WO2023111617A1

WO2023111617A1 - Apparatus and method of wireless communication

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Publication number: WO2023111617A1
Application number: PCT/IB2021/000935
Authority: WO
Inventors: Hao Lin
Original assignee: Orope France Sarl
Priority date: 2021-12-13
Filing date: 2021-12-13
Publication date: 2023-06-22

Abstract

An apparatus and a method of wireless communication are provided. The method by a user equipment (UE) includes if the UE detects a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNT1) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DC1) scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the UE reports only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception.

Description

APPARATUS AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

BACKGROUND OF DISCLOSURE

1. Field of the Disclosure

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of communication systems, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method of wireless communication, which can provide a good communication performance and/or high reliability.

2. Description of the Related Art

[0002] Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) refer to networks, or segments of networks, using a spaceborne vehicle or an airborne vehicle for transmission. Spaceborne vehicles include satellites including low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, medium earth orbiting (MEO) satellites, geostationary earth orbiting (GEO) satellites, and highly elliptical orbiting (HEO) satellites. Airborne vehicles include high altitude platforms (HAPs) encompassing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) including lighter than air (LTA) unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and heavier than air (HTA) UAS, all operating in altitudes typically between 8 and 50 km, quasi-stationary.

[0003] Communication via a satellite is an interesting means thanks to its well-known coverage, which can bring the coverage to locations that normally cellular operators are not willing to deploy either due to non-stable crowd potential client, e.g., extremely rural, or due to high deployment cost, e.g., middle of ocean or mountain peak. Nowadays, the satellite communication is a separate technology to a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) cellular technology. Coming to 5G era, these two technologies can merge together, i.e., we can imagine having a 5G terminal that can access to a cellular network and a satellite network. The NTN can be good candidate technology for this purpose. It is to be designed based on 3GPP new radio (NR) with necessary enhancement.

SUMMARY

[0004] An object of the present disclosure is to propose an apparatus (such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station) and a method of wireless communication, which can provide a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

[0005] In a first aspect of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) comprises if the UE detects a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS- RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the UE reports only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception.

[0006] In some embodiments of the above method according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the first PDSCH comprises a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH, or a first SPS PDSCH after an SPS PDSCH activation.

[0007] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the first PDSCH is associated with a disabled HARQ process.

[0008] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the UE is configured with a type HARQ-ACK codebook for HARQ-ACK information reporting.

[0009] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the type HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook.

[0010] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the DCI format comprises a DCI format 1 0, a DCI format 1 1, and/or DCI format 1 2.

[0011] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the DCI format 1 0, the DCI format 1 1, and/or DCI format 1 2 indicates a counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) and/or a total DCI (T-DAI) value equal to a given value.

[0012] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the given value is pre-defined.

[0013] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the given value is equal to 1.

[0014] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, whether the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception is determined from at least one of the following: detection of the first PDCCH, or the C- DAI and/or the T-DAI value.

[0015] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, when except for the first PDCCH, the UE detects all other PDCCHs scheduling PDSCHs that are associated with a disabled HARQ-ACK feedback, the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception.

[0016] In some embodiments, the all other PDCCHs indicate a same PUCCH resource as indicated by the first PDCCH. [0017] In a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication by a base station comprises if the base station configures, to a user equipment (UE), a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the base station receives, from the UE, only a hybrid automatic repeat requestacknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception.

[0018] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the first PDSCH is associated with a disabled HARQ process, or a first SPS PDSCH after an SPS PDSCH activation.

[0019] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the base station configures, to the UE, a type HARQ-ACK codebook for HARQ-ACK information reporting.

[0020] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the type HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook. [0021] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the DCI format comprises a DCI format 1 0, a DCI format 1 1, and/or DCI format 1 2.

[0022] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the DCI format 1 0, the DCI format 1 1, and/or DCI format 1 2 indicates a counter downlink assignment index (C-DAI) and/or a total DCI (T-DAI) value equal to a given value.

[0023] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the given value is pre-defined.

[0024] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, the given value is equal to 1.

[0025] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, whether the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception is determined from at least one of the following: detection of the first PDCCH, or the C-DAI and/or the T-DAI value.

