IP Library Granted Patent US 11,160,061
Granted Patent B2
US 11,160,061 · App. 16/502,344 · Granted Oct 26, 2021

Uplink transmission for multi-panel operation

Inventors: Gang Xiong (Portland, OR); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Hong He (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/0413H04L5/0051H04L25/0226H04W56/001H04W72/046H04W76/27H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 11,160,061
App. No.
16/502,344
Granted
Oct 26, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and storage media are described for uplink transmission for multi-panel operation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims (31)

1. An apparatus comprising:

memory to store panel index information to indicate an antenna port group that a user equipment (UE) is to use for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and

processing circuitry, coupled with the memory, to:

retrieve the panel index information from the memory, wherein the panel index information indicates a number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE for the PUCCH signal or the PUSCH signal;

generate a message that includes the panel index information; and

encode the message for transmission to the UE.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to receive, from the UE, the PUCCH signal or the PUSCH signal in accordance with the panel index information.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the message is to be transmitted via radio resource control (RRC) signaling or medium access layer (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is to derive the panel index information from a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the panel index information indicates a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the panel index information is corresponds to a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, a synchronization signal block (SSB) resource, or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the panel index information is to indicate a respective power control parameter for each respective panel.

8. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media storing instructions, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) to:

receive a configuration message that includes panel index information to indicate an antenna port group of the UE for transmitting a message, wherein the message is a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) message, and wherein the panel index information indicates a number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE for the PUCCH message or the PUSCH message; and

encode the message for transmission in accordance with the panel index information.

9. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the UE to:

transmit an indication of a first uplink control information (UCI) type and a second UCI type via PUCCH using a first panel; and

transmit an indication of the second UCI type via PUCCH using a second panel.

10. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the first UCI type is a hybrid automatic request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK), and the second UCI type is a channel state information (CSI) report or scheduling request (SR).

11. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the configuration message is received via radio resource control (RRC) signaling or medium access layer (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling.

12. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the panel index information is derived from a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.

13. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the panel index information indicates a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.

14. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the panel index information corresponds to a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, a synchronization signal block (SSB) resource, or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource.

15. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , wherein the panel index information is to indicate a respective power control parameter for each respective panel.

16. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media storing instructions, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) in a cellular communications network to:

determine a configuration message that includes panel index information indicating an antenna port group of the UE for transmitting a message, wherein the configuration message corresponds to a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and wherein the panel index information indicates a number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE for the message; and

encode the configuration message for transmission to a base station in the cellular communications network.

17. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 16 , wherein the message comprises one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) message, and wherein the PUCCH message or the PUSCH message is transmitted in accordance with the panel index information.

18. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 16 , wherein the message is to be transmitted via radio resource control (RRC) signaling or medium access layer (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling.

19. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 16 , wherein the panel index information indicates a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.

20. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 16 , wherein the panel index information corresponds to a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, a synchronization signal block (SSB) resource, or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 20, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 052916/0308 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2019
From: XIONG, GANG; ZHANG, YUSHU; HE, HONG
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049753/0768 →
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