Downlink control information format for ultra-reliable physical downlink control channel

1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a user equipment (UE) in a new radio (NR) system to:

transmit, to a base station, an indication of a capability of the UE to support a first downlink control information (DCI) format for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception in a downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a second DCI format for scheduling uplink (UL) grants for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a UL bandwidth part (BWP), wherein the first DCI format for the DL BWP is different from DCI formats 1_0 and 1_1, and the second DCI format for the UL BWP is different from DCI formats 0_0 and 0_1;

determine search spaces for monitoring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates to obtain DCI formats indicated by the base station;

monitor the search spaces for the PDCCH candidates; and

detect the indicated DCI formats, wherein the indicated DCI formats are selected from the first DCI format, the second DCI format, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the indicated DCI formats by the base station are selected from the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1, and wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to interpret fields of the indicated DCI formats differently from fields of the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1 as specified in Rel-15 NR specifications based on configuration conveyed by a protocol layer.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the indicated DCI formats include the first DCI format and the second DCI format, and wherein the first DCI format and the second DCI format have smaller sizes than the DCI formats 0_0 and 1_0 for corresponding UL BWP and DL BWP, and wherein the first DCI format and the second DCI format have a same size.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format has a same size of the DCI format 0_1, and the second DCI format has a same size of the DCI format 1_1.

5. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format has a field not presented in the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1.

6. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format has a field that is presented in the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1, and wherein the field in the first DCI format or the second DCI format is of a smaller size than the field presented in the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1.

7. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format is conveyed to the UE by a PDCCH candidate that includes an associated cyclic redundancy code (CRC) scrambled with a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), Configured Scheduling (CS)-RNTI, or other configurable RNTI.

8. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the search spaces for monitoring the PDCCH candidates includes a UE-specific search space (USS) or a common search space (CSS).

9. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the search spaces for monitoring the PDCCH candidates are USS, which are conveyed to the UE by a higher layer 2-bit field USS-DCI-format to indicate choice between DCI formats: 0_0, 1_0, 0_1, 1_1, the first DCI format, or the second DCI format to be monitored.

10. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format has a field to indicate a frequency domain resource assignment or a time domain resource assignment.

11. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment is a Type 1 resource assignment using a granularity of K>1 contiguous-in-frequency physical resource blocks (PRBs).

12. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 11 , wherein the value of K is given by a resource block group (RBG) size for the corresponding DL or UL BWP respectively according to one of: RBG configuration 1 or RBG configuration 2.

13. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the time domain resource assignment only uses PDSCH and PUSCH mapping type B for time-domain scheduling when using the first DCI format, or the second DCI format respectively.

14. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format includes a Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) filed of length 3 or 4 bits for scheduling PDSCH or PUSCH.

15. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

processing circuitry to:

transmit, to a base station in a new radio (NR) system, an indication of a capability of a user equipment (UE) to support a first downlink control information (DCI) format for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception in a downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a second DCI format for scheduling uplink (UL) grants for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a UL bandwidth part (BWP), wherein the first DCI format for the DL BWP is different from DCI formats 1_0 and 1_1, and the second DCI format for the UL BWP is different from DCI formats 0_0 and 0_1;

determine search spaces for monitoring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates to obtain DCI formats indicated by the base station;

monitor the search spaces for the PDCCH candidates; and

detect the indicated DCI formats, wherein the indicated DCI formats are selected from the first DCI format, the second DCI format, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1; and

memory circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry, the memory circuitry to store the indicated DCI formats.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the indicated DCI formats by the base station are selected from the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1, and wherein the processing circuitry is to interpret fields of the indicated DCI formats differently from fields of the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1 as specified in Rel-15 NR specifications based on configuration conveyed by a protocol layer.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the indicated DCI formats include the first DCI format and the second DCI format, and wherein the first DCI format and the second DCI format have smaller sizes than the DCI formats 0_0 and 1_0 for corresponding UL BWP and DL BWP, and wherein the first DCI format and the second DCI format have a same size.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the first DCI format has a same size of the DCI format 0_1, and the second DCI format has a same size of the DCI format 1_1.

19. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format has a field not presented in the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1.

20. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the search spaces for monitoring the PDCCH candidates includes a UE-specific search space (USS) or a common search space (CSS).

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the search spaces for monitoring the PDCCH candidates are USS, which are conveyed to the UE by a higher layer 2-bit field USS-DCI-format to indicate a choice between DCI formats: 0_0, 1_0, 0_1, 1_1, the first DCI format, or the second DCI format to be monitored.

22. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a base station in a new radio (NR) system to:

receive or cause to receive, an indication of a capability of a user equipment (UE) to support a first downlink control information (DCI) format for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception in a downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a second DCI format for scheduling uplink (UL) grants for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a UL bandwidth part (BWP), wherein the first DCI format for the DL BWP is different from DCI formats 1_0 and 1_1, and the second DCI format for the UL BWP is different from DCI formats 0_0 and 0_1;

determine search spaces for the UE to monitor physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates to obtain DCI formats indicated by the base station;

select DCI formats from the first DCI format, the second DCI format, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, the DCI format 0_0, or the DCI format 0_1, the DCI formats to be indicated to the UE; and

transmit, to the UE, the selected DCI formats.

23. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 22 , wherein the selected DCI formats are transmitted to the UE by a PDCCH candidate that includes an associated cyclic redundancy code (CRC) scrambled with a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), Configured Scheduling (CS)-RNTI, or other configurable RNTI.

24. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 23 , wherein the search spaces for monitoring the PDCCH candidates are UE-specific search space (USS), which are conveyed to the UE by a higher layer 2-bit field USS-DCI-format to indicate a choice between DCI formats: 0_0, 1_0, 0_1, 1_1, the first DCI format, or the second DCI format to be monitored.

25. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 22 , wherein the first DCI format or the second DCI format has a field to indicate a frequency domain resource assignment or a time domain resource assignment.