[0026] In some embodiments of any one of the above methods according to the second aspect of the present disclosure, when except for the first PDCCH, the base station controls the UE to detect all other PDCCHs scheduling PDSCHs that are associated with a disabled HARQ-ACK feedback, the base station controls the UE to only report the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception.

[0027] In some embodiments, the all other PDCCHs indicate a same PUCCH resource as indicated by the first PDCCH.

[0028] In a third aspect of the present disclosure, a user equipment comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver. The processor is configured to perform the above method.

[0029] In a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, a base station comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver. The processor is configured to perform the above method.

[0030] In a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the above method.

[0031] In a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, a chip includes a processor, configured to call and run a computer program stored in a memory, to cause a device in which the chip is installed to execute the above method.

[0032] In a seventh aspect of the present disclosure, a computer readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored, causes a computer to execute the above method.

[0033] In an eighth aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program product includes a computer program, and the computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.

[0034] In a ninth aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0035] In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present disclosure or related art more clearly, the following figures will be described in the embodiments are briefly introduced. It is obvious that the drawings are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, a person having ordinary skill in this field can obtain other figures according to these figures without paying the premise.

[0036] FIG. 1 A is a block diagram of one or more user equipments (UEs) and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) of communication in a communication network system (e.g., non-terrestrial network (NTN) or a terrestrial network) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0037] FIG. IB is a block diagram of one or more user equipments (UEs) and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) of communication in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. [0038] FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0039] FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication performed by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0040] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a communication system including a base station (BS) and a UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0041] FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating that a BS transmits 3 beams to the ground forming 3 footprints according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0042] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an uplink-downlink timing relation according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0043] FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a system for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

[0044] Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with the technical matters, structural features, achieved objects, and effects with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows. Specifically, the terminologies in the embodiments of the present disclosure are merely for describing the purpose of the certain embodiment, but not to limit the disclosure.

[0045] FIG. 1A illustrates that, in some embodiments, one or more user equipments (UEs) 10 and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) 20 for transmission adjustment in a communication network system 30 (e.g., non-terrestrial network (NTN) or terrestrial network) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure are provided. The communication network system 30 includes the one or more UEs 10 and the base station 20. The one or more UEs 10 may include a memory 12, a transceiver 13, and a processor 11 coupled to the memory 12 and the transceiver 13. The base station 20 may include a memory 22, a transceiver 23, and a processor 21 coupled to the memory 22 and the transceiver 23. The processor 11 or 21 may be configured to implement proposed functions, procedures and/or methods described in this description. Layers of radio interface protocol may be implemented in the processor 11 or 21. The memory 12 or 22 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21 and stores a variety of information to operate the processor 11 or 21. The transceiver 13 or 23 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21, and the transceiver 13 or 23 transmits and/or receives a radio signal.

[0046] The processor 11 or 21 may include application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), other chipset, logic circuit and/or data processing device. The memory 12 or 22 may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory card, storage medium and/or other storage device. The transceiver 13 or 23 may include baseband circuitry to process radio frequency signals. When the embodiments are implemented in software, the techniques described herein can be implemented with modules (e.g., procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. The modules can be stored in the memory 12 or 22 and executed by the processor 11 or 21. The memory 12 or 22 can be implemented within the processor 11 or 21 or external to the processor 11 or 21 in which case those can be communicatively coupled to the processor 11 or 21 via various means as is known in the art.

[0047] In some embodiments, the communication between the UE 10 and the BS 20 comprises non-terrestrial network (NTN) communication. In some embodiments, the base station 20 comprises spaceborne platform or airborne platform or high altitude platform station. The base station 20 can communicate with the UE 10 via a spaceborne platform or airborne platform, e.g., NTN satellite 40, as illustrated in FIG. IB.

