System and method for terminal-group based HARQ for cellular integrated D2D communications

摘要

System and method embodiments are provided to support network communications with groups of UEs. The embodiments include a two-level group-based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism and acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) feedback. An embodiment method includes receiving, at a UE within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) comprising UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the ViMP node, decode the data packet, and upon successfully decoding the data packet, broadcasting the data packet to the UEs within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an ACK message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node. In an embodiment, broadcasted data received in the ViMP node is re-broadcasted upon receiving a negative acknowledgment (NACK) message from the TUE, a beacon UE, or any of the UEs within the ViMP node.

主权项

1. A method for supporting two-level terminal-group based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) signaling, the method comprising:
receiving, at a cooperating user equipment (CUE) within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) node comprising a plurality of UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the ViMP node; decoding the data packet; and upon successfully decoding the data packet, and in an absence of a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message from the TUE, broadcasting, by the CUE, the data packet within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an acknowledgement (ACK) message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node.