IP Library Granted Patent US 11,778,657
Granted Patent B2
US 11,778,657 · App. 16/171,998 · Granted Oct 3, 2023

Control resource set information in physical broadcast channel

Inventors: Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Seunghee Han (San Jose, CA); Gang Xiong (Portland, OR); Gregory V. Morozov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Joonyoung Cho (Portland, OR); Dae Won Lee (Portland, OR); Yongjun Kwak (Portland, OR)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
H04W74/006H04L5/0091H04W74/0833
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Patent No.
US 11,778,657
App. No.
16/171,998
Granted
Oct 3, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message comprising an indicator to indicate a number of contention based physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles within a PRACH occasion per Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.

Claims (36)

1. A User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors to:

process a system message carrying a system indicator to indicate a total number of physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles for a PRACH occasion associated with a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB);

process a message carrying an indicator having a value selected from a set consisting of 1, 2, 3, and 4 to indicate a first number of contention-based PRACH preambles within the PRACH occasion, wherein the PRACH occasion includes a second number of contention free PRACH preambles, wherein the second number is a difference between the total number and the first number, and wherein the system message is different from the message; and

generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator; and

an interface for sending the first PRACH occasion to a transmission circuitry.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

the indicator is a first indicator, and

the message carries a second indicator comprising a second integer to indicate a number of SSBs per PRACH occasion.

3. The UE of claim 2 , wherein an upper limit of the second indicator is based on the first indicator.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

the indicator is a first indicator; and

the message carries one or more second indicators comprising one or more corresponding second integers to indicate a number of PRACH preambles within the PRACH occasion associated with the SSB.

5. The UE of claim 4 , wherein an upper limit of the one or more second indicators are based on the first indicator.

6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein 4 PRACH preambles within the PRACH occasion are associated with the SSB.

7. The UE of claim 1 , comprising an application processor, a memory, one or more antennas, a wireless interface for allowing the application processor to communicate with another device, and a touch-screen display.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network to perform an operation, the operation comprising:

processing a system message carrying a system indicator to indicate a total number of physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles for a PRACH occasion associated with a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB);

processing a message carrying an indicator having a value selected from a set consisting of 1, 2, 3, and 4 to indicate a first number of contention-based PRACH preambles within the PRACH occasion, wherein the PRACH occasion includes a second number of contention free PRACH preambles, wherein the second number is a difference between the total number and the first number, and wherein the system message is different from the message; and

generating a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein:

the indicator is a first indicator;

the message carries a second indicator that is a second integer to indicate a number of SSBs per PRACH occasion; and

an upper limit of the second indicator is based on the first indicator.

10. A User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors to:

generate a Channel State Information (CSI) report comprising a CSI part 1 of the CSI report and a CSI part 2 of the CSI report, and

generate a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission comprising a plurality of symbols, wherein the CSI part 1 is embedded starting from a first symbol of the PUSCH transmission, and the CSI part 2 is mapped to a symbol transmitted in a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS) of the PUSCH transmission, wherein the CSI part 2 is separated from the CSI part 1 ; and

an interface for sending the PUSCH transmission to a transmission circuitry.

11. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are to:

generate the PUSCH transmission such that a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) is embedded within the PUSCH transmission for transmission subsequent to a transmission of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) symbol associated with the PUSCH transmission.

12. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the PUSCH transmission includes a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) that is mapped in the symbol including the PT-RS or mapped around the PT-RS.

13. The UE of claim 12 , wherein the HARQ-ACK and the CSI part 1 or the CSI part 2 are mapped to an antenna port that is quasi-co-location (QCL) with an antenna port of the PT-RS.

14. The UE of claim 12 , wherein the HARQ-ACK, the CSI part 1 or the CSI part 2 are located in resource elements (REs) with different comb offsets.

15. The UE of claim 12 , wherein a comb distance for the HARQ-ACK, the CSI part 1 , the CSI part 2 , and uplink data are configured by higher layers.

16. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the CSI part 1 , the CSI part 1 , and uplink data are interleaved in frequency with equal comb distance.

Assignments (5)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Aug 11, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053455/0489 →
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 Apr 27, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052505/0148 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 052505/0182 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2019
From: DAVYDOV, ALEXEI; HAN, SEUNGHEE; XIONG, GANG; MOROZOV, GREGORY V.; ZHANG, YUSHU; CHO, JOONYOUNG; LEE, DAE WON; KWAK, YONGJUN
To: INTEL IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048514/0097 →