[0048] FIG. IB illustrates a system which includes a base station 20 and one or more UEs 10. Optionally, the system may include more than one base station 20, and each of the base stations 20 may connect to one or more UEs 10. In this disclosure, there is no limit. As an example, the base station 20 as illustrated in FIG. IB may be a moving base station, e.g., spaceborne vehicle (satellite) or airborne vehicle (drone). The UE 10 can transmit transmissions to the base station 20 and the UE 10 can also receive the transmission from the base station 20. Optionally, not shown in FIG. IB, the moving base station can also serve as a relay which relays the received transmission from the UE 10 to a ground base station or vice versa. Optionally, a satellite 40 may be seen as a relay point which relays the communications between a UE 10 and a base station 20, e.g., gNB/eNB. Spaceborne platform includes satellite 40 and the satellite 40 includes LEO satellite, MEO satellite, and GEO satellite. While the satellite 40 is moving, the LEO satellite and MEO satellite are moving with regard to a given location on earth. However, for GEO satellite, the GEO satellite is relatively static with regard to a given location on earth. In some embodiments of this disclosure, some embodiments focus on the LEO satellite type or MEO satellite type, for which some embodiments of the disclosure aim at resolving an issue of wider range of frequency offset and/or Doppler offset (shift).

[0049] Spaceborne platform includes a satellite and the satellite includes low earth orbiting (LEO) satellite, medium earth orbiting (MEO) satellite and geostationary earth orbiting (GEO) satellite. While the satellite is moving, the LEO and MEO satellite is moving with regard to a given location on earth. However, for GEO satellite, the GEO satellite is relatively static with regard to a given location on earth.

[0050] In a current discussion in release 17 (R17) NTN, a type 1 codebook bit position and size are pre-configured as specified in TS 38.213 section 9.1.2. Each bit position corresponds to a potential PDSCH reception. When the UE receives a PDSCH reception and successfully decodes the PDSCH, the UE can set ACK at the corresponding bit position. Otherwise, the UE can set NACK. However, when a network receives the HARQ-ACK codebook and receives a NACK at a given bit position, the network cannot tell whether the UE has mis-detected the PDSCH scheduling or a failure of decoding PDSCH. This will cause problem when the PDSCH is an SPS PDSCH scheduled by a PDCCH, which contains a DCI scrambled with cs-RNTI. In this disclosure, some examples present a solution to resolve this issue.

[0051] In some embodiments, if the processor 11 detects a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the transceiver 13 reports only a hybrid automatic repeat request- acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception. This can provide a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

[0052] In some embodiments, if the processor 21 configures, to the user equipment (UE) 10, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the transceiver 23 receives, from the UE 10, only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception. This can provide a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

[0053] FIG. 2 illustrates a method 200 of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the method 200 includes: a block 202, if the UE detects a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS- RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the UE reports only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception. This can provide a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

[0054] FIG. 3 illustrates a method 300 of wireless communication by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the method 300 includes: a block 302, if the base station configures, to a user equipment (UE), a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DC1) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNT1), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the base station receives, from the UE, only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception. This can provide a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

[0055] In some embodiments, the first PDSCH comprises a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH, or a first SPS PDSCH after an SPS PDSCH activation. In some examples, the SPS PDSCH is a first SPS PDSCH after SPS activation. In some embodiments, the first PDSCH is associated with a disabled HARQ process. In some embodiments, the UE is configured with a type HARQ-ACK codebook for HARQ-ACK information reporting. In some embodiments, the type HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook. In some embodiments, the DC1 format comprises a DC1 format 1 0, a DC1 format 1 1, and/or DC1 format 1 2. In some embodiments, the DC1 format 1 0, the DC1 format 1 1, and/or DC1 format 1 2 indicates a counter downlink assignment index (C-DA1) and/or a total DC1 (T-DA1) value equal to a given value.

[0056] In some embodiments, the given value is pre-defined. In some embodiments, the given value is equal to 1. In some embodiments, whether the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception is determined from at least one of the following: detection of the first PDCCH, or the C-DA1 and/or the T-DA1 value. In some embodiments, when except for the first PDCCH, the UE detects all other PDCCHs scheduling PDSCHs that are associated with a disabled HARQ-ACK feedback, the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception. In some embodiments, the all other PDCCHs indicate a same PUCCH resource as indicated by the first PDCCH.

