[Technical Field]
[0001] The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the
present invention relates to channel multiplexing.
[Background Art]
[0002] After commercialization of 4th generation (4G) communication system, in order to
meet the increasing demand for wireless data traffic, efforts are being made to develop
new 5th generation (5G) communication systems. The 5G communication system is called
as a beyond 4G network communication system, a post LTE system, or a new radio (NR)
system. In order to achieve a high data transfer rate, 5G communication systems include
systems operated using the millimeter wave (mmWave) band of 6 GHz or more, and include
a communication system operated using a frequency band of 6 GHz or less in terms of
ensuring coverage so that implementations in base stations and terminals are under
consideration.
[0003] A 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) NR system enhances spectral efficiency
of a network and enables a communication provider to provide more data and voice services
over a given bandwidth. Accordingly, the 3GPP NR system is designed to meet the demands
for high-speed data and media transmission in addition to supports for large volumes
of voice. The advantages of the NR system are to have a higher throughput and a lower
latency in an identical platform, support for frequency division duplex (FDD) and
time division duplex (TDD), and a low operation cost with an enhanced end-user environment
and a simple architecture.
[0004] For more efficient data processing, dynamic TDD of the NR system may use a method
for varying the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols
that may be used in an uplink and downlink according to data traffic directions of
cell users. For example, when the downlink traffic of the cell is larger than the
uplink traffic, the base station may allocate a plurality of downlink OFDM symbols
to a slot (or subframe). Information about the slot configuration should be transmitted
to the terminals.
[0005] In order to alleviate the path loss of radio waves and increase the transmission
distance of radio waves in the mmWave band, in 5G communication systems, beamforming,
massive multiple input/output (massive MIMO), full dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), array
antenna, analog beam-forming, hybrid beamforming that combines analog beamforming
and digital beamforming, and large scale antenna technologies are discussed. In addition,
for network improvement of the system, in the 5G communication system, technology
developments related to evolved small cells, advanced small cells, cloud radio access
network (cloud RAN), ultra-dense network, device to device communication (D2D), vehicle
to everything communication (V2X), wireless backhaul, non-terrestrial network communication
(NTN), moving network, cooperative communication, coordinated multi-points (CoMP),
interference cancellation, and the like are being made. In addition, in the 5G system,
hybrid FSK and QAM modulation (FQAM) and sliding window superposition coding (SWSC),
which are advanced coding modulation (ACM) schemes, and filter bank multi-carrier
(FBMC), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and sparse code multiple access (SCMA),
which are advanced connectivity technologies, are being developed. Meanwhile, in a
human-centric connection network where humans generate and consume information, the
Internet has evolved into the Internet of Things (IoT) network, which exchanges information
among distributed components such as objects. Internet of Everything (IoE) technology,
which combines IoT technology with big data processing technology through connection
with cloud servers, is also emerging. In order to implement IoT, technology elements
such as sensing technology, wired/wireless communication and network infrastructure,
service interface technology, and security technology are required, so that in recent
years, technologies such as sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), and machine
type communication (MTC) have been studied for connection between objects. In the
IoT environment, an intelligent internet technology (IT) service that collects and
analyzes data generated from connected objects to create new value in human life can
be provided. Through the fusion and mixture of existing information technology (IT)
and various industries, IoT can be applied to fields such as smart home, smart building,
smart city, smart car or connected car, smart grid, healthcare, smart home appliance,
and advanced medical service.
[0006] Accordingly, various attempts have been made to apply the 5G communication system
to the IoT network. For example, technologies such as a sensor network, a machine
to machine (M2M), and a machine type communication (MTC) are implemented by techniques
such as beamforming, MIMO, and array antennas. The application of the cloud RAN as
the big data processing technology described above is an example of the fusion of
5G technology and IoT technology. Generally, a mobile communication system has been
developed to provide voice service while ensuring the user's activity.
[0007] However, the mobile communication system is gradually expanding not only the voice
but also the data service, and now it has developed to the extent of providing high-speed
data service. However, in a mobile communication system in which services are currently
being provided, a more advanced mobile communication system is required due to a shortage
phenomenon of resources and a high-speed service demand of users.
[Disclosure]
[Technical Problem]
[0011] An object of an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a method and device
for transmitting a signal efficiently in a wireless communication system.
[Technical Solution]
[0012] Aspects of the present invention are provided in the independent claims. Preferred
embodiments are provided in the dependent claims.
[0013] The scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.
[Advantageous Effects]
[0014] Aspects of the present invention provide techniques for efficiently multiplexing
channels in a wireless communication system.
[0015] Effects obtainable from various embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited
to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned above may be clearly
derived and understood to those skilled in the art from the following description.
[0016] The scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.
[Description of Drawings]
[0017]
FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a wireless frame structure used in a wireless communication
system;
FIG. 2 illustrates an example of a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) slot structure in a wireless
communication system;
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a physical channel used in a 3GPP system and a
typical signal transmission method using the physical channel;
FIG. 4 illustrates an SS/PBCH block for initial cell access in a 3GPP NR system;
FIG. 5 illustrates a procedure for transmitting control information and a control
channel in a 3GPP NR system;
FIG. 6 illustrates a control resource set (CORESET) in which a physical downlink control
channel (PDCCH) may be transmitted in a 3GPP NR system;
FIG. 7 illustrates a method for configuring a PDCCH search space in a 3GPP NR system;
FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating carrier aggregation;
FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining single carrier communication and multiple carrier
communication;
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example in which a cross carrier scheduling technique
is applied;
FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the configurations of a UE and a base station according
to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 12 shows a preemption indicator used in a wireless communication system according
to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 13 shows a range of a physical uplink data channel that a UE according to an
embodiment of the present invention cannot transmit due to preemption.
FIG. 14 shows an operation in which a UE transmits a PUSCH that cannot be transmitted
due to preemption according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 15 shows a range of a physical uplink data channel that a UE according to another
embodiment of the present invention cannot transmit due to preemption.
FIG. 16 shows an operation in which the UE transmits DMRS and UCI that cannot be transmitted
due to preemption according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 17 shows a method for a UE to select an alternate physical uplink control channel
according to an embodiment of the present invention.
[Mode for Carrying out the Invention]
[0018] Terms used in the specification adopt general terms which are currently widely used
as possible by considering functions in the present invention, but the terms may be
changed depending on an intention of those skilled in the art, customs, and emergence
of new technology. Further, in a specific case, there is a term arbitrarily selected
by an applicant and in this case, a meaning thereof will be described in a corresponding
description part of the invention. Accordingly, it intends to be revealed that a term
used in the specification should be analyzed based on not just a name of the term
but a substantial meaning of the term and contents throughout the specification.
[0019] Throughout this specification and the claims that follow, when it is described that
an element is "connected" to another element, the element may be "directly connected"
to the other element or "electrically connected" to the other element through a third
element. Further, unless explicitly described to the contrary, the word "comprise"
will be understood to imply the inclusion of stated elements but not the exclusion
of any other elements unless otherwise stated. Moreover, limitations such as "more
than or equal to" or "less than or equal to" based on a specific threshold may be
appropriately substituted with "more than" or "less than", respectively, in some exemplary
embodiments.
[0020] The following technology may be used in various wireless access systems, such as
code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time
division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA),
single carrier-FDMA (SC-FDMA), and the like. The CDMA may be implemented by a wireless
technology such as universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. The TDMA
may be implemented by a wireless technology such as global system for mobile communications
(GSM)/general packet radio service (GPRS)/enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE).
The OFDMA may be implemented by a wireless technology such as IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi),
IEEE 802.16(WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), and the like. The UTRA is
a part of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS). 3rd generation partnership
project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) is a part of an evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using
evolved-UMTS terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) and LTE-advanced (A) is an evolved
version of the 3GPP LTE. 3GPP new radio (NR) is a system designed separately from
LTE/LTE-A, and is a system for supporting enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable
and low latency communication (URLLC), and massive machine type communication (mMTC)
services, which are requirements of IMT-2020. For the clear description, 3GPP NR is
mainly described, but the technical idea of the present invention is not limited thereto.
[0021] Unless otherwise specified herein, the base station may include a next generation
node B (gNB) defined in 3GPP NR. Furthermore, unless otherwise specified, a terminal
may include a user equipment (UE). Hereinafter, in order to help the understanding
of the description, each content is described separately by the embodiments, but each
embodiment may be used in combination with each other. In the present specification,
the configuration of the UE may indicate a configuration by the base station. In more
detail, the base station may configure a value of a parameter used in an operation
of the UE or a wireless communication system by transmitting a channel or a signal
to the UE.
[0022] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a wireless frame structure used in a wireless communication
system.
[0023] Referring to FIG. 1, the wireless frame (or radio frame) used in the 3GPP NR system
may have a length of 10 ms (Δf
maxN
f / 100)
∗ T
c). In addition, the wireless frame includes 10 subframes (SFs) having equal sizes.
Herein, Δf
max=480
∗10
3 Hz, N
f=4096, T
c=1/(Δf
ref∗N
f,ref), Δf
ref=15
∗10
3 Hz, and N
f,ref=2048. Numbers from 0 to 9 may be respectively allocated to 10 subframes within one
wireless frame. Each subframe has a length of 1 ms and may include one or more slots
according to a subcarrier spacing. More specifically, in the 3GPP NR system, the subcarrier
spacing that may be used is 15
∗2
µ kHz, and µ can have a value of µ = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 as subcarrier spacing configuration.
That is, 15 kHz, 30 kHz, 60 kHz, 120 kHz and 240 kHz may be used for subcarrier spacing.
One subframe having a length of 1 ms may include 2
µ slots. In this case, the length of each slot is 2
-µ ms. Numbers from 0 to 2
µ-1 may be respectively allocated to 2
µ slots within one wireless frame. In addition, numbers from 0 to 10
∗2
µ-1 may be respectively allocated to slots within one subframe. The time resource may
be distinguished by at least one of a wireless frame number (also referred to as a
wireless frame index), a subframe number (also referred to as a subframe index), and
a slot number (or a slot index).
[0024] FIG. 2 illustrates an example of a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) slot structure in a
wireless communication system. In particular, FIG. 2 shows the structure of the resource
grid of the 3GPP NR system.
[0025] There is one resource grid per antenna port. Referring to FIG. 2, a slot includes
a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time
domain and includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain. An
OFDM symbol also means one symbol section. Unless otherwise specified, OFDM symbols
may be referred to simply as symbols. One RB includes 12 consecutive subcarriers in
the frequency domain. Referring to FIG. 2, a signal transmitted from each slot may
be represented by a resource grid including N
size,µgrid,x ∗ N
RBsc subcarriers, and N
slotsymb OFDM symbols. Here, x = DL when the signal is a DL signal, and x = UL when the signal
is an UL signal. N
size,µgrid,x represents the number of resource blocks (RBs) according to the subcarrier spacing
constituent µ (x is DL or UL), and N
slotsymb represents the number of OFDM symbols in a slot. N
RBsc is the number of subcarriers constituting one RB and N
RBsc= 12. An OFDM symbol may be referred to as a cyclic shift OFDM (CP-OFDM) symbol or
a discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol according to a multiple
access scheme. The number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary according
to the length of a cyclic prefix (CP). For example, in the case of a normal CP, one
slot includes 14 OFDM symbols, but in the case of an extended CP, one slot may include
12 OFDM symbols. In a specific embodiment, the extended CP can only be used at 60
kHz subcarrier spacing. In FIG. 2, for convenience of description, one slot is configured
with 14 OFDM symbols by way of example, but embodiments of the present disclosure
may be applied in a similar manner to a slot having a different number of OFDM symbols.
Referring to FIG. 2, each OFDM symbol includes N
size,µgrid,x ∗ N
RBsc subcarriers in the frequency domain. The type of subcarrier may be divided into a
data subcarrier for data transmission, a reference signal subcarrier for transmission
of a reference signal, and a guard band. The carrier frequency is also referred to
as the center frequency (fc).
[0026] One RB may be defined by N
RBsc (e. g., 12) consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. For reference, a resource
configured with one OFDM symbol and one subcarrier may be referred to as a resource
element (RE) or a tone. Therefore, one RB can be configured with N
slotsymb ∗ N
RBsc resource elements. Each resource element in the resource grid can be uniquely defined
by a pair of indexes (k, l) in one slot. k may be an index assigned from 0 to N
size,µgrid, x ∗ N
RBsc - 1 in the frequency domain, and l may be an index assigned from 0 to N
slotsymb - 1 in the time domain.
[0027] In order for the UE to receive a signal from the base station or to transmit a signal
to the base station, the time/frequency of the UE may be synchronized with the time/frequency
of the base station. This is because when the base station and the UE are synchronized,
the UE can determine the time and frequency parameters necessary for demodulating
the DL signal and transmitting the UL signal at the correct time.
[0028] Each symbol of a radio frame used in a time division duplex (TDD) or an unpaired
spectrum may be configured with at least one of a DL symbol, an UL symbol, and a flexible
symbol. A radio frame used as a DL carrier in a frequency division duplex (FDD) or
a paired spectrum may be configured with a DL symbol or a flexible symbol, and a radio
frame used as a UL carrier may be configured with a UL symbol or a flexible symbol.
In the DL symbol, DL transmission is possible, but UL transmission is impossible.
In the UL symbol, UL transmission is possible, but DL transmission is impossible.
The flexible symbol may be determined to be used as a DL or an UL according to a signal.
[0029] Information on the type of each symbol, i.e., information representing any one of
DL symbols, UL symbols, and flexible symbols, may be configured with a cell-specific
or common radio resource control (RRC) signal. In addition, information on the type
of each symbol may additionally be configured with a UE-specific or dedicated RRC
signal. The base station informs, by using cell-specific RRC signals, i) the period
of cell-specific slot configuration, ii) the number of slots with only DL symbols
from the beginning of the period of cell-specific slot configuration, iii) the number
of DL symbols from the first symbol of the slot immediately following the slot with
only DL symbols, iv) the number of slots with only UL symbols from the end of the
period of cell specific slot configuration, and v) the number of UL symbols from the
last symbol of the slot immediately before the slot with only the UL symbol. Here,
symbols not configured with any one of a UL symbol and a DL symbol are flexible symbols.
[0030] When the information on the symbol type is configured with the UE-specific RRC signal,
the base station may signal whether the flexible symbol is a DL symbol or an UL symbol
in the cell-specific RRC signal. In this case, the UE-specific RRC signal can not
change a DL symbol or a UL symbol configured with the cell-specific RRC signal into
another symbol type. The UE-specific RRC signal may signal the number of DL symbols
among the N
slotsymb symbols of the corresponding slot for each slot, and the number of UL symbols among
the N
slotsymb symbols of the corresponding slot. In this case, the DL symbol of the slot may be
continuously configured with the first symbol to the i-th symbol of the slot. In addition,
the UL symbol of the slot may be continuously configured with the j-th symbol to the
last symbol of the slot (where i <j). In the slot, symbols not configured with any
one of a UL symbol and a DL symbol are flexible symbols.
[0031] The type of symbol configured with the above RRC signal may be referred to as a semi-static
DL/UL configuration. In the semi-static DL/UL configuration previously configured
with RRC signals, the flexible symbol may be indicated as a DL symbol, an UL symbol,
or a flexible symbol through dynamic slot format information (SFI) transmitted on
a physical DL control channel (PDCCH). In this case, the DL symbol or UL symbol configured
with the RRC signal is not changed to another symbol type. Table 1 exemplifies the
dynamic SFI that the base station can indicate to the UE.

[0032] In Table 1, D denotes a DL symbol, U denotes a UL symbol, and X denotes a flexible
symbol. As shown in Table 1, up to two DL/UL switching in one slot may be allowed.
[0033] FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a physical channel used in a 3GPP system (e.g.,
NR) and a typical signal transmission method using the physical channel.
[0034] If the power of the UE is turned on or the UE camps on a new cell, the UE performs
an initial cell search (S101). Specifically, the UE may synchronize with the BS in
the initial cell search. For this, the UE may receive a primary synchronization signal
(PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) from the base station to synchronize
with the base station, and obtain information such as a cell ID. Thereafter, the UE
can receive the physical broadcast channel from the base station and obtain the broadcast
information in the cell.
