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Granted Patent B2
US 11,224,048 · App. 16/261,203 · Granted Jan 11, 2022

Group based scheduled and autonomous uplink coexistence

Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego, CA); Jing Sun (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA); Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/082H04B1/1027H04L61/2069H04W4/08H04W28/0236H04W72/02H04W72/0446H04W72/121H04W74/006H04J11/005H04W74/0808
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Patent No.
US 11,224,048
App. No.
16/261,203
Granted
Jan 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a group identifier of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of one or more group identifiers associated with scheduled communications with the base station during a time period. The UE may contend, based at least in part on the group identifier of the UE and the one or more group identifiers received from the base station, for access to a set of autonomous uplink (AUL) resources during the time period. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the contending, an AUL transmission to the base station using the set of autonomous uplink resources.

Claims (57)

1. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, from a base station, a first message comprising a first indication of a group identifier of the UE, wherein the group identifier of the UE is based at least in part on a UE-to-UE measurement procedure;

receiving, from the base station, a second message comprising a second indication of one or more group identifiers that are scheduled for access to a set of autonomous uplink resources for communications with the base station during a scheduled time period, wherein the second message is different from the first message;

determining that the group identifier of the UE is included in the second indication of the one or more group identifiers based at least in part on receiving the second message;

contending, based at least in part on determining that the group identifier of the UE is included in the second indication of the one or more group identifiers received from the base station, for access to the set of autonomous uplink resources during the scheduled time period; and

performing, based at least in part on the contending, an autonomous uplink transmission to the base station using the set of autonomous uplink resources.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing one or more instances of the UE-to-UE measurement procedure; and

transmitting a feedback message to the base station based at least in part on the UE-to-UE measurement procedure.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining, during the UE-to-UE measurement procedure, that one or more neighboring UEs are associated with receive power levels above a threshold value; and

configuring the feedback message to indicate an identifier for the one or more neighboring UEs.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

repeating the UE-to-UE measurement procedure and transmitting the feedback message based at least in part on: a periodic schedule, or an aperiodic schedule, or a change in receive power levels for a neighboring UE above a threshold value, or a mobility state of the UE, or a combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the UE-to-UE measurement procedure comprises a new radio (NR) cross-link interference (CLI) procedure.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first indication of the group identifier is received in at least one of: a common downlink control indicator (DCI), or a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), or a radio resource control (RRC) message, or a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second indication of the one or more group identifiers is received in a common downlink control indicator (DCI).

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a second group identifier that is associated with a second communication type, wherein the group identifier is associated with a first communication type.

9. A method for wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a first message comprising a first indication of a group identifier of the UE, wherein the group identifier of the UE is based at least in part on UE-to-UE measurement procedures;

transmitting a second message comprising a second indication of one or more group identifiers that are scheduled for access to autonomous uplink resources for communications with the base station during a scheduled time period, wherein the one or more group identifiers includes the group identifier of the UE and the second message is different from the first message; and

receiving an autonomous uplink transmission from the UE over the autonomous uplink resources during the scheduled time period based at least in part on the group identifier of the UE being included in the one or more group identifiers.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving from each UE of a plurality of UEs, an indication of neighboring UEs;

grouping the plurality of UEs into one or more groups of UEs based at least in part on the neighboring UEs; and

scheduling the communications for each of the one or more groups of UEs according to the grouping.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein:

the indication of the neighboring UEs is received in a feedback message that is based at least in part on the UE-to-UE measurement procedures performed between the plurality of UEs; and

the grouping is based at least in part on the feedback message.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

determining, based at least in part on the feedback message, that one or more neighboring UEs to a UE are associated with receive power levels above a threshold value, wherein grouping the plurality of UEs into the one or more groups of UEs comprises grouping the UE associated with the feedback message and the one or more neighboring UEs into a group of UEs.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

repeating the receiving of the feedback message and grouping the plurality of UEs based at least in part on: a periodic schedule, or an aperiodic schedule, or a change in receive power levels between neighboring UEs above a threshold value, or a mobility state of one or more UEs in the plurality of UEs, or a combination thereof.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first indication of the group identifier is transmitted in at least one of: a common downlink control indicator (DCI), or a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), or a radio resource control (RRC) message, or a combination thereof.

15. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

a processor,

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory, wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to:

receive, from a base station, a first message comprising a first indication of a group identifier of the UE, wherein the group identifier of the UE is based at least in part on a UE-to-UE measurement procedure;

receive, from the base station, a second message comprising a second indication of one or more group identifiers that are scheduled for access to a set of autonomous uplink resources for communications with the base station during a scheduled time period, wherein the second message is different from the first message;

determining that the group identifier of the UE is included in the second indication of the one or more group identifiers based at least in part on receiving the second message;

contend, based at least in part on determining that the group identifier of the UE is included in the second indication of the one or more group identifiers received from the base station, for access to the set of autonomous uplink resources during the scheduled time period; and

perform, based at least in part on the contending, an autonomous uplink transmission to the base station using the set of autonomous uplink resources.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

perform one or more instances of the UE-to-UE measurement procedure; and

transmit a feedback message to the base station based at least in part on the UE-to-UE measurement procedure, wherein the group identifier of the UE is based at least in part on the feedback message.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

determine, during the UE-to-UE measurement procedure, that one or more neighboring UEs are associated with receive power levels above a threshold value; and

configure the feedback message to indicate an identifier for the one or more neighboring UEs.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

repeat the UE-to-UE measurement procedure and transmitting the feedback message based at least in part on: a periodic schedule, or an aperiodic schedule, or a change in receive power levels for a neighboring UE above a threshold value, or a mobility state of the UE, or a combination thereof.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the UE-to-UE measurement procedure comprises a new radio (NR) cross-link interference (CLI) procedure.

20. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the first indication of the group identifier is received in at least one of a common downlink control indicator (DCI), or a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), or a radio resource control (RRC) message, or a combination thereof.

21. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the second indication of the one or more group identifiers is received in a common downlink control indicator (DCI).

22. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive a second group identifier that is associated with a second communication type, wherein the group identifier is associated with a first communication type.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2019
From: YERRAMALLI, SRINIVAS; SUN, JING; ZHANG, XIAOXIA; BHATTAD, KAPIL
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 048674/0278 →
Priority Claims (1)
IN 201841006008 · Feb 16, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190261379A1 · Aug 22, 2019