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US 11,558,234 · App. 16/972,981 · Granted Jan 17, 2023

Method for transmitting or receiving phase tracking reference signal between terminal and base station in wireless communication system and apparatus supporting same

Inventors: Kilbom Lee (Seoul, KR); Jiwon Kang (Seoul, KR); Kyuseok Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L27/2675H04L5/0048H04W72/042H04W72/1273
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Patent No.
US 11,558,234
App. No.
16/972,981
Granted
Jan 17, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a method for transmitting or receiving a phase tracking reference signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the method. According to one embodiment applicable to the present invention, on the basis of association between the PT-RS and greater of the two demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port indices under code division multiplexing in the time domain (CDM-T), a terminal and a base station determine a first resource for the PT-RS, and transmit and receive same by means of the first resource, wherein the first resource is located on the same subcarrier as a second resource, which is for a PT-RS associated with the smaller of the two DMRS port indices under CDM-T, but on a different symbol than the second resource.

Claims (72)

1. A method of receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, through a higher layer signaling, configuration information for receiving the PT-RS,

wherein the configuration information includes information on resource element (RE) offset; and

receiving the PT-RS based on the configuration information,

wherein the PT-RS is received on a resource determined based on a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) port associated with the PT-RS and the configuration information, and

wherein two PT-RSs associated with different two DM-RS ports, which are code division multiplexed, are mapped to a same subcarrier and different symbols, respectively.

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein based on DMRS configuration type 1, a combination of the different DMRS ports which are code division multiplexed is one of {#1004, #1000}, {#1005, #1001}, {#1006, #1002}, or {#1007, #1003}, and

wherein based on DMRS configuration type 2, a combination of the different DMRS ports which are code division multiplexed is one of {#1006, #1000}, {#1007, #1001}, {#1008, #1002}, {#1009, #1003}, {#1010, #1004}, or {#1011, #1005}.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource is determined further based on a time density of the PT-RS and the time density of the PT-RS is 2 or 4.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the time density of the PT-RS is determined based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) scheduled for the UE.

5. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein a set of time indices for the resource defined relative to a starting symbol of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in PDSCH allocation is determined based on following procedures,

wherein the following procedures comprise:

(i) setting i=0 and l ref =0;

(ii) based on whether any one symbol in a range from a symbol index max(l ref +(i−1)*L PTRS +1, l ref ) to a symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS overlaps with a symbol used for a DMRS;

(ii-1) setting i=1;

(ii-2) setting l ref to a symbol index of a second DMRS symbol among symbols used for the overlapping DMRS; and

(ii-3) repeating from step (ii) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS is included in the PDSCH allocation;

(iii) adding a symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X to the set of time indices for the PT-RS;

(iv) increasing i by one; and

(v) repeating from step (ii) to step (iv) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS is included in the allocated PDSCH,

wherein L PTRS corresponds to a time density of the PT-RS, and

wherein X is a value determined based on the information on the RE offset.

6. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein a set of time indices for the resource defined relative to a starting symbol of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in PDSCH allocation is determined based on following procedures,

wherein the following procedures comprise:

(i) setting i=0 and l ref =0;

(ii) based on whether any one symbol in a range from a symbol index max(l ref +(i−1)*L PTRS +1, l ref )−X to a symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X overlaps with a symbol used for a DMRS;

(ii-1) setting i=1;

(ii-2) setting l ref to a symbol index of a second DMRS symbol among symbols used for the overlapping DMRS; and

(ii-3) repeating from step (ii) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X is included in the PDSCH allocation;

(iii) adding the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X to the set of time indices for the PT-RS;

(iv) increasing i by one; and

(v) repeating from step (ii) to step (iv) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X is included in the allocated PDSCH,

wherein L PTRS corresponds to a time density of the PT-RS, and

wherein X is a value determined based on the information on the RE offset.

7. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein a set of time indices for the resource defined relative to a starting symbol of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in PDSCH allocation is determined based on following procedures,

wherein the following procedures comprise:

(i) setting i=0 and l ref =0;

(ii) based on whether any one symbol in a range from a symbol index max(l ref +(i−1)*L PTRS +1, l ref )−X to a symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X overlaps with a symbol used for a DMRS;

(ii-1) setting i=1;

(ii-2) setting l ref to a symbol index of a second DMRS symbol among symbols used for the overlapping DMRS; and

(ii-3) repeating from step (ii) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X is included in the PDSCH allocation;

(iii) adding the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS −X to the set of time indices for the PT-RS;

(iv) increasing i by one; and

(v) repeating from step (ii) to step (iv) as long as the symbol index l ref +i*L PTRS is included in the allocated PDSCH,

wherein L PTRS corresponds to a time density of the PT-RS, and

wherein X is a value determined based on the information on the time density for the PTRS or the information on the RE offset.

8. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein based on that the offset X is zero or a non-zero integer Y, Y increases as the time density of the PT-RS increases.

9. A user equipment (UE) for receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

at least one radio frequency (RF) module;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory operably connected to the at least one processor and configured to store instructions executable by the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, through a higher layer signaling, configuration information for receiving the PT-RS,

wherein the configuration information includes information on resource element (RE) offset; and

receiving the PT-RS based on the configuration information,

wherein the PT-RS is received on a resource determined based on a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) port associated with the PT-RS and the configuration information, and

wherein two PT-RSs associated with different two DM-RS ports, which are code division multiplexed, are mapped to a same subcarrier and different symbols, respectively.

10. The UE of claim 9 ,

wherein the UE communicates with at least one of a mobile terminal, a network, or an autonomous driving vehicle except a vehicle including the UE.

11. A base station for transmitting a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

at least one radio frequency (RF) module;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory operably connected to the at least one processor and configured to store instructions executable by the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), configuration information for receiving the PT-RS,

wherein the configuration information includes information on resource element (RE) offset; and

transmitting, to the UE, the PT-RS based on the configuration information,

wherein the PT-RS is received on a resource determined based on a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) port associated with the PT-RS and the configuration information, and

wherein two PT-RSs associated with different two DM-RS ports, which are code division multiplexed, are mapped to a same subcarrier and different symbols, respectively.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2020
From: LEE, KILBOM; KANG, JIWON; KIM, KYUSEOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62682124 · Jun 7, 2018
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