[0035] Upon completion of the initial cell search, the UE receives a physical downlink shared
channel (PDSCH) according to the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and information
in the PDCCH, so that the UE can obtain more specific system information than the
system information obtained through the initial cell search (S102). Herein, the system
information received by the UE is cell-common system information for normal operating
of the UE in a physical layer in radio resource control (RRC) and is referred to remaining
system information, or system information block (SIB) 1 is called.
[0036] When the UE initially accesses the base station or does not have radio resources
for signal transmission (i.e. the UE at RRC_IDLE mode), the UE may perform a random
access procedure on the base station (operations S103 to S106). First, the UE can
transmit a preamble through a physical random access channel (PRACH) (S103) and receive
a response message for the preamble from the base station through the PDCCH and the
corresponding PDSCH (S104). When a valid random access response message is received
by the UE, the UE transmits data including the identifier of the UE and the like to
the base station through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) indicated by the
UL grant transmitted through the PDCCH from the base station (S105). Next, the UE
waits for reception of the PDCCH as an indication of the base station for collision
resolution. If the UE successfully receives the PDCCH through the identifier of the
UE (S106), the random access process is terminated. The UE may obtain UE-specific
system information for normal operating of the UE in the physical layer in RRC layer
during a random access process. When the UE obtain the UE-specific system information,
the UE enter RRC connecting mode (RRC_CONNECTED mode).
[0037] The RRC layer is used for generating or managing message for controlling connection
between the UE and radio access network (RAN). In more detail, the base station and
the UE, in the RRC layer, may perform broadcasting cell system information required
by every UE in the cell, managing mobility and handover, measurement report of the
UE, storage management including UE capability management and device management. In
general, the RRC signal is not changed and maintained quite long interval since a
period of an update of a signal delivered in the RRC layer is longer than a transmission
time interval (TTI) in physical layer.
[0038] After the above-described procedure, the UE receives PDCCH/PDSCH (S 107) and transmits
a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)/physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) (S108)
as a general UL/DL signal transmission procedure. In particular, the UE may receive
downlink control information (DCI) through the PDCCH. The DCI may include control
information such as resource allocation information for the UE. Also, the format of
the DCI may vary depending on the intended use. The uplink control information (UCI)
that the UE transmits to the base station through UL includes a DL/UL ACK/NACK signal,
a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), a rank indicator
(RI), and the like. Here, the CQI, PMI, and RI may be included in channel state information
(CSI). In the 3GPP NR system, the UE may transmit control information such as HARQ-ACK
and CSI described above through the PUSCH and/or PUCCH.
[0039] FIG. 4 illustrates an SS/PBCH block for initial cell access in a 3GPP NR system.
[0040] When the power is turned on or wanting to access a new cell, the UE may obtain time
and frequency synchronization with the cell and perform an initial cell search procedure.
The UE may detect a physical cell identity N
cellID of the cell during a cell search procedure. For this, the UE may receive a synchronization
signal, for example, a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization
signal (SSS), from a base station, and synchronize with the base station. In this
case, the UE can obtain information such as a cell identity (ID). Referring to FIG.
4A, a synchronization signal (SS) will be described in more detail. The synchronization
signal can be classified into PSS and SSS. The PSS may be used to obtain time domain
synchronization and/or frequency domain synchronization, such as OFDM symbol synchronization
and slot synchronization. The SSS can be used to obtain frame synchronization and
cell group ID. Referring to FIG. 4A and Table 2, the SS/PBCH block can be configured
with consecutive 20 RBs (= 240 subcarriers) in the frequency axis, and can be configured
with consecutive 4 OFDM symbols in the time axis. In this case, in the SS/PBCH block,
the PSS is transmitted in the first OFDM symbol and the SSS is transmitted in the
third OFDM symbol through the 56th to 182th subcarriers. Here, the lowest subcarrier
index of the SS/PBCH block is numbered from 0. In the first OFDM symbol in which the
PSS is transmitted, the base station does not transmit a signal through the remaining
subcarriers, i.e., 0th to 55th and 183th to 239th subcarriers. In addition, in the
third OFDM symbol in which the SSS is transmitted, the base station does not transmit
a signal through 48th to 55th and 183th to 191th subcarriers. The base station transmits
a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) through the remaining RE except for the above
signal in the SS/PBCH block.
[Table 2]
Channel or signal |
OFDM symbol number l relative to the start of an SS/PBCH block |
Subcarrier number k. relative to the start of an SS/PBCH block |
PSS |
0 |
56, 57, ..., 182 |
SSS |
2 |
56, 57, ..., 182 |
Set to 0 |
0 |
0, 1, ..., 55, 183, 184, ..., 239 |
2 |
48, 49, ..., 55, 183, 184, ..., 191 |
PBCH |
1, 3 |
0, 1, ..., 239 |
2 |
0, 1, ..., 47, 192, 193, ..., 239 |
DM-RS for PBCH |
1, 3 |
0 + v,4 + v,8 + v,...,236 + v |
2 |
0 + v,4 + v,8 + v,...,44 + v |
192 + v,196 + v,..,236 +v |
[0041] The SS allows a total of 1008 unique physical layer cell IDs to be grouped into 336
physical-layer cell-identifier groups, each group including three unique identifiers,
through a combination of three PSSs and SSSs, specifically, such that each physical
layer cell ID is to be only a part of one physical-layer cell-identifier group. Therefore,
the physical layer cell ID N
cellID = 3N
(1)ID + N
(2)ID can be uniquely defined by the index N
(1)ID ranging from 0 to 335 indicating a physical-layer cell-identifier group and the index
N
(2)ID ranging from 0 to 2 indicating a physical-layer identifier in the physical-layer
cell-identifier group. The UE may detect the PSS and identify one of the three unique
physical-layer identifiers. In addition, the UE can detect the SSS and identify one
of the 336 physical layer cell IDs associated with the physical-layer identifier.
In this case, the sequence d
PSS(n) of the PSS is as follows.

Here,

and is given as

[0043] A radio frame with a 10 ms length may be divided into two half frames with a 5 ms
length. Referring to FIG. 4B, a description will be made of a slot in which SS/PBCH
blocks are transmitted in each half frame. A slot in which the SS/PBCH block is transmitted
may be any one of the cases A, B, C, D, and E. In the case A, the subcarrier spacing
is 15 kHz and the starting time point of the SS/PBCH block is the ({2, 8} + 14*n)-th
symbol. In this case, n = 0 or 1 at a carrier frequency of 3 GHz or less. In addition,
it may be n = 0, 1, 2, 3 at carrier frequencies above 3 GHz and below 6 GHz. In the
case B, the subcarrier spacing is 30 kHz and the starting time point of the SS/PBCH
block is {4, 8, 16, 20} + 28*n. In this case, n = 0 at a carrier frequency of 3 GHz
or less. In addition, it may be n = 0, 1 at carrier frequencies above 3 GHz and below
6 GHz. In the case C, the subcarrier spacing is 30 kHz and the starting time point
of the SS/PBCH block is the ({2, 8} + 14*n)-th symbol. In this case, n = 0 or 1 at
a carrier frequency of 3 GHz or less. In addition, it may be n = 0, 1, 2, 3 at carrier
frequencies above 3 GHz and below 6 GHz. In the case D, the subcarrier spacing is
120 kHz and the starting time point of the SS/PBCH block is the ({4, 8, 16, 20} +
28*n)-th symbol. In this case, at a carrier frequency of 6 GHz or more, n = 0, 1,
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18. In the case E, the subcarrier spacing
is 240 kHz and the starting time point of the SS/PBCH block is the ({8, 12, 16, 20,
32, 36, 40, 44} + 56*n)-th symbol. In this case, at a carrier frequency of 6 GHz or
more, n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
[0044] FIG. 5 illustrates a procedure for transmitting control information and a control
channel in a 3GPP NR system. Referring to FIG. 5A, the base station may add a cyclic
redundancy check (CRC) masked (e.g., an XOR operation) with a radio network temporary
identifier (RNTI) to control information (e.g., downlink control information (DCI))
(S202). The base station may scramble the CRC with an RNTI value determined according
to the purpose/target of each control information. The common RNTI used by one or
more UEs can include at least one of a system information RNTI (SI-RNTI), a paging
RNTI (P-RNTI), a random access RNTI (RA-RNTI), and a transmit power control RNTI (TPC-RNTI).
In addition, the UE-specific RNTI may include at least one of a cell temporary RNTI
(C-RNTI), and the CS-RNTI. Thereafter, the base station may perform rate-matching
(S206) according to the amount of resource(s) used for PDCCH transmission after performing
channel encoding (e.g., polar coding) (S204). Thereafter, the base station may multiplex
the DCI(s) based on the control channel element (CCE) based PDCCH structure (S208).
In addition, the base station may apply an additional process (S210) such as scrambling,
modulation (e.g., QPSK), interleaving, and the like to the multiplexed DCI(s), and
then map the DCI(s) to the resource to be transmitted. The CCE is a basic resource
unit for the PDCCH, and one CCE may include a plurality (e.g., six) of resource element
groups (REGs). One REG may be configured with a plurality (e.g., 12) of REs. The number
of CCEs used for one PDCCH may be defined as an aggregation level. In the 3GPP NR
system, an aggregation level of 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 may be used. FIG. 5B is a diagram
related to a CCE aggregation level and the multiplexing of a PDCCH and illustrates
the type of a CCE aggregation level used for one PDCCH and CCE(s) transmitted in the
control area according thereto.
[0045] FIG. 6 illustrates a control resource set (CORESET) in which a physical downlink
control channel (PDCCH) may be transmitted in a 3GPP NR system.
[0046] The CORESET is a time-frequency resource in which PDCCH, that is, a control signal
for the UE, is transmitted. In addition, a search space to be described later may
be mapped to one CORESET. Therefore, the UE may monitor the time-frequency domain
designated as CORESET instead of monitoring all frequency bands for PDCCH reception,
and decode the PDCCH mapped to CORESET. The base station may configure one or more
CORESETs for each cell to the UE. The CORESET may be configured with up to three consecutive
symbols on the time axis. In addition, the CORESET may be configured in units of six
consecutive PRBs on the frequency axis. In the embodiment of FIG. 5, CORESET#1 is
configured with consecutive PRBs, and CORESET#2 and CORESET#3 are configured with
discontinuous PRBs. The CORESET can be located in any symbol in the slot. For example,
in the embodiment of FIG. 5, CORESET#1 starts at the first symbol of the slot, CORESET#2
starts at the fifth symbol of the slot, and CORESET#9 starts at the ninth symbol of
the slot.
[0047] FIG. 7 illustrates a method for setting a PDCCH search space in a 3GPP NR system.
[0048] In order to transmit the PDCCH to the UE, each CORESET may have at least one search
space. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the search space is a set of all
time-frequency resources (hereinafter, PDCCH candidates) through which the PDCCH of
the UE is capable of being transmitted. The search space may include a common search
space that the UE of the 3GPP NR is required to commonly search and a UE-specific
or a UE-specific search space that a specific UE is required to search. In the common
search space, UE may monitor the PDCCH that is set so that all UEs in the cell belonging
to the same base station commonly search. In addition, the UE-specific search space
may be set for each UE so that UEs monitor the PDCCH allocated to each UE at different
search space position according to the UE. In the case of the UE-specific search space,
the search space between the UEs may be partially overlapped and allocated due to
the limited control area in which the PDCCH may be allocated. Monitoring the PDCCH
includes blind decoding for PDCCH candidates in the search space. When the blind decoding
is successful, it may be expressed that the PDCCH is (successfully) detected/received
and when the blind decoding fails, it may be expressed that the PDCCH is not detected/not
received, or is not successfully detected/received.
[0049] For convenience of explanation, a PDCCH scrambled with a group common (GC) RNTI previously
known to one or more UEs so as to transmit DL control information to the one or more
UEs is referred to as a group common (GC) PDCCH or a common PDCCH. In addition, a
PDCCH scrambled with a specific-terminal RNTI that a specific UE already knows so
as to transmit UL scheduling information or DL scheduling information to the specific
UE is referred to as a UE-specific PDCCH. The common PDCCH may be included in a common
search space, and the UE-specific PDCCH may be included in a common search space or
a UE-specific PDCCH.
[0050] The base station may signal each UE or UE group through a PDCCH about information
(i.e., DL Grant) related to resource allocation of a paging channel (PCH) and a downlink-shared
channel (DL-SCH) that are a transmission channel or information (i.e., UL grant) related
to resource allocation of a uplink-shared channel (UL-SCH) and a hybrid automatic
repeat request (HARQ). The base station may transmit the PCH transport block and the
DL-SCH transport block through the PDSCH. The base station may transmit data excluding
specific control information or specific service data through the PDSCH. In addition,
the UE may receive data excluding specific control information or specific service
data through the PDSCH.
[0051] The base station may include, in the PDCCH, information on to which UE (one or a
plurality of UEs) PDSCH data is transmitted and how the PDSCH data is to be received
and decoded by the corresponding UE, and transmit the PDCCH. For example, it is assumed
that the DCI transmitted on a specific PDCCH is CRC masked with an RNTI of "A", and
the DCI indicates that PDSCH is allocated to a radio resource (e.g., frequency location)
of "B" and indicates transmission format information (e.g., transport block size,
modulation scheme, coding information, etc.) of "C". The UE monitors the PDCCH using
the RNTI information that the UE has. In this case, if there is a UE which performs
blind decoding the PDCCH using the "A" RNTI, the UE receives the PDCCH, and receives
the PDSCH indicated by "B" and "C" through the received PDCCH information.
[0052] Table 3 shows an embodiment of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) used in
a wireless communication system.
[Table 3]
PUCCH format |
Length in OFDM symbols |
Number of bits |
0 |
1 - 2 |
≤2 |
1 |
4 - 14 |
≤2 |
2 |
1 - 2 |
>2 |
3 |
4 - 14 |
>2 |
4 |
4 - 14 |
>2 |
[0053] The PUCCH may be used to transmit the following UL control information (UCI).
- Scheduling Request (SR): Information used for requesting a UL UL-SCH resource.
- HARQ-ACK: A Response to PDCCH (indicating DL SPS release) and/or a response to DL
transport block (TB) on PDSCH. HARQ-ACK indicates whether information transmitted
on the PDCCH or PDSCH is received. The HARQ-ACK response includes positive ACK (simply
ACK), negative ACK (hereinafter NACK), Discontinuous Transmission (DTX), or NACK/DTX.
Here, the term HARQ-ACK is used mixed with HARQ-ACK/NACK and ACK/NACK. In general,
ACK may be represented by bit value 1 and NACK may be represented by bit value 0.
- Channel State Information (CSI): Feedback information on the DL channel. The UE generates
it based on the CSI-Reference Signal (RS) transmitted by the base station. Multiple
[0054] Input Multiple Output (MIMO)-related feedback information includes a Rank Indicator
(RI) and a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI). CSI can be divided into CSI part 1 and
CSI part 2 according to the information indicated by CSI.
[0055] In the 3GPP NR system, five PUCCH formats may be used to support various service
scenarios, various channel environments, and frame structures.
[0056] PUCCH format 0 is a format capable of delivering 1-bit or 2-bit HARQ-ACK information
or SR. PUCCH format 0 can be transmitted through one or two OFDM symbols on the time
axis and one PRB on the frequency axis. When PUCCH format 0 is transmitted in two
OFDM symbols, the same sequence on the two symbols may be transmitted through different
RBs. In this case, the sequence may be a sequence cyclic shifted (CS) from a base
sequence used in PUCCH format 0. Through this, the UE may obtain a frequency diversity
gain. In more detail, the UE may determine a cyclic shift (CS) value m
cs according to M
bit bit UCI (M
bit = 1 or 2). In addition, the base sequence having the length of 12 may be transmitted
by mapping a cyclic shifted sequence based on a predetermined CS value m
cs to one OFDM symbol and 12 REs of one RB. When the number of cyclic shifts available
to the UE is 12 and M
bit = 1, 1 bit UCI 0 and 1 may be mapped to two cyclic shifted sequences having a difference
of 6 in the cyclic shift value, respectively. In addition, when M
bit= 2, 2 bit UCI 00, 01, 11, and 10 may be mapped to four cyclic shifted sequences having
a difference of 3 in cyclic shift values, respectively.
