US 2026/0247390 A1 · INDICATION OF UNUSED TRANSMISSION OCCASIONS

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure support indication of unused transmission occasions. For instance, implementations provide techniques in which uplink control information (UCI) size can be fixed over multiple slots, and in later slots information about earlier slots can be provided. In implementations a UCI multiplexed with an uplink transmission associated with a configured grant (CG) configuration can indicate unused CG occasions of the CG configuration. For instance, determination of content of individual UCI can be provided based on codepoints configured per CG occasion and/or slot in which the UCI is sent in. Further, the described techniques provide for downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a retransmission of a CG physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) which collides with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and indicates whether the hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) of the PUCCH can be multiplexed in the retransmission of the CG-PUSCH.

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Dependent claims

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one memory;
and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the UE to:
receive one or more codepoint configurations indicating codepoints for identifying used slots and unused slots;
generate, based at least in part on a codepoint configuration of the one or more codepoint configurations, one or more codepoint indications comprising codepoints for a set of slots, the set of slots comprising a first subset of one or more unused slots and a second subset of one or more used slots, two or more slots of the set of slots having different codepoints, and at least one codepoint for a first slot indicating that a second slot before the first slot is unused;
and
transmit one or more uplink control information (UCI) via the second subset of one or more used slots, the one or more UCI comprising the one or more codepoint indications.

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A network equipment for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one memory;
and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the network equipment to:
transmit one or more codepoint configurations indicating codepoints for identifying used slots and unused slots, each codepoint indicating a subset of one or more slots that are unused, two or more slots of the codepoint configuration having different codepoints, and at least one codepoint in the codepoint configuration for a first slot indicating that a second slot before the first slot is unused;
and
receive uplink control information (UCI) in a slot of a set of slots, the UCI comprising a codepoint indication formatted based at least in part on a codepoint configuration of the one or more codepoint configurations, a slot index associated with the UCI, and the codepoint indication identifying a subset of one or more unused slots of the set of slots.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Indication of unused transmission occasions

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