Abstract: A method of supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) includes receiving an initial uplink grant on a downlink channel, transmitting uplink data on an uplink channel using the initial uplink grant, receiving a request for retransmission of the uplink data, determining at least one transmission parameter of a channel quality indicator (CQI) from the initial uplink grant, multiplexing retransmission data of the uplink data with the CQI, and transmitting the multiplexed data on the uplink channel. Amount of resources for transmission of the CQI is determined based on the at least one transmission parameter.

Abstract: According to some aspects, a base station may transmit a control message to a wireless device. The control message may comprise configuration parameters for a control channel associated with sets of resource blocks in one or more subframes of a plurality of subframes. The configuration parameters may indicate the one or more subframes in which the resource blocks of the control channel are configured. The configuration parameters may further indicate a starting symbol, such as an offset number of symbols, for the control channel and an associated downlink data channel within the one or more subframes. The base station may transmit, via the control channel, scheduling information for a packet. The base station may receive the packet and transmit an acknowledgement via a feedback channel beginning at the first symbol of a subframe in the plurality of subframes.

Abstract: A method for performing multi-point coordination for receiving uplink data by a serving point in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: scheduling physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission of a served terminal by the serving point; transmitting a message including at least a part of a scheduling result of the PUSCH transmission to a coordinated point; and after transmission of the message, transmitting downlink control information including the scheduling result of the PUSCH transmission to the terminal, wherein the PUSCH of the terminal scheduled by the serving point is received by the coordinated point which has obtained the message.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting at least one broadcasting signal having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data and preamble data includes: encoding the PLP data; encoding the preamble data; mapping the encoded PLP data to PLP data symbols by QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) modulations; mapping the encoded preamble data to preamble data symbols by QAM modulations; building a signal frame including the PLP data symbols and the preamble data symbols, wherein the preamble data symbols include first signaling information and second signaling information, wherein the first signaling information is for the second signaling information and includes size information of the second signaling information, and wherein the second signaling information is for the PLP data symbols; modulating the signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame.

Abstract: A user equipment unit (30) and a base station node (28) which is configured for operation with a synchronous HARQ protocol and with capability of sending data on an E-DCH channel either (1) in a nominal mode in single transmission time intervals of a predetermined length, or (2) in an extended mode in a pseudo transmission time interval. The pseudo transmission time interval comprises a first transmission time interval in which the data is transmitted and a second transmission time interval in which the data is re-transmitted. The second transmission time interval is consecutive to the first transmission time interval, and the first transmission time interval and the second transmission time interval are each of the (same) predetermined length.

Abstract: A data multi-stream transmission method and device are provided. The method includes that: a sending terminal determines an offloading way of offloading the Protocol Data Unit (PDU) data in a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer according to an offloading strategy; the sending terminal offloads all or part of the PDU data as offloading data from a first connection to a second connection in the offloading way, wherein the first connection and the second connection are both connections between the sending terminal and a receiving terminal; the sending terminal implements a data multi-stream processing on the offloading data in the PDCP layer, forwards the processed offloading data to a low-level layer for processing, sends the other PDU data except for the offloading data to the receiving terminal through the first connection and the processed offloading data to the receiving terminal through the second connection.

Abstract: In a mobile station that performs communication with a base station device via a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells are grouped into a first group constituted by cells having an uplink transmission timing that is the same as that of one primary cell and a second group constituted by one or more cells having an uplink transmission timing that is different from that of the primary cell. The uplink transmission timings are each managed using a corresponding transmission timing timer for each of the groups. In a case where a transmission timing timer for the first group has expired, the mobile station stops all uplink transmissions in the plurality of cells. In a case where a transmission timing timer for the second group has expired, the mobile station stops uplink transmissions in the cells constituting the second group for which the transmission timing timer has expired.

