Hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) based on codeblock groups in new radio systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019045489-A1
Application number	US-201816126187-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 10, 2018
Priority date	Sep 11, 2017
Publication date	Feb 7, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot, and on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs. The PDCCH may include a total downlink assignment index (DAI) and a counter DAI for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH. The total DAI may indicate a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE may encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded. A size of the HARQ-ACK feedback may be based on the total DAI, and a position of the bit may be based on the counter DAI.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus of a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:
memory, and processing circuitry configured to:
decode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot of a plurality of slots, the PDSCH further scheduled on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs,
wherein the PDCCH includes a downlink control information (DCI) that includes:
a total downlink assignment index (DAI) for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH, wherein the total DAI indicates a number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback, and
a counter DAI based on an accumulative number of other PDCCHs;
attempt to decode the PDSCH received within the scheduled slot on the scheduled CC; and
encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded, wherein a size of the HARQ-ACK feedback is based on the total DAI, wherein a position of the bit within the HARQ-ACK
feedback is based on the counter DAI,
wherein the memory is configured to store information identifying the total DAI and the counter DAI.

2 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the plurality of CCs is configurable to include CCs of different sub-carrier spacings, and if at least some of the sub-carrier spacings are different, the total DAI is based on a number of PDCCHs of a CC for which a corresponding sub-carrier spacing is equal to a maximum of the sub-carrier spacings.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the total number of pairs of CCs and slots indicated by the total DAI is a total number of pairs of CCs and slots that include:
a PDSCH scheduled by another PDCCH, or a PDCCH that indicates a presence of a downlink (DL) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the total DAI is configurable to be different in different PDCCH scheduling instances.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the PDCCH is a present PDCCH, and the counter DAI indicates an accumulative number of PDCCHs across CCs with assigned PDSCHs and PDCCHs that indicate downlink (DL) releases of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) up to the present PDCCH.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the PDSCH is configurable to include one or more codewords that include one or more codeblock groups (CBGs), wherein the CBGs of each codeword are mapped to CBG indexes, and the HARQ-ACK feedback is based on decoding of the CBGs.

7 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein:
if the codewords include different numbers of CBGs or if the CCs are configured for different numbers of CBGs, a HARQ-ACK codebook size is based on a product of:
a maximum of HARQ-ACK codebook sizes configured per CC, and
the total DAI.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , the processing circuitry further configured to:
determine, based on separate DAI processes that includes separate counter DAIs and separate total DAIs, separate HARQ-ACK sub-codebooks for CBG-based HARQ-ACK feedback for the CBGs and for transport block (TB)-based HARQ-ACK feedback of one or more TBs, encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include the CBG-based HARQ-ACK feedback and the TB-based HARQ-ACK feedback.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , the processing circuitry further configured to:
decode control signaling that indicates a HARQ-ACK feedback mode, wherein in a first HARQ-ACK feedback mode, the HARQ-ACK feedback includes, for each codeword, an acknowledgement (ACK) indicator that indicates whether at least one of the CBGs of the codeword is not successfully decoded, wherein in a second HARQ-ACK feedback mode, the HARQ-ACK feedback includes, for each CBG index, an ACK indicator that indicates whether at least one of the CBGs mapped to the CBG index is not successfully decoded, and wherein in a third HARQ-ACK feedback mode, the HARQ-ACK feedback mode includes per-CBG ACK indicators.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , the processing circuitry further configured to:
determine a NACK indication value (NIV) for a NACK region that includes CBGs that are not successfully decoded, wherein if a first number is less than or equal to a floor function of a maximum number of CBGs divided by two, the first number equal to a length of contiguous CBGs minus one:
the NIV is equal to a sum of:
a starting CBG, and
a product of the maximum number of CBGs and the first number,

wherein if the first number is greater than the floor function of the maximum number of CBGs divided by two:
the NIV is equal to a sum of:
a product of a second number and the maximum number of CBGs, the second number equal to the maximum number of CBGs minus the length of contiguous CBGs plus one, and
a third number equal to the maximum number of CBGs minus one minus the starting CBG.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , the processing circuitry further configured to:
determine the HARQ-ACK feedback based on a tree structure based on an aggregation of contiguous CBGs with varied aggregation levels arranged in accordance with a hierarchy, wherein a parent node includes two children nodes; and encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a node index of a smallest aggregation level of the tree structure.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , the processing circuitry further configured to:
for a plurality of PDSCHs for which the UE is to encode HARQ-ACK feedback, select a portion of the plurality of PDSCHs, the PDSCHs on multiple CCs; encode the HARQ-ACK feedback for the selected portion of the PDSCHs with a bit field indexed in order of increasing CC index, wherein a size of the bit field is equal to a ceiling function applied to a base-2 logarithm of a size of the plurality of PDSCHs.

13 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the apparatus further includes a transceiver to receive the PDCCH, and the processing circuitry includes a baseband processor to decode the PDCCH.

14 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform operations for communication by a generation Node-B (gNB), the operations to configure the one or more processors to:
encode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a transmission of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) by the gNB to a User Equipment (UE), the PDSCH scheduled in a slot of a plurality of slots, the PDSCH further scheduled on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs, wherein the PDCCH includes a downlink control information (DCI) that includes: a total downlink assignment index (DAI) for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH, wherein the total DAI indicates a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback, and a counter DAI based on an accumulative number of other PDCCHs; decode the HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein a bit of the HARQ-ACK feedback indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded, wherein a position of the bit within the HARQ-ACK feedback is based on the total DAI and the counter DAI.

15 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 14 , wherein the total number of pairs of CCs and slots indicated by the total DAI is a total number of pairs of CCs and slots that include:
a PDSCH scheduled by another PDCCH, or a PDCCH that indicates a presence of a downlink (DL) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release.

16 . An apparatus of a User Equipment (UE), the apparatu

Assignees

• He Hong
• Chatterjee Debdeep
• Xiong Gang
• Kwon Hwan Joon
• Sosnin Sergey
• Kwak Yongjun

Inventors

• He Hong
• Chatterjee Debdeep
• Xiong Gang
• Kwon Hwan-Joon
• Sosnin Sergey
• Kwak Yongjun

Classifications

• H04W72/23 Primary

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

• H04L1/1812 Primary

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04W72/044

  based on the type of the allocated resource · CPC title

• H04W72/12

  Wireless traffic scheduling · CPC title

• H04W72/042 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic