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US 11,122,632 · App. 16/924,626 · Granted Sep 14, 2021

Method for adjusting size of contention window in wireless communication system, and communication device using method

Inventors: Sechang Myung (Seoul, KR); Seonwook Kim (Seoul, KR); Changhwan Park (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, MN)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W74/0841H04L5/0055H04W72/042H04W72/0453H04W88/08
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,122,632
App. No.
16/924,626
Filed
Jul 9, 2020
Granted
Sep 14, 2021
Kind
B2
Examiner
PEZZLO, JOHN
Art Unit
2465
USPC
370/445
Abstract

The present disclosure suggests a method for adjusting the size of a contention window of a base station/terminal. The method comprises transmitting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) through a frequency bandwidth, receiving an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal for the PDSCH from the UE, and adjusting the contention window based on the ACK/NACK signal, wherein based on the frequency bandwidth overlapping with a plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the contention window for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the ACK/NACK signal.

Claims (33)

1. A method for adjusting a size of a contention window in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a base station (BS) and comprising:

transmitting at least one code block group (CBG) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) on a frequency bandwidth;

receiving an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal for each of the at least one CBG for the PDSCH from the UE; and

adjusting the size of the contention window based on the ACK/NACK signal,

wherein based on a first CBG included in the at least one CBG being fully included in a specific frequency band among a plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for the specific frequency band based on the ACK/NACK signal for the first CBG,

wherein based on a second CBG included in the at least one CBG overlapping with the plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the ACK/NACK signal for the second CBG, and

wherein each of the plurality of frequency bands is a unit for adjusting the size of the contention window.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BS performs a channel access procedure on the plurality of frequency bands, and

wherein the channel access procedure is performed for an unlicensed frequency band.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the contention window is a counter value used for determining channel occupancy in the channel access procedure.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the counter value is initially configured to a value greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the size of the contention window.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the ACK/NACK signal, based on each of the plurality of frequency bands overlapping with the frequency bandwidth fully or partially.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDSCH is transmitted through a plurality of time domain resources.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted per each of the plurality of time domain resources.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a size for each of the plurality of frequency bands is as same as each other.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the size is 20 megahertz (MHz).

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the base station is a gNodeB (gNB).

11. A base station (BS) comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor operatively coupled with the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to:

transmit at least one code block group (CBG) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) on a frequency bandwidth;

receive an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal for each of the at least one CBG for the PDSCH from the UE; and

adjust a size of a contention window based on the ACK/NACK signal,

wherein based on a first CBG included in the at least one CBG being fully included in a specific frequency band among a plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for the specific frequency band based on the ACK/NACK signal for the first CBG,

wherein based on a second CBG included in the at least one CBG overlapping with the plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the ACK/NACK signal for the second CBG, and

wherein each of the plurality of frequency bands is a unit for adjusting the size of the contention window.

12. A non-transitory computer readable memory storing instructions that, based on being executed by a processor, control a base station (BS) to perform operations for adjusting a size of a contention window in a wireless communication system, the operations comprising:

transmitting at least one code block group (CBG) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) on a frequency bandwidth;

receiving an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal for each of the at least one CBG for the PDSCH from the UE; and

adjusting the size of the contention window based on the ACK/NACK signal,

wherein based on a first CBG included in the at least one CBG being fully included in a specific frequency band among a plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for the specific frequency band based on the ACK/NACK signal for the first CBG,

wherein based on a second CBG included in the at least one CBG overlapping with the plurality of frequency bands, the BS adjusts the size of the contention window for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the ACK/NACK signal for the second CBG, and

wherein each of the plurality of frequency bands is a unit for adjusting the size of the contention window.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 9, 2020
From: MYUNG, SECHANG; KIM, SEONWOOK; PARK, CHANGHWAN; AHN, JOONKUI; YANG, SUCKCHEL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 053167/0292 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0057006 · May 18, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0114473 · Sep 21, 2018 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation PCTKR2019001711 · Feb 12, 2019
Provisional Application 62629689 · Feb 12, 2018
Provisional Application 62668765 · May 8, 2018
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