Downlink resource scheduling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9497748-B2
Application number	US-201213995468-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2012
Priority date	Nov 4, 2011
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for downlink resource scheduling in wireless networks. In some embodiments, the scheduling may include multi-subframe cross carrier scheduling utilizing downlink control information. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
scheduling circuitry to:
receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) in a first subframe of a primary serving cell (Pcell) of the base station, the DCI to include a carrier indication field (CIF) value and an indicator to indicate a downlink resource of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission that is to include data directed to the apparatus; and
determine, based on a predetermined subframe pairing and the CIF value, that the PDSCH transmission is in a second subframe of a secondary serving cell (Scell), wherein the second subframe is different from the first subframe; and

decoder circuitry to decode the downlink resource of the PDSCH transmission based on the indicator and said determination that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe of the Scell,
wherein the scheduling circuitry is further to:
access mapping information, stored in a multi-subframe cross-carrier (MSCC) table that provides mapping information for individual combinations of CIF values and carrier aggregation levels, based on the CIF value and a carrier aggregation level; and
determine, based on the mapping information, the indicator applies to a first paired subframe of the predetermined subframe pairing, a second paired subframe of the predetermined subframe pairing, or to both the first and second paired subframe of the predetermined subframe pairing.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined subframe pairing is a pairing between two subframes in each half-radio frame.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the pairing is of subframe 0 and 3 or of subframe 1 and 4 .

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the scheduling circuitry is to determine that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe of the secondary serving cell based further on a predetermined subframe pairing of the first subframe and the second subframe.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the primary cell and the secondary cell include respective component carriers having different time-division duplexing (TDD) configurations.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of component carriers are aggregated for communication between the apparatus and the base station and the scheduling circuitry is further to:
determine that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe of the secondary serving cell based further on a number of the plurality of component carriers.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the primary serving cell utilizes a first common carrier and the secondary serving cell utilizes a second common carrier.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the downlink resource is a physical resource block.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the scheduling circuitry is further configured to
determine that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe based on the mapping information; and
determine, based on the mapping information, that another PDSCH transmission of a third subframe of the secondary serving cell is also to include data directed to the apparatus.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , comprising a user equipment.

11. An apparatus comprising:
scheduling circuitry to:
receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) in a first subframe of a primary serving cell (Pcell) of the base station, the DCI to include a carrier indication field (CIF) value and an indicator to indicate a downlink resource of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission that is to include data directed to the apparatus; and
determine, based on a predetermined subframe pairing and the CIF value, that the PDSCH transmission is in a second subframe of a secondary serving cell (Scell), wherein the second subframe is different from the first subframe; and

decoder circuitry to decode the downlink resource of the PDSCH transmission based on the indicator and said determination that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe of the Scell,
wherein the CIF value is a 3-bit value having eight states; the carrier aggregation level is two, three, four, or five; the Scell is a first Scell; and the mapping information is stored in a multi-subframe cross-carrier (MSCC) table and identifies:
the primary serving cell if the CIF value is a first state and the CA level is two, three, four or five;
the first paired subframe of the first Scell if the CIF value is a second state and the CA level is two, three, four, or five;
the second paired subframe of the first Scell if the CIF value is a third state and the CA level is two, three, four, or five;
the first and second paired subframes of the first Scell if the CIF value is a fourth state and the CA level is two or three;
the first paired subframe of a second Scell if the CIF value is the fourth state and the CA level is four or five;
the first paired subframe of the second Scell if the CIF value is a fifth state and the CA level is three;
the second paired subframe of the second Scell if the CIF value is the fifth state and the CA level is four or five;
the second paired subframe of the second Scell if the CIF value is a sixth state and the CA level is three;
the first paired subframe of a third Scell if the CIF value is the sixth state and the CA level is four or five;
the first and second paired subframes of the second Scell if the CIF value is a seventh state and the CA level is three;
the second paired subframe of the third Scell if the CIF value is the seventh state and the CA level is four or five; and
the first paired subframe of a fourth Scell if the CIF value is an eighth state and the CA level is five.

12. An apparatus comprising:
scheduling circuitry to:
receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) in a first subframe of a primary serving cell (Pcell) of the base station, the DCI to include a carrier indication field (CIF) value and an indicator to indicate a downlink resource of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission that is to include data directed to the apparatus; and
determine, based on a predetermined subframe pairing and the CIF value, that the PDSCH transmission is in a second subframe of a secondary serving cell (Scell), wherein the second subframe is different from the first subframe; and

decoder circuitry to decode the downlink resource of the PDSCH transmission based on the indicator and said determination that the PDSCH transmission is in the second subframe of the Scell,
wherein the CIF value is a 3-bit value having eight states; the carrier aggregation level is two, three, four, or five; the Scell is a first Scell; and the mapping information is stored in a multi-subframe cross-carrier (MSCC) table and identifies:
the primary serving cell if the CIF value is a first state and the CA level is two, three, four or five;
the first paired subframe of the first Scell if the CIF value is a second state and the CA level is two, three, four, or five;
the second paired subframe of the first Scell if the CIF value is a third state and the CA level is two, three, four, or five;
the first and second paired subframes of the first Scell if the CIF value is a fourth state and the CA level is two, three, four, or five;
the first paired subframe of a second Scell if the CIF value is a fifth state and the CA level is three, four, or five;
the second paired subframe of the second Scell if the CIF value is a sixth state and the CA level is three, four, or five;
the first and second paired subframes of the second Scell if the CIF value is the seventh state and the CA level is three;
the first paired subframe of a third Scell if the CIF value is the seventh state and the CA level

Assignees

• He Hong
• Fwu Jong-Kae
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• He Hong
• Fwu Jong-Kae

Classifications

• H04W52/0206

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• H04W24/02 Primary

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• H04B7/024 Primary

  Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems · CPC title

• H04W52/146

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