IP Library Granted Patent US 9,338,768
Granted Patent B2
US 9,338,768 · App. 13/953,506 · Granted May 10, 2016

Uplink power control for physical uplink control channel

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Patent No.
US 9,338,768
App. No.
13/953,506
Granted
May 10, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for uplink transmit power control for transmitting periodic channel state information. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims (416)

1. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate UCI that includes one or more sets of periodic channel state information (p-CSI) that respectively correspond with one or more serving cells or with one or more channel state information (CSI) processes; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3 based on a radio resource control (RRC) parameter that corresponds to p-CSI transmissions,

wherein the RRC parameter provides a delta F offset that is a value provided for PUCCH format 3 and is relative to PUCCH format 1a and the value is selected from a set consisting of −6 decibels (dB), −5 dB, −4 dB, −3 dB, −2 dB, −1 dB, 0 dB, and 1 dB.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the UCI circuitry is to generate other UCI that includes HARQ-ACK information without p-CSI; and

the feedback circuitry is to determine uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI with PUCCH format 3 based on an RRC parameter that corresponds to HARQ-ACK transmissions.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

an RRC layer to:

receive, from an RRC layer of a network equipment, the RRC parameter; and

configure the feedback circuitry based on the RRC parameter.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the value is −6 decibels (dB), −5 dB, −4 dB, −3 dB, or −2 dB.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the value is −2 decibels (dB), −1 dB, 0 dB, or 1 dB.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the UCI circuitry is to generate UCI that includes p-CSI for a plurality of serving cells and the feedback circuitry is to transmit the UCI in a subframe of a primary serving cell of the plurality of serving cells.

7. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset;

the UCI includes more than 11 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to

provide spatial orthogonal transmit diversity or dual Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

n

HARQ

+

(

n

CQI

+

sgn

(

n

CQI

)

*

)

+

n

SR

-

1

3

where α is the CSI offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, n sR is a scheduling request bit, and

sgn

(

x

)

=

{

-

1

if

x

<

0

,

0

if

x

=

0

1

if

x

>

0

.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the PUCCH format is a PUCCH format 3.

9. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset,

the UCI includes less than 12 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to:

provide single Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

n

HARQ

+

(

n

CQI

+

sgn

(

n

CQI

)

*

)

+

n

SR

-

1

2

where α is the CSI offset, nHARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, nCQI is a number of p-CSI bits, nSR is a scheduling request bit, and

sgn

(

x

)

=

{

-

1

if

x

<

0

,

0

if

x

=

0

1

if

x

>

0

.

10. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset,

the UCI includes more than 11 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to:

provide spatial orthogonal transmit diversity or dual Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

n

HARQ

+

n

~

CQI

+

n

SR

-

1

3

where α is the CSI offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, n SR is a scheduling request bit, ñ CQI =n CQI when n HARQ ≠0, and ñ CQI =n CQI +α when n HARQ =0.

11. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset,

the UCI includes less than 12 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to:

provide single Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

n

HARQ

+

n

~

CQI

+

n

SR

-

1

2

where α is the CSI offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, n SR is a scheduling request bit, ñ CQI =n CQI when n HARQ ≠0, and ñ CQI =n CQI +α when n HARQ =0.

12. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset,

the UCI includes more than 11 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to:

provide spatial orthogonal transmit diversity or dual Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

(

n

HARQ

+

β

)

+

(

n

CQI

+

)

+

n

SR

-

1

3

where α is the CSI offset, β is a HARQ offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, and n SR is a scheduling request bit.

13. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate uplink control information (UCI) that includes:

periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells;

p-CSI for one or more channel state information (CSI)-processes; or

p-CSI for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; and

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that utilizes a quadrature phase shift keying modulation scheme and provides up to 48 bits per subframe,

wherein:

the feedback circuitry is to determine the uplink transmit power based on a CSI offset,

the UCI includes less than 12 bits, and the feedback circuitry is to:

provide single Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

(

n

HARQ

+

β

)

+

(

n

CQI

+

)

+

n

SR

-

1

2

where α is the CSI offset, β is a HARQ offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, and n SR is a scheduling request bit.

14. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a user equipment to comprising:

generate first uplink control information (UCI) that includes periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for a plurality of serving cells, a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes, or for a single serving cell and hybrid automatic repeat request—acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information, and

generate second UCI that includes HARQ-ACK information without p-CSI;

determine a first uplink transmit power to transmit the first UCI in a subframe with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3 based on a CSI parameter, and

determine a second uplink transmit power to transmit the second UCI based on a HARQ-ACK parameter

wherein the CSI parameter is a radio resource control (RRC) parameter the provides a delta F offset that is a value provided for PUCCH format 3 and is relative to PUCCH format 1a and the value is selected from a set consisting of −6 decibels (dB), −5 dB, −4 dB, −3 dB, −2 dB, −1 dB, 0 dB, and 1 dB.

15. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the UCI includes more than 11 bits, the CSI parameter is a CSI offset, and instructions, when executed, cause the UE to:

provide spatial orthogonal transmit diversity or dual Reed Muller coding; and

determine the uplink transmit power based on

h

(

n

CQI

,

n

HARQ

,

n

SR

)

=

n

HARQ

+

(

n

CQI

+

sgn

(

n

CQI

)

*

)

+

n

SR

-

1

3

where α is the CSI offset, n HARQ is a number of HARQ-ACK bits, n CQI is a number of p-CSI bits, n SR is a scheduling request bit, and

and

sgn

(

x

)

=

{

-

1

if

x

<

0

,

0

if

x

=

0

1

if

x

>

0

.

16. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the value is −6 decibels (dB), −5 dB, −4 dB, −3 dB, or −2 dB.

17. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the value is −2 decibels (dB), −1 dB, 0 dB, or 1 dB.

18. A user equipment comprising:

the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14 ;

one or more processors coupled with the one or more computer-readable media to execute the instructions; and

a touchscreen user interface.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 20, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 052916/0308 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2013
From: HAN, SEUNGHEE; HE, HONG; BASHAR, SHAFI; FWU, JONG-KAE; CHEN, XIAOGANG
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030898/0769 →