METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFT BUFFER MANAGEMENT FOR HARQ OPERATION

摘要

Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose a method and an apparatus for calculating maximum number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes per component carrier and/or number of soft buffer bits for HARQ operation by taking into account the subframes which are available for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a user equipment (UE) or a group of UEs. In the proposed method, the subframes that are not available for a PDSCH for at least a UE (either by specification or by configuration) may not be considered in calculating the number of soft buffer bits.