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US 12,302,410 · App. 17/764,964 · Granted May 13, 2025

Transmission over a random access channel

Inventors: Yi Wang (Beijing, CN); Feifei Sun (Beijing, CN); Jingxing Fu (Beijing, CN); Qi Xiong (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W74/0841H04L1/1812H04W72/0453H04W72/23H04W74/0866
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Patent No.
US 12,302,410
App. No.
17/764,964
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a transmission method and apparatus. The method may comprise: receiving at least one piece of downlink control information; determining, based on the downlink control information, a time resource of a to-be-sent hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement and/or a content of the hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement; and sending the hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement based on the determined time resource and/or the determined content.

Claims (28)

1. A terminal operating in a shared spectrum channel in a communication system, the terminal comprising:

a transceiver; and

a controller configured to:

receive, from a base station, configuration information for a physical random access channel (PRACH);

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH includes a first parameter, transmit, to the base station, a PRACH based on a first sequence length of the PRACH, a frequency offset of a first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to a physical resource block with index 0 of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a start of a first set of resource blocks (RBs) associated with the first PRACH transmission occasion, and a start of a second set of RBs associated with a second PRACH transmission occasion; and

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH does not include the first parameter, transmit, to the base station, the PRACH based on a second sequence length of the PRACH, the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP, and a number of RBs occupied.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein a frequency domain offset of the second PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the second set of RBs is same as the frequency domain offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the first set of RBs.

3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP is configured such that the first PRACH transmission occasion is fully contained within the first set of RBs.

4. A method performed by a terminal operating in a shared spectrum channel in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a physical random access channel (PRACH);

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH includes a first parameter, transmitting, to the base station, a PRACH based on a first sequence length of the PRACH, a frequency offset of a first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to a physical resource block with index 0 of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a start of a first set of resource blocks (RBs) associated with the first PRACH transmission occasion, and a start of a second set of RBs associated with a second PRACH transmission occasion; and

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH does not include the first parameter, transmitting, to the base station, the PRACH based on a second sequence length of the PRACH, the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP, and a number of RBs occupied.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a frequency domain offset of the second PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the second set of RBs is same as the frequency domain offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the first set of RBs.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP is configured such that the first PRACH transmission occasion is fully contained within the first set of RBs.

7. A base station operating in a shared spectrum channel in a communication system, the base station comprising:

a transceiver; and

a controller configured to:

transmit, to a terminal, configuration information for a physical random access channel (PRACH);

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH includes a first parameter, receive, from the terminal, a PRACH based on a first sequence length of the PRACH, a frequency offset of a first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to a physical resource block with index 0 of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a start of a first set of resource blocks (RBs) associated with the first PRACH transmission occasion, and a start of a second set of RBs associated with a second PRACH transmission occasion; and

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH does not include the first parameter, receive, from the terminal, the PRACH based on a second sequence length of the PRACH, the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP, and a number of RBs occupied.

8. The base station of claim 7 , wherein a frequency domain offset of the second PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the second set of RBs is same as the frequency domain offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the first set of RBs.

9. The base station of claim 7 , wherein the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP is configured such that the first PRACH transmission occasion is fully contained within the first set of RBs.

10. A method performed by a base station operating in a shared spectrum channel in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a terminal, configuration information for a physical random access channel (PRACH);

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH includes a first parameter, receiving, from the terminal, a PRACH based on a first sequence length of the PRACH, a frequency offset of a first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to a physical resource block with index 0 of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a start of a first set of resource blocks (RBs) associated with the first PRACH transmission occasion, and a start of a second set of RBs associated with a second PRACH transmission occasion; and

in case that the configuration information for the PRACH does not include the first parameter, receiving, from the terminal, the PRACH based on a second sequence length of the PRACH, the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP, and a number of RBs occupied.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein a frequency domain offset of the second PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the second set of RBs is same as the frequency domain offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the start of the first set of RBs.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the frequency offset of the first PRACH transmission occasion in frequency domain with respect to the physical resource block with index 0 of the uplink BWP is configured such that the first PRACH transmission occasion is fully contained within the first set of RBs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2022
From: WANG, YI; SUN, FEIFEI; FU, JINGXING; XIONG, QI
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059543/0608 →
Priority Claims (2)
CN 201910930526.2 · Sep 29, 2019 · national
CN 201911082950.2 · Nov 7, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220377813A1 · Nov 24, 2022
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