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Granted Patent B2
US 12,375,245 · App. 17/948,320 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Multiple transmission reception point signaling

Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, CN); Yang Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Meng Mei (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Hao Wu (Shenzhen, CN); Bo Gao (Shenzhen, CN); Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Ke Yao (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
H04L5/0051H04W72/23H04L5/0035
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Patent No.
US 12,375,245
App. No.
17/948,320
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for multiple transmit reception point (TRP) transmission signaling. A wireless communication node may transmit, to a wireless communication device, a scheduling grant to schedule a plurality of transmission instances. The scheduling grant may include one or more transmission precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs) to indicate mappings between the plurality of transmission instances and a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets for uplink codebook based transmissions.

Claims (69)

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a wireless communication node, to a wireless communication device, a scheduling grant to schedule a plurality of transmission instances,

wherein the scheduling grant includes a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI), and a second SRI,

wherein the first SRI indicates at least a portion of a first set of power control parameters,

wherein the second SRI indicates at least a portion of a second set of power control parameters,

wherein the scheduling grant includes one or more transmission precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs) to dynamically indicate mappings between the plurality of transmission instances and a plurality of SRS resource sets for uplink codebook based transmissions and the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein at least one of:

at least a first value of the first TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset,

at least a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

at least a third value, other than the at least the first value and the at least the second value, indicates that a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of transmission instances are respectively mapped to one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set and one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, or respectively mapped to at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters and at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or respectively mapped to the first configuration of codebook subset and the second configuration of codebook subset.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:

the at least the first value is a last or largest value of the first TPMI, or

the at least the second value is a last or largest value of the second TPMI.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein the second TPMI at least indicates a mapping between the plurality of transmission instances and at least one of: the first SRS resource set or the second SRS resource set.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein at least one of:

a first value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first TPMI indicates a number of layers and precoder information of the plurality of transmission instances.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first value of the second TPMI is a next to last or next to largest value of the second TPMI, and the second value of the second TPMI is a last or largest value of the second TPMI.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first value of the second TPMI is a last or largest value of the second TPMI, and the second value of the second TPMI is a next last or next to largest value of the second TPMI.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least a third value of the second TPMI, other than the at least the first value and the at least the second value of the second TPMI, indicates that a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of transmission instances are respectively mapped to one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set and one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, or respectively mapped to at least a portion of the first set and at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or respectively mapped to the first configuration of codebook subset and the second configuration of codebook subset.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set is indicated by the first SRI in the scheduling grant, and

the one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set is indicated by the second SRI in the scheduling grant.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

each of the plurality of transmission instances comprises one transmission occasion or one frequency hop.

11. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a scheduling grant to schedule a plurality of transmission instances,

wherein the scheduling grant includes a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI), and a second SRI,

wherein the first SRI indicates at least a portion of a first set of power control parameters,

wherein the second SRI indicates at least a portion of a second set of power control parameters,

wherein the scheduling grant includes one or more transmission precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs) to dynamically indicate mappings between the plurality of transmission instances and a plurality of SRS resource sets for uplink codebook based transmissions and the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein at least one of:

at least a first value of the first TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset,

at least a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

at least a third value, other than the at least the first value and the at least the second value, indicates that a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of transmission instances are respectively mapped to one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set and one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, or respectively mapped to at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters and at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or respectively mapped to the first configuration of codebook subset and the second configuration of codebook subset.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein at least one of:

the at least the first value is a last or largest value of the first TPMI, or

the at least the second value is a last or largest value of the second TPMI.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein the second TPMI at least indicates a mapping between the plurality of transmission instances and at least one of: the first SRS resource set or the second SRS resource set.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein at least one of:

a first value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first TPMI indicates a number of layers and precoder information of the plurality of transmission instances.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first value of the second TPMI is a next to last or next to largest value of the second TPMI, and the second value of the second TPMI is a last or largest value of the second TPMI.

17. A wireless communication node comprising:

at least one processor configured to:

transmit, via a transmitter, to a wireless communication device, a scheduling grant to schedule a plurality of transmission instances,

wherein the scheduling grant includes a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI), and a second SRI,

wherein the first SRI indicates at least a portion of a first set of power control parameters,

wherein the second SRI indicates at least a portion of a second set of power control parameters,

wherein the scheduling grant includes one or more transmission precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs) to dynamically indicate mappings between the plurality of transmission instances and a plurality of SRS resource sets for uplink codebook based transmissions and the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein at least one of:

at least a first value of the first TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset,

at least a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

at least a third value, other than the at least the first value and the at least the second value, indicates that a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of transmission instances are respectively mapped to one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set and one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, or respectively mapped to at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters and at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or respectively mapped to the first configuration of codebook subset and the second configuration of codebook subset.

18. A wireless communication device comprising:

at least one processor configured to:

receive, via a receiver from a wireless communication node, a scheduling grant to schedule a plurality of transmission instances,

wherein the scheduling grant includes a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI), and a second SRI,

wherein the first SRI indicates at least a portion of a first set of power control parameters,

wherein the second SRI indicates at least a portion of a second set of power control parameters,

wherein the scheduling grant includes one or more transmission precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs) to dynamically indicate mappings between the plurality of transmission instances and a plurality of SRS resource sets for uplink codebook based transmissions and the one or more TPMIs include a first TPMI and a second TPMI, and the plurality of SRS resource sets includes a first SRS resource set and a second SRS resource set, and

wherein at least one of:

at least a first value of the first TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or a second configuration of codebook subset,

at least a second value of the second TPMI indicates that the plurality of transmission instances is mapped to at least one of: one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set, at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters, or a first configuration of codebook subset, or

at least a third value, other than the at least the first value and the at least the second value, indicates that a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of transmission instances are respectively mapped to one SRS resource of the first SRS resource set and one SRS resource of the second SRS resource set, or respectively mapped to at least a portion of the first set of power control parameters and at least a portion of the second set of power control parameters, or respectively mapped to the first configuration of codebook subset and the second configuration of codebook subset.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2023
From: JIANG, CHUANGXIN; ZHANG, YANG; MEI, MENG; LU, ZHAOHUA; WU, HAO; GAO, BO; ZHANG, SHUJUAN; YAO, KE
To: ZTE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062272/0451 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020135678 · Dec 11, 2020
Related Publication 20230012515A1 · Jan 19, 2023
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