Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Furuskog, Johan

Mattias Frenne

Daniel Chen Larsson

Jung-Fu Cheng

Siva Dharshan Muruganathan

Shiwei Gao

Johan Furuskog

Robert Baldemair

Havish Koorapaty

Robert Mark Harrison

Stephen J Grant

Sebastian Faxér

Stefan Parkvall

Qiang Zhang

Håkan Andersson

George Jöngren

Claes Tidestav

Lars Lindbom

Niclas Wiberg

Martin Hessler

Erik A Eriksson

Sorour Falahati

Henrik Sahlin

Dirk Gerstenberger

Andreas Nilsson

Jianghua Liu

Karl Werner

Simon Järmyr

Yufei W Blankenship

Andreas Bergström

Stefano Sorrentino

Niklas Wernersson

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Håkan Björkegren

Jianwei Zhang

Per Ernström

Jiann-Ching Guey

Zhipeng Lin

Fredrik Ovesjö

Sebastian FAXÉR

Yongxing Zhou

Johan Mikael Bergman

Angelo Centonza

Xingqin Lin

John Skördeman

Zhang Zhang

Jingya Li

Branislav M Popovic

Asbjörn Grövlen

Bo Lincoln

Christian Hoymann

Qiang Wu

Yu Yang

Fredrik Athley

Bo Göransson

Anders Wallén

Weijun Sun

Zhao Wang

Yang Tang

SaiRamesh Nammi

Jianguo Wang

Erik G Larsson

David Hammarwall

Mattias Andersson

Mats Folke

Svante Bergman

Gino Masini

Florent Munier

Eleftherios Karipidis

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Ravikiran Nory

Ajit Nimbalker

Rui Fan

Sven Oscar Petersson

Chandra Sekhar Bontu

Shaohua Li

Olof Liberg

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Ali Behravan

Arne Simonsson

Yutao Sui

Helka-Liina Määttanen

Fredrik Berggren

Miguel Berg

Ying Sun

David Jean-Marie Mazzarese

Fredrik Nordström

Hong Ren

Helka-Liina Määttänen

Virgile Garcia

Kittipong Kittichokechai

George Jongren

Lackis Eleftheriadis

Fredric Carl Kronestedt

David Mazzarese

Anders Wallen

Anahid Robert Safavi

Sven Jacobsson

Talha Khan

Helka-Liina Maattanen

A method for repeating a Transport Block (TB) over multiple transmission occasions. The method includes exchanging specific signaling between a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment) and a network node (e.g., a base station) to repeat same or different redundancy versions of the TB in multiple non-overlapping transmission occasions (e.g., mini-slots) corresponding to multiple Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states and having different start positions. More specifically, the network node transmits a Time Domain Resource Allocation (TDRA) to indicate the multiple non-overlapping transmission occasions and the wireless device receives the TDRA indicating the multiple non-overlapping transmission occasions. Accordingly, the wireless device can receive repetition of the TB according to the TDRA. By indicating transmission occasions in the TDRA, it is possible to efficiently schedule multiple transmission occasions over the multiple TCI states, thus helping to improve efficiency, reliability, and coverage in a wireless communications network.

Method for repeating a transport block (TB) over multiple transmission/reception points (TRPs)

According to an aspect, a wireless node selects a set of reference signal antenna ports for use in transmitting data to other wireless nodes in a given transmit time interval, from a plurality of sets of reference signal antenna ports that are available for use and that include reference signal antenna ports having different reference signal densities in the frequency and/or time dimension. The wireless node sends a message to a second wireless node indicating a reference signal assignment and including an indication of the selected set of reference signal antenna ports.

Methods for adapting density of demodulation reference signals

Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource allocation with multiple TRPs is provided. Embodiments described herein provide details to facilitate multi-Transmission/Reception Point (TRP) transmission on the PUSCH with respect to User Equipment (UE) implementation and application scenarios. A gap between consecutive PUSCH transmission instances toward different TRPs (e.g., transmission associated with different spatial transmission filters) can be signaled, either semi-statically or dynamically. In case of dynamic signaling, the gap may be configured in a Time Domain Resource Allocation (TDRA) table and indicated in Downlink Control Information (DCI). In case of semi-static signaling, it may be done by Radio Resource Control (RRC).

PUSCH resource allocation with multiple TRPs

Systems and methods are disclosed for single Control Resource Set (CORESET) based Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) diversity over multiple Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs). In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device comprises receiving a message(s) that activates first and second TCI states for a CORESET comprising first and second sets of resource elements (REs) associated to the first and second TCI states, respectively, and receiving a configuration of PDCCH candidates comprising PDCCH candidates for each of one or more aggregation levels (ALs) in a search space (SS) set. Each PDCCH candidate comprises REs in the first and second sets of REs. The method further comprises receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) carried by: (a) a single PDCCH in one PDCCH candidate or (b) first and second repetitions of a PDCCH in the first and second set of REs, respectively.

Single coreset based PDCCH diversity over multiple TRPs

A method, wireless device and network node are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for a wireless device includes receiving a configuration of a reference signal resource set from the network node, the reference signal resource set being a set of single-symbol and single antenna port reference signal resources in at least one slot; and based on at least one parameter of the received configuration, determining whether the UE can assume a same antenna port for all reference signal resources of the reference signal resource set.

