Uplink codeword to layer mapping and phase tracking reference signaling
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for mapping codewords to transmission layers and transmitting phase tracking reference signals in wireless networks.
1. A baseband processor comprising:
processing circuitry to:
receive configuration information from a base station, the configuration information to indicate at least two codewords are enabled for uplink transmissions;
receive scheduling information to schedule an uplink transmission;
identify a first mapping between a first phase-tracking reference signal (PTRS) port and a first transmission layer;
identify a second mapping between a first codeword and the first PTRS port; and
map the first codeword to the first transmission layer based on the first and second mappings;
map, based on the scheduling information and configuration information, a second codeword to a second transmission layer; and
generate the first codeword for transmission with the first transmission layer and the second codeword with the second transmission layer; and
interface circuitry coupled with the processing circuitry, the interface circuitry to enable communication.
2. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
map the first codeword to a plurality of first transmission layers that includes the first transmission layer; and
map the second codeword to a plurality of second transmission layers that includes the second transmission layer.
3. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the configuration information comprises user equipment-specific configuration information, serving cell configuration information, bandwidth part configuration information, or control resource set configuration information.
4. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
generate a capability indication to be transmitted to indicate that a user equipment supports more than one codeword for uplink transmissions.
5. The baseband processor of claim 1 , further wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
receive a mapping configuration in radio resource control (RRC) signaling or in a media access control (MAC) control element (CE); and
identify the first mapping based on the mapping configuration.
6. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the first mapping is between the first PTRS port and both the first transmission layer and a third transmission layer and to identify the first mapping between the first PTRS port and the first and third transmission layers comprises:
determine the first transmission layer is mapped to a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) port;
determine the third transmission layer is mapped to a second PUSCH port; and
determine the first PTRS port is mapped to both the first and second PUSCH ports.
7. The baseband processor of claim 6 , wherein to determine the first PTRS port is mapped to both the first and second PUSCH ports comprises:
receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) indicator (SRI) that identifies an SRS resource configuration;
determine the SRS resource configuration includes a PTRS index that corresponds to the first PTRS port; and
determine that the first PTRS port is mapped to both the first and second PUSCH ports based on a determination that the first and second PUSCH ports are associated with SRS resources provided by the SRS resource configuration.
8. The baseband processor of claim 6 , wherein to determine the first PTRS port is mapped to both the first and second PUSCH ports comprises:
determine, based on one or more precoding matrixes, the first transmission layer is mapped to the first PUSCH port and the second transmission layer is mapped to the second PUSCH port based on one or more precoding matrixes in a codebook,
wherein the first and second PUSCH ports are either PUSCH ports 1000 and 1002 , respectively, or are PUSCH ports 1001 and 1003 , respectively.
9. A baseband processor comprising:
processing circuitry to:
receive configuration information from a base station, the configuration information to indicate at least two codewords are enabled for uplink transmissions;
receive scheduling information to schedule an uplink transmission;
identify a mapping scheme from a plurality of available mapping schemes;
map a first codeword to a first transmission layer and a second codeword to a second transmission layer based on the mapping scheme, the scheduling information, and the configuration information, wherein the mapping scheme is identified based on a mapping configuration from a network or based on whether a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission that includes the first and second codewords is to be transmitted with a non-coherent precoder, a partially-coherent precoder, or a fully-coherent precoder; and
generate the first codeword for transmission with the first transmission layer and the second codeword with the second transmission layer; and
interface circuitry coupled with the processing circuitry, the interface circuitry to enable communication.
10. The baseband processor of claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
identify, based on the mapping scheme, a first mapping that maps a first antenna port to the first transmission layer;
identify, based on the mapping scheme, a second mapping that maps the first codeword to the first antenna port; and
map the first codeword to the first transmission layer based on the first and second mappings,
wherein: the first mapping is to map a plurality of first antenna ports that includes the first antenna port to the first transmission layer; or the first mapping is to map a third antenna port to a third transmission layer and the second mapping is to map the first codeword to a plurality of antenna ports that include a common polarization, the plurality of antenna ports to include the first antenna port and a second antenna port.
11. The baseband processor of claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
receive one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) indicators (SRIs); and
map the first codeword to the first transmission layer and the second codeword to the second transmission layer based on the one or more SRIs.
12. A method comprising:
receiving a capability indication from a user equipment (UE), the capability indication to indicate that the UE supports uplink transmissions with more than one codeword;
generating configuration information to be transmitted to the UE to enable uplink transmissions with more than one codeword;
generating, for transmission to the UE, an indication of a codeword-to-layer mapping scheme, wherein the codeword-to-layer mapping scheme is based on a phase-tracking reference signal (PTRS) port-to-layer mapping; and
scheduling a physical uplink shared channel transmission with a plurality of codewords to be transmitted on at least two transmission layers.