Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
Simultaneous reporting of ACK/NACK and channel-state information using PUCCH format 3 resources
A new uplink control channel capability is introduced to enable a mobile terminal (1500, 1600) to simultaneously report multiple packet receipt status bits and channel-condition bits. In an example embodiment, an encoding circuit (1100) encodes the hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits using a first encoder (1110) and separately encodes the channel-state information bits using a second encoder (1120). The encoded hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits and the encoded channel-state information bits are interleaved, and the interleaved, encoded bits are transmitted in physical control channel resources of a first uplink subframe, on a single carrier. In some embodiments, the interleaved, encoded bits are transmitted in two slots of the first uplink subframe, the two slots having different subcarrier frequencies. In these embodiments, each slot carries a plurality of the encoded hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits and a plurality of the encoded channel-state information bits.
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Mattias Daniel Robert Jung-Fu
Frenne Larsson Baldemair Cheng