Latency reduction techniques for LTE transmission in unlicensed spectrum

• US 10,342,044 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2017
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Yerramalli, Srinivas, Chen, Wanshi, Sun, Jing, Gaal, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Qin, Zhiren
• Application Number:
  US15/630,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20180027590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0205 at the air interface dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/569 of the traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0808 using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]

Abstract

Various aspects described herein relate to reducing transmission latency in unlicensed spectrum. These latency reduction techniques include enabling ultra low latency (ULL) traffic to gain fast channel access. These latency reduction techniques further include updating a size of a contention window for channel access. In addition, these latency reduction techniques include enhancing CPDCCH-based signaling to accommodate the ULL frame structure. Further, these latency reduction techniques include providing robust operation against bursty interference for ULL transmissions. Moreover, these techniques include managing DRX for ULL. Additionally, these latency reduction techniques include joint scheduling of different TTI durations. These latency reduction techniques further include updating SRS transmission opportunities. In addition, these latency reduction techniques include reducing latency associated with PRACH transmissions. Further, these latency reduction techniques include reducing ULL transmission delays by either ignoring or cancelling scheduled uplink (e.g., LTE) transmissions.

Claims

1. A method of wireless communication in a wireless communication system including listen-before-talk (LBT) access for transmissions, comprising:

establishing, by a wireless communication device, a dedicated ultra-low latency (ULL) data bearer having LBT access rules for accessing at least a portion of an unlicensed frequency spectrum served by the wireless communication system, wherein the LBT access rules allow channel access with a faster access priority than control and signal traffic;

receiving, at the wireless communication device, ULL data for transmission;

mapping, by the wireless communication device, the ULL data for transmission to the dedicated ULL data bearer based at least on the LBT access rules; and

performing, by the wireless communication device, channel selection in the portion of the unlicensed frequency spectrum using the LBT access rules to identify a channel to use for transmission.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the wireless communication device, the ULL data on the dedicated ULL data bearer over the channel.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the mapping the ULL data further comprises mapping the ULL data to at least an LBT priority class 1 data bearer.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein establishing the dedicated data bearer further comprises establishing a dedicated ULL data bearer to at least an LBT priority class 1dedicated ULL data bearer.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein establishing the dedicated data bearer further comprises establishing the dedicated data bearer having the LBT access rules that allow channel access to the ULL data bearer with only a single defer period.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

refraining, by the wireless communication device, from accessing the dedicated ULL data bearer for a contention window that is longer than a length of a contention window for the previous transmission of ULL data in response to the transmission of the ULL data on the dedicated ULL data bearer over the channel with the faster access priority than control and signal traffic.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving, by the wireless communication device, a first slot of a downlink subframe including downlink ULL data; and

initiating, by the wireless communication device, a discontinuous reception (DRX) ON period having a periodicity of less than or equal to one slot at the end of the first slot.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein initiating the DRX ON period comprises initiating with a periodicity of 1 symbol, 2 symbols or 1 slot.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the wireless communication device is a user equipment or a base station.

10. An apparatus for wireless communications using listen-before-talk (LBT) access for transmissions, comprising:

a transceiver for communicating one or more wireless signals via one or more antennas;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to;

establish a dedicated ultra-low latency (ULL) data bearer having LBT access rules for accessing at least a portion of an unlicensed frequency spectrum served by the wireless communication system, wherein the LBT access rules allow channel access with a faster access priority than control and signal traffic;

receive ULL data for transmission;

map the ULL data for transmission to the dedicated ULL data bearer based at least on the LBT access rules; and

perform channel selection in the portion of the unlicensed frequency spectrum using the LBT access rules to identify a channel to use for transmission.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive data for transmission is further configured to execute the instructions to transmit the ULL data on the dedicated ULL data bearer over the channel.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the map the ULL data further comprises mapping the ULL data to at least an LBT priority class 1 data bearer.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the establish the dedicated data bearer further comprises establishing a dedicated ULL data bearer to at least an LBT priority class 1dedicated ULL data bearer.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the establish the dedicated data bearer further comprises establishing the dedicated data bearer having the LBT access rules that allow channel access to the ULL data bearer with only a single defer period.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive data for transmission is further configured to execute the instructions to refrain from accessing the dedicated ULL data bearer for a contention window that is longer than a length of a contention window for the previous transmission of ULL data in response to the transmission of the ULL data on the dedicated ULL data bearer over the channel with the faster access priority than control and signal traffic.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive data for transmission is further configured to execute the instructions to:

receive a first slot of a downlink subframe including downlink ULL data; and

initiate a discontinuous reception (DRX) ON period having a periodicity of less than or equal to one slot at the end of the first slot.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein initiating the DRX ON period comprises initiating with a periodicity of 1 symbol, 2 symbols or 1 slot.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for wireless communications at a wireless communication device using listen-before-talk (LBT) access for transmissions, the code comprising:

code for establishing, by the wireless communication device, a dedicated ultra-low latency (ULL) data bearer having LBT access rules for accessing at least a portion of an unlicensed frequency spectrum served by the wireless communication system, wherein the LBT access rules allow channel access with a faster access priority than control and signal traffic;

code for receiving, at the wireless communication device, ULL data for transmission;

code for mapping, by the wireless communication device, the ULL data for transmission to the dedicated ULL data bearer based at least on the LBT access rules; and

code for performing, by the wireless communication device, channel selection in the portion of the unlicensed frequency spectrum using the LBT access rules to identify a channel to use for transmission.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising code for transmitting, by the wireless communication device, the ULL data on the dedicated ULL data bearer over the channel.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the code for mapping the ULL data further comprises code for mapping the ULL data to at least an LBT priority class 1 data bearer.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the code for establishing the dedicated data bearer further comprises code for establishing a dedicated ULL data bearer to at least an LBT priority class 1 dedicated ULL data bearer.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the code for establishing the dedicated data bearer further comprises code for establishing the dedicated data bearer having the LBT access rules that allow channel access to the ULL data bearer with only a single defer period.