Granted Patent B2

US 12,495,413 · App. 17/647,584 · Granted Dec 9, 2025

Inventors: Carmela Cozzo (San Diego, CA); Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston, TX)

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

H04W72/1268H04L1/18H04W72/23H04W72/0446

Abstract

Claims (49)

1 . A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a first indication associated with available slots and a second indication associated with a number of slots and a number of repetitions; and

a processor operably coupled to the transceiver and configured to identify, based on the first indication, whether transmission of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with repetitions is based on the available slots,

wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is based on the available slots, transmit, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in the available slots until the number of slots, and

in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is not based on the available slots, transmit, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in consecutive slots until the number of slots.

2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the available slots are determined by an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time division duplex (TDD) configuration provided by higher layers.

3 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a value of the number of repetitions is smaller than a value of the other number of repetitions.

4 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a set associated with a value of the number of repetitions or the other number of repetitions includes {n16, n24, n28}.

5 . A base station (BS) comprising:

a processor; and

a transceiver operably coupled to the processor and configured to:

transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a first indication associated with available slots and a second indication associated with a number of slots and a number of repetitions,

in case that the first indication is configured that physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with repetitions are received based on the available slots, receive, from the UE, the PUSCH with repetitions in the available slots until the number of the slots, and

in case that the first indication is not configured that the PUSCH with repetitions are received based on the available slots, receive, from the UE, the PUSCH with repetitions in consecutive slots until the number of the slots.

6 . The BS of claim 5 , wherein the available slots are determined by an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time division duplex (TDD) configuration provided by higher layers.

7 . The BS of claim 5 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a value of the number of repetitions is smaller than a value of the other number of repetitions.

8 . The BS of claim 5 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a set associated with a value of the number of repetitions or the other number of repetitions includes {n16, n24, n28}.

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

receiving, from a base station, a first indication associated with available slots and a second indication associated with a number of slots and a number of repetitions;

identifying, based on the first indication, whether transmission of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with repetitions is based on the available slots;

in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is based on the available slots, transmitting, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in the available slots until the number of slots; and

in case that the transmission of the PUSCH with repetitions is not based on the available slots, transmitting, to the base station, the PUSCH with repetitions in consecutive slots until the number of slots.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the available slots are determined by an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time division duplex (TDD) configuration provided by higher layers.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a value of the number of repetitions is smaller than a value of the other number of repetitions.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a set associated with a value of the number of repetitions the other number of repetitions includes {n16, n24, n28}.

13 . A method performed by a base station (BS), the method comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a first indication associated with available slots and a second indication associated with a number of slots and a number of repetitions;

in case that the first indication is configured that physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with repetitions are received based on the available slots, receiving, from the UE, the PUSCH with repetitions in the available slots until the number of the slots; and

in case that the first indication is not configured that the PUSCH with repetitions are received based on the available slots, receive, from the UE, the PUSCH with repetitions in consecutive slots until the number of the slots.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the available slots are determined by an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time division duplex (TDD) configuration provided by higher layers.

15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetition, and

a value of the number of repetitions is smaller than a value of the other number of repetitions.

16 . The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the second indication indicates another number of repetitions, and

a set associated with a value of the number of repetitions or the other number of repetitions includes {n16, n24, n28}.

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