User equipments, base stations and signaling for relaxed downlink processing time

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12526622-B2
Application number	US-202118017366-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2021
Priority date	Jul 30, 2020
Publication date	Jan 13, 2026
Grant date	Jan 13, 2026

Abstract

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE receives an RRC message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of multiple reduced UE processing capabilities; receives an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a PDSCH transmission; receives an RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for reduced UE PDSCH decoding time; and receives an RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for reduced UE PDSCH decoding time. The UE also transmits, to the base station, a valid HARQ-ACK message if the first uplink symbol of a PUCCH which carries the HARQ-ACK information starts no earlier than at symbol X, the symbol X being defined as the next uplink symbol with its CP starting after Tproc,1,relaxed after the end of the last symbol of the PDSCH carrying a TB being acknowledged.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A user equipment (UE) that communicates with a base station apparatus, the UE comprising:
receiving circuitry configured to:
receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of reduced UE processing capabilities,
receive a second RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission,
receive a third RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for a reduced UE PDSCH decoding time, and
receive a fourth RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for the reduced UE PDSCH decoding time; and
transmitting circuitry configured to transmit, to the base station, a valid Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-ACK (HARQ-ACK) message in a case that a first uplink symbol of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), which carries HARQ-ACK information, starts no earlier than at symbol X, the symbol X being defined as a next uplink symbol with a Cyclic Prefix (CP) starting at T proc,1,relaxed and after an end of a last symbol of a PDSCH carrying a transport block (TB) that is acknowledged, wherein the T proc,1,relaxed is determined by the first information, the second information, the third information, the fourth information, and a predefined table including a set of UE PDSCH decoding times.

2 . A base station apparatus that communicates with a user equipment (UE), the base station apparatus comprising:
transmitting circuitry configured to:
transmit a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of reduced UE processing capabilities,
transmit a second RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission,
transmit a third RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for a reduced UE PDSCH decoding time, and
transmit a fourth RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for the reduced UE PDSCH decoding time; and
receiving circuitry configured to receive, from the UE, a valid Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-ACK (HARQ-ACK) message in a case that a first uplink symbol of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), which carries HARQ-ACK information, starts no earlier than at symbol X, the symbol X being defined as a next uplink symbol with a Cyclic Prefix (CP) starting at T proc,1,relaxed and after an end of a last symbol of a PDSCH carrying a transport block (TB) that is acknowledged, wherein the T proc,1,relaxed is determined by the first information, the second information, the third information, the fourth information, and a predefined table including a set of UE PDSCH decoding times.

3 . A communication method of a user equipment (UE) that communicates with a base station apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of reduced UE processing capabilities; receiving a second RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission; receiving a third RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for a reduced UE PDSCH decoding time; receiving a fourth RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for the reduced UE PDSCH decoding time; and transmitting, to the base station, a valid Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-ACK (HARQ-ACK) message in a case that a first uplink symbol of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), which carries HARQ-ACK information, starts no earlier than at symbol X, the symbol X being defined as a next uplink symbol with a Cyclic Prefix (CP) starting at T proc,1,relaxed and after an end of a last symbol of a PDSCH carrying a transport block (TB) that is acknowledged, wherein the T proc,1,relaxed is determined by the first information, the second information, the third information, the fourth information, and a predefined table including a set of UE PDSCH decoding times.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Ying Kai
• Yin Zhanping
• Kowalski John Michael
• Yokomakura Kazunari

Classifications

• H04L5/0055

  Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861) · CPC title

• H04W72/21

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

• H04L27/26025

  Numerology, i.e. varying one or more of symbol duration, subcarrier spacing, Fourier transform size, sampling rate or down-clocking (allocating sub-channels of the transmission path H04L5/003) · CPC title

• H04L5/0044

  Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title