# US 12,764,740 B2 · Method, terminal and base station in a wireless communication system

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- Number: US 12,764,740 B2
- Document ID: US12764740B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/681,349
- Filed: 2022-08-12
- Published: 2024-10-10
- Granted: 2026-10-13
- Earliest claimed: 2021-08-13
- Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Di Su; Yi Wang; Chen Qian; Feifei Sun
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12764740B2

## CPC

- H04W 72/1268: of uplink data flows
- H04L 5/1469: {using time-sharing}
- 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 72/231: the control data signalling from the layers above the physical layer, e.g. RRC or MAC-CE signalling
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The present disclosure discloses a method, a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include: obtaining one or more first configuration information for transmitting and/or receiving a physical channel or physical signal; and transmitting and/or receiving the physical channel or physical signal based on the one or more first configuration information. According to the method provided by the present disclosure, reception performance of physical channels or physical signals under the condition of self-interference can be improved.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station, first configuration information;
mapping a physical uplink channel in a first format; and
transmitting, to the base station, the physical uplink channel based on the first configuration information,
wherein the mapping of the physical uplink channel in the first format comprises:
generating a first sequence based on second configuration information included in the first configuration information;
generating at least one additional sequence based on the first sequence; and
mapping the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence on at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel, and
wherein the second configuration information is related to frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1,
wherein the generating of the first sequence based on the second configuration information comprises:
determining a total number of uplink-available subcarriers contained in the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on the second configuration information; and
generating the first sequence with a first length, wherein the first length is the same as the total number of the uplink-available subcarriers, and
wherein the mapping of the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence on at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel comprises:
generating at least one second duplicate sequence of the first sequence as the at least one additional sequence, wherein a number of the at least one second duplicate sequence is determined based on a number of the at least one time-domain symbol; and
mapping each of the first sequence and the at least one second duplicate sequence to the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel on each of the at least one time-domain symbol.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1,
wherein the generating of the first sequence based on the second configuration information comprises:
determining the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on the second configuration information;
generating the first sequence with a second length, wherein the second length is a fixed length; and
generating at least one first duplicate sequence of the first sequence with the second length as the at least one additional sequence,
wherein the mapping of the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence on the at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel includes mapping the first sequence and the at least one first duplicate sequence to frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel on a N-th time-domain symbol of the at least one time-domain symbol,
wherein N of the N-th time-domain symbol is a positive integer less than or equal to a number of the at least one time-domain symbol, and
wherein each of the at least one first duplicate sequence is the same sequence as the first sequence or a sequence with a different cyclic shift value generated based on the first sequence.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1,
further comprising obtaining location information of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on at least one of an indication of higher layer signaling or downlink control information,
wherein the location information includes at least two of the following:
an index or a relative index of a starting physical resource block of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel,
a number of physical resource blocks of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel, or
an index or a relative index of an ending physical resource block of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining time units for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on a channel format of the physical uplink channel,
wherein in case that the physical uplink channel is in a specific format, the time units for transmitting the physical uplink channel include specific downlink time units, wherein the specific downlink time units include at least one of the following:
a time unit configured as downlink in a time division duplex (TDD) uplink and downlink configuration configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling;
a time unit configured as downlink in a slot format indication (SFI) configured by downlink control information (DCI);
a time unit configured as flexible in a TDD uplink and downlink configuration configured by RRC signaling, and on which common downlink transmission is configured; or