[0057] FIG. 4 illustrates a communication system including a base station (BS) and a UE according to another embodiment of the present disclosure. Optionally, the communication system may include more than one base station, and each of the base stations may connect to one or more UEs. In this disclosure, there is no limit. As an example, the base station illustrated in FIG. 1A may be a moving base station, e.g., spaceborne vehicle (satellite) or airborne vehicle (drone). The UE can transmit transmissions to the base station and the UE can also receive the transmission from the base station. Optionally, not shown in FIG. 4, the moving base station can also serve as a relay which relays the received transmission from the UE to a ground base station or vice versa. [0058] Spaceborne platform includes satellite and the satellite includes LEO satellite, MEO satellite and GEO satellite. While the satellite is moving, the LEO and MEO satellite is moving with regards to a given location on earth. However, for GEO satellite, the GEO satellite is relatively static with regards to a given location on earth. A moving base station or satellite, e.g., in particular for LEO satellite or drone, communicates with a user equipment (UE) on the ground. Due to long distance between the UE and the base station on satellite, the beamformed transmission is needed to extend the coverage.

[0059] Optionally, as illustrated in FIG. 5, where a base station is integrated in a satellite or a drone, and the base station transmits one or more beams to the ground forming one or more coverage areas called footprint. In FIG. 5, an example illustrates that the BS transmits three beams (beam 1 , beam 2 and beam3) to form three footprints (footprint 1 , 2 and 3), respectively. Optionally, 3 beams are transmitted at 3 different frequencies. In this example, the bit position is associated with a beam. FIG. 5 illustrates that, in some embodiments, a moving base station, e.g. , in particular for LEO satellite or drone, communicates with a user equipment (UE) on the ground. Due to long distance between the UE and the base station on satellite, the beamformed transmission is needed to extend the coverage. As illustrated in FIG. 5, where a base station is transmitting three beams to the earth forming three coverage areas called footpoints. Moreover, each beam may be transmitted at dedicated frequencies so that the beams for footprint 1, 2 and 3 are non-overlapped in a frequency domain. The advantage of having different frequencies corresponding to different beams is that the inter-beam interference can be minimized.

[0060] In some embodiments, a moving base station (BS), e.g., in particular for LEO satellite or drone, communicates with a user equipment (UE) on the ground. A round trip time (RTT) between the BS and the UE is time varying. The RTT variation is related to a distance variation between the BS and the UE. The RTT variation rate is proportional to a BS motion velocity. To ensure a good uplink synchronization, the BS will adjust an uplink transmission timing and/or frequency for the UE. In some embodiments of this disclosure, a method for uplink synchronization adjustment is provided, and the uplink synchronization adjustment comprises at least one of the followings: a transmission timing adjustment or a transmission frequency adjustment. Optionally, the transmission timing adjustment further comprises a timing advance (TA) adjustment.

[0061] FIG. 6 illustrates an uplink-downlink timing relation according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 6 illustrates that, in some embodiments, downlink, uplink, and sidelink transmissions are organized into frames with T_f =(A/_max7V_f/100)-7’_c = 10 ms duration, each consisting of ten subframes of T_sl =(A _maxW/¹⁰⁰⁰)-^rc = ^{l ms} duration. T_f refers to a radio frame duration, f refers to subcarrier spacing. n_f refers to a system frame number (SFN). refers to a basic time unit for NR. r_sf refers to a subframe duration. The number of consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols per subframe is iV_s ^Sy^^rame,A* =

^to number of OFDM symbols per subframe for subcarrier spacing configuration i. A_Sy^_b refers to number of symbols per slot.

refers to number of slots per subframe for subcarrier spacing configuration i. Each frame is divided into two equally-sized half- frames of five subframes each with half- frame 0 consisting of subframes 0 to 4 and half-frame 1 consisting of subframes 5 to 9. There is one set of frames in the uplink and one set of frames in the downlink on a carrier. Uplink frame number i for transmission from the UE starts TTA=(NTA+NTA,offset)T_c, before the start of the corresponding downlink frame at the UE where iV_{TA offset} is given by TS 38.213, except for a message A (msgA) transmission on physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) where T_TA = 0 is used. T_TA refers to timing advance between downlink and uplink. /V_TA refers to timing advance between downlink and uplink. iV_{TA offset} refers to a fixed offset used to calculate the timing advance. T_c refers to a basic time unit for NR. [0062] The examples given in this disclosure can be applied for loT device or NB-IoT UE in NTN systems, but the method is not exclusively restricted to NTN system nor for loT devices or NB-IoT UE. The examples given in this disclosure can be applied for NR systems, LTE systems, or NB-IoT systems.

