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US 12,376,119 · App. 17/798,972 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Method and apparatus for HARQ-ACK codebook determination for frame-based equipment operation

Inventors: Haipeng Lei (Haidian District, CN); Yu Zhang (Haidian District, CN)
Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
H04W72/23H04L1/1861
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Patent No.
US 12,376,119
App. No.
17/798,972
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application is related to a method and apparatus for semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook determination for FBE operation under 3GPP 5G new radio (NR). A method for wireless communications performed by a UE includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a data transmission in a current periodic channel occupancy; determining whether there is HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to a data transmission postponed in an earlier periodic channel occupancy; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook in the current periodic channel occupancy, wherein, in response to determining that there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the data transmission postponed in the earlier periodic channel occupancy, the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the data transmission in the current periodic channel occupancy and the postponed HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the data transmission in the earlier periodic channel occupancy.

Claims (48)

1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first data transmission in a first fixed frame period (FFP);

receiving second DCI for scheduling a second data transmission in a second FFP that is later than the first FFP;

receiving indications of downlink association sets which respectively cover intra-FFP hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback and cross-FFP HARQ-ACK feedback;

determining whether there is HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP based on the indications of the downlink association sets; and

transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook in the second FFP, wherein, in response to determining that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed in the first FFP, the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the second data transmission and the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI includes a first indicator indicating that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP comprises:

wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a set of HARQ feedback timing offset values; and

determining, based on the set of HARQ feedback timing offset values, whether there is at least one slot in the first FFP included in a downlink association set associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a set of HARQ feedback timing offset values from a plurality of sets of HARQ feedback timing offset values.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of sets of HARQ feedback timing offset values are configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of sets of HARQ feedback timing offset values include at least one set of HARQ-ACK feedback timing offset values, and the at least one set of HARQ-ACK feedback timing offset values corresponds to a downlink association set including one or more slots in the first FFP.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP is based on the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating an existence of the HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a total number of one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions with corresponding HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a total number of HARQ-ACK information bits for the HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

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

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:

receive first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first data transmission in a first fixed frame period (FFP);

receive second DCI for scheduling a second data transmission in a second FFP that is later than the first FFP;

receive indications of downlink association sets which respectively cover intra-FFP hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback and cross-FFP HARQ-ACK feedback;

determine whether there is HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP based on the indications of the downlink association sets; and

transmit a HARQ-ACK codebook in the FFP, wherein, in response to determining that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed in the first FFP, the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the second data transmission and the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission.

11. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a set of HARQ feedback timing offset values, and to determine whether there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to:

determine, based on the set of HARQ feedback timing offset values, whether there is at least one slot in the first FFP included in a downlink association set associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook.

12. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a set of HARQ feedback timing offset values from a plurality of sets of HARQ feedback timing offset values.

13. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to determine whether there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP based on the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating an existence of the HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

14. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a total number of one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions with corresponding HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

15. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the base station to:

transmit first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first data transmission in a first fixed frame period (FFP);

transmit-second DCI for scheduling a second data transmission in a second FFP that is later than the first FFP;

transmit indications of downlink association sets which respectively cover intra-FFP hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback and cross-FFP HARQ-ACK feedback; and

receive a HARQ-ACK codebook in the second FFP, wherein, based on the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission being postponed in the first FFP and the indications of the downlink association sets, the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the second data transmission and the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission.

16. The base station of claim 15 , wherein the first DCI includes a first indicator indicating that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed, and wherein the first indicator indicates a non-numerical HARQ-ACK feedback timing offset value for the first data transmission.

17. The base station of claim 15 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating a set of HARQ feedback timing offset values from a plurality of sets of HARQ feedback timing offset values.

18. The base station of claim 15 , wherein the second DCI includes a second indicator indicating an existence of the HARQ-ACK feedback postponed in the first FFP.

19. The UE of claim 10 , wherein, to determine whether there is the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to:

receive first DCI for scheduling the first data transmission in the first FFP, wherein the first DCI includes a first indicator indicating that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed.

20. A processor for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one controller coupled with at least one memory and configured to cause the processor to:

receive first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first data transmission in a first fixed frame period (FFP);

receive second DCI for scheduling a second data transmission in a second FFP that is later than the first FFP;

receive indications of downlink association sets which respectively cover intra-FFP hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback and cross-FFP HARQ-ACK feedback;

determine whether there is HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission postponed in the first FFP based on the indications of the downlink association sets; and

transmit a HARQ-ACK codebook in the second FFP, wherein, in response to determining that the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission is postponed in the first FFP, the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the second data transmission and the HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the first data transmission.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2022
From: LEI, HAIPENG; ZHANG, YU
To: LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD.
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