Granted Patent B2

US 12,342,339 · App. 17/731,150 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Inventors: Zhihua Shi (Dongguan, CN); Wenhong Chen (Dongguan, CN); Yun Fang (Dongguan, CN); Yingpei Huang (Dongguan, CN); Zhi Zhang (Dongguan, CN)

Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.

H04W72/1273H04L1/1812H04L5/0053H04W72/044H04W72/23H04W72/542

Abstract

Claims (79)

1. A method of communication, comprising:

receiving first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used to configure one or more control resource sets (CORESETs), at least one of the one or more CORESETs is configured with a respective group index, and the one or more CORESETs do not comprise CORESET #0; and

receiving, according to scheduling information transmitted on the one or more CORESETs and/or CORESET #0, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the scheduling information;

receiving first DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the first DCI is configured to schedule a first PDSCH; and

in response that the first DCI meets a first preset condition, and that the first DCI and the first PDSCH correspond to the same component carrier (CC), receiving the first PDSCH according to a quasi co-location (QCL) assumption of a first CORESET,

wherein the first preset condition indicates that a time interval between the first DCI and the first PDSCH is less than a first threshold, and

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving second DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the second DCI is configured to schedule a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS); and

in response that the second DCI meets a second preset condition, and that the second DCI and the first CSI-RS correspond to the same CC, receiving the first CSI-RS according to a TCI state or a QCL assumption of a second CORESET; or

in response that the second DCI meets the second preset condition, and that the second DCI and the first CSI-RS correspond to different CCs, receiving the first CSI-RS according to a second TCI state or a second QCL assumption,

wherein the second preset condition indicates that a time interval between the second DCI and the first CSI-RS is less than a first threshold or less than or equal to the first threshold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the first CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest identifier (ID) among target CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a bandwidth part (BWP) corresponding to the first DCI, and

the target CORESETs comprise CORESETs corresponding to a first group index, or the target CORESETs comprise the CORESETs corresponding to the first group index and/or CORESET #0,

wherein the first group index is the smallest group index or the largest group index; or

the first CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a respective BWP.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the second CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among target CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a BWP corresponding to the second DCI, and

the target CORESETs comprise CORESETs corresponding to a second group index, or the target CORESETs comprise the CORESETs corresponding to the second group index and CORESET #0,

wherein the second group index is the smallest group index or the largest group index; or

the second CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a respective BWP.

4. A terminal device, comprising: a transceiver, a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory and control the transceiver to perform operations of:

receiving first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used to configure one or more control resource sets (CORESETs), at least one of the one or more CORESETs is configured with a respective group index, and the one or more CORESETs do not comprise CORESET #0; and

receiving, according to scheduling information transmitted on the one or more CORESETs and/or CORESET #0, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the scheduling information;

receiving first DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the first DCI is configured to schedule a first PDSCH; and

in response that the first DCI meets a first preset condition, and that the first DCI and the first PDSCH correspond to the same component carrier (CC), receiving the first PDSCH according to a quasi co-location (QCL) assumption of a first CORESET,

wherein the first preset condition indicates that a time interval between the first DCI and the first PDSCH is less than a first threshold, and

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving second DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the second DCI is configured to schedule a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS); and

in response that the second DCI meets a second preset condition, and that the second DCI and the first CSI-RS correspond to the same CC, receiving the first CSI-RS according to a TCI state or a QCL assumption of a second CORESET; or

in response that the second DCI meets the second preset condition, and that the second DCI and the first CSI-RS correspond to different CCs, receiving the first CSI-RS according to a second TCI state or a second QCL assumption,

wherein the second preset condition indicates that a time interval between the second DCI and the first CSI-RS is less than a first threshold or less than or equal to the first threshold.

5. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein

the first CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest identifier (ID) among target CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a bandwidth part (BWP) corresponding to the first DCI, and

the target CORESETs comprise CORESETs corresponding to a first group index, or the target CORESETs comprise the CORESETs corresponding to the first group index and/or CORESET #0,

wherein the first group index is the smallest group index or the largest group index; or

the first CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a respective BWP.

6. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein

the second CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among target CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a BWP corresponding to the second DCI, and

the target CORESETs comprise CORESETs corresponding to a second group index, or the target CORESETs comprise the CORESETs corresponding to the second group index and CORESET #0,

wherein the second group index is the smallest group index or the largest group index; or

the second CORESET is a CORESET with the smallest ID among CORESETs within the most recently detected downlink slot on a respective BWP.

7. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein

the first threshold is reported by a terminal device;

the first threshold being reported by the terminal device means that the first threshold is reported by the terminal device through parameters of timeDurationForQCL and/or beamSwitchTiming; and

the parameters of timeDurationForQCL and/or beamSwitchTiming comprise first thresholds corresponding to different bands, or

the parameters of timeDurationForQCL and/or beamSwitchTiming comprise first thresholds corresponding to different band combinations.

8. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory and control the transceiver to perform operations of:

receiving third DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the third DCI is configured to schedule a second PDSCH, and a scrambling ID of the second PDSCH is one of at least one PDSCH scrambling ID configured by first RRC signaling.

9. The terminal device according to claim 8 , wherein the first RRC signaling is dataScramblingIdentityPDSCH and/or AdditionalDataScramblingIdentityPDSCH,

wherein

the third DCI is in a DCI format 1-1, or

the third DCI is in a DCI format 1-0 transmitted in a user equipment (UE) specific search space.

10. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory and control the transceiver to perform operations of:

receiving sixth DCI on CORESET #0, wherein the sixth DCI is configured to schedule a third PDSCH; and

in response to receipt of the third PDSCH, performing rate matching according to a first cell reference signal (CRS) pattern set.

11. The terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein

the first CRS pattern set comprises at least one CRS pattern corresponding to the smallest group index; or

the first CRS pattern set comprises all CRS patterns corresponding to a current BWP.

12. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein

HARQ-ACK feedback information corresponding to data scheduled by DCI received on CORESET #0 corresponds to a first HARQ-ACK codebook; and

the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the smallest group index.

13. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the terminal device is configured by a network device to use a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook, and HARQ-ACK information bits are accordingly concatenated in the following order by operations of:

indexing in an ascending order across PDSCH reception occasion indexes of the same serving cell corresponding to the same group index;

indexing in an ascending order across serving cell indexes corresponding to the same group index; and

indexing in an ascending order across group indexes.

14. The terminal device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the terminal device is configured by a network device to use a dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook, and the method further comprises:

determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource according to seventh DCI; and

wherein the seventh DCI is the last DCI among DCIs arranged in the following order by operations of:

indexing in an ascending order across group indexes corresponding to the DCIs in the same PDCCH monitoring occasion of the same serving cell;

indexing in an ascending order across serving cell indexes in the same PDCCH monitoring occasion; and

indexing in an ascending order across PDCCH monitoring occasion indexes.

15. The terminal device according to claim 13 , wherein indexing is performed in an ascending order across the group indexes, and the smallest group index is used for indexing of PDSCH scheduled by DCI on CORESET #0.

16. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory and control the transceiver to perform an operation of:

in response that a UE specific search space is configured on CORESET #0, and that the number of blind detections or the number of control channel elements (CCEs) on target UE specific search spaces exceeds a second threshold, starting dropping according to indexes of the target UE specific search spaces from the largest index, until the second threshold is met;

wherein the target UE specific search spaces comprise: the UE specific search space corresponding to CORESET #0, and all the UE specific search spaces corresponding to a first group index;

wherein the first group index is the smallest group index; and

wherein the second threshold is determined based on a reported capability of a terminal device.

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