IP Library Granted Patent US 11,627,571
Granted Patent B2
US 11,627,571 · App. 17/175,429 · Granted Apr 11, 2023

Feedback window to provide early feedback for transmissions in a set of consecutive transmission time intervals

Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA); Juan Montojo (San Diego, CA); Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, NJ); Tianyang Bai (Somerville, NJ); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Makesh Pravin John Wilson (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/0446H04L5/0055H04W72/0406H04W72/14H04L1/1812H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 11,627,571
App. No.
17/175,429
Granted
Apr 11, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indicator of a feedback window that is offset relative to a beginning transmission time interval (TTI) of a set of consecutive TTIs. The consecutive TTIs may include a set of aggregated slots or may correspond to a multi-TTI grant. The feedback window may include multiple control channel occasions interspersed within a duration of the set of consecutive TTIs. The UE may receive a transport block within a first TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs and transmit, within a control channel, feedback to indicate whether the transport block was successfully received.

Claims (67)

1. A method for wireless communication by a network device, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a grant indicating a beginning transmission time interval (TTI) of a set of consecutive TTIs and allocation of resources within each TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs;

transmitting, to the UE, an indicator of a feedback window that is offset relative to the beginning TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs, the feedback window comprising a plurality of control channel occasions interspersed within a duration of the set of consecutive TTIs;

receiving a transport block within a first TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs; and

transmitting, within a first control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions, feedback indicating whether the transport block was successfully received.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the feedback further comprises:

transmitting a grant that comprises the feedback, wherein the grant indicates to terminate transmission of the transport block in at least one TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first control channel occasion.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback indicates whether a code block or code block group of the transport block was successfully received.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

attempting to decode the transport block in each TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs prior to the first control channel occasion.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

monitoring for a different redundancy version of the transport block in at least two TTIs of the set of consecutive TTIs.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a capability indicator, wherein a time period between the beginning TTI and the first control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions is based at least in part on the capability indicator.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a second transport block in a second TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first TTI.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting, within a control channel of a TTI occurring after the set of consecutive TTIs, transport block level feedback for at least one transport block transmitted within the set of consecutive TTIs.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback comprises code block group-level feedback or code block-level feedback for the transport block.

10. A method for wireless communication by a network device, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a grant indicating a beginning transmission time interval (TTI) of a set of consecutive TTIs and allocation of resources within each TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs;

transmitting, to the UE, an indicator of a feedback window that is offset relative to the beginning TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs, the feedback window comprising a plurality of control channel occasions interspersed within a duration of the set of consecutive TTIs;

transmitting a transport block within a first TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs; and

receiving, within a first control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions, feedback to indicate whether the transport block was successfully received.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting a second indicator that associates a respective redundancy version of a plurality of redundancy versions of the transport block with a respective TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting a second indicator that indicates the duration of the set of consecutive TTIs, wherein the set of consecutive TTIs is a set of aggregated TTIs.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the feedback comprises an acknowledgment to indicate successful receipt of the transport block.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting, to the UE, a grant indicating reallocation of at least one TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first control channel occasion.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the feedback comprises a negative acknowledgment to indicate unsuccessful receipt of the transport block.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving delta channel state information within the first control channel occasion.

17. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving, within a second control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions that occurs prior to the first control channel occasion, a negative acknowledgment to indicate unsuccessful receipt of the transport block in a second TTI that occurs prior to the first TTI.

18. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting a different redundancy version of the transport block in at least two TTIs of the set of consecutive TTIs.

19. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving a different redundancy version of the transport block in a subset of TTIs of the set of consecutive TTIs.

20. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting a second transport block in a second TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first TTI based at least in part on the feedback comprising an acknowledgement.

21. The method of claim 20 , further comprising:

receiving, within a second control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions, a second feedback to indicate whether the second transport block was successfully received.

22. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving, within a control channel of a TTI occurring after the set of consecutive TTIs, channel state information feedback and second feedback.

23. An apparatus for wireless communication by a network device, comprising:

means for transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a grant indicating a beginning transmission time interval (TTI) of a set of consecutive TTIs and allocation of resources within each TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs;

means for transmitting, to the UE, an indicator of a feedback window that is offset relative to the beginning TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs, the feedback window comprising a plurality of control channel occasions interspersed within a duration of the set of consecutive TTIs;

means for receiving a transport block within a first TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs; and

means for transmitting, within a first control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions, feedback indicating whether the transport block was successfully received.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the means for transmitting the feedback further comprises:

means for transmitting a grant that comprises the feedback, wherein the grant indicates to terminate transmission of the transport block in at least one TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first control channel occasion.

25. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the feedback indicates whether a code block or code block group of the transport block was successfully received.

26. An apparatus for wireless communication by a network device, comprising:

a receiver;

a transmitter;

a processor;

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a grant indicating a beginning transmission time interval (TTI) of a set of consecutive TTIs and allocation of resources within each TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs;

transmit, via the transmitter and to the UE, an indicator of a feedback window that is offset relative to the beginning TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs, the feedback window comprising a plurality of control channel occasions interspersed within a duration of the set of consecutive TTIs;

receive, via the receiver, a transport block within a first TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs; and

transmit, via the transmitter and within a first control channel occasion of the plurality of control channel occasions, feedback indicating whether the transport block was successfully received.

27. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the feedback indicates whether a code block or code block group of the transport block was successfully received.

28. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the instructions to transmit the feedback further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit a grant that comprises the feedback, wherein the grant indicates to terminate transmission of the transport block in at least one TTI of the set of consecutive TTIs that occurs after the first control channel occasion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2021
From: ZHANG, XIAOXIA; MONTOJO, JUAN; VENUGOPAL, KIRAN; BAI, TIANYANG; LUO, TAO; JOHN WILSON, MAKESH PRAVIN
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 16425593 · May 29, 2019
Provisional Application 62680804 · Jun 5, 2018
Related Publication 20210168797A1 · Jun 3, 2021
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