Contiguous uplink transmission in contention-based access systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12408196-B2
Application number	US-202017759475-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2020
Priority date	Mar 5, 2020
Publication date	Sep 2, 2025
Grant date	Sep 2, 2025

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may attempt, for up to a threshold quantity of transmission opportunities of a plurality of transmission opportunities of a channel occupancy time in a transmission opportunity aggregation deployment, a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure; and selectively transmit, based at least in part on the LBT procedure being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, one or more repetitions of an uplink transmission in one or more remaining transmission opportunities of the plurality of transmission opportunities, or determine, based at least in part on the LBT procedure not being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, that a failure of the uplink transmission has occurred. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
attempting, for up to a threshold quantity of transmission opportunities of a plurality of transmission opportunities of a channel occupancy time in a transmission opportunity aggregation deployment, a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, wherein the LBT procedure is a category-2 LBT procedure performed to reserve resources for a sounding reference signal (SRS) communication; and
selectively transmitting, based at least in part on the LBT procedure being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, one or more repetitions of an uplink transmission in one or more remaining transmission opportunities of the plurality of transmission opportunities, or
determining, based at least in part on the LBT procedure not being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, that a failure of the uplink transmission has occurred.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmission opportunity, of the plurality of transmission opportunities, is a slot and the transmission opportunity aggregation deployment is a slot aggregation deployment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink control channel transmission, wherein selectively transmitting the one or more repetitions comprises selectively transmitting a plurality of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel transmission in a plurality of consecutive slots.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities is one of:
a quantity of transmission opportunities in the plurality of transmission opportunities,
a single transmission opportunity, or
a quantity of transmission opportunities equal to an aggregation level of the uplink transmission.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the failure of the uplink transmission has occurred comprises:
forgoing the uplink transmission during the channel occupancy time; and
attempting to transmit the uplink transmission during a subsequent channel occupancy time.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each transmission opportunity, of the one or more remaining transmission opportunities, is associated with a threshold separation, from each neighboring transmission opportunity, reserved for a corresponding LBT procedure.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission is a sounding reference signal transmission.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmission opportunity, of the plurality of transmission opportunities, is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission is a positioning reference signal transmission.

10. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories and configured to:
attempt, for up to a threshold quantity of transmission opportunities of a plurality of transmission opportunities of a channel occupancy time in a transmission opportunity aggregation deployment, a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, wherein the LBT procedure is a category-2 LBT procedure performed to reserve resources for a sounding reference signal (SRS) communication; and
selectively transmit, based at least in part on the LBT procedure being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, one or more repetitions of an uplink transmission in one or more remaining transmission opportunities of the plurality of transmission opportunities, or
determine, based at least in part on the LBT procedure not being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, that a failure of the uplink transmission has occurred.

11. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
means for attempting, for up to a threshold quantity of transmission opportunities of a plurality of transmission opportunities of a channel occupancy time in a transmission opportunity aggregation deployment, a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, wherein the LBT procedure is a category-2 LBT procedure performed to reserve resources for a sounding reference signal (SRS) communication; and
means for selectively transmitting, based at least in part on the LBT procedure being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, one or more repetitions of an uplink transmission in one or more remaining transmission opportunities of the plurality of transmission opportunities, or
means for determining, based at least in part on the LBT procedure not being successful within the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities, that a failure of the uplink transmission has occurred.

12. The UE of claim 10 , wherein a transmission opportunity, of the plurality of transmission opportunities, is a slot and the transmission opportunity aggregation deployment is a slot aggregation deployment.

13. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the uplink transmission is a physical uplink control channel transmission, wherein the one or more processors, when configured to transmit the one or more repetitions, are configured to selectively transmit a plurality of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel transmission in a plurality of consecutive slots.

14. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities is one of:
a quantity of transmission opportunities in the plurality of transmission opportunities,
a single transmission opportunity, or
a quantity of transmission opportunities equal to an aggregation level of the uplink transmission.

15. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors, when configured to determine that the failure of the uplink transmission has occurred, are configured to:
forgo the uplink transmission during the channel occupancy time; and
attempt to transmit the uplink transmission during a subsequent channel occupancy time.

16. The UE of claim 10 , wherein each transmission opportunity, of the one or more remaining transmission opportunities, is associated with a threshold separation, from each neighboring transmission opportunity, reserved for a corresponding LBT procedure.

17. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the uplink transmission is a sounding reference signal transmission.

18. The UE of claim 10 , wherein a transmission opportunity, of the plurality of transmission opportunities, is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.

19. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the threshold quantity of transmission opportunities corresponds to a particular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the channel occupancy time, the particular OFDM symbol being a first OFDM symbol of the channel occupancy time.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the uplink transmission comprises a physical uplink control channel transmission, and
wherein the means for selectively transmitting the one or more repetitions comprise means for selectively transmitting a plurality of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel transmission in a plurality of consecutive slots.

21. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the one or more repetitions include one or more repetitions of the SRS communication.

22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more repetitions include one or more repetitions of the SRS communication.

23. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the one or more repetitions include one or mo

Assignees

• Xu Changlong
• Zhang Xiaoxia
• Sun Jing
• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Xu Changlong
• Zhang Xiaoxia
• Sun Jing

Classifications

• H04L1/08 Primary

  by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} · CPC title

• H04W74/0808 Primary

  using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] · CPC title

• H04L5/0087

  when data requirements change · CPC title

• H04L5/0064

  Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority · 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