Puncturing to schedule downlink physical data shared channel on physical downlink control channel symbols

1 . Network equipment, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

overwriting physical downlink shared channel data, scheduled within a defined control resource set within slot data, with physical downlink control channel information specific to a user equipment, resulting in punctured physical downlink shared channel data,

wherein the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data, scheduled within the defined control resource set, comprises overwriting a first subgroup of a larger group of locations in the defined control resource set, and not overwriting a second subgroup, of the larger group of locations in a defined symbol, which comprises a portion of the punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data; and

transmitting the slot data to the user equipment, in which the user equipment is configured to locate the physical downlink control channel information specific to the user equipment within the defined control resource set of the slot data and to recover the punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data as part of a user equipment decoding operation.

2 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the defined downlink control information control resource set comprises an entire symbol of the slot data.

3 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the defined downlink control information control resource set is within a first symbol of the slot data.

4 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise, prior to the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data, scheduled within the defined control resource set, scheduling the physical downlink control channel information within the defined symbol of the slot data.

5 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data is performed by a gNodeB.

6 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise;

determining a coding rate that is able to be used to increase a likelihood that the user equipment receives sufficient data according to a defined sufficiency criterion, and wherein the coding rate corresponds to the transmitting of the slot data, to recover the punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data.

7 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a repetition pattern associated with the transmitting of the slot data that is able to be used to increase a likelihood that the user equipment receives sufficient data according to a defined sufficiency criterion, and wherein the repetition pattern corresponds to the transmitting of the slot data, to recover the punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data.

8 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the user equipment is a first user equipment, wherein the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data comprises overwriting with first physical downlink control channel information for the first user equipment and overwriting with second physical downlink control channel information for a second user equipment, and wherein the transmitting of the slot data comprises transmitting the slot data to the first user equipment and to the second user equipment.

9 . A method, comprising:

scheduling, by a system comprising at least one processor, physical downlink shared channel data within a slot, comprising mapping the physical downlink shared channel data for a user equipment to symbol locations within the slot, the symbol locations corresponding to specified control resource set and comprising a specified control resource set symbol location reserved for physical downlink control channel information;

overwriting, by the system, the physical downlink shared channel data within the specified control resource set symbol location, with physical downlink control channel data, resulting in physical downlink shared channel data punctured with physical downlink control channel data that maps the user equipment to the symbol locations within the slot, resulting in punctured physical downlink shared channel data;

transmitting, by the system, the slot to the user equipment with a redundancy pattern via which the user equipment is able to recover the punctured physical downlink shared channel data that was punctured with the physical downlink control channel data; and

determining a repetition pattern corresponding to the redundancy pattern usable to increase a likelihood that the user equipment is able to receive at least a threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the punctured physical downlink shared channel data.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data within the specified control resource set symbol location comprises overwriting a first subgroup of a larger group of locations in the specified control resource set, and not overwriting a second subgroup, of the larger group of locations in a specified symbol, that comprises a portion of the physical downlink shared channel data.

11 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

determining, by the system, a coding rate corresponding to the redundancy pattern and usable to increase a likelihood that at least one of the first user equipment is able to receive at least the threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the punctured physical downlink shared channel data.

12 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data within the specified control resource set location is performed by gNodeB equipment.

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the user equipment comprises a first user equipment, wherein the scheduling comprises scheduling of first physical downlink shared channel data, of the physical downlink shared channel data, within the slot, and wherein the overwriting comprises overwriting the first the physical downlink shared channel data with first physical downlink control channel data, of the physical downlink control channel data, and

the method further comprising:

scheduling, by the system, second physical downlink shared channel data, of the physical downlink shared channel data, within the slot, comprising mapping the second physical downlink shared channel data for a second user equipment, of the user equipment, to second symbol locations within the slot, the second symbol locations comprising the specified control resource set symbol location reserved for the physical downlink control channel information; and

overwriting, by the system, the second physical downlink shared channel data with second physical downlink control channel data, resulting in punctured second physical downlink shared channel data punctured with second physical downlink control channel data, of the physical downlink control channel data, that maps the second user equipment to the second symbol locations within the slot.

14 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

overwriting first physical downlink shared channel data, scheduled within a specified symbol within a slot, with first physical downlink control channel information, resulting in first punctured physical downlink shared channel data;

overwriting second physical downlink shared channel data, scheduled within the specified symbol within a slot, with second physical downlink control channel information, resulting in second punctured physical downlink shared channel data;

transmitting the slot to a first user equipment and a second user equipment, wherein the first user equipment is configured to locate the first physical downlink control channel information specific to the first user equipment within the specified symbol and to recover the first punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data, and wherein the second user equipment is configured to locate the second physical downlink control channel information specific to the second user equipment within the specified symbol and to recover the second punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data; and

determining a coding rate usable to increase a likelihood that at least one of the first user equipment receives sufficient data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the first punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data, or the second user equipment receives at least a threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the second punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data.

15 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise;

determining a repetition pattern associated with the transmitting of the slot usable to increase a likelihood that the first user equipment receives at least a threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data.

16 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise:

prior to the overwriting of a specified control resource set comprising the first physical downlink shared channel data and the second physical downlink shared channel data, scheduling the first physical downlink control channel information within the specified symbol of the slot, and scheduling the second physical downlink control channel information within the specified symbol of the slot.

17 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the overwriting with the first physical downlink control channel information comprises inserting a first radio network temporary identifier associated with the first user equipment into the first physical downlink control channel information, and wherein the overwriting with the second physical downlink control channel information comprises inserting a second radio network temporary identifier associated with the second user equipment into the second physical downlink control channel information.

18 . The network equipment of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

prior to the overwriting of the physical downlink shared channel data, scheduling the physical downlink control channel information within a specified symbol of the slot data.

19 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmitting of the slot comprises transmitting the slot to the first user equipment and to the second user equipment, with the redundancy pattern via which the first user equipment is able to recover the punctured first physical downlink shared channel data that was punctured with the first physical downlink control channel data, and via which the second user equipment is able to recover the punctured second physical downlink shared channel data that was punctured with the second physical downlink control channel data.

20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a repetition pattern associated with the transmitting of the slot usable to increase a likelihood that at least one of the first user equipment receives at least a threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the first punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data, or the second user equipment receives at least a threshold amount of data, corresponding to the transmitting of the slot, to recover the second punctured scheduled physical downlink shared channel data.