IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,239,939

Granted Patent B2

US 11,239,939 · App. 16/818,655 · Granted Feb 1, 2022

Scheduling in communication systems with multiple service types

Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou (Houston, TX)

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

H04L1/0006 H04L1/1614 H04L5/0094 H04W72/042 H04W72/0493

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Patent No.: US 11,239,939
App. No.: 16/818,655
Granted: Feb 1, 2022
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS) includes receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions, determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs and a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, determining, based on the first number of symbols and the SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs), and receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.

Claims (98)

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS), the method comprising:

receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions;

determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between:

a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs, wherein the first CORESETs are within a second number of symbols, and

a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, wherein:

the second CORESETs are within the second number of symbols, and

the first number of symbols is larger than or equal to the second number of symbols;

determining, based on the first number of symbols and the first SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs) to perform channel estimation for PDCCH receptions in CORESETs within the second number of symbols, wherein the CCEs are non-overlapping when the CCEs:

are in CORESETs with different indexes, or

are in CORESETs located in different symbols; and

receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the CCEs are also non-overlapping when the CCEs have different indexes in a same CORESET.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving PDCCHs with a second SCS according to a second maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs, wherein, when the first SCS and the second SCS are the same:

the second maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs is larger than the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs, and

the PDCCHs with the second SCS are received over a larger number of symbols than the first number of symbols.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein:

the first SCS is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value, and

the second SCS is either smaller than or equal to the predetermined value or larger than the predetermined value.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs has a first value or a second value when the first number of symbols has a third value or a fourth value, respectively, and

the first value is larger than the second value when the third value is larger than the fourth value.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

a PDCCH includes a downlink control information (DCI) format,

the DCI format is one of DCI format 0_0, DCI format 0_1, DCI format 0_2, DCI format 1_0, DCI format 1_1, and DCI format 1_2,

a maximum size of the DCI format 0_0 is smaller than a maximum size of the DCI format 0_1,

a maximum size of the DCI format 1_0 is smaller than a maximum size of the DCI format 1_1,

a minimum size of the DCI format 0_2 is smaller than a minimum size of the DCI format 0_0,

a minimum size of the DCI format 1_2 is smaller than a minimum size of the DCI format 1_0,

a total number of sizes for the DCI format 0_0, the DCI format 0_1, the DCI format 0_2, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, and the DCI format 1_2 is larger than a predetermined number,

a size of the DCI format 0_0 and a size of the DCI format 1_0 are aligned by appending padding bits to a smaller of the size of the DCI format 0_0 and the size of the DCI format 1_0, and

a size of the DCI format 0_2 and a size of the DCI format 12 are aligned by adding padding bits to a smaller of the size of the DCI format 0_2 and the size of the DCI format 1_2 when, after aligning the size of the DCI format 0_0 and the size of the DCI format 1_0, the total number of sizes for the DCI format 0_0, the DCI format 0_1, the DCI format 0_2, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, and the DCI format 1_2 is larger than the predetermined number.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein a size of the DCI format 0_1 and a size of the DCI format 1_1 are aligned by adding padding bits to a smaller of the size of the DCI format 0_1 and the size of the DCI format 1_1 when, after aligning the size of the DCI format 0_0 and the size of the DCI format 1_0 and after aligning the size of the DCI format 0_2 and the size of the DCI format 1_2, the total number of sizes for the DCI format 0_0, the DCI format 0_1, the DCI format 0_2, the DCI format 1_0, the DCI format 1_1, and the DCI format 12 is larger than the predetermined number.

8. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for receptions of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS); and

a processor configured to determine:

based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between:

a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs, wherein the first CORESETs are within a second number of symbols, and

a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs that are within the second number of symbols, wherein:

the second CORESETs are within the second number of symbols, and

the first number of symbols is larger than or equal to the second number of symbols; and

based on the first number of symbols and the first SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs) for PDCCH receptions in CORESETs within the second number of symbols, wherein the CCEs are non-overlapping when the CCEs:

are in CORESETs with different indexes, or

are in CORESETs located in different symbols,

wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.

9. The UE of claim 8 , wherein the CCEs are also non-overlapping when the CCEs have different indexes in a same CORESET.

10. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the receiver is further configured to receive PDCCHs with a second SCS according to a second maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs, wherein, when the first SCS and the second SCS are the same:

the second maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs is larger than the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs, and

the PDCCHs with the second SCS are received over a larger number of symbols than the first number of symbols.

11. The UE of claim 10 , wherein:

the first SCS is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value, and

the second SCS is either smaller than or equal to the predetermined value or larger than the predetermined value.

12. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs has a first value or a second value when the first number of symbols has a third value or a fourth value, respectively, and

the first value is larger than the second value when the third value is larger than the fourth value.

13. The UE of claim 8 , wherein: