IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,804,927
Granted Patent B2
US 11,804,927 · App. 17/657,791 · Granted Oct 31, 2023

Feedback mode indication for coordinated transmission

Inventors: Wei Yang (San Diego, CA); Yi Huang (San Diego, CA); Peter Gaal (San Diego, CA); Wanshi Chen (San Diego, CA); Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego, CA); Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L1/1812H04L1/0073H04L1/1607H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 11,804,927
App. No.
17/657,791
Granted
Oct 31, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication. The techniques include a method wireless communication by a user equipment including receiving a configuration message, wherein the configuration message in part configures the UE to communicate coordinated transmissions with a plurality of transmission reception points using a coordinated transmission mode. The method further includes, receiving one or more physical downlink shared channel transmissions from a plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the coordinated transmission mode. The method further includes, selecting a HARQ-ACK feedback mode based in part on the coordinated transmission mode. The method further includes, transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback to at least one of the plurality of transmission reception points using the selected HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

Claims (65)

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

receiving a first configuration message and a second configuration message, wherein:

the first configuration message in part configures the UE to communicate coordinated transmissions with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs), and

the second configuration message includes an indication of a first hybrid automatic repeated request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback mode or a second HARQ-ACK feedback mode;

receiving coordinated transmissions from the plurality of TRPs; and

transmitting, in one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, HARQ-ACK feedback for the coordinated transmissions using the first HARQ-ACK feedback mode or the second HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) detected in a last PDCCH monitoring occasion of a PDCCH monitoring occasion order and based on a search space identifier associated with the PDCCH.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based further on an index of a starting control channel element (CCE) associated with the PDCCH detected in the last PDCCH monitoring occasion.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs and a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs are scheduled on a same PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

generating first HARQ-ACK feedback for the first PUCCH transmission for the first TRP from a first HARQ-ACK codebook; and

generating second HARQ-ACK feedback for the second PUCCH transmission for the second TRP from a second HARQ-ACK codebook.

6. A method for wireless communication by a network entity, comprising:

sending a first configuration message and a second configuration message to a user equipment (UE), wherein:

the first configuration message, in part, configures the UE to communicate coordinated transmissions with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs),

the second configuration message includes an indication of a first hybrid automatic repeated request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback mode or a second HARQ-ACK feedback mode;

transmitting coordinated transmissions from the plurality of TRPs; and

receiving, in one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, HARQ-ACK feedback for the coordinated transmissions using the first HARQ-ACK feedback mode or the second HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a last PDCCH monitoring occasion of a PDCCH monitoring occasion order and based on a search space identifier associated with the PDCCH.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based further on an index of a starting control channel element (CCE) associated with the PDCCH in the last PDCCH monitoring occasion.

9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising determining that a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs and a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs are scheduled on a same PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving, from the UE, multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback in the one or more PUCCH resources, the multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback comprising:

a first number of bits of first HARQ-ACK feedback for a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs, and

a second number of bits of second HARQ-ACK for a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs.

11. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors individually or collectively configured to

cause the UE to:

receive a first configuration message and a second configuration message, wherein:

the first configuration message, in part, configures the UE to communicate coordinated transmissions with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs), and

the second configuration message includes an indication of a first hybrid automatic repeated request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback mode or a second HARQ-ACK feedback mode;

receive coordinated transmissions from the plurality of TRPs; and

transmit, in one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, HARQ-ACK feedback for the coordinated transmissions using the first HARQ-ACK feedback mode or the second HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

12. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) detected in a last PDCCH monitoring occasion of a PDCCH monitoring occasion order and based on a search space identifier associated with the PDCCH.

13. The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based further on an index of a starting control channel element (CCE) associated with the PDCCH detected in the last PDCCH monitoring occasion.

14. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to determine that a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs and a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs are scheduled on a same PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources.

15. The UE of claim 14 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:

generate first HARQ-ACK feedback for the first PUCCH transmission for the first TRP from a first HARQ-ACK codebook; and

generate second HARQ-ACK feedback for the second PUCCH transmission for the second TRP from a second HARQ-ACK codebook.

16. The UE of claim 15 , wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a semi-static codebook of a first size and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is a semi-static codebook of a second size that is different from the first size.

17. The UE of claim 15 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to multiplex a first number of bits of the first HARQ-ACK feedback with a second number of bits of the second HARQ-ACK feedback to obtain multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback.

18. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the first number of bits corresponds with a first size of the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second number of bits corresponds with a second size of the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

19. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to receive radio resource control (RRC) information indicating the first size of the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second size of the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

20. The UE of claim 17 , wherein, in order to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback, in the one or more PUCCH resources, to at least one of the first TRP and the second TRP.

21. A network entity, comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors individually or collectively configured to

cause the network entity to:

send a first configuration message and a second configuration message to a user equipment (UE), wherein:

the first configuration message, in part, configures the UE to communicate coordinated transmissions with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs),

the second configuration message includes an indication of a first hybrid automatic repeated request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback mode or a second HARQ-ACK feedback mode;

transmit coordinated transmissions from the plurality of TRPs; and

receive, in one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, HARQ-ACK feedback for the coordinated transmissions using the first HARQ-ACK feedback mode or the second HARQ-ACK feedback mode.

22. The network entity of claim 21 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a last PDCCH monitoring occasion of a PDCCH monitoring occasion order and based on a search space identifier associated with the PDCCH.

23. The network entity of claim 22 , wherein the one or more PUCCH resources are based further on an index of a starting control channel element (CCE) associated with the PDCCH in the last PDCCH monitoring occasion.

24. The network entity of claim 21 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the network entity to determine that a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs and a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs are scheduled on a same PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources.

25. The network entity of claim 24 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the network entity to receive, from the UE, multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback in the one or more PUCCH resources, the multiplexed HARQ-ACK feedback comprising:

a first number of bits of first HARQ-ACK feedback for a first PUCCH transmission for a first TRP of the plurality of TRPs, and

a second number of bits of second HARQ-ACK for a second PUCCH transmission for a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs.

26. The network entity of claim 25 , wherein:

the first HARQ-ACK feedback is generated from a first HARQ-ACK codebook, and

the second HARQ-ACK feedback is generated from a second HARQ-ACK codebook.

27. The network entity of claim 26 , wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a semi-static codebook of a first size and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is a semi-static codebook of a second size that is different from the first size.

28. The network entity of claim 26 , wherein the first number of bits corresponds with a first size of the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second number of bits corresponds with a second size of the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

29. The network entity of claim 28 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the network entity to radio resource control (RRC) information indicating the first size of the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second size of the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2022
From: YANG, WEI; HUANG, YI; GAAL, PETER; CHEN, WANSHI; SORIAGA, JOSEPH BINAMIRA; SRIDHARAN, GOKUL
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 059539/0360 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16523911 · Jul 26, 2019
Provisional Application 62711157 · Jul 27, 2018
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