Abstract: The network node of a cellular network assigns a first part of a shared radio resource to a first User Equipment, UE, for uplink transmissions in the cell, and instructs the first UE to apply a first UE-specific Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, process for transmitting on the assigned first part. The network node also assigns a second part of the shared radio resource to a second UE for uplink transmissions in the cell, and instructs the second UE to apply a second UE-specific HARQ process for transmitting on the assigned second part, the second HARQ process being separate from the first HARQ process. The network node then receives data transmitted from the first UE on the assigned first part based on the first HARQ process and data transmitted from the second UE on the assigned second part based on the second HARQ process.

Abstract: A multi-level flow table search method includes extracting matching information of a data packet when the data packet is received and selecting a keyword from the matching information of the data packet according to flow-table match-field configuration information. The method also includes searching for a match field of each-level flow table in a multi-level flow table starting from a first-level flow table in the multi-level flow table by using the keyword as a search keyword, and matching the search keyword with the match field. If matching of a match field of a current-level flow table is completed, the method includes executing a corresponding instruction, and if the current-level flow table is not a last-level flow table or there is an instruction for executing an action, executing a corresponding action.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for estimating noise and interference in a wireless communication system in which neighbor and serving cell reference signals are colliding. A wireless device and a base station may establish a wireless communication link such that the base station acts as a serving cell to the wireless device. It may be determined that one or more neighboring cells have colliding reference signals with the serving cell. Neighbor load conditions may be determined. A neighbor reference signal interference cancellation policy may be selected based at least in part on the determined neighbor load conditions and the one or more neighboring cells having colliding reference signals with the serving cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation (CA), and to an apparatus for same, comprising the steps of: establishing a first cell having a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration and a second cell having a second TDD UL-DL configuration; receiving data through a DL subframe of the first cell; and transmitting reception reply information with respect to the data through a UL subframe of the second cell.

Abstract: Mechanisms for operating a wireless user equipment device, to determine the state of data scheduling activity. Such activity state (and other information such as measurements of signal interference and/or channel condition) may be used to dynamically control the selection of a high-power high-performance receiver vs. a low-power basic receiver. A first mechanism involves transitioning to a high activity state and starting a timer upon each occurrence of scheduled subframe. A transition to the low activity state occurs whenever the timer expires. A second mechanism involves filtering a sequence of binary-valued indicators corresponding respectively to a sequence of time intervals. Each indicator indicates whether a subframe is scheduled during the corresponding time interval. The filter output is compared to a threshold to determine high/low activity state.

Abstract: Indicating a attribute of a dynamic subframe in the scenario of applying the dynamic TDD subframe in a time division duplexing system includes: determining, by a user equipment, an attribute of a dynamic subframe, wherein the attribute of the dynamic subframe indicates that the dynamic subframe is an uplink subframe or that the dynamic subframe is a downlink subframe; and performing an information transmission according to the attribute of the dynamic subframe.

Abstract: A transmission node in a wireless communication network includes a receiving unit for receiving a set of data packets transmitted from a set of nodes in the network scheduled in one TTI, a memory unit having a number of memory blocks, each for storing a set of data packets transmitted in a separate TTI of a HARQ process. Each memory block includes sub-memory blocks, each of which is for storing a data packet transmitted from a separate UE. The transmission node further includes a processor for allocating the set of data packets to the sub-memory blocks and releasing the sub-memory blocks after one HARQ process upon receipt of the set of data packets.

Abstract: A method for performing HARQ includes: receiving information to determine downlink subframes used for a relay station to receive scheduling information from a BS; determining uplink subframes for performing a HARQ with the DL subframes, each of the UL subframes corresponding to each of the DL subframes; assigning sequentially each of a plurality of HARQ processes to each of the UL subframes one by one; and performing HARQ with the BS at at least one of the HARQ processes. An n-th subframe is configured for a corresponding UL subframe if an (n?4)-th subframe is configured for one of the DL subframes, n denoting an integer. The HARQ processes are equal in number to the UL subframes. The DL subframes are configured in at least one radio frame having 10 subframes indexed from 0 to 9. Subframes having indexes 0, 4, 5 and 9 are not configured as a DL subframe.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, different preambles are provided for transmitting RRC messages in the RRC-connected mode and in the RRC-idle mode. When a user equipment operating in the RRC-idle mode is required to transmit a single RRC message, the single-transmission preamble is used for transmitting the single RRC message without establishing an RRC connection.

