IP Library Granted Patent US 11,419,062
Granted Patent B2
US 11,419,062 · App. 16/502,477 · Granted Aug 16, 2022

User equipment transmission power control

Inventors: Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Guotong Wang (Beijing, CN); Gang Xiong (Portland, OR); Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novogorod NIZ, RU)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W52/325H04W52/146H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 11,419,062
App. No.
16/502,477
Granted
Aug 16, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for mechanisms to enable full-power uplink transmission. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims (89)

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

configure one or more uplink codebooks, wherein configuring the one or more uplink codebooks include:

configuring a first scaling factor for one or more first antenna ports of the UE, and

configuring a second scaling factor for one or more second antenna ports of the UE, the second scaling factor being distinct from the first scaling factor;

receive feedback information from a first access node;

select, based on the feedback information, a precoder from a codebook of the one or more codebooks for communication with the first access node; and

apply the first scaling factor to the precoder to communicate with the first access node using the one or more first antenna ports, while concurrently communicating with a second access node using the one or more second antenna ports, wherein the first scaling factor is applied to the precoder to prevent a total transmission power from all antenna ports of the UE from exceeding a maximum transmission power of the UE, wherein the UE is to support full-power transmission.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the UE supports non-coherent transmission and the precoder is an antenna-selection-based precoder.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the codebook is a single-layer codebook for two antenna ports and the precoder is

[

1

0

]

or

[

0

1

]

.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to: receive configuration information to configure the first scaling factor or the second scaling factor.

5. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 4 , wherein to receive configuration information, the UE is to process higher-layer signaling.

6. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 4 , wherein the configuration information is to configure scaling factors per antenna port (AP), per antenna port group, or across all antenna ports.

7. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:

generate a report to indicate a maximum scaling factor supported per antenna port (AP), AP group, or across all APs.

8. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the first scaling factor or the second scaling factor is smaller than or equal to the maximum scaling factor.

9. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:

generate a capability indication to indicate that the UE supports full-power transmission; and

transmit the capability indication to an access node.

10. An apparatus to be employed in a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

memory to store one or more codebooks; and

baseband circuitry, coupled with the memory, to:

generate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission to be transmitted as a single-layer transmission on a first subset of antenna ports of the UE;

precode the PUSCH transmission with a precoder selected from a codebook of the one or more codebooks, wherein the precoder is scaled with a first scaling factor corresponding to the first subset of antenna ports, and wherein a second scaling factor distinct from the first scaling factor is applied for communication using a second subset of antenna ports of the UE; and

cause the PUSCH transmission to be transmitted to a first access node using the first subset of antenna ports while concurrently communicating with a second access node using the second subset of antenna ports.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the baseband circuitry is further to cause the PUSCH transmission to be transmitted as a non-coherent transmission or a partial-coherent transmission.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the baseband circuitry is to generate and cause transmission of a report to indicate that the UE supports full-power transmission.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the baseband circuitry is to generate and cause transmission of a report to indicate the UE supports PUSCH to phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) Energy Per Resource Element (EPRE) ratio configuration.

14. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause an access node to:

determine, based on first capability information, that a first user equipment (UE) supports full-power uplink transmission;

provide first configuration information to configure the first UE with first codebook information to provide full-power uplink transmission, wherein each precoder of the first codebook is scaled using a first scaling factor to enable the first UE to concurrently communicate with a different access node using a second scaling factor that is distinct from the first scaling factor; and

provide second configuration information to configure the second UE with second codebook information to provide non-full-power uplink transmission.

15. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the first and second codebook information is to configure first and second codebooks, respectively.

16. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the first codebook comprises precoders

[

1

0

]

or

[

0

1

]

and the second codebook comprises precoders

1

2

[

1

0

]

and

1

2

[

0

1

]

.

17. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the first codebook information is to configure a first codebook with a first scaling factor and the second codebook information is to configure the first codebook with a second scaling factor.

18. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the access node to: provide the second configuration information to configure the second UE with the second codebook based on capability information received from the second UE or as a default configuration.

19. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the first scaling factor and the second scaling factor are selected to allow a total transmission power from all ports of the first UE to reach the maximum transmission power.

20. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

transmit circuitry to provide radio frequency signals for transmission by a plurality of antenna panels of the UE; and

baseband circuitry to scale power of one or more first antenna panels of the plurality of antenna panels using a first scaling factor and scale one or more second antenna panels of the plurality of antenna panels using a second scaling factor when a total transmission power for all antenna panels exceed a maximum transmission power for concurrent transmission to a first access node and a second access node using respectively the one or more first antenna panels and the one or more second antenna panels,

wherein for a transmission occasion, the transmission power for individual antenna panels with uplink transmissions are scaled equally or based on priority associated with respective uplink transmissions.

21. The UE of claim 20 , wherein to scale power of an antenna panel, the baseband circuitry is to:

scale down power of the one or more first antenna panels associated with a first uplink transmission, wherein the one or more second antenna panels are associated with a second uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission has a priority that is higher than a priority of the first uplink transmission.

22. The UE of claim 21 , wherein the baseband circuitry is to determine relative priorities of the first and second uplink transmissions based on type of uplink signals, content of uplink signals, time-domain behavior of uplink signals, or triggering scheme of uplink signals.

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 9, 2019
From: ZHANG, YUSHU; WANG, GUOTONG; XIONG, GANG; DAVYDOV, ALEXEI
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049704/0025 →