Methods and apparatuses for downlink tracking reference signal configuration

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improving the reliability of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission and reception. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device for reception of PDCCH repetitions over multiple control resource sets (CORESETs) in a cellular communications system comprises receiving a configuration of a first CORESET and a second CORESET. The method further comprises receiving, from one or more network nodes, a first repetition of a PDCCH carrying downlink control information (DCI) in the first CORESET and a second repetition of the PDCCH carrying the same DCI in the second CORESET, wherein the first and second repetitions of the PDCCH have either: (a) different channel encoding or (b) a same channel encoding. The method further comprises decoding the DCI based on the first repetition of the PDCCH and/or the second repetition of the PDCCH.

PDCCH reliability enhancements with multiple TRPs

A method and apparatus are disclosed for rate matching. In one embodiment, a user equipment is configured to receive at least two physical downlink shared channels, PDSCHs; a first PDSCH of the at least two PDSCHs being associated with a first set of cell-specific reference signal, CRS, patterns and a second PDSCH of the at least two PDSCHs being associated with a second set of CRS patterns; and the at least two PDSCHs being rate matched around at least one of the first set of CRS patterns and the second set of CRS patterns. In another embodiment, a network node is configured to transmit the at least one PDSCH of at the least two PDSCHs; and the at least two PDSCHs being rate matched around at least one of the first set of CRS patterns and the second set of CRS patterns.

Rate matching for non-coherent joint-transmission with dynamic spectrum sharing

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining and indicating antenna ports in Downlink Control Information (DCI). In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device comprises receiving a configuration comprising a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) configuration and an antenna port field configuration for an antenna port field in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format. The method further comprises receiving a DCI of the DCI format and determining a size of an antenna port field and a DMRS port table for interpreting a value comprised in the antenna port field based on the DMRS and antenna port field configurations, the determined DMRS port table being a subset of a master DMRS port table. The method further comprises determining a DMRS port(s) used for a corresponding physical channel based on the size of the antenna port field, the DMRS port table, and/or the value of the antenna port field.

Systems and methods for determining and indicating antenna ports with configurable antenna port field in DCI

Radio network node, wireless device, and related methods are described. According to one aspect, when a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology are coexisting on the same carrier, the symbol location of the reference signals of the first radio access technology may be moved or changed when the reference signals of the first radio access technology collide with the reference signals of the second radio access technology.

Coexistence of reference signals in wireless communication networks

Systems and methods for determining Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states for multiple transmission occasions are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device includes: receiving a configuration including: a list of TCI states; a TCI activation command in activating a subset of the TCI states and mapping between each of the codepoints to activated TCI states; and a time threshold; receiving in a slot a scheduling message scheduling the transmission occasions; determining time offsets between receiving the scheduling message and each transmission occasion; determining a TCI state for each transmission occasion if at least one time offset is less than the time threshold; and receiving the transmission occasions with the determined TCI states. The proposed solutions ensure consistent UE behavior and allow for more robust PDSCH transmission over multiple TRPs.

Systems and methods for determining TCI states for multiple transmission occasions

A method for differentiating multiple Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission schemes for transmission of data for an over-the-top (OTT) service. In a non-limiting example, the PDSCH transmission schemes include a spatial multiplexing transmission scheme, a frequency multiplexing transmission scheme, a slot-based time multiplexing transmission scheme, and a mini-slot-based time multiplexing transmission scheme. In examples discussed herein, a User Equipment (UE) can be configured to differentiate the PDSCH transmission schemes based on information indicated in Downlink Control Information (DCI) for scheduling a PDSCH transmission, information signaled to the UE via a higher layer configuration, and/or capability signaling indicated from the UE to a network. By differentiating the PDSCH transmission schemes, the UE can efficiently receive a data transmission(s) from multiple Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs) to obtain user data from the OTT service.

Method for differentiating multiple physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission schemes

Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein enable the use of Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) sequences that are numbered relative to an overall system bandwidth, while simultaneously enabling wireless communication devices to determine the DRMS sequence elements mapped to their scheduled bandwidths within the system bandwidth. Advantageously, the wireless communication devices need not know the system bandwidth, or even be aware of where their scheduled bandwidths reside within the system bandwidth.

Methods and apparatuses for signaling and determining reference signal offsets

Methods for scheduling mixed type traffics via multiple Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs) are provided. In embodiments disclosed herein, a base station provides, and a wireless device receives, a scheduling information for scheduling the mixed type traffics with different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements via multiple TRPs. In a non-limiting example, the mixed type traffics include an enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) service and an Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication (URLLC) traffic service, and the scheduling information can be conveyed in a single Downlink Control Information (DCI) or a pair of DCIs. As such, it is possible to enable efficient scheduling of both eMBB traffic and URLLC traffics simultaneously. As a result, it is possible to satisfy a reliability requirement of the URLLC service without sacrificing spectral efficiency and/or throughput of the eMBB service.

Multi TRP based scheduling of mixed type traffics

Systems and methods for Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) to Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) association when two or more Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states are indicated for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission in a cellular communications system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a WCD comprises receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) comprising Downlink Control Information (DCI) that indicates two Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states for a PDSCH transmission to the WCD and DMRS ports within a single Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) group. The method further comprises determining a PTRS port to DMRS port association for the PDSCH transmission, wherein a single PTRS port is used for the PDSCH transmission and determining the PTRS port to DMRS port association comprises determining that the single PTRS port is associated with a lowest indexed DMRS port in the DMRS ports indicated in the DCI.

PTRS to DMRS port association

There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes transmitting data signaling utilising a plurality of transmission sources, wherein the data signaling represents a plurality of code blocks. Modulation symbols of a modulation symbol sequence are mapped to the plurality of transmission sources in c-tuples, the modulation symbol sequence representing the plurality of code blocks in which c is dependent on the modulation used for transmitting the signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Data signaling for wireless communication networks

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Uppsala, Sweden

Mattias Frenne