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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US);
Seyedkianoush Hosseini, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Liangping Ma, San Diego, CA (US);
Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Ma, San Diego, CA (US);
Huilin Xu, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);
Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A scheduling offset between an uplink and downlink radio frame timing structure of a user equipment (UE) may be updated to provide for more efficient utilization of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes in a non-terrestrial network. For instance, different UEs may experience different round trip delays (RTDs) with a non-terrestrial cell. Different UEs may be configured with different scheduling offsets such that scheduling delays may be reduced and HARQ processes identifiers may be reused more rapidly. Additionally or alternatively, wireless communications systems may define one or more separation distances (or timing thresholds) for timing between communications and HARQ processes may be reused based on the separation distance threshold (e.g., such that a satellite may reuse a HARQ process ID for two scheduled communications that have not yet been performed by the UE).