[0063] In some examples, the UE is configured SPS PDSCH transmissions and the UE is configured with type HARQ-ACK codebook for HARQ-ACK information reporting. When the UE only detects PDSCH associated with a disabled HARQ process and the UE detects a first PDSCH scheduled by a PDCCH scrambled with cs-RNTI, the UE reports only the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the first PDSCH reception.

[0064] In the legacy system, the SPS PDSCH reception HARQ-ACK is reported together with the type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook, as specified in 38.213 section 9.1.2. The HARQ-ACK bit location is always in the codebook. The default value is NACK. In this case, when UE does not detect a PDCCH scrambled with cs-RNTI that schedules a SPS PDSCH, the UE will set the default value NACK in the bit location. On the other hand, when UE detects the PDCCH but fails to decode the scheduled SPS PDSCH, the UE also sets a NACK in the bit position. In this case, the network cannot distinguish whether the NACK is due to the miss-detection of the PDCCH or due to failure of SPS PDSCH decoding.

[0065] The solution is that to introduce a special case where the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH reception when the UE detects the scheduling PDCCH scrambled with cs-RNTI. Thus, the network may distinguish three different cases: 1) if the network receives ACK, it means that the UE detects the PDCCH and successfully decodes the scheduled SPS PDSCH; 2) if the network receives NACK, it means that the UE detects the PDCCH but failed to decode the scheduled SPS PDSCH; 3) if the network does not receive anything, it means that the UE does not transmit HARQ-ACK information, it also means that the UE does not detect the PDCCH.

[0066] There are some examples for such special case. In some examples, if a UE detects a first PDCCH scrambled with cs-RNTI and the first PDCCH carries a DCI scheduling a first PDSCH (also called SPS PDSCH), it reports only the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception. In this example, the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception can be used to distinguish the three different cases above illustrated above. Moreover, the condition in this example is denoted as the first condition.

[0067] In some examples, only relying on the first condition may result in a situation that the UE cannot report the HARQ-ACK information for other PDSCH receptions as the UE only report the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception. Thus, some examples may add a second condition, i.e., if a UE detects the first PDCCH and the first PDCCH carries a DCI format 1 0 and/or the DCI format 1 0 indicates a C-DAI value equal to a given value. Then the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception. In this example, the given value is pre-defined, e.g., the given value is equal to 1. The first PDSCH can be scheduled by either DCI format 1 0 or 1 1. Some examples restrict the DCI format 1 0 as a condition in order to give the network flexibility to decide whether the UE reports only the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception while sacrificing the HARQ-ACK information for other PDSCH receptions. When the network wants the UE to only report the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception, the network may use DCI format 1 0 to schedule the first PDSCH. Otherwise, the network may use DCI format 1 1. The condition on C-DAI value is an optional condition, which further gives larger flexibility to the network to allow network to flexibility use both DCI format 1-0 and 1-1. While whether the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception is controlled by the value indicated by the C-DAI.

[0068] Some examples can add a third condition to either the first example or the second example to become a third example, where the third condition is that if, except for the first PDCCH, a UE detects all other PDCCHs scheduling PDSCHs that are associated with a disabled HARQ-ACK feedback, the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception.

[0069] Commercial interests for some embodiments are as follows. 1. Providing a method to report HARQ-ACK information for PDSCH reception. 2. Providing a good communication performance. 3. Providing a high reliability. 4. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are used by 5G-NR chipset vendors, V2X communication system development vendors, automakers including cars, trains, trucks, buses, bicycles, moto-bikes, helmets, and etc., drones (unmanned aerial vehicles), smartphone makers, communication devices for public safety use, AR/VR device maker for example gaming, conference/seminar, education purposes. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are a combination of “techniques/processes” that can be adopted in 3GPP specification to create an end product. Some embodiments of the present disclosure could be adopted in the 5G NR unlicensed band communications. Some embodiments of the present disclosure propose technical mechanisms.