[0057] PUCCH format 1 may deliver 1-bit or 2-bit HARQ-ACK information or SR. PUCCH format
1 maybe transmitted through consecutive OFDM symbols on the time axis and one PRB
on the frequency axis. Here, the number of OFDM symbols occupied by PUCCH format 1
may be one of 4 to 14. More specifically, UCI, which is M
bit = 1, may be BPSK-modulated. The UE may modulate UCI, which is M
bit = 2, with quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). A signal is obtained by multiplying
a modulated complex valued symbol d(0) by a sequence of length 12. In this case, the
sequence may be a base sequence used for PUCCH format 0. The UE spreads the even-numbered
OFDM symbols to which PUCCH format 1 is allocated through the time axis orthogonal
cover code (OCC) to transmit the obtained signal. PUCCH format 1 determines the maximum
number of different UEs multiplexed in the one RB according to the length of the OCC
to be used. A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) may be spread with OCC and mapped
to the odd-numbered OFDM symbols of PUCCH format 1.
[0058] PUCCH format 2 may deliver UCI exceeding 2 bits. PUCCH format 2 may be transmitted
through one or two OFDM symbols on the time axis and one or a plurality of RBs on
the frequency axis. When PUCCH format 2 is transmitted in two OFDM symbols, the sequences
which are transmitted in different RBs through the two OFDM symbols may be same each
other. Here, the sequence may be a plurality of modulated complex valued symbols d(0),...,
d(M
symbol-1). Here, M
symbol may be M
bit/2. Through this, the UE may obtain a frequency diversity gain. More specifically,
M
bit bit UCI (M
bit>2) is bit-level scrambled, QPSK modulated, and mapped to RB(s) of one or two OFDM
symbol(s). Here, the number of RBs may be one of 1 to 16.
[0059] PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4 may deliver UCI exceeding 2 bits. PUCCH format 3
or PUCCH format 4 may be transmitted through consecutive OFDM symbols on the time
axis and one PRB on the frequency axis. The number of OFDM symbols occupied by PUCCH
format 3 or PUCCH format 4 may be one of 4 to 14. Specifically, the UE modulates M
bit bits UCI (Mbit> 2) with π/2-Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) or QPSK to generate
a complex valued symbol d(0) to d(M
symb-1). Here, when using π/2-BPSK, M
symb = M
bit, and when using QPSK, M
symb = M
bit/2. The UE may not apply block-unit spreading to the PUCCH format 3. However, the
UE may apply block-unit spreading to one RB (i.e., 12 subcarriers) using PreDFT-OCC
of a length of 12 such that PUCCH format 4 may have two or four multiplexing capacities.
The UE performs transmit precoding (or DFT-precoding) on the spread signal and maps
it to each RE to transmit the spread signal.
[0060] In this case, the number of RBs occupied by PUCCH format 2, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH
format 4 may be determined according to the length and maximum code rate of the UCI
transmitted by the UE. When the UE uses PUCCH format 2, the UE may transmit HARQ-ACK
information and CSI information together through the PUCCH. When the number of RBs
that the UE may transmit is greater than the maximum number of RBs that PUCCH format
2, or PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 may use, the UE may transmit only the remaining
UCI information without transmitting some UCI information according to the priority
of the UCI information.
[0061] PUCCH format 1, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 may be configured through the RRC
signal to indicate frequency hopping in a slot. When frequency hopping is configured,
the index of the RB to be frequency hopped may be configured with an RRC signal. When
PUCCH format 1, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 is transmitted through N OFDM symbols
on the time axis, the first hop may have floor (N/2) OFDM symbols and the second hop
may have ceiling(N/2) OFDM symbols.
[0062] PUCCH format 1, PUCCH format 3, or PUCCH format 4 may be configured to be repeatedly
transmitted in a plurality of slots. In this case, the number K of slots in which
the PUCCH is repeatedly transmitted may be configured by the RRC signal. The repeatedly
transmitted PUCCHs must start at an OFDM symbol of the constant position in each slot,
and have the constant length. When one OFDM symbol among OFDM symbols of a slot in
which a UE should transmit a PUCCH is indicated as a DL symbol by an RRC signal, the
UE may not transmit the PUCCH in a corresponding slot and delay the transmission of
the PUCCH to the next slot to transmit the PUCCH.
[0063] Meanwhile, in the 3GPP NR system, a UE may perform transmission/reception using a
bandwidth equal to or less than the bandwidth of a carrier (or cell). For this, the
UE may receive the Bandwidth part (BWP) configured with a continuous bandwidth of
some of the carrier's bandwidth. A UE operating according to TDD or operating in an
unpaired spectrum can receive up to four DL/UL BWP pairs in one carrier (or cell).
In addition, the UE may activate one DL/UL BWP pair. A UE operating according to FDD
or operating in paired spectrum can receive up to four DL BWPs on a DL carrier (or
cell) and up to four UL BWPs on a UL carrier (or cell). The UE may activate one DL
BWP and one UL BWP for each carrier (or cell). The UE may not perform reception or
transmission in a time-frequency resource other than the activated BWP. The activated
BWP may be referred to as an active BWP.
[0064] The base station may indicate the activated BWP among the BWPs configured by the
UE through downlink control information (DCI). The BWP indicated through the DCI is
activated and the other configured BWP(s) are deactivated. In a carrier (or cell)
operating in TDD, the base station may include, in the DCI for scheduling PDSCH or
PUSCH, a bandwidth part indicator (BPI) indicating the BWP to be activated to change
the DL/UL BWP pair of the UE. The UE may receive the DCI for scheduling the PDSCH
or PUSCH and may identify the DL/UL BWP pair activated based on the BPI. For a DL
carrier (or cell) operating in an FDD, the base station may include a BPI indicating
the BWP to be activated in the DCI for scheduling PDSCH so as to change the DL BWP
of the UE. For a UL carrier (or cell) operating in an FDD, the base station may include
a BPI indicating the BWP to be activated in the DCI for scheduling PUSCH so as to
change the UL BWP of the UE.
[0065] FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating carrier aggregation.
[0066] The carrier aggregation is a method in which the UE uses a plurality of frequency
blocks or cells (in the logical sense) configured with UL resources (or component
carriers) and/or DL resources (or component carriers) as one large logical frequency
band in order for a wireless communication system to use a wider frequency band. One
component carrier may also be referred to as a term called a Primary cell (PCell)
or a Secondary cell (SCell), or a Primary SCell (PScell). However, hereinafter, for
convenience of description, the term "component carrier" is used.
[0067] Referring to FIG. 8, as an example of a 3GPP NR system, the entire system band may
include up to 16 component carriers, and each component carrier may have a bandwidth
of up to 400 MHz. The component carrier may include one or more physically consecutive
subcarriers. Although it is shown in FIG. 8 that each of the component carriers has
the same bandwidth, this is merely an example, and each component carrier may have
a different bandwidth. Also, although each component carrier is shown as being adjacent
to each other in the frequency axis, the drawings are shown in a logical concept,
and each component carrier may be physically adjacent to one another, or may be spaced
apart.
[0068] Different center frequencies may be used for each component carrier. Also, one common
center frequency may be used in physically adjacent component carriers. Assuming that
all the component carriers are physically adjacent in the embodiment of FIG. 8, center
frequency A may be used in all the component carriers. Further, assuming that the
respective component carriers are not physically adjacent to each other, center frequency
A and the center frequency B can be used in each of the component carriers.
[0069] When the total system band is extended by carrier aggregation, the frequency band
used for communication with each UE can be defined in units of a component carrier.
UE A may use 100 MHz, which is the total system band, and performs communication using
all five component carriers. UEs B
1~B
5 can use only a 20 MHz bandwidth and perform communication using one component carrier.
UEs C
1 and C
2 may use a 40 MHz bandwidth and perform communication using two component carriers,
respectively. The two component carriers may be logically/physically adjacent or non-adjacent.
UE C
1 represents the case of using two non-adjacent component carriers, and UE C
2 represents the case of using two adjacent component carriers.
[0070] FIG. 9 is a drawing for explaining single carrier communication and multiple carrier
communication. Particularly, FIG. 9A shows a single carrier subframe structure and
FIG. 9B shows a multi-carrier subframe structure.
[0071] Referring to FIG. 9A, in an FDD mode, a general wireless communication system may
perform data transmission or reception through one DL band and one UL band corresponding
thereto. In another specific embodiment, in a TDD mode, the wireless communication
system may divide a radio frame into a UL time unit and a DL time unit in a time domain,
and perform data transmission or reception through a UL/DL time unit. Referring to
FIG. 9B, three 20 MHz component carriers (CCs) can be aggregated into each of UL and
DL, so that a bandwidth of 60 MHz can be supported. Each CC may be adjacent or non-adjacent
to one another in the frequency domain. FIG. 9B shows a case where the bandwidth of
the UL CC and the bandwidth of the DL CC are the same and symmetric, but the bandwidth
of each CC can be determined independently. In addition, asymmetric carrier aggregation
with different number of UL CCs and DL CCs is possible. A DL/UL CC allocated/configured
to a specific UE through RRC may be called as a serving DL/UL CC of the specific UE.
[0072] The base station may perform communication with the UE by activating some or all
of the serving CCs of the UE or deactivating some CCs. The base station can change
the CC to be activated/deactivated, and change the number of CCs to be activated/deactivated.
If the base station allocates a CC available for the UE as to be cell-specific or
UE-specific, at least one of the allocated CCs can be deactivated, unless the CC allocation
for the UE is completely reconfigured or the UE is handed over. One CC that is not
deactivated by the UE is called as a Primary CC (PCC) or a primary cell (PCell), and
a CC that the base station can freely activate/deactivate is called as a Secondary
CC (SCC) or a secondary cell (SCell).
[0073] Meanwhile, 3GPP NR uses the concept of a cell to manage radio resources. A cell is
defined as a combination of DL resources and UL resources, that is, a combination
of DL CC and UL CC. A cell may be configured with DL resources alone, or a combination
of DL resources and UL resources. When the carrier aggregation is supported, the linkage
between the carrier frequency of the DL resource (or DL CC) and the carrier frequency
of the UL resource (or UL CC) may be indicated by system information. The carrier
frequency refers to the center frequency of each cell or CC. A cell corresponding
to the PCC is referred to as a PCell, and a cell corresponding to the SCC is referred
to as an SCell. The carrier corresponding to the PCell in the DL is the DL PCC, and
the carrier corresponding to the PCell in the UL is the UL PCC. Similarly, the carrier
corresponding to the SCell in the DL is the DL SCC and the carrier corresponding to
the SCell in the UL is the UL SCC. According to UE capability, the serving cell(s)
may be configured with one PCell and zero or more SCells. In the case of UEs that
are in the RRC_CONNECTED state but not configured for carrier aggregation or that
do not support carrier aggregation, there is only one serving cell configured only
with PCell.
[0074] As mentioned above, the term "cell" used in carrier aggregation is distinguished
from the term "cell" which refers to a certain geographical area in which a communication
service is provided by one base station or one antenna group. That is, one component
carrier may also be referred to as a scheduling cell, a scheduled cell, a primary
cell (PCell), a secondary cell (SCell), or a primary SCell (PScell). However, in order
to distinguish between a cell referring to a certain geographical area and a cell
of carrier aggregation, in the present disclosure, a cell of a carrier aggregation
is referred to as a CC, and a cell of a geographical area is referred to as a cell.
[0075] FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example in which a cross carrier scheduling technique
is applied. When cross carrier scheduling is set, the control channel transmitted
through the first CC may schedule a data channel transmitted through the first CC
or the second CC using a carrier indicator field (CIF). The CIF is included in the
DCI. In other words, a scheduling cell is set, and the DL grant/UL grant transmitted
in the PDCCH area of the scheduling cell schedules the PDSCH/PUSCH of the scheduled
cell. That is, a search area for the plurality of component carriers exists in the
PDCCH area of the scheduling cell. A PCell may be basically a scheduling cell, and
a specific SCell may be designated as a scheduling cell by an upper layer.
[0076] In the embodiment of FIG. 10, it is assumed that three DL CCs are merged. Here, it
is assumed that DL component carrier #0 is DL PCC (or PCell), and DL component carrier
#1 and DL component carrier #2 are DL SCCs (or SCell). In addition, it is assumed
that the DL PCC is set to the PDCCH monitoring CC. When cross-carrier scheduling is
not configured by UE-specific (or UE-group-specific or cell-specific) higher layer
signaling, a CIF is disabled, and each DL CC can transmit only a PDCCH for scheduling
its PDSCH without the CIF according to an NR PDCCH rule (non-cross-carrier scheduling,
self-carrier scheduling). Meanwhile, if cross-carrier scheduling is configured by
UE-specific (or UE-group-specific or cell-specific) higher layer signaling, a CIF
is enabled, and a specific CC (e.g., DL PCC) may transmit not only the PDCCH for scheduling
the PDSCH of the DL CC A using the CIF but also the PDCCH for scheduling the PDSCH
of another CC (cross-carrier scheduling). On the other hand, a PDCCH is not transmitted
in another DL CC. Accordingly, the UE monitors the PDCCH not including the CIF to
receive a self-carrier scheduled PDSCH depending on whether the cross-carrier scheduling
is configured for the UE, or monitors the PDCCH including the CIF to receive the cross-carrier
scheduled PDSCH.
[0077] On the other hand, FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate the subframe structure of the 3GPP LTE-A
system, and the same or similar configuration may be applied to the 3GPP NR system.
However, in the 3GPP NR system, the subframes of FIGS. 9 and 10 may be replaced with
slots.
[0078] FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the configurations of a UE and a base station
according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In an embodiment of the present
disclosure, the UE may be implemented with various types of wireless communication
devices or computing devices that are guaranteed to be portable and mobile. The UE
may be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a Station (STA), a Mobile Subscriber
(MS), or the like. In addition, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the base
station controls and manages a cell (e.g., a macro cell, a femto cell, a pico cell,
etc.) corresponding to a service area, and performs functions of a signal transmission,
a channel designation, a channel monitoring, a self diagnosis, a relay, or the like.
The base station may be referred to as next Generation NodeB (gNB) or Access Point
(AP).
[0079] As shown in the drawing, a UE 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
may include a processor 110, a communication module 120, a memory 130, a user interface
140, and a display unit 150.
[0080] First, the processor 110 may execute various instructions or programs and process
data within the UE 100. In addition, the processor 110 may control the entire operation
including each unit of the UE 100, and may control the transmission/reception of data
between the units. Here, the processor 110 may be configured to perform an operation
according to the embodiments described in the present disclosure. For example, the
processor 110 may receive slot configuration information, determine a slot configuration
based on the slot configuration information, and perform communication according to
the determined slot configuration.
[0081] Next, the communication module 120 may be an integrated module that performs wireless
communication using a wireless communication network and a wireless LAN access using
a wireless LAN. For this, the communication module 120 may include a plurality of
network interface cards (NICs) such as cellular communication interface cards 121
and 122 and an unlicensed band communication interface card 123 in an internal or
external form. In the drawing, the communication module 120 is shown as an integral
integration module, but unlike the drawing, each network interface card can be independently
arranged according to a circuit configuration or usage.
[0082] The cellular communication interface card 121 may transmit or receive a radio signal
with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server by using
a mobile communication network and provide a cellular communication service in a first
frequency band based on the instructions from the processor 110. According to an embodiment,
the cellular communication interface card 121 may include at least one NIC module
using a frequency band of less than 6 GHz. At least one NIC module of the cellular
communication interface card 121 may independently perform cellular communication
with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server in accordance
with cellular communication standards or protocols in the frequency bands below 6
GHz supported by the corresponding NIC module.
[0083] The cellular communication interface card 122 may transmit or receive a radio signal
with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server by using
a mobile communication network and provide a cellular communication service in a second
frequency band based on the instructions from the processor 110. According to an embodiment,
the cellular communication interface card 122 may include at least one NIC module
using a frequency band of more than 6 GHz. At least one NIC module of the cellular
communication interface card 122 may independently perform cellular communication
with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server in accordance
with cellular communication standards or protocols in the frequency bands of 6 GHz
or more supported by the corresponding NIC module.
[0084] The unlicensed band communication interface card 123 transmits or receives a radio
signal with at least one of the base station 200, an external device, and a server
by using a third frequency band which is an unlicensed band, and provides an unlicensed
band communication service based on the instructions from the processor 110. The unlicensed
band communication interface card 123 may include at least one NIC module using an
unlicensed band. For example, the unlicensed band may be a band of 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz.
At least one NIC module of the unlicensed band communication interface card 123 may
independently or dependently perform wireless communication with at least one of the
base station 200, an external device, and a server according to the unlicensed band
communication standard or protocol of the frequency band supported by the corresponding
NIC module.
