RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL CONFIGURATION IN TIME DOMAIN FOR NR IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220225422A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17607511

    申请日:2020-04-30

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04W16/14

    摘要: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting random access channel occasions support operation in unlicensed spectrum. In one example, a method includes determining a set of preconfigured random access channel (RACH) occasions (ROs) that includes a plurality of successive ROs; deriving an set of adjusted ROs by inserting a time gap between ROs in the set of preconfigured ROs; and transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in at least one RO in the set of adjusted ROs.

    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

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04W16/14 H04L1/00

    摘要: 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.

    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

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: 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.

    Channel occupancy time indication for NR based unlicensed operation

    公开(公告)号:US12069719B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17290281

    申请日:2019-11-01

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W74/00 H04W74/0808

    CPC分类号: H04W74/006 H04W74/0808

    摘要: Devices and methods of providing channel occupancy time (COT) are described. After a gNB acquires an unlicensed channel for a COT, the gNB indicates the COT length to a UE using a PDCCH having a DCI formed in accordance with DCI format 2_0. The slot format of the last slot of the COT is indicated using a reserved slot format indicator that is reserved to indicate the end of the COT. The reserved slot format indicator indicates a last slot format of available slot formats of DCI format 2_0. Dummy bits fill the DCI after the reserved slot format indicator. Alternatively, to indicate the COT length, a COT field dedicated to providing the COT is used in the DCI or the CRC is masked using a slot format indication Radio Network Temporary Identifier.

    RADIO (NR) SHORT AND LONG DURATION PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) DESIGN

    公开(公告)号:US20220174663A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17651074

    申请日:2022-02-15

    申请人: APPLE INC.

    IPC分类号: H04W72/04 H04L5/00

    摘要: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to encode a New Radio (NR) short duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) is disclosed. The UE can identify uplink control information (UCI) for the UE. The UE can multiplex, using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) at the UE, the UCI and a pseudo-random sequence associated with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) onto a plurality of subcarriers in one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The UE can encode the UCI and the pseudo-random sequence associated with the DMRS multiplexed onto the plurality of subcarriers of the one or more OFDM symbols for transmission on the NR short duration PUCCH to the gNB.