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Granted Patent B2
US 11,729,788 · App. 17/364,886 · Granted Aug 15, 2023

Method for multiplexing uplink control information in wireless communication system, and apparatus using same

Inventors: Kyungjun Choi (Seoul, KR); Minseok Noh (Seoul, KR); Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
H04W72/23H04L1/1887H04L1/1893
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Patent No.
US 11,729,788
App. No.
17/364,886
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station of a wireless communication is disclosed. A wireless communication base station comprises a communication module and a processor. The processor receives DCI of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission over a plurality of slots and multiplexes hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK information to the PUSCH transmission by applying a value in a downlink assignment index (DAI) field of the DCI to each slot where the HARQ-ACK information is multiplexed to the PUSCH transmission over the plurality of slots.

Claims (51)

1. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module, wherein the processor is configured to,

receive control information of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in multiple slots, the control information including a downlink assignment index (DAI) field,

multiplex hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information in the PUSCH in any slot of at least two slots of the multiple slots by applying a same value of the DAI field of the control information, and transmit the PUSCH in the multiple slots.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein the at least two slots are determined according to one or more conditions for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information in the PUSCH.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein a value of the DAI field is ‘1’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘00’,

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘2’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘01’,

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘3’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘10’, and

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘4’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘11’.

4. The user equipment of claim 2 ,

wherein the at least two slots are determined by excluding one or more slots in which HARQ-ACK cannot be multiplexed for PUSCH in the plurality of slots according to the one or more conditions.

5. The user equipment of claim 4 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK information is not multiplexed in the PUSCH in a slot for which a PDCCH scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is not received.

6. The user equipment of claim 2 ,

wherein a specific condition among the one or more conditions is that the at least two slots satisfy a processing time condition of a PDSCH.

7. The user equipment of claim 6 ,

wherein the processing timing condition is determined according to a minimum time required for the user equipment to receive the PDCCH and to generate valid HARQ-ACK information.

8. The user equipment of claim 7 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK information is not multiplexed to the PUSCH in a slot when the slot does not satisfy the processing timing condition.

9. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein a number of bits the HARQ-ACK information is based on a value indicated by the DAI field.

10. The user equipment of claim 7 ,

wherein the processing timing condition is determined based on a position of the latest symbol of the PDSCH and a position of the earlier symbol of a start symbol of a PUCCH corresponding to the PDSCH and a start symbol of the PUSCH.

11. A method of operating a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving control information of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in multiple slots, the control information including a downlink assignment index (DAI) field;

multiplexing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information in the PUSCH in any slot of at least two slots of the multiple slots by applying a same value of the DAI field of the control information; and

transmitting the PUSCH in the multiple slots.

12. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein the at least two slots are determined according to one or more conditions for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information in the PUSCH.

13. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein a value of the DAI field is ‘1’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘00’,

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘2’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘01’,

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘3’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘10’, and

wherein the value of the DAI field is ‘4’ when 2 bits of the DAI field are ‘11’.

14. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein the at least two slots are determined by excluding one or more slots in which HARQ-ACK cannot be multiplexed for PUSCH in the plurality of slots according to the one or more conditions.

15. The method of claim 14 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK information is not multiplexed in the PUSCH in a slot for which a PDCCH scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is not received.

16. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein a specific condition among the one or more conditions is that the at least two slots satisfy a processing time condition of a PDSCH.

17. The method of claim 16 ,

wherein the processing timing condition is determined according to a minimum time required for the user equipment to receive the PDCCH and to generate valid HARQ-ACK information.

18. The method of claim 17 ,

wherein the HARQ-ACK information is not multiplexed to the PUSCH in a slot when the slot does not satisfy the processing timing condition.

19. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein a number of bits the HARQ-ACK information is based on a value indicated by the DAI field.

20. The method of claim 17 ,

wherein the processing timing condition is determined based on a position of the latest symbol of the PDSCH and a position of the earlier symbol of a start symbol of a PUCCH corresponding to the PDSCH and a start symbol of the PUSCH.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2023
From: CHOI, KYUNGJUN; NOH, MINSEOK; KWAK, JINSAM
To: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
Reel/Frame 063450/0606 →
Priority Claims (3)
KR 10-2018-0054148 · May 11, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0093859 · Aug 10, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0096384 · Aug 17, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17089334 · Nov 4, 2020
Continuation PCTKR2019005718 · May 13, 2019
Related Publication 20210337579A1 · Oct 28, 2021
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