Methods, systems, and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12483373-B2
Application number	US-202318338879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2023
Priority date	May 3, 2017
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to transmit uplink control information such as Hybrid Automatic Retransmission Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement or Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) using a sequence. The HARQ ACK/NACK may comprise one bit or two bits of information, and the WTRU may use a cyclic shift of the sequence to transmit the HARQ ACK/NACK. The WTRU may use different cyclic shifts of the sequence to transmit different HARQ ACK/NACK values and the cyclic shifts may be separated from each other in a manner to facilitate the transmissions. The WTRU may be further configured to receive, from a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), an indication of a resource block for transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) comprising a processor and memory, the processor and memory configured to:
determine to transmit one or more of hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and scheduling request (SR) information in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; determine a first cyclic shift to be applied for a first symbol of the PUCCH transmission and a second cyclic shift to be applied for a second symbol of the PUCCH transmission, wherein the first and second cyclic shifts are different, and wherein the first and second cyclic shifts are determined based on the HARQ ACK/NACK information and whether the SR information to be transmitted in the PUCCH transmission indicates a positive SR or a negative SR, wherein the first cyclic shift corresponds to one of four cyclic shifts that can be used for indicating the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information when a single HARQ ACK/NACK is indicated, and the four cyclic shifts are separated by three cyclic shift values; and transmit the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information in the first symbol of the PUCCH transmission using the first cyclic shift and the second symbol of the PUCCH transmission using the second cyclic shift.

2 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor and memory are further configured to receive a PUCCH resource index in a physical downlink control channel transmission, the PUCCH resource index indicating a resource for the PUCCH transmission.

3 . The WTRU of claim 2 , wherein the processor and memory are further configured to determine a set of available cyclic shifts for each of the first and second cyclic shifts based on the PUCCH resource index.

4 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor and memory are further configured to receive configuration information indicating a set of available cyclic shifts for each of the first and second cyclic shifts.

5 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second cyclic shifts are applied to a respective base sequence.

6 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the first and second symbols correspond to consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

7 . The WTRU of claim 2 , wherein the PUCCH resource index includes a physical resource block for transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK information.

8 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a positive scheduling request (SR) with the HARQ ACK/NACK information.

9 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a reference signal on each subcarrier of each of the first and second symbols.

10 . The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein a first set of cyclic shifts are available to indicate the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the positive SR and a second set of cyclic shifts are available to indicate the HARQ ACK/NACK information with the negative SR.

11 . A method implemented by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:
determining to transmit hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) acknowledgement and negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information or scheduling request (SR) information in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; determining a first cyclic shift to be applied for a first symbol of the PUCCH transmission and a second cyclic shift to be applied for a second symbol of the PUCCH transmission, wherein the first and second cyclic shifts are different, and wherein the first and second cyclic shifts are determined based on the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information to be transmitted in the PUCCH transmission indicates a positive SR or a negative SR, wherein the first cyclic shift corresponds to one of four cyclic shifts that can be used for indicating the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information when a single HARQ ACK/NACK is indicated, and the four cyclic shifts are separated by three cyclic shift values; and transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information in the first symbol of the PUCCH transmission using first cyclic shift and the second symbol of the PUCCH transmission using the second cyclic shift.

12 . The method of claim 11 , the method further comprising:
receiving a PUCCH resource index in a physical downlink control channel transmission, the PUCCH resource index indicating a resource for the PUCCH transmission; and determining a set of available cyclic shifts for each of the first and second cyclic shifts are determined based on the PUCCH resource index.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a positive scheduling request (SR) with the HARQ ACK/NACK information.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein a reference signal is transmitted on each subcarrier of each of the first and second symbols.

15 . The WTRU of claim 11 , wherein the first and second symbols correspond to consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

16 . The WTRU of claim 11 , wherein a first set of cyclic shifts are available to indicate the HARQ ACK/NACK information with a positive SR and a second set of cyclic shifts are available to indicated the HARQ ACK/NACK information with a negative SR.

17 . The method of claim 11 , wherein each of the first and second cyclic shifts are applied to a respective base sequence.

18 . The WTRU of claim 12 , wherein the PUCCH resource index includes a physical resource block for transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK information.

19 . A base station comprising a processor and memory, the processor configured to:
receive hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) acknowledgement and negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information or scheduling request (SR) information in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, wherein a first cyclic shift is applied for a first symbol of the PUCCH transmission and a second cyclic shift is applied for a second symbol of the PUCCH transmission, the first and second cyclic shifts are different, and wherein the first and second cyclic shifts are determined based on the HARQ ACK/NACK information and whether the SR information to be transmitted indicates a positive SR or a negative SR in the PUCCH transmission, wherein the first cyclic shift corresponds to one of four cyclic shifts that can be used for indicating the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information when a single HARQ ACK/NACK is indicated, and the four cyclic shifts are separated by three cyclic shift values; and receive the HARQ ACK/NACK information and the SR information in the first symbol of the PUCCH transmission using first cyclic shift and the second symbol of the PUCCH transmission using the second cyclic shift.

20 . The base station of claim 19 , wherein the processor is further configured to receive a reference signal on each subcarrier of each of the first and second symbols.

Assignees

• Interdigital Patent Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Nayeb Nazar Shahrokh
• Taherzadeh Boroujeni Mahmoud
• Bala Erdem
• Sahin Alphan
• Oteri Oghenekome
• Yang Rui
• La Sita Frank
• Hedayat Ahmad Reza

Classifications

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04L1/1671

  the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information · CPC title

• H04L5/0007

  the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT · CPC title