IP Library Granted Patent US 11,121,897
Granted Patent B2
US 11,121,897 · App. 16/125,506 · Granted Sep 14, 2021

System and method for PUCCH transmission scheme

Inventors: Gang Xiong (Portland, OR); Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Alexey Khoryaev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Mikhail S. Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Seung Hee Han (San Jose, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Joonyoung Cho (Portland, OR)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
H04L27/2613H04L5/006H04L27/2692H04W52/146H04W72/046
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Patent No.
US 11,121,897
App. No.
16/125,506
Granted
Sep 14, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Technology for a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources is disclosed. The UE can decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter. The UE can encode an SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter. The UE can encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter. The UE can have a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter.

Claims (31)

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter and one or more of a delay spread and a Doppler spread;

encode the SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter; and

encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter;

transmit the SRS using the spatial received parameter;

transmit the UCI in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter multiplexed with a plurality of PUCCH DMRS base sequence symbols wherein the base sequences are selected based on a low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and low mutual cross-correlation; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter.

2. The apparatus of the UE of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:

receive the RRC signal indicating the SRS.

3. The apparatus of the UE of claim 1 , wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS.

4. The apparatus of the UE of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to encode the SRS associated with the SRI for transmission using the spatial received parameter.

5. The apparatus of the UE of claim 1 , further comprising an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, an internal memory, or a non-volatile memory port.

6. The apparatus of the UE of claim 1 , the one or more processors further configured to define the SRS in one or more of:

a first SRS group for SRS resources used for beam management;

a second SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; and

a third SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.

7. The apparatus of the UE of claim 6 , wherein the SRS is defined in each of the second SRS group and the third SRS group.

8. The apparatus of the UE of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the first SRS group, the second SRS group, and the third SRS group is configured by RRC signaling.

9. An apparatus of a next generation node B (gNB) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

encode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter and one or more of a delay spread and a Doppler spread;

receive the SRS using the spatial received parameter;

receive uplink control information UCI from the UE in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter, the UCI multiplexed with a plurality of PUCCH DMRS base sequence symbols, wherein the base sequences are selected based on a low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and low mutual cross-correlation;

decode the SRS as received from a user equipment (UE) using the spatial received parameter; and

decode the UCI using the spatial received parameter; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter.

10. The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:

transmit the RRC signal indicating the SRS.

11. The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9 , wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS.

12. The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to decode the SRS associated with the SRI received from the UE using the spatial received parameter.

Assignments (3)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Aug 13, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053493/0272 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 25, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 053065/0418 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 25, 2018
From: DAVYDOV, ALEXEI; KHORYAEV, ALEXEY; SHILOV, MIKHAIL S.; HAN, SEUNG HEE; XIONG, GANG; ZHANG, YUSHU; CHO, JOONYOUNG
To: INTEL IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047316/0359 →
Continuity (4)
Provisional Application 62570524 · Oct 10, 2017
Provisional Application 62567210 · Oct 2, 2017
Provisional Application 62556143 · Sep 8, 2017
Related Publication 20190149379A1 · May 16, 2019
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