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US 12,648,003 · App. 18/522,003 · Granted Jun 2, 2026

Methods and systems for multi-channel scheduling on one or more cells

Inventors: Jing Shi (Shenzhen, CN); Peng Hao (Shenzhen, CN); Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, CN); Xing Liu (Shenzhen, CN); Kai Xiao (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
H04W72/232H04L1/1812H04W72/1273
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Patent No.
US 12,648,003
App. No.
18/522,003
Granted
Jun 2, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and systems for techniques for determining control information in wireless networks are disclosed. In an implementation, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device, a first configuration of multiple traffic channels on multiple cells scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI) and a second configuration of multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI, and receiving the multiple traffic channels scheduled by the DCI.

Claims (44)

1 . A method of wireless communication, comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, a first configuration of multiple traffic channels on multiple cells scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI) and a second configuration of multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI; and

receiving the multiple traffic channels on multiple cells or the multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI,

wherein the DCI include a counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI),

wherein a bit size of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) bits for each C-DAI in a codebook is determined based on a maximum number of configured cells and a maximum number of configured physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and a bit order of the HARQ-ACK bits for each C-DAI in a codebook is determined based on whether a corresponding bit of the HARQ-ACK bits relates to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to a cell index or a multi-transmission time interval (TTI) scheduling according to the cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the C-DAI increases by one per DCI for all scheduled traffic channels.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the maximum number of configured cells corresponds to a multi-cell scheduling for scheduling multiple traffic channels on multiple cells scheduled by the DCI, and wherein the maximum number of configured PDSCHs corresponds to a multi-transmission time interval (TTI) scheduling for scheduling multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the HARQ-ACK bits for each C-DAI in a codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged in the order of: (1) one or more bits corresponding to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to a cell index; (2) one or more bits corresponding to a multi-TTI scheduling according to the cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell.

5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the HARQ-ACK bits for each C-DAI in a codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged in the order of: (1) one or more bits corresponding to a multi-TTI scheduling according to a cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell; (2) one or more bits corresponding to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to the cell index.

6 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the HARQ-ACK bits for each C-DAI in a codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged according to a cell index.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the C-DAI includes a first counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled single traffic channel on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling and a second C-DAI that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled multiple traffic channels on one cell across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling in a same multi-cell scheduling.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the multiple traffic channels include PDSCH, and wherein the maximum number of PDSCHs is determined based on at least one of:

a maximum number of configured cells for a multi-cell scheduling;

a maximum number of configured PDSCHs for a multi-TTI scheduling across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling within the multi-cell scheduling;

a number of cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling; and

a higher layer signaling configuration.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs is determined by multiplying a maximum number of configured cells for the multi-cell scheduling or a number of cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling by a maximum number of configured PDSCHs for the multi-TTI scheduling across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling within the multi-cell scheduling.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs is configured by a higher layer signaling, or is configured by a higher layer signaling to scale the determined maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs is the maximum number of configured cells for the multi-cell scheduling.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs is the maximum number of configured PDSCHs for the multi-TTI scheduling across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling within the multi-cell scheduling.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a maximum number of scheduled PDSCHs is determined based on a greater value between the maximum number of configured cells for the multi-cell scheduling and the maximum number of configured PDSCHs for the multi-TTI scheduling across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling within the multi-cell scheduling.

14 . An apparatus for wireless communication comprising at least one processor that is configured to cause the apparatus to carry out the method of claim 1 .

15 . A method of wireless communication, comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, a first configuration of multiple traffic channels on multiple cells scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI) and a second configuration of multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI; and

receiving the multiple traffic channels scheduled by the DCI,

wherein the DCI includes a first counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled single traffic channel on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling and a second C-DAI that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled multiple traffic channels on one cell across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling in a same multi-cell scheduling,

wherein HARQ-ACK bits for the first C-DAI in a first sub-codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged according to a cell index or corresponding to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to the cell index, and wherein HARQ-ACK bits for the second C-DAI in a second sub-codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged in order of one or more bits corresponding to a multi-TTI scheduling according to the cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell.

16 . A method of wireless communication, comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, a first configuration of multiple traffic channels on multiple cells scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI) and a second configuration of multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI; and

receiving the multiple traffic channels scheduled by the DCI,

wherein the DCI includes a first counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled single traffic channel on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling and a second C-DAI that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled multiple traffic channels on one cell across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling in a same multi-cell scheduling,

wherein HARQ-ACK bits for the second C-DAI in a first sub-codebook includes a plurality of bits arranged in order of one or more bits corresponding to a multi-TTI scheduling according to a cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell, and wherein HARQ-ACK bits for the first C-DAI in a second sub-codebook includes one or more bits arranged according to a cell index or corresponding to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to the cell index.

17 . A method of wireless communication, comprising:

configuring, by a network device, multiple traffic channels on one or more cells, the multiple traffic channels on multiple cells being scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI), the multiple traffic channels on one cell of the multiple cells being scheduled by the DCI; and

transmitting the multiple traffic channels on multiple cells or the multiple traffic channels on one cell scheduled by the DCI,

wherein the DCI include a counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI),

wherein a bit size of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) bits for each C-DAI in a codebook is determined based on a maximum number of configured cells and a maximum number of configured physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and a bit order of the HARQ-ACK bits for each C-DAI in a codebook is determined based on whether a corresponding bit of the HARQ-ACK bits relates to a single PDSCH scheduling on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling according to a cell index or a multi-transmission time interval (TTI) scheduling according to the cell index and a start and length indicator (SLIV) for a time domain order for each cell.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the C-DAI increases by one per DCI for all scheduled traffic channels.

19 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the C-DAI includes a first counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled single traffic channel on one cell in a multi-cell scheduling and a second C-DAI that increases by one per DCI for a scheduled multiple traffic channels on one cell in a same multi-cell scheduling.

20 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the multiple traffic channels include PDSCH, and wherein the maximum number of PDSCHs is determined based on at least one of:

a maximum number of configured cells for a multi-cell scheduling;

a maximum number of configured PDSCHs for a multi-TTI scheduling across cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling within the multi-cell scheduling;

a number of cells configured with multi-TTI scheduling; and

a higher layer signaling configuration.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2024
From: SHI, JING; HAO, PENG; WEI, XINGGUANG; LIU, XING; XIAO, KAI
To: ZTE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066039/0627 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021140350 · Dec 22, 2021
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