Granted Patent B2

US 12,389,398 · App. 18/737,496 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego, CA); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego, CA); Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04W72/1273H04W72/0446H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (65)

1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and

instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

receive a physical downlink shared channel configuration and a semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

receive downlink control information that schedules a physical downlink shared channel transmission associated with the semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

determine, based at least in part on a rule, a repetition number for a number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the rule is based at least in part on a time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information and at least one of the physical downlink shared channel configuration or the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

receive one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission in accordance with the repetition number.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor or that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor, or a combination thereof.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information includes the repetition number; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission based at least in part on a value of the repetition number, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are within a time period that is less than or equal to a semi-persistent scheduling time period of a plurality of semi-persistent scheduling time periods.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number; and

determine that the number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of instances.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

identify, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, a configuration of a first aggregation factor from the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

determine, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

identify, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, a configuration of a second aggregation factor from the physical downlink shared channel configuration; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the second aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine the repetition number based at least in part on the rule are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information excludes the repetition number;

determine, based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

determine, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor; and

determine that the number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the time domain resource allocation entry excluding the repetition number, the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, and the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding the configuration of the second aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of instances.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

identify, from the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, a configuration of a first aggregation factor; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

identify, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, a configuration of a second aggregation factor from the physical downlink shared channel configuration; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the second aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excludes a configuration of a first aggregation factor;

determine, based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor, that the physical downlink shared channel configuration excludes a configuration of a second aggregation factor; and

determine that the number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the semi-persistent scheduling configuration excluding the configuration of the first aggregation factor and the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding the configuration of the second aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of instances.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

identify, from the physical downlink shared channel configuration, a configuration of a first aggregation factor; and

identify a number of repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission corresponding to a value of the first aggregation factor, wherein two or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received based at least in part on the number of repetitions.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

determine that the number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is equal to one based at least in part on the physical downlink shared channel configuration excluding a configuration of a first aggregation factor, wherein a single instance of the physical downlink shared channel transmission is received based at least in part on the number of instances.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

receive a configuration of a time domain resource allocation table via radio resource control signaling, wherein the time domain resource allocation table comprises a plurality of time domain resource allocation entries, and wherein at least one time domain resource allocation entry of the plurality of time domain resource allocation entries includes the repetition number indicated by at least one column of the time domain resource allocation table.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a cyclic redundancy check that is scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier, the downlink control information comprising a new data indicator equal to zero, and wherein the downlink control information activates the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a cyclic redundancy check that is scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier, the downlink control information comprising a new data indicator equal to one, and wherein the physical downlink shared channel transmission comprises a retransmission of semi-persistently scheduled physical downlink shared channel scheduled by the downlink control information.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission are received in a different slot time period of a plurality of consecutive slot time periods.

18. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information has a downlink control information format 1_1 or 1_2.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more processors,

one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and

instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

receive a semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

receive downlink control information that schedules a physical downlink shared channel transmission associated with the semi-persistent scheduling configuration and includes an indication of one or more transmission configuration indicator states; and

receive one or more repetitions of the physical downlink shared channel transmission based at least in part on an identified repetition scheme configuration and the one or more transmission configuration indicator states, the one or more repetitions corresponding to respective transmission occasions having non-overlapping time domain resource allocations within a same slot.

20. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a physical downlink shared channel configuration and a semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

receiving downlink control information that schedules a physical downlink shared channel transmission associated with the semi-persistent scheduling configuration;

determining, based at least in part on a rule, a repetition number for a number of instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission, wherein the rule is based at least in part on a time domain resource allocation entry indicated by the downlink control information and at least one of the physical downlink shared channel configuration or the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and

receiving one or more instances of the physical downlink shared channel transmission in accordance with the repetition number.

Assignments (1)

Continuity (4)

References Cited (17)