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Granted Patent B2
US 11,825,418 · App. 17/285,416 · Granted Nov 21, 2023

Enhanced physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) power control

Inventor: Honglei Miao (Munich, DE)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
H04W52/146H04W52/367H04W72/044H04W72/23
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,825,418
App. No.
17/285,416
Granted
Nov 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field length for transmission to a user equipment (UE) for enhanced Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) (eURLLC) is disclosed. The gNB can determine the PUCCH resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a PUCCH resource indicator field, wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of PUCCH symbols for eURLLC. The gNB can encode the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (DCI) to the UE.

Claims (16)

1. An apparatus of a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field length for transmission to a user equipment (UE) for enhanced Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) (eURLLC), the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

determine, at the gNB, the PUCCH resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a PUCCH resource indicator field, wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of PUCCH symbols for eURLLC; and

encode, at the gNB, the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (DCI) to the UE; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the PUCCH resource indicator field length.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver configured to transmit the PUCCH resource indicator field length to the UE.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to encode the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is a PUCCH resource indicator length (PUCCH-ResourceIndicatorLength) parameter included in a PUCCH configuration (PUCCH-Config) information element (IE), wherein the PUCCH resource indicator length parameter has a value of 3, 4 or 5.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to encode the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE).

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the MAC CE includes a serving cell identifier, a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) identifier, a control resource set (CORESET) identifier, and a PUCCH resource indication length that indicates the PUCCH resource indicator field length in the DCI.

7. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for encoding a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field length for transmission from a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) to a user equipment (UE), the instructions when executed by one or more processors perform the following:

determining, at the gNB, the PUCCH resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a PUCCH resource indicator field, wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of PUCCH symbols for enhanced Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) (eURLLC); and

encoding, at the gNB, the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (DCI) to the UE.

8. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 7 , further comprising instructions when executed perform the following: encoding the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

9. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is a PUCCH resource indicator length (PUCCH-ResourceIndicatorLength) parameter included in a PUCCH configuration (PUCCH-Config) information element (IE), wherein the PUCCH resource indicator length parameter has a value of 3, 4 or 5.

10. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 7 , further comprising instructions when executed perform the following: encoding the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), wherein the MAC CE includes a serving cell identifier, a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) identifier, a control resource set (CORESET) identifier, and a PUCCH resource indication length that indicates the PUCCH resource indicator field length in the DCI.

Continuity (2)
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