Granted Patent B2

US 12,238,772 · App. 17/749,861 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Inventors: Salvatore Talarico (Los Gatos, CA); Sergey Panteleev (Maynooth, IE); Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, CA); Toufiqul Islam (Santa Clara, CA); Yongjun Kwak (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: Intel Corporation

H04W74/0816H04W72/1268H04W74/004H04W76/27

Abstract

Claims (37)

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a fifth-generation new radio (SG NR) system (5GS), the apparatus comprising: processing circuitry; and memory,

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

decode radio-resource control (RRC) signalling received from a generation node B (gNB), the RRC signalling comprising channel access mode information to configure the UE for semi-static channel occupancy in shared spectrum;

decode a downlink control information (DCI) from the gNB that schedules an uplink (UL) transmission, the DCI to further indicate whether the scheduled UL transmission is associated with one of a UE-initiated channel occupancy and a gNB-initiated channel occupancy; and

determine, from on the DCI, whether the scheduled UL transmission is associated with one of the UE-initiated channel occupancy and the gNB-initiated channel occupancy,

wherein for the UE-initiated channel occupancy, to acquire a channel occupancy time (COT), the processing circuitry is to:

configure the UE for transmission of an uplink (UL) transmission burst at a beginning of a first period immediately after sensing the channel to be idle for a slot duration;

configure the UE to end the UL transmission burst before a start of an idle duration for the first period; and

configure the UE to refrain from transmitting within the idle duration of the first period,

wherein when the UE is configured for the semi-static channel occupancy, the UE is configured with semi-static channel access configuration parameters that include a second period for periodic channel occupancy and an offset for the periodic channel occupancy, the offset being a number of one or more symbols from a beginning of a frame to a start of the first period in the frame in which the UE can initiate a channel occupancy, and

wherein when the scheduled UL transmission is determined to be associated with the gNB-initiated channel occupancy, the processing circuitry is to determine whether to transmit the UL transmission without sensing or after sensing the channel, and wherein the memory is configured to store the DCI.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the UE is configured to refrain from initiating the channel occupancy at times other than during the second period for the periodic channel occupancy.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the second period indicates a periodicity of the channel access mode and comprises one of 1 millisecond (ms), 2 ms, 2.5 ms, 4 ms, 5 ms and 10 ms.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the acquired COT is shared with the gNB, and

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to include transmission gap durations of up to 25 microseconds when determining the acquired COT.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the UL transmission is a configured UL transmission and wherein if the configured UL transmission is to occur after the beginning of a period of duration and would overlap with the idle duration corresponding to the period of duration, the processing circuitry is configured to drop the configured UL transmission unless the processing circuitry determines that the gNB initiated a channel occupancy in the period of duration.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein if the configured UL transmission is to occur after the beginning of the period of duration and would end before the idle duration corresponding to the period of duration, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the channel occupancy in the period of duration was initiated by the UE.

7. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the scheduled UL transmission and the DCI that scheduled the UL transmission are within a same period of duration that ends before the idle duration.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the configured UL transmission comprises a configured grant and includes COT sharing information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by processing circuitry of a user equipment (UE) configurable for operation in a 5G NR system (5GS), wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

decode radio-resource control (RRC) signalling received from a generation node B (gNB), the RRC signalling comprising channel access mode information to configure the UE for semi-static channel occupancy in shared spectrum;

decode a downlink control information (DCI) from the gNB that schedules an uplink (UL) transmission, the DCI to further indicate whether the scheduled UL transmission is associated with one of a UE-initiated channel occupancy a gNB-initiated channel occupancy; and

determine, from on the DCI, whether the scheduled UL transmission is associated with one of the UE-initiated channel occupancy and the gNB-initiated channel occupancy,

wherein for the UE-initiated channel occupancy, to acquire a channel occupancy time (COT), the processing circuitry is to:

configure the UE for transmission of an uplink (UL) transmission burst at a beginning of a first period immediately after sensing the channel to be idle for a slot duration;

configure the UE to end the UL transmission burst before a start of an idle duration for the first period; and

configure the UE to refrain from transmitting within the idle duration of the first period,

wherein when the UE is configured for the semi-static channel occupancy, the UE is configured with semi-static channel access configuration parameters that include a second period for periodic channel occupancy and an offset for the periodic channel occupancy, the offset being a number of one or more symbols from a beginning of a frame to a start of the first period in the frame in which the UE can initiate a channel occupancy, and

wherein when the scheduled UL transmission is determined to be associated with the gNB-initiated channel occupancy, the processing circuitry is to determine whether to transmit the UL transmission without sensing or after sensing the channel.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the UE is configured to refrain from initiating the channel occupancy at times other than during the second period for the periodic channel occupancy.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the second period indicates a periodicity of the channel access mode and comprises one of 1 millisecond (ms), 2 ms, 2.5 ms, 4 ms, 5 ms and 10 ms.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 ,

wherein the acquired COT is shared with the gNB, and

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to include transmission gap durations of up to 25 microseconds when determining the acquired COT.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the UL transmission is a configured UL transmission and wherein if the configured UL transmission is to occur after the beginning of a period of duration and would overlap with the idle duration corresponding to the period of duration, the processing circuitry is configured to drop the configured UL transmission unless the processing circuitry determines that the gNB initiated a channel occupancy in the period of duration.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein if the configured UL transmission is to occur after the beginning of the period of duration and would end before the idle duration corresponding to the period of duration, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the channel occupancy in the period of duration was initiated by the UE.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the scheduled UL transmission and the DCI that scheduled the UL transmission are within a same period of duration that ends before the idle duration.

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