METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST OPERATION IN AN ASYMMETRIC MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system for performing Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation in an asymmetric multicarrier communication network environment. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving resource allocation information from a base station in a scheduling interval of a first carrier, where the resource allocation information indicates resources and transmit time interval in an uplink allocation interval. The method includes transmitting the HARQ packet to the base station in the transmit time interval of the uplink allocation interval on the second carrier if the transmit time interval corresponds to a first partition of the uplink allocation interval. If the transmit time interval corresponds to a second partition of the uplink allocation interval, the method further includes transmitting the HARQ packet to the base station in the transmit time interval of the uplink allocation interval on the second carrier according to a second type of HARQ process.