[0085] The memory 130 stores a control program used in the UE 100 and various kinds of data
therefor. Such a control program may include a prescribed program required for performing
wireless communication with at least one among the base station 200, an external device,
and a server.
[0086] Next, the user interface 140 includes various kinds of input/output means provided
in the UE 100. In other words, the user interface 140 may receive a user input using
various input means, and the processor 110 may control the UE 100 based on the received
user input. In addition, the user interface 140 may perform an output based on instructions
from the processor 110 using various kinds of output means.
[0087] Next, the display unit 150 outputs various images on a display screen. The display
unit 150 may output various display objects such as content executed by the processor
110 or a user interface based on control instructions from the processor 110.
[0088] In addition, the base station 200 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
may include a processor 210, a communication module 220, and a memory 230.
[0089] First, the processor 210 may execute various instructions or programs, and process
internal data of the base station 200. In addition, the processor 210 may control
the entire operations of units in the base station 200, and control data transmission
and reception between the units. Here, the processor 210 may be configured to perform
operations according to embodiments described in the present disclosure. For example,
the processor 210 may signal slot configuration and perform communication according
to the signaled slot configuration. Next, the communication module 220 may be an integrated
module that performs wireless communication using a wireless communication network
and a wireless LAN access using a wireless LAN. For this, the communication module
120 may include a plurality of network interface cards such as cellular communication
interface cards 221 and 222 and an unlicensed band communication interface card 223
in an internal or external form. In the drawing, the communication module 220 is shown
as an integral integration module, but unlike the drawing, each network interface
card can be independently arranged according to a circuit configuration or usage.
[0090] The cellular communication interface card 221 may transmit or receive a radio signal
with at least one of the base station 100, an external device, and a server by using
a mobile communication network and provide a cellular communication service in the
first frequency band based on the instructions from the processor 210. According to
an embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 221 may include at least
one NIC module using a frequency band of less than 6 GHz. The at least one NIC module
of the cellular communication interface card 221 may independently perform cellular
communication with at least one of the base station 100, an external device, and a
server in accordance with the cellular communication standards or protocols in the
frequency bands less than 6 GHz supported by the corresponding NIC module.
[0091] The cellular communication interface card 222 may transmit or receive a radio signal
with at least one of the base station 100, an external device, and a server by using
a mobile communication network and provide a cellular communication service in the
second frequency band based on the instructions from the processor 210. According
to an embodiment, the cellular communication interface card 222 may include at least
one NIC module using a frequency band of 6 GHz or more. The at least one NIC module
of the cellular communication interface card 222 may independently perform cellular
communication with at least one of the base station 100, an external device, and a
server in accordance with the cellular communication standards or protocols in the
frequency bands 6 GHz or more supported by the corresponding NIC module.
[0092] The unlicensed band communication interface card 223 transmits or receives a radio
signal with at least one of the base station 100, an external device, and a server
by using the third frequency band which is an unlicensed band, and provides an unlicensed
band communication service based on the instructions from the processor 210. The unlicensed
band communication interface card 223 may include at least one NIC module using an
unlicensed band. For example, the unlicensed band may be a band of 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz.
At least one NIC module of the unlicensed band communication interface card 223 may
independently or dependently perform wireless communication with at least one of the
base station 100, an external device, and a server according to the unlicensed band
communication standards or protocols of the frequency band supported by the corresponding
NIC module. FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating the UE 100 and the base station
200 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and blocks separately shown
are logically divided elements of a device. Accordingly, the aforementioned elements
of the device may be mounted in a single chip or a plurality of chips according to
the design of the device. In addition, a part of the configuration of the UE 100,
for example, a user interface 140, a display unit 150 and the like may be selectively
provided in the UE 100. In addition, the user interface 140, the display unit 150
and the like may be additionally provided in the base station 200, if necessary.
[0093] The base station may schedule a time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission
of a physical uplink data channel of a UE to another physical uplink channel or a
physical uplink channel transmission of another UE. In addition, the base station
may schedule a time-frequency resource scheduled for physical uplink transmission
of any one UE to other types of physical uplink transmission to be transmitted to
the corresponding UE. Scheduling the time-frequency resource, which is scheduled for
a specific purpose, for other purpose in such a way is called a preemption. When a
time-frequency resource scheduled for physical uplink transmission of one UE is preempted
for physical uplink transmission of another UE, the base station may transmit an uplink
(UL) preemption indicator indicating the preempted time-frequency resource among the
time-frequency resources scheduled for uplink transmission of the UE to the UE. Here,
the physical uplink channel may include a physical uplink data channel or a physical
uplink control channel. Preemption indicators will be described with reference to
FIGS. 12 to 15.
[0094] FIG. 12 shows a preemption indicator used in a wireless communication system according
to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0095] The base station may configure the UE to receive the UL preemption indicator using
the RRC signal. The base station may transmit the UL preemption indicator to the UE
through PDCCH. When the UE is configured to receive the UL preemption indicator through
the RRC signal, the UE may receive the UL preemption indicator through the PDCCH.
The UE may obtain at least one of a search space for the UL preemption indicator,
a monitoring cycle of the UL preemption indicator, a value of the RNTI, and a length
of the RNTI through the RRC signal. The UE may monitor the UL preemption indicator
according to the monitoring cycle of the obtained UL preemption indicator. In addition,
the UE may monitor the UL preemption indicator in the search space for the obtained
UL preemption indicator. In addition, the UE may blindly decode the scrambled DCI
according to the obtained RNTI value and the length of the RNTI. When the UE obtains
the DCI scrambled with the value of the RNTI obtained, the UE may determine the DCI
as a UL preemption indicator. The base station configures one UL preemption indicator
configuration to a plurality of UEs using the RRC signal. In this case, the PDCCH
transmitting the UL preemption indicator is a group common PDCCH. The base station
configures the UL preemption indicator to one UE using the RRC signal. In this case,
the PDCCH transmitting the UL preemption indicator is a UE-specific PDCCH.
[0096] The time-frequency resource in which the UL preemption indicator indicates whether
to preempt may include all PRBs of the UL BWP. For convenience of description, a time-frequency
resource in which the UL preemption indicator indicates whether to preempt is referred
to as a reference UL time-frequency resource. When the monitoring period of the UL
preemption indicator is T
INT, the reference UL time-frequency resource may be as shown in the following equation.

[0097] In this case, Δ
offset represents the offset of the time-frequency resource. Specifically, the offset of
the time-frequency resource may be configured with the RRC signal. In another specific
embodiment, the offset of the time-frequency resource may be a fixed value. Also,
the offset of the time-frequency resource may be a multiple of the number of symbols
included in the slot. In addition, the offset of the time-frequency resource may be
determined according to the PUSCH processing time of the UE. The minimum time required
for the UE to receive the physical downlink control channel for scheduling the transmission
of the physical uplink data channel and to generate the physical uplink data channel
is referred to as Tproc. The offset of the time-frequency resource can be determined
by a larger number as Tproc increases. The offset of the time-frequency resource may
be a value that increases in proportion to the value of Tproc. For example, the offset
of the time-frequency resource may be determined by ceil (Tproc/Symbol_duration).
At this time, Symbol_duration is the duration of the OFDM symbol. In addition, ceil(X)
represents the smallest integer among numbers greater than or equal to X. In addition,
the UE may determine an offset of a time-frequency resource based on timing advance
(TA). Specifically, the UE may determine an offset of a time-frequency resource according
to a time difference between a DL frame boundary and a UL frame boundary according
to TA.
[0098] The base station may perform semi-static DL/UL assignment using a cell-specific RRC
signal. The semi-static DL/UL assignment may configure a symbol as one of an uplink
symbol, a downlink symbol, and a flexible symbol. In this case, the uplink symbol
is a symbol capable of being used for uplink transmission, and the downlink symbol
is a symbol capable of being used for downlink transmission. The flexible symbol is
a symbol capable of being used for uplink transmission or downlink transmission depending
on a signal. The reference UL time-frequency resource may not include a downlink symbol
configured according to a semi-statict DL/UL assignment. That is, the reference UL
time-frequency resource may include an uplink symbol and a flexible symbol configured
according to semi-static DL/UL assignment. In addition, the reference UL time-frequency
resource may not include a flexible symbol located immediately after the downlink
symbol. In this case, the number of fully flexible symbols located immediately after
the downlink symbol not included in the reference UL time-frequency resource may be
one. In another specific embodiment, the number of flexible symbols located immediately
after a downlink symbol not included in the reference UL time-frequency resource may
be configured by an RRC signal.
[0099] The base station may configure reception of a downlink signal using a cell-specific
RRC signal. The downlink signal may include an SS/PBCH block. The reference UL time-frequency
resource may not include a symbol configured to receive the downlink signal. In addition,
the reference UL time-frequency resource may not include a symbol located immediately
after a symbol configured to receive the downlink signal. In this case, the number
of symbols located immediately after the configured symbol for receiving the downlink
signal that is not included in the reference UL time-frequency resource may be one.
In another specific embodiment, the number of symbols located immediately after the
configured symbol for receiving the downlink signal that is not included in the reference
UL time-frequency resource may be configured by the RRC signal.
[0100] The UL preemption indicator may divide the reference UL time-frequency resource into
N parts, and indicate whether each of the N parts is preempted. In this case, N is
a natural number. Specifically, the UL preemption indicator is a bitmap including
N bits, and each of the N bits may indicate whether each of the N parts of the reference
UL resource is preempted. In this case, N is a natural number. Specifically, the UL
preemption indicator may be a bitmap having a length of 14 bits. In this case, the
UL preemption indicator may divide the reference UL resource into 14 parts and indicate
whether or not each of the 14 parts is preempted. The 14 parts of the reference UL
time-frequency resource may be divided into 14 parts on the time axis. In another
specific embodiment, 14 parts of the reference UL resource may be divided into 7 parts
on the time axis and 2 parts on the frequency axis. A method of determining the number
of symbols included in the part of the reference UL time-frequency resource will be
described.
[0101] The reference UL time-frequency resource may be divided into N parts so that a difference
of the number of symbols included in each part of the reference UL time-frequency
resource is at most one. Specifically, when the reference UL time-frequency resource
includes a total of S symbols, the mod (S, N) parts may include ceil(S/N) symbols,
and the N-mod(S, N) parts may include floor (S/N) symbols, mod (X, Y) represents the
remainder when X is divided by Y. ceil(X) represents the smallest integer among numbers
greater than or equal to X. floor(X) represents the largest integer of the same or
less than X. It can be expressed as mod(S, N) = S-floor(S/N) * N. In this case, mod
(S,N) parts positioned ahead of time may include ceil(S/N) symbols. In addition, in
the above-described embodiments, S and N are each natural numbers.
[0102] The UE does not transmit a physical uplink channel in a symbol which is indicated
by the UL preemption indicator as being preempted, and transmits a physical uplink
channel in a symbol which is indicated by the UL preemption indicator as not being
preempted. In another specific embodiment, the UE may sequentially transmit the physical
uplink channel in a symbol capable of transmitting the physical uplink data channel
and discard the remaining physical uplink channel. In the embodiment of FIG. 12, the
UE is scheduled to transmit physical uplink data channels in 14 symbols by the base
station. In this case, the UL preemption indicator indicates that the 5th symbol and
the 9th symbol are preempted. The UE may not transmit REs of physical uplink data
channels corresponding to the 5th and 9th symbols as shown in (a) of FIG. 12. In this
case, the UE may transmit REs of physical uplink data channels corresponding to the
5th and 9th symbols in the additionally allocated time-frequency resources. In addition,
the UE may sequentially transmit REs of physical uplink data channels corresponding
to 12 symbols as shown in (b) of FIG. 12. In this case, the UE may transmit REs of
physical uplink data channels corresponding to the 13th symbol and the 14th symbol
in the additionally allocated time-frequency resource.
[0103] The UE may transmit a physical uplink channel that cannot be transmitted due to preemption
in a time-frequency resource different from the preempted time-frequency resource.
In this case, another time-frequency resource may be a resource different from a resource
for already scheduled physical uplink transmission. For convenience of description,
other time-frequency resources are referred to as additional time-frequency resources.
The additional time-frequency resource may be a time-frequency resource for uplink
transmission temporally located behind a resource for physical uplink transmission
already scheduled. The physical uplink channel scheduled for the preempted time-frequency
resource and the additional time-frequency resource may have the same frequency resource.
The additional time-frequency resource may be the closest symbol among symbols designated
as an uplink symbol according to a semi-static DL/UL assignment from a time-frequency
resource in which a physical uplink data channel scheduled on a preempted time-frequency
resource is scheduled. In another specific embodiment, the additional time-frequency
resource may be an uplink symbol or a flexible symbol according to a semi-static assignment
from a time-frequency resource in which a physical uplink channel scheduled for a
preempted time-frequency resource is scheduled. Further, the additional time-frequency
resource may be a symbol located after N symbols after the physical uplink channel
scheduled for the preempted time-frequency resource. In this case, N is a natural
number. N can be configured through the RRC signal. In another specific embodiment,
N may be a fixed number.
[0104] In a specific embodiment, the UL preemption indicator may include information on
a start symbol of an additional time-frequency resource. The UE may transmit a physical
uplink channel that is not transmitted due to preemption from the start symbol of
the additional resource indicated by the UL preemption indicator. In the embodiment
of FIG. 12, the UL preemption indicator indicates A as a start symbol of an additional
time-frequency resource. As illustrated in (a) of FIG. 12, the UE may transmit RE
of a PUSCH corresponding to the fifth and ninth symbols that are not transmitted due
to the preemption among symbols after A from the symbol in which a PUSCH scheduled
for a preempted time-frequency resource is scheduled. In (a) of FIG. 12, B is the
RE length of the PUSCH corresponding to the fifth symbol. In addition, as illustrated
in (b) of FIG. 12, the UE may transmit RE of a PUSCH corresponding to the 13th and
14th symbols among symbols after A from the symbol in which a PUSCH scheduled for
a preempted time-frequency resource is scheduled. In (b) of FIG. 12, B is the RE length
of the PUSCH corresponding to the 13th symbol.
[0105] The UL preemption indicator may indicate whether transmission of a physical uplink
channel that is not transmitted due to preemption is necessary. The UE may determine
whether to transmit a physical uplink channel that is not transmitted due to preemption
based on the UL preemption indicator. Specifically, the UL preemption indicator may
indicate whether physical uplink channels that cannot be transmitted due to preemption
are transmitted through a 1-bit field. For example, when the value of the 1-bit field
is 1, the UE may transmit a physical uplink channel that is not transmitted due to
preemption in an additional time-frequency resource. In addition, when the value of
the 1-bit field is 0, the UE may not transmit a physical uplink channel that is not
transmitted due to preemption.
[0106] FIG. 13 shows a range of a physical uplink channel that a UE according to an embodiment
of the present invention cannot transmit due to preemption.
[0107] When the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it
is preempted and the time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission of the physical
uplink channel of the UE partially overlap, the UE may not transmit the entire physical
uplink channel. In (a) of FIG. 13, the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption
indicator indicates that it is preempted and the time-frequency resource scheduled
for transmission of the physical uplink channel of the UE partially overlaps. In this
case, the UE does not transmit the entire physical uplink channel.
[0108] When the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it
is preempted and the time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission of the physical
uplink channel of the UE partially overlap, the UE may not transmit the corresponding
physical uplink channel only in symbols overlapping with the time-frequency domain
where the UL preemption indicator that it is preempted In (b) of FIG. 13, the time-frequency
domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it is preempted and the time-frequency
resource scheduled for transmission of the physical uplink channel of the UE partially
overlaps. In this case, the UE does not transmit the corresponding physical uplink
channel in the symbol overlapping the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption
indicator indicates that it is preempted.
[0109] When the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it
is preempted and the time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission of the physical
uplink channel of the UE partially overlap, the UE may not transmit the corresponding
physical uplink channel in a time-frequency resource in which transmission of the
corresponding physical uplink channel is scheduled from the symbol corresponding to
the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it is preempted
In (c) of FIG. 13, the time-frequency domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates
that it is preempted and the time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission of
the physical uplink channel of the UE partially overlaps. In this case, the UE does
not transmit the corresponding physical uplink channel from the symbol of the time-frequency
domain where the UL preemption indicator indicates that it is preempted.
