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Granted Patent B2
US 11,706,633 · App. 17/504,786 · Granted Jul 18, 2023

Method and apparatus for performing wireless communication in unlicensed band

Inventors: Ki-Hyeon Park (Seoul, KR); Ki-tae Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: KT CORPORATION
H04W16/14H04L1/1614H04W72/23H04W74/0808H04W76/11
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Patent No.
US 11,706,633
App. No.
17/504,786
Granted
Jul 18, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method and a device performing wireless communication in an unlicensed band, which receives information on allocating a radio resource in a system bandwidth made up of a plurality of subbands, receives information on a LBT (Listen Before Talk) failure region among the radio resource, and receives a downlink signal in other regions in the radio resource, except the LBT failure region.

Claims (40)

1. A wireless device, comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a controller which controls one or more of the transmitter and the receiver to:

receive, from a base station, configuration information about a plurality of subbands in an unlicensed band; and

receive, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a bitmap,

wherein each bit in the bitmap indicates an availability or unavailability for a reception in a corresponding subband,

wherein based on the bitmap indicating at least one subband as available for the reception, the wireless device is able to receive a downlink signal from the base station,

wherein based on that all subbands in the bitmap are determined as unavailable for the reception, the wireless device does not receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and

wherein the DCI further includes information indicating whether a listen before talk (LBT) succeeds for each of the plurality of subbands.

2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the DCI is scrambled with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) commonly applied to a plurality of wireless devices which access a same control resource set (CORESET) and received through a group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

3. The wireless device of claim 1 ,

wherein the controller is configured to further control the receiver to: receive information on a guard band, and

wherein the guard band includes one or more resource blocks (RBs).

4. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein each subband includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs).

5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein before receiving the downlink signal, a listen before talk (LBT) is performed by the base station.

6. An apparatus for a wireless device, comprising:

a controller which controls one or more of a transmitter and a receiver of the wireless device to:

receive, from a base station, configuration information about a plurality of subbands in an unlicensed band; and

receive, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a bitmap,

wherein each bit in the bitmap indicates an availability or unavailability for a reception in a corresponding subband,

wherein based on the bitmap indicating at least one subband as available for the reception, the wireless device is able to receive a downlink signal from the base station,

wherein based on that all subbands in the bitmap are determined as unavailable for the reception, the wireless device does not receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and

wherein the DCI further includes information indicating whether a listen before talk (LBT) succeeds for each of the plurality of subbands.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the DCI is scrambled with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) commonly applied to a plurality of wireless devices which access a same control resource set (CORESET) and received through a group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

8. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein each subband includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs).

9. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein before receiving the downlink signal, a listen before talk (LBT) is performed by the base station.

10. A base station, comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a controller which controls one or more of the transmitter and receiver to:

transmit, to a wireless device, configuration information about a plurality of subbands in an unlicensed band; and

transmit, to the wireless device, downlink control information (DCI) including a bitmap,

wherein each bit in the bitmap indicates an availability or unavailability for a reception in a corresponding subband,

wherein based on the bitmap indicating at least one subband as available for the reception, the wireless device is able to receive a downlink signal from the base station,

wherein based on that all subbands in the bitmap are determined as unavailable for the reception, the wireless device does not receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and

wherein the DCI further includes information indicating whether a listen before talk (LBT) succeeds for each of the plurality of subbands.

11. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the DCI is scrambled with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) commonly applied to a plurality of wireless devices which access a same control resource set (CORESET) and received through a group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

12. The base station of claim 10 , wherein each subband includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs).

13. The base station of claim 10 , wherein before receiving the downlink signal, the base station performs a listen before talk (LBT).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2021
From: PARK, KI-HYEON; KIM, KI-TAE
To: KT CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (3)
KR 10-2018-0082560 · Jul 16, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0110332 · Sep 14, 2018 · national
KR 10-2019-0071954 · Jun 18, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16512250 · Jul 15, 2019
Related Publication 20220038916A1 · Feb 3, 2022
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