Abstract: A method of transmitting content to a content receiver and of receiving content from a content transmitted is provided. The method may include receiving, at a content transmitter, a content transmission request fragmenting a segmented content corresponding to the content transmission request into at least one frame, generating a header comprising a frame identifier for the at least one frame, and transmitting the at least one frame and the header to the content receiver.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method of performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process comprises receiving, by a wireless device executing a HARQ process, a first transport block encoded according to a category type of the wireless device and a first modulation coding scheme; decoding, by the HARQ process, the first transport block using a number of soft bits N; receiving, by the wireless network element, a second transport block encoded according to the equipment type and a second modulation coding scheme different from the first modulation coding scheme; and decoding, by the HARQ process, the second transport block using the number of soft bits N.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a scheduling method, a base station, a user equipment, and a system. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, a HARQ parameter for a UE according to a QoS requirement; sending, by the base station, the HARQ parameter to the UE; receiving, by the base station, a BSR that is sent by the UE according to the HARQ parameter; allocating, by the base station, a first uplink transmission resource to the UE according to the BSR, and scheduling the first uplink transmission resource for the UE; and receiving, by the base station, uplink transmitted data that is sent by the UE by using the first uplink transmission resource.

Abstract: A method for resource management in a cellular communication network, wherein the network includes at least one base station per cell for a plurality of cells that operates in TDD (Time Division Duplex) transmission mode, wherein the base stations implement a respective UL/DL configuration mode in which frames are composed of a specific sequence of downlink DL, uplink UL and special S subframes, is characterized in that the base stations are operated such that neighboring base stations with adjacent and/or overlapping coverage areas employ different UL/DL configuration modes, wherein interference between neighboring base stations is taken account of by implementing power control on a subframe basis. Furthermore, a resource management system for use in a cellular communication network is described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission time interval (TTI) bundling method in wireless access systems and to an apparatus for same. In particular, the TTI bundling method includes the following steps: a terminal receives information indicating the bundling size value from a base station; the terminal automatically re-transmits packets through a predetermined number of TTIs following four TTIs without the reception of Acknowledgement/Negative-ACK (ACK/NACK) information for the packets from the base station; the terminal receives the ACK/NACK information for the packets from the base station; and the terminal retransmits packets in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat and Request (HARQ) scheme when receiving the NACK, wherein the predetermined number of TTIs is determined according to the bundling size value.

Abstract: A wireless communication base station device, terminal device, and method have reduced signaling while maintaining high scheduling gain. A judgment unit pre-stores a correspondence between the number of code words and the number of clusters to reduce the maximum value for the number of clusters allocated to each terminal as the number of code words increases, and thus determines the maximum value for the number of clusters based on the number of code words acquired. Based on the number of code words for a transmission signal from a terminal, an estimated value for the reception quality, and the maximum value for the number of clusters that is output by the judgment unit, a scheduling unit schedules the allocation of the transmission signal transmitted by each terminal to a transmission band frequency (frequency resource) so as not to exceed the maximum value for the number of clusters.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, initially increases resources allocated to an ACKCH as resources allocated to a shared data channel (SDCH), such as a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), increases. The resources allocated to ACK are subsequently limited to a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting information for measuring a terminal by a first transmission point among a plurality of transmission points which use identical time division duplex (TDD) settings in a wireless communication system. The method is an information transmitting method and includes a step of transmitting a subframe set for measurement to the terminal, wherein the subframe set is determined from first and second pieces of information related to a change of the TDD setting.

