IP Library Granted Patent US 12,016,028
Granted Patent B2
US 12,016,028 · App. 17/201,376 · Granted Jun 18, 2024

Supporting allocation modification during transition instance in integrated access and backhaul network

Inventors: Jianghong Luo (Skillman, NJ); Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, NJ); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Luca Blessent (Whitehouse Station, NJ); Junyi Li (Franklin Park, NJ); Karl Georg Hampel (Hoboken, NJ)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/23H04L1/1607H04W72/21H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 12,016,028
App. No.
17/201,376
Granted
Jun 18, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aspects presented herein may enable an IAB node to modify a resource allocation or change one or more parameters related to the resource allocation when the IAB node detects that the resource allocation overlaps with guard symbols or another resource allocation. In one aspect, an IAB node determines that a first channel allocation will be punctured based on an overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of a guard symbol or a second channel allocation. The IAB node uses, for the first channel allocation or the second channel allocation, one or more of a modified parameter or a modified grant in response to determining that the first channel allocation will be punctured.

Claims (90)

1. A method of wireless communication at a wireless device, comprising:

transmitting or receiving a set of rules to apply when a channel allocation is punctured due to overlapping of one or more resources, wherein the set of rules includes using one or more of at least one modified resource allocation or a modified grant;

determining a first channel allocation will be punctured based on an overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of a guard symbol or a second channel allocation, wherein the first channel allocation is from a parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to a child device of the wireless device, or wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device; and

using, for the first channel allocation, one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for communication, in response to determining the first channel allocation will be punctured and based on the set of rules.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes using the at least one modified resource allocation for the communication, comprising:

modifying a location of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) to a symbol that does not overlap the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes using the at least one modified resource allocation for the communication, comprising:

modifying a location of one of an acknowledgement (ACK) resource or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) resource to a symbol that does not overlap the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that overlaps with one of one or more guard symbols or the second channel allocation, and

wherein the method includes using the at least one modified resource allocation for the communication, comprising: modifying a redundancy version of the PUSCH or the PDSCH.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that overlaps with one or more guard symbols or the second channel allocation, and

wherein the method includes using the at least one modified resource allocation for the communication, comprising: modifying a transport block size of the PUSCH or the PDSCH.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the wireless device excludes counting overlapped symbols in resource elements used to calculate the transport block size of the PUSCH or the PDSCH.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device applies a first set of allocations based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of the guard symbol or the second channel allocation that is different from a second set of allocations when the first channel allocation does not overlap with the guard symbol and the second channel allocation.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving a configuration of at least one of the first set of allocations or the second set of allocations from the parent device.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the configuration is received in radio resource control (RRC) signaling or a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE).

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

transmitting a configuration of the first set of allocations and the second set of allocations to the child device.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the configuration is transmitted in radio resource control (RRC) signaling or a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE).

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is based on a semi-static allocation or a previous dynamic allocation from the parent device and the second channel allocation is for the child device, and wherein the method includes using the modified grant for the communication, the method further comprising:

receiving, from a parent node, the modified grant replacing the first channel allocation based on the overlap.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first channel allocation is based on a semi-static allocation or a previous dynamic allocation for the child device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device, and wherein the method includes using the modified grant for the communication, the method further comprising:

transmitting, to the child device, the modified grant replacing the second channel allocation based on the overlap.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device comprises an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a first communication with a parent node of the TAB node using a mobile termination (MT) function of the TAB node, and the second channel allocation is for a second communication with a child node of the TAB node using a distributed unit (DU) function of the TAB node.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a first communication with a child node of the IAB node using a distributed unit (DU) function of the IAB node, and the second channel allocation is for a second communication with a parent node of the IAB node using a mobile termination (MT) function of the IAB node.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the wireless device uses a same rule as a parent IAB node to determine the overlap or to determine the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant.

20. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

using multiple hypotheses to receive the communication based on the first channel allocation, wherein a first hypothesis is based on an unmodified allocation and a second hypothesis is based on a modified allocation.

21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of the guard symbol or the second channel allocation comprises:

identifying the first channel allocation overlaps with the guard symbol or the second channel allocation; and

discarding at least a portion of resources of the first channel allocation that overlap with the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one modified resource allocation is used for the first channel allocation in response to determining the first channel allocation will be punctured.

23. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modified grant is used for the first channel allocation in response to determining the first channel allocation will be punctured.

24. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of rules includes using the at least one modified resource allocation and the modified grant, and wherein using the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant comprises using the at least one modified resource allocation and the modified grant.

25. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of rules includes using at least one modified grant, and wherein using the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant comprises using the at least one modified grant.

26. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes transmitting the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

27. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes receiving the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

28. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes using the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to determining the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the guard symbol.

29. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes using the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to determining the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the second channel allocation.

30. An apparatus for wireless communication at a wireless device, comprising:

memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to cause the wireless device to:

transmit or receive a set of rules to apply when a channel allocation is punctured due to overlapping of one or more resources, wherein the set of rules includes use of one or more of at least one modified resource allocation or a modified grant;

determine a first channel allocation will be punctured based on an overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of a guard symbol or a second channel allocation, wherein the first channel allocation is from a parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to a child device of the wireless device, or wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device; and

use, for the first channel allocation, one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for communication, in response to a determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured and based on the set of rules.

31. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein to use the at least one modified resource allocation the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to:

modify a location of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) or an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) to a symbol that does not overlap the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

32. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that overlaps with one or more guard symbols or the second channel allocation, and

wherein to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to: modify a redundancy version or a transport block size of the PUSCH or the PDSCH.

33. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the wireless device to apply a first set of modified resource allocations based on the overlap and apply a second set of modified resource allocations when there is no overlap.

34. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the wireless device to:

receive a configuration of the first set of modified resource allocations and the second set of modified resource allocations from the parent device.

35. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the wireless device to:

transmit the configuration of the first set of modified resource allocations and the second set of modified resource allocations to the child device.

36. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the first channel allocation is based on a semi-static allocation or a previous dynamic allocation from the parent device and the second channel allocation is for the child device, the one or more processors are further configured to cause the wireless device to:

receive the modified grant from a parent node that replaces the first channel allocation based on the overlap, or transmit the modified grant to the child device that replaces the second channel allocation based on the overlap.

37. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein to determine the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of the guard symbol or the second channel allocation, the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to:

identify the first channel allocation overlaps with the guard symbol or the second channel allocation; and

discard at least a portion of resources of the first channel allocation that overlap with the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

38. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to individually or in combination transmit or receive the set of rules, determine the first channel allocation will be punctured, and use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant.

39. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the set of rules includes using the at least one modified resource allocation and the modified grant, and wherein to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to use the at least one modified resource allocation and the modified grant.

40. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device.

41. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device.

42. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to transmit the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

43. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to receive the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

44. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to the determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the guard symbol.

45. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the wireless device to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to the determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the second channel allocation.

46. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable code at a wireless device, the code when executed by one or more processors causes the wireless device to:

transmit or receive a set of rules to apply when a channel allocation is punctured due to overlapping of one or more resources, wherein the set of rules includes use of one or more of one modified resource allocation or a modified grant;

determine a first channel allocation will be punctured based on an overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of a guard symbol or a second channel allocation, wherein the first channel allocation is from a parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to a child device of the wireless device, or wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device; and

use, for the first channel allocation, one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for communication, in response to a determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured and based on the set of rules.

47. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein to use the one modified resource allocation, the code when executed by the one or more processors causes the wireless device to:

modify a location of one of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), an acknowledgement (ACK) resource, or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) resource to a symbol that does not overlap the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

48. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the first channel allocation is for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that overlaps with one of one or more guard symbols or the second channel allocation, and

wherein to use the at least one modified resource allocation, the code when executed by the one or more processors causes the wireless device to: modify a redundancy version or a transport block size of the PUSCH or the PDSCH.

49. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein to determine the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with at least one of the guard symbol or the second channel allocation, the code when executed by the one or more processors cause the wireless device to:

identify the first channel allocation overlaps with the guard symbol or the second channel allocation; and

discard at least a portion of resources of the first channel allocation that overlap the guard symbol or the second channel allocation.

50. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device.

51. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the first channel allocation is from the wireless device to the child device of the wireless device and the second channel allocation is from the parent device of the wireless device to the wireless device.

52. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the code, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the wireless device to transmit the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

53. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the code, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the wireless device to receive the set of rules to apply when the channel allocation is punctured.

54. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the code, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the wireless device to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to the determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the guard symbol.

55. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the code, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the wireless device to use the one or more of the at least one modified resource allocation or the modified grant for the communication in response to the determination that the first channel allocation will be punctured based on the overlap of the first channel allocation with the second channel allocation.

56. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 46 , wherein the first channel allocation is based on a semi-static allocation or a previous dynamic allocation from the parent device and the second channel allocation is for the child device, and wherein the code, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the wireless device to:

receive the modified grant from a parent node that replaces the first channel allocation based on the overlap, or transmit the modified grant to the child device that replaces the second channel allocation based on the overlap.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2021
From: LUO, JIANGHONG; ABEDINI, NAVID; LUO, TAO; BLESSENT, LUCA; LI, JUNYI; HAMPEL, KARL GEORG
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 056396/0259 →
Continuity (2)
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