Abstract:
The present methods and apparatus relate to wireless communications at either a user equipment (UE) or a network entity in a new radio communication system. The described aspects include receiving, via a communication channel, a scheduling grant from a transmitting wireless device, the scheduling grant including a Resource Indication Value (RIV) corresponding to an allocation of resource blocks (RBs) for communicating on the communication channel. The described aspects further include mapping the RIV to a constrained set of one or more RBs to identify allocated RBs, the constrained set of one or more RBs including a fewer number of RBs than a number of available RBs in a slot or transmission duration. The described aspects further include communicating, with the transmitting wireless device via the communication channel, using the allocated RBs from the constrained set of one or more RBs as signaled by the RIV.
Abstract:
Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the eNB carrying one or more parameters for Grantless Uplink (GUL) transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to determine one or more GUL subframes of an acquired Maximum Channel Occupancy Time (MCOT) on time-domain resources allocated for GUL transmission from the UE. The third circuitry may be operable to generate a GUL transmission during the one or more GUL subframes of the acquired MCOT in accordance with the one or more parameters for GUL transmission.
Abstract:
In wireless communication systems that support 5G or NR protocols, subframes used for communication may have different numerology options. Numerology options may refer to the characteristics of the subframe such as a tone spacing within each symbol of the subframe, a symbol duration for each symbol of the subframe, a number of symbols in the subframe, etc. A subframe may include a control channel (e.g., the PDCCH) and a data channel (e.g., the PDSCH). In an aspect, the control channel and the data channel within the subframe may have different numerologies. As such, a need exists to signal the numerology of the subframe to users and to determine whether and how to multiplex the control channel and the data channel into the subframe.
Abstract:
A physical uplink control channel format is determined based on a determined uplink control information (UCI) payload size. Enhancement of uplink control channel on a 5G physical uplink control channel (xPUCCH) based on UCI payload size can be accomplished by (1) a dropping rule if UCI payload size exceeds the maximum allowable payload size supported by xPUCCH format; (2) a scheduling request (SR) transmission scheme when combined with other UCI information; (3) enhancement on beam refinement reference signal (BRRS) scheduling; and (4) downlink control information (DCI) requests for the transmission of channel state information (CSI) report and beam related information by itself.
Abstract:
A method and network node for determining radio resources for allocation to a downlink control channel in a communication network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving, over a predetermined measurement period, a plurality of reports from a wireless device, each report being indicative of a channel quality within at least a subband of an available bandwidth of the communication network. The method further includes for each subband for which at least one report has been received, determining a variance of the channel quality and an average of the channel quality over the predetermined measurement period. The method further includes determining subbands having at least a variance of the channel quality less than a first threshold.
Abstract:
A method and node for power efficient allocation of enhanced physical downlink control channel resources are disclosed. According one aspect, a method at a network node of allocating an enhanced control channel to a first wireless device is provided. The method includes determining a control channel subframe pattern for the first wireless device. The subframe pattern for the first wireless device includes at least an indication of a pattern of subframes during which the first wireless device is to monitor the enhanced control channel for downlink control information. The subframe pattern is based at least in part on enhanced control channel subframe utilization of other wireless devices. The method also includes transmitting the control channel subframe pattern to the first wireless device, and transmitting the downlink control channel information to the first wireless device over the enhanced control channel according to the enhanced control channel subframe pattern.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device (16) signals uplink control information for multiple different downlink carriers to a base station (20) in a wireless communication system (10). The device (16) in this regard intersperses uplink control information known by the base station (20) with uplink control information not known by the base station (20) across one or more information words that comprise uplink control information for multiple different downlink carriers. The device (16) channel encodes the one or more information words to obtain one or more codewords, and then transmits the one or more codewords to the base station (20) as an uplink control information report. The base station (20) correspondingly channel decodes the one or more codewords to obtain the one or more information words.
Abstract:
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes wirelessly communicating at a first device, with a second device, according to a first subframe structure; receiving a subframe truncation parameter from the second device; and terminating the first subframe structure based at least in part on the subframe truncation parameter. The first subframe structure includes a first periodic sequence of downlink transmission time intervals (TTIs) and uplink TTIs. A second method includes wirelessly communicating at a first device, with a second device, according to a parameterized self-contained subframe structure having an interlaced portion and a tail portion; and reducing a delay indicated by a nominal trigger-response delay parameter associated with a downlink TTI, to enable a response message corresponding to the downlink TTI to be transmitted during the tail portion and before termination of the subframe structure.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for performing fractional subframe transmission. The method may comprise: determining first temporal information that indicates when a channel becomes available; and determining, based on the first temporal information and transmission opportunity information, second temporal information that indicates an end of the fractional subframe transmission.
Abstract:
본 발명은 비면허대역을 지원하는 무선접속시스템에서 단말이 향상된 물리 하향링크 제어채널(EPDCCH)을 수신하는 방법에 관한 것으로, 이 방법은 비면허대역에서 구성되는 비면허대역셀(U셀)을 통해 U셀을 스케줄링하기 위한 제어 정보를 포함하는 상기 EPDCCH를 수신하는 단계와 제어 정보를 기반으로 U셀에서 하향링크 데이터를 수신하는 단계를 포함할 수 있다. 이때, EPDCCH가 부분 서브프레임(pSF)을 통해 전송되는 경우, EPDCCH를 구성하는 향상된 자원 블록 그룹(EREG)들은 pSF의 시작 심볼부터 인덱싱되고, pSF는 하나의 서브프레임보다 작은 크기로 구성되고, pSF의 시작 위치는 면허대역에서 구성되는 프라이머리셀(P셀)의 서브프레임 경계와 일치하지 않도록 구성될 수 있다.