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Granted Patent B2
US 12,526,080 · App. 17/522,643 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Method and apparatus for scheduling and hybrid automatic repeat request feedback in communication system

Inventors: Sung Hyun Moon (Daejeon, KR); Cheul Soon Kim (Daejeon, KR); Jung Hoon Lee (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04L1/1812H04L1/1678H04L5/0055H04W72/044H04W72/1273H04W72/21H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,526,080
App. No.
17/522,643
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise: receiving DCI from a base station; identifying a plurality of start and length indicator values (SLIVs) indicated by a time domain resource assignment field included in the DCI; determining a plurality of PDSCH resources based on the plurality of SLIVs; receiving a plurality of PDSCHs from the base station through the plurality of PDSCH resources; and transmitting, to the base station, a plurality of HARQ-ACKs in response to the plurality of PDSCHs.

Claims (37)

1 . A method of a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving time domain resource allocation (TDRA) configuration information including a first entry including N1 start and length indicator values (SLIVs) and a second entry including N2 SLIVs from a base station;

receiving first downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating one entry of the first entry or the second entry from the base station;

identifying a resource of each of one or more PDSCHs based on one or more SLIVs included in the one entry indicated by the first DCI; and

receiving the one or more PDSCHs in the identified resource from the base station, wherein each of the N1 and the N2 is a natural number, when a maximum number of transport blocks (TBs) scheduled by entries included in the TDRA configuration information is L, a number of one or more TBs included in the one or more PDSCHs is N, and the N is less than the L, one or more hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits are mapped to N bits within a HARQ-ACK codebook, and a negative ACK (NACK) is mapped to L-N bits within the HARQ-ACK codebook.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a number of the one or more PDSCHs is determined based on a number of the one or more SLIVs included in the one entry.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a number of the one or more PDSCHs is identical to a number of the one or more SLIVs included in the one entry.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a size of a second field included in the first DCI is determined based on a maximum number of SLIVs indicated by the entries included in the TDRA configuration information, and the second field of the first DCI is a new data indicator (NDI) field or a redundancy version (RV) field.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a position of each of one or more slots in which the one or more PDSCHs are allocated is determined based on one or more slot offset values indicated by the one entry, and the one or more slots are consecutive slots or non- consecutive slots.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a maximum number of PDSCHs allocated in one slot by the first DCI scheduling the one or more PDSCHs is 1.

7 . The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:

generating the HARQ-ACK codebook including the one or more HARQ-ACK bits for the one or more PDSCHs; and

transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook to the base station, wherein a size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is independent of a number of the one or more PDSCHs, and the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on the maximum number of SLIVs indicated by the entries included in the TDRA configuration information.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein a transmission resource of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on a relative distance from a resource of a latest PDSCH of the one or more PDSCHs, and the relative distance is indicated to the terminal by the first DCI.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more PDSCHs include different TBs, and the one or more PDSCH are not repeatedly transmitted.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a second DCI scheduling a second PDSCH is received from the base station, and the second PDSCH scheduled by the second DCI is allocated to a resource earlier than an earliest PDSCH of the one or more PDSCHs scheduled by the first DCI or allocated to a resource later than a latest PDSCH of the one or more PDSCHs scheduled by the first DCI.

11 . A method of a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving time domain resource allocation (TDRA) configuration information including a first entry including N 1 start and length indicator values (SLIVs) and a second entry including N 2 SLIVs from a base station;

receiving first downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating one entry of the first entry or the second entry from the base station;

identifying a resource of each of one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCHs) based on one or more SLIVs included in the one entry indicated by the first DCI; and

receiving the one or more PDSCHs in the identified resource from the base station,

wherein the N1 is 1, the N2 is a natural number greater than 1, and the first entry or the second entry is selectively indicated by the first DCI so that single PDSCH scheduling by the N1SLIVs and multiple PDSCH scheduling by the N2 SLIVs are dynamically switched.

12 . A method of a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting time domain resource allocation (TDRA) configuration information including a first entry including N1 start and length indicator values (SLIVs) and a second entry including N2 SLIVs to a terminal;

transmitting first downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating one entry of the first entry or the second entry to the terminal;

identifying a resource of each of one or more PDSCHs based on one or more SLIVs included in the one entry indicated by the first DCI; and

transmitting the one or more PDSCHs in the identified resource to the terminal,

wherein, when a maximum number of transport blocks (TBs) scheduled by entries included in the TDRA configuration information is L, a number of one or more TBs included in the one or more PDSCHs is N, and the N is less than the L, one or more hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits are mapped to N bits within a HARQ-ACK codebook, and a negative ACK (NACK) is mapped to L-N bits within the HARQ-ACK codebook.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein a number of the one or more PDSCHs is determined based on a number of the one or more SLIVs included in the one entry.

14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the N1 is 1, the N2 is a natural number greater than 1, and the first entry or the second entry is selectively indicated by the first DCI so that single PDSCH scheduling by the N1 SLIVs and multiple PDSCH scheduling by the N2 SLIVs are dynamically switched.

15 . The method of claim 12 , wherein a position of each of one or more slots in which the one or more PDSCHs are allocated is determined based on one or more slot offset values indicated by the one entry, and the one or more slots are consecutive slots or non-consecutive slots.

16 . The method of claim 12 , wherein a size of a second field included in the first DCI is determined based on a maximum number of PDSCHs scheduled by the entries included in the TDRA configuration information.

17 . The method of claim 12 , the method further comprising:

receiving the HARQ-ACK codebook including the one or more HARQ-ACK bits for the one or more PDSCHs from the terminal,

wherein a size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is independent of a number of the one or more PDSCHs, and the size of the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined based on a maximum number of PDSCH scheduled by the entries included in the TDRA configuration information.

18 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the one or more PDSCHs include different TBs, and the one or more PDSCH are not repeatedly transmitted.

19 . The method of claim 12 , wherein a second DCI scheduling a second PDSCH is transmitted to the terminal, and the second PDSCH scheduled by the second DCI is allocated to a resource earlier than an earliest PDSCH of the one or more PDSCHs scheduled by the first DCI or allocated to a resource later than a latest PDSCH of the one or more PDSCHs scheduled by the first DCI.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2021
From: MOON, SUNG HYUN; KIM, CHEUL SOON; LEE, JUNG HOON
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 058065/0138 →
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