a time unit configured as flexible in a slot format indication (SFI) configured by DCI, and on which common downlink transmission is configured, and
wherein the specific format includes at least one of the first format, uplink control channel format 0, or uplink control channel format 1.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
performing transmission power boosting for the physical uplink channel based on third configuration information,
wherein the first configuration information includes the third configuration information for the transmission power boosting for the physical uplink channel, and
wherein the physical uplink channel for which the transmission power boosting is performed is in at least one of the first format, uplink control channel format 0, or uplink control channel format 1.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
applying uplink and/or downlink interleaving mapping based on fourth configuration information,
wherein types of the fourth configuration information include at least one of the following:
uplink interleaving mapping configuration information for transmitting uplink channels and/or uplink signals;
downlink interleaving mapping configuration information for receiving downlink channels and/or downlink signals; and
uplink and downlink interleaving mapping configuration information for transmitting uplink channels and/or uplink signals and receiving downlink channels and/or downlink signals, or
wherein the first configuration information includes the fourth configuration information for at least one of uplink, or downlink interleaving mapping.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, further comprising:
obtaining the fourth configuration information,
wherein obtaining the fourth configuration information includes obtaining at least one of the following:
information indicating to enable or disable at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping;
interleaving mapping pattern for the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping;
types of physical channels for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping;
types of physical signals for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping;
time units for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping; or
frequency units for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein time-domain symbols for transmitting at least one of an uplink channel or an uplink signal or receiving at least one of a downlink channel or a downlink signal are at least one time-domain symbol, and wherein the interleaving mapping pattern for the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping includes a first interleaving mapping pattern, wherein the first interleaving mapping pattern includes at least one of the following:
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the uplink channel or uplink signal on a first set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, and mapping the downlink channel or downlink signal on a second set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the first set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with odd indexes within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with even indexes within the time-domain symbol, and the second set of subcarriers is a set of subcarriers other than the first set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol;
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the uplink channel or uplink signal on a third set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the third set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with odd indexes within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with even indexes within the time-domain symbol; or
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the downlink channel or downlink signal on a fourth set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the fourth set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with odd indexes within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with even indexes within the time-domain symbol.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8,
wherein time-domain symbols for transmitting an uplink channel or uplink signal or receiving a downlink channel or downlink signal are at least one time-domain symbol, and wherein the interleaving mapping pattern for at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping includes a second interleaving mapping pattern, wherein the second interleaving mapping pattern includes at least one of the following:
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the uplink channel or uplink signal on a fifth set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, and mapping the downlink channel or downlink signal on a sixth set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the fifth set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k+2 within the time-domain symbol, and the sixth set of subcarriers is the other one of the set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k within the time-domain symbol or the set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k+2 within the time-domain symbol;
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the uplink channel or uplink signal on a seventh set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the seventh set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k+2 within the time-domain symbol; or
on each of the at least one time-domain symbol, mapping the downlink channel or downlink signal on an eighth set of subcarriers within the time-domain symbol, wherein the eighth set of subcarriers is one of a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k within the time-domain symbol or a set of subcarriers with indexes of 4 k+2 within the time-domain symbol, and wherein k is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

