Techniques and apparatuses for scheduling request acknowledgement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10568128-B2
Application number	US-201816005405-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2018
Priority date	Jun 14, 2017
Publication date	Feb 18, 2020
Grant date	Feb 18, 2020

Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a scheduling request to a base station. In some aspects, the user equipment may monitor for an ultra-reliable low latency communications type of response message from the base station based at least in part on transmitting the scheduling request to the base station, wherein the response message includes an indicator of an assignment of uplink resources for the user equipment or that the assignment of uplink resources is delayed, and wherein, based at least in part on the monitoring, the user equipment avoids retransmission of the scheduling request when the response message is detected or retransmits the scheduling request without delay when the response message is not detected. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communications performed by a user equipment, comprising:
transmitting a scheduling request to a base station; and
monitoring for an ultra-reliable low latency communications type of response message from the base station based at least in part on transmitting the scheduling request to the base station,
wherein the response message includes an indicator of an assignment of uplink resources for the user equipment or that the assignment of uplink resources is delayed,
wherein, based at least in part on the monitoring, the user equipment avoids retransmission of the scheduling request when the response message is detected or retransmits the scheduling request without delay when the response message is not detected, and
wherein the response message indicates a time location for subsequent monitoring for the assignment of uplink resources when the indicator indicates that the assignment of uplink resources is delayed.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the response message comprises an uplink grant message that does not allocate uplink resources for the user equipment when the indicator indicates that the assignment of uplink resources is delayed.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the uplink grant message indicates the time location for subsequent monitoring for the assignment of uplink resources.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the response message is received using physical downlink control channel resources.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is transmitted to the base station to request the assignment of uplink resources within a threshold period of time of transmitting the scheduling request,
the threshold period of time being less than a scheduling request period.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is transmitted based at least in part on:
the assignment of uplink resources not being decoded by the user equipment, or
the response message not being decoded by the user equipment.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is transmitted based at least in part on the scheduling request not being received by the base station or the response message not being received by the user equipment.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the response message includes an identifier of the time location at which the assignment of uplink resources is to be provided; and
wherein the user equipment is configured to monitor for the assignment of uplink resources at the time location identified by the response message.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indicator indicates at least one subsequent mini-slot of a plurality of subsequent mini-slots for monitoring.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is transmitted based at least in part on the assignment of uplink resources not being received within a threshold period of time.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein another response message includes the assignment of uplink resources; and
wherein the assignment of uplink resources is associated with a resource block assignment and hopping resource allocation of a PUSCH at a specified time location, or
wherein the assignment of uplink resources is associated with a resource block assignment configured in an RRC message.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the response message is provided in at least one of:
a downlink control information type 0 (DCI-0) message,
a fallback downlink control information type 0,
a non-fallback downlink control information type 0,
a DCI message wherein a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is scrambled based at least in part on a radio network temporary identifier,
a DCI message wherein a CRC is masked based at least in part on a particular bit pattern,
a DCI message associated with a particular size,
a DCI message decoded in a particular common or UE-specific search space, or
a set of fields of a DCI message that include a particular set of values.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the response message is configured to include a bit for an indicator selected from:
a first indicator to indicate that the response message includes the assignment of uplink resources, or
a second indicator to indicate that the response message does not include the assignment of uplink resources.

14. A method of wireless communications performed by a base station, comprising:
receiving a scheduling request from a user equipment; and
transmitting a response message to the user equipment based at least in part on receiving the scheduling request from the user equipment,
wherein the response message includes an indicator indicating an assignment of uplink resources or that the assignment of uplink resources is to be provided after the response message is provided,
wherein the response message is to suppress retransmission of the scheduling request, and
wherein the response message indicates a time location for subsequent monitoring for the assignment of uplink resources when the indicator indicates that the assignment of uplink resources is to be provided after the response message is provided.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the response message includes another indicator that the response message is an ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) response message.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the response message includes a flag indicating that the response message does not include the assignment of uplink resources.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the response message is configured to include a bit for an indicator selected from:
a first indicator to indicate that the response message includes the assignment of uplink resources, or
a second indicator to indicate that the response message does not include the assignment of uplink resources.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the response message is transmitted using physical downlink control channel resources.

19. The method of claim 14 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is received to request the assignment of uplink resources within a threshold period of time of transmission of the scheduling request,
the threshold period of time being less than a scheduling request period.

20. The method of claim 14 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is received based at least in part on:
the assignment of uplink resources not being decoded,
the response message not being received, or
the response message not being decoded.

21. The method of claim 14 , wherein the response message includes an identifier of the time location at which the assignment of uplink resources is to be provided; and
wherein the assignment of uplink resources is transmitted at the time location identified by the response message.

22. The method of claim 14 , wherein the assignment of uplink resources is transmitted in at least one subsequent mini-slot of a plurality of subsequent mini-slots.

23. The method of claim 14 , wherein a retransmission of the scheduling request is transmitted based at least in part on the assignment of uplink resources not being received within a threshold period of time; and
wherein another response message is transmitted to the user equipment based at least in part on the retransmission of the scheduling request.

24. The method of claim 14 , wherein another response message includes the assignment of u

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Li Chih-Ping
• Chen Wanshi
• Jiang Jing

Classifications

• H04L1/188

  Time-out mechanisms · CPC title

• H04L1/1887 Primary

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04L1/1812

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04W72/1284

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic