IP Library Granted Patent US 12,432,585
Granted Patent B2
US 12,432,585 · App. 17/756,156 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Medium access control layer mapping for pathloss reference signal

Inventors: Ruiming Zheng (Beijing, CN); Yan Zhou (San Diego, CA); Yu Zhang (San Diego, CA); Linhai He (San Diego, CA); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
H04W24/08H04L5/0048H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,432,585
App. No.
17/756,156
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a medium access control layer message indicating a set of mappings between a set of pathloss reference signals and one of: a set of physical uplink shared channel identifiers, or a set of sounding reference signal identifiers; receive downlink control information activating a mapping of the set of mappings; and perform a pathloss measurement using a pathloss reference signal identified by the activated mapping. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims (53)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a medium access control (MAC)-layer message indicating a set of mappings between a set of pathloss reference signal (RS) identifiers and a set of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) power control identifiers, wherein the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is included in at least two adjacent octets of the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers;

receiving downlink control information (DCI) activating a mapping of the set of mappings, wherein a resource indicator field of the DCI indicates a value associated with the mapping; and

performing a pathloss measurement using a pathloss RS identified by the activated mapping.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated, and wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers identifies the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving information configuring a maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the information configuring the maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is received using radio resource control signaling.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a MAC-layer message indicating a set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set identifiers, wherein the set of SRS resource set identifiers is associated with semi-persistent SRS resource sets or aperiodic SRS resource sets.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated.

9. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station, comprising:

transmitting a medium access control (MAC)-layer message indicating a set of mappings between a set of pathloss reference signal (RS) identifiers and a set of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) power control identifiers, wherein the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is included in at least two adjacent octets of the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers;

transmitting downlink control information (DCI) activating a mapping of the set of mappings, wherein a resource indicator field of the DCI indicates a value associated with the mapping; and

transmitting a pathloss RS for a pathloss measurement in accordance with the activated mapping.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated, and wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers identifies the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

transmitting information configuring a maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the information configuring the maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is transmitted using radio resource control signaling.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates the set of mappings based at least in part on an order or a sequence of the set of pathloss RS identifiers in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

transmitting a MAC-layer message indicating a set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set identifiers, wherein the set of SRS resource set identifiers is associated with semi-persistent SRS resource sets or aperiodic SRS resource sets.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers.

17. The method of claim 9 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated.

18. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to:

receive a medium access control (MAC)-layer message indicating a set of mappings between a set of pathloss reference signal (RS) identifiers and a set of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) power control identifiers, wherein the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is included in at least two adjacent octets of the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers;

receive downlink control information (DCI) activating a mapping of the set of mappings, wherein a resource indicator field of the DCI indicates a value associated with the mapping; and

perform a pathloss measurement using a pathloss RS identified by the activated mapping.

19. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

20. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated, and wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers identifies the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

21. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

receive information configuring a maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

22. The UE of claim 21 , wherein the information configuring the maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is received using radio resource control signaling.

23. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

receive a MAC-layer message indicating a set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set identifiers, wherein the set of SRS resource set identifiers is associated with semi-persistent SRS resource sets or aperiodic SRS resource sets.

24. The UE of claim 23 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of SRS resource set identifiers.

25. The UE of claim 18 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated.

26. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to:

transmit a medium access control (MAC)-layer message indicating a set of mappings between a set of pathloss reference signal (RS) identifiers and a set of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) power control identifiers, wherein the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is included in at least two adjacent octets of the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers;

transmit downlink control information (DCI) activating a mapping of the set of mappings, wherein a resource indicator field of the DCI indicates a value associated with the mapping; and

transmit a pathloss RS for a pathloss measurement in accordance with the activated mapping.

27. The base station of claim 26 , wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers explicitly identifies the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

28. The base station of claim 26 , wherein the set of pathloss RS identifiers is included in a plurality of pathloss RS identifiers, wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers indicates that the set of mappings for the set of pathloss RS identifiers is to be updated, and wherein the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers identifies the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

29. The base station of claim 26 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

transmit information configuring a maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers.

30. The base station of claim 29 , wherein the information configuring the maximum number of pathloss RS identifiers that can be configured in the MAC-layer message indicating the set of mappings between the set of pathloss RS identifiers and the set of PUSCH power control identifiers is transmitted using radio resource control signaling.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 20, 2022
From: ZHENG, RUIMING; ZHOU, YAN; ZHANG, YU; HE, LINHAI; LUO, TAO
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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