Htc Corporation

Ling-San Meng

Chih-Yao Wu

Chih-Hsiang Wu

Yu-Chih Jen

Ping-Cheng Yeh

Pang-Chang Lan

A base station (BS) for handling Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resources on a SCell in carrier aggregation comprises at least one storage device storing instructions of transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring the SCell to a communication device, wherein the RRC message comprises a DL beam management (BM) reference signal (RS) configuration and an association between a plurality of PRACH resources and a plurality of DL Tx beams; transmitting a plurality of DL BM RSs by using the plurality of DL Tx beams on the SCell, respectively; receiving a measurement report of the plurality of DL BM RSs; determining a DL Tx beam according to the measurement report; transmitting a Physical DL Control Channel (PDCCH) order by using the DL Tx beam, wherein the PDCCH order comprises a PRACH mask index indicating at least one PRACH resource; and determining a PRACH resource according to the measurement report.

Device and method of handling physical random access channel resources on a secondary cell in carrier aggregation

A network for handling a CBG-based transmission comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores, and the processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of configuring a CBG-based transmission to a communication device; generating a plurality of CBG sets; generating a plurality of cumulative indices for the plurality of CBG sets, respectively, and generating a total index for the plurality of CBG sets; generating a plurality of downlink control informations (DCIs), wherein each of the plurality of DCIs comprises information indicating a size of a corresponding one of the plurality of CBG sets, a corresponding one of the plurality of cumulative indices and the total index; and transmitting the plurality of DCIs and the plurality of CBG sets to the communication device via the CBG-based transmission.

Device and method for handling a code block group-based transmission

A base station (BS) for sharing downlink (DL) demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) between the DL data and the DL control signals comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise transmitting a DL control signal on a first layer in a first time-frequency resource to the communication device; transmitting a DL data, associated with the DL control signal on a second layer in the first time-frequency resource and on the first layer and the second layer in a second time-frequency resource, to the communication device; and transmitting a set of DMRSs for the DL control signal and the DL data to the communication device.

Device and method for sharing downlink demodulation reference signals

A method for use in a wireless communication device for controlling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process includes: determining a prediction of decoding result of a received data block based on at least signal strength of at least one of the received data block, a received control block, and a received reference signal; and sending a HARQ feedback message to another wireless communication device from which the received data block is transmitted according to the prediction decoding result.

Method and apparatus for reducing HARQ feedback latency

The technique of beamforming is to be adopted in 5G NR systems in both DL and UL directions to combat the effect of acute path loss in the Giga hertz frequency region. With beamforming, the measured path loss in the UL and DL directions will be different even if the same carrier frequency is used for both DL and UL, due to the fact that the antenna gains are not unity as in the case in LTE/LTE-A systems. In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide method and apparatus to handle the mechanism of UL transmit power control.

Uplink power control using beamforming to compensate for path loss

A network transmitting a duration of a subframe of a first type to a communication device; transmitting a multiplexing scheme for the subframe of the first type and a subframe of a second type to the communication device, wherein the duration of the subframe of the first type is shorter than a duration of the subframe of the second type; determining a duration of a subframe of a third type, wherein the duration of the subframe of the second type is not an integral multiple of the duration of the subframe of the first type; transmitting the duration of the subframe of the third type to the communication device; and performing the communication operation in a plurality of subframes of the first type in at least one subframe of the third type according to the multiplexing scheme via a physical channel.

Device and method of handling communication operation

A communication device configured to communicate with a network via at least one carrier is disclosed. The at least one carrier includes a plurality of transmission time interval (TTI) length configurations. The communication device includes a soft buffer for storing a downlink data transmission from the network; a storage unit configured to store a program code; and a processor electrically coupled to the storage unit. The processor is configured to access the program code to partition the soft buffer into a plurality of soft buffer partitions among the TTI length configurations according to a plurality of HARQ process numbers corresponding to the TTI length configurations.

