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Granted Patent B2
US 12,273,879 · App. 17/773,083 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Systems and methods of signaling time domain resource allocation for PDSCH transmission

Inventors: Yufei Blankenship (Kildeer, IL); Mattias Frenne (Uppsala, SE); Kittipong Kittichokechai (Järfälla, SE); Siva Muruganathan (Stittsville, CA); Jianwei Zhang (Solna, SE)
Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
H04W72/1273H04W72/11H04W72/23H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 12,273,879
App. No.
17/773,083
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method performed by a wireless device for determining a start symbol of a plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions using a relative reference symbol includes: receiving an indication that includes indications: that enable/disable the use of the relative reference symbol; the offset between the last symbol of a first PDSCH and the first symbol of a second PDSCH; that there are multiple PDSCH transmission occasions; and that a symbol of the first transmission occasion and length corresponding to all transmission occasions; and determining the symbol at which each of the plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions end which will be used to determine the start symbol of the next PDSCH transmission occasion. In this way, the wireless device behavior is defined on how many PDSCH repetitions the wireless device can receive when the use of the new relative reference for the starting symbol of the first PDSCH repetition is enabled.

Claims (63)

1. A method performed by a wireless device for determining a start symbol of a plurality of Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, transmission occasions within a slot using a relative reference symbol, the method comprising:

receiving an indication that comprises:

an indication that enables/disables use of a relative reference symbol S 0 as a reference point for indicating the start symbol;

an indication from a network of at least one offset value K which is an offset between a last symbol of a first PDSCH transmission occasion and a first symbol of a second PDSCH transmission occasion;

an indication from the network that there are multiple PDSCH transmission occasions; and

an indication that a symbol, S, of the first PDSCH transmission occasion and length, L, correspond to all PDSCH transmission occasions; and

determining the symbol at which each of the plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions end which will be used to determine the starting symbol of a next PDSCH transmission occasion by the wireless device;

wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for wireless device specific Radio Network Temporary Identifiers, RNTIs.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the indication comprises receiving the indication via Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the indication comprises receiving the indication via a Transmission Configuration Indicator, TCI, field in a Downlink Control Information, DCI, which indicates the multiple PDSCH transmission occasions when more than one TCI state is indicated by a codepoint in the TCI field.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein each PDSCH transmission occasion is associated with one of the TCI states indicated by the codepoint in the TCI field.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the indication comprises receiving the indication via a Transmission Configuration Indicator, TCI, field in a Downlink Control Information, DCI, which indicates the multiple PDSCH transmission occasions when there is one TCI state indicated by a codepoint in the TCI field.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein all PDSCH transmission occasions are associated with the one TCI state indicated by the codepoint in the TCI field.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the indication comprises receiving the indication via a Time Domain Resource Allocation, TDRA, field in the DCI.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless device receives only PDSCH transmission occasions that end on or before a slot boundary.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless device does not receive any of the multiple PDSCH transmission occasions if at least one of the PDSCH transmission occasions crosses a slot boundary.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless device fully receives PDSCH transmission occasions that end on or before a slot boundary, and delays PDSCH transmission occasions that cross the slot boundary to a next slot.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless device fully receives PDSCH transmission occasions that end on or before a slot boundary, and shortens PDSCH transmission occasions that cross the slot boundary.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless device fully receives PDSCH transmission occasions that end on or before a slot boundary, and fully receives PDSCH transmission occasions that cross the slot boundary under certain conditions.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the certain conditions include if excess symbols that cross into a next slot do not contain one or more of the group consisting of:

a monitoring occasion; a configured Tracking Reference Signal, TRS, or other periodic Channel State Information-Reference Signal, CSI-RS; a configured Long-Term Evolution, LTE, Cell Specific Reference Signal, CRS, rate matching pattern; and other reserved resources.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining of the symbol at which each of the plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions end and the subsequent determining of the start of the next PDSCH transmission occasions are received by the wireless device are conditioned on one or more of the group consisting of:

