公开(公告)号：US11101959B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-24

申请号：US16487788

申请日：2018-03-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeongho Jeon ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may include monitoring, at a physical layer, for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) trigger for a PUSCH transmission, determining, at the physical layer, the PUSCH trigger is not received, wherein a wireless communication device is not to perform the PUSCH transmission based on the determination that the PUSCH trigger is not received, and considering, at a medium access control (MAC) entity, the PUSCH transmission to have been performed. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11088797B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16496363

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Dae Won Lee

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W56/00

Abstract: Embodiments of efeMTC synchronization signals for enhanced cell search and enhanced system information acquisition are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus of a base station (BS) is configured to generate a length-x sequence for an efeMTC synchronization signal, the length-x sequence configured for repetition in frequency domain within 6 physical resource blocks (PRB). In some embodiments, to generate the length-x sequence, the BS may be configured to select any one index of the set of root indices {1, 2, . . . , 63}, excluding the root indices 25, 29 and 34, to correspond to a different physical-layer cell identity (PCID). In some embodiments, the BS may be configured to encode RRC signaling to include a System Information Block (SIB) comprising configuration information for transmission of the efeMTC synchronization signal, and transmit the length-x sequence as the efeMTC synchronization signal in frequency resources according to the SIB.

公开(公告)号：US11057179B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US16446860

申请日：2019-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wenting Chang ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Gang Xiong ,  Seunghee Han

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), an Evolved Node-B (eNB), and methods for communication of uplink messages are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from an eNB, one or more downlink control messages that may indicate an allocation of PUCCH channel resources. The UE may transmit an uplink control message in at least a portion of the allocated PUCCH channel resources. When the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to an edge configuration, the PUCCH channel resources may be restricted to a lower edge portion and an upper edge portion of the network channel resources. When the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to a distributed configuration, the PUCCH channel resources may include one or more middle portions of the network channel resources. The middle portions may be exclusive to the lower edge and upper edge portions.

公开(公告)号：US11019522B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US15722869

申请日：2017-10-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Hong He ,  Jong-Kae Fwu ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Ilya Bolotin

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/30 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W40/00 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W52/04 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/23 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04J3/16 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W28/16 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W52/14 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W76/16 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04W80/10 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W88/18 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/12 ,  H04W88/14 ,  H04W88/16

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to report periodic channel state information (CSI) to an eNodeB is disclosed. The UE can determine a reporting period (Npd) of a serving cell of the UE. The UE can determine a Time-Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration of a primary cell of the UE. The UE can encode multiple periodic CSI reports for transmission to the eNodeB using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) on the primary cell according to the reporting period Npd.

公开(公告)号：US10985848B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-20

申请号：US16483982

申请日：2018-05-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Wook Bong Lee ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Guotong Wang ,  Gregory Morozov

IPC: H04B17/327 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08

Abstract: Provided herein are method and apparatus for perform radio link monitoring (RLM) based on a Reference signal (RS). An embodiment provides a user Equipment (UE) comprising circuitry configured to: decode a Reference Signal (RS) received from an access node; and determine beam quality for one or more beam pair links (BPLs) of the RS between the UE and the access node based on the decoded RS, wherein each of the BPLs comprises a transmit (Tx) beam of the access node and a receive (Rx) beam of the UE. Also provided is a procedure of RLM. At least some embodiments allow for beam recovery request for UE beam refinement, and allow for determining whether radio link failure (RLF) occurs.

公开(公告)号：US10897756B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-19

申请号：US16707563

申请日：2019-12-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W52/32 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods and apparatus for efficiently transmitting HARQ-ACK and periodic channel state information (P-CSI) bits over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).

公开(公告)号：US20200382970A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16997051

申请日：2020-08-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Konstantinos D. Dimou ,  Gang Xiong ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hong He

IPC: H04W24/02 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) to operate in accordance with a physical random access channel (PRACH) are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise hardware processing circuitry to determine a coverage enhancement category for the UE based on downlink channel statistics related to reception of downlink signals at the UE from an Evolved Node-B (eNB) and an uplink-downlink imbalance parameter related to uplink reception at the eNB. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to select, for use in a coverage enhancement mode, a PRACH preamble from a set of candidate PRACH preambles based on the determined coverage enhancement category for the UE. In some embodiments, at least some of the candidate PRACH preambles may span a different number of sub-frames.

公开(公告)号：US10826571B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-03

申请号：US16475733

申请日：2017-12-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dae Won Lee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Ajit Nimbalker ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Paul C. Wei ,  Dmitry Dikarev

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The gNB may map data symbols to resource elements (REs) of virtual resource blocks (VRBs). The gNB may interleave the data symbols, on a per-VRB basis, to spatial layers of a multi-layer multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. The data symbols may be interleaved based on different interleave patterns of VRB indexes for the spatial layers. The gNB may map the interleaved data symbols of the spatial layers to REs of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20200274660A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US16646188

申请日：2018-09-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Seunghee Han ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Joonyoung Cho

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for channel state information report on physical uplink shared channel in new radio are provided. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE), comprising: a processor, configured to generate a uplink (UL) signal data for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by using a resource mapping scheme; and a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to receive the generated UL signal data from the processor, wherein at least a part of the resource mapping scheme is predefined, configured by higher layer signalling, or indicated in downlink control information (DCI).

公开(公告)号：US20200267803A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16645534

申请日：2018-09-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yongjun Kwak ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov ,  Seunghee Han

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode system information block (SIB) information including a PRACH configuration index. The PRACH configuration index indicates at least a first preamble format and a second preamble format. A PRACH preamble is encoded for transmission to a base station within a PRACH resource indicated by the PRACH configuration index. The PRACH preamble is associated with the first preamble format or the second preamble format. A random access channel response (RAR) message from the base station is decoded. The RAR message includes an uplink grant for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. Data is encoded for transmission on the PUSCH based on the uplink grant. The PRACH resource comprises a plurality of PRACH occasions, where the PRACH preamble is transmitted within a PRACH occasion from the plurality of PRACH occasions with a starting symbol indicated by the PRACH configuration index.