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US 12,193,036 · App. 18/306,777 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Time domain resource allocation-based HARQ-ACK feedback generation

Inventors: Wei Yang (San Diego, CA); Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego, CA); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/53H04L1/1819H04L1/1896H04W24/08H04W72/0446H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,193,036
App. No.
18/306,777
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for TDRA-based HARQ-ACK feedback generation. In aspects, a UE and a base station may determine that at least one TDRA candidate of a set of TDRA candidates for a PDSCH transmitted from a base station has more than one possible location within a slot. Based on the determination that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot, the UE may generate and transmit corresponding HARQ-ACK feedback to the base station, which may decode the HARQ-ACK feedback.

Claims (42)

1. A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining that at least one time-domain resource allocation (TDRA) candidate of a set of TDRA candidates for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) has more than one possible location within a slot based on a starting symbol of each of a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions within the slot and a length of the at least one TDRA candidate; and

transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) feedback based on the at least one TDRA candidate having more than one possible location within the slot.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the PDSCH in each of one or more TDRA candidates of the set of TDRA candidates; and

generating the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the PDSCH in the one or more TDRA candidates.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is based on a type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook (CB).

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises:

determining that the UE is configured to monitor for a downlink (DL) grant in a DL control information (DCI) format 1_2 message;

determining that a starting symbol for determining at least one location of the at least one TDRA within the slot is configured based on at least one PDCCH monitoring occasion of the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot when the UE is configured to monitor for the DL grant in the DCI format 1_2 message; and

determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot when the UE determines that the starting symbol for determining the at least one location of the at least one TDRA within the slot is configured based on the at least one PDCCH monitoring occasion within the slot.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the UE is configured to monitor for the DL grant through a radio resource control (RRC) parameter.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises determining that there is a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot in which a DCI format 1_2 message is configured to be received.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises determining that a K 0 slot offset associated with each of the at least one TDRA candidate is equal to 0.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a number of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot;

determining, based on the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions, a first number of TDRA candidates of the at least one TDRA candidate that has more than one possible location within the slot;

determining a total number of TDRA candidates within the slot, the total number of TDRA candidates within the slot including the first number of TDRA candidates within the slot, a second number of TDRA candidates corresponding to additional locations of the at least one TDRA candidate within the slot, and a third number of TDRA candidates with one possible location within the slot; and

generating the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the total number of TDRA candidates.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising determining a total number of non-overlapping TDRA candidates within the slot based on the total number of TDRA candidates, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is generated to include x bits, where x is equal to the total number of non-overlapping TDRA candidates.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising determining the second number of TDRA candidates corresponding to the additional locations of the at least one TDRA candidate that are fully contained within the slot.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot includes a first PDCCH monitoring occasion at a first starting symbol of S 0 >0, the additional locations of the at least one TDRA candidate within the slot each corresponding to a second starting symbol equal to S 0 plus a starting symbol of S of the at least one TDRA candidate.

12. A method of wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

determining that at least one time-domain resource allocation (TDRA) candidate of a set of TDRA candidates for transmitting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to a user equipment (UE) has more than one possible location within a slot based on a starting symbol of each of a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions within the slot and a length of the at least one TDRA candidate; and

receiving hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) feedback from the UE based on the at least one TDRA candidate having more than one possible location within the slot.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

transmitting the PDSCH in each of one or more TDRA candidates of the set of TDRA candidates, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is received based on the PDSCH in the one or more TDRA candidates; and

decoding the HARQ-ACK feedback received from the UE.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is based on a type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook (CB).

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises:

determining that the UE is configured to monitor for a downlink (DL) grant in a DL control information (DCI) format 1_2 message;

determining that a starting symbol for determining at least one location of the at least one TDRA within the slot is configured based on at least one PDCCH monitoring occasion of the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot when the UE is determined to be configured to monitor for the DL grant in the DCI format 1_2 message; and

determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot when the starting symbol for determining the at least one location of the at least one TDRA within the slot is configured based on the at least one PDCCH monitoring occasion within the slot.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the UE is configured to monitor for the DL grant through a radio resource control (RRC) parameter.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises determining that there is a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot in which a DCI format 1_2 message is configured to be transmitted.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the determining that the at least one TDRA candidate has more than one possible location within the slot comprises determining that a K 0 slot offset associated with each of the at least one TDRA candidate is equal to 0.

19. The method of claim 12 , wherein receiving the HARQ-ACK feedback comprises:

determining a number of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the slot;

determining, based on the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions, a first number of TDRA candidates of the at least one TDRA candidate that has more than one possible location within the slot; and

determining a total number of TDRA candidates within the slot, the total number of TDRA candidates within the slot including the first number of TDRA candidates within the slot, a second number of TDRA candidates corresponding to additional locations of the at least one TDRA candidate within the slot, and a third number of TDRA candidates with one possible location within the slot,

wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is received based on the total number of TDRA candidates.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising determining a total number of non-overlapping TDRA candidates within the slot based on the total number of TDRA candidates, wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is received via x bits, where x is equal to the total number of non-overlapping TDRA candidates.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 25, 2023
From: YANG, WEI; HOSSEINI, SEYEDKIANOUSH; FAKOORIAN, SEYED ALI AKBAR
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 064704/0578 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17230904 · Apr 14, 2021
Provisional Application 63011979 · Apr 17, 2020
Related Publication 20240205951A1 · Jun 20, 2024
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