[0110] The physical uplink channel may include DMRS for channel estimation. When DMRS is
not transmitted due to preemption, the base station may not receive the physical uplink
channel transmitted by the UE. The UE needs to transmit a physical uplink channel
that cannot be transmitted due to preemption in consideration of whether to transmit
DMRS. This will be described with reference to FIG. 14.
[0111] FIG. 14 shows an operation in which a UE transmits a physical uplink channel that
cannot be transmitted due to preemption according to an embodiment of the present
invention.
[0112] As described above, the UL preemption indicator may include information on additional
time-frequency resources. The UE may transmit a physical uplink channel in the additional
time-frequency resource based on the information on the additional time-frequency
resource. In this case, the UE may transmit a physical uplink channel that cannot
be transmitted due to preemption. In another specific embodiment, the UE may transmit
the entire physical uplink channel that has not been partially transmitted due to
preemption.
[0113] In this case, the information on the additional time-frequency resource may be expressed
by the number of symbols or the number of slots. Specifically, the information on
the additional time-frequency resource may indicate that the additional time-frequency
resource is located after several symbols from the last symbol of the time-frequency
resource in which preemption has been performed or the last symbol of the reference
UL time-frequency resource. Alternatively, the information on the additional time-frequency
resource may indicate that the additional time-frequency resource is located after
several slots from the last symbol of the time-frequency resource in which preemption
has been performed or the last symbol of the reference UL time-frequency resource.
The symbol in which the additional time-frequency resource is located may be the most
advanced symbol after the time-frequency resource in which preemption is performed
among symbols assigned as uplink symbols according to semi-static DL/UL assignment.
Also, a symbol in which the additional time-frequency resource is located may be a
symbol indicated by DCI scheduling transmission of a physical uplink channel.
[0114] The UE may determine the type of physical uplink channel to be transmitted in additional
time-frequency resources according to whether the DMRS of the physical uplink channel
cannot be transmitted due to preemption. Specifically, when the UE fails to transmit
the DMRS due to preemption, the UE may retransmit the entire physical uplink channel
that has not partially transmitted due to preemption in additional time-frequency
resources. In addition, when the UE transmits the DMRS even though preemption has
occurred, the UE may transmit a part of the physical uplink channel, which was not
transmitted due to preemption in the additional time-frequency resource. When the
physical uplink channel that is not transmitted due to preemption does not include
DMRS, the UE may transmit a part of the physical uplink channel and DMRS that are
not transmitted due to preemption in additional time-frequency resources.
[0115] In the embodiment of FIG. 14, the UE determines a time-frequency resource in which
preemption has occurred based on the UL preemption indicator. The UE cannot transmit
a physical uplink channel due to preemption. In (a) of FIG. 14, the UE cannot transmit
the DMRS of the physical uplink channel due to preemption. Therefore, the UE transmits
the entire physical uplink channel in the additional time-frequency resource indicated
by the UL preemption indicator. In (b) of FIG. 14, the UE cannot transmit a part of
the physical uplink channel due to preemption, but transmits the DMRS of the physical
uplink channel. Therefore, the UE may transmit a part of the physical uplink channel,
which was not transmitted due to preemption in the additional time-frequency resource.
In this case, the UE transmits a part of the physical uplink channel and the DMRS.
[0116] FIG. 15 shows a range of a physical uplink channel that a UE according to another
embodiment of the present invention cannot transmit due to preemption.
[0117] The physical uplink data channel may include DMRS for channel estimation. In addition,
the physical uplink data channel may include uplink control information (UCI). In
this case, the UCI may be transmitted in the RE around the DMRS symbol. If the preemption
does not affect the DMRS and UCI transmission, the UE may transmit a physical uplink
data channel in the symbol where the DMRS and UCI are transmitted. In this case, the
UE may not transmit a physical uplink data channel at a time-frequency where the UL
preemption indicator indicates that it is preempted as shown in (a) of FIG. 15. In
another specific embodiment, the UE may not transmit a physical uplink data channel
in the remaining symbols except for the symbol through which the DMRS and UCI are
transmitted, as shown in FIG. 15 (b). When preemption affects DMRS and UCI transmission,
the UE may not transmit the entire physical uplink data channel as shown in (c) of
FIG. 15. A case where preemption affects DMRS and UCI transmission may be a case where
a time-frequency domain in which the UL preemption indicator indicates that preemption
has occurred and a physical uplink channel in which transmission of DMRS or transmission
of UCI is scheduled overlap.
[0118] FIG. 16 shows an operation in which the UE transmits DMRS and UCI that cannot be
transmitted due to preemption according to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0119] The UE may determine a type of a physical uplink data channel to be transmitted in
an additional time-frequency resource according to information included in the physical
uplink data channel. Specifically, depending on whether preemption affects uplink
control information (UCI) transmission included in the physical uplink data channel,
the UE may determine the type of physical uplink data channel to be transmitted in
additional time-frequency resources. A case where the preemption affects UCI transmission
included in the physical uplink data channel may be a case where at least a part of
REs scheduled for UCI transmission cannot be transmitted by preemption. When the preemption
does not affect the UCI transmission included in the physical uplink data channel,
the UE may not transmit only the physical uplink data channel scheduled for the time-frequency
resource indicated by the UL preemption indicator. In this case, the UE may not transmit
a physical uplink data channel that cannot be transmitted due to preemption in an
additional time-frequency resource. When the preemption affects UCI transmission included
in the physical uplink data channel, the UE may not transmit the entire physical uplink
data channel or the physical uplink data channel indicated by the UL preemption indicator.
In this case, the UE may transmit the entire physical uplink data channel or the physical
uplink data channel indicated by the UL preemption indicator in the additional time-frequency
resource. In this case, the UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel including
only UCI in additional time-frequency resources. Specifically, the UE may transmit
a physical uplink data channel except for a symbol to which only an uplink shared
channel (UL-SCH) is mapped in the physical uplink data channel. In another specific
embodiment, the UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel except for a RE in
which an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) is mapped in the physical uplink data channel.
In another specific embodiment, the UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel
including both UL-SCH and UCI in additional time-frequency resources. In this embodiment,
the UCI may be limited to HARQ-ACK information only. Alternatively, the UCI may include
HARQ-ACK information and CSI. In the embodiment of FIG. 16, the UL preemption indicator
indicates that REs scheduled for DMRS and UCI transmission are preempted. Therefore,
the UE does not transmit the entire physical uplink data channel or the physical uplink
data channel indicated by the UL preemption indicator. The UE transmits a physical
uplink data channel including only DMRS and UCI in an additional time-frequency resource
indicated by the UL preemption indicator.
[0120] Specifically, depending on whether preemption affects transmission of at least one
of UCI and DMRS included in the physical uplink data channel, the UE may determine
the type of physical uplink data channel to be transmitted in additional time-frequency
resources. A case where the transmission of the UCI included in the physical uplink
data channel or the transmission of the DMRS is affected may be a case where at least
a part of the RE in which the UCI transmission is scheduled and the RE in which the
DMRS transmission is scheduled cannot be transmitted by the preemption. If the preemption
does not affect the transmission of UCI or DMRS included in the physical uplink data
channel, the UE may not transmit the scheduled physical uplink data channel in the
time-frequency resource indicated by the UL preemption indicator. In this case, the
UE may not transmit a physical uplink data channel that cannot be transmitted due
to preemption in an additional time-frequency resource. When the preemption affects
the transmission of UCI or DMRS included in the physical uplink data channel, the
UE may not transmit the entire physical uplink data channel. In this case, the UE
may transmit the entire physical uplink data channel in the additional time-frequency
resource. In this case, the UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel including
only UCI in additional time-frequency resources. In another specific embodiment, the
UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel including both UL-SCH and UCI in additional
time-frequency resources. In this embodiment, the UCI may be limited to HARQ-ACK information
only. Alternatively, the UCI may include HARQ-ACK information and CSI.
[0121] When a UE in which a physical uplink channel is preempted from UL preemption indication
transmits a physical uplink channel preempted through an additional time-frequency
resource, the UE may receive another UL preemption indicator. As such, when preemption
occurs in the additional time-frequency resource, the UE may not transmit a physical
uplink channel in the additional time-frequency resource. In this case, based on the
UL preemption indicator indicating the preemption in the additional time-frequency
resource, the UE may transmit, in a new additional time-frequency resource, a physical
uplink channel that is not transmitted by the preemption. Specifically, when the UL
preemption indicator indicating preemption in the additional time-frequency resource
indicates a new additional time-frequency resource, the UE may transmit, in the new
additional time-frequency resource, a physical uplink channel that is not transmitted
by preemption. In another specific embodiment, even if the UL preemption indicator
indicating the preemption in the additional time-frequency resource indicates a new
additional time-frequency resource, the UE may not transmit, in a new additional time-frequency
resource, a physical uplink channel that cannot be transmitted by the preemption.
[0122] When the physical uplink control channel is preempted, the UE may determine whether
to transmit the physical uplink control channel according to information included
in the physical uplink control channel in the additional time-frequency resource.
Specifically, when the physical uplink control channel includes HARQ-ACK, and preemption
affects the physical uplink control channel transmission, the UE does not transmit
on the time-frequency resource in which the corresponding physical uplink control
channel transmission is scheduled. In this case, the UE may transmit a physical uplink
control channel that cannot be transmitted due to preemption in an additional time-frequency
resource.
[0123] In the above-described embodiments, a method of transmitting a physical channel of
a UE has been described when a time-frequency resource scheduled for uplink transmission
of the UE is used by another UE. The base station may reschedule time-frequency resources
scheduled for uplink transmission of the UE to other uplink transmission of the corresponding
UE in consideration of differences in reliability and differences in QoS conditions.
Specifically, the base station may schedule physical uplink transmission including
URLLC data in a time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink transmission
of the UE is scheduled. Specifically, transmission of a physical uplink channel including
URLLC data of the UE may be scheduled in a time-frequency resource in which transmission
of UCI transmitted in the PUSCH/PUCCH of the UE is scheduled. In this case, the UCI
may be any one of HARQ-ACK and CSI. In this case, methods of a UE to transmit the
UCI and drop the UCI transmission need to be defined. In addition, the UE needs to
multiplex data transmissions having different QoS conditions and different transmission
durations. In addition, the UE needs to multiplex data transmissions requiring different
reliability. Embodiments for such transmission will be described.
[0124] A case where physical uplink data channel transmission of data having a relatively
low priority by the UE is preempted by physical uplink data channel transmission of
data having a relatively high priority by the UE will be described first. In this
specification, the priority may be replaced by at least one of QoS conditions and
reliability conditions. For convenience of description, data having a relatively low
priority is referred to as general data, and data having a higher priority than general
data is referred to as priority data.
[0125] When the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data of the UE
is scheduled in the time-frequency resource in which the UCI transmission of the physical
uplink data channel of the general data including the UCI of the UE is scheduled,
the UE may transmit UCI of a physical uplink data channel of the general data. Specifically,
when the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data of the UE
is scheduled in the time-frequency resource in which the UCI transmission of the physical
uplink data channel of the UE is scheduled, the UE may transmit the UCI of the physical
uplink data channel of the general data by mapping the UCI of the physical uplink
data channel of the general data to the remaining time-frequency resources that exclude
the time-frequency resource scheduled for the physical uplink data channel transmission
of the priority data from the time-frequency resource scheduled for transmission of
the physical uplink data channel of the general data. When the time-frequency resource
in which the UCI transmission of the physical uplink data channel of the general data
of the UE is scheduled does not overlap with the physical uplink data channel transmission
of the UE's priority data, the UE may transmit the physical uplink data channel of
the general data scheduled in the time-frequency resource except the time-frequency
resource in which the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data
is scheduled.
[0126] In another specific embodiment, when the physical uplink data channel transmission
of the priority data of the UE is scheduled in the time-frequency resource in which
the UCI transmission of the physical uplink data channel of the general data including
the UCI of the UE is scheduled, the UE may determine whether to transmit UCI according
to the type of UCI. When UCI is HARQ-ACK, the UE may transmit UCI by mapping the RE
of the physical uplink data channel of the general data to the remaining time-frequency
resources that exclude the time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink data
channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled from a time-frequency resource
in which transmission of a physical uplink data channel of the general data is scheduled.
In addition, when the UCI is CSI part1 or CSI part2, the UE may drop UCI transmission.
When HARQ-ACK transmission is dropped, downlink transmission throughput may be reduced.
This can be prevented through the above-described embodiment.
[0127] In another specific embodiment, when the UCI is HARQ-ACK or CSI part1, the UE may
transmit UCI by mapping the RE of the physical uplink data channel of the general
data to the remaining time-frequency resources that exclude the time-frequency resource
in which the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled
from a time-frequency resource in which transmission of a physical uplink data channel
of the general data is scheduled. In addition, when the UCI is CSI part2, the UE may
drop UCI transmission. When the HARQ-ACK and CSI part1 transmission is dropped, downlink
transmission throughput may be reduced. This can be prevented through the above-described
embodiment.
[0128] In the above-described embodiments, the physical uplink data channel transmission
of the priority data of the UE may be scheduled in the time-frequency resource in
which all UCI transmission of the physical uplink data channel of the general data
including the UCI of the UE is scheduled. In this case, the UE may transmit all UCIs
of the physical uplink data channel of the general data in the remaining time-frequency
resources that exclude the time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink data
channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled from a time-frequency resource
in which transmission of a physical uplink data channel of the general data is scheduled.
In addition, physical uplink data channel transmission of the UE's priority data may
be scheduled in a time-frequency resource in which some UCI transmission of the physical
uplink data channel of the UE's general data is scheduled. In this case, the UE may
transmit some overlapping UCIs of the physical uplink data channel of the general
data in the remaining time-frequency resources that exclude the time-frequency resource
in which the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled
from a time-frequency resource in which transmission of a physical uplink data channel
of the general data is scheduled.
[0129] A case where the physical uplink control channel transmission of data (general data)
having a relatively low priority by the UE is preempted by the physical uplink data
channel transmission of data (priority data) having a relatively high priority by
the UE will be described.
[0130] When the physical uplink data channel transmission of the priority data of the UE
is scheduled in the time-frequency resource in which the transmission of the physical
uplink control channel of the general data of the UE is scheduled, the UE is configured
to drop the transmission of the physical uplink control channel of the UE's general
data. Specifically, the UE is configured to drop a physical uplink control channel
transmission of a specific cell group in which a physical uplink control channel of
the priority data is scheduled. This is because inter-modulation distortion (IMD)
may occur when a physical uplink control channel and a physical uplink data channel
are simultaneously transmitted from different frequency resources.
[0131] In another specific embodiment, when the physical uplink data channel transmission
of the priority data of the UE is scheduled in the time-frequency resource in which
the transmission of the physical uplink control channel of the general data of the
UE is scheduled, the UE is configured to determine whether to drop the transmission
of the physical uplink control channel according to the type of UCI of the physical
uplink control channel. Specifically, the UE is configured to determine whether to
drop the transmission of the physical uplink control channel according to whether
the UCI of the physical uplink control channel includes HARQ-ACK. When the UCI of
the physical uplink control channel does not include HARQ-ACK, the UE may drop transmission
of the physical uplink control channel. When the UCI of the physical uplink control
channel includes HARQ-ACK, the UE may multiplex the physical uplink control channel
and the physical uplink data channel of the priority data to transmit the physical
uplink control channel and the physical uplink data channel of the priority data.
A method of multiplexing a physical uplink control channel and a physical uplink data
channel of the priority data will be described.
[0132] In order not to allow the symbol in which the physical uplink data channel of the
priority data is transmitted in one slot overlaps with the physical uplink data channel
of the general data, the UE may transmit a physical uplink data channel of priority
data and a physical uplink control channel of the general data through time division
multiplexing (TDM). Specifically, the UE may transmit a physical uplink control channel
of the general data using a shortened physical uplink control channel format in a
symbol which does not overlap with the physical uplink data channel of the priority
data. In this case, the shortened physical uplink control channel format may be in
the form of a physical uplink control channel in which some of the time domains in
which the corresponding physical uplink control channel is scheduled are punctured.
