Apparatus, system and method to implement reserved resources for forward compatibility in new radio (NR) networks

1. An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), the apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors coupled to the RF interface and configured to:

decode a communication from a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB), the communication including information on configuration parameters of reserved physical resources confined within a bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless channel, the configuration parameters including time and frequency resources;

based on the communication, determine the reserved physical resources as being allocated reserved physical resources, wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include uplink reserved physical resources, downlink reserved physical resources and flexible reserved physical resources; and

process signals received on, or for communication on, physical resources not overlapping the allocated reserved physical resources.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the communication includes at least one of:

semi-statically configured higher layer signaling including NR minimum system information (MSI), NR remaining minimum system information (RMSI), NR system information block (SIB), or UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling; or

dynamically configured Layer 1 (L1) signaling including a downlink control information (DCI).

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the information on configuration parameters includes at least one of:

information, in a time domain, of a periodicity of the reserved physical resources;

information, in a time domain, on one or more symbol indices within a configured slot, the symbol indices based on a reference numerology corresponding to a numerology of the BWP; or

information, in a frequency domain, on frequency resource allocation type based on resource block group (RBG), wherein a RBG comprises of one or more consecutive physical resource blocks (PRBs) in a frequency domain.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the configuration parameters include a first set of configuration parameters, the reserved physical resources include a first set of reserved physical resources, and the allocated reserved physical resources include allocated first reserved physical resources, the one or more processors further to:

decode information on a second set of configuration parameters of a second set of reserved physical resources, the second configuration parameters including time and frequency resources;

based on the information on the second set of communication parameters, determine the second set of reserved physical resources as being allocated second reserved physical resources; and

process signals received on, or for communication on, only physical resources not overlapping the allocated second reserved physical resources.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein:

the information on the first set of configuration parameters includes a first index corresponding to the first set of reserved physical resources, and the information on the second set of configuration parameters includes a second index corresponding to the second set of reserved physical resources; and

the communication is a first communication including semi-statically configured higher layer signaling including NR minimum system information (MSI), NR remaining minimum system information (RMSI), NR system information block (SIB), or UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the one or more processors further being configured to:

decode a second communication from the gNodeB including dynamic Layer 1 (L1) signaling comprising downlink control information (DCI), the second communication including information on at least one of the first index or the second index;

based on the information on at least one of the first index or the second index in the second communication, determine at least one of the allocated first reserved physical resources or the allocated second reserved physical resources as corresponding to released reserved physical resources; and

process signals received on, or for communication on, physical resources overlapping the released reserved physical resources.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the one or more processors is to assume a union of the allocated first reserved physical resources and the allocated second reserved physical resources.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors is further to:

decode a Control Resource Set (CORESET) communication from the gNodeB, the CORESET communication corresponding to one or more symbols;

determine from the CORESET communication that the UE is scheduled to monitor for reception a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) from the gNodeB on the one or more symbols;

decode a dynamic communication from the gNodeB indicating at least one symbol of the one or more symbols is to be an uplink symbol or a flexible symbol; and

refrain from monitoring for reception of the PDCCH on the one or more symbols.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include uplink reserved physical resources, and wherein the one or more processors is further to:

determine from a communication from the gNodeB that the UE is scheduled to receive a Physical Downlink Scheduled Channel (PDSCH) from the gNodeB on multiple slots;

and

refrain from monitoring for reception of the PDSCH in the slots with the at least some symbols.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include downlink reserved physical resources, and wherein the one or more processors is further to:

determine from a communication from the gNodeB that the UE is scheduled to transmit a Physical Uplink Scheduled Channel (PUSCH) to the gNodeB on multiple slots;

and

refrain from transmitting the PUSCH in the slots with the at least some symbols.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors is further to:

process a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) for transmission of HARQ-ACK feedback to the gNodeB on one or more symbols in response to PDSCH scheduled via DL SPS or dynamic scheduling;

decode a communication from the gNodeB indicating at least one symbol of the one or more symbols is to be a downlink symbol or a flexible symbol; and

drop transmission of an entirety of the PUCCH on the one or more symbols.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors is further to:

decode a semi-static communication from the gNodeB indicating, with a switching periodicity, downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) direction assignments for a plurality of symbols; and

process signals received from or for transmission to the gNodeB on the symbols indicated as DL or UL direction respectively regardless of any dynamic communication from the gNode B indicating DL direction, UL direction or flexible assignments if the indicated direction conflicts with that indicated via the semi-static communication for one or more of the plurality of symbols.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , further including a front-end module (FEM) coupled to the RF interface.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , further including at least one antenna coupled to the FEM.

14. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor of a User Equipment (UE), cause the at least one computer processor to implement operations comprising:

decoding a communication from a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB), the communication including information on configuration parameters of reserved physical resources confined within a bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless channel, the configuration parameters including time and frequency resources;

based on the communication, determining the reserved physical resources as being allocated reserved physical resources, wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include uplink reserved physical resources, downlink reserved physical resources and flexible reserved physical resources; and

processing signals received on, or for communication on, physical resources not overlapping the allocated reserved physical resources.

15. The product of claim 14 , wherein the communication includes at least one of:

semi-statically configured higher layer signaling including NR minimum system information (MSI), NR remaining minimum system information (RMSI), NR system information block (SIB), or UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling; or

dynamically configured Layer 1 (L1) signaling including a downlink control information (DCI).

16. The product of claim 14 , wherein the information on configuration parameters includes at least one of:

information, in a time domain, of a periodicity of the reserved physical resources;

information, in a time domain, on one or more symbol indices within a configured slot, the symbol indices based on a reference numerology corresponding to a numerology of the BWP; or

information, in a frequency domain, on frequency resource allocation type based on resource block group (RBG), wherein a RBG comprises of one or more consecutive physical resource blocks (PRBs) in frequency.

17. The product of claim 14 , wherein the configuration parameters include a first set of configuration parameters, the reserved physical resources include a first set of reserved physical resources, and the allocated reserved physical resources include allocated first reserved physical resources, the method further including:

decoding information on a second set of configuration parameters of a second set of reserved physical resources, the second configuration parameters including time and frequency resources;

based on information on the second set of communication parameters, determining the second set of reserved physical resources as being an allocated second reserved physical resources; and

processing signals received on, or for communication on, only physical resources not overlapping the allocated second reserved physical resources.

18. The product of claim 17 , wherein:

the information on the first set of configuration parameters includes a first index corresponding to the first set of reserved physical resources, and the information on the second set of configuration parameters includes a second index corresponding to the second set of reserved physical resources; and

the communication is a first communication including semi-statically configured higher layer signaling including NR minimum system information (MSI), NR remaining minimum system information (RMSI), NR system information block (SIB), or UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the method further including:

decoding a second communication from the gNodeB including dynamic Layer 1 (L1) signaling comprising downlink control information (DCI), the second communication including information on at least one of the first index or the second index;

based on the information on at least one of the first index or the second index in the second communication, determining at least one of the allocated first reserved physical resources or the allocated second reserved physical resources as corresponding to released reserved physical resources; and

processing signals received on, or for communication on, physical resources overlapping the released reserved physical resources.

19. The product of claim 18 , further including assuming a union of the allocated first reserved physical resources and the allocated second reserved physical resources.

20. The product of claim 14 , further including:

decoding a Control Resource Set (CORESET) communication from the gNodeB, the CORESET communication corresponding to one or more symbols;

determining from the CORESET communication that the UE is scheduled to monitor for reception a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) from the gNodeB on the one or more symbols;

decoding a dynamic communication from the gNodeB indicating at least one symbol of the one or more symbols is to be an uplink symbol or a flexible symbol; and

refraining from a monitoring for reception of the PDCCH on the one or more symbols.

21. The product of claim 14 , wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include uplink reserved physical resources, and further including:

determining from a communication from the gNodeB that the UE is scheduled to receive a Physical Downlink Scheduled Channel (PDSCH) from the gNodeB on multiple slots; and

refraining from monitoring for reception of the PDSCH in the slots with the at least some symbols.

22. The product of claim 14 , wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include downlink reserved physical resources, and further including:

determining from the communication from the gNodeB that the UE is scheduled to transmit a Physical Uplink Scheduled Channel (PUSCH) to the gNodeB on multiple slots; and

refraining from transmitting the PUSCH in the slots with the at least some symbols.

23. The product of claim 14 , further including:

processing a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) for transmission of HARQ-ACK feedback to the gNodeB on one or more symbols in response to PDSCH scheduled via DL SPS or dynamic scheduling;

decoding a communication from the gNodeB indicating at least one symbol of the one or more symbols is to be a downlink symbol or a flexible symbol; and

dropping transmission of an entirety of the PUCCH on the one or more symbols.

24. An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), the apparatus including:

means for decoding a communication from a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB), the communication including information on configuration parameters of reserved physical resources confined within a bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless channel, the configuration parameters including time and frequency resources;

means for determining, based on the communication, the reserved physical resources as being allocated reserved physical resources, wherein the allocated reserved physical resources include uplink reserved physical resources, downlink reserved physical resources and flexible reserved physical resources; and

means for processing signals received on, or for communication on, physical resources not overlapping the allocated reserved physical resources.

25. The apparatus of claim 24 , wherein the communication includes at least one of:

semi-statically configured higher layer signaling including NR minimum system information (MSI), NR remaining minimum system information (RMSI), NR system information block (SIB), or UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling; or

dynamically configured Layer 1 (L1) signaling including a downlink control information (DCI).