Granted Patent B2

US 12,294,996 · App. 18/342,815 · Granted May 6, 2025

Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego, CA); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego, CA); Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04W72/1273H04W72/0446H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (64)

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

receiving a physical downlink shared channel configuration and a semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a set of one or more semi-persistent scheduling configurations;

receiving downlink control information associated with a physical downlink shared channel transmission for the semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

determining, based at least in part on a rule, a repetition number for a number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the rule is based at least in part on a time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information and at least one of the physical downlink shared channel configuration or the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

receiving, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission in accordance with the repetition number.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor or that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor, or a combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information includes the repetition number; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission based at least in part on a value of the repetition number, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are within a time period that is less than or equal to a semi-persistent scheduling time period of the plurality of semi-persistent scheduling time periods.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number; and

determining that the number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of expected instances.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

identifying, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, a configuration of a first aggregation factor from the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

determining, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

identifying, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, a configuration of a second aggregation factor from the physical downlink shared channel configuration; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the second aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the repetition number based at least in part on the rule comprises:

determining that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

determining, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

determining, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor; and

determining that the number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, and the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding the configuration of the second aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of expected instances.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying, from the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, a configuration of a first aggregation factor; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

identifying, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, a configuration of a second aggregation factor from the physical downlink shared channel configuration; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the second aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

determining, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor; and

determining that the number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor and the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding the configuration of the second aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of expected instances.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying, from the physical downlink shared channel configuration, a configuration of a first aggregation factor; and

identifying a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the identified number of repetitions.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding a configuration of a first aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of expected instances.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a configuration of a time domain resource allocation table via radio resource control signaling, wherein the time domain resource allocation table comprises a plurality of time domain resource allocation entries, and wherein at least one time domain resource allocation entry of the plurality of time domain resource allocation entries includes the repetition number indicated by at least one column of the time domain resource allocation table.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a cyclic redundancy check that is scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier, the downlink control information comprising a new data indicator equal to zero, and wherein the downlink control information activates the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a cyclic redundancy check that is scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier, the downlink control information comprising a new data indicator equal to one, and wherein the physical downlink shared channel transmission comprises a retransmission of semi-persistently scheduled physical downlink shared channel scheduled by the downlink control information.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received in a different slot time period of a plurality of consecutive slot time periods.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a downlink control information format 1_1 or 1_2.

19. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a set of one or more semi-persistent scheduling configurations;

identifying a repetition scheme configuration;

receiving downlink control information associated with a physical downlink shared channel transmission for the semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

identifying, within the downlink control information, an indication of a one or more transmission configuration indicator states; and

receiving one or more repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission based at least in part on the repetition scheme configuration and the one or more transmission configuration indicator states, the one or more repetitions corresponding to respective transmission occasions having non-overlapping time domain resource allocations within a same slot time period.

20. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a processor,

memory coupled with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive a physical downlink shared channel configuration and a semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a set of one or more semi-persistent scheduling configurations;

receive downlink control information associated with a physical downlink shared channel transmission for the semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

determine, based at least in part on a rule, a repetition number for a number of expected instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the rule is based at least in part on a time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information and at least one of the physical downlink shared channel configuration or the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

receive, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission in accordance with the repetition number.

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