[0070] FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an example system 700 for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Embodiments described herein may be implemented into the system using any suitably configured hardware and/or software. FIG. 7 illustrates the system 700 including a radio frequency (RF) circuitry 710, a baseband circuitry 720, an application circuitry 730, a memory/storage 740, a display 750, a camera 760, a sensor 770, and an input/output (I/O) interface 780, coupled with each other at least as illustrated. The application circuitry 730 may include a circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more singlecore or multi-core processors. The processors may include any combination of general-purpose processors and dedicated processors, such as graphics processors, application processors. The processors may be coupled with the memory/storage and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory/storage to enable various applications and/or operating systems running on the system.

[0071] The baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors. The processors may include a baseband processor. The baseband circuitry may handle various radio control functions that enables communication with one or more radio networks via the RF circuitry. The radio control functions may include, but are not limited to, signal modulation, encoding, decoding, radio frequency shifting, etc. In some embodiments, the baseband circuitry may provide for communication compatible with one or more radio technologies. For example, in some embodiments, the baseband circuitry may support communication with an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) and/or other wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN), a wireless local area network (WLAN), a wireless personal area network (WPAN). Embodiments in which the baseband circuitry is configured to support radio communications of more than one wireless protocol may be referred to as multimode baseband circuitry.

[0072] In various embodiments, the baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a baseband frequency. For example, in some embodiments, baseband circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency. The RF circuitry 710 may enable communication with wireless networks using modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium. In various embodiments, the RF circuitry may include switches, filters, amplifiers, etc. to facilitate the communication with the wireless network. In various embodiments, the RF circuitry 710 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a radio frequency. For example, in some embodiments, RF circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency.

[0073] In various embodiments, the transmitter circuitry, control circuitry, or receiver circuitry discussed above with respect to the user equipment, eNB, or gNB may be embodied in whole or in part in one or more of the RF circuitry, the baseband circuitry, and/or the application circuitry. As used herein, “circuitry” may refer to, be part of, or include an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an electronic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group), and/or a memory (shared, dedicated, or group) that execute one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, and/or other suitable hardware components that provide the described functionality. In some embodiments, the electronic device circuitry may be implemented in, or functions associated with the circuitry may be implemented by, one or more software or firmware modules. In some embodiments, some or all of the constituent components of the baseband circuitry, the application circuitry, and/or the memory/ storage may be implemented together on a system on a chip (SOC). The memory/storage 740 may be used to load and store data and/or instructions, for example, for system. The memory/storage for one embodiment may include any combination of suitable volatile memory, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM)), and/or non-volatile memory, such as flash memory.

[0074] In various embodiments, the I/O interface 780 may include one or more user interfaces designed to enable user interaction with the system and/or peripheral component interfaces designed to enable peripheral component interaction with the system. User interfaces may include, but are not limited to a physical keyboard or keypad, a touchpad, a speaker, a microphone, etc. Peripheral component interfaces may include, but are not limited to, a non-volatile memory port, a universal serial bus (USB) port, an audio jack, and a power supply interface. In various embodiments, the sensor 770 may include one or more sensing devices to determine environmental conditions and/or location information related to the system. In some embodiments, the sensors may include, but are not limited to, a gyro sensor, an accelerometer, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a positioning unit. The positioning unit may also be part of, or interact with, the baseband circuitry and/or RF circuitry to communicate with components of a positioning network, e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) satellite. [0075] In various embodiments, the display 750 may include a display, such as a liquid crystal display and a touch screen display. In various embodiments, the system 700 may be a mobile computing device such as, but not limited to, a laptop computing device, a tablet computing device, a netbook, an ultrabook, a smartphone, an AR/VR glasses, etc. In various embodiments, system may have more or less components, and/or different architectures. Where appropriate, methods described herein may be implemented as a computer program. The computer program may be stored on a storage medium, such as a non-transitory storage medium.

