receiving a control channel in a multi-component carrier system. The method for performing random access disclosed in the present description comprises the steps of: transmitting a random access preamble to a base station from an activated sub-serving cell; monitoring physical downlink control channel candidates during a response window one the basis of a certain aggregation in a temporary search space in a control region of the activated sub-serving cell, wherein the control region consists of a group of control channel elements; and adjusting an uplink time of the activated sub-serving cell according to a time advance command indicated by a random access response when the random access response, including a random access identifier corresponding to the random access preamble, is received in the response window.

Apparatus and method for receiving a control channel in a multi-component carrier system

Method for improving a TFCI transportation performance, including the steps of (1) coding TFCI information bits to be transported through each radio frame, (2) repeating a TFCI code word produced by the coding for an arbitrary times, (3) applying puncturing patterns different from each other to the repeated code words produced as many as the repeated times, and puncturing the repeated code words at locations different from each other, and (4) dividing, inserting, and transporting the punctured fixed length repeated code words in each slot of the radio frame, whereby improving TFCI information transportation performance, and embodying the receiver side decoder to be identical to a case when a 32 bit code word are transported perfectly.

Method for improving TFCI transportation performance

A method for matching a rate in a mobile communication system causes puncturing or repetition in a fixed pattern, in which puncturing or repetition is applied to each bitstream on transport channels supporting different services in a next generation mobile communication system of the W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) system. The method comprises the steps of (1) subjecting a bitstream on a transport channel for use in supporting a particular service to channel coding, (2) determining an initial error offset value for use in avoiding all the puncturing only in a particular bitstream among one or more than one bitstreams produced by the channel coding, (3) periodically subtracting a decrement from the determined initial error offset value, for puncturing a bit at a relevant position when a result of the subtraction satisfies a puncturing condition, (4) adding an update error parameter determined as the maximum bit size among TF (Transport Format) transportable during one TTI (Transport Time Interval) of the transport channel after the puncturing to a result of the subtraction, for updating an initial error offset value, and (5) periodically subtracting a decrement from the updated initial error offset value, for determining a position of a relevant bit to be punctured at the next time.

Method for matching rate in mobile communication system

A rate matching method is provided for a mobile communication system that performs an adjustment to a code rate based on an optimal level by puncturing or repetition to respective bit streams of transport channels. The rate matching method is preferably applicable to uplink and downlink rate matching for channel coding including turbo coding, convolutional coding and the like. The rate matching method for uplink can include executing coding for bits of a transport channel, and branching off the bits into a plurality of sequences, constructing a first interleaving pattern for the plurality of sequences, constructing a virtual interleaving pattern for at least one sequence based on a mapping rule with a corresponding first interleaving pattern and calculating different bit shifting values in each column of each virtual interleaving pattern. Then, a bit position to be punctured is determined in each constructed virtual interleaving pattern using the calculated bit shifting values.

Rate matching method in mobile communication system

A method of setting an initial error value of a rate-matching algorithm is disclosed. The method according to the present invention includes determining an original initial error value, which is originally given for a rate-matching algorithm that generates a rate-matching pattern in a hybrid ARQ system. Next, a modular operator K is calculated. Then the method obtains an incremental error value that depends on a number of retransmissions made, and finally it calculates a new initial error value by adding the incremental error value with the original initial error value. As a result, the data bits punctured by coding and rate matching can be transmitted prior to other data bits. In addition, the transmission priority can be given to the data bits that have been transmitted a less number of times.

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Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Sung Kwon Hong