whether use of the relative reference symbol, S 0 , as the reference point for indicating the starting symbol is enabled or disabled;

the value of start symbol S of the first PDSCH transmission occasion;

the value of length L; and

the value of the offset K.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the symbol at which each of the plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions end comprises:

determining that the PDSCH transmission starts at symbol (S 0 +S), and ends at symbol (S 0 +S+(M−1)*K+M*L), where S is an indicated start symbol relative to symbol S 0 ; L is a duration of one PDSCH transmission occasion; M is a number of PDSCH transmission occasions within each slot; and each adjacent PDSCH transmission occasion is separated by K (K>=0) symbols.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an indication to activate a Downlink, DL, Semi-Persistent Scheduling, SPS, configuration, the indication using a TDRA with relative reference S 0 >=0; and

receiving a repeated PDSCH in a subsequent period according to time domain resources as activated.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein, for the DL SPS transmission, either a single transmission point, TRP, or multi-TRP can be used to transmit the PDSCH.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein, a PDSCH repetition that crosses a slot boundary is considered invalid and assumed to be dropped.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for certain DCI formats but not for other DCI formats.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for a Control Resource Set, CORESET, associated with certain controlResourceSetId.

21. A method performed by a base station for indicating a start symbol of a plurality of Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, transmission occasions within a slot using a relative reference symbol, the method comprising:

transmitting an indication that comprises:

an indication that enables/disables use of a relative reference symbol S 0 as a reference point for indicating the start symbol;

an indication of at least one offset value K which is an offset between a last symbol of a first PDSCH transmission occasion and a first symbol of a second PDSCH transmission occasion;

an indication from a network that there are multiple PDSCH transmission occasions; and

an indication that a symbol S of the first PDSCH transmission occasion and length L correspond to all PDSCH transmission occasions;

wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for wireless device specific Radio Network Temporary Identifiers, RNTIs.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein transmitting the indication comprises transmitting the indication via Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein transmitting the indication comprises transmitting the indication via a Transmission Configuration Indicator, TCI, field in a Downlink Control Information, DCI, which indicates the multiple PDSCH transmission occasions when more than one TCI state is indicated by a codepoint in the TCI field.

24. A wireless device for validating one or more parameters, the wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, whereby the wireless device is operable to:

receive an indication that comprises:

an indication that enables/disables use of a relative reference symbol S 0 as a reference point for indicating a starting symbol;

an indication from a network of at least one offset value K which is an offset between a last symbol of a first PDSCH transmission occasion and a first symbol of a second PDSCH transmission occasion;

an indication from the network that there are multiple PDSCH transmission occasions; and

an indication that a symbol, S, of the first PDSCH transmission occasion and length, L, correspond to all PDSCH transmission occasions; and

determine the symbol at which each of the plurality of PDSCH transmission occasions end which will be used to determine a start of the next PDSCH transmission occasion by the wireless device;

wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for wireless device specific Radio Network Temporary Identifiers, RNTIs.

25. A base station for configuring one or more parameters, the base station comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory comprising instructions to cause the base station to:

transmit an indication that comprises:

an indication that enables/disables use of a relative reference symbol S 0 as a reference point for indicating a starting symbol;

an indication of at least one offset value K which is an offset between a last symbol of a first PDSCH transmission occasion and a first symbol of a second PDSCH transmission occasion;

an indication from a network that there are multiple PDSCH transmission occasions; and

an indication that a symbol S of the first PDSCH transmission occasion and length L corresponding to all PDSCH transmission occasions;

wherein determining the symbol is only applicable for wireless device specific Radio Network Temporary Identifiers, RNTIs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2025
From: BLANKENSHIP, YUFEI; MURUGANATHAN, SIVA; FRENNE, MATTIAS; KITTICHOKECHAI, KITTIPONG; ZHANG, JIANWEI
To: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Reel/Frame 070358/0612 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62929611 · Nov 1, 2019
Related Publication 20230300834A1 · Sep 21, 2023
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