IP Library Granted Patent US 12,355,513
Granted Patent B2
US 12,355,513 · App. 18/523,015 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

MIMO enhancement capability design

Inventors: Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Yuchul Kim (San Jose, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez (San Jose, CA); Ghaith N Hattab (Santa Clara, CA); Jie Cui (San Jose, CA); Yang Tang (San Jose, CA); Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, CA); Fangli Xu (Beijing, CN); Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, CA); Yuqin Chen (Beijing, CN); Yeong-Sun Hwang (Germering, DE)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04B7/0413H04L1/1854H04L5/0044H04L5/0053H04L5/0094H04W72/23H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,355,513
App. No.
18/523,015
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-TRP by a UE, including out of order delivery of PDSCH, PUSCH, and/or DL ACK/NACK. The UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (CORESET) pools and each CORESET pool may be associated with an index value. The UE may determine that at least two DCIs of the multiple DCIs end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the UE may be scheduled to receive PDSCHs, transmit PUSCHs, and/or transmit ACK/NACKs from CORESETs associated with the at least two DCIs.

Claims (66)

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, from a base station, a configuration to indicate one or more control resource set (CORESET) pools for one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), wherein each CORESET pool is associated with an index value;

receiving a first PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a first symbol;

receiving a second PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a second symbol later than the first symbol; and

determining that a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH scheduled respectively by the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are at least partially overlapped in time when the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are associated with different CORESET pool index values.

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein said determining is for any two hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers (IDs) in a given scheduled cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the first PDSCH ending at a third symbol; and

receiving the second PDSCH starting at a fourth symbol that is earlier than the third symbol.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that for any two HARQ IDs in a given scheduled cell, when the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are not associated with different CORESET pool index values, a PDSCH associated with the second PDCCH will not be scheduled to be received starting earlier than an end of a PDSCH associated with the first PDCCH.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

monitoring, for each CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, one unicast downlink transmission and one unicast uplink transmission per slot per scheduled component carrier per CORESET pool.

6. A non-transitory computer readable memory medium storing program instructions executable by a processor to cause a device to:

receive, from a base station, a configuration to indicate one or more control resource set (CORESET) pools for one or more downlink control informations (DCIs), wherein each CORESET pool is associated with an index value;

receive a first DCI of the one or more DCIs ending at a first symbol;

receive a second DCI of the one or more DCIs ending at a second symbol later than the first symbol; and

determine that physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) scheduled by the first DCI and the second DCI are at least partially overlapped in time when the first DCI and the second DCI are associated with different CORESET pool index values.

7. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 6 ,

wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the device to:

receive a first PDSCH scheduled by the first DCI ending in a third symbol; and

receive a second PHDSCH scheduled by the second DCI starting in a fourth symbol earlier than the third symbol.

8. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 6 ,

wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to:

determine that for any two HARQ IDs in a given scheduled cell, when the first DCI and the second DCI are not associated with different CORESET pool index values, a PDSCH associated with the second DCI will not be scheduled to be received starting earlier than an end of a first PDSCH associated with the first DCI.

9. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 6 ,

wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to:

monitor, for each CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, one unicast downlink transmission and one unicast uplink transmission per slot per scheduled component carrier per CORESET pool.

10. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 6 ,

wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to:

monitor, for each CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, one unicast downlink transmission and two unicast uplink transmissions per slot per scheduled component carrier per CORESET pool.

11. A method, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment device (UE), a configuration to indicate one or more control resource set (CORESET) pools for one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), wherein each CORESET pool is associated with an index value;

transmitting a first PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a first symbol;

transmitting a second PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a second symbol later than the first symbol, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are associated with different CORESET pool index values;

transmitting a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the first PDCCH ending at a third symbol; and

transmitting a second PDSCH scheduled by the second PDCCH starting at a fourth symbol that is earlier than the third symbol.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

transmitting, for multi-TRP multi-DCI based ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC), multiple PDSCHs with a common HARQ ID overlapping in time.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

transmitting, for multi-TRP multi-DCI based ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC), a fourth PDSCH with a HARQ process ID common to a third PDSCH prior to receiving an acknowledgement associated with the third PDSCH.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, from the UE, an indication of support of single DCI multi-TRP operation modes 1, 2a, 2b, 3, and 4 independently.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, from the UE, an indication that the UE does not support 2 pre-coding matrix indexes (PMIs) sub-bands per channel quality index (CQI) sub-band for less than 20 PMI sub-bands.

16. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor in communication with the memory and configured to:

generate a message to transmit, to a user equipment device (UE), a configuration to indicate one or more control resource set (CORESET) pools for one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), wherein each CORESET pool is associated with an index value;

generate instructions to transmit a first PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a first symbol;

generate instructions to transmit a second PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs ending at a second symbol later than the first symbol; and

generate instructions to transmit a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) ending at a third symbol; and

generate instructions to transmit a second PDSCH starting at a fourth symbol that is earlier than the third symbol.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least on processor is further configured to:

generate instructions to transmit, for multi-TRP multi-DCI based ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC), multiple PDSCHs with a common HARQ ID overlapping in time.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least on processor is further configured to:

generate instructions to transmit, for multi-TRP multi-DCI based ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC), a fourth PDSCH with a HARQ process ID common to a third PDSCH prior to receiving an acknowledgement associated with the third PDSCH.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least on processor is further configured to:

receive, from the UE, an indication of support of single DCI multi-TRP operation modes 1, 2a, 2b, 3, and 4 independently.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least on processor is further configured to:

receive, from the UE, an indication that the UE does not support 2 pre-coding matrix indexes (PMIs) sub-bands per channel quality index (CQI) sub-band for less than 20 PMI sub-bands.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 17833502 · Jun 6, 2022
Continuation 17267603
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