Communication device and base station

A network of handling a sEPDCCH transmission comprises instructions of determining a duration of a sTTI; determining the number of a plurality of available REs of a plurality of REs in a sSU, n; determining an AL of the sSU, Q; determining the number of a plurality of ECCEs in an aggregated sSU, K; determining the number of a plurality of EREGs in an ECCE, A; numbering a plurality of available REs in the aggregated sSU from 0 to (A*K&#x2212;1) cyclically; arranging the plurality of EREGs numbered with 0 to (A*K&#x2212;1) according to a K by A matrix; determining the number of a plurality of aggregated sSUs for performing the sEPDCCH transmission, N; determining the number of a plurality of ECCEs in N aggregated sSUs, N*K; and determining a sEPDCCH position on N*K consecutive ECCEs.

Device and method of handling shortened enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission

A network of handling uplink (UL) transmission comprises instructions of configuring a maximum retransmission attempt to a communication device; configuring a UL transmission skipping mechanism to the communication device; transmitting a UL grant comprising a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and an allocation of a first resource to the communication device for performing the UL transmission; receiving the UL transmission generated according to the first MCS in the first resource according to the UL transmission skipping mechanism; decoding the UL transmission for a plurality of times according to an error control coding (ECC) scheme, wherein the UL transmission is a first redundant version (RV) corresponding to a new transmission with a first RV index or a second RV corresponding to a retransmission with a second RV index; and transmitting an acknowledgment indicating whether the UL transmission is decoded successfully to the communication device.

Device and method of handling uplink transmission

A network of a half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) communication system for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) includes a processing means for executing a program; and a storage unit, coupled to the processing means, for storing the program. The program instructs the processing means to perform the following steps: determining a first timing reference for a HARQ of downlink (DL) transmission from a first set of predetermined timing references, and determining a second timing reference for a HARQ of uplink (UL) transmission from a second set of predetermined timing references; and transmitting the first timing reference and the second timing reference to a user equipment of the HD-FDD communication system, allowing the user equipment to perform the HARQ of DL transmission based on the first timing reference and perform the HARQ of UL transmission based on the second timing reference.

Network and user equipment of HD-FDD communication system for handling HARQ

A network apparatus communicates with a user equipment via multiple component carriers. The network apparatus is capable of configuring cells to correspond to the component carriers, grouping the cells into cell groups, each including cells less than or equal to a predetermined number, selecting one from the cells to be a primary cell for each cell group, and receiving a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) on an uplink (UL) CC of the primary cell for one of the at least one CG.

Network apparatus and communication device for aggregated component carriers

A network for handling a downlink (DL) transmission in a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) system comprise a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise selecting a reference configuration for a DL transmission of a communication device from a plurality of configuration candidates; transmitting information of the reference configuration to the communication device; receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to the DL transmission from the communication device according to the reference configuration; and performing the DL transmission with the communication device according to the reference configuration.

Device and method of handling device-to-cellular communication

A network for handling resources for a device-to-device (D2D) communication in a time-division duplexing (TDD) system comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise selecting a reference configuration for at least one downlink (DL) transmission of a communication device from a plurality of configuration candidates; determining at least one uplink (UL) subframe for the D2D communication of the communication device according to the reference configuration; transmitting information of the reference configuration to the communication device; transmitting information of the at least one UL subframe to the communication device; and performing the at least one DL transmission with the communication device according to the reference configuration.

Device and method of handling resource for device-to-device communication

Accordingly, the present disclosure is directed to a dynamic time division duplex (TDD) configuration method and a base station using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to A dynamic TDD configuration method, applicable to a base station, and the method includes the steps of transmitting a current time division duplex (TDD) configuration, selecting a dynamic TDD configuration based on the current TDD configuration after transmitting the current TDD configuration, and transmitting the dynamic TDD configuration, wherein, the dynamic TDD configuration is a subset of an allowable set comprising one or more possible TDD configurations by which each downlink subframe of the current TDD configuration is not re-configured to a uplink subframe by the dynamic TDD configuration selected from the allowable set.

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Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ling-San Meng