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US 11,457,464 · App. 17/024,520 · Granted Sep 27, 2022

Carrier-group based cross-slot scheduling adaptation

Inventors: Wooseok Nam (San Diego, CA); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/1289H04W72/044H04W16/32
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Patent No.
US 11,457,464
App. No.
17/024,520
Granted
Sep 27, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adapting cross-slot scheduling based on carrier groups. For example, certain aspects provide techniques for receiving a time-domain configuration comprising one or more offset values of time-domain resources relative to reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), determining which at least one offset value of the one or more offset values are greater than or equal to a minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier, and for each carrier of the group of carriers, one or more of transmitting over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or monitoring a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).

Claims (60)

1. A method for scheduling wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving a time-domain configuration comprising a plurality of offset values, each of the plurality of offset values indicating a scheduling offset for time-domain resources, the scheduling offset indicative of a number of slots offset from reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the UE being configured with a scheduling adaptation configuration comprising a plurality of sets of minimum offset values, wherein each of the plurality of sets comprises a corresponding minimum offset value for each carrier in a group of carriers comprising a plurality of carriers, the scheduling adaptation configuration comprising one or more minimum offset values relative to reception of the PDCCH, the one or more minimum offset values corresponding to a group of carriers;

receiving, via a single downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a first set of minimum offset values of the plurality of sets of minimum offset values;

for each carrier of the group of carriers, determining at least one offset value of the plurality of offset values is greater than or equal to the minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set; and

for each carrier of the group of carriers, one or more of transmitting over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or monitoring a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) utilizing time-domain resources corresponding to the at least one offset value greater than or equal to the minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving information indicative of carriers that form the group of carriers from a base station (BS).

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the group of carriers comprise one or more of:

carriers that share the same numerology or carriers that are in the same frequency band, or

carriers that share the same transceiver component of the UE during wireless communication.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting information indicative of carriers that form the group of carriers to a base station (BS).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the UE is configured with a plurality of groups of carriers, and

at least one carrier is in at least two of the plurality of groups of carriers.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the time-domain configuration and the scheduling adaptation configuration is received in a radio resource control (RRC) message using Layer 3 signaling, or another DCI or a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) using Layer 1 or Layer 2 signaling.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the scheduling adaptation configuration on a carrier of the group of carriers.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the carrier is an anchor carrier of the group of carriers.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the scheduling adaptation configuration, wherein the scheduling adaptation configuration and the time-domain configuration are received separately.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein each carrier of the group of carriers has corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods, and further comprising:

for each carrier of the group of carriers, determining to monitor a PDCCH during one or more of the corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of the carrier based on scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of a first carrier of the group of carriers.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein, for each carrier of the group of carriers, determining to monitor the PDCCH during the one or more of the corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods comprises:

refraining from monitoring the PDCCH on any of the corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods that do not overlap with the scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of the first carrier.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein refraining from monitoring the PDCCH comprises powering down a transceiver component of the UE.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein, for each carrier of the group of carriers, determining to monitor the PDCCH during the one or more of the corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods comprises:

refraining from monitoring the PDCCH on any of the corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods that do not overlap with the scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of the first carrier and do not overlap with a period for monitoring the PDSCH on at least one other carrier of the group of carriers.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein each carrier of the group of carriers has corresponding scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods, and further comprising determining to monitor the PDCCH on each carrier of the group of carriers at the scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of a first carrier of the group of carriers.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining to monitor the PDCCH of each carrier of the group of carriers based on scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods of a first carrier of the group of carriers having a lowest periodicity of scheduled PDCCH monitoring periods among the group of carriers.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

determining to monitor the PDCCH of each carrier of the group of carriers based on a largest configured subcarrier spacing for monitoring PDCCH among the group of carriers.

