Granted Patent B2

US 12,192,014 · App. 17/264,818 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Inventors: Minseok Noh (Seoul, KR); Kyungjun Choi (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR)

Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.

H04L1/1861H04L1/1812H04W72/0446H04W74/08

Abstract

Claims (99)

1. A base station for performing downlink transmission in a specific cell, the base station comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module,

wherein the processor is configured to:

transmit a transmission including a physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH)(s) to an User Equipment(UE)(s),

receive from the UE(s) a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment(HARQ-ACK) feedback(s) corresponding to the PDSCH(s) on the specific cell, and

adjust a contention window size according to the HARQ-ACK feedback(s),

wherein each of the PDSCH(s) is based on a Transport Block(TB) or a Code Block Group(CBG),

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) includes at least one of a first HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the CBG or second HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the TB,

wherein each bit of the second HARQ-AC feedback corresponds to each TB,

wherein N bit(s) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback correspond to CBGs included in a TB,

wherein the N is a maximum number of CBGs for the TB configured in each fo the UE(s),

wherein the contention window size is increased or reset to a minimum value according to whether one of a first condition for the first HARQ-ACK feedback and a second condition for the second HARQ-ACK feedback is satisfied,

wherein the first condition is whether a ratio of bits indicating ACK in the first HARQ-ACK feedback is equal to or greater than a specific ratio, and

wherein the second condition is whether a number of bits indicating ACK in the second HARQ-ACK feedback is one or more.

2. The base station of claim 1 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is reset when the first condition is satisfied.

3. The base station of claim 1 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is increased when the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) include only the first HARQ-ACK feedback and the first condition is not satisfied.

4. The base station of claim 3 ,

wherein the contention window size is increased to a next higher allowed value for every priority class.

5. The base station of claim 4 ,

wherein the next higher allowed value is one of allowed values for each of the priority classes.

6. The base station of claim 1 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is reset when the second condition is satisfied.

7. The base station of claim 1 ,

wherein, when the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) include the first HARQ-ACK and the second HARQ-ACK,

the contention window size for every priority class is reset when at least one of the first condition and the second condition is satisfied, and

the contention window size for every priority class is increased when neither the first condition nor the second condition is satisfied.

8. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the processor further configured to,

set a random number selected within the adjusted contention window size as an initial value of a back-off counter,

wherein the back-off counter is decremented when the channel is sensed as idle during a sensing slot period, and

perform a downlink transmission in the channel when the value of the back-off counter reaches 0.

9. The base station of claim 1 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) corresponds to the PDSCH(s) in a specific slot(s) of a most recent transmission for which a HARQ-ACK feedback is expected to be available before downlink transmisstion in the specific cell, and

wherein the specific slot(s) includes a start slot among one or more slots of the most recent transmission.

10. A wireless communication method of a base station for performing downlink transmission in a specific cell, the wireless communication method comprising:

transmitting a transmission including a physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH)(s) to an User Equipment(UE)(s);

receiving from the UE(s) a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment(HARQ-ACK) feedback(s) corresponding to the PDSCH(s) on the specific cell; and

adjust a contention window size according to the HARQ-ACK feedback(s),

wherein each of the PDSCH(s) is based on the TransportBlock(TB) or a Code Block Group(CBG),

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) includes at least one of a first HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the CBG or a second HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the TB,

wherein each bit of the second HARQ-ACK feedback corresponds to each TB,

wherein N bit(s) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback correspond to CBGs included in a TB,

wherein the N is a maximum number of CBGs for the TB configured in each of the UE(s),

wherein the contention window size is increased or reset to a minimum value according to whether one of a first condition for the first HARQ-ACK feedback and a second condition for the second HARQ-ACK feedback is satisfied,

wherein the first condition is whether a ratio of bits indicating ACK in the first HARQ-ACK feedback is equal to or greater than a specific ratio, and

wherein the second condition is whether a number of bits indicating ACK in the second HARQ-ACK feedback is one or more.

11. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is reset when the first condition is satisfied.

12. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is increased when the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) include only the first HARQ-ACK feedback and the first condition is not satisfied.

13. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein the contention window size is increased to a next higher allowed value for every priority class.

14. The method of claim 13 ,

wherein the next higher allowed value is one of allowed values for each of the priority classes.

15. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the contention window size for every priority class is reset when the second condition is satisfied.

16. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein, when the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) include the first HARQ-ACK and the second HARQ-ACK,

the contention window size for every priority class is reset when at least one of the first condition and the second condition is satisfied, and

the contention window size for every priority class is increased when neither of the first condition nor the second condition is satisfied.

17. The method of claim 10 , the wireless communication method further comprising:

setting a random number selected within the adjusted contention window size as an initial value of a back-off counter,

wherein the back-off counter is decremented when the channel is sensed as idle during a sensing slot period; and

performing a downlink transmission in the channel when the value of the back-off counter reaches 0.

18. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) corresponds to the PDSCH(s) in a specific slot(s) of a most recent transmission for which a HARQ-ACK feedback is expected to be available before downlink transmission in the specific cell, and

wherein the specific slot(s) includes a start slot among one or more slots of the most recent transmission.

19. A User Equipment (UE) for receiving downlink transmission in a specific cell, the UE comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module,

wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from a base station, and

transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback in response to the PDSCH to the base station,

wherein a contention window size for reception of a next PDSCH is adjusted based one or more HARQ-ACK feedbacks transmitted in response to the PDSCH, and

wherein the PDSCH is based on a Transport Block (TB) or a Code Block Group (CBG),

wherein the one or more HARQ-ACK feedbacks includes at least one of a first HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the CBG or a second HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDSCH based on the TB,

wherein each bit of the second HARQ-ACK feedback corresponds to each TB,

wherein N bit(s) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback correspond to CBGs included in a TB,

wherein the N is a maximum number of CBGs for the TB configured in the UE,

wherein the contention window size is increased or reset to a minimum value according to whether one of a first condition for the first HARQ-ACK feedback and a second condition for the second HARQ-ACK feedback is satisfied,

wherein the first condition is whether a ratio of bits indicating ACK in the first HARQ-ACK feedback is equal to or greater than a specific ratio, and

wherein the second condition is whether a number of bits indicating ACK in the second HARQ-ACK feedback is one or more.

20. A User Equipment (UE) for performing uplink transmission in a specific cell, the terminal comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module,

wherein the processor is configured to:

transmit a transmission including a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)(s),

receive a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback(s) corresponding to the PUSCH(s), and

adjust a contention window size based on the HARQ-ACK feedback(s),

wherein each of the PUSCH(s) is based on a Transport Block (TB) or a Code Block Group (CBG),

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback(s) includes at least one of a first HARQ-ACK feedback for a PUSCH based on the CBG or a second HARQ-ACK feedback for a PUSCH based on the TB,

wherein each bit of the second HARQ-ACK feedback corresponds to each TB,

wherein N bit(s) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback correspond to CBGs included in a TB,

wherein the N is a maximum number of CBGs for the TB configured in the UE,

wherein the contention window size is increased or reset to a minimum value according to whether one of a first condition for the first HARQ-ACK feedback and a second condition for the second HARQ-ACK feedback is satisfied,

wherein the first condition is whether a ratio of bits indicating ACK in the first HARQ-ACK feedback is equal to or greater than a specific ratio, and

wherein the second condition is whether a number of bits indicating ACK in the second HARQ-ACK feedback is one or more.

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