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US 12,244,420 · App. 18/377,684 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Short physical uplink control channel (sPUCCH) structure

Inventors: Alphan Sahin (Westbury, NY); Rui Yang (Greenlawn, NY); Erdem Bala (East Meadow, NY); Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
H04L1/1607H04L5/0055H04L27/2607H04L27/2634H04W16/14H04W72/21H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 12,244,420
App. No.
18/377,684
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a downlink transmission and send a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in each resource block (RB) of an interlace of a plurality of RBs in an active bandwidth part (BWP). A base sequence is mapped to the PUCCH transmission repetitively, once to each RB of the plurality of RBs of the interlace, using a different cyclic shift of the base sequence for each RB. Each different cyclic shift of the base sequence in the PUCCH transmission to each RB is a function of a RB index of the respective RB. The PUCCH transmission indicates either an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative ACK (NACK) of the received downlink transmission.

Claims (23)

1. A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

receiving a downlink transmission; and

sending 1 bit or 2 bits of uplink control information (UCI) in each resource block (RB) of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission comprising an interlace of a plurality of RBs in an active bandwidth part (BWP) of an unlicensed carrier,

wherein a respective low peak-to-average power (PAPR) sequence is used to map the PUCCH transmission repetitively, once to each RB of the plurality of RBs of the interlace,

wherein each respective low PAPR sequence includes a different cyclic shift of a same base sequence in each RB,

wherein each different cyclic shift of the respective low PAPR sequence used in mapping the PUCCH transmission to each RB of the interlace, is a function of a RB index of the respective RB, and

wherein the UCI indicates either an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative ACK (NACK) of the downlink transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interlace comprises a number of RBs distributed evenly over a channel bandwidth.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the distribution is achieved using orthogonal spreading sequences.

4. A method performed by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

sending 1 bit or 2 bits of uplink control information (UCI) in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission using an interlace of a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in an active bandwidth part (BWP) of an unlicensed carrier, wherein a respective low peak-to-average power (PAPR) sequence is mapped to each RB of the plurality of RBs of the interlace, wherein the respective low PAPR sequence mapped to each RB is derived from a different cyclic shift of a same base sequence used to represent the UCI, wherein the different cyclic shift used for each RB is a function of the RB index of the respective RB.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein each mapped sequence is multiplied by a scaling coefficient.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the PUCCH transmission comprises a PUCCH format 0 transmission or a PUCCH format 1 transmission.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the PUCCH transmission conveys one of an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative ACK (NACK) for a downlink data transmission or a scheduling request (SR) for an uplink data transmission.

8. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a transmitter and a processor communicatively coupled to the transmitter, the transmitter and processor configured to:

send 1 bit or 2 bits of uplink control information (UCI) in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission using an interlace of a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in an active bandwidth part (BWP) of an unlicensed carrier, wherein a respective low peak-to-average power (PAPR) sequence is mapped to each RB of the plurality of RBs of the interlace, wherein the respective low PAPR sequence mapped to in each RB is derived from a different cyclic shift of a same base sequence, wherein the different cyclic shift used for each RB of the interlace is a function of an RB index of the respective RB.

9. The WTRU of claim 8 , wherein each mapped sequence is multiplied by a scaling coefficient.

10. The WTRU of claim 8 , wherein the PUCCH transmission comprises a PUCCH format 0 or a PUCCH format 1 transmission.

11. The WTRU of claim 8 , wherein the PUCCH transmission conveys one of an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative ACK (NACK) for a downlink data transmission or a scheduling request (SR) for an uplink data transmission.

12. The WTRU of claim 8 , wherein each RB of the interlace includes a same base sequence cyclically shifted as a function of an index of the respective RB of the interlace of the plurality of RBs.

13. The WTRU of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of RBs of the interlace are distributed evenly over a channel bandwidth.

14. The WTRU of claim 13 , wherein the distribution is achieved using orthogonal spreading sequences.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 16960937
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