Communication devices and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12289162-B2
Application number	US-202017788301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2020
Priority date	Dec 30, 2019
Publication date	Apr 29, 2025
Grant date	Apr 29, 2025

Abstract

Communication device for transmitting data to another communication device, the communication device comprising circuitry configured to obtain a truncation notification indicating that an ongoing transmission of a data unit is to be truncated; in response to the truncation notification, determine, based on the number of unprocessed modulation input bits of the data unit, a remaining bit length of a modulation input block, and perform padding to add a number of modulation padding bits corresponding to the determined remaining bit length of a modulation input block to the unprocessed modulation input bits to obtain a complete modulation input block; modulate the complete modulation input block to obtain a modulation output block; and transmit a transmit data stream containing the obtained modulation output block.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A communication device for transmitting data to another communication device, the communication device comprising:
circuitry configured to:
obtain a truncation notification indicating that an ongoing transmission of a data unit is to be truncated;

perform a truncation in response to the truncation notification indicating that the ongoing transmission of the data unit is to be truncated, the truncation including:
determining, based on a number of unprocessed modulation input bits of the data unit, a remaining bit length of a modulation input block, and
performing padding to add a number of modulation padding bits corresponding to the remaining bit length of the modulation input block to the unprocessed modulation input bits to obtain a complete modulation input block;

modulate the complete modulation input block to obtain a modulation output block; and
transmit a transmit data stream containing the obtained modulation output block,
wherein the circuitry is configured to generate or receive the truncation notification if a latency-sensitive data unit shall be transmitted while currently a non-latency sensitive data unit is transmitted.

2. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
in response to the truncation notification,
determine, based on a current bit length of encoding input bits, a remaining bit length of an encoding input block, and
perform padding to add a number of encoding padding bits corresponding to the determined remaining bit length of the encoding input block to the current bit length of encoding input bits to obtain a complete encoding input block; and

encode the complete encoding input block to obtain an encoding output block for subsequent modulation.

3. The communication device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the circuitry is configured to determine the remaining bit length of the modulation input block as integer multiple of the size of the modulation input block minus a sum of the number of unprocessed modulation input bits and the bit length of the encoding output block.

4. The communication device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the circuitry is configured to perform block-wise encoding to encode the complete encoding input block.

5. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to determine the remaining bit length of the modulation input block as once or twice the size of the modulation input block minus the number of unprocessed modulation input bits.

6. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to perform continuous encoding to encode the complete modulation input block before subsequent modulation.

7. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 or 2 , wherein the circuitry is configured to use, as the modulation padding bits and/or as the encoding padding bits, zero-valued bits, bits having a known or predetermined value, bits having an arbitrary value or bits forming a known, or predetermined bit sequence.

8. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to generate or receive the truncation notification after transmission of the non-latency sensitive data unit has been completed.

9. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to:
perform, as part of the modulation, constellation mapping and spatial mapping;
determine, based on a number of bits per symbol of a constellation diagram used for constellation mapping, a number of padding symbols; and
perform symbol padding to add the number of padding symbols to a data stream after subjecting said data stream to the constellation mapping and before subjecting said data stream to the spatial mapping.

10. The communication device as claimed in claim 1 or 2 , wherein the circuitry is configured to signal, to the other communication device, one or more of:
an indication that the truncation has been applied,
the reason why truncation has been applied,
the number of modulation padding bits and/or the number of encoding padding bits, and
which information has been added as the modulation padding bits and/or as the encoding padding bits.

11. The communication device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the circuitry is configured to:
add the signaling as a truncation preamble or a truncation postamble to the modulation output block, or
insert the signaling into the modulation output block.

12. A communication device for receiving data from another communication device, the communication device comprising:
circuitry configured to:
receive a data stream containing multiple modulation output blocks;
determine if truncation has been applied by the other communication device according to which an ongoing transmission of a data unit has been truncated; and
in case the truncation has been applied by the other communication device,
demodulate and decode the modulation output blocks; and
indicate for subsequent processing by the communication device that an intended truncation was the reason for the truncation,

wherein the other communication device applied the truncation when a latency-sensitive data unit was to be transmitted while a non-latency sensitive data unit was transmitted.

13. The communication device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
identify a number of modulation padding bits added into a modulation output block of said modulation output blocks;
demodulate said modulation output blocks and discard the number of modulation padding bits to obtain a demodulation output block; and
process the demodulation output block to obtain transmitted data units.

14. The communication device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
identify a number of encoding padding bits added into an encoding output block; and
decode the demodulation output blocks and discard the number of encoding padding bits to obtain transmitted data units.

15. The communication device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine if the truncation has been applied by the other communication device based on signaling added as a truncation preamble or a truncation postamble to a modulation output block of said modulation output blocks or inserted into the modulation output block.

16. The communication device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to receive, as signaling from the other communication device, one or more of:
an indication that the truncation has been applied,
the reason why truncation has been applied,
a number of modulation padding bits and/or a number of encoding padding bits, and
which information has been added as the modulation padding bits and/or as the encoding padding bits.

17. A communication method for transmitting data to another communication device, the communication method comprising:
obtaining a truncation notification indicating that an ongoing transmission of a data unit is to be truncated;
performing a truncation in response to the truncation notification indicating that the ongoing transmission of the data unit is to be truncated, the truncation including:
determining, based on a number of unprocessed modulation input bits of the data unit, a remaining bit length of a modulation input block, and
performing padding to add a number of modulation padding bits corresponding to the remaining bit length of the modulation input block to the unprocessed modulation input bits to obtain a

Assignees

• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Handte Thomas
• Ciochina Dana

Classifications

• H04W84/12

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• H04L27/2605

  Symbol extensions, e.g. Zero Tail, Unique Word [UW] · CPC title

• H04L27/261

  Details of reference signals · CPC title

• H04L1/0057

  Block codes (H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04L1/0067

  Rate matching (H04L1/0013 and H04L1/08 take precedence) · CPC title