Techniques for managing cell identifiers and other parameters for flexible duplex operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10700801-B2
Application number	US-201615763500-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2016
Priority date	Nov 2, 2015
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

Techniques are described for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE). One method includes determining a first cell identifier (ID) associated with a first downlink transmission in a first radio frequency spectrum band of paired radio frequency spectrum bands, determining a second cell ID associated with a second downlink transmission in a second radio frequency spectrum band of the paired radio frequency spectrum bands, and communicating based on the first cell ID and the second cell ID. In some cases, the method may include determining a cell ID associated with a downlink transmission in an uplink radio frequency spectrum band, and receiving the downlink transmission in a subframe of the uplink radio frequency spectrum band. The downlink transmission may be based on the cell ID and a format of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and may include an eight layer single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) transmission.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining a first cell identifier (ID) associated with a first downlink transmission in a first radio frequency spectrum band of paired radio frequency spectrum bands, the first radio frequency spectrum band is a downlink radio frequency spectrum band;
determining a second cell ID associated with a second downlink transmission in a second radio frequency spectrum band of the paired radio frequency spectrum bands, the second radio frequency spectrum band is an uplink radio frequency spectrum band; and
communicating based at least in part on the first cell ID and the second cell ID.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining a second quasi-co-location (QCL) configuration for the second downlink transmission.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
determining a first QCL configuration for the first downlink transmission; wherein the second QCL configuration is determined based at least in part on the first QCL configuration.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second QCL configuration comprises at least a first reference signal received in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band and at least a second reference signal received in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the at least first reference signal comprises at least one of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and the at least second reference signal comprises at least one of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) or a sounding reference signal (SRS).

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a second rate matching configuration for the second downlink transmission.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
determining a first rate matching configuration for the first downlink transmission;
wherein the second rate matching configuration is determined based at least in part on the first rate matching configuration.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second rate matching configuration comprises at least one of: no CRS-related rate matching, or a second CRS-related rate matching associated with a more sparse CRS compared to a first CRS-related rate matching associated with the first downlink transmission, or a third CRS-related rate matching associated with a dynamically present CRS, or no control region-related rate matching compared to a control region-related rate matching associated with the first downlink transmission, or a combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell ID differs from the second cell ID, and wherein the communicating comprises:
receiving a first CRS associated with the first cell ID in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band; and
receiving a second CRS associated with the second cell ID in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell ID and the second cell ID comprise a same cell ID, and wherein the communicating comprises:
receiving a first CRS associated with the first cell ID in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band; and
receiving a second CRS associated with the second cell ID in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a first channel state information (CSI) feedback for the first downlink transmission; and
determining a second CSI feedback for the second downlink transmission.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving a CSI-RS in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band; and
receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band;
wherein the first CSI feedback is based at least in part on the CSI-RS, and the second CSI feedback is based at least in part on the SRS.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communicating comprises: receiving a DRS.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the DRS comprises at least a first reference signal received in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band and at least a second reference signal received in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the at least first reference signal comprises at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), or a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), or a CRS, and wherein the at least second reference signal comprises at least one of a CSI-RS or a SRS.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first radio frequency spectrum band and the second radio frequency spectrum band are associated with at least one of: different transmission power restrictions, or different interference characteristics, or a combination thereof.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell ID and the second cell ID comprise a same physical cell ID (PCI) or a same virtual cell ID (VCI).

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communicating comprises: receiving the second downlink transmission in a subframe of the second radio frequency spectrum band, the second downlink transmission based at least in part on the second cell ID and a format of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and the second downlink transmission comprising an eight layer single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) transmission.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the second downlink transmission is associated with at least one of: eight different cyclic shifts in each of a first slot and a second slot of the subframe, or a first set of four different cyclic shifts in the first slot and a second set of four different cyclic shifts in the second slot, or the first set of four different cyclic shifts in a first frequency comb and the second set of four different cyclic shifts in a second frequency comb, or a combination thereof.

20. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
means for determining a first cell identifier (ID) associated with a first downlink transmission in a first radio frequency spectrum band of paired radio frequency spectrum bands the first radio frequency spectrum band is a downlink radio frequency spectrum band;
means for determining a second cell ID associated with a second downlink transmission in a second radio frequency spectrum band of the paired radio frequency spectrum bands, the second radio frequency spectrum band is an uplink radio frequency spectrum band; and
means for communicating based at least in part on the first cell ID and the second cell ID.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , further comprising:
means for determining a second quasi-co-location (QCL) configuration for the second downlink transmission.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 , further comprising:
means for determining a first QCL configuration for the first downlink transmission;
wherein the second QCL configuration is determined based at least in part on the first QCL configuration.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the second QCL configuration comprises at least a first reference signal received in the downlink radio frequency spectrum band and at least a second reference signal received in the uplink radio frequency spectrum band.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the at least first reference signal comprises at least one of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and the at least second reference signal comprises at least one o

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Chen Wanshi
• Gaal Peter
• Wang Neng

Classifications

• H04W16/02 Primary

  Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning · CPC title

• H04W76/11

  Allocation or use of connection identifiers · CPC title

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04B7/024

  Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems · CPC title

• H04W28/16 Primary

  Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service] · CPC title