1. A transmitting apparatus for transmitting input voice data, comprising:
coding means for coding the voice data and for outputting coded voice data;
transmitting means for transmitting the coded voice data;
parameter storage means for storing a parameter concerning the coding performed by the coding means and a parameter concerning the transmission performed by the transmitting means in association with specifying information for specifying a receiving side that receives the coded voice data; and
parameter setting means for selecting and setting, based on the specifying information, the parameter concerning the coding performed by the coding means and the parameter concerning the transmission performed by the transmitting means stored in the parameter storage means,
wherein the parameter storage means stores, for a piece of the specifying information, a combination of a plurality of parameters concerning the coding and a plurality of parameters concerning the transmission provided with different priority levels.
2. A receiving apparatus for receiving coded voice data obtained by coding voice data, comprising:
receiving means for receiving the coded voice data;
decoding means for decoding the coded voice data received by the receiving means;
parameter storage means for storing a parameter concerning the reception performed by the receiving means and a parameter concerning the decoding performed by the decoding means in association with specifying information for specifying a transmitting side that transmits the coded voice data; and
parameter setting means for selecting and setting, based on the specifying information, the parameter concerning the reception performed by the receiving means and the parameter concerning the decoding performed by the decoding means stored in the parameter storage means,
wherein the parameter storage means stores, for a piece of the specifying information, a combination of a plurality of parameters concerning the reception and a plurality of parameters concerning the decoding provided with different priority levels.
3. A receiving apparatus for receiving coded voice data obtained by coding voice data, comprising:
receiving means for receiving the coded voice data;
decoding means for decoding the coded voice data received by the receiving means;
parameter storage means for storing a parameter concerning the reception perfonned by the receiving means and a parameter concerning the decoding performed by the decoding means in association with specifying information for specifying a transmitting side that transmits the coded voice data;
parameter setting means for selecting and setting, based on the specifying information, the parameter concerning the reception performed by the receiving means and the parameter concerning the decoding performed by the decoding means stored in the parameter storage means, and
determining means for determining whether the parameter concerning the reception and the parameter concerning the decoding stored in the parameter storage means are the latest parameters, wherein, in a case the determining means determines that the parameter concerning the reception and the parameter concerning the decoding stored in the parameter storage means are not the latest parameters, the parameter storage means updates the stored parameter concerning the reception and the stored parameter concerning the decoding.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of a user equipment (UE) for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the method comprising:
receiving, by the UE, downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) using control channel elements (CCEs), wherein the DCI comprises a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource offset (HPRO) information field;
determining, by the UE, a PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, as nPUCCH=nECCE+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE, wherein nECCE is a first CCE of the CCEs used for receiving the DCI on the PDCCH, f(HPRO) is a mapping function that provides an integer based on the HPRO information field, and NPUCCHE is an offset assigned to the UE from a base station via higher layer signaling; and
transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK signal associated with the DCI based on the determined PUCCH resource.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the HPRO information field comprises two bits.
3. The method if claim 1, wherein, when a minimum number of the CCEs used by the base station to transmit the PDCCH in a transmission time interval (TTI) is two, the PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, is determined by replacing nECCE with \u2514nECCE2\u2518, where \u2514 \u2518 denotes a \u2018floor\u2019 function that rounds a number to its immediately lower integer.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from two antennas, a first antenna uses the PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, and a second antenna uses a second PUCCH resource determined as nPUCCH2=nECCE+1+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE.
5. A method of a base station (NodeB) for receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the method comprising the steps of:
transmitting, by the NodeB, downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) using control channel elements (CCEs), wherein the DCI comprises a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource offset (HPRO) information field;
determining, by the NodeB, a PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, as nPUCCH=nECCE+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE, wherein nECCE is a first CCE of the CCEs used for transmitting the DCI on the PDCCH, f(HPRO) is a mapping function that provides an integer based on the HPRO information field, and NPUCCHE is an offset assigned to a user equipment (UE) from the base station via higher layer signaling; and
receiving, by the NodeB, the HARQ-ACK signal associated with the DCI based on the determined PUCCH resource.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the HPRO information field comprises two bits.
7. The method if claim 5, wherein, when a minimum number of the CCEs used by the base station to transmit the PDCCH in a transmission time interval (TTI) is two, the PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, is determined by replacing nECCE with \u2514nECCE2\u2518, where \u2514 \u2518 denotes a \u2018floor\u2019 function that rounds a number to its immediately lower integer.
8. The method of claim 5, wherein, when the HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from two antennas, the PUCCH resource is used in reception from a first antenna and a second PUCCH resource is used in reception from a second antenna, where the second PUCCH resource is determined as nPUCCH2=nECCE+1+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE.
9. A User Equipment (UE) apparatus for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the apparatus comprising:
a receiver for receiving downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) using control channel elements (CCEs), wherein the DCI comprises a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource offset (HPRO) information field;
a receiver for receiving an offset;
a processor for determining a PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, as nPUCCH=nECCE+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE, wherein nECCE is a first CCE of the CCEs used for receiving the DCI on the PDCCH, f(HPRO) is a mapping function that provides an integer based on the HPRO information field, and NPUCCHE is the offset assigned to the UE from a base station via higher layer signaling; and
a transmitter for transmitting the HARQ-ACK signal associated with the DCI based on the determined PUCCH resource.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the HPRO information field comprises two bits.
11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein, when a minimum number of the CCEs used to transmit the PDCCH in a transmission time interval (TTI) is two, the PUCCH resource is determined by replacing nECCE with \u2514nECCE2\u2518, where \u2514 \u2518 denotes a \u2018floor\u2019 function that rounds a number to its immediately lower integer.
12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein, when the HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from two antennas, a first antenna uses the PUCCH resource, and a second antenna uses a second PUCCH resource determined as nPUCCH2=nECCE+1+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE.
13. A base station (NodeB) apparatus for receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the apparatus comprising:
a transmitter for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel PDCCH) using control channel elements (CCEs), wherein the DCI comprises a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource offset (HPRO) information field;
a processor for determining a PUCCH resource, nPUCCH, as nPUCCH=nECCE+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE, wherein nECCE is a first CCE of the CCEs used for transmitting the DCI on the PDCCH, f(HPRO) is a mapping function that provides an integer based on the HPRO information field, and NPUCCHE is an offset assigned to a user equipment (UE) from the base station via higher layer signaling; and
a receiver for receiving the HARQ-ACK signal associated with the DCI based on the determined PUCCH resource.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the HPRO information field comprises two bits.
15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein, when a minimum number of the CCEs used to transmit the PDCCH in a transmission time interval (TTI) is two, the PUCCH resource is determined by replacing nECCE with \u2514nECCE2\u2518, where \u2514 \u2518 denotes a \u2018floor\u2019 function that rounds a number to its immediately lower integer.
16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein, when the HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from two antennas, the PUCCH resource is used in reception from a first antenna and a second PUCCH resource is used in reception from a second antenna, where the second PUCCH resource is determined as nPUCCH2=nECCE+1+f(HPRO)+NPUCCHE.