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US 12,382,391 · App. 17/775,028 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Method for operating terminal when DCI is not detected

Inventors: Inkwon Seo (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Seonwook Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W52/0225H04W72/23H04W76/28
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Patent No.
US 12,382,391
App. No.
17/775,028
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to the present specification, a fallback operation for when a terminal has not detected a DCI is newly proposed.

Claims (55)

1. A method comprising:

performing, by a user equipment (UE) to which a primary cell and multiple secondary cells are configured, monitoring for downlink control information (DCI),

wherein the DCI includes a wake-up indication,

wherein the DCI is scrambled by a power saving-radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI); and

performing, by the UE, a default operation for the multiple secondary cells based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring,

wherein a higher layer signal received by the UE from a network informs the UE of the default operation which is operated per each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is configured for each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is a dormancy operation or a non-dormancy operation, and

wherein based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring, the UE skips an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report on a first secondary cell in which the dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells, and performs the aperiodic CSI report on a second secondary cell in which the non-dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI includes dormancy information for a part of or all the multiple secondary cells.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dormancy operation decreases a number of performances of the monitoring for a corresponding secondary cell, and

wherein the non-dormancy operation increases a number of performances of the monitoring for a corresponding secondary cell.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dormancy operation configures a bandwidth part (BWP) of a corresponding secondary cell as a dormancy BWP, and

wherein the UE does not perform the monitoring on the dormancy BWP.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the default operation is configured for each secondary cell group constructed by some cells among the multiple second cells.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the secondary cell group is configured in an ascending order of indexes of the secondary cells.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the default operation is different for each secondary cell group.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the default operation is configured as an operation at the latest activation time for each of the secondary cells.

9. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein based on the wake-up indication informing that the UE is to wake up, the user equipment performs the default operation.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the aperiodic CSI report is performed based on predefined configuration information.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the aperiodic CSI report includes a resource on which the aperiodic CSI report is performed.

12. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

at least one memory;

at least one transceiver; and

at least one processor operably connectable to the at least one transceiver and the at least one memory,

wherein the at least one memory stores instructions that, based on being executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

performing monitoring for downlink control information (DCI),

wherein the DCI includes a wake-up indication,

wherein the DCI is scrambled by a power saving-radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI); and

performing a default operation for multiple secondary cells based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring,

wherein a higher layer signal received by the UE from a network informs the UE of the default operation which is operated per each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is configured for each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is a dormancy operation or a non-dormancy operation, and

wherein based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring, the UE skips an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report on a first secondary cell in which the dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells, and performs the aperiodic CSI report on a second secondary cell in which the non-dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells.

13. An apparatus configured to control a user equipment (UE) to which a primary cell and multiple secondary cells are configured, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories workably connected to the one or more processors and store instructions, wherein the one or more processors, by executing the instructions, are configured to perform:

performing monitoring for downlink control information (DCI); and

performing a default operation for the multiple secondary cells based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring,

wherein the DCI includes a wake-up indication,

wherein the DCI is scrambled by a power saving-radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI),

wherein a higher layer signal received by the UE from a network informs the UE of the default operation which is operated per each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is configured for each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is a dormancy operation or a non-dormancy operation, and

wherein based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring, the UE skips an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report on a first secondary cell in which the dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells, and performs the aperiodic CSI report on a second secondary cell in which the non-dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells.

14. A computer readable medium readable by at least one computer storing instructions that, based on being executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

performing monitoring for downlink control information (DCI); and

performing a default operation for multiple secondary cells based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring,

wherein the DCI includes a wake-up indication,

wherein the DCI is scrambled by a power saving-radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI),

wherein a higher layer signal received by a user equipment (UE) from a network informs the UE of the default operation which is operated per each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is configured for each of the multiple secondary cells,

wherein the default operation is a dormancy operation or a non-dormancy operation, and

wherein based on that the DCI is not detected by the monitoring, the UE skips an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report on a first secondary cell in which the dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells, and performs the aperiodic CSI report on a second secondary cell in which the non-dormancy operation is configured as the default operation among the multiple secondary cells.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2022
From: SEO, INKWON; AHN, JOONKUI; KIM, SEONWOOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 060233/0073 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0141012 · Nov 6, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220400434A1 · Dec 15, 2022
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