Granted Patent B2

US 12,445,974 · App. 17/652,087 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou (Houston, TX)

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

H04W52/30H04W52/08H04W52/242H04W52/325H04W52/36H04W52/367H04W52/50H04W72/23H04W52/243H04W52/365

Abstract

Claims (90)

1. A method for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information, the method comprising:

receiving:

first downlink control information (DCI) formats associated with HARQ-ACK information of a first type, and

second DCI formats associated with HARQ-ACK information of a second type;

encoding the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and the HARQ-ACK information of the second type, wherein the HARQ-ACK information of the first type is separately encoded from the HARQ-ACK information of the second type;

multiplexing the encoded HARQ-ACK information of the first type and the encoded HARQ-ACK information of the second type in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and

transmitting the PUSCH.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the first DCI formats includes a field with value indicating the first type for the associated HARQ-ACK information.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multiplexing of the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and of the HARQ-ACK information of the second type is sequential over PUSCH resource elements that are available for the multiplexing.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

determining:

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the first type according to a first offset value, and

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the second type according to a second offset value, wherein the first offset value and the second offset value are indicated by a value of a field in the DCI format.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

determining:

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the first type based on a value of a first downlink assignment indicator (DAI) field in the DCI format, and

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the second type based on a value of a second DAI field in the DCI format.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving:

first and second sets of parameter values for determining a power of PUSCH transmissions of the first type and the second type, respectively,

a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

determining:

a type of the PUSCH transmission based on a value of a field in the DCI format, wherein the field indicates the type, and

a power based on a set of parameter values for the type of the PUSCH transmission; and

transmitting the PUSCH using the power.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the HARQ-ACK information of the first type corresponds to communication with a first latency or a first reliability, and

the HARQ-ACK information of the second type corresponds to communication with a second latency or a second reliability, wherein the first latency or the first reliability is different than the second latency or the second reliability.

8. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive:

first downlink control information (DCI) formats associated with HARQ-ACK information of a first type, and

second DCI formats associated with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ-ACK) information of a second type;

a processor, operably coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to:

encode the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and the HARQ-ACK information of the second type, wherein the HARQ-ACK information of the first type is separately encoded from the HARQ-ACK information of the second type, and

multiplex the encoded HARQ-ACK information of the first type and the encoded HARQ-ACK information of the second type in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and

the transceiver is further configured to transmit the PUSCH.

9. The UE of claim 8 , wherein each of the first DCI formats includes a field with value indicating the first type for the associated HARQ-ACK information.

10. The UE of claim 8 , wherein the multiplexing of the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and of the HARQ-ACK information of the second type is sequential over PUSCH resource elements that are available for the multiplexing.

11. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the first type according to a first offset value, and

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the second type according to a second offset value, wherein the first offset value and the second offset value are indicated by a value of a field in the DCI format.

12. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the first type based on a value of a first downlink assignment indicator (DAI) field in the DCI format, and

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the second type based on a value of a second DAI field in the DCI format.

13. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive:

first and second sets of parameter values for determining a power of PUSCH transmissions of the first type and the second type, respectively,

a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a type of the PUSCH transmission based on a value of a field in the DCI format, wherein the field indicates the type, and

a power based on a set of parameter values for the type of the PUSCH transmission; and

the transceiver is further configured to transmit the PUSCH using the power.

14. The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the HARQ-ACK information of the first type corresponds to communication with a first latency or a first reliability, and

the HARQ-ACK information of the second type corresponds to communication with a second latency or a second reliability, wherein the first latency or the first reliability is different than the second latency or the second reliability.

15. A base station, comprising:

a transceiver configured to:

transmit:

first downlink control information (DCI) formats associated with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ-ACK) information of a first type, and

second DCI formats associated with HARQ-ACK information of a second type, and

receive a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and

a processor, operably coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to:

demultiplex HARQ-ACK information of the first type and HARQ-ACK information of the second type from the PUSCH, and

decode the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and the HARQ-ACK information of the second type, wherein the HARQ-ACK information of the first type is separately decoded from the HARQ-ACK information of the second type.

16. The base station of claim 15 , wherein each of the first DCI formats includes a field with value indicating the first type for the associated HARQ-ACK information.

17. The base station of claim 15 , wherein the demultiplexing of the HARQ-ACK information of the first type and of the HARQ-ACK information of the second type is sequential over PUSCH resource elements that are available for the demultiplexing.

18. The base station of claim 15 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the first type according to a first offset value, and

a number of PUSCH resource elements for multiplexing the HARQ-ACK information of the second type according to a second offset value, wherein the first offset value and the second offset value are indicated by a value of a field in the DCI format.

19. The base station of claim 15 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the first type based on a value of a first downlink assignment indicator (DAI) field in the DCI format, and

a number of bits for the HARQ-ACK information of the second type based on a value of a second DAI field in the DCI format.

20. The base station of claim 15 , wherein:

the transceiver is further configured to receive:

first and second sets of parameter values for determining a power of PUSCH transmissions of the first type and the second type, respectively,

a DCI format scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and

the processor is further configured to determine:

a type of the PUSCH transmission based on a value of a field in the DCI format, wherein the field indicates the type, and

a power based on a set of parameter values for the type of the PUSCH transmission; and

the transceiver is further configured to transmit the PUSCH using the power.

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