Granted Patent B2

US 12,267,850 · App. 18/215,116 · Granted Apr 1, 2025

Inventors: Kyungjun Choi (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Minseok Noh (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR)

Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.

H04W72/23H04L1/1887H04L1/1893

Abstract

Claims (44)

1. A user equipment for a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module, wherein the processor is configured to,

receive a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in multiple slots,

wherein the DCI includes a downlink assignment index (DAI),

identify two or more slots, in the multiple slots, where hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information is to be multiplexed in the PUSCH transmission, depending on whether a condition is satisfied for each slot of the multiple slots,

multiplex the HARQ-ACK information in the PUSCH transmission in the two or more slots, by applying a same value of the DAI for HARQ-ACK multiplexing in each of the two or more slots, and

transmit the PUSCH transmission in the multiple slots.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein the DAI is associated with a number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions scheduled to the user equipment.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein a number of PDSCH transmissions for which Ack/Nack is indicated by the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot of the multiple slots is separately determined for each slot.

4. The user equipment of claim 3 ,

wherein the two or more slots are determined by excluding at least one slot of the multiple slots, and

wherein the at least one slot does not satisfy the condition.

5. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot of the two or more slots is determined by adding the value indicated by the DAI to a value obtained by multiplying a first value by 4, and

wherein the first value is a value based on the number of PDSCH transmissions for which Ack/Nack is indicated by the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot.

6. The user equipment of claim 1 ,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘1’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘00’,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘2’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘01’,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘3’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘10’, and

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘4’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘11’.

7. A method of operating a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in multiple slots,

wherein the DCI includes a downlink assignment index (DAI);

identifying two or more slots, in the multiple slots, where hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information is to be multiplexed in the PUSCH transmission depending on whether a condition is satisfied for each slot of the multiple slots;

multiplex the HARQ-ACK information in the PUSCH transmission in the two or more slots, by applying a same value of the DAI for HARQ-ACK multiplexing in each of the two or more slots, and

transmit the PUSCH transmission in the multiple slots.

8. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the DAI is associated with a number of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions scheduled to the user equipment.

9. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein a number of PDSCH transmissions for which Ack/Nack is indicated by the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot of the multiple slots is separately determined for each slot.

10. The method of claim 9 ,

wherein the two or more slots are determined by excluding at least one slot of the multiple slots, and

wherein the at least one slot does not satisfy the condition.

11. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot of the two or more slots is determined by adding the value indicated by the DAI to a value obtained by multiplying a first value by 4, and

wherein the first value is a value based on the number of PDSCH transmissions for which Ack/Nack is indicated by the HARQ-ACK information multiplexed in each slot.

12. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘1’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘00’,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘2’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘01’,

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘3’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘10’, and

wherein the value of the DAI is ‘4’ when 2 bits of the DAI are ‘11’.

Priority Claims (3)

Continuity (4)

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