Mechanisms to Operate Wideband Carrier in Unlicensed Band

    公开(公告)号:US20220201746A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17439244

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for wideband operations in unlicensed spectrum are described. A described technique receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a schedule for transmitting on a Physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) over at least a portion of a plurality of listen-before-talk (LBT) subbands of a bandwidth part (BWP) in an unlicensed spectrum. The scheduled PUSCH bandwidth indicated by the schedule can be greater than a unit bandwidth of a LBT subband. The technique includes performing, by the UE, a LBT procedure on each scheduled LBT subband of the plurality of LBT subbands, each of the scheduled LBT subbands being associated with the scheduled PUSCH bandwidth. The technique includes performing, by the UE, a PUSCH transmission in accordance with the schedule that uses one or more of the scheduled LBT subbands that have passed the LBT procedure.

    CHANNEL RASTER AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL RASTER FOR NR UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220191810A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17593080

    申请日:2020-05-13

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining channel raster(s) and synchronization signal raster(s) for New Radio (NR) unlicensed spectrum are disclosed herein. For each of a plurality of data objects an NR channel raster position is determined using Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (NR-ARFCN) numbers. For each corresponding NR channel, Global Synchronization Channel Numbers (GSCNs), a number of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) based on channel subcarrier spacing (SCS), NR channel raster position placement, channel edges, synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SSB) edges, and an SSB raster position are calculated. The plurality of data objects may then be down selected based on e.g., corresponding Long Term Evolution (LTE) channel raster positions and/or entries of a second plurality of data objects calculated for NR channels that use a second SCS.

    Support of flexible PDCCH monitoring in new radio (NR)

    公开(公告)号:US11234144B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-25

    申请号:US16462644

    申请日:2018-05-04

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE), operable for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is disclosed. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein the predetermined monitoring occasion has a periodicity of P slots or P symbols with an offset Os. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein Os has San offset with respect to a first slot in subframe number zero (SFN #0). The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein P is a positive integer greater than zero.

    TRANSMISSION OF GROUP COMMON PDCCH (PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL) FOR NR (NEW RADIO)

    公开(公告)号:US20220022175A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-20

    申请号:US17490646

    申请日:2021-09-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmission and reception of group common PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for NR (New Radio). One example embodiment employable by a UE (User Equipment) comprises processing circuitry configured to: process higher layer signaling that configures a set of combinations for slot formats for the UE; detect, via blind decoding on at least a portion of a control resource set, a DCI (Downlink Control Information) message that indicates a combination for slot formats of the set of combinations for slot formats via a SFI (slot format indicator); and determine a slot format for one or more slots based on the indicated combination for slot formats, wherein the slot format indicates, for each symbol of the one or more slots, whether that symbol is DL (Downlink), UL (Uplink), or a flexible symbol in the slot format.

    PAGING USER EQUIPMENT IN NEW RADIO UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

    公开(公告)号:US20210385785A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US17287264

    申请日:2019-10-23

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for increasing paging opportunities when the unlicensed band is used. A user equipment (UE) may determine a plurality of different paging occasions (POs) to monitor per DRX cycle. The plurality of different POs corresponds to beam sweep repeats for a first set of UEs in an unlicensed band from a base station in a wireless network. The UE monitors the plurality of different POs to receive the paging message from the base station. The plurality of different POs may include respective physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions. The plurality of different POs may include at least two consecutive POs associate with the first set of UEs within a same paging frame. Alternatively, the plurality of different POs may include at least two non-consecutive POs associated with the first set of UEs separated by at least cycle one other PO associated with a second set of UEs.

    Uplink non-orthogonal multiple access transmission scheme

    公开(公告)号:US11171744B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16264243

    申请日:2019-01-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access transmission schemes employed by transmit circuitry. A transmitter circuitry in a User Equipment (UE) may include an encoder circuitry to generate an encoded sequence, a first scrambling circuitry to perform first-part scrambling on the encoded sequence to generate a first scrambled sequence, and a second scrambling circuitry to perform second-part scrambling on a spread modulated symbols to generate a second scrambled sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

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