17. A user equipment (UE) configured for scheduling wireless communications, the UE comprising:

a memory; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor and the memory configured to cause the UE to:

receive a time-domain configuration comprising a plurality of offset values, each of the plurality of offset values indicating a scheduling offset for time-domain resources, the scheduling offset indicative of a number of slots offset from reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the UE being configured with a scheduling adaptation configuration comprising a plurality of sets of minimum offset values, wherein each of the plurality of sets comprises a corresponding minimum offset value for each carrier in a group of carriers comprising a plurality of carriers;

receive, via a single downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a first set of minimum offset values of the plurality of sets of minimum offset values;

for each carrier of the group of carriers, determine at least one offset value of the plurality of offset values is greater than or equal to the minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set; and

for each carrier of the group of carriers, one or more of transmit over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or monitor a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) utilizing time-domain resources corresponding to the at least one offset value greater than or equal to the minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set.

18. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the processor and the memory are further configured to cause the UE to receive information indicative of carriers that form the group of carriers from a base station (BS).

19. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the group of carriers comprise one or more of:

carriers that share the same numerology or carriers that are in the same frequency band, or

carriers that share the same transceiver component of the UE during wireless communication.

20. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the processor and the memory are further configured to cause the UE to transmit information indicative of carriers that form the group of carriers to a base station (BS).

21. The UE of claim 17 , wherein:

the UE is configured with a plurality of groups of carriers, and

at least one carrier is in at least two of the plurality of groups of carriers.

22. The UE of claim 17 , wherein one or more of the time-domain configuration and the scheduling adaptation configuration is received in a radio resource control (RRC) message using Layer 3 signaling, or another DCI or a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) using Layer 1 or Layer 2 signaling.

23. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the processor and the memory are further configured to cause the UE to receive the scheduling adaptation configuration on a carrier of the group of carriers.

24. The UE of claim 23 , wherein the carrier is an anchor carrier of the group of carriers.

25. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the processor and the memory are further configured to cause the UE to receive the scheduling adaptation configuration, wherein the scheduling adaptation configuration and the time-domain configuration are received separately.

26. A method for scheduling wireless communications by a network entity, the method comprising:

sending, to a user equipment (UE), a time-domain configuration comprising a plurality of offset values each of the plurality of offset values indicating a scheduling offset for time-domain resources, the scheduling offset indicative of a number of slots offset from reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) by the UE;

sending, to the UE, a scheduling adaptation configuration comprising a plurality of sets of minimum offset values, wherein each of the plurality of sets comprises a corresponding minimum offset value for each carrier in a group of carriers comprising a plurality of carriers

sending, via a single downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a first set of minimum offset values of the plurality of sets of minimum offset values; and

for each carrier of the group of carriers, one or more of transmitting over a PDSCH or receiving over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) utilizing time-domain resources corresponding to at least one offset value greater than or equal to a minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set.

27. A network entity configured for scheduling wireless communications, the network entity comprising:

a memory; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor and the memory configured to cause the network entity to:

send, to a user equipment (UE), a time-domain configuration comprising a plurality of offset values, each of the plurality of offset values indicating a scheduling offset for time-domain resources, the scheduling offset indicative of a number of slots offset from reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) by the UE;

send, to the UE, a scheduling adaptation configuration comprising a plurality of sets of minimum offset values, wherein each of the plurality of sets comprises a corresponding minimum offset value for each carrier in a group of carriers comprising a plurality of carriers; and

send, via a single downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a first set of minimum offset values of the plurality of sets of minimum offset values; and

for each carrier of the group of carriers, one or more of transmit over a PDSCH or receive over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) utilizing time-domain resources corresponding to at least one offset value greater than or equal to a minimum offset value of the corresponding carrier in the first set.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2022
From: NAM, WOOSEOK; LUO, TAO; ANG, PETER PUI LOK
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 058689/0143 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 28, 2020
From: NAM, WOOSEOK; LUO, TAO; ANG, PETER PUI LOK
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 054753/0489 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62903536 · Sep 20, 2019
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