# US 12,016,039 B2 · Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple transmission in a wireless communication system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,016,039 B2 - Document ID: US12016039B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/806,649 - Filed: 2022-06-13 - Published: 2022-10-13 - Granted: 2024-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2018-08-09 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Miao Zhou; Feifei Sun; Min Wu; Chen Qian - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12016039B2 ## CPC - H04L 1/1822: involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04L 1/08: by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} - H04L 1/1819: {with retransmission of additional or different redundancy} - H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements} - H04L 1/1864: {ARQ related signaling (H04L1/1607 takes precedence)} - H04L 1/1887: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements} - H04L 1/189: {Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of a message} - H04L 1/1896: {ARQ related signaling} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)} - H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated} - H04W 68/005: {Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication} - H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames - H04W 72/0453: Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA - H04W 72/1273: of downlink data flows - H04W 72/535: {based on resource usage policies} - H04W 76/27: Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04L 5/14: Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex - H04W 68/00: User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like - 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 The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting and/or receiving a transport block. The method includes: receiving and/or transmitting a transport block according to information for scheduling multiple transport blocks. The present disclosure also provides a method for downlink transmission, a method of receiving an NRS on a non-anchor carrier, and corresponding UE, base station, and computer readable medium. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), downlink control information (DCI) including scheduling information with respect to multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) related to downlink data; and receiving, from the BS, the multiple PDSCHs, based on the DCI, wherein the DCI includes a new data indicator (NDI) field, and a number of bits of the NDI field is associated with a number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI, and wherein the DCI further includes time interval information between a transmitting time for feedback information and a receiving time for the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including scheduling information related to time domain with respect to the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the bits of the NDI field indicate NDI values of the multiple PDSCHs respectively, and wherein the DCI further includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field indicating MCS information for all of the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: transmitting, to the BS, feedback information with respect to the multiple PDSCHs, wherein the feedback information includes HARQ-ACK information corresponding to feedback with respect to one transport block of multiple transport blocks, or bundling of feedback with respect to at least two transport blocks of the multiple transport blocks. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the feedback information corresponds to a bit map including feedback for the multiple transport blocks based on a predetermined mapping relationship. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the DCI further includes HARQ process identifier (ID) applied to a first PDSCH of the multiple PDSCHs, and wherein HARQ process IDs corresponding to the multiple PDSCHs respectively are incremented by 1 in a scheduled order based on the HARQ process ID applied to the first PDSCH. ### Claim 7 A method performed by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) including scheduling information with respect to multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) related to downlink data; and transmitting, to the UE, the multiple PDSCHs based on the DCI, wherein the DCI includes a new data indicator (NDI) field, and a number of bits of the NDI field is associated with a number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI, and wherein the DCI further includes time interval information between a transmitting time for feedback information and a receiving time for the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, further comprising: transmitting, to the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message including scheduling information related to time domain with respect to the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the bits of the NDI field indicate NDI values of the multiple PDSCHs respectively, and wherein the DCI further includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field indicating MCS information for all of the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, further comprising: receiving, from the UE, feedback information with respect to the multiple PDSCHs, wherein the feedback information includes HARQ-ACK information corresponding to feedback with respect to one transport block of multiple transport blocks, or bundling of feedback with respect to at least two transport blocks of the multiple transport blocks. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, wherein the feedback information corresponds to a bit map including feedback for the multiple transport blocks based on a predetermined mapping relationship. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the DCI further includes HARQ process identifier (ID) applied to a first PDSCH of the multiple PDSCHs, and wherein HARQ process IDs corresponding to the multiple PDSCHs respectively are incremented by 1 in a scheduled order based on the HARQ process ID applied to the first PDSCH. ### Claim 13 A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising: a transceiver; and at least one controller coupled to the transceiver and configured to: control the transceiver to receive, from a base station (BS), downlink control information (DCI) including scheduling information with respect to multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) related to downlink data; and control the transceiver to receive, from the BS, the multiple PDSCHs, based on the DCI, wherein the DCI includes a new data indicator (NDI) field, and a number of bits of the NDI field is associated with a number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI, and wherein the DCI further includes time interval information between a transmitting time for feedback information and a receiving time for the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to: control the transceiver to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message including scheduling information related to time domain with respect to the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the bits of the NDI field indicate NDI values of the multiple PDSCHs, respectively, and wherein the DCI further includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field indicating MCS information for all of the multiple PDSCHs. ### Claim 16 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to: control the transceiver to transmit, to the BS, feedback information with respect to the multiple PDSCHs, and wherein the feedback information includes HARQ-ACK information corresponding to feedback with respect to one transport block of multiple transport blocks or bundling of feedback with respect to at least two transport blocks of the multiple transport blocks. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The UE of claim 16, wherein the feedback information corresponds to a bit map including feedback for the multiple transport blocks based on a predetermined mapping relationship. ### Claim 18 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the DCI further includes a HARQ process identifier (ID) applied to a first PDSCH of the multiple PDSCHs, and wherein HARQ process IDs corresponding to the multiple PDSCHs, respectively, are incremented by one in a scheduled order based on the HARQ process ID applied to the first PDSCH. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the number of bits of the NDI field corresponds to the number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI. ### Claim 20 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the number of bits of the NDI field corresponds to the number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI. ### Claim 21 (depends on 13) The UE of claim 13, wherein the number of bits of the NDI field corresponds to the number of the multiple PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI.