公开(公告)号：US10548131B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-28

申请号：US15635051

申请日：2017-06-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Tamer Kadous ,  Chih-Hao Liu ,  Chirag Patel ,  Alberto Rico Alvarino

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: A method and apparatus for wireless communication in the unlicensed spectrum between an eNB and UEs having different bandwidths, e.g., between a narrowband UE and a wideband eNB. A base station apparatus performs an LBT procedure at a beginning of frames and transmits a plurality of repetitions of a transmission. When the plurality of repetitions span multiple frames and the LBT procedure is not successful for a first frame, the base station drops or postpones at least one repetition in the first frame until a second frame when the LBT procedure is successful. A UE receives the plurality of repetitions and may combine a plurality of repetitions across multiple frames. The UE may determine whether the base station drops the at least one repetition in the first frame or postpones the at least one repetition in the first frame until a second frame.

公开(公告)号：US10547494B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-28

申请号：US15697212

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Chih-Hao Liu ,  Chirag Patel ,  Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Tamer Kadous

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: This disclosure includes methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication. A repetition of symbols may be used to increase a device's ability to synchronize and communicate using unlicensed spectrum. For example, a base station may schedule a frame that includes repetitions, in time or frequency, of a control or data signal. After performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, the base station may broadcast or transmit the frame to one or more devices, such as a user equipment (UE). For instance, the frame may include repetitions of a discovery reference signal (DRS), and be broadcast by the base station to enable synchronization by the UE. In other examples, the signal may include repetitions of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), and a UE may identify a start of a transmission opportunity using the CRSs. Other signals, such as downlink control and shared channels, may be repeated within a frame in a similar manner.

公开(公告)号：US20200028558A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-23

申请号：US16513010

申请日：2019-07-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Xiaoxia Zhang ,  Jing Sun ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Chih-Hao Liu

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B17/309 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04W52/18

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink transmission from a base station over a wireless channel, select, based on the received downlink transmission, a channel state information (CSI) computation mode for the wireless channel, where the CSI computation mode is based on an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) constraint, measure a set of one or more CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) from the base station to obtain a CSI measurement, and transmit a CSI report to the base station based on the selected CSI computation mode and the CSI measurement.

公开(公告)号：US10542543B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US15635018

申请日：2017-06-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Tamer Kadous ,  Chih-Hao Liu ,  Chirag Patel ,  Alberto Rico Alvarino

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: A method and apparatus for wireless communication in the unlicensed spectrum between an eNB and UEs having different bandwidths, e.g., between a narrowband UE and a wideband eNB. A user equipment apparatus segments an uplink duration in each frame into multiple transmission units for each frequency, wherein a frame comprises an integer number of the transmission units. The apparatus transmits uplink communication based on the multiple transmission units, wherein each transmission unit comprises at least one on period and at least one off period corresponding to each of a plurality of frequencies, wherein during an on period the UE transmits uplink communication on the corresponding frequency and during an off period the UE refrains from transmitting uplink communication on the corresponding frequency. Each transmission unit may comprise multiple on periods and multiple off periods. The on/off periods may be configured by a base station or specified for each frame type.

公开(公告)号：US10536966B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US15811335

申请日：2017-11-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Chih-Hao Liu ,  Tamer Kadous ,  Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Chirag Sureshbhai Patel ,  Alberto Rico Alvarino

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W16/14

Abstract: Techniques for wireless communication are described. One method includes assigning a downlink subframe that is a first occurring downlink subframe in a data frame; and transmitting an encoded control signal during a first transmission opportunity, the encoded control signal including a common portion for receiving devices, the common portion indicating a structure of the data frame, the encoded control signal further including a device specific portion for a specific receiving device, the device specific portion indicating uplink grants and downlink grants during the data frame for the specific receiving device, where at least the common portion of the encoded control signal is transmitted during the selected downlink subframe.

