# US 11,310,088 B2 · Physical shared channel reference signal bundling > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,088 B2 - Document ID: US11310088B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/921,910 - Filed: 2020-07-06 - Published: 2021-01-14 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2019-07-11 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly; Wei Yang; Seyedkianoush Hosseini; Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian; Kazuki Takeda; Wanshi Chen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310088B2 ## CPC - H04L 27/26132: {using repetition} - H04L 5/0023: {Time-frequency-space} - H04L 5/0051: {of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated} - H04L 27/2613: {Structure of the reference signals} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04L 5/001: {the frequencies being arranged in component carriers} - H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH} - H04L 27/26136: {Pilot sequence conveying additional information} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to enable a user equipment (UE) to bundle reference signals, such as demodulation reference signals (DMRSs), by maintaining one or more coherence properties across DMRSs. A base station may transmit an indication of a DMRS bundling configuration to the UE, and the UE may transmit a DMRS bundling capability indication to the base station. The base station may transmit DCI to the UE, and the UE may determine whether to maintain or alter DMRS bundling (for example, maintain or alter one or more coherence properties) for one or more physical shared channels based on the DCI. The UE may maintain or alter one or more coherence properties of the one or more physical shared channels based on determining whether to maintain DMRS bundling and may transmit the one or more physical shared channels and associated DMRSs to the base station. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, an indication of a demodulation reference signal bundling configuration for one or more physical shared channels; transmitting, to the base station based at least in part on receiving the indication, an indication of a UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling for the one or more physical shared channels; receiving, from the base station based at least in part on transmitting the indication of the UE capability, downlink control information; determining, based at least in part on the downlink control information, whether to alter a parameter associated with one or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more physical shared channels; and transmitting, to the base station based at least in part on determining whether to alter the parameter, one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the parameter comprises a coherence property of the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the coherence property comprises one or more of a phase continuity, a precoder phase continuity, a threshold timing gap, a frequency resource allocation, a transmit power, or a transmit waveform, associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein determining whether to alter the parameter comprises determining whether to alter the parameter associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols across multiple slots associated with the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein transmitting the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals comprises transmitting the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols across multiple slots. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, via the downlink control information, a transmit power control command comprising an indication of a change in transmit power corresponding to the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on receiving the indication of the change in transmit power, to alter the parameter associated with one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and altering the parameter associated with the one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining to alter the parameter. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on receiving the indication of the change in transmit power, to maintain the parameter as unchanged for one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and maintaining the parameter associated with the one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining to maintain the parameter. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on receiving the indication of the change in transmit power, to alter the parameter associated with another one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols after a symbol associated with an end of a bundling pattern of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration; and altering the parameter associated with the another one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining to alter the parameter. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on a transmit power control value associated with the transmit power control command, whether to alter the parameter or maintain the parameter as unchanged for one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and altering or maintaining the parameter associated with the one or more of the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining whether to alter the parameter. ### Claim 11 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on receiving the indication of the change in transmit power, to alter the parameter associated with each of the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and altering the parameter associated with each of the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining to alter the parameter. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein a first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols are configured over a first component carrier and a second subset of one or more physical channel symbols are configured over a second component carrier, the method further comprising: determining that one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the first component carrier overlap with one or more physical channel symbols configured over the second component carrier. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12, wherein the second subset of the one or more physical channel symbols is associated with a same type of physical channel, a same type of signaling, a different type of physical channel, or a different type of signaling as the first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on the overlapping, to alter the parameter associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and altering the parameter associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols based at least in part on determining to alter the parameter. ### Claim 15 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on the overlapping, to alter the parameter associated with the overlapping one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the first component carrier and one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the second component carrier; and altering the parameter associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the first component carrier and the one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the second component carrier based at least in part on determining to alter the parameter. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: determining, based at least in part on the overlapping, to maintain the parameter as unchanged for non-overlapping symbols of one or more of the first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols or the second subset of the one or more physical channel symbols; and maintaining the parameter associated with the non-overlapping symbols of one or more of the first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols or the second subset of the one or more physical channel symbols based at least in part on determining to maintain the parameter. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: identifying that each of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with a different type of downlink control information; determining, based at least in part on the identifying and the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration, whether to alter the parameter for the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and altering the parameter or maintaining the parameter as unchanged for the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the different types of downlink control information comprise two or more of downlink control information with a format 0-0, downlink control information with a format 0-1, downlink control information with a cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier, or downlink control information with a cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: identifying that one or more of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with the downlink control information and that one or more of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with configured transmission grants; determining, based at least in part on the identifying and the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration, whether to alter the parameter for one or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more identified physical shared channels; and altering the parameter or maintaining the parameter as unchanged for the one or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more identified physical shared channels. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the downlink control information comprises scheduling downlink control information or group common downlink control information. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical shared channels repeat over multiple transmission time intervals. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical shared channels each carry one or more different transport blocks. ### Claim 23 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises receiving the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration via radio resource control signaling or via downlink control information. ### Claim 24 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises receiving the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration based at least in part on one or more of a modulation coding scheme, a timing gap between the one or more physical shared channel symbols, or a quantity of repetitions of the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 25 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling comprises a timing gap between the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 26 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises one or more of a quantity of physical shared channel symbols to have a same parameter, a first symbol to have a same parameter, a last symbol to have a same parameter, or one or more priorities associated with demodulation reference signal bundling. ### Claim 27 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving an indication to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals using a same precoding matrix; and transmitting the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals in a number of consecutive transmission slots and using the same precoding matrix. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, further comprising maintaining a transmit power for at least a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals within a threshold range. ### Claim 29 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, further comprising: receiving, before transmission of a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals, an indication to adjust a transmit power for the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals; and maintaining a transmit power for at least a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals within a threshold range after reception of the indication to adjust transmit power. ### Claim 30 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, wherein the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals are transmitted in a first carrier, the method further comprising: transmitting information in a second carrier and in at least a portion of the number of consecutive transmission slots; determining that a total transmit power for transmitting the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals in the first carrier and for transmitting the information in the second carrier satisfies a threshold; and allocating power between transmission of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals in the first carrier and transmission of the information in the second carrier, wherein transmission of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals in the first carrier is given priority over transmission of the information in the second carrier. ### Claim 31 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, further comprising: receiving, before transmission of a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals, an indication to adjust a transmit power for the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals; and increasing the transmit power for each of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals transmitted after reception of the indication to adjust transmit power or increasing the transmit power for at least a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals transmitted after reception of the indication to adjust transmit power. ### Claim 32 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, wherein the indication to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals using the same precoding matrix is received via downlink control information. ### Claim 33 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, wherein the indication to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals using the same precoding matrix is received implicitly through determination that one or more of a same power control parameter or precoding matrix is to be used to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 34 A method for wireless communication at a base station, comprising: determining, for a user equipment (UE), a demodulation reference signal bundling configuration for one or more physical shared channels; transmitting, to the UE, an indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration; receiving, from the UE based at least in part on transmitting the indication, an indication of a UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling for the one or more physical shared channels; and transmitting, to the UE based at least in part on receiving the indication of the UE capability, downlink control information. ### Claim 35 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, further comprising receiving, from the UE based at least in part on transmitting the downlink control information, one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with one or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 36 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, further comprising: combining the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and estimating one or more parameters associated with physical shared channel demodulation based at least in part on combining the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 37 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, wherein the one or more physical shared channel symbols are associated with a parameter that is altered or maintained as unchanged based at least in part on transmitting the downlink control information. ### Claim 38 (depends on 37) The method of claim 37, wherein the parameter comprises a coherence property of the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 39 (depends on 38) The method of claim 38, wherein the coherence property comprises one or more of a phase continuity, a precoder phase continuity, a threshold timing gap, a frequency resource allocation, a transmit power, or a transmit waveform, associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 40 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, wherein receiving the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals comprises receiving the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols across multiple slots associated with the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 41 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, further comprising: configuring a first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols over a first component carrier; and configuring a second subset of one or more physical channel symbols over a second component