[0076] A person having ordinary skill in the art understands that each of the units, algorithm, and steps described and disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are realized using electronic hardware or combinations of software for computers and electronic hardware. Whether the functions run in hardware or software depends on the condition of application and design requirement for a technical plan. A person having ordinary skill in the art can use different ways to realize the function for each specific application while such realizations should not go beyond the scope of the present disclosure. It is understood by a person having ordinary skill in the art that he/she can refer to the working processes of the system, device, and unit in the above-mentioned embodiment since the working processes of the above-mentioned system, device, and unit are basically the same. For easy description and simplicity, these working processes will not be detailed.

[0077] It is understood that the disclosed system, device, and method in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be realized with other ways. The above-mentioned embodiments are exemplary only. The division of the units is merely based on logical functions while other divisions exist in realization. It is possible that a plurality of units or components are combined or integrated in another system. It is also possible that some characteristics are omitted or skipped. On the other hand, the displayed or discussed mutual coupling, direct coupling, or communicative coupling operate through some ports, devices, or units whether indirectly or communicatively by ways of electrical, mechanical, or other kinds of forms.

[0078] The units as separating components for explanation are or are not physically separated. The units for display are or are not physical units, that is, located in one place or distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units are used according to the purposes of the embodiments. Moreover, each of the functional units in each of the embodiments can be integrated in one processing unit, physically independent, or integrated in one processing unit with two or more than two units.

[0079] If the software function unit is realized and used and sold as a product, it can be stored in a readable storage medium in a computer. Based on this understanding, the technical plan proposed by the present disclosure can be essentially or partially realized as the form of a software product. Or, one part of the technical plan beneficial to the conventional technology can be realized as the form of a software product. The software product in the computer is stored in a storage medium, including a plurality of commands for a computational device (such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to run all or some of the steps disclosed by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The storage medium includes a USB disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a floppy disk, or other kinds of media capable of storing program codes.

[0080] While the present disclosure has been described in connection with what is considered the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the disclosed embodiments but is intended to cover various arrangements made without departing from the scope of the broadest interpretation of the appended claims.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless communication method by a user equipment (UE), comprising: if the UE detects a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DC1) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNT1), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the UE reports only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first PDSCH comprises a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH, or a first SPS PDSCH after an SPS PDSCH activation.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the first PDSCH is associated with a disabled HARQ process.

4. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the UE is configured with a type HARQ-ACK codebook for HARQ-ACK information reporting.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the type HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a type 1 HARQ- ACK codebook.

6. The method of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the DC1 format comprises a DC1 format 1 0, a DC1 format 1 1, and/or DC1 format 1 2.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the DC1 format 1 0, the DC1 format 1 1, and/or DC1 format 1 2 indicates a counter downlink assignment index (C-DA1) and/or a total DC1 (T-DA1) value equal to a given value.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the given value is pre-defined.

9. The method of claim 7 or 8, wherein the given value is equal to 1.

10. The method of any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein whether the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception is determined from at least one of the following: detection of the first PDCCH, or the C-DA1 and/or the T-DA1 value.

11. The method of any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein when except for the first PDCCH, the UE detects all other PDCCHs scheduling PDSCHs that are associated with a disabled HARQ-ACK feedback, the UE only reports the HARQ-ACK information for the first PDSCH reception.

12. The method of any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the all other PDCCHs indicate a same PUCCH resource as indicated by the first PDCCH.

13. A wireless communication method by a base station, comprising: if the base station configures, to a user equipment (UE), a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the first PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DC1) format, with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI), scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the base station receives, from the UE, only a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information for first PDSCH reception.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first PDSCH comprises a semi -persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH, or a first SPS PDSCH after an SPS PDSCH activation.

15. The method of claim 13 or 14, wherein the first PDSCH is associated with a disabled HARQ process.

16. A user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver; wherein the processor is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 12.

17. A base station, comprising: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver; wherein the processor is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 13 to 15.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 15.

19. A chip, comprising: a processor, configured to call and run a computer program stored in a memory, to cause a device in which the chip is installed to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 15.

20. A computer readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 15.