Fallback operation for a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request feedback codebook for multicast

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12580692-B2
Application number	US-202318150150-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2023
Priority date	Feb 11, 2022
Publication date	Mar 17, 2026
Grant date	Mar 17, 2026

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, configuration information associated with a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook for multicast messages. The UE may receive, from the network entity, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message, associated with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), scheduling one or more multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) messages. The UE may transmit, to the network entity, one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages, in lieu of transmitting the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook, in accordance with the configuration information and associated with at least one of the RNTI or a feedback configuration associated with the RNTI. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one memory; and at least one processor communicatively coupled with the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to cause the UE to:
receive, from a network entity, configuration information associated with a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook for multicast messages, wherein the configuration information comprises an indication of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) codebook field with a value of semi-static;
receive, from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message having a DCI format 4_1, associated with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), scheduling one or more multicast PDSCH messages; and
transmit, to the network entity, one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages, in lieu of transmitting the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook, in accordance with the configuration information and associated with at least one of the RNTI or a feedback configuration associated with the RNTI, wherein feedback is reported for the one or more multicast PDSCH messages based at least in part on the one or more multicast PDSCH messages being received during a feedback window, wherein the feedback window is based at least in part on a quantity of time resources indicated in the DCI message having the DCI format 4_1.

2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the value of semi-static is for multicast.

3 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook is associated with the feedback window, wherein the DCI message having the DCI format 4_1 is received during the feedback window, wherein the RNTI is a group common RNTI (G-RNTI), and wherein, to cause the UE to transmit the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to:
transmit a single fallback HARQ feedback indication associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages.

4 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the RNTI is a group common RNTI (G-RNTI), wherein transmitting the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications is associated with not receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message associated with any G-RNTI during the feedback window, and wherein the feedback window is associated with the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook.

5 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications is associated with the DCI message having the DCI format 4_1, with a counter downlink assignment index (DAI) field value of 1 on a primary cell (PCell) associated with the UE, and with feedback being enabled for the RNTI.

6 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the RNTI is a group common configured scheduling RNTI (G-CS-RNTI), and wherein, to cause the UE to transmit the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to:
transmit a single fallback HARQ feedback indication associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages.

7 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the one or more multicast PDSCH messages are semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) messages, wherein the RNTI is a group common configured scheduling RNTI (G-CS-RNTI), wherein transmitting the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications is associated with not receiving another multicast message associated with any G-CS-RNTI during the feedback window, and wherein the feedback window is associated with the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook.

8 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the feedback configuration indicates whether feedback for the RNTI is enabled or disabled, and wherein transmitting the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications is associated with the feedback for the RNTI being enabled.

9 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the feedback configuration indicates that feedback is disabled for the RNTI, and wherein, to cause the UE to transmit the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to:
transmit a negative acknowledgement (NACK) indication regardless of whether the one or more multicast PDSCH messages are successfully received.

10 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the feedback configuration indicates whether the RNTI is associated with ACK and negative ACK (NACK) (ACK/NACK) feedback or NACK only feedback, and wherein transmitting the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications is associated with the RNTI being associated with the ACK/NACK feedback.

11 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to:
transmit, to the network entity, a capability message that indicates that the UE supports fallback HARQ feedback indications associated with the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook.

12 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook is a Type-1 HARQ-ACK codebook.

13 . A network entity for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one memory; and at least one processor communicatively coupled with the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to cause the network entity to:
transmit configuration information, for one or more user equipments (UEs), associated with a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook for multicast messages, wherein the configuration information comprises an indication of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) codebook field with a value of semi-static;
transmit a downlink control information (DCI) message having a DCI format 4_1, for the one or more UEs, associated with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), scheduling one or more multicast PDSCH messages; and
receive one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, for a UE of the one or more UEs, associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages, in lieu of receiving the semi-static HARQ feedback codebook, in accordance with the configuration information and associated with at least one of the RNTI or a feedback configuration associated with the RNTI, wherein feedback is reported for the one or more multicast PDSCH messages based at least in part on the one or more multicast PDSCH messages being received during a feedback window, wherein the feedback window is based at least in part on a quantity of time resources indicated in the DCI message having the DCI format 4_1.

14 . The network entity of claim 13 , wherein the value of semi-static is for multicast.

15 . The network entity of claim 13 , wherein the RNTI is a group common configured scheduling RNTI (G-CS-RNTI), and wherein, to cause the network entity to receive the one or more fallback HARQ feedback indications, the at least one processor is configured to cause the network entity to:
receive a single fallback HARQ feedback indication associated with the one or more multicast PDSCH messages.

16 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a network entity, configuration information associated with a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook for multicast messages, wherein the configuration information comprises an indication of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) codebook field with a value of semi-static; receiving, from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message having a DCI format 4_1, associated with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), scheduling one or mor

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Liu Le
• Takeda Kazuki
• Rico Alvarino Alberto
• Gaal Peter

Classifications

• H04W72/232

  the control data signalling from the physical layer, e.g. DCI signalling · CPC title

• H04L1/1854

  Scheduling and prioritising arrangements · CPC title

• H04W72/30

  Resource management for broadcast services · CPC title

• H04L2001/0093

  Point-to-multipoint · CPC title

• H04L1/1861

  Physical mapping arrangements (for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053) · CPC title