Time domain window adaptation for joint channel estimation and DMRS bundling

A method, comprising:

• determining one duration of scheduled transmissions for at least one of physical uplink control channels or physical uplink shared channels;
• determining at least one actual duration over which power consistency and phase continuity can be maintained,
• wherein each of the at least one actual duration is limited to a maximum time duration based on a corresponding user equipment capability comprising that frequency hopping is enabled;
• determining one or more time-domain window durations based at least in part on the determined at least one actual duration to make the one or more time-domain window durations cover the one duration of the scheduled transmissions,
• wherein the determining comprises the one or more time-domain window durations is used to cover the determined at least one actual duration, and
• wherein each of the one or more time-domain window durations is adapted to correspond to the at least one actual duration;
• and
• based on the determined one or more time-domain window durations, performing at least one of modulation or demodulation of the scheduled transmissions;
• and
• based on at least one of a maximum time duration or a maximum unscheduled gap between two consecutive transmissions being exceeded causing power consistency and phase continuity to not be maintained, starting at least one of the one or more time-domain windows from a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol of the first scheduled transmission.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer, the computer program code comprising:

• code for determining one duration of scheduled transmissions for at least one of physical uplink control channels or physical uplink shared channels;
• code for determining at least one actual duration over which power consistency and phase continuity can be maintained,
• wherein each of the at least one actual duration is limited to a maximum time duration based on a corresponding user equipment capability comprising that frequency hopping is enabled;
• code for determining one or more time-domain window durations based at least in part on the determined at least one actual duration to make the one or more time-domain window durations cover the one duration of the scheduled transmissions,
• wherein the determining comprises the one or more time-domain window durations is used to cover the determined at least one actual duration, and
• wherein each of the one or more time-domain window durations is adapted to correspond to the at least one actual duration;
• code for performing at least one of modulation or demodulation of the scheduled transmissions, based on the determined one or more time-domain window durations;
• and
• based on at least one of a maximum time duration or a maximum unscheduled gap between two consecutive transmissions being exceeded causing power consistency and phase continuity to not be maintained, starting at least one of the one or more time-domain windows from a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol of the first scheduled transmission.