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Granted Patent B2
US 12,355,514 · App. 18/523,273 · 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 12,355,514
App. No.
18/523,273
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 (62)

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 and scheduling a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

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

determining that the second PUSCH starts on a symbol earlier than the last symbol of the first PUSCH when the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are associated with different CORESET pool index values.

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH do not overlap in time.

3. 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.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting the first PUSCH, wherein the first PUSCH ends at a third symbol; and

transmitting the second PUSCH, wherein the second PUSCH starts at a fourth symbol occurring earlier than the third symbol.

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 and scheduling a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

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

determine that the second PUSCH starts on a symbol earlier than the last symbol of the first PUSCH 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 first PUSCH and the second PUSCH do not overlap in time.

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

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

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

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

transmit the first PUSCH, wherein the first PUSCH ends at a third symbol; and

transmit the second PUSCH, wherein the second PUSCH starts at a fourth symbol occurring earlier than the third symbol.

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

wherein the program instructions are further executable 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.

11. A method, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment device (UE), a configuration including 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 that ends at a first symbol and schedules a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

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

receiving the first PUSCH ending at a third symbol; and

receiving the second PUSCH starting at a fourth symbol occurring earlier than the third symbol.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, from the UE, an indication that two pre-coding matrix index (PMI) sub-bands per channel quality indicator (CQI) sub-band for less than twenty PMI sub-bands is not supported.

13. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein, in a common slot, for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACK/NACKs) can have any time relationship.

14. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein, in a common slot, for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, a CORESET pool having a non-zero index value cannot schedule an acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACK/NACKs) earlier than a slot scheduled by a CORESET pool having an index value of 0.

15. 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.

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 including 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 that ends at a first symbol and schedules a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

generate instructions to transmit a second PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs that ends at a second symbol later than the first symbol and schedules a second PUSCH, wherein the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are associated with different CORESET pool index values;

receive the first PUSCH ending at a third symbol; and

receive the second PUSCH starting at a fourth symbol occurring earlier than the third symbol.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the UE, an indication that two pre-coding matrix index (PMI) sub-bands per channel quality indicator (CQI) sub-band for less than twenty PMI sub-bands is not supported.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein, in a common slot, for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACK/NACKs) can have any time relationship.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein, in a common slot, for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a CORESET pool of the one or more CORESET pools, a CORESET pool having a non-zero index value cannot schedule an acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACK/NACKs) earlier than a slot scheduled by a CORESET pool having an index value of 0.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 ,

wherein the at least one 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.

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