JOINT PROCESSING OF TRANSPORT BLOCKS ON MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIERS FOR CA (CARRIER AGGREGATION) AND LAA (LICENSE ASSISTED ACCESS)

摘要

Techniques for joint transmission of a common transport block (TB) over a plurality of carriers via uplink and/or downlink are discussed. One example apparatus includes a processor, transmitter circuitry, and receiver circuitry. The processor can generate the common TB, prepare a physical layer encoding of the TB for each of the plurality of carriers, schedule each encoding to a set of physical resources in the associated carrier, and generate one or more control channel messages associated with the encodings. The transmitter circuitry can transmit the encodings via the scheduled sets of physical resources and transmit the one or more control channel messages on at least one of the carriers. The receiver circuitry can receive a common hybrid automatic repeat request feedback message associated with the physical layer encodings.