carrier, wherein one or more physical shared channel symbols configured over the first component carrier overlap with one or more physical channel symbols configured over the second component carrier. ### Claim 42 (depends on 41) The method of claim 41, wherein the second subset of the one or more physical channel symbols is associated with a same type of physical channel, a same type of signaling, a different type of physical channel, or a different type of signaling as the first subset of the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 43 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, further comprising transmitting, via the downlink control information, a transmit power control command comprising an indication of a change in transmit power corresponding to the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 44 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein the downlink control information comprises scheduling downlink control information or group common downlink control information. ### Claim 45 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, further comprising configuring the one or more physical shared channels such that each of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with a different type of downlink control information. ### Claim 46 (depends on 45) The method of claim 45, wherein the different types of downlink control information comprise two or more of downlink control information with a format 0-0, downlink control information with a format 0-1, downlink control information with a cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier, or downlink control information with a cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier. ### Claim 47 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, further comprising configuring the one or more physical shared channels such that one or more of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with the downlink control information and that one or more of the one or more physical shared channels is associated with configured transmission grants. ### Claim 48 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein the one or more physical shared channels repeat over multiple transmission time intervals. ### Claim 49 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein the one or more physical shared channels each carry one or more different transport blocks. ### Claim 50 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein transmitting the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises transmitting the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration via radio resource control signaling or via downlink control information. ### Claim 51 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein transmitting the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling comprises transmitting the indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration based at least in part on one or more of a modulation coding scheme, a timing gap between one or more physical shared channel symbols, a quantity of repetitions of the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 52 (depends on 34) The method of claim 34, wherein the indication of the UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling comprises a timing gap between one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 53 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, wherein the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises one or more of a quantity of physical shared channel symbols to have a same parameter, a first symbol to have a same parameter, a last symbol to have a same parameter, and one or more priorities associated with demodulation reference signal bundling. ### Claim 54 (depends on 35) The method of claim 35, further comprising: transmitting an indication to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals using a same precoding matrix; and receiving the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals in a number of consecutive transmission slots, wherein the same precoding matrix is associated with each of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 55 (depends on 54) The method of claim 54, further comprising transmitting, before a portion of the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals is transmitted, an indication to adjust a transmit power for the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 56 (depends on 54) The method of claim 54, wherein the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals are received in a first carrier, the method further comprising: receiving information in a second carrier and in at least a portion of the number of consecutive transmission slots. ### Claim 57 (depends on 54) The method of claim 54, wherein the indication to transmit the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals using a same precoding matrix is transmitted via downlink control information. ### Claim 58 An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: a processor; memory coupled with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: receive, from a base station, an indication of a demodulation reference signal bundling configuration for one or more physical shared channels; transmit, to the base station based at least in part on receiving the indication, an indication of a UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling for the one or more physical shared channels; receive, from the base station based at least in part on transmitting the indication of the UE capability, downlink control information; determine, based at least in part on the downlink control information, whether to alter a parameter associated with or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more physical shared channels; and transmit, to the base station based at least in part on determining whether to alter the parameter, one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 59 (depends on 58) The apparatus of claim 58, wherein the parameter comprises a coherence property of the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 60 (depends on 59) The apparatus of claim 59, wherein the coherence property comprises one or more of a phase continuity, a precoder phase continuity, a threshold timing gap, a frequency resource allocation, a transmit power, or a transmit waveform, associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols. ### Claim 61 An apparatus for wireless communication at a base station, comprising: a processor; memory coupled with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: determine, for a user equipment (UE), a demodulation reference signal bundling configuration for one or more physical shared channels; transmit, to the UE, an indication of the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration; receive, from the UE based at least in part on transmitting the indication, an indication of a UE capability for demodulation reference signal bundling for the one or more physical shared channels; and transmit, to the UE based at least in part on receiving the indication of the UE capability, downlink control information. ### Claim 62 (depends on 61) The apparatus of claim 61, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to receive, from the UE based at least in part on transmitting the downlink control information, one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with one or more physical shared channel symbols associated with the one or more physical shared channels. ### Claim 63 (depends on 62) The apparatus of claim 62, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: combine the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals associated with the one or more physical shared channel symbols; and estimate one or more parameters associated with physical shared channel demodulation based at least in part on combining the one or more bundled demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 64 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein performing demodulation reference signal bundling comprises maintaining a coherence property across one or more demodulation reference signals. ### Claim 65 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the demodulation reference signal bundling configuration comprises an indication of a time window for bundling demodulation reference signals.