US 10,374,769 B2Granted

User equipment and methods for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation and communication

AssigneeIntel IP Corporation

InventorsWenting Chang, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang, Gang Xiong, Seunghee Han

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Abstract

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), an Evolved Node-B (eNB), and methods for communication of uplink messages are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from an eNB, one or more downlink control messages that may indicate an allocation of PUCCH channel resources. The UE may transmit an uplink control message in at least a portion of the allocated PUCCH channel resources. When the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to an edge configuration, the PUCCH channel resources may be restricted to a lower edge portion and an upper edge portion of the network channel resources. When the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to a distributed configuration, the PUCCH channel resources may include one or more middle portions of the network channel resources. The middle portions may be exclusive to the lower edge and upper edge portions.

Claims26

Dependent claims

An apparatus for User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry and hardware processing circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

receive, from an Evolved Node-B (eNB), one or more downlink control messages that indicate an allocation of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) channel resources that are included in network channel resources associated with the eNB, the allocated PUCCH channel resources include multiple resource blocks (RBs);
and
transmit an uplink control message in at least a portion of the allocated PUCCH channel resources,
wherein when the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to an edge configuration, the PUCCH channel resources are restricted to a lower edge portion and an upper edge portion of the network channel resources, excluding a lower edge and an upper edge of the network channel resources,
wherein when the PUCCH channel resources are allocated according to a distributed configuration, the PUCCH channel resources include one or more middle portions of the network channel resources, the middle portions exclusive to the lower edge and upper edge portions, and
wherein when the RBs are distributed throughout the network channel resources, the RBs are divided into multiple groups of contiguous RBs in the middle portions of the network channel resources.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform operations for communication by a User Equipment (UE), the operations to configure the one or more processors to:

determine, from a group of resource blocks (RBs) included in network channel resources associated with an evolved NodeB (eNB), one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) RBs, wherein the determination is based at least partly on whether the UE operates according to a legacy configuration,
transmit an uplink control message during a first slot and a second slot in the determined PUCCH RBs,
wherein the network channel resources include a legacy portion of PUCCH RBs restricted to a lower edge frequency portion and an upper edge frequency portion of the network channel resources, excluding a lower edge and an upper edge of the network channel resources, and
wherein the network channel resources further include a non-legacy portion of PUCCH RBs that includes multiple RBs distributed in a portion of the network channel resources exclusive to the legacy portion, and the non-legacy portion of PUCCH RBs are divided into multiple groups of contiguous RBs.

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An apparatus for an Evolved Node-B (eNB), the apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry and hardware processing circuitry, the hardware processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:

transmit one or more downlink control messages that indicate an allocation of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource blocks (RBs) that are included in network channel resources associated with the eNB;
and
receive, from User Equipment (UE), an uplink control message in at least a portion of the PUCCH RBs,
wherein the network channel resources include a legacy portion of PUCCH RBs restricted to a lower edge frequency portion and an upper edge frequency portion of the network channel resources, excluding a lower edge and an upper edge of the network channel resources, and
wherein the network channel resources further include a non-legacy portion of PUCCH RBs that includes multiple RBs distributed in a portion of the network channel resources exclusive to the legacy portion, and the non-legacy portion of PUCCH RBs are divided into multiple groups of contiguous RBs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/559,991Filed 15 Sep 2015 · continuation
Priority: 21 Apr 2015
Published: US 2018/0069675 A18 Mar 2018
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 5/0051
Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver: of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
H04L 1/00
Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
H04L 5/0037
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
H04L 5/0053
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals

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PCT/CN2015/077099Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Apr 2015
US 2018/0069675 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Mar 2018
US 10,374,769 B2This patent

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