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US 12,432,667 · App. 17/920,612 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Method and apparatus for power control of physical uplink control channel repetitions

Inventors: Wei Ling (Beijing, CN); Chenxi Zhu (Beijing, CN); Bingchao Liu (Beijing, CN); Yi Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
H04W52/36H04W52/08H04W52/146
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Patent No.
US 12,432,667
App. No.
17/920,612
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a method and apparatus for power control of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition of a PUCCH transmission with one or more beams or multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs). A method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving configuration information regarding a plurality of PUCCH repetitions of a PUCCH transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of power control parameter sets corresponding to the plurality of PUCCH repetitions; determining power for each PUCCH repetition of the plurality of PUCCH repetitions according to the configuration information and a mapping relationship between the each PUCCH repetition and a power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets; and transmitting, by using the determined power for the each PUCCH repetition, the each PUCCH repetition in a time interval of a plurality of time intervals.

Claims (34)

1. 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 configuration information regarding a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions of a PUCCH transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of power control parameter sets corresponding to the plurality of PUCCH repetitions, wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of the power control parameter sets at least includes a power offset identifier, a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) identifier, and a closed loop index, and wherein the power offset identifier is included in a power offset list;

determine power for each PUCCH repetition of the plurality of PUCCH repetitions according to the configuration information and a mapping relationship between each PUCCH repetition and a power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets; and

transmit, by using the determined power for the each PUCCH repetition, each PUCCH repetition in a time interval of a plurality of time intervals.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein each power control parameter set is associated with a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated by a downlink control information (DCI), and the DCI is associated with the clos ed loop index included in each power control parameter set.

3. The UE of claim 2 , wherein the DCI is used for scheduling the PUCCH transmission.

4. The UE of claim 3 , wherein the DCI includes a TPC command field, and the TPC command field indicates TPC commands of a plurality of closed loop indexes.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the pathloss reference RS identifier is included in a pathloss reference RS list, and the closed loop index is a value of a plurality of predefined values.

6. The UE of claim 5 , wherein at least one of the power offset list or the pathloss reference RS list is configured by high layer signaling.

7. The UE of claim 1 , wherein, in response to the PUCCH transmission being not configured with spatial relation information, the closed loop index, the power offset identifier and the pathloss reference RS included in each power control parameter set are predefined.

8. The UE of claim 1 , wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets is associated with one piece of spatial relation information of a plurality of pieces of spatial relation information configured for the PUCCH transmission.

9. A base station (BS) 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 BS to:

transmit configuration information regarding a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions of a PUCCH transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of power control parameter sets corresponding to the plurality of PUCCH repetitions, wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of the power control parameter sets at least includes a power offset identifier, a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) identifier, and a closed loop index, and wherein the power offset identifier is included in a power offset list; and

receive each PUCCH repetition of the plurality of PUCCH repetitions in a time interval of a plurality of time intervals, wherein power for each PUCCH repetition is determined according to the configuration information and a mapping relationship between each PUCCH repetition and a power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets.

10. The BS of claim 9 , wherein each power control parameter set is associated with a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated by a downlink control information (DCI), and the DCI is associated with the closed loop index included in the each power control parameter set.

11. The BS of claim 10 , wherein the DCI is used for scheduling the PUCCH transmission.

12. The BS of claim 11 , wherein the DCI includes a TPC command field, and the TPC command field indicates TPC commands of a plurality of closed loop indexes.

13. The BS of claim 9 , wherein the pathloss reference RS identifier is included in a pathloss reference RS list, and the closed loop index is a value of a plurality of predefined values.

14. The BS of claim 13 , wherein at least one of the power offset list or the pathloss reference RS list is configured by high layer signaling.

15. The BS of claim 9 , wherein, in response to the PUCCH transmission being not configured with spatial relation information, the closed loop index, the power offset identifier and the pathloss reference RS included in each power control parameter set are predefined.

16. The BS of claim 9 , wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets is associated with one piece of spatial relation information of a plurality of pieces of spatial relation information configured for the PUCCH transmission.

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

receiving configuration information regarding a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions of a PUCCH transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of power control parameter sets corresponding to the plurality of PUCCH repetitions, wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of the power control parameter sets at least includes a power offset identifier, a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) identifier, and a closed loop index, and wherein the power offset identifier is included in a power offset list;

determining power for each PUCCH repetition of the plurality of PUCCH repetitions according to the configuration information and a mapping relationship between each PUCCH repetition and a power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets; and

transmitting, by using the determined power for each PUCCH repetition, the each PUCCH repetition in a time interval of a plurality of time intervals.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein each power control parameter set is associated with a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated by a downlink control information (DCI), and the DCI is associated with the closed loop index included in each power control parameter set.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the DCI is used for scheduling the PUCCH transmission.

20. A method performed by a base station, the method comprising:

transmitting configuration information regarding a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions of a PUCCH transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of power control parameter sets corresponding to the plurality of PUCCH repetitions, wherein each power control parameter set of the plurality of the power control parameter sets at least includes a power offset identifier, a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) identifier, and a closed loop index, and wherein the power offset identifier is included in a power offset list; and

receiving each PUCCH repetition of the plurality of PUCCH repetitions in a time interval of a plurality of time intervals, wherein power for each PUCCH repetition is determined according to the configuration information and a mapping relationship between each PUCCH repetition and a power control parameter set of the plurality of power control parameter sets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2022
From: LING, WEI; ZHU, CHENXI; LIU, BINGCHAO; ZHANG, YI
To: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
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