Signaling for multiplexing of low latency communication and sidelink communications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10244522-B2
Application number	US-201715711751-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2017
Priority date	Mar 3, 2017
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In an FDD system, a UE may identify an indicator associated with ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) while communicating in a sidelink channel. The UE may also identify dedicated uplink resources in the sidelink channel, and reserve the dedicated uplink resources. The dedicated uplink resources may be reserved for an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback or for a scheduling request (SR). URLLC data may be communicated, and the reserved uplink resources may be utilized to transmit an ACK/NACK feedback or a SR. In a TDD system, a base station may transmit information identifying dedicated resources for URLLC data. In some cases, a base station may transmit an indicator channel, which a sidelink UE may monitor to determine the presence of URLLC data, and respond accordingly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
monitoring an indication channel in a plurality of successive first transmission time intervals (TTIs) having a first TTI duration to identify a presence of low latency traffic;
identifying, based at least on monitoring the indication channel, an indicator indicating concurrent or scheduled downlink wireless communications having the first TTI duration in a sidelink channel while performing device-to-device (D2D) wireless communications in the sidelink channel using a second TTI duration, wherein the first TTI duration is shorter than the second TTI duration;
receiving a downlink wireless communication having the first TTI duration, wherein the downlink wireless communication is received according to a frequency-division duplex (FDD) configuration;
identifying dedicated uplink resources for acknowledgement/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) feedback based at least on monitoring the indication channel and identifying the indicator, receiving the downlink wireless communication, or both; and
reserving the dedicated uplink resources for a transmission of ACK/NACK feedback to a base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dedicated uplink resources comprise a single TTI having the first TTI duration in the plurality of successive first TTIs.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indicator comprises a presence of low latency communication traffic, a location of a low latency communication user equipment (UE), other information associated with low latency communication, or a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the downlink wireless communication having the first TTI duration comprises low latency communication data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dedicated uplink resources comprise a resource in a subset of TTIs having the first TTI duration in a plurality of successive first TTIs.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
determining the subset of TTIS based at least on monitoring the indication channel, wherein the dedicated uplink resources comprise a resource in the determined subset of TTIs having the first TTI duration in a plurality of successive first TTIs.

7. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
identifying an indicator indicating concurrent or scheduled downlink wireless communications having a first transmission time interval (TTI) duration in a sidelink channel while performing device-to-device (D2D) wireless communications in the sidelink channel using a second TTI duration, wherein the first TTI duration is shorter than the second TTI duration;
receiving a downlink wireless communication having the first TTI duration, wherein the downlink wireless communication is received according to a frequency-division duplex (FDD) configuration;
identifying dedicated uplink resources for acknowledgement/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) feedback based at least on identifying the indicator, receiving the downlink wireless communication, or both; and
reserving the dedicated uplink resources for a transmission of ACK/NACK feedback to a base station, wherein reserving the dedicated uplink resources comprises emptying at least one resource of scheduled sidelink data transmissions.

8. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
monitoring, during a first period, a downlink indication channel in each transmission time interval (TTI) of a plurality of successive TTIs having a first TTI duration for low latency communication information;
identifying, based at least on monitoring the indication channel, an indicator indicating concurrent or scheduled downlink wireless communications having a first TTI duration in a sidelink channel while performing device-to-device (D2D) wireless communications in the sidelink channel using a second TTI duration, wherein the first TTI duration is shorter than the second TTI duration;
receiving a downlink wireless communication having the first TTI duration, wherein the downlink wireless communication is received according to a frequency-division duplex (FDD) configuration;
identifying dedicated uplink resources for acknowledgement/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) feedback based at least on identifying the indicator, receiving the downlink wireless communication, or both;
determining whether a traffic profile of low latency communication during the first period is above a threshold based at least on the monitoring; and
reserving the identified dedicated uplink resources for a transmission of ACK/NACK feedback to a base station using a first mode or a second mode based at least on the determination.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the traffic profile of low latency communication comprises at least one of the group including a traffic rate, a traffic level of reliability requirement, and an amount of ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) traffic during a period of time.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein:
the first mode comprises reserving a resource in each TTI having the first TTI duration in the plurality of successive first TTIs; and
the second mode comprises reserving a resource in a next TTI having the first TTI duration in the plurality of successive first TTIs.

11. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
performing grant-less wireless uplink communications having a first transmission time interval (TTI) duration in a sidelink channel, the sidelink channel also configured for wireless communications having a second TTI duration, wherein the first TTI duration is shorter than the second TTI duration;
identifying an indicator associated with the grant-less wireless uplink communications;
identifying dedicated uplink resources for scheduling requests (SRs) for wireless uplink communications having the first TTI duration that is shorter than the second TTI duration in the sidelink channel;
reserving the dedicated uplink resources for a transmission of SRs for wireless uplink communications having the first TTI duration;
transmitting a SR to a base station using the dedicated uplink resources in the sidelink channel;
receiving a transmission failure indicator in response to transmitting the grant-less wireless uplink communication; and
receiving a scheduling grant in response to transmitting the SR to the base station.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the dedicated uplink resources comprise a resource in each TTI having the first TTI duration in a plurality of successive first TTIs.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the dedicated uplink resources comprise a resource in a subset of TTIs having the first TTI duration in a plurality of successive first TTIs.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein performing the grant-less wireless uplink communications in the sidelink channel comprises transmitting a low latency communication having the first TTI duration to the base station before receiving a scheduling grant.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
retransmitting the low latency communication having the first TTI duration to the base station in the sidelink channel based at least on the scheduling grant.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the transmission failure indicator and the scheduling grant are received during the same transmission.

17. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
monitoring a downlink indication channel in each TTI having the first TTI duration in a plurality of successive first TTIs; and
detecting a scheduling grant based at least on the monitoring.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
suspending si

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Li Chong
• Gupta Piyush
• Li Junyi

Classifications

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04L5/14 Primary

  Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex · CPC title

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/23 Primary

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W88/04

  adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user · CPC title