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Granted Patent B2
US 10,993,215 · App. 16/276,131 · Granted Apr 27, 2021

SPDCCH reuse indication constraint under DMRS sharing

Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego, CA); Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/042H04L5/005H04L5/0007H04L5/0051H04L5/0053H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 10,993,215
App. No.
16/276,131
Granted
Apr 27, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink shared channel transmission over a first set of frequency resources in a first transmission time interval (TTI); receive a downlink control transmission including a grant of a second set of frequency resources of a second TTI for a second downlink shared channel transmission, the downlink control transmission including an indication that a demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is reused for the second downlink shared channel transmission; determine to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources of the second set of frequency resources that are not part of the first set of frequency resources, and receive the second downlink shared channel transmission over a subset of the second set of frequency resources.

Claims (83)

1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:

receiving a first downlink shared channel transmission over a first subset of a first set of frequency resources in a first transmission time interval (TTI);

receiving a downlink control transmission comprising a grant of a second set of frequency resources of a second TTI for a second downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the downlink control transmission comprises an indication that a demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is reused for the second downlink shared channel transmission;

determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI that overlap in frequency with a second subset of the first set of frequency resources that is exclusive of the first subset of the first set of frequency resources; and

receiving the second downlink shared channel transmission over at least a subset of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI based at least in part on the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission comprises determining to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI that is received over the second subset of the first set of frequency resources.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second set of frequency resources encompasses the resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on a number of layers of the second downlink shared channel transmission.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources are associated with a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI, the second downlink control transmission comprising a control channel demodulation reference signal; and

receiving at least a portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission over the resources in the second TTI.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

demodulating the at least the portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission using the control channel demodulation reference signal.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the downlink control transmission comprises a rate matching indicator; and

the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on the rate matching indicator.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein:

the rate matching indicator comprises a first indicator associated with a first group of resources of the second set of frequency resources and a second indicator associated with a second group of resources of the second set of frequency resources; and

the determining whether to rate match comprises determining whether to rate match around the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap at least partially in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources for the first group of resources and the second group of resources.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is used for channel estimation for all allocated frequency resource blocks of the second TTI.

10. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

a processor,

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:

receive a first downlink shared channel transmission over a first subset of a first set of frequency resources in a first transmission time interval (TTI);

receive a downlink control transmission comprising a grant of a second set of frequency resources of a second TTI for a second downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the downlink control transmission comprises an indication that a demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is reused for the second downlink shared channel transmission;

determine whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI that overlap in frequency with a second subset of the first set of frequency resources that excludes each frequency resource of the first set of frequency resources for receiving the first downlink shared channel transmission; and

receive the second downlink shared channel transmission over at least a subset of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI based at least in part on the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission comprises determining to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI that is received over the second subset of the first set of frequency resources.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the second set of frequency resources encompasses the resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on a number of layers of the second downlink shared channel transmission.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources are associated with a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI, the second downlink control transmission comprising a control channel demodulation reference signal; and

receive at least a portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission over the resources in the second TTI.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

demodulate the at least the portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission using the control channel demodulation reference signal.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein:

the downlink control transmission comprises a rate matching indicator; and

the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on the rate matching indicator.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein:

the rate matching indicator comprises a first indicator associated with a first group of resources of the second set of frequency resources and a second indicator associated with a second group of resources of the second set of frequency resources; and

the determining whether to rate match comprises determining whether to rate match around the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources for the first group of resources and the second group of resources.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is used for channel estimation for all allocated frequency resource blocks of the second TTI.

19. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

means for receiving a first downlink shared channel transmission over a first subset of a first set of frequency resources in a first transmission time interval (TTI);

means for receiving a downlink control transmission of a second TTI and comprising a grant of a second set of frequency resources of a second TTI for a second downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the downlink control transmission comprises an indication that a demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is reused for the second downlink shared channel transmission;

means for determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI that overlap in frequency with a second subset of the first set of frequency resources that excludes each frequency resource of the first set of frequency resources for receiving the first downlink shared channel transmission; and

means for receiving the second downlink shared channel transmission over at least a subset of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI based at least in part on the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission comprises determining to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI that is received over the second subset of the first set of frequency resources.

21. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the second set of frequency resources encompasses the resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI.

22. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on a number of layers of the second downlink shared channel transmission.

23. The apparatus of claim 19 , further comprising:

means for determining that the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources are associated with a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI, the second downlink control transmission comprising a control channel demodulation reference signal; and

means for receiving at least a portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission over the resources in the second TTI.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , further comprising:

means for demodulating the at least the portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission using the control channel demodulation reference signal.

25. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein:

the downlink control transmission comprises a rate matching indicator; and

the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on the rate matching indicator.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein:

the rate matching indicator comprises a first indicator associated with a first group of resources of the second set of frequency resources and a second indicator associated with a second group of resources of the second set of frequency resources; and

the determining whether to rate match comprises determining whether to rate match around the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources for the first group of resources and the second group of resources.

27. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is used for channel estimation for all allocated frequency resource blocks of the second TTI.

28. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

receive a first downlink shared channel transmission over a first subset of a first set of frequency resources in a first transmission time interval (TTI);

receive a downlink control transmission comprising a grant of a second set of frequency resources of a second TTI for a second downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the downlink control transmission comprises an indication that a demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is reused for the second downlink shared channel transmission;

determine whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI that overlap in frequency with a second subset of the first set of frequency resources that excludes each frequency resource of the first set of frequency resources for receiving the first downlink shared channel transmission; and

receive the second downlink shared channel transmission over at least a subset of the second set of frequency resources of the second TTI based at least in part on the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission comprises determining to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission around resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI that is received over the second subset of the first set of frequency resources.

30. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein the second set of frequency resources encompasses the resources corresponding to a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI.

31. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on a number of layers of the second downlink shared channel transmission.

32. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to:

determine that the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap in frequency with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources are associated with a second downlink control transmission in the first TTI, the second downlink control transmission comprising a control channel demodulation reference signal; and

receive at least a portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission over the resources in the second TTI.

33. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 32 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to:

demodulate the at least the portion of the second downlink shared channel transmission using the control channel demodulation reference signal.

34. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein:

the downlink control transmission comprises a rate matching indicator; and

the determining whether to rate match the second downlink shared channel transmission is based at least in part on the rate matching indicator.

35. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 34 , wherein:

the rate matching indicator comprises a first indicator associated with a first group of resources of the second set of frequency resources and a second indicator associated with a second group of resources of the second set of frequency resources; and

the determining whether to rate match comprises determining whether to rate match around the resources of the second set of frequency resources that overlap with the second subset of the first set of frequency resources for the first group of resources and the second group of resources.

36. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28 , wherein the demodulation reference signal of the first downlink shared channel transmission is used for channel estimation for all allocated frequency resource blocks of the second TTI.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2019
From: HOSSEINI, SEYEDKIANOUSH; FARAJIDANA, AMIR
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 049005/0545 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62710450 · Feb 16, 2018
Related Publication 20190261327A1 · Aug 22, 2019
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