IP Library Granted Patent US 11,722,246
Granted Patent B2
US 11,722,246 · App. 17/462,426 · Granted Aug 8, 2023

Search space configuration with CORESET identifier

Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, CA); Hong He (Beijing, CN); Gang Xiong (Beaverton, OR); Ajit Nimbalker (Fremont, CA); Dmitry Dikarev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Yongjun Kwak (Portland, OR)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L1/0058H04L1/0041H04L1/0057H04L1/0061H04L5/0044H04L5/0051H04W72/23H04L5/0007H04L5/0053
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,722,246
App. No.
17/462,426
Granted
Aug 8, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided herein are method and apparatus for channel coding in the fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system. An embodiment provides an apparatus for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB), including circuitry, which is configured to: generate Downlink Control Information (DCI) payload for a NR-Physical Downlink Control Channel (NR-PDCCH); attach Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to the DCI payload; mask the CRC with an Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) using a bitwise modulus 2 addition operation, wherein the number of bits for the RNTI is different from the number of bits for the CRC; and perform polar encoding for the DCI payload with the masked CRC.

Claims (37)

1. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to cause a user equipment (UE) to:

acquire a control resource set (CORESET) configuration associated with the UE, wherein the CORESET configuration includes one or more identifiers;

acquire a search space configuration of the UE, wherein the search space configuration includes a CORESET identifier, wherein the CORESET identifier identifies the CORESET configuration with which the search space configuration is associated, wherein the search space configuration includes information for determining at least one candidate for control channel monitoring associated with the CORESET configuration;

determine a scrambling sequence for the at least one candidate based on a first of the one or more identifiers;

descramble the at least one candidate using the scrambling sequence, to obtain descrambled control information; and

decode said descrambled control information to obtain decoded control information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first of the one or more identifiers is applied to initialize the scrambling sequence.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) generation associated with said at least one candidate of the search space.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a pseudo noise (PN) sequence, where the PN sequence used for the DMRS generation is mapped on a resource element (RE) level, wherein the RE level mapping maps each element in the PN sequence to a corresponding DMRS RE.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a first sequence, wherein the first sequence is initialized based on a slot number, a symbol number and said least one of the one or more identifiers.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

a transceiver coupled to the processing circuitry; and

one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the search space configuration also includes an indication that a second of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for UE-specific search space hashing.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the search space configuration also includes an indication that a third of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for group common search space hashing.

9. A non-transitory memory medium storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions, when executed by processing circuitry, case a user equipment (UE) to:

acquire a control resource set (CORESET) configuration associated with the UE, wherein the CORESET configuration includes one or more identifiers;

acquire a search space configuration of the UE, wherein the search space configuration includes a CORESET identifier, wherein the CORESET identifier identifies the CORESET configuration with which the search space configuration is associated, wherein the search space configuration includes information for determining at least one candidate for control channel monitoring associated with the CORESET configuration;

determine a scrambling sequence for the at least one candidate based on a first of the one or more identifiers;

descramble the at least one candidate using the scrambling sequence, to obtain descrambled control information; and

decode said descrambled control information to obtain decoded control information.

10. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 9 , wherein the first of the one or more identifiers is applied to initialize the scrambling sequence.

11. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) generation associated with said at least one candidate of the search space.

12. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 11 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a pseudo noise (PN) sequence, where the PN sequence used for the DMRS generation is mapped on a resource element (RE) level, wherein the RE level mapping maps each element in the PN sequence to a corresponding DMRS RE.

13. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 11 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a first sequence, wherein the first sequence is initialized based on a slot number, a symbol number and said least one of the one or more identifiers.

14. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 9 , wherein the search space configuration also includes an indication that a second of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for UE-specific search space hashing.

15. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 9 , wherein the search space configuration also includes an indication that a third of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for group common search space hashing.

16. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to cause a base station (BS) to:

transmit a control resource set (CORESET) configuration associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the CORESET configuration includes one or more identifiers;

transmit a search space configuration of the UE, wherein the search space configuration includes a CORESET identifier, wherein the CORESET identifier identifies the CORESET configuration with which the search space configuration is associated, wherein the search space configuration includes information for determining at least one candidate for control channel monitoring associated with the CORESET configuration;

determine a scrambling sequence based on a first of the one or more identifiers;

scramble control information based on the scrambling sequence; and

transmit the scrambled control information in a downlink control channel.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the first of the one or more identifiers is applied to initialize the scrambling sequence.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein at least one of the one or more identifiers is to be applied for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) generation associated with said at least one candidate of the search space.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a pseudo noise (PN) sequence, where the PN sequence used for the DMRS generation is mapped on a resource element (RE) level, wherein the RE level mapping maps each element in the PN sequence to a corresponding DMRS RE.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the DMRS is generated using a first sequence, wherein the first sequence is initialized based on a slot number, a symbol number and said least one of the one or more identifiers.

Continuity (5)
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