# US 12,120,713 B2 · Data communication method and device using multiple MCS in 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 12,120,713 B2 - Document ID: US12120713B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/271,920 - Filed: 2019-09-04 - Published: 2021-10-14 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2018-09-07 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jeongho Yeo; Younsun Kim; Hyunseok Ryu; Sungjin Park; Jonghyun Bang; Cheolkyu Shin; Jinyoung Oh - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120713B2 ## CPC - H04L 1/1887: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements} - H04W 72/53: based on regulatory allocation policies - H04L 1/0004: {applied to control information} - H04L 1/0025: {Transmission of mode-switching indication} - H04L 1/1819: {with retransmission of additional or different redundancy} - 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 5/0091: {Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information} - H04W 72/0453: Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04L 1/0005: {applied to payload information} - H04L 1/0011: {applied to payload 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 The disclosure provides a method, performed by a base station, of transmitting or receiving data, the method including: determining whether to respectively allocate a plurality of transport blocks to different resource regions, based on channel information; determining, based on a result of the determining, a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated and a modulation and coding scheme of the plurality of transport blocks; and transmitting, to a terminal, first downlink control information including an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether the plurality of transport blocks are allocated to different resource regions and resource allocation information of a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, performed by a base station, of transmitting or receiving data, the method comprising: determining whether to respectively allocate a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) including a first TB and a second TB to different frequency resource regions, based on frequency channel condition including signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR); determining, based on a result of the determining, at least one frequency resource region to which the first TB and the second TB are allocated, wherein the first TB is coded with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and the second TB is coded with a second MCS; transmitting, to a terminal, first downlink control information including an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether the first TB and the second TB are allocated to the different frequency resource regions and resource allocation information for the first TB and the second TB; and transmitting, to the terminal, the first TB and the second TB in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), based on the transmission mode, wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a first value; the resource allocation information includes a first bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and a second bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, a frequency resource allocation unit is identified as 2N, and SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the first TB is different from SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, and wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a second value; the resource allocation information includes a third bit field comprising 2M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and the second TB, and the frequency resource allocation unit is identified as N. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first downlink control information further includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to the different frequency resource regions, and wherein the second value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to a same frequency resource region. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first downlink control information further includes frequency resource information of second downlink control information, and wherein the second downlink control information includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining whether to respectively allocate the plurality of TBs to different layers, wherein the first downlink control information further includes information of a number of layers. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the indicator of the transmission mode is determined based on information of a number of the plurality of TBs transmitted in the PDSCH, and wherein the transmission mode is configured via higher layer signaling. ### Claim 7 A method, performed by a terminal, of transmitting or receiving data, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, first downlink control information, wherein the first downlink control information includes an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) including a first TB and a second TB are allocated to different frequency resource regions and resource allocation information for the first TB and the second TB; identifying, based on the received first downlink control information, whether the first TB and the second TB are respectively allocated to the different frequency resource regions; and receiving, from the base station, the first TB and the second TB in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), based on a result of the identifying, wherein, whether to respectively allocate the first TB and the second TB to the different frequency resource regions is determined based on frequency channel condition including signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), wherein the first TB is coded with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and the second TB is coded with a second MCS, wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a first value; the resource allocation information includes a first bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and a second bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, a frequency resource allocation unit is identified as 2N, and SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the first TB is different from SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, and wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a second value; the resource allocation information includes a third bit field comprising 2M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and the second TB, and the frequency resource allocation unit is identified as N. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the first downlink control information further includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the first value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to the different frequency resource regions, and wherein the second value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to a same frequency resource domain. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the first downlink control information further includes frequency resource information of second downlink control information, and wherein the second downlink control information includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, further comprising: identifying whether the plurality of TBs are respectively allocated to different layers, wherein the first downlink control information further includes information of a number of layers. ### Claim 12 A base station for transmitting or receiving data, the base station comprising: a transceiver; and at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to: determine whether to respectively allocate a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) including a first TB and a second TB to different frequency resource regions, based on frequency channel condition including signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), determine, based on a result of the determining, at least one frequency resource region to which the first TB and the second TB are allocated, wherein the first TB is coded with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and the second TB is coded with a second MCS, transmit, to a terminal, first downlink control information including an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether the first TB and the second TB are allocated to the different frequency resource regions and resource allocation information for the first TB and the second TB, and transmit, to the terminal, the first TB and the second TB in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), based on the transmission mode, wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a first value; the resource allocation information includes a first bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and a second bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, a frequency resource allocation unit is identified as 2N, and SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the first TB is different from SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, and wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a second value; the resource allocation information includes a third bit field comprising 2M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and the second TB, and the frequency resource allocation unit is identified as N. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The base station of claim 12, wherein the first downlink control information further includes frequency resource information of second downlink control information, and wherein the second downlink control information includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The base station of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine whether to respectively allocate the plurality of TBs to different layers, and wherein the first downlink control information further includes information of a number of layers. ### Claim 15 A terminal for transmitting or receiving data, the terminal comprising: a transceiver; and at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to: receive, from a base station, first downlink control information, wherein the first downlink control information includes an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) including a first TB and a second TB are allocated to different frequency resource regions and resource allocation information for the first TB and the second TB, identify, based on the received first downlink control information, whether the first TB and the second TB are respectively allocated to the different frequency resource regions, and receive, from the base station, the first TB and the second TB in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), based on a result of the identifying, wherein, whether to respectively allocate the first TB and the second TB to the different frequency resource regions is determined based on frequency channel condition including signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), wherein the first TB is coded with a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and the second TB is coded with a second MCS, wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a first value, the resource allocation information includes a first bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and a second bit field comprising M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, and a frequency resource allocation unit is identified as 2N, and SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the first TB is different from SINR of the frequency resource region allocated to the second TB, and wherein, in case that the indicator of the transmission mode indicates a second value, the resource allocation information includes a third bit field comprising 2M bits indicating a frequency resource region allocated to the first TB and the second TB, and the frequency resource allocation unit is identified as N. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The terminal of claim 15, wherein the first downlink control information further includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The terminal of claim 15, wherein the first value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to the different frequency resource regions, and wherein the second value indicates that the plurality of TBs are allocated to a same frequency resource domain. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The terminal of claim 15, wherein the first downlink control information further includes frequency resource information of second downlink control information, and wherein the second downlink control information includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The terminal of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: identify whether the plurality of TBs are respectively allocated to different layers, wherein the first downlink control information further includes information of a number of layers. ### Claim 20 (depends on 12) The base station of claim 12, wherein the first downlink control information further includes at least one of information indicating the first MCS for the first TB, information indicating the second MCS for the second TB, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a new data indicator, and information of redundancy version.