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US 10,972,214 · App. 16/442,295 · Granted Apr 6, 2021

Scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources

Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi (Austin, TX); Arunabha Ghosh (Austin, TX)
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
H04L1/0026H04L1/0003H04L5/005H04L25/0226H04W72/14H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 10,972,214
App. No.
16/442,295
Granted
Apr 6, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.

Claims (41)

1. Network equipment, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

configuring a user equipment with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a first periodicity using radio resource control signaling;

estimating channel state information based on a transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment;

transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information; and

in response to determining that the physical uplink shared channel is unable to be decoded before a subsequent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment, estimating scheduling parameters based on first estimation information stored and previously determined based on decoding data received on the physical uplink shared channel after a most recent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

using the first estimation information to estimate a modulation and coding scheme of the scheduling parameters.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein decoding the data further results in determining second estimation information comprising demodulation reference signals, and the first estimation information comprises signal-to-interference-and-noise information, and using the first estimation information and the second estimation information to estimate the modulation and coding scheme.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first estimation information comprises a demodulation reference signal, and wherein estimating the scheduling parameters is based on the demodulation reference signal.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the estimating the scheduling parameters is based on signal-to-interference-and-noise information extracted from the first estimation information.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting an indication to the user equipment to request uplink resources.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to receiving a request for the uplink resources, granting the physical uplink shared channel to the user equipment.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise, in response to determining that the physical uplink shared channel is unable to be decoded before the subsequent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment, configuring the user equipment with the periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a second periodicity that is longer than the first periodicity.

9. A method, comprising:

configuring, by network equipment comprising a processor, a user equipment with a periodic rate of defined sounding reference signals with a first periodicity using radio resource control signaling;

estimating, by the network equipment, channel state information based on a transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment;

facilitating, by the network equipment, transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to establish a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information; and

in response to determining that the physical uplink shared channel is unable to be decoded before a next transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment, estimating, by the network equipment, scheduling parameters based on stored estimation parameters previously determined based on decoding data received on the physical uplink shared channel after a previous transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

selecting, by the network equipment, for the scheduling parameters, a modulation and coding scheme based on the stored estimation parameters.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the stored estimation parameters comprise demodulation reference signals that are used to select the modulation and coding scheme.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the stored estimation parameters comprise signal-to-interference-and-noise information.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising transmitting, by the network equipment, an indication to the user equipment to request uplink resources.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, in response to determining that the physical uplink shared channel is unable to be decoded before the subsequent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment, configuring, by the network equipment, the user equipment with the periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a second periodicity that is longer than the first periodicity.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of network equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

configuring a user equipment with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a first periodicity using radio resource control signaling;

estimating channel state information based on a transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment;

transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information; and

in response to determining that the physical uplink shared channel is unable to be decoded before a subsequent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment, estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation parameter stored and previously determined based on decoding data received on the physical uplink shared channel after a most recent transmission of sounding references signals from the user equipment.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

employing the first estimation parameter to estimate a modulation and coding scheme of the scheduling parameters.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein decoding the data received on the physical uplink shared channel further generates a second estimation parameter comprising demodulation reference signals and the first estimation parameter comprises signal-to-interference-and-noise information, and using the first estimation parameter and the second estimation parameter to estimate the modulation and coding scheme.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the first estimation parameter comprises demodulation reference signals.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the first estimation parameter comprises signal-to-interference-and-noise information.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting a request to the user equipment to request uplink resources; and

in response to receiving a request for the uplink resources, granting the physical uplink shared channel to the user equipment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2019
From: NAMMI, SAIRAMESH; GHOSH, ARUNABHA
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62806631 · Feb 15, 2019
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