Specifically, it may be a shortened PUCCH format. Through this, the physical uplink
data channel and the physical uplink control channel may be simultaneously transmitted
to prevent the IMD from occurring. In this case, the symbol may be a DFTs-OFDM symbol
or an OFDM symbol. In a specific embodiment, when the physical uplink data channel
of the priority data is transmitted in consecutive symbols, the UE may transmit a
physical uplink data channel of the priority data and a physical uplink control channel
of the general data together in one slot using TDM at a symbol level. When a physical
uplink data channel of the priority data is transmitted in a discontinuous symbol,
the UE is configured to drop transmission of a physical uplink control channel of
the general data. This is because the shortened physical uplink control channel format
cannot be used.
[0133] The UE may puncture the time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink control
channel transmission of the general data is scheduled in the time-frequency resource
in which the physical uplink data channel of the priority data is scheduled to transmit
a physical uplink data channel of priority data. This is because physical uplink control
channel reception including HARQ-ACK may be necessary according to QoS and requirements
of downlink data. When the base station schedules the transmission of the priority
data, the base station may determine that a part of the priority data is punctured
to transmit a physical uplink control channel of the general data. Even if a part
of the priority data is punctured so that a physical uplink control channel of the
general data is transmitted, the base station can receive the priority data. In addition,
even if a physical uplink control channel and a physical uplink data channel are transmitted
in the same symbol, there is no frequency separation between the two channels, so
that IMD may not occur.
[0134] The UE may piggyback the physical uplink control channel of the general data to the
physical uplink data channel of the priority data to transmit it. In this case, the
UE may not directly and simultaneously transmit the physical uplink data channel of
the priority data and the physical uplink control channel of the general data. Specifically,
the UE may first piggyback the UCI to be transmitted through the physical uplink control
channel of the general data to the physical uplink data channel of the priority data
and transmit it. The UE piggybacks all UCIs to the physical uplink data channel of
the priority data to transmit it. In another specific embodiment, the UE may determine
whether to transmit the UCI by piggybacking the UCI to the physical uplink data channel
of the priority data according to the type of the UCI. For example, when the type
of the UCI is HARQ-ACK, the UE may transmit the UCI by piggybacking the UCI to the
physical uplink data channel of the priority data. Or, when the type of UCI is HARQ-ACK
or CSI part1, the UE may piggyback the UCI to the physical uplink data channel of
priority data to transmit it.
[0135] The UE may transmit the UCI to be transmitted through the physical uplink control
channel of the general data through the N symbols following the physical uplink data
channel of the priority data. In this case, N is a natural number. Specifically, the
UE may designate N symbols after a physical uplink data channel of the priority data
as a reserved symbol, and transmit the UCI to be transmitted through the physical
uplink control channel of the general data through the N symbols.
[0136] The base station may schedule the physical uplink data channel of the priority data
in consideration of the UCI size of the physical uplink control channel of the general
data. Specifically, the base station may schedule the UCI of the physical uplink data
channel of the priority data and the physical uplink control channel of the general
data so as not to overlap in consideration of the UCI size of the physical uplink
control channel of the general data.
[0137] In the above-described embodiments, it has been described that physical uplink data
channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled again in a time-frequency resource
in which physical uplink control channel transmission is scheduled. However, the above-described
embodiments may be applied even when a physical uplink data channel transmission of
other priority data is scheduled when a time-frequency resource in which the physical
uplink control channel transmission of the priority data is scheduled is scheduled.
That is, the above-described embodiments may be applied even when the physical uplink
data channel transmission of other data having the same priority is scheduled in the
time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink control channel transmission
of any one data is scheduled.
[0138] A case where a physical uplink control channel transmission of data having a relatively
low priority (general data) by the UE and a physical uplink control channel transmission
of data having a relatively high priority (priority data) by the UE are configured
in the one symbol, or a case where the physical uplink control channel transmissions
of data having the same priority by the UE is configured in the one symbol will be
described. In this case, the UE may transmit UCIs of two physical uplink control channels
scheduled on the one symbol using one physical uplink control channel in a slot in
which two physical uplink control channels are scheduled. In this case, a method in
which the UE selects a time frequency resource to transmit the one physical uplink
control channel may be a problem. In addition, the UE may transmit the one physical
uplink control channel of the two physical uplink control channels scheduled in the
one symbol in a first scheduled time-frequency resource, and transmit the remaining
physical uplink control channels in different time frequency resources that do not
overlap with any one physical uplink control channel. In this case, a method in which
the UE selects a time-frequency resource to transmit the remaining physical uplink
control channel may be a problem. A method in which a UE selects a time-frequency
resource in which one physical uplink control channel including UCIs of two physical
uplink control channels scheduled in the same symbol will be transmitted or another
time-frequency resource in which the remaining physical uplink control channel will
be transmitted will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 17. In addition,
for convenience of description, a physical uplink channel transmitting UCI of two
physical uplink control channels scheduled on the one symbol or a physical uplink
control channel transmitted in another time-frequency resource among two physical
uplink control channels is referred to as an alternate physical uplink control channel.
A time-frequency resource in which the alternate physical uplink control channel transmission
is scheduled is referred to as an alternate time-frequency resource.
[0139] FIG. 17 shows a method for a UE to select an alternate physical uplink control channel
according to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0140] The base station may configure a plurality of time-frequency resources in which the
UE may transmit a physical uplink control channel in one slot. The UE may select one
time-frequency resource among a plurality of time-frequency resources and transmit
an alternate physical uplink control channel in the selected time-frequency resource.
[0141] The UE may determine an alternate time-frequency resource to transmit the alternate
physical uplink control channel based on the positions of the last symbols of the
time-frequency resources occupied by the plurality of physical uplink control channels
configured by the base station in the slots in which two physical uplink control channels
are configured. Specifically, the UE may select a time-frequency resource of a physical
uplink control channel in which the last symbol is the most advanced among the time-frequency
resources of a plurality of physical uplink control channels in a slot configured
with two physical uplink control channels as an alternative time-frequency resource,
and transmit it to the alternate physical uplink control channel through the selected
alternate time-frequency resource.
[0142] The time-frequency resource of the physical uplink control channel in which the last
symbol is the most advanced may be plural. In this case, the UE may select an alternative
time-frequency resource based on the number of symbols of the time-frequency resource
of the physical uplink control channel after the last symbol position of the time-frequency
resource of the physical uplink control channel. Specifically, the UE may select a
time-frequency resource of the physical uplink control channel having the longest
length (the largest number of symbols) among the time-frequency resources of the physical
uplink control channel in which the last symbol is the most advanced as the alternative
time-frequency resource. The UE may transmit an alternate physical uplink control
channel through the selected alternate time-frequency resource. That is, the UE may
select a physical uplink control channel time-frequency resource to transmit the alternate
physical uplink control channel in consideration of the position of the start symbol
of the time-frequency resource of the physical uplink control channel after the position
of the last symbol of the time-frequency resource of the physical uplink control channel.
[0143] When a plurality of physical uplink control channel time-frequency resources are
selected based on the length of the physical uplink control channel time-frequency
resource after the last symbol position of the time-frequency resource of the physical
uplink control channel, the UE may arbitrarily select one of the time-frequency resources
of the selected plurality of physical uplink control channels and transmit the alternate
physical uplink control channel through the selected time-frequency resource. For
example, in step 1, the UE may select a time-frequency resource of a physical uplink
control channel in which the last symbol is the most advanced among channel time-frequency
resources of a plurality of physical uplink controls in a predetermined slot as a
first candidate alternative time-frequency resource set. If the first candidate alternative
time-frequency resource set includes a plurality of physical uplink control channel
time-frequency resources, in step 2, the UE may select the time-frequency resource
of the physical uplink control channel having the longest length in the first candidate
alternative time-frequency set as the second candidate alternative time-frequency
set. If the second candidate alternative time-frequency resource set includes a plurality
of physical uplink control channel time-frequency resources, in step 3, the UE randomly
may select a time-frequency resource of any one physical uplink control channel from
the second candidate alternative time-frequency resource set to select it as an alternative
time-frequency resource, and transmit the alternate physical uplink control channel
in the selected alternative time-frequency resource. If there is one time-frequency
resource of the physical uplink control channel corresponding to the alternative time-frequency
set, the UE may select a time-frequency resource of the corresponding physical uplink
control channel as an alternative time-frequency resource without additional selection
and transmit the alternate physical uplink control channel through the selected alternative
time-frequency resource.
[0144] In the embodiment of FIG. 17, time-frequency resources of five physical uplink control
channels are configured in slots in which two physical uplink control channel transmissions
are scheduled in the one symbol. In this case, the UE selects the second and fourth
physical uplink control channel time-frequency resources in which the position of
the last symbol is the most advanced among the time-frequency resources of the 5 physical
uplink control channels as the time-frequency resource set of the first candidate
physical uplink control channel. In addition, the UE selects the time-frequency resource
of the fourth physical uplink control channel having the longest length (the largest
number of symbols) in the time-frequency resource set of the first candidate physical
uplink control channel as the time-frequency resource set of the second candidate
physical uplink control channel. Since the time-frequency resource of the physical
uplink control channel included in the time-frequency resource set of the second candidate
physical uplink control channel is 1, the UE transmits an alternate physical uplink
control channel through a fourth physical uplink control channel time-frequency resource.
[0145] The UE may select an alternate physical uplink control channel from the physical
uplink control channels scheduled for the time-frequency resource having the same
or earlier symbol than the last symbol in the two time-frequency resources scheduled
in the one symbol. This operation may be applied to the above-described embodiments.
[0146] For example, in step 1, the UE may select a physical uplink control channel time-frequency
resource having a last symbol that is the same as or before the latest symbol in the
time-frequency resources of a plurality of physical uplink control channels in a given
slot among the time-frequency resources in which two physical uplink control channels
in which the last symbol is scheduled in the one symbol are scheduled as a first candidate
physical uplink control channel set. In step 2, the UE may select the time-frequency
resource of the physical uplink control channel in which the last symbol is the most
advanced in the first candidate physical uplink control channel set as the second
candidate physical uplink control channel time-frequency resource set. When the second
candidate physical uplink control channel time-frequency resource set includes time-frequency
resources of a plurality of physical uplink control channels, in step 3, the UE may
select the longest physical uplink control channel time-frequency resource from the
second candidate physical uplink control channel time-frequency set as the time-frequency
set of the third candidate physical uplink control channel. When the time-frequency
resource set of the third candidate physical uplink control channel includes time-frequency
resources of a plurality of physical uplink control channels, in step 4, the UE randomly
may select a time-frequency resource of any one physical uplink control channel from
the time-frequency resource set of the third candidate physical uplink control channel,
and transmit the alternate physical uplink control channel from the time-frequency
resource of the selected physical uplink control channel. When there is one time-frequency
resource of the physical uplink control channel corresponding to the time-frequency
set of the candidate physical uplink control channel, the UE may transmit the alternate
physical uplink control channel through the time-frequency resource of the corresponding
physical uplink control channel without additional selection.
[0147] The first physical uplink control channel may include time-sensitive information
such as HARQ-ACK of the URLLC service. In addition, decoding of the physical uplink
control channel may be performed after all physical uplink control channels are received.
Therefore, through the examples described above, the UCI intended to be transmitted
through the first physical uplink control channel can be transmitted and decoded as
quickly as possible. In addition, as the physical uplink control channel is longer,
the reliability of UCI transmission is higher. Therefore, the reliability of the transmission
of the alternate physical uplink control channel can be increased through the examples
described above.
[0148] The physical uplink control channel may include a plurality of types of UCI according
to the type of UCI information, such as HARQ-ACK, CSI Part1, and CSI Part2. In this
case, the UE may transmit only some UCI types among the UCIs that the UE intends to
transmit through the physical uplink control channel through the alternate physical
uplink control channel. In this case, the UE may select the UCI to be transmitted
through the alternate physical uplink control channel based on the priority of the
UCI type.
[0149] As described above, the UE may transmit one physical uplink control channel of two
physical uplink control channels scheduled in the same symbol in a time-frequency
resource in which the corresponding physical uplink control channel is scheduled,
and transmit the other physical uplink control channel in the alternate physical time-frequency
resource. In this case, the UE may select a physical uplink control channel to be
transmitted in a time-frequency resource in which the corresponding physical uplink
control channel is scheduled according to the priority between the physical uplink
control channels. In this case, the UE may transmit an unselected physical uplink
control channel in an alternate physical time-frequency resource.
[0150] In a specific embodiment, the UE may obtain a priority between physical uplink control
channels from a base station. Specifically, when the DCI configures the transmission
of the physical uplink control channel of the UE, the UE may obtain the priority between
the physical uplink control channels through the DCI. A case where the DCI configures
the transmission of the physical uplink control channel of the UE may be a case where
the DCI configures the HARQ-ACK transmission of the UE. In addition, a case where
the DCI configures the transmission of the physical uplink control channel of the
UE may be a case where the DCI configures the aperiodic CSI transmission of the UE.
The priority between the physical uplink control channels may be explicitly indicated
through a separate field of DCI.
[0151] In another specific embodiment, the priority between physical uplink control channels
may be implicitly indicated in the DCI field. Priority between physical uplink control
channels may be determined according to a HARQ process number (HPN). The priority
between the physical uplink control channels may be determined according to a time-domain
allocation field. Specifically, HARQ-ACK of a physical downlink data channel scheduled
in the time-domain allocation field may have a higher priority. The priority between
the physical uplink control channels may be determined based on the MCS used for transmission
of a target signaled by the UCI of the physical uplink control channel. Specifically,
a priority between physical uplink control channels may be determined such that a
physical uplink control channel including HARQ-ACK of a physical downlink data channel
that is more reliably transmitted has a higher priority. In a specific embodiment,
a priority between physical uplink control channels may be determined such that a
physical uplink control channel including HARQ-ACK of a physical downlink data channel
transmitted at a lower code rate has a higher priority. The priority between the physical
uplink control channels may be determined based on the MCS used for transmission of
a target signaled by the UCI of the physical uplink control channel. The priority
between physical uplink control channels may be determined based on a physical uplink
control channel resource indicator. Specifically, the priority between physical uplink
control channels may be determined to have a higher priority as the value of the physical
uplink control channel resource indicator indicating the physical uplink control channel
is smaller. The priority between physical uplink control channels may be determined
based on a physical uplink control channel resource indicator. Specifically, the priority
between the physical uplink control channels may be determined to have a higher priority
as the symbol scheduled with the physical uplink control channel is advanced. The
priority between the physical uplink control channels may be determined according
to a time sequence in which a physical downlink control channel indicating a physical
uplink control channel or a DCI indicating a physical uplink control channel is transmitted.
Specifically, the priority between the physical uplink control channels may be determined
to have a higher priority as the time at which the physical downlink control channel
indicating the physical uplink control channel or the DCI indicating the physical
uplink control channel is transmitted is advanced. The priority between the physical
uplink control channels may be determined according to the service characteristics
of the physical downlink data channel scheduled by the physical downlink control channel
indicating the time-frequency resource in which the physical uplink control channel
is scheduled. Specifically, the physical uplink control channel scheduled by the physical
downlink control channel for scheduling the physical downlink data channel of the
URLLC service may have a higher priority than the physical uplink control channel
scheduled by the physical downlink control channel scheduling the physical downlink
data channel of the eMBB service. The UE may determine the service characteristics
of the physical downlink data channel scheduled by the physical downlink control channel
based on the RNTI value of the physical downlink control channel. In another specific
embodiment, the UE may determine a service characteristic of a physical downlink data
channel scheduled by the physical downlink control channel according to the value
of the DCI field. The priority between the physical uplink control channels may be
determined according to the type of UCI included in the physical uplink control channel.
Specifically, a physical uplink control channel including HARQ-ACK may have a higher
priority than a physical uplink control channel including CSI. The priority between
the physical uplink control channels may be determined according to the K1 value indicating
the transmission time interval between the HARQ-ACK included in the physical uplink
control channel and the physical downlink data channel. Specifically, the priority
between physical uplink control channels may be determined to have a higher priority
as the K1 value is smaller. This is because as the interval between the physical downlink
data channel and HARQ-ACK is smaller, fast processing may be further required. In
addition, the UE may transmit a physical uplink control channel having the same priority
through one physical uplink control channel. In this case, the UE may determine a
time-frequency resource in which the corresponding physical uplink control channel
is transmitted according to the above-described embodiments.
