Granted Patent B2

US 12,382,460 · App. 17/950,684 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Inventors: Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego, CA); Mohammed Karmoose (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

H04W72/21

Abstract

Claims (325)

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

determining an uplink control information (UCI) payload to be transmitted;

determining, based on the UCI payload to be transmitted, a grouping of resource sets and sequences, each sequence corresponding to a resource set, wherein determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences comprises:

selecting a set of sequence opportunities (SOs) from a pool of available SOs, wherein the pool of available SOs includes S, where the SOs in the pool are indexed from 1 to S, and wherein selecting the set of SOs from the pool of available SOs includes selecting N SOs from the pool, and

determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences per resource set based on the selected set of SOs;

separating the UCI payload into two parts N payload 1 +N payload 2 , such that

(

N

resource

-

sets

M

)

≥

2

N

payload

1

⁢

and

⁢

(

(

N

sequences

resource

-

set

)

M

N

)

≥

2

N

payload

2

,

 wherein N resource-sets indicates a number of resource sets in the selected N SOs, N sequences resource-set indicates a number of resource set sequences for in the selected N SOs, and M indicates a number of resource sets selected from the N resource-sets ;

selecting one or more resource sets and one or more sequences from among the determined grouping of resource sets and sequences, according to a mapping operation, for transmitting the UCI payload; and

transmitting the selected one or more sequences as part of a UCI payload transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each SO in the in the pool corresponds to a unique transmission of a sequence or a unique sequence index.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the available SOs in the SO pool includes a combination of a resource set and a sequence index.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the pool of available SOs includes a plurality of SOs ordered using resource-set-then-sequence-index (RSTSI) or sequence-index-then-resource-set (SITRS).

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein each of the available SOs in the SO pool includes a unique resource set.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising determining a resource set combination index r res for the selected N SOs using:

r

r

⁢

e

⁢

s

=

∑

i

=

0

N

-

1

〈

N

resource

-

sets

-

k

i

N

-

i

〉

wherein N resource-sets indicates a number of resource sets, k i , i=0, . . . , N−1, k i ∈{1, . . . ,S}, and k i <k i+1 for all i, and

〈

n

k

〉

=

{

(

n

k

)

n

≥

k

0

otherwise

.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the mapping operation is performed according to:

decimal value of a binary selection vector=the resource set combination index r res ,

wherein the selection of N resource sets in the selected N SOs is represented by a binary selection vector of length N resource-sets , where a 1 in an ith bit position indicates that an ith resource set is selected, and a 0 in the ith bit position indicates that the ith resource set is not selected.

8. The method of claim 5 , further comprising determining a sequence combination index sc for the selected N SOs using:

sc

=

∑

i

=

1

N

d

i

·

(

N

sequences

resource

-

set

)

i

-

1

wherein N sequences resource-set indicates a number of resource set sequences, d i represents an index of a sequence selected from an ith resource set, and d i ∈{1, . . . , N sequences resource-set }.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the mapping operation is performed according to the determined sequence combination index sc.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of:

determining a sequence combination index sc for the selected N SOs using:

sc

=

∑

i

=

0

N

-

1

〈

S

-

k

i

N

-

i

〉

wherein k i , i=0, . . . , N−1, k i ∈{1, . . . , S}, and k i <k i+1 for all i, and

〈

n

k

〉

=

{

(

n

k

)

n

≥

k

0

otherwise

;

 or

determining a resource set combination index r res for the selected N SOs using:

r

r

⁢

e

⁢

s

=

∑

i

=

0

N

-

1

〈

N

resource

-

sets

-

k

i

M

-

i

〉

wherein N resource-sets indicates a number of resource sets.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the mapping operation is performed according to the at least one of the determined sequence combination index sc or the determined resource set combination index r res .

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

determining an uplink control information (UCI) payload to be transmitted;

determining, based on the UCI payload to be transmitted, a grouping of resource sets and sequences, each sequence corresponding to a resource set, wherein determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences comprises:

selecting a set of sequence opportunities (SOs) from a pool of available SOs, wherein the pool of available SOs includes S, where the SOs in the pool are indexed from 1 to S, and wherein selecting the set of SOs from the pool of available SOs includes selecting N SOs from the pool, and

determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences per resource set based on the selected set of SOs;

determining an SO combination index r for the selected N SOs using:

r

=

∑

i

=

0

N

-

1

〈

S

-

k

i

N

-

i

〉

wherein k i , i=0, . . . , N−1, k i ∈{1, . . . , S}, and k i <k i+1 for all i, and

〈

n

k

〉

=

{

(

n

k

)

n

≥

k

0

otherwise

;

selecting one or more resource sets and one or more sequences from among the determined grouping of resource sets and sequences, according to a mapping operation, for transmitting the UCI payload; and

transmitting the selected one or more sequences as part of a UCI payload transmission.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the mapping operation includes mapping the UCI payload to the SO combination index r.

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

determining an uplink control information (UCI) payload to be transmitted;

determining, based on the UCI payload to be transmitted, a grouping of resource sets and sequences, each sequence corresponding to a resource set, wherein determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences comprises:

selecting a set of sequence opportunities (SOs) from a pool of available SOs, wherein the pool of available SOs includes S, where the SOs in the pool are indexed from 1 to S, and wherein selecting the set of SOs from the pool of available SOs includes selecting N SOs from the pool, and

determining the grouping of resource sets and sequences per resource set based on the selected set of SOs;

separating the UCI payload into two parts

N

payload

1

+

N

payload

2

,

such

⁢

that

⁢

N

resource

-

ses

≥

2

N

payload

1

⁢

and

⁢

(

N

sequences

resource

-

set

N

)

≥

2

N

payload

2

,

 wherein N resource-sets indicates a number of resource sets in the selected N SOs, and N sequences resource-sets indicates a number of resource set sequences for in the selected N SOs;

selecting one or more resource sets and one or more sequences from among the determined grouping of resource sets and sequences, according to a mapping operation, for transmitting the UCI payload; and

transmitting the selected one or more sequences as part of a UCI payload transmission.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising determining a sequence combination index sc res for the selected N SOs using:

s

⁢

c

r

⁢

e

⁢

s

=

∑

i

=

0

N

-

1

〈

N

sequences

resource

-

set

-

k

i

N

-

i

〉

wherein N sequences resource-sets indicates a number of resource set sequences, k i , i=0, . . . , N−1, k i ∈{1, . . . , S}, and k i <k i+1 for all i, and

〈

n

k

〉

=

{

(

n

k

)

n

≥

k

0

otherwise

.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the mapping operation is performed according to the determined sequence combination index sc res .

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein each SO in the in the pool corresponds to a unique transmission of a sequence or a unique sequence index.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein each of the available SOs in the SO pool includes a combination of a resource set and a sequence index.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the pool of available SOs includes a plurality of SOs ordered using resource-set-then-sequence-index (RSTSI) or sequence-index-then-resource-set (SITRS).

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein each of the available SOs in the SO pool includes a unique resource set.

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