IP Library Granted Patent US 12,200,733
Granted Patent B2
US 12,200,733 · App. 18/404,410 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) based on codeblock groups in new radio systems

Inventors: Hong He (Beijing, CN); Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, CA); Gang Xiong (Beaverton, OR); Hwan-Joon Kwon (Portland, OR); Sergey Sosnin (Zavolzhie, RU); Yongjun Kwak (Portland, OR)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/23H04L1/1812H04L1/1887H04L1/1896H04W72/044H04W72/12H04L1/08
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Patent No.
US 12,200,733
App. No.
18/404,410
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot, and on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs. The PDCCH may include a total downlink assignment index (DAI) and a counter DAI for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH. The total DAI may indicate a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE may encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded. A size of the HARQ-ACK feedback may be based on the total DAI, and a position of the bit may be based on the counter DAI.

Claims (32)

1. A baseband processor, comprising a hardware processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, perform operations comprising:

decode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a scheduled slot of a plurality of slots, the PDSCH further scheduled on a scheduled current component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs, wherein the plurality of CCs comprises different sub-carrier spacings, wherein the PDCCH comprises a downlink control information (DCI) that comprises:

a total downlink assignment index (DAI) for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback, wherein the total DAI is updated from scheduling instance to scheduling instance, wherein a first CC of the plurality of CCs has additional scheduling instances in comparison to a second CC of the plurality of CCs and the total DAI indicates a number of scheduling instances up to a current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a downlink (DL) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release is present; and

a counter DAI based on an accumulative number of scheduling instances up to the current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a DL SPS release is present; and

encode the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the total DAI and the counter DAI.

2. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information.

3. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information and per code block group (CBG) HARQ-ACK information.

4. The baseband processor of claim 3 , wherein the per TB HARQ-ACK information is included in a per TB sub-codebook and the per CBG HARQ-ACK information is included in a per CBG sub-codebook.

5. The baseband processor of claim 4 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes a concatenation of the per TB sub-codebook and per CBG sub-codebook.

6. The baseband processor of claim 5 , wherein separate counter DAIs and total DAIs apply to each of the per TB sub-codebook and per CBG sub-codebook.

7. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein separate counter DAIs and total DAIs apply to each HARQ-ACK sub-codebook.

8. A non-transitory computer readable memory medium (NTCRM), comprising program instructions, the program instructions configured to cause a user equipment device (UE) to:

decode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a scheduled slot of a plurality of slots, the PDSCH further scheduled on a scheduled current component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs, wherein the plurality of CCs comprises different sub-carrier spacings, wherein the PDCCH comprises a downlink control information (DCI) that comprises:

a total downlink assignment index (DAI) for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback, wherein the total DAI is updated from scheduling instance to scheduling instance, wherein a first CC of the plurality of CCs has additional scheduling instances in comparison to a second CC of the plurality of CCs and the total DAI indicates a number of scheduling instances up to a current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a downlink (DL) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release is present; and

a counter DAI based on an accumulative number of scheduling instances up to the current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a DL SPS release is present; and

encode the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the total DAI and the counter DAI.

9. The NTCRM of claim 8 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information.

10. The NTCRM of claim 8 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information and per code block group (CBG) HARQ-ACK information.

11. The NTCRM of claim 10 , wherein the per TB HARQ-ACK information is included in a per TB sub-codebook and the per CBG HARQ-ACK information is included in a per CBG sub-codebook.

12. The NTCRM of claim 11 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes a concatenation of the per TB sub-codebook and per CBG sub-codebook.

13. The NTCRM of claim 12 , wherein separate counter DAIs and total DAIs apply to each of the per TB sub-codebook and per CBG sub-codebook.

14. The NTCRM of claim 8 , wherein separate counter DAIs and total DAIs apply to each HARQ-ACK sub-codebook.

15. An apparatus, comprising means to:

decode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a scheduled slot of a plurality of slots, the PDSCH further scheduled on a scheduled current component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs, wherein the plurality of CCs comprises different sub-carrier spacings, wherein the PDCCH comprises a downlink control information (DCI) that comprises:

a total downlink assignment index (DAI) for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback, wherein the total DAI is updated from scheduling instance to scheduling instance, wherein a first CC of the plurality of CCs has additional scheduling instances in comparison to a second CC of the plurality of CCs and the total DAI indicates a number of scheduling instances up to a current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a downlink (DL) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release is present; and

a counter DAI based on an accumulative number of scheduling instances up to the current scheduling instance in which PDSCH transmission(s) associated with PDCCH or PDCCH indicating that a DL SPS release is present; and

encode the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the total DAI and the counter DAI.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes per transport block (TB) HARQ-ACK information and per code block group (CBG) HARQ-ACK information.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the per TB HARQ-ACK information is included in a per TB sub-codebook and the per CBG HARQ-ACK information is included in a per CBG sub-codebook.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback includes a concatenation of the per TB sub-codebook and per CBG sub-codebook.

20. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein separate counter DAIs and total DAIs apply to each HARQ-ACK sub-codebook.

Continuity (8)
Continuation 17903376 · Sep 6, 2022
Continuation 16990629 · Aug 11, 2020
Continuation 16126187 · Sep 10, 2018
Provisional Application 62556964 · Sep 11, 2017
Provisional Application 62560536 · Sep 19, 2017
Provisional Application 62566988 · Oct 2, 2017
Provisional Application 62568667 · Oct 5, 2017
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