Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for combined blind and feedback based retransmissions. One method (500) includes determining (502), for a first logical channel, a number of blind retransmissions to perform in a blind retransmission mode. The method (500) includes performing (504), by the first logical channel, the number of blind retransmissions in the blind retransmission mode. The method (500) includes, in response to performing the number of blind retransmission in the blind retransmission mode, switching (506), for the first logical channel, from the blind retransmission mode to a feedback based retransmission mode. The method (500) includes performing (508), by the first logical channel, one or more feedback based retransmissions in the feedback based retransmission mode.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data retransmission method and an access point device, capable of achieving downlink data retransmission in a multi-AP cooperation scenario, which can reduce the number of downlink data retransmissions and transmission delay, thereby improving user experience. The data retransmission method includes: transmitting, by a first access point device, first request information when the first access point device fails to transmit a first data frame to a station device, the first request information requesting a second access point device to retransmit the first data frame, and the first access point device and the second access point device belonging to one operation set.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may receive a downlink control message that supports indicating multiple modes for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback, including a first mode for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback and channel information according to a bundled configuration and a second mode for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback according to a standalone configuration. The communications device may use the downlink control message to determine a mode for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback. The communications device may also transmit either bundled hybrid automatic repeat request feedback and channel information or standalone hybrid automatic repeat request according to the determined mode.

A data sending method is provided. The method includes: allocating, by a Media Access Control (MAC) entity of a first network node, data packets to at least one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) unit of at least two cells, where the at least two cells use different radio access technologies RATs, the at least two cells share one HARQ unit or each of the at least two cells is corresponding to one HARQ unit, and the HARQ unit is a HARQ entity and/or a HARQ process; and sending, by the first network node, the data packets to a second network node by using the at least two cells. According to the foregoing solution, the data packets are allocated to the at least one HARQ unit of the at least two cells by using a shared MAC layer, so as to effectively reduce an end-to-end delay.

A data sending method is provided. The method includes: allocating, by a Media Access Control (MAC) entity of a first network node, data packets to at least one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) unit of at least two cells, where the at least two cells use different radio access technologies RATs, the at least two cells share one HARQ unit or each of the at least two cells is corresponding to one HARQ unit, and the HARQ unit is a HARQ entity and/or a HARQ process; and sending, by the first network node, the data packets to a second network node by using the at least two cells. According to the foregoing solution, the data packets are allocated to the at least one HARQ unit of the at least two cells by using a shared MAC layer, so as to effectively reduce an end-to-end delay.

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback for carrier aggregation (CA). A method according an embodiment of the present application may include receiving at least one downlink transmission; generating a first HARQ-ACK sub-codebook for the at least one downlink transmission; determining whether to generate a second HARQ-ACK sub-codebook; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook. The HARQ-ACK codebook includes the first HARQ-ACK sub-codebook in response to the second HARQ-ACK sub-codebook determined not to be generated, or includes the first HARQ-ACK sub-codebook and the second HARQ-ACK sub-codebook in response to the second HARQ-ACK sub-codebook determined to be generated. The present application avoids misunderstanding between a base unit and a remote unit when generating the HARQ-ACK feedback for CA.

A method of implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The method includes: transmitting, by a transmitter to a receiver, an initial transmission of the HARQ process; receiving, by the transmitter from the receiver, receiver decoding capability information; setting, by the transmitter, a retransmission duration based on the receiver decoding capability information; and implementing, by the transmitter, a retransmission of the HARQ process based on the retransmission duration.

A re-transmission control method of downlink data to be transmitted from a radio base station to a radio terminal includes: by the radio terminal, transmitting information regarding decoding performance of the radio terminal to the radio base station; receiving the downlink data from the radio base station; transmitting a re-transmission request of the downlink data to the radio base station in a case where an error in the downlink data is detected; receiving a re-transmission configuration based on the information regarding decoding performance of the radio terminal, from the radio base station in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), after transmission of the re-transmission request; receiving the downlink data re-transmitted from the radio base station; and decoding the re-transmitted downlink data in accordance with the re-transmission configuration.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for rate-matching a stream of bits encoded using polar codes. An exemplary method generally includes determining a target coding rate, R.sub.T, for transmitting a group of K information bits, based on a first coding rate, R.sub.1, corresponding to a first target block error rate (BLER) for a first transmission of a first redundancy version (RV) of the packet and a second coding rate, R.sub.2, corresponding to a second target BLER for a last transmission of a last RV of the packet; determining a circular buffer size, N, of a circular buffer for use in transmitting the first RV and the last RV of the packet; generating encoded information bits from the K information bits using a polar code having a mother code size of N; writing the encoded information bits to the circular buffer; determining a maximum number of retransmissions, based on a latency requirement for the packet; generating different RVs from the encoded information bits in the circular buffer, each RV based on a corresponding target BLER; and transmitting the first RV via a wireless medium.

A method for transmitting a feedback sequence includes receiving, by a feedback terminal, data on a data channel. The data corresponds to a reception power and a transmission power. The feedback terminal determines the number of sending times to send a feedback sequence based on the reception power and the transmission power. The feedback terminal sends the feedback sequence based on the number of sending times.