Granted Patent B2

US 12,261,784 · App. 17/757,910 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Inventors: Jing Dai (Beijing, CN); Chao Wei (Beijing, CN); Jing Lei (San Diego, CA); Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego, CA); Wanshi Chen (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04L5/0012H04L1/08H04W72/1268

Abstract

Claims (75)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining a starting symbol of a radio frequency (RF) retuning gap between a first plurality of repetitions of an uplink transmission in a first frequency hop and a second plurality of repetitions of the uplink transmission in a second frequency hop,

wherein the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap is based at least in part on a starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the RF retuning gap;

determining an ending symbol of the RF retuning gap based at least in part on the starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions; and

performing RF retuning during the RF retuning gap.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency hop is configured to be transmitted in an active bandwidth part (BWP) configured for the UE;

wherein the second frequency hop is configured to be transmitted outside the active BWP configured for the UE; and

wherein the method further comprises:

determining a starting symbol of another RF retuning gap at an end of the second frequency hop based at least in part on an ending symbol of the second plurality of repetitions; and

determining an ending symbol of the other RF retuning gap based at least in part on the ending symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining that a quantity of symbols between the ending symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and an end of a slot in which the ending symbol of the second plurality of repetitions is included is less than the quantity of the symbols included in the other RF retuning gap; and

adjusting the starting symbol of the other RF retuning gap such that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps in a time domain with a last repetition of the second plurality of repetitions.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency hop is configured to be transmitted outside an active bandwidth part (BWP) configured for the UE;

wherein the second frequency hop is configured to be transmitted in the active BWP configured for the UE; and

wherein the method further comprises:

determining a starting symbol of another RF retuning gap at a beginning of the first frequency hop based at least in part on a starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap; and

determining an ending symbol of the other RF retuning gap based at least in part on the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions based at least in part on the quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap and a physical uplink shared channel preparation time relative to an ending symbol of a physical downlink control channel transmission scheduling the uplink transmission,

wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink shared channel transmission.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions, relative to an ending symbol of a physical downlink control channel transmission scheduling the uplink transmission, based at least in part on the quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap and a channel state information (CSI) report preparation time relative to an ending symbol of a CSI measurement resource,

wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink shared channel transmission.

7. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions based at least in part on a slot offset between a slot in which a physical uplink control channel transmission scheduling the uplink transmission is transmitted and a slot in which a first repetition of the first plurality of repetitions is to be transmitted,

wherein the slot offset satisfies a threshold quantity of slots that is based at least in part on the quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap.

8. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions such that the first plurality of repetitions punctures one or more symbols before a first demodulation reference signal symbol associated with the uplink transmission.

9. The method of claim 4 , wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink control channel transmission that is to include hybrid automatic repeat request feedback associated with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission; and

wherein the method further comprises:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions based at least in part on the quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap and a PDSCH processing time relative to an ending symbol of the PDSCH transmission.

10. The method of claim 4 , wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink control channel transmission that is to include hybrid automatic repeat request feedback associated with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission; and

wherein the method further comprises:

determining the starting symbol of the first plurality of repetitions based at least in part on a slot offset between a slot in which the PDSCH transmission is to be transmitted and a slot in which a first repetition of the first plurality of repetitions is to be transmitted,

wherein the slot offset satisfies a threshold quantity of slots that is based at least in part on the quantity of symbols included in the other RF retuning gap.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based at least in part on the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap, that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps in a time domain with one or more symbols of a repetition in the first plurality of repetitions; and

refraining from transmitting the one or more symbols of the repetition based at least in part on determining that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps in the time domain with the one or more symbols of the repetition.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein refraining from transmitting the one or more symbols of the repetition comprises:

refraining from transmitting the one or more symbols of the repetition based at least in part on determining that the one or more symbols are not configured for transmission of a demodulation reference signal.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based at least in part on the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap, that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps in a time domain with one or more symbols of a repetition in the first plurality of repetitions;

determining that at least a subset of the one or more symbols of the repetition are configured for transmission of a demodulation reference signal; and

adjusting the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap and the ending symbol of the RF retuning gap such that the RF retuning gap does not overlap the at least the subset of the one or more symbols of the repetition.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein adjusting the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap and the ending symbol of the RF retuning gap comprises:

moving the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap forward in time by a quantity of symbols such that the RF retuning gap does not overlap the at least the subset of the one or more symbols of the repetition; and

moving the ending symbol of the RF retuning gap forward in time by the quantity of symbols such that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps in the time domain with one or more symbols of a repetition in the second plurality of repetitions.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; and

the method further comprises:

determining that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps with a single-slot physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; and

multiplexing uplink control information of the single-slot PUCCH transmission into a repetition of the plurality of second repetitions,

wherein the single-slot PUCCH transmission and the repetition are included in a same slot.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission is a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; and

the method further comprises:

determining that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps with a second PUCCH transmission; and

transmitting, based at least in part on determining that the RF retuning gap at least partially overlaps with the second PUCCH transmission, the second PUCCH transmission or a repetition of the second plurality of repetitions, based at least in part on a priority associated with the second PUCCH transmission and a priority associated with the repetition.

17. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories storing instructions configurable to be executed by the one or more processors to cause the UE to:

determine a starting symbol of a radio frequency (RF) retuning gap between a first plurality of repetitions of an uplink transmission in a first frequency hop and a second plurality of repetitions of the uplink transmission in a second frequency hop,

wherein the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap is based at least in part on a starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the RF retuning gap;

determine an ending symbol of the RF retuning gap based at least in part on the starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions; and

perform RF retuning during the RF retuning gap.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions for wireless communication, the one or more instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:

determine a starting symbol of a radio frequency (RF) retuning gap between a first plurality of repetitions of an uplink transmission in a first frequency hop and a second plurality of repetitions of the uplink transmission in a second frequency hop,

wherein the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap is based at least in part on a starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the RF retuning gap;

determine an ending symbol of the RF retuning gap based at least in part on the starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions; and

perform RF retuning during the RF retuning gap.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for determining a starting symbol of a radio frequency (RF) retuning gap between a first plurality of repetitions of an uplink transmission in a first frequency hop and a second plurality of repetitions of the uplink transmission in a second frequency hop,

wherein the starting symbol of the RF retuning gap is based at least in part on a starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions and a quantity of symbols included in the RF retuning gap;

means for determining an ending symbol of the RF retuning gap based at least in part on the starting symbol of the second plurality of repetitions; and

means for performing RF retuning during the RF retuning gap.

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