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US 12,519,571 · App. 17/873,564 · Granted Jan 6, 2026

Communication method and apparatus using multiple panels

Inventors: Cheul Soon Kim (Daejeon, KR); Jae Heung Kim (Daejeon, KR); Sung Hyun Moon (Daejeon, KR); Jung Hoon Lee (Daejeon, KR); Sung Cheol Chang (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04L1/1812H04L1/08H04L1/1854H04W72/1268
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Patent No.
US 12,519,571
App. No.
17/873,564
Granted
Jan 6, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a base station, DCI including a first field indicating HARQ-ACK retransmission and a second field indicating a priority; identifying first HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and transmitting, to the base station, a first HARQ-ACK codebook including the first HARQ-ACK information based on the indication of the first field.

Claims (48)

1 . A method of a terminal, comprising:

receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) retransmission and a second field indicating a priority;

identifying first HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and

transmitting, to the base station, a first HARQ-ACK codebook including the first HARQ-ACK information based on the indication of the first field,

wherein, based on a first reference signal (RS) group for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) being identical to a second RS group for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUSCH, or

based on the first RS group for the PUCCH being different from the second RS group for the PUSCH, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUCCH, and

wherein the first RS group corresponds to a first beam of the terminal and the second RS group corresponds to a second beam of the terminal.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising identifying second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field, wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including the second HARQ-ACK information is transmitted to the base station together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged before the first HARQ-ACK codebook within a HARQ-ACK bitstream.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and

identifying third HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field,

wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including the second HARQ-ACK information and a third HARQ-ACK codebook including the third HARQ-ACK information are transmitted to the base station together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is a deferred semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged first within a HARQ-ACK bit stream, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the second HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the third HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a cell in which the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted is determined based on a format of the DCI.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the DCI is fallback DCI, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in a PCell.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the base station, configuration information of a PUCCH serving cell, wherein when the DCI is non-fallback DCI, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUCCH serving cell according to the configuration information.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the base station, configuration information of a PUCCH serving cell, wherein when the DCI is non-fallback DCI and the DCI includes a third field indicating a cell in which PUCCH transmission is performed, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in a PCell or the PUCCH serving cell based on a value of the third field.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the DCI is non-scheduling DCI.

11 . A method of a base station, comprising:

generating downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating whether to perform hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) retransmission and a second field indicating a priority;

transmitting the DCI to a terminal; and

in response to the first field indicating the HARQ-ACK retransmission, receiving, from the terminal, a first HARQ-ACK codebook including first HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field,

wherein, based on a first reference signal (RS) group for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) being identical to a second RS group for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received in the PUSCH, or

based on the first RS group for the PUCCH being different from the second RS group for the PUSCH, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received in the PUCCH, and

wherein the first RS group corresponds to a first beam of the terminal and the second RS group corresponds to a second beam of the terminal.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field is received from the terminal together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged before the first HARQ-ACK codebook within a HARQ-ACK bitstream.

13 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field and a third HARQ-ACK codebook including third HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field are received from the terminal together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is a deferred semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged first within a HARQ-ACK bit stream, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the second HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the third HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream.

14 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein a cell in which the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received is determined based on a format of the DCI, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received in a PCell when the DCI is fallback DCI, or the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received in the PCell or a PUCCH serving cell when the DCI is non-fallback DCI.

15 . The method according to claim 11 , further comprising transmitting configuration information of a PUCCH serving cell to the terminal, wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is received in the PUCCH serving cell.

16 . A terminal comprising:

a processor;

a memory electronically communicating with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory,

wherein when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the terminal to:

receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a first field indicating hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) retransmission and a second field indicating a priority;

identify first HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and

transmit, to the base station, a first HARQ-ACK codebook including the first HARQ-ACK information based on the indication of the first field,

wherein, based on a first reference signal (RS) group for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) being identical to a second RS group for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUSCH, or

based on the first RS group for the PUCCH being different from the second RS group for the PUSCH, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUCCH, and

wherein the first RS group corresponds to a first beam of the terminal and the second RS group corresponds to a second beam of the terminal.

17 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the terminal to identify second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field, wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including the second HARQ-ACK information is transmitted to the base station together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged before the first HARQ-ACK codebook within a HARQ-ACK bitstream.

18 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the terminal to:

identify second HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and

identify third HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field,

wherein a second HARQ-ACK codebook including the second HARQ-ACK information and a third HARQ-ACK codebook including the third HARQ-ACK information are transmitted to the base station together with the first HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is a retransmission HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is an initial transmission codebook, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is a deferred semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged first within a HARQ-ACK bit stream, the third HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the second HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is arranged after the third HARQ-ACK codebook within the HARQ-ACK bitstream.

19 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein a cell in which the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted is determined based on a format of the DCI, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in a PCell when the DCI is fallback DCI, or the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PCell or a PUCCH serving cell when the DCI is non-fallback DCI.

20 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the terminal to receive, from the base station, configuration information of a PUCCH serving cell, wherein the first HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted in the PUCCH serving cell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 26, 2022
From: KIM, CHEUL SOON; KIM, JAE HEUNG; MOON, SUNG HYUN; LEE, JUNG HOON; CHANG, SUNG CHEOL
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 060624/0865 →
Priority Claims (10)
KR 10-2021-0098736 · Jul 27, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0114114 · Aug 27, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0131204 · Oct 1, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0147303 · Oct 29, 2021 · national
KR 10-2022-0004350 · Jan 11, 2022 · national
KR 10-2022-0014920 · Feb 4, 2022 · national
KR 10-2022-0019158 · Feb 14, 2022 · national
KR 10-2022-0050947 · Apr 25, 2022 · national
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Continuity (1)
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