IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,929,949
Granted Patent B2
US 11,929,949 · App. 17/974,448 · Granted Mar 12, 2024

Base station, user equipment and wireless communication method

Inventors: Lilei Wang (Beijing, CN); Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart (Hessen, DE)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04L5/0046H04L5/005H04L5/0053H04L27/2602H04W72/0446H04W72/046H04W72/1215H04W72/23H04W92/18H04L1/0008
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,929,949
App. No.
17/974,448
Granted
Mar 12, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An integrated circuit includes generation circuitry and transmission circuitry. The generation circuitry uses a reference size for a search space to generate downlink control information (DCI) in a first DCI format used for sidelink communications. The transmission circuitry transmits the DCI in the first DCI format mapped on the search space. When a second DCI format used for base station communications is mapped on the search space and the second DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, the reference size for the search space is based on the second DCI format. When a third DCI format used for sidelink communications is mapped on the search space and the third DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, and the second DCI format larger than the third DCI format is not mapped on the search space, the reference size is based on the third DCI format.

Claims (10)

1. An integrated circuit, comprising:

generation circuitry, which, in operation, uses a reference size for a search space to generate downlink control information (DCI) in a first DCI format used for sidelink communications, and

a transmission circuitry, which is coupled to the generation circuitry and which, in operation, transmits the DCI in the first DCI format mapped on the search space;

wherein,

when a second DCI format used for base station communications is mapped on the search space and the second DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, the reference size for the search space is based on the second DCI format, and

when a third DCI format used for sidelink communications is mapped on the search space and the third DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, and the second DCI format larger than the third DCI format is not mapped on the search space, the reference size for the search space is based on the third DCI format.

2. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first DCI format and the third DCI format is used for a dynamic scheduling and the other of the first DCI format and the third DCI format is used for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS).

3. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the second DCI format is a nearest size to a size of the first DCI format, the nearest size being equal to or greater than the size of the first DCI format.

4. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the third DCI format is a nearest size to a size of the first DCI format, the nearest size being equal to or greater than the size of the first DCI format.

5. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein zeros of padding bits are added to the first DCI format until a size of the first DCI format with the padding bits equals the reference size.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 16928631 · Jul 14, 2020
Continuation 16326520
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