公开(公告)号：US10511405B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-17

申请号：US15463825

申请日：2017-03-20

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Tao Luo ,  Durga Prasad Malladi ,  Naga Bhushan ,  Yongbin Wei ,  Tingfang Ji ,  Aleksandar Damnjanovic ,  Wanshi Chen

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L27/34

Abstract: Resource mapping and coding schemes to handle bursty interference are disclosed that provide for spreading the modulated symbols for one or more transmission code words over more symbols in the time-frequency transmission stream. Certain aspects allow for the modulated symbols to be based on bits from more than one code word. Other aspects also provide for re-mapping code word transmission sequences for re-transmissions based on the number of re-transmissions requested by the receiver. Additional aspects provide for layered coding that uses a lower fixed-size constellation to encode/decode transmissions in a layered manner in order to achieve a larger-size constellation encoding. The layered encoding process allows the transmitter and receiver to use different coding rates for each coding layer. The layered encoding process also allows interference from neighboring cells to be canceled without knowledge of the actual constellation used to code the interfering neighboring signal.

公开(公告)号：US10477409B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-12

申请号：US16194168

申请日：2018-11-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Tao Luo ,  Durga Prasad Malladi ,  Naga Bhushan ,  Yongbin Wei ,  Peter Gaal ,  Wanshi Chen ,  Aleksandar Damnjanovic ,  Tingfang Ji ,  Ravi Teja Sukhavasi

IPC: H04W16/14 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless communication are described. A method may include receiving at a user equipment (UE) a number of allocated interlaces for an uplink transmission over a shared spectrum, each of which may include a plurality of non-contiguous resource blocks (RB) of the shared spectrum. In some cases, the number of allocated interlaces is unsupported by joint interlace precoding hardware of the UE and the allocated interlaces may be partitioned into subsets of interlaces which may be a size supported by the joint interlace precoding hardware. Reference signals may be generated for the RBs of the allocated interlaces according to a reference signal sequence based on an ordering of the RBs for the allocated interlaces within the shared spectrum.

公开(公告)号：US20190335456A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-31

申请号：US16391001

申请日：2019-04-22

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Jing Sun ,  Xiaoxia Zhang ,  Tamer Kadous ,  Yongbin Wei

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for frame-based initiator device operations. A wireless device may be operating within a frame-based equipment communications system, where a frame may include a channel occupancy time period and a minimum idle period. An initiating device may be configured to initiate autonomous uplink communications during the channel occupancy time period of its frame, while the device may not initiate communications during an idle period of its frame. In some cases, a frame-based equipment communications system may include more than one initiating device, where the idle periods for different initiating devices may occur at different times. In some cases, the initiating device may be configured to initiate communications during the idle period for another initiating device. This may allow the wireless system to decrease system overhead associated with a minimum idle period per frame.

公开(公告)号：US10461797B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-29

申请号：US16242969

申请日：2019-01-08

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Chih-Hao Liu ,  Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Chirag Patel ,  Tamer Kadous ,  Hao Xu

IPC: H04B1/00 ,  H04B1/403 ,  H04B1/26 ,  H04B1/707 ,  H04B7/24 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Resources for narrowband communication in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band may be configured and allocated based on resource availability, regulatory constraints, and device capability or category. A narrowband wireless device, such as a machine type communication device or other relatively low complexity device, may communicate using one or more narrowband carriers, which may occupy between one tone and multiple resource blocks in an unlicensed spectrum band (e.g., any number of resources between one (1) tone and multiple resource blocks (RBs)). Different device types may thus be configured differently as they move between geographic regions. The base station may then communicate with the narrowband mobile device based on the resource allocation and the carrier configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20190313409A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-10

申请号：US16374593

申请日：2019-04-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Qingjiang Tian ,  Xiaoxia Zhang ,  Jing Sun ,  Kapil Bhattad ,  Srinivas Yerramalli ,  Chih-Hao Liu

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a base station transmitting to a user equipment (UE) a partial bandwidth configuration for uplink transmissions, where the partial bandwidth configuration may indicate a channel interlace and a portion of a channel bandwidth, for example, for autonomous uplink (AUL) transmissions. The base station may also transmit to the UE an AUL configuration including a group identifier. The UE may determine a starting offset with respect to an AUL subframe for a partial bandwidth transmission based on the group identifier. In some cases, different UEs may be grouped into groups of UEs allocated non-overlapping resources, and UEs allocated overlapping resources may have different starting offsets to begin transmitting. According to the determined starting offset, the UE may perform the partial bandwidth transmission over the channel interlace and the portion of the channel bandwidth.