[0152] In addition, the UE may transmit the corresponding physical uplink control channel
through a shortened format instead of dropping the transmission of the lower priority
physical uplink control channel. Specifically, the UE may transmit a physical uplink
control channel having a relatively low priority through a shortened format in a time-frequency
resource except for a time-frequency resource in which a physical uplink control channel
having a relatively high priority is transmitted. In addition, when the UE creates
a shortened-format physical uplink control channel, a UE may puncture a UCI of a symbol
overlapping in a time domain with a physical uplink control channel having a relatively
high priority. In another specific embodiment, the UE may rate-match a physical uplink
control channel having a relatively low priority to a physical uplink control channel
in a shortened format. Specifically, the UE may determine the time-frequency resource
of the physical uplink control channel according to the code rate using only the time-frequency
resource to be used for transmission. When the physical uplink control channel is
Format 2 or Format 3, the number of PRBs, which are frequency resources occupied by
the physical uplink control channel, may be determined according to the UCI of the
physical uplink control channel and the configured code rate. The UE may determine
the number of PRBs in the shortened format using resources that can be actually transmitted
(resources of symbols other than the punctured symbol) and the configured code rate.
When DMRS cannot be transmitted through the shortened-format physical uplink control
channel, the UE may drop the corresponding physical uplink control channel transmission.
A case where the DMRS cannot be transmitted through the short-format physical uplink
control channel may include a case where the DMRS cannot be transmitted due to the
length of the shortened-format physical uplink control channel.
[0153] The UE may transmit a grant-free (GF) physical uplink data channel or a grant based
(GB) configured physical uplink data channel. In this case, the grant-free configured
physical uplink data channel may be a physical uplink data channel scheduled through
RRC configuration. The grant-free physical uplink data channel may be referred to
as a configured grant physical uplink data channel. Also, the grant based configured
physical uplink data channel may be a physical uplink data channel configured through
DCI of the physical downlink control channel. When the time-frequency resource in
which the grant-free configured physical uplink data channel is scheduled overlaps
with the grant based configured physical uplink data channel, the UE may drop transmission
of one of the two physical uplink data channels and transmit only the other one physical
uplink data channel. In this case, the operation method of the UE will be described.
[0154] When there is data (e.g., UL-SCH) to be transmitted through the grant-free physical
uplink data channel, the UE may drop the grant-based physical uplink data channel
transmission and transmit the grant-free physical uplink data channel. This is because
the grant-free physical uplink data channel may be more suitable for services requiring
rapid transmission such as URLLC data. In a specific embodiment, when the transmission
period of the grant-free physical uplink data channel is shorter than a specific period,
and there is data (e.g., UL-SCH) to be transmitted through the grant-free physical
uplink data channel, the UE may drop the grant-based physical uplink data channel
transmission and transmit the grant-free physical uplink data channel. In a specific
embodiment, when the transmission period of the grant-free physical uplink data channel
is not shorter than a specific period, the UE may transmit the grant-based physical
uplink data channel and drop the grant-free physical uplink data channel transmission.
When the UE drops the grant-based physical uplink data channel transmission and transmits
the grant-free physical uplink data channel, the UE may transmit UCI, which should
be transmitted through the grant-based physical uplink data channel, through the grant-free
physical uplink data channel. In this case, the UE may transmit all UCIs to be transmitted
through the grant-based physical uplink data channel through the grant-free physical
uplink data channel. In another specific embodiment, the UE may transmit some UCIs
to be transmitted through the grant-based physical uplink data channel through the
grant-free physical uplink data channel. For example, when the grant-based physical
uplink data channel is included in the aperiodic CSI, the UE may transmit all or part
of the aperiodic CSI through the grant-free physical uplink data channel. When the
grant-based physical uplink data channel includes CSI part1 and CSI part2, the UE
may transmit only CSI part1 among CSI part1 and CSI part2 through the grant-free physical
uplink data channel. When the grant-based physical uplink data channel includes HARQ-ACK
and aperiodic CSI, the UE may transmit all or part of HARQ-ACK and aperiodic CSI through
the grant-free physical uplink data channel. In this case, the UE can transmit only
the HARQ-ACK through the grant-free physical uplink data channel without transmitting
the CSI. In another specific embodiment, the UE may transmit only HARQ-ACK and CSI
part1 through the grant-free physical uplink data channel without transmitting CSI
part2.
[0155] In another specific embodiment, when the time-frequency resource in which the grant-based
physical uplink data channel is scheduled and the time-frequency resource in which
the grant-free physical uplink data channel is scheduled overlap, the base station
may signal which physical uplink data channel of the grant-based physical uplink data
channel or the grant-free physical uplink data channel is transmitted. Specifically,
the base station may signal which physical uplink data channel among the grant-based
physical uplink data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data channel will
be transmitted by the UE in the DCI scheduling grant-based physical uplink data channel.
The UE may determine which physical uplink data channel to transmit among the grant-based
physical uplink data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data channel based
on DCI scheduling the grant-based physical uplink data channel. Specifically, the
DCI may signal which physical uplink data channel will be transmitted by the UE among
the grant-based physical uplink data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data
channel. In a specific embodiment, the 1-bit field of the DCI may signal which physical
uplink data channel will be transmitted by the UE among the grant-based physical uplink
data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data channel. In another specific
embodiment, the DCI may implicitly signal which physical uplink data channel will
be transmitted by the UE among the grant-based physical uplink data channel and the
grant-free physical uplink data channel. For example, when the code rate of the MCS
value of the physical downlink control channel (or DCI) scheduling the grant-based
physical uplink data channel is smaller than a specific value, the UE may transmit
the grant-based physical uplink data channel and drop the grant-free physical uplink
data channel transmission. When the code rate of the MCS value of the physical downlink
control channel (or DCI) scheduling the grant-based physical uplink data channel is
greater than a specific value, the UE may drop the grant-based physical uplink data
channel transmission and transmit the grant-free physical uplink data channel transmission.
In this case, the specific value may be a predetermined value. Also, a specific value
may be configured by an RRC signal. Also, the specific value may be a value configured
when the grant-free physical uplink data channel is configured.
[0156] The UE may determine which physical uplink data channel to transmit among the grant-based
physical uplink data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data channel based
on the location of the symbol through which the grant-based physical uplink data channel
is transmitted and the location of the symbol through which of the grant-free physical
uplink data channels is transmitted. Specifically, when the transmission of the grant-based
physical uplink data channel is terminated before the grant-free physical uplink data
channel transmission, the UE may transmit the grant-based physical uplink data channel
and drop the grant-free physical uplink data channel transmission. When the transmission
of the grant-based physical uplink data channel does not end before the grant-free
physical uplink data channel transmission, the UE may drop the grant-based physical
uplink data channel transmission and transmit a grant-free physical uplink data channel.
[0157] The UE may determine which physical uplink data channel to transmit among the grant-based
physical uplink data channel and the grant-free physical uplink data channel based
on the K2 value of DCI scheduling the grant-based physical uplink data channel. In
this case, the K2 value is a value indicating an interval between a physical downlink
control channel and the grant-based physical uplink data channel. Specifically, when
the K2 value is smaller than a specific value, the UE may transmit the grant-based
physical uplink data channel and drop the grant-free physical uplink data channel
transmission. Specifically, when the K2 value is equal to or greater than the specific
value, the UE may drop the grant-based physical uplink data channel and transmit the
grant-free physical uplink data channel transmission. The specific value may be a
fixed value. For example, the specific value may be 0 or 1. In another specific embodiment,
the specific value may be a value configured from the higher layer. In another specific
embodiment, the specific value may be determined based on the period of the grant-free
physical uplink data channel. For example, the specific value may be a period of a
grant-free physical uplink data channel.
[0158] In the above-described embodiments, the physical data channel may include a PDSCH
or a PUSCH. In addition, the physical control channel may include a PDCCH or a PUCCH.
In addition, in the embodiment described using PUSCH, PDCCH, PUCCH, and PDCCH, other
types of data channels and control channels may be applied.
[0159] The method and system of the present disclosure are described in relation to specific
embodiments, configuration elements, a part of or the entirety of operations of the
present disclosure may be implemented using a computer system having general purpose
hardware architecture.
[0160] The aforementioned description of the present disclosure has been presented for the
purposes of illustration and description. It is apparent to a person having ordinary
skill in the art to which the present disclosure relates that the present disclosure
can be easily modified into other detailed forms without changing the technical principle
or essential features of the present disclosure. Therefore, these embodiments as described
above are only proposed for illustrative purposes and do not limit the present disclosure.
For example, each component described to be of a single type can be implemented in
a distributed manner. Likewise, components described to be distributed can be implemented
in a combined manner.
[0161] The scope of the present disclosure is presented by the accompanying Claims rather
than the aforementioned description. Therefore, the scope of the present invention
is determined by the scope of the appended claims.
1. A user equipment, UE, for use in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:
a communication module; and
a processor configured to control the communication module,
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive configuration information related to a cyclic period for monitoring an uplink,
UL, preemption indicator;
receive scheduling information for a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, transmission;
after a reception of the scheduling information, receive a common physical downlink
control channel, PDCCH, including the UL preemption indicator during a monitoring
time configured by the cyclic period; and
based on the PUSCH transmission being overlapped with at least one resource part indicated
by the UL preemption indicator within a reference time-frequency resource, cancel
a portion of the PUSCH transmission based on the at least one resource part,
wherein a starting time of the reference time-frequency resource is located after
the monitoring time, at least by a time interval associated with a PUSCH processing
time.
2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the reference time-frequency resource excludes a downlink
symbol configured according to a semi-static downlink/uplink, DL/UL, assignment.
3. The UE of claim 1 or 2, wherein the PUSCH processing time is a minimum time required
for the UE to receive a PDCCH for scheduling the PUSCH and to transmit the PUSCH.
4. The UE of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes a
bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one of
N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of one or more first resource parts among the N resource parts is configured
to have P symbols, and each of remaining second resource parts among the N resource
parts is configured to have Q symbols,
wherein P and Q are set so that a difference between P and Q is to be at most 1, and
wherein N, P and Q are natural numbers.
5. The UE of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes a
bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one of
N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts includes ceil
(S/N) symbols, and each of N-mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts
includes floor (S/N) symbols, and
wherein S is a number of symbols within the reference time-frequency resource, N is
a natural number, mod () represents a modulo function, ceil () represents a ceiling
function, and floor () represents a flooring function.
6. The UE of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the starting time of the reference time-frequency
resource is located at an earliest symbol after the time interval from the monitoring
time.
7. A base station, BS, of a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:
a communication module; and
a processor configured to control the communication module,
wherein the processor is configured to:
transmit configuration information related to a cyclic period for monitoring an uplink,
UL, preemption indicator;
transmit scheduling information for a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, reception;
after a transmission of the scheduling information, transmit a common physical downlink
control channel, PDCCH, including the UL preemption indicator during a monitoring
time configured by the cyclic period; and
based on the PUSCH reception being overlapped with at least one resource part indicated
by the UL preemption indicator within a reference time-frequency resource, disregard
a portion of the PUSCH reception based on the at least one resource part,
wherein a starting time of the reference time-frequency resource is located after
the monitoring time, at least by a time interval associated with a PUSCH processing
time.
8. The BS of claim 7, wherein the reference time-frequency resource excludes a downlink
symbol configured according to a semi-static downlink/uplink, DL/UL, assignment.
9. The BS of claim 7 or 8, wherein the PUSCH processing time is a minimum time required
for a user equipment, UE, to receive a PDCCH for scheduling the PUSCH and to transmit
the PUSCH.
10. The BS of any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes a
bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one of
N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of one or more first resource parts among the N resource parts is configured
to have P symbols, and each of remaining second resource parts among the N resource
parts is configured to have Q symbols,
wherein P and Q are set so that a difference between P and Q is to be at most 1, and
wherein N, P and Q are natural numbers.
11. The BS of any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes
a bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one
of N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts includes ceil
(S/N) symbols, and each of N-mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts
includes floor (S/N) symbols, and
wherein S is a number of symbols within the reference time-frequency resource, N is
a natural number, mod () represents a modulo function, ceil () represents a ceiling
function, and floor () represents a flooring function.
12. The BS of any one of claims 7 to 11, wherein the starting time of the reference time-frequency
resource is located at an earliest symbol after the time interval from the monitoring
time.
13. A method performed by a user equipment, UE, of a wireless communication system, the
method comprising:
receiving configuration information related to a cyclic period for monitoring an uplink,
UL, preemption indicator;
receiving scheduling information for a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, transmission;
after a reception of the scheduling information, receiving a common physical downlink
control channel, PDCCH, including the UL preemption indicator during a monitoring
time configured by the cyclic period; and
based on the PUSCH transmission being overlapped with at least one resource part indicated
by the UL preemption indicator within a reference time-frequency resource, canceling
a portion of the PUSCH transmission based on the at least one resource part,
wherein a starting time of the reference time-frequency resource is located after
the monitoring time, at least by a time interval associated with a PUSCH processing
time.
14. A method performed by a base station, BS, of a wireless communication system, the
method comprising:
transmitting configuration information related to a cyclic period for monitoring an
uplink, UL, preemption indicator;
transmitting scheduling information for a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, reception;
after a transmission of the scheduling information, transmitting a common physical
downlink control channel, PDCCH, including the UL preemption indicator during a monitoring
time configured by the cyclic period; and
based on the PUSCH reception being overlapped with at least one resource part indicated
by the UL preemption indicator within a reference time-frequency resource, disregarding
a portion of the PUSCH reception based on the at least one resource part,
wherein a starting time of the reference time-frequency resource is located after
the monitoring time, at least by a time interval associated with a PUSCH processing
time.
15. The method of claim 13 or 14, wherein the reference time-frequency resource excludes
a downlink symbol configured according to a semi-static downlink/uplink, DL/UL, assignment.
16. The method of any one of claims 13 to 15, wherein the PUSCH processing time is a minimum
time required for the UE to receive a PDCCH for scheduling the PUSCH and to transmit
the PUSCH.
17. The method of any one of claims 13 to 16, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes
a bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one
of N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of one or more first resource parts among the N resource parts is configured
to have P symbols, and each of remaining second resource parts among the N resource
parts is configured to have Q symbols,
wherein P and Q are set so that a difference between P and Q is to be at most 1, and
wherein N, P and Q are natural numbers.
18. The method of any one of claims 13 to 17, wherein the UL preemption indicator includes
a bitmap including N bits, and each of the N bits corresponds to a respective one
of N resource parts within the reference time-frequency resource,
wherein each of mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts includes ceil
(S/N) symbols, and each of N-mod (S, N) resource parts among the N resource parts
includes floor (S/N) symbols, and
wherein S is a number of symbols within the reference time-frequency resource, N is
a natural number, mod () represents a modulo function, ceil () represents a ceiling
function, and floor () represents a flooring function.
19. The method of any one of claims 13 to 18, wherein the starting time of the reference
time-frequency resource is located at an earliest symbol after the time interval from
the monitoring time.
1. Benutzergerät (UE) zur Verwendung in einem Drahtloskommunikationssystem, wobei das
UE aufweist:
ein Kommunikationsmodul; und
einen Prozessor, der dazu ausgelegt ist, das Kommunikationsmodul zu steuern,
wobei der Prozessor ausgelegt ist zum:
Empfangen von Konfigurationsinformation in Bezug auf eine zyklische Periode zum Überwachen
eines Uplink (UL)-Preemption-Indikators;
Empfangen von Planungsinformation für eine Physical Uplink Shared Channel(PUSCH)-Übertragung;
nach dem Empfang der Planungsinformation, Empfangen eines gemeinsamen Physical Downlink
Control Channels (PDCCH), der den UL-Preemption-Indikator enthält, während einer durch
die zyklische Periode ausgelegten Überwachungszeit; und
auf Grundlage der Überlappung der PUSCH-Übertragung mit mindestens einem von dem UL-Preemption-Indikator
angegebenen Ressourcenteil innerhalb einer Referenzzeitfrequenzressource, Widerrufen
eines Teils der PUSCH-Übertragung auf Grundlage des mindestens einen Ressourcenteils,
wobei eine Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource um mindestens ein Zeitintervall,
das einer PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit zugeordnet ist, nach der Überwachungszeit liegt.
2. UE nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ein Downlink-Symbol ausschließt,
das gemäß einer halbstatischen Downlink/Uplink (DL/LTL)-Zuweisung ausgelegt ist.
3. UE nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei die PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit eine Mindestzeit ist,
die das UE benötigt, um einen PDCCH für die Planung des PUSCH zu empfangen und den
PUSCH zu übertragen.
