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Granted Patent B2
US 12,342,361 · App. 18/015,568 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Method and device for supporting URLLC service

Inventors: Sangkyu Baek (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Anil Agiwal (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Soenghun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Jaehyuk Jang (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
H04W72/512H04W56/0055H04W72/21H04W74/0808
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Patent No.
US 12,342,361
App. No.
18/015,568
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of determining a propagation delay value, the method including requesting a propagation delay from a base station, transmitting a time measurement signal on a time measurement resource allocated by the base station, receiving, from the base station, a response including an extended timing advance (TA) command, and based on the received response, applying time information and starting a timer. The present disclosure provides a method, performed by a UE, of performing communication in an unlicensed spectrum, the method including determining whether to transmit data via a configured grant (CG), comparing priorities of the CG and an uplink resource, and changing the priority of the CG, based on a listen before talk (LBT) failure.

Claims (32)

1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

performing a listen before talk (LBT) on a configured grant (CG) resource in an unlicensed spectrum;

identifying failure of the LBT on the CG resource;

in case that the CG resource overlaps with an uplink (UL) resource on a time axis and the CG resource is configured as a prioritized resource, determining the UL resource as a prioritized resource and the CG resource as a deprioritized resource, based on the failure of the LBT; and

performing UL transmission using the UL resource configured as the prioritized resource.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the UL transmission comprises transmitting a scheduling request (SR) on the UL resource configured as the prioritized resource.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein in case that the CG resource is configured on a first cell and the UL resource is configured on a second cell, the SR is transmitted on the second cell.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the UL transmission comprises:

in case that the CG resource is configured on a first cell and the UL resource is configured on a second cell, cancelling transmission of a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU) and a MAC control element (CE) included in a first MAC protocol data unit (PDU) on the CG resource;

generating a second MAC PDU including the MAC SDU and the MAC CE; and

transmitting the second MAC PDU using the UL resource configured on the second cell.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the UL transmission comprises transmitting a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU) included in a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for the CG resource to a radio link control (RLC) layer or a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying failure of an LBT for a dynamic grant resource; and

in case that the dynamic grant resource overlaps with the UL resource on the time axis and the dynamic grant resource is configured as a prioritized resource, determining the UL resource as the prioritized resource and the dynamic grant resource as a deprioritized resource, based on the failure of the LBT for the dynamic grant resource.

7. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to:

perform a listen before talk (LBT) on a configured grant (CG) resource in an unlicensed spectrum,

identify failure of the LBT on the CG resource,

in case that the CG resource overlaps with an uplink (UL) resource on a time axis and the CG resource is configured as a prioritized resource, determine the UL resource as a prioritized resource and the CG resource as a deprioritized resource, based on the failure of the LBT, and

perform a UL transmission using the UL resource configured as the prioritized resource.

8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit a scheduling request (SR) on the UL resource configured as the prioritized resource.

9. The UE of claim 8 , wherein in case that the CG resource is configured on a first cell and the UL resource is configured on a second cell, the SR is transmitted on the second cell.

10. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

in case that the CG resource is configured on a first cell and the UL resource is configured on a second cell, cancel transmission of a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU) and a MAC control element (CE) included in a first MAC protocol data unit (PDU) on the CG resource,

generate a second MAC PDU including the MAC SDU and the MAC CE, and

transmit the second MAC PDU using the UL resource configured on the second cell.

11. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU) included in a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for the CG resource to a radio link control (RLC) layer or a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer.

12. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

identify failure of an LBT for a dynamic grant resource, and

in case that the dynamic grant resource overlaps with the UL resource on the time axis and the dynamic grant resource is configured as a prioritized resource, determine the UL resource as the prioritized resource and the dynamic grant resource as a deprioritized resource, based on the failure of the LBT for the dynamic grant resource.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2023
From: BAEK, SANGKYU; AGIWAL, ANIL; KIM, SOENGHUN; JANG, JAEHYUK
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 062583/0347 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0098236 · Aug 5, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230254880A1 · Aug 10, 2023
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