Abstract: A method and a base station for data transmission are disclosed. The data transmission method includes: when a semi-persistent resource is in an activated state and time alignment (TA) data needs to be sent, sending the TA data to a user equipment (UE) by using the semi-persistent resource. In embodiments of the present application, the base station sends the TA data by using the semi-persistent resource, thereby reasonably using the resource and reducing scheduling and allocation of PDCCH and PDSCH resources by the base station. This not only saves resources, but also reduces time that the base station takes to process TA data, and increases system resource utilization and cell throughput.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus capable of configuring the retransmission protocol. In particular, the number of transmission processes is determined based on the position of time intervals available for the transmission and may be selected in order to control the round trip time of the retransmission protocol. Once the number of transmission processes has been configured, the transmission processes are mapped on the available time intervals in a predefined order and repetitively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission/receiving method and apparatus in a relay communication system. In particular, the data transmission/receiving method through a backhaul link between a base station and a relay node in a relay communication system comprises: composing a backhaul subframe including a control signal transmission period to which a control signal is allocated and a backhaul signal transmission period to which a backhaul signal is allocated and then allocating the backhaul signal; transmitting configuration information about the backhaul subframe, the information containing symbol position or size data of the backhaul signal transmission period, to the relay node through an upper layer signal; and transmitting the backhaul signal having been allocated through the backhaul subframe to the relay node.

Abstract: A communication system that may include a traffic management module and a communication interface module. The communication interface module is arranged to: estimate a status of multiple channels by utilizing hardware channel status estimators, generate filler packets in response to the status of the multiple channels; wherein the filler packets are associated with the multiple channels; send the filler packets to the traffic management module. The traffic management module is arranged to receive multiple input packets that are associated with multiple channels, receive the filler packets; apply a traffic management scheme on the multiple input packets and the filler packets to provide multiple intermediate packets that comprise (a) multiple filler traffic managed packets and (b) multiple non-filler traffic managed packets.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of serving cells each having different UL-DL configurations; receiving one or more signals requiring a HARQ-ACK response from M (M?1) number of subframes; and executing the process for transmitting the HARQ-ACK response to the one or more signals in a specific subframe corresponding to the M number of subframes, wherein, only when the specific subframe is set as an uplink in all of the plurality of serving cells, the HARQ-ACK response to the one or more signals are transmitted through the specific subframe.

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing multiple transmit queues of a networking device of a host machine in a virtual machine system. The networking device includes multiple transmit queues that are used by multiple guests of the virtual machine system for the transmission of packets in a data communication. A hypervisor of the virtual machine system manages the switching from one or more transmit queues (i.e., old transmit queues) to one or more other queues (i.e., new transmit queues) by managing a flow of packets in the virtual machine system to maintain a proper sequence of packets and avoid a need to re-order the transmitted packets at a destination.

Abstract: A Vector Checksum instruction. Elements from a second operand are added together one-by-one to obtain a first result. The adding includes performing one or more end around carry add operations. The first result is placed in an element of a first operand of the instruction. After each addition of an element, a carry out of a chosen position of the sum, if any, is added to a selected position in an element of the first operand.

Abstract: A Vector Checksum instruction. Elements from a second operand are added together one-by-one to obtain a first result. The adding includes performing one or more end around carry add operations. The first result is placed in an element of a first operand of the instruction. After each addition of an element, a carry out of a chosen position of the sum, if any, is added to a selected position in an element of the first operand.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include methods and associated apparatuses that enhance a digital content experience. The methods and associated apparatuses may receive a selection of a video to view and determine a variety of content related to the selected video. The related content may be presented to a viewer while the video is playing.

