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US 12,041,610 · App. 17/593,738 · Granted Jul 16, 2024

Techniques for PDSCH/PUSCH processing for multi-TRP

Inventors: Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (Cupertino, CA); Jia Tang (Cupertino, CA); Jie Cui (Cupertino, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Sigen Ye (Cupertino, CA); Wei Zeng (Cupertino, CA); Wei Zhang (Cupertino, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Yang Tang (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
H04W72/1273H04L1/1812H04L5/0053H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,041,610
App. No.
17/593,738
Granted
Jul 16, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Techniques for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing for multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PDSCH hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing may include determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multi-TRP PDSCH operation, determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation, and determining a minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

Claims (41)

1. A method for determining physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing, comprising:

determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) PDSCH operation;

determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation; and

determining an overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation is a TDMSchemeA operation.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH have a same duration.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH have a same frequency resource allocation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH only uses the one or more symbols of the first PDSCH.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH uses the one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH and one or more blank symbols located between the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH uses the one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH, and does not use any blank symbols located between the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH comprises:

determining an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1);

determining an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2); and

determining the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) using the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1) and the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2).

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to

max(k1_1−Offset, 0)+k1_2+C, wherein the Offset value is an offset between a last symbol of the first PDSCH and a first symbol of the second PDSCH, and the C value is a constant.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to max(k1_1, k1_2)+C, wherein the C value is a constant.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to

k1_1+k1_2+C, wherein the C value is a constant.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer- readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

determine that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control infoiniation (single-DCI) multiple transmission and reception (multi-TRP) PDSCH operation;

determine a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH with a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation; and

determine an overall minimum hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH is deteiniining an overall HARQ-ACK processing timing, and the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

determinine an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1);

determinine an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2); and

determinine the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) using the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1) and the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2).

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to max(k1_1−Offset, 0)+k1_2+C, wherein the Offset value is an offset between a last symbol of the first PDSCH and a first symbol of the second PDSCH, and the C value is a constant.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to max(k1_1, k1_2)+C, wherein the C value is a constant.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to k1_1+k1_2+C, wherein the C value is a constant.

17. A computing apparatus for deteimining physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing, the computing apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to:

determine that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control infoiniation (single-DCI) multiple transmission and reception (multi-TRP) PDSCH operation; determine a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation; and

determine an overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.

18. The computing apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the determining of the overall minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH is determining an overall HARQ-ACK processing timing, and wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further configure the apparatus to:

determine an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1);

determine an initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2); and

determinine the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) using the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the first PDSCH (k1_1) first and the initial minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing of the second PDSCH (k1_2).

19. The computing apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to max(k1_1−Offset, 0)+k1_2+C, wherein the Offset value is an offset between a last symbol of the first PDSCH and a first symbol of the second PDSCH, and the C value is a constant.

20. The computing apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the overall HARQ-ACK processing timing (K 1 ) is equal to max(k1_1, k1_2)+C, wherein the C value is a constant.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2024
From: TANG, YANG; ZHANG, YUSHU
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 066785/0872 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2021
From: SUN, HAITONG; YAO, CHUNHAI; YE, CHUNXUAN; ZHANG, DAWEI; HE, HONG; TANG, JIA; CUI, JIE; OTERI, OGHENEKOME; YE, SIGEN; ZENG, WEI; ZHANG, WEI; YANG, WEIDONG
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 057751/0852 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/CN2020/107491 · Aug 6, 2020 · international
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