4. UE nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine Bitmap
mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder von einem oder mehreren ersten Ressourcenteilen von den N Ressourcenteilen
so ausgelegt ist, dass er P Symbole hat, und jeder der verbleibenden zweiten Ressourcenteile
von den N Ressourcenteilen so ausgelegt ist, dass er Q Symbole hat,
wobei P und Q so festgelegt sind, dass eine Differenz zwischen P und Q höchstens 1
beträgt, und
wobei N, P und Q natürliche Zahlen sind.
5. UE nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine Bitmap
mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder der mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen ceil-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält und jeder der N-mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen floor-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält, und
wobei S eine Anzahl von Symbolen innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ist,
N eine natürliche Zahl ist, mod () eine Modulo-Funktion darstellt, ceil () eine Aufrundungsfunktion
darstellt und floor () eine Abrundungsfunktion darstellt.
6. UE nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, wobei die Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource
bei einem frühesten Symbol nach dem Zeitintervall ab der Überwachungszeit liegt.
7. Basisstation (BS) eines Drahtloskommunikationssystems, wobei die BS aufweist:
ein Kommunikationsmodul; und
einen Prozessor, der dazu ausgelegt ist, das Kommunikationsmodul zu steuern,
wobei der Prozessor ausgelegt ist zum:
Übertragen von Konfigurationsinformation in Bezug auf eine zyklische Periode zum Überwachen
eines Uplink(UL)-Preemption-Indikators;
Übertragen von Planungsinformation für einen Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)-Empfang;
nach dem Übertragen der Planungsinformation, Übertragen eines gemeinsamen Physical
Downlink Control Channels (PDCCH), der den UL-Preemption-Indikator enthält, während
einer durch die zyklische Periode ausgelegten Überwachungszeit; und
auf Grundlage der Überlappung des PUSCH-Empfangs mit mindestens einem von dem UL-Preemption-Indikator
angegebenen Ressourcenteil innerhalb einer Referenzzeitfrequenzressource, Verwerfen
eines Teils des PUSCH-Empfangs auf Grundlage des mindestens einen Ressourcenteils,
wobei die Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource um mindestens ein Zeitintervall,
das einer PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit zugeordnet ist, nach der Überwachungszeit liegt.
8. BS nach Anspruch 7, wobei die Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ein Downlink-Symbol ausschließt,
das gemäß einer halbstatischen Downlink/Uplink (DL/LTL)-Zuweisung ausgelegt ist.
9. BS nach Anspruch 7 oder 8, wobei die PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit eine Mindestzeit ist,
die ein Benutzergerät (UE) benötigt, um einen PDCCH für die Planung des PUSCH zu empfangen
und den PUSCH zu übertragen.
10. BS nach einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 9, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine Bitmap
mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder von einem oder mehreren ersten Ressourcenteilen von den N Ressourcenteilen
so ausgelegt ist, dass er P Symbole hat, und jeder der verbleibenden zweiten Ressourcenteile
von den N Ressourcenteilen so ausgelegt ist, dass er Q Symbole hat,
wobei P und Q so festgelegt sind, dass eine Differenz zwischen P und Q höchstens 1
beträgt, und
wobei N, P und Q natürliche Zahlen sind.
11. BS nach einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 10, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine Bitmap
mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder der mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen ceil-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält und jeder der N-mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen floor-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält, und
wobei S eine Anzahl von Symbolen innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ist,
N eine natürliche Zahl ist, mod () eine Modulo-Funktion darstellt, ceil () eine Aufrundungsfunktion
darstellt und floor () eine Abrundungsfunktion darstellt.
12. BS nach einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 11, wobei die Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource
bei einem frühesten Symbol nach dem Zeitintervall ab der Überwachungszeit liegt.
13. Verfahren, das von einem Benutzergerät (UE) eines Drahtloskommunikationssystems durchgeführt
wird, wobei das Verfahren aufweist:
Empfangen von Konfigurationsinformation in Bezug auf eine zyklische Periode zum Überwachen
eines Uplink (UL)-Preemption-Indikators;
Empfangen von Planungsinformation für eine Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)-Übertragung;
nach dem Empfang der Planungsinformation, Empfangen eines gemeinsamen Physical Downlink
Control Channels (PDCCH), der den UL-Preemption-Indikator enthält, während einer durch
die zyklische Periode ausgelegten Überwachungszeit; und
auf Grundlage der Überlappung der PUSCH-Übertragung mit mindestens einem von dem UL-Preemption-Indikator
angegebenen Ressourcenteil innerhalb einer Referenzzeitfrequenzressource, Widerrufen
eines Teils der PUSCH-Übertragung auf Grundlage des mindestens einen Ressourcenteils,
wobei eine Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource um mindestens ein Zeitintervall,
das einer PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit zugeordnet ist, nach der Überwachungszeit liegt.
14. Verfahren, das von einer Basisstation (BS) eines Drahtloskommunikationssystems durchgeführt
wird, wobei das Verfahren aufweist:
Übertragen von Konfigurationsinformation in Bezug auf eine zyklische Periode zum Überwachen
eines Uplink (UL)-Preemption-Indikators;
Übertragen von Planungsinformation für einen Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)-Empfang;
nach dem Übertragen der Planungsinformation, Übertragen eines gemeinsamen Physical
Downlink Control Channels (PDCCH), der den UL-Preemption-Indikator enthält, während
einer durch die zyklische Periode ausgelegten Überwachungszeit; und
auf Grundlage der Überlappung des PUSCH-Empfangs mit mindestens einem von dem UL-Preemption-Indikator
angegebenen Ressourcenteil innerhalb einer Referenzzeitfrequenzressource, Verwerfen
eines Teils des PUSCH-Empfangs auf Grundlage des mindestens einen Ressourcenteils,
wobei eine Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource um mindestens ein Zeitintervall,
das einer PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit zugeordnet ist. nach der Überwachungszeit liegt.
15. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13 oder 14, wobei die Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ein Downlink-Symbol
ausschließt, das gemäß einer halbstatischen Downlink/Uplink (DL/LTL)-Zuweisung ausgelegt
ist.
16. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 13 bis 15, wobei die PUSCH-Verarbeitungszeit eine
Mindestzeit ist, die das UE benötigt, um einen PDCCH für die Planung des PUSCH zu
empfangen und den PUSCH zu übertragen.
17. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 13 bis 16, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine
Bitmap mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder von einem oder mehreren ersten Ressourcenteilen von den N Ressourcenteilen
so ausgelegt ist, dass er P Symbole hat, und jeder der verbleibenden zweiten Ressourcenteile
von den N Ressourcenteilen so ausgelegt ist, dass er Q Symbole hat,
wobei P und Q so festgelegt sind, dass eine Differenz zwischen P und Q höchstens 1
beträgt, und
wobei N, P und Q natürliche Zahlen sind.
18. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 13 bis 17, wobei der UL-Preemption-Indikator eine
Bitmap mit N Bits enthält und jedes der N Bits einem entsprechenden von N Ressourcenteilen
innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource entspricht,
wobei jeder der mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen ceil-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält und jeder der N-mod-(S, N)-Ressourcenteile von den N Ressourcenteilen floor-(S/N)-Symbole
enthält, und
wobei S eine Anzahl von Symbolen innerhalb der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource ist,
N eine natürliche Zahl ist, mod () eine Modulo-Funktion darstellt, ceil () eine Aufrundungsfunktion
darstellt und floor () eine Abrundungsfunktion darstellt.
19. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 13 bis 18, wobei die Startzeit der Referenzzeitfrequenzressource
bei einem frühesten Symbol nach dem Zeitintervall ab der Überwachungszeit liegt.
1. Équipement utilisateur, UE, pour l'utilisation dans un système de communication sans
fil, l'UE comprenant :
un module de communication ; et
un processeur configuré pour commander le module de communication,
dans lequel le processeur est configuré pour :
recevoir des informations de configuration relatives à une période cyclique de surveillance
d'un indicateur de préemption de liaison montante, UL ;
recevoir des informations de planification pour une transmission de canal physique
partagé de liaison montante, PUSCH ;
après une réception des informations de planification, recevoir un canal physique
de commande de liaison descendante, PDCCH, commun comportant l'indicateur de préemption
d'UL durant un temps de surveillance configuré par la période cyclique; et
sur la base de la transmission de PUSCH qui est superposée à au moins une partie de
ressource indiquée par l'indicateur de préemption d'UL à l'intérieur d'une ressource
de temps-fréquence de référence, supprimer une partie de la transmission de PUSCH
sur la base de l'au moins une partie de ressource,
dans lequel un temps de départ de la ressource de temps-fréquence de référence est
situé après le temps de surveillance, au moins par un intervalle de temps associé
à un temps de traitement de PUSCH.
2. UE selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la ressource de temps-fréquence de référence
exclut un symbole de liaison descendante configuré selon une attribution de liaison
descendante/liaison montante, DL/UL, semi-statique.
3. UE selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel le temps de traitement de PUSCH est
un temps minimal nécessaire à l'UE pour recevoir un PDCCH pour la planification du
PUSCH et pour transmettre le PUSCH.
4. UE selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel l'indicateur de préemption
d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond à l'une
respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource de temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans lequel chacune d'une ou plusieurs premières parties de ressource parmi les N
parties de ressource est configurée pour avoir P symboles, et chacune des deuxièmes
parties de ressource restantes parmi les N parties de ressource est configurée pour
avoir Q symboles,
dans lequel P et Q sont établis pour qu'une différence entre P et Q soit au maximum
1, et
dans lequel N, P et Q sont des nombres naturels.
5. UE selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans lequel l'indicateur de préemption
d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond à l'une
respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource de temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans lequel chacune de mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi les N parties de ressource
comporte ceil (S/N) symboles, et chacune de N - mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi
les N parties de ressource comporte floor (S/N) symboles, et
dans lequel S est un nombre de symboles à l'intérieur de la ressource de temps-fréquence
de référence, N est un nombre naturel, mod () représente une fonction modulo, ceil
() représente une fonction plafond et floor () représente une fonction plancher.
6. UE selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans lequel le temps de départ
de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est situé sur un symbole le plus proche
après l'intervalle de temps à partir du temps de surveillance.
7. Station de base, BS, d'un système de communication sans fil, la BS comprenant :
un module de communication ; et
un processeur configuré pour commander le module de communication,
dans laquelle le processeur est configuré pour :
transmettre des informations de configuration relatives à une période cyclique de
surveillance d'un indicateur de préemption de liaison montante, UL;
transmettre des informations de planification pour une réception de canal physique
partagé de liaison montante, PUSCH ;
après une transmission des informations de planification, transmettre un canal physique
de commande de liaison descendante, PDCCH, commun comportant l'indicateur de préemption
d'UL durant un temps de surveillance configuré par la période cyclique; et
sur la base de la réception de PUSCH qui est superposée à au moins une partie de ressource
indiquée par l'indicateur de préemption d'UL à l'intérieur d'une ressource temps-fréquence
de référence, ignorer une partie de la réception de PUSCH sur la base de l'au moins
une partie de ressource,
dans laquelle un temps de départ de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est
situé après le temps de surveillance, au moins par un intervalle de temps associé
à un temps de traitement de PUSCH.
8. BS selon la revendication 7, dans laquelle la ressource temps-fréquence de référence
exclut un symbole de liaison descendante configuré selon une attribution de liaison
descendante/liaison montante, DL/UL, semi-statique.
9. BS selon la revendication 7 ou 8, dans laquelle le temps de traitement de PUSCH est
un temps minimal nécessaire à un équipement utilisateur, UE, pour recevoir un PDCCH
pour la planification du PUSCH et pour transmettre le PUSCH.
10. BS selon l'une quelconque des revendications 7 à 9, dans laquelle l'indicateur de
préemption d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond
à l'une respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans laquelle chacune d'une ou plusieurs premières parties de ressource parmi les
N parties de ressource est configurée pour avoir P symboles, et chacune des deuxièmes
parties de ressource restantes parmi les N parties de ressource est configurée pour
avoir Q symboles,
dans laquelle P et Q sont établis pour qu'une différence entre P et Q soit au maximum
1, et
dans laquelle N, P et Q sont des nombres naturels.
11. BS selon l'une quelconque des revendications 7 à 10, dans laquelle l'indicateur de
préemption d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond
à l'une respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans laquelle chacune de mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi les N parties de ressource
comporte ceil (S/N) symboles, et chacune de N - mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi
les N parties de ressource comporte floor (S/N) symboles, et
dans laquelle S est un nombre de symboles à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence, N est un nombre naturel, mod () représente une fonction modulo, ceil
() représente une fonction plafond et floor () représente une fonction plancher.
12. BS selon l'une quelconque des revendications 7 à 11, dans laquelle le temps de départ
de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est situé sur un symbole le plus proche
après l'intervalle de temps à partir du temps de surveillance.
13. Procédé réalisé par un équipement utilisateur, UE, d'un système de communication sans
fil, le procédé comprenant :
une réception des informations de configuration relatives à une période cyclique de
surveillance d'un indicateur de préemption de liaison montante, UL;
une réception d'informations de planification pour une transmission de canal physique
partagé de liaison montante, PUSCH ;
après une réception des informations de planification, une réception d'un canal physique
de commande de liaison descendante, PDCCH, commun comportant l'indicateur de préemption
d'UL durant un temps de surveillance configuré par la période cyclique; et
sur la base de la transmission de PUSCH qui est superposée à au moins une partie de
ressource indiquée par l'indicateur de préemption d'UL à l'intérieur d'une ressource
temps-fréquence de référence, supprimer une partie de la transmission de PUSCH sur
la base de l'au moins une partie de ressource,
dans lequel un temps de départ de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est situé
après le temps de surveillance, au moins par un intervalle de temps associé à un temps
de traitement de PUSCH.
14. Procédé réalisé par une station de base, BS, d'un système de communication sans fil,
le procédé comprenant :
une transmission des informations de configuration relatives à une période cyclique
de surveillance d'un indicateur de préemption de liaison montante, UL;
une transmission d'informations de planification pour une réception de canal physique
partagé de liaison montante, PUSCH ;
après une transmission des informations de planification, une transmission d'un canal
physique de commande de liaison descendante, PDCCH, commun comportant l'indicateur
de préemption d'UL durant un temps de surveillance configuré par la période cyclique;
et
sur la base de la réception de PUSCH qui est superposée à au moins une partie de ressource
indiquée par l'indicateur de préemption d'UL à l'intérieur d'une ressource temps-fréquence
de référence, ignorer une partie de la réception de PUSCH sur la base de l'au moins
une partie de ressource,
dans lequel un temps de départ de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est situé
après le temps de surveillance, au moins par un intervalle de temps associé à un temps
de traitement de PUSCH.
15. Procédé selon la revendication 13 ou 14, dans lequel la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence exclut un symbole de liaison descendante configuré selon une attribution
de liaison descendante/liaison montante, DL/UL, semi-statique.
16. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 13 à 15, dans lequel le temps de
traitement de PUSCH est un temps minimal nécessaire à l'UE pour recevoir un PDCCH
pour la planification du PUSCH et pour transmettre le PUSCH.
17. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 13 à 16, dans lequel l'indicateur
de préemption d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond
à l'une respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans lequel chacune d'une ou plusieurs premières parties de ressource parmi les N
parties de ressource est configurée pour avoir P symboles, et chacune des deuxièmes
parties de ressource restantes parmi les N parties de ressource est configurée pour
avoir Q symboles,
dans lequel P et Q sont établis pour qu'une différence entre P et Q soit au maximum
1, et
dans lequel N, P et Q sont des nombres naturels.
18. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 13 à 17, dans lequel l'indicateur
de préemption d'UL comporte un bitmap comportant N bits, et chacun des N bits correspond
à l'une respective de N parties de ressource à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence,
dans lequel chacune de mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi les N parties de ressource
comporte ceil (S/N) symboles, et chacune de N - mod (S, N) parties de ressource parmi
les N parties de ressource comporte floor (S/N) symboles, et
dans lequel S est un nombre de symboles à l'intérieur de la ressource temps-fréquence
de référence, N est un nombre naturel, mod () représente une fonction modulo, ceil
() représente une fonction plafond et floor () représente une fonction plancher.
19. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 13 à 18, dans lequel le temps de
départ de la ressource temps-fréquence de référence est situé sur un symbole le plus
proche après l'intervalle de temps à partir du temps de surveillance.