IP Library Granted Patent US 12,238,029
Granted Patent B2
US 12,238,029 · App. 18/212,635 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Collision handling of reference signals

Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee (Mountain View, CA); Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Seung Hee Han (San Jose, CA); Jeongho Jeon (San Jose, CA); Sameer Pawar (Santa Clara, CA); Avik Sengupta (San Jose, CA); Guotong Wang (Beijing, CN); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L5/0048H04L1/1812H04L5/0044H04L5/0051H04L5/0053H04L5/0094
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Patent No.
US 12,238,029
App. No.
18/212,635
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode control information of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) received via a resource within a control resource set (CORESET) occupying a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot. At least one of the symbols in the subset coincides with a pre-defined symbol location associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of a PDSCII. The DM-RS can be detected within the slot, the DM-RS starting at a symbol location that is shifted from the pre-defined symbol location and following the subset of symbols. Downlink data scheduled by the PDCCH and received via the PDSCH can be decoded, where the decoding is based on the detected DM-RS.

Claims (27)

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a configuration with first resources for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring and configuration of an associated control resource set (CORESET), wherein the first resources occupy a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot;

receiving a message scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) in the slot, wherein a first front-loaded DMRS symbol of the PDSCH DM-RS is to collide with the first resources according to a schedule; and

determining to receive the first front-loaded DMRS symbol of the PDSCH DM-RS starting at a shifted symbol location based on the schedule, wherein the shifted symbol location is immediately after the associated CORESET.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein when an additional DM-RS is associated with the PDSCH, (1) the additional DM-RS is shifted to a second symbol location or (2) the method further comprises assuming that the additional DM-RS is not transmitted.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is a full DM-RS.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the full DM-RS occupies a same number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) as the associated CORESET.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS occupies one of a single symbol or two symbols within the slot.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is shifted by zero or more OFDM symbols.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a mapping associated with the PDSCH DM-RS is one of DM-RS mapping type A or DM-RS mapping type B.

8. A method, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), configuration of first resources for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring and associated control resource set (CORESET) configuration, wherein the first resources occupy a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot; and

transmitting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) in the slot, a first front-loaded DMRS symbol of the PDSCH DM-RS starting at a shifted symbol location different from a pre-configured symbol location for the PDSCH DM-RS, wherein the pre-configured symbol location is to collide with the first resources according to a schedule, wherein the shifted symbol location is immediately after the associated CORESET.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein when an additional DM-RS is associated with the PDSCH, the additional DM-RS is shifted to a second symbol location.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is a full DM-RS.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the full DM-RS occupies a same number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) as the associated CORESET.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS occupies one of a single symbol or two symbols within the slot.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is shifted by zero or more OFDM symbols.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein a mapping associated with the PDSCH DM-RS is one of DM-RS mapping type A or DM-RS mapping type B.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising: program instructions, the program instructions configured to cause a device to perform operations including:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), configuration of first resources for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring and associated control resource set (CORESET) configuration, wherein the first resources occupy a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot; and

transmitting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) in the slot, a first front-loaded DMRS symbol of the PDSCH DM-RS starting at a shifted symbol location different from a pre-defined symbol location for the PDSCH DM-RS, wherein the pre-defined symbol location is to collide with the first resources according to a schedule, wherein the shifted symbol location is immediately after the associated CORESET.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein when an additional DM-RS is associated with the PDSCH, (1) the additional DM-RS is shifted to a second symbol location or (2) the additional DM-RS is not transmitted to the UE.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is a full DM-RS.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the full DM-RS occupies a same number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) as the CORESET.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS occupies one of a single symbol or two symbols within the slot.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the PDSCH DM-RS is shifted by zero or more OFDM symbols.