公开(公告)号：US11039434B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US14778528

申请日：2014-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Huaning Niu ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W76/30 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04L25/03 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W68/04 ,  H04B7/024 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and method for resource allocation and device-to-device (D2D) discovery hopping are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the UE may receive signaling from an enhanced node B (eNB) indicating discovery resources to transmit discovery signals on within an LTE operation zone. The discovery resources may include a discovery zone which may comprise a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a plurality of subframes. The UE may transmit a discovery signal for receipt by one or more other UEs for D2D discovery within some of the PRBs of the discovery zone. The PRBs for the transmission of the discovery signal may be determined in accordance with a hopping mode to provide increased frequency diversity within a bandwidth of the discovery zone. The hopping mode may comprise intra-subframe hopping, inter-subframe hopping or joint intra/inter-subframe hopping.

公开(公告)号：US20210176745A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US17181797

申请日：2021-02-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralf Matthias Bendlin ,  Gang Xiong ,  Jong-Kae Fwu ,  Hong He ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Seunghee Han ,  Yuan Zhu

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B1/7143 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) over an OFDMA-based uplink. In some embodiments, UCI symbols are mapped to resource elements (REs) in the time/frequency resource grid to maximize frequency diversity. In some embodiments, UCI is mapped in a manner that takes into account channel estimation performance by mapping UCI symbols to those REs that are closest (in terms of OFDM subcarriers/symbols) to REs that carry reference signals.

公开(公告)号：US20210168011A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-03

申请号：US16645360

申请日：2018-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Guotong Wang ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI including a modulation coding scheme (MCS) index and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) allocation. A demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) is encoded for transmission to the base station within a plurality of DM-RS symbols based on the PUSCH allocation. A phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) time domain density is determined based on the MCS index and a number count of the DM-RS symbols for the DM-RS transmission. The PT-RS is encoded for transmission using a plurality of PT-RS symbols based on the determined time domain density. The plurality of symbols includes one or both of front-loaded DM-RS symbols and additional DM-RS symbols.

公开(公告)号：US11013063B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16408016

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a transport block (TB) that includes multiple code blocks. The UE may determine a transport block size (TBS) based on the DCI. The UE may attempt to decode the code blocks. The UE may, if the TBS is greater than a predetermined threshold: bundle the code blocks into code block groups for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement; and transmit a HARQ bit per code block group. The UE may, if the TBS is less than or equal to the threshold, transmit a HARQ bit that indicates whether a decode failure has occurred for at least one of the code blocks of the TB.

公开(公告)号：US11012197B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16245552

申请日：2019-01-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Gang Xiong ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a user equipment (UE) device. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to identify a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of flexible control resource sets (CORESET); determine bit ordering for the plurality of monitoring occasions; generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the received downlink transmission; and incorporate the ordered plurality of monitoring occasions into the HARQ feedback.

公开(公告)号：US11006425B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16476127

申请日：2018-02-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Qian Li

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04J4/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handling of DL (Downlink) control and data channels having different numerologies in NR (New Radio). One example embodiment comprises an apparatus employable by a UE (User Equipment) configured to generate a report comprising capability information associated with the UE, wherein the capability information indicates whether the UE supports multiplexing of multiple numerologies within a common symbol in a FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing)-based manner; process first higher layer signaling that configures one or more control resource sets of a NR (New Radio) PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), wherein the one or more control resource sets are associated with one or more numerologies in accordance with the UE capability information; and demodulate a NR PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) from a resource distinct from resources of the NR PDCCH.

公开(公告)号：US11006401B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16192271

申请日：2018-11-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Seunghee Han

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B(eNB), and methods are described for machine-type communications (MTC) with early termination of repeated transmissions. In MTC implementations with narrow bandwidth, significant numbers of retransmissions may be scheduled based on channel quality measurements. If data is successfully decoded at a receiving device while a significant number of retransmissions remain, system resources are wasted. Embodiments described herein thus use downlink control messaging or intermediate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) messaging for early termination of repeated messages.

公开(公告)号：US10966223B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-30

申请号：US16251762

申请日：2019-01-18

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Lopamudra Kundu ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L25/02

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) to operate in a New Radio (NR) system comprises one or more baseband processors to determine if two or more uplink signals partially overlap, determine a multiplexing rule, a dropping rule, or a priority rule for the two or more uplink signals, and to multiplex, drop, or prioritize the two or more uplink signals for transmission according to the multiplexing rule, dropping rule, or priority rule, and a memory to store two or more uplink signals.

公开(公告)号：US10925066B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16479556

申请日：2018-05-04

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Alexei Davydov ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Wook Bong Lee

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/02

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable for quasi-co-location (QCL) is disclosed. The UE can demodulate a synchronization signal (SS) block transmitted by a gNB from a first antenna port, wherein one or more of a Doppler shift, a Doppler spread, an average delay, a delay spread, and spatial receiving parameters are derived from the SS block. The UE can decode a QCL indication that provides an assumption of QCL between a first reference signal of the first antenna port and a second reference signal of a second antenna port. The UE can demodulate the physical channel or the reference signal transmitted by the gNB from the second antenna port, using one or more of the Doppler shift, the Doppler spread, the average delay, the delay spread, and the spatial receiving parameters based on the assumption of QCL.

公开(公告)号：US10924175B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16489913

申请日：2018-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Guotong Wang ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/08

Abstract: Network devices and systems in 5G and new radio (NR) infrastructures can utilize beam management operations to ensure communications for beam management procedure triggering including beam reporting, even during fall-back mode when the current receive (Rx) beam for downlink (DL) and transmit (Tx) beam for uplink (UL) fail. Additionally, reduction in overhead can be achieved with a reference beam pair link based beam reporting in a fall-back mode or not. This beam reporting can be a group based beam reporting and based on Reference Signal Received Powers (RSRPs) of beams and a differential RSRP corresponding thereto.