IP Library Granted Patent US 12,640,869
Granted Patent B2
US 12,640,869 · App. 18/018,538 · Granted May 26, 2026

Dynamic PUCCH repetition indication

Inventors: Fang Yuan (Beijing, CN); Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego, CA); Wooseok Nam (San Diego, CA); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L5/0048H04W72/21H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,640,869
App. No.
18/018,538
Granted
May 26, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions. The apparatus may also receive, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a codepoint associated with the number of PUCCH repetitions, the codepoint including at least one PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) associated with a PUCCH resource of one or more PUCCH resource sets, the at least one PRI corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions. The apparatus may also transmit, to the base station, a PUCCH via the PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resource sets, the transmitted PUCCH corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions.

Claims (41)

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

memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions;

receive, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a codepoint associated with the number of PUCCH repetitions, the codepoint including at least one PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) associated with a PUCCH resource of one or more PUCCH resource sets, the at least one PRI corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes at least one K1 value corresponding to a timing offset, and the at least one K1 value further corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions;

select one PUCCH resource set of the one or more PUCCH resource sets based on an uplink control information (UCI) size; and

transmit, to the base station, a PUCCH transmission via the PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resource sets, wherein the PUCCH transmission corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes the number of PUCCH repetitions, such that the number of PUCCH repetitions overwrites a previous number of PUCCH repetitions.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is at least one of an overall repetition number, an actual repetition number, or a scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions configured based on a PUCCH format or the PUCCH resource.

4 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the overall repetition number, and the overall repetition number corresponds to a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 1 and a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 2 .

5 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the actual repetition number, and the actual repetition number applies to a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 1 or a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 2 .

6 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions, and the scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions is one half of the number of PUCCH repetitions or twice of the number of PUCCH repetitions.

7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the DCI indicates the UCI size.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one PRI corresponds to the selected one PUCCH resource set.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the indication corresponds to a resource list.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver or an antenna coupled to the at least one processor.

11 . A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions;

receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a codepoint associated with the number of PUCCH repetitions, the codepoint including at least one PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) associated with a PUCCH resource of one or more PUCCH resource sets, the at least one PRI corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes at least one K1 value corresponding to a timing offset, and the at least one K1 value further corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions;

selecting one PUCCH resource set of the one or more PUCCH resource sets based on an uplink control information (UCI) size; and

transmitting, to the base station, a PUCCH transmission via the PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resource sets, wherein the PUCCH transmission corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is at least one of an overall repetition number, an actual repetition number, or a scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions configured based on a PUCCH format or the PUCCH resource.

13 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions;

transmit, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a codepoint associated with the number of PUCCH repetitions, the codepoint including at least one PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) associated with a PUCCH resource of one or more PUCCH resource sets, the at least one PRI corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes at least one K1 value corresponding to a timing offset, and the at least one K1 value further corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions; and

receive, from the UE, a PUCCH transmission via the PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resource sets, wherein the PUCCH transmission corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein one PUCCH resource set of the one or more PUCCH resource sets is based on an uplink control information (UCI) size.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes the number of PUCCH repetitions, such that the number of PUCCH repetitions overwrites a previous number of PUCCH repetitions.

15 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is at least one of an overall repetition number, an actual repetition number, or a scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions configured based on a PUCCH format or the PUCCH resource.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the overall repetition number, and the overall repetition number corresponds to a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 1 and a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 2 .

17 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the actual repetition number, and the actual repetition number applies to a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 1 or a number of PUCCH repetitions for spatial relation information 2 .

18 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the number of PUCCH repetitions is the scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions, and the scaled value of the number of PUCCH repetitions is one half of the number of PUCCH repetitions or twice of the number of PUCCH repetitions.

19 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the DCI indicates the UCI size.

20 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the at least one PRI corresponds to the one PUCCH resource set.

21 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the indication corresponds to a resource list.

22 . The apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising a transceiver or an antenna coupled to the at least one processor.

23 . A method of wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication of a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions;

transmitting, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a codepoint associated with the number of PUCCH repetitions, the codepoint including at least one PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) associated with a PUCCH resource of one or more PUCCH resource sets, the at least one PRI corresponding to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein the codepoint of the DCI includes at least one K1 value corresponding to a timing offset, and the at least one K1 value further corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions; and

receiving, from the UE, a PUCCH transmission via the PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resource sets, wherein the PUCCH transmission corresponds to the number of PUCCH repetitions, wherein one PUCCH resource set of the one or more PUCCH resource sets is based on an uplink control information (UCI) size.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2023
From: YUAN, FANG; KHOSHNEVISAN, MOSTAFA; NAM, WOOSEOK; LUO, TAO; ZHANG, XIAOXIA
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 062811/0712 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/CN2020/117624 · Sep 25, 2020 · international
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