Is HARQ retransmission adaptive or non-adaptive in LTE DL?

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Hi All,
Is HARQ retransmission adaptive or non-adaptive in LTE DL?
I know that it is asynchronous.

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DL is always adaptive.

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Thanks.
Also: in the UL LTE although it is synchronous HARQ retransmission does the eNB take a call whether its going to be adaptive or non-adaptive or is it always non-adaptive?

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When DCI is there with HICH is there it’s adaptive, otherwise non adaptive only HICH.

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Okay, so perhaps eNB takes the control here and doesn’t take any chance of signalling conditions of the UE.
So it keeps DL HARQ as always adaptive.
Is this understanding correct?

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Yes, eNodeB takes control, resource allocation is deceided by eNodeB.
If UL BLER is high mg factor values shoud not be less.

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So it means the UE has to always read the presence or absence of DCI to decide so?

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Yes, ng factor.

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Also, one more thing since UL is synchronous so UE doesn’t need to communicate the HARQ process id right?
Then how the situation is taken care when using spatial multiplexing?

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eNodeB is the decision maker. :wink:

It’s beautifully explained here by @Tech_Playon:

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Yes very nicely explained with details.