Power-efficient operation for wider bandwidth

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10505803-B2
Application number	US-201816008024-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2018
Priority date	Jun 15, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

Apparatus and methods are provided for power-efficient operation for wide bandwidth. In one novel aspect, the configuration of the CORESET with CSS includes at least one of the time duration of the CORESET within a slot and the periodicity of the CORESET burst. In another embodiment, each configured BWP includes at least one CORESET with UE-specific search space and one CORESET with CSS. In another embodiment, at least one of the configured BWPs includes one CORESET with type-1 CSS for PCell. Each configured BWPs includes one CORESET with type-2 CSS for both PCell and SCell and at least one CORESET with UE-specific search space for PCell and SCell. In another novel aspect, a timer-triggered transmission of activating DL BWP indication in all DL BWP configured is used when the UE mis-detects or false-alarms the explicit signaling for BWP switch.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a first configuration of a second-part broadcast system information (SI) embedded in a first-part of broadcast SI carried in a downlink (DL) broadcast channel by a user equipment (UE), wherein the first configuration includes at least a DL bandwidth for the second-part broadcast SI;
receiving a second configuration of one or more DL control resource set (CORESET) with common search space (CSS) in the first-part of broadcast SI, wherein the second configuration includes at least one of a time duration and periodicity for each DL CORESET;
determining time-frequency radio resources of each DL CORESET with CSS based on the DL bandwidth for the second-part broadcast SI and the configuration for corresponding DL CORESET; and
receiving SI based on a DL scheduler in the CSS of the one or more DL CORESET.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each DL CORESET with CSS is configured as a type-1 CSS or a type-2 CSS, and wherein the type-1 CSS is configured for broadcast messages and the type-2 CSS is configured for multicasting messages, and one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) is configured for the UE, and wherein a BWP includes a plurality of contiguous physical resource blocks (PRBs).

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein a first BWP is configured as an active BWP and at least one of other BWPs is configured with one CORESET with the type-1 CSS for a primary cell (PCell).

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein each configured BWP includes one CORESET with the type-2 CSS for a primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCells).

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein each configured BWP includes at least one CORESET with UE-specific search space for a primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCells).

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein a first BWP is configured as an active BWP and for each configured DL BWP on a primary (PCell) at least one type of CORESET with CSS is configured comprising a type-1 CSS for SI, a type-1 CSS for paging, and a type-2 CSS for random access.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second configuration includes at least one of CORESET configuration elements comprising: a time duration of the CORESET within a slot, and a periodicity of a CORESET burst.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second configuration further comprising: a number of contiguous slots where the CORESET exists in one periodicity.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein each configured BWP for a primary cell (PCell) includes a UE-specific CORESET.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one configured BWP for a primary cell (PCell) includes a CSS CORESET.

11. A method, comprising:
receiving a higher-layer signaling containing the configuration of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) per cell by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network, wherein each BWP includes one or more contiguous physical resource blocks (PRBs);
detecting a DL BWP activation signal to activate a first DL BWP, wherein the DL BWP activation signal is sent over all configured DL BWPs through a timer-triggered transmission from a gNB that failed to receive any uplink (UL) transmission from the UE when a gNB-side BWP-timer expired, and wherein the gNB-side BWP-timer is started by the gNB when a previous DL BWP activation signal is sent to the UE to activate the first BWP; and
activating the first DL BWP based on the detected DL BWP activation signal.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the activation signaling is explicitly carried in downlink control information (DCI).

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the DCI is a dedicated DCI for active BWP switching.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the DCI is a dedicated DCI for DL/UL scheduling.

15. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver that transmits and receives radio frequency (RF) signals from one or more base stations (BS) in wireless network;
a memory to store configurations of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) per cell for the UE based on a received higher-layer signaling from a base station in a wireless communication network, wherein each BWP includes a plurality of continuous physical resource blocks (PRBs), and wherein the UE is configured with a primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCells);
a CORESET configurator that receives a first configuration of a second-part broadcast system information (SI) embedded in a first-part of broadcast SI carried in a downlink (DL) broadcast channel by the UE, wherein the first configuration includes at least a DL bandwidth for the second-part broadcast SI, receives a second configuration of one or more DL control resource set (CORESET) with common search space (CSS) in the first-part of broadcast SI, wherein the second configuration includes at least one of a time duration and periodicity for each DL CORESET, and determines time-frequency radio resources of each DL CORESET with CSS based on the DL bandwidth for the second-part broadcast SI and the time duration for corresponding DL CORESET; and
a SI receiver that receives SI based on a DL scheduler in the CSS of the one or more DL CORESET.

16. The UE of claim 15 , wherein each DL CORESET with CSS is configured as a type-1 CSS or a type-2 CSS, and wherein the type-1 CSS is configured for broadcast messages and the type-2 CSS is configured for multicasting messages.

17. The UE of claim 16 , wherein a first BWP is configured as an active BWP and at least one of other BWPs is configured with one CORESET with the type-1 CSS for the PCell.

18. The UE of claim 16 , wherein each configured BWP includes one CORESET with the type-2 CSS for the PCell and the one or more SCells.

19. The UE of claim 16 , wherein each configured BWP includes at least one CORESET with UE-specific search space for the PCell and the one or more SCells.

20. The UE of claim 16 , wherein a first BWP is configured as an active BWP and for each configured DL BWP on the PCell at least one of CORESET with CSS is configured comprising a type-1 CSS for SI, a type-1 CSS for paging, and a type-2 CSS for random access is configured.

21. The UE of claim 15 , wherein the second configuration includes at least one of the CORESET configuration comprising: a time duration of the CORESET within a slot, and a periodicity of a CORESET burst.

22. The UE of claim 21 , wherein the second configuration further comprising: a number of contiguous slots where the CORESET exists in one periodicity.

23. The UE of claim 15 , wherein each configured BWP for a PCell includes a UE-specific CORESET.

24. The UE of claim 15 , wherein at least one configured BWP for a PCell includes a CSS CORESET.

25. The UE of claim 15 , further comprising:
a BWP activator that detects a DL BWP activation signal to activate a first BWP, wherein the DL BWP activation signal is sent to all configured BWPs through a timer-triggered transmission from a gNB that failed to receive any uplink (UL) transmission from the UE when a BWP-timer expired, and wherein the BWP-timer is started by the gNB when a previous BWP activation signal is sent to the UE to activate the first BWP, and activates the first BWP based on the detected DL BWP activation signal.

26. The UE of claim 25 , wherein the activation signaling is explicitly carried in downlink control information (DCI).

27. The UE of claim 26 , wherein the DCI is a dedicated DCI for active BWP switching.

Assignees

• Mediatek Inc

Inventors

• Liao Pei-Kai

Classifications

• H04W48/00

  Access restriction (access security to prevent unauthorised access H04W12/08); Network selection; Access point selection · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title

• H04L5/001 Primary

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L5/0092

  Indication of how the channel is divided · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title