Abstract: A method for use in a cellular communications system in which system traffic can be exchanged between transceivers comprises receiving traffic from a second transceiver at a first transceiver. The traffic includes data units that are each associated with an identifier. The data units are also divided into segments. The method additionally includes sending status information from the first transceiver to the second transceiver. The status information pertains to one or more data units transmitted by the second transceiver. Additionally, sending the status information includes, for non-received and partially received data units, sending information indicating the data units were non-received or partially received and, for partially received data units, sending information indicating which parts of the data units were not received.

Abstract: A terminal that communicates with a base station monitors a physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink control channel region and an enhanced physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink shared channel region different from the physical downlink control channel region. If the physical downlink control channel is detected, the terminal reports response information via a physical uplink control channel resource corresponding to the resource in which the physical downlink control channel was detected. If the enhanced physical downlink control channel is detected, the terminal reports via a prescribed physical uplink control channel resource.

Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating in a multi-carrier communication system are disclosed. Radio resources may be organized in at least three hierarchical levels. The hierarchical levels may comprise macroblocks, blocks, and radio resource elements. A macroblock may contain a plurality of blocks and a block may contain a plurality of radio resource elements. The radio resource elements may further correspond to subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. An index in a control message may specify a modulation and/or coding scheme (MCS) pattern indicting a MCS for each block within a macroblock. In an embodiment, fewer bits are used by the index to specify a MCS pattern that is used statistically more frequently, and more bits are used by the index to specify a MCS pattern that is used statistically less frequently. Signals may be transmitted over the plurality of macroblocks.

Abstract: Provided is a method for wireless communication which includes transmitting codewords according to an initial transmission rank, receiving downlink transmissions indicating at least one of the codewords to be retransmitted, constructing a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) to be sent with the at least one codeword to be retransmitted, and retransmitting the at least one codeword with the DM-RS according to a retransmission rank. The downlink transmissions may include one or more physical hybrid automatic retransmission request indicator channels and the DM-RS may be constructed based at least in part on information in the downlink transmissions.

Abstract: A method of operation of a device programming system includes: providing a target programmer, having a programming bus; coupling an electronic device, having a non-volatile memory, to the target programmer by the programming bus; and programming a data image into the non-volatile memory by the target programmer includes: subscribing to a broadcast message, receiving a logical block, of the data image, by the broadcast message for programming the non-volatile memory, and sending an unsubscribe message after receiving the logical blocks of the data image from the broadcast message.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving channel quality control information through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a wireless access system that supports hybrid automatic retransmit request (HARQ). In one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including an initial uplink grant, transmits uplink data using two transport blocks based on the initial uplink grant, receives a negative acknowledgement (NACK) information for one of the two transport blocks, and transmits a channel quality control information along with the one of the two transport blocks which is retransmitted according to the NACK information or a new transport block through the PUSCH to which the HARQ is applied. A number of coded symbols required to transmit the channel quality control information (Q?) is calculated based on the initial uplink grant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for network energy savings in a wireless communication system, such as the 3GPP LTE system. Particularly, one such method reduces power consumption in a base station by selectively muting or disabling downlink transmissions of certain control signal symbols in one or more subframes or frames. The disclosed methods and apparatus can apply independently or in combination in both FDD and TDD systems.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method for performing HARQ for device-to-device communication by a first user equipment in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises: receiving scheduling information for signal transmission from an eNode B to a second user equipment; transmitting data to the specific user equipment in a first subframe according to the scheduling information; and transmitting the data or new data to the second user equipment in a third subframe according to a response signal to the data, wherein the response signal is transmitted from the second UE to the eNode B in a second subframe positioned between the first subframe and the third subframe, and an interval between the first subframe and the third subframe, which is an HARQ period for the device-to-device communication, is set as a power number of an HARQ period between the first user equipment and the eNodeB.

Abstract: A method for a terminal transmitting/receiving a signal with device-to-device (D2D) on the basis of a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system, comprises the steps of: receiving allocation information for establishing a wireless resource for a specific HARQ process from at least one first HARQ process as a wireless resource for a second HARQ process; and transmitting/receiving the signal with an external terminal by using the wireless resource of the second HARQ process, wherein a soft buffer, which is linked to the second HARQ process, is a reestablished soft buffer that is linked to the at least one HARQ process, in accordance with the allocation information.

