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App. No. 17/249,563

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

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17/249,563
Abstract

A method of controlling monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in user equipment (UE), the method including receiving wake up signal (WUS) configuration information from a base station; monitoring a WUS transmitted from the base station based on the WUS configuration information; detecting the WUS based on the monitoring; and monitoring at least one search space associated with the detected WUS.

Claims (28)

1 . A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of controlling monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE, wake up signal (WUS) configuration information from a base station;

receiving, by the UE, a WUS based on the WUS configuration information; and

monitoring at least one search space associated with the WUS.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS is determined based on a search space type, and the search space type comprises at least one of a UE-specific search space (USS) or a Type-3 common search space (CSS).

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the Type-3 CSS comprises a CSS in which downlink control information including a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by one of an interruption radio network temporary identifier (INT-RNTI), a slot format indication RNTI (SFI-RNTI), a transmit power control physical uplink shared channel RNTI (TPC-PUSCH-RNTI), a transmit power control physical uplink control channel RNTI (TPC-PUCCH-RNTI), a transmit power control-sounding reference symbols—RNTI (TPC-SRS-RNTI), a cell RNTI (C-RNTI), a configured scheduling RNTI (CS-RNTI), or a modulation coding scheme cell RNTI (MCS-C-RNTI) is monitored.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS comprises all search spaces configured by the base station.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS is determined based on a search space index received from the base station.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the search space index is included in at least one of an upper layer signaling, a downlink control information (DCI), or a media access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) received from the base station.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the DCI or the MAC CE comprises a WUS activation message.

8 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the search space index is included in the WUS.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring of the at least one search space associated with the WUS comprises:

monitoring a search space not associated with the WUS.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring of the at least one search space associated with the WUS comprises not monitoring a search space not associated with the WUS.

11 . A user equipment (UE) for controlling monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to:

receive wake up signal (WUS) configuration information from a base station, receive a WUS based on the WUS configuration information; and

monitor at least one search space associated with the WUS.

12 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS is determined based on a search space type, and the search space type comprises at least one of a UE-specific search space (USS) or a Type-3 common search space (CSS).

13 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the Type-3 CSS comprises a CSS in which downlink control information including a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by one of an interruption radio network temporary identifier (INT-RNTI), a slot format indication RNTI (SFI-RNTI), a transmit power control physical uplink shared channel RNTI (TPC-PUSCH-RNTI), a transmit power control physical uplink control channel RNTI (TPC-PUCCH-RNTI), a transmit power control-sounding reference symbols—RNTI (TPC-SRS-RNTI), a cell RNTI (C-RNTI), a configured scheduling RNTI (CS-RNTI), or a modulation coding scheme cell RNTI (MCS-C-RNTI) is monitored.

14 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS comprises all search spaces configured by the base station.

15 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one search space associated with the WUS is determined based on a search space index received from the base station.

16 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the search space index is included in at least one of an upper layer signaling, a downlink control information (DCI), or a media access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) received from the base station.

17 . The UE of claim 16 , wherein the DCI or the MAC CE comprises a WUS activation message.

18 . The UE of claim 15 , wherein the search space index is included in the WUS.

19 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one controller is configured to monitor a search space not associated with the WUS.

20 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one controller is configured to not monitor a search space not associated with the WUS.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2021
From: KIM, TAEHYOUNG; KANG, JINKYU; KIM, YOUNGBUM; OH, JINYOUNG; CHOI, SEUNGHOON
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
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