### Claim 11 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8,
wherein obtaining the time units for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping includes at least one of the following:
obtaining indexes or relative indexes of the time units for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping through higher layer signaling or downlink control information (DCI);
determining time units configured for a specific uplink channel or uplink signal and a specific downlink channel or downlink signal as the time units for applying the at least one of uplink or downlink interleaving mapping;
determining time units configured for a specific uplink channel or uplink signal as the time units for applying uplink interleaving mapping; and
determining time units configured for a specific downlink channel or downlink signal as the time units for applying downlink interleaving mapping,
wherein the time units include at least one of the following: time-domain symbols, slots, subframes, radio frames, or mini-slots, and
wherein the specific uplink channel includes at least one of uplink control channel format 0, uplink control channel format 1 or an uplink channel in a first format, the specific uplink signal includes an uplink signal in a first format, the specific downlink channel includes a downlink control channel, and the specific downlink signal includes a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS).

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further including:
determining uplink and downlink configuration for each time-frequency resource based on higher layer signaling or physical layer signaling;
determining a duplex mode corresponding to each time-frequency resource based on the uplink and downlink configuration; and
determining a transmitting and receiving mode corresponding to the time-frequency resource, based on the duplex mode corresponding to the each time-frequency resource.

### Claim 13

A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to:
receive, from a base station, first configuration information,
map a physical uplink channel in a first format, and
transmit, to the base station, the physical uplink channel based on the first configuration information,
wherein, to map the physical uplink channel in the first format, the at least one processor is further configured to:
generate a first sequence based on second configuration information included in the first configuration information,
generate at least one additional sequence based on the first sequence, and
map the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence on at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel, and
wherein the second configuration information is related to frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The UE of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine a total number of uplink-available subcarriers contained in the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on the second configuration information,
generate the first sequence with a first length, wherein the first length is the same as the total number of the uplink-available subcarriers,
generate at least one second duplicate sequence of the first sequence as the at least one additional sequence, wherein a number of the at least one second duplicate sequence is determined based on a number of the at least one time-domain symbol, and
map each of the first sequence and the at least one second duplicate sequence to the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel on each of the at least one time-domain symbol.

### Claim 15 (depends on 13)

The UE of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on the second configuration information,
generate the first sequence with a second length, wherein the second length is a fixed length,
generate at least one first duplicate sequence of the first sequence with the second length as the at least one additional sequence, and
map the first sequence and the at least one first duplicate sequence to frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel on a N-th time-domain symbol of the at least one time-domain symbol,
wherein N of the N-th time-domain symbol is a positive integer less than or equal to a number of the at least one time-domain symbol, and
wherein each of the at least one first duplicate sequence is the same sequence as the first sequence or a sequence with a different cyclic shift value generated based on the first sequence.

### Claim 16 (depends on 13)

The UE of claim 13,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
obtain location information of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on at least one of an indication of higher layer signaling or downlink control information, and
wherein the location information includes at least two of the following:
an index or a relative index of a starting physical resource block of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel,
a number of physical resource blocks of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel, or
an index or a relative index of an ending physical resource block of the frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel.

### Claim 17 (depends on 13)

The UE of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine time units for transmitting the physical uplink channel based on a channel format of the physical uplink channel,
wherein in case that the physical uplink channel is in a specific format, the time units for transmitting the physical uplink channel include specific downlink time units, wherein the specific downlink time units include at least one of the following:
a time unit configured as downlink in a time division duplex (TDD) uplink and downlink configuration configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling;
a time unit configured as downlink in a slot format indication (SFI) configured by downlink control information (DCI);
a time unit configured as flexible in a TDD uplink and downlink configuration configured by RRC signaling, and on which common downlink transmission is configured; or
a time unit configured as flexible in a slot format indication (SFI) configured by DCI, and on which common downlink transmission is configured, and
wherein the specific format includes at least one of the first format, uplink control channel format 0, or uplink control channel format 1.

### Claim 18 (depends on 13)

The UE of claim 13,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
perform transmission power boosting for the physical uplink channel based on third configuration information,
wherein the first configuration information includes the third configuration information for the transmission power boosting for the physical uplink channel, and
wherein the physical uplink channel for which the transmission power boosting is performed is in at least one of the first format, uplink control channel format 0, or uplink control channel format 1.

### Claim 19

A method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), first configuration information; and
receiving, from the UE, a physical uplink channel based on the first configuration information,
wherein the physical uplink channel is mapped in a first format,
wherein the first configuration information includes second configuration information for frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel,
wherein the second configuration information is used to generate a first sequence and at least one additional sequence based on the first sequence, and
wherein the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence are mapped to at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel.

### Claim 20

A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor is further configured to:
transmit, to a user equipment (UE), first configuration information, and
receive, from the UE, a physical uplink channel based on the first configuration information,
wherein the physical uplink channel is mapped in a first format,
wherein the first configuration information includes second configuration information for frequency-domain resources for transmitting the physical uplink channel,
wherein the second configuration information is used to generate a first sequence and at least one additional sequence based on the first sequence, and
wherein the first sequence and the at least one additional sequence are mapped to at least one time-domain symbol for transmitting the physical uplink channel.