Abstract: A method for receiving an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, and a device therefore. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting a control channel signal including a resource allocation (RA) field; and receiving an uplink signal. A size of the RA field is represented by an expression including RASizeA and RASizeB. RASizeA is a first number of bits required for representing a resource indication value (RIV) corresponding to a starting resource block (RB) and a length of contiguously allocated RBs within a given uplink bandwidth. RASizeB is a second number of bits required for representing a combinatorial index r corresponding to 4 indexes used to indicate a start resource block group (RBG) index and an end RBG index of a first RB set and a start RBG index and an end RBG index of a second RB set within the given uplink bandwidth.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a base station for data transmission are provided. The method includes: when downlink data is received after a TAT expires, determining whether a first preset parameter of a UE satisfies a first uplink synchronization maintenance condition; and when the first parameter of the UE satisfies the first uplink synchronization maintenance condition, sending, to a base station, a feedback corresponding to the downlink data; or when the first parameter of the UE does not satisfy the first uplink synchronization maintenance condition, skipping sending, to the base station, a feedback corresponding to the downlink data, where the feedback is used to indicate whether the downlink data is received correctly, and the first synchronization maintenance condition is used to determine that the UE still maintains an uplink in-sync state after the TAT expires.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for error control in 3D video transmission over wireless network are described. Cooperative Automatic Repeat re Quest(ARQ) is disclosed, which is based on the selective repeat ARQ with consideration of two factors: one is the interdependent relationship between the multiple components of the 3D video, e.g. the 2D video and its depth information in the 2D-plus-Depth format; and the other is time constraints of video frames/packets for continuous video playback. The disclosed cooperative ARQ allows the sender to control ARQ strength adaptively on a per-frame/per-packet basis.

Abstract: A method in a network node comprises generating a parity-check matrix for decoding a transmission scheme. The transmission scheme comprises a repetition code, an interleaver, and a modulation having a memory property. The parity-check matrix comprises a function of: a differentiator matrix, the differentiator matrix comprising an inverse of an accumulator matrix; a deinterleaver matrix, the deinterleaver matrix comprising an inverse of an interleaver matrix, the interleaver matrix comprising a square unitary permutation matrix for introducing randomness; and a repetition decoder matrix.

Abstract: A method for handling a transmission time interval, hereinafter called TTI, bundling operation for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a transport block in a first TTI bundle; and retransmitting the transport block when a non-positively-acknowledged feedback or an uplink grant for retransmission is received after the transport block transmission of the first TTI bundle and before a TTI where a feedback of the first TTI bundle is expected.

Abstract: A method for receiving packet data at a communication channel and transmitting the packet data over serial links of the communication channel. The packet data is sliced into n-bit data portions which are concatenated with a header prior to transmitting an n-bit portion across one of the serial links of the communication channel. The header may include an invert bit to alter the majority sign of an n-bit portion. Other aspects of the present invention are also described herein.

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a base station for communicating with a user equipment in the communication network. The base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories. Based on information about a selected user equipment category, the base station determines a first number of maximum transmission layers supported by the base station. The base station communicates with the user equipment according to up to the determined first number of maximum transmission layers and according to the selected user equipment category.

Abstract: A method for avoiding a collision between a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission and a device to device (D2D) transmission by a base station (BS) in a communication system supporting a D2D scheme is provided. The method includes determining whether a user equipment (UE) is a legacy UE or a non-legacy UE, determining non-D2D sub-frames which will collide with D2D sub-frames if the UE is the non-legacy UE, determining whether the non-D2D sub-frames are available, and scheduling a new HARQ packet for the UE in the determined non-D2D sub-frames if the determined non-D2D sub-frames are available.