UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION FOR MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DOWNLNIK CARRIERS

摘要

A wireless communication device (16) signals uplink control information for multiple different downlink carriers to a base station (20) in a wireless communication system (10). The device (16) in this regard intersperses uplink control information known by the base station (20) with uplink control information not known by the base station (20) across one or more information words that comprise uplink control information for multiple different downlink carriers. The device (16) channel encodes the one or more information words to obtain one or more codewords, and then transmits the one or more codewords to the base station (20) as an uplink control information report. The base station (20) correspondingly channel decodes the one or more codewords to obtain the one or more information words.