Granted Patent B2

US 12,627,419 · App. 18/560,361 · Granted May 12, 2026

Inventors: Ankit Bhamri (Rödermark, DE); Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, DE); Ali Ramadan Ali (Kraiburg am Inn, DE); Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, DE); Sher Ali Cheema (Ilmenau, DE)

Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

H04L1/1854H04L1/1887H04W72/232

Abstract

Claims (41)

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

at least one memory; and

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

receive downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink transmissions on a plurality of serving cells, wherein downlink transmissions scheduled on a respective serving cell include a set of downlink transmissions scheduled by a single DCI;

determine Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for the plurality of downlink transmissions;

determine a sequence of HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits is ordered based at least in part on a serving cell index and an occurrence in time of a respective DCI corresponding to the plurality of downlink transmissions; and

transmit the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a plurality of subsequences specific to each serving cell of the plurality of serving cells, and wherein each subsequence of the plurality of subsequences comprises a respective HARQ-ACK bit for a corresponding data unit of the plurality of downlink transmissions in order of time of reception.

3 . The UE of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of subsequences is ordered from a lowest serving cell index to a highest serving cell index, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to concatenate the ordered plurality of subsequences to form the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

4 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a plurality of subsequences specific to each slot on which at least one downlink transmission is received, and wherein each subsequence of the plurality of subsequences comprises a respective HARQ-ACK bit for a corresponding data unit of the plurality of downlink transmissions in order of serving cell index.

5 . The UE of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of subsequences is ordered according to time of reception from earliest received data unit to last received data unit, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to concatenate the ordered plurality of subsequences to form the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

6 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of downlink transmissions comprises a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises at least one negative acknowledgment for a combination of time slot and serving cell index for which no PDSCH transmission was scheduled by the DCI.

7 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the received DCI comprises at least a first DCI for scheduling a first number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions and a second DCI for scheduling a second number of PDSCH transmissions different than the first number, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a first subsequence corresponding to each serving cell scheduled with the first number of PDSCH transmissions and a second subsequence corresponding to each serving cell scheduled with the second number of PDSCH transmissions.

8 . The UE of claim 7 , wherein to determine the sequence of the HARQ-ACK bits, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to determine the first subsequence independently of the second subsequence.

9 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises a first serving cell associated with a first subcarrier spacing value and a second serving cell associated with a second subcarrier spacing value, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a first subsequence corresponding to each serving cell associated with the first subcarrier spacing value and a second subsequence corresponding to each serving cell associated with the second subcarrier spacing value.

10 . A processor for wireless communication, comprising:

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

receive downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink transmissions on a plurality of serving cells, wherein downlink transmissions scheduled on a respective serving cell include a set of downlink transmissions scheduled by a single DCI;

determine Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for the plurality of downlink transmissions;

determine a sequence of HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits is ordered based at least in part on a serving cell index and an occurrence in time of a respective DCI corresponding to the plurality of downlink transmissions; and

transmit the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

11 . 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, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink transmissions on a plurality of serving cells, wherein downlink transmissions scheduled on a respective serving cell include a set of downlink transmissions scheduled by a single DCI;

receive, from the UE, a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits;

determine a sequence of the plurality HARQ-ACK bits, wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits is ordered based at least in part on a serving cell index and an occurrence in time of an associated DCI; and

determine HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the plurality of downlink transmissions based at least in part on the determined sequence.

12 . The base station of claim 11 , wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a plurality of subsequences specific to each serving cell of the plurality of serving cells, and wherein each subsequence of the plurality of subsequences comprises a respective HARQ-ACK bit for a corresponding data unit of the plurality of downlink transmissions in order of time of reception.

13 . The base station of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of subsequences is ordered from a lowest serving cell index to a highest serving cell index, and wherein the ordered plurality of subsequences is concatenated to form the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

14 . The base station of claim 11 , wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a plurality of subsequences specific to each slot on which at least one downlink transmission is scheduled, and wherein each subsequence of the plurality of subsequences comprises a respective HARQ-ACK bit for a corresponding data unit of the plurality of downlink transmissions in order of serving cell index.

15 . The base station of claim 14 , wherein the plurality of subsequences is ordered according to time of reception from an earliest received data unit to a last received data unit, and wherein the ordered plurality of subsequences is concatenated to form the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

16 . The base station of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of downlink transmissions comprises a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises at least one negative acknowledgment for a combination of time slot and serving cell index for which no PDSCH transmission was scheduled by the DCI.

17 . The base station of claim 11 , wherein the transmitted DCI comprises at least a first DCI for scheduling a first number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions and a second DCI for scheduling a second number of PDSCH transmissions different than the first number, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a first subsequence corresponding to each serving cell scheduled with the first number of PDSCH transmissions and a second subsequence corresponding to each serving cell scheduled with the second number of PDSCH transmissions.

18 . The base station of claim 17 , wherein to determine the sequence of the HARQ-ACK bits, the at least one processor is configured to cause the base station to determine the first subsequence independently of the second subsequence.

19 . The base station of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of serving cells comprises a first serving cell associated with a first subcarrier spacing value and a second serving cell associated with a second subcarrier spacing value, and wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits comprises a first subsequence corresponding to each serving cell associated with the first subcarrier spacing value and a second subsequence corresponding to each serving cell associated with the second subcarrier spacing value.

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

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink transmissions on a plurality of serving cells, wherein downlink transmissions scheduled on a respective serving cell include a set of downlink transmissions scheduled by a single DCI;

receiving, from the UE, a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits;

determining a sequence of the plurality HARQ-ACK bits, wherein the sequence of HARQ-ACK bits is ordered based at least in part on a serving cell index and an occurrence in time of an associated DCI; and

determining HARQ-ACK feedback corresponding to the plurality of downlink transmissions based at least in part on the determined sequence.

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