Uplink control information transmission with large number of bits

• US 10,455,555 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Han, Seunghee, He, Hong, Bashar, Shafi, Fwu, Jong-Kae, Zhu, Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Mered, Habte
• Application Number:
  US15/061,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20160192352A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/27 for locating or positioning the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25825 : involving client display capabilities, e.g. screen resolution of a mobile phone optimising the visualisation of content during browsing in the Internet G06F16/9577; processing of terminal status or physical abilities in wireless networks H04W8/22; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 : Network planning tools
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/00 : Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes gain control in transmitters or power amplifiers H03G3/3042
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 : in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
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• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for transmitting periodic channel state information having large payload sizes. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media comprising instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors is to cause a user equipment (UE) to:

generate uplink control information (UCI) to include one or more of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) information, scheduling request (SR) information, and/or periodic channel state information (pCSI), the UCI to correspond with one or more serving cells;

determine, based on a number of the one or more serving cells, a number of bits to encode for inclusion in the UCI;

select an encoding scheme from a plurality of encoding schemes based on the determined number of bits; and

encode, for transmission over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) using a PUCCH format, the number of bits according to the selected encoding scheme, wherein, to encode the number of bits, execution of the instructions by the one or more processors is to cause the UE to;

encode the number of bits according to the selected encoding scheme using PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is less than or equal to 22 bits; and

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme using a PUCCH format with a UCI capacity that is larger than a UCI capacity of PUCCH format 1/1a/1b, PUCCH format 2/2a/2b, and PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions is to cause the UE to:

select a Reed-Muller (RM) encoding scheme of the plurality of encoding schemes when the number of bits including pCSI bits is less than or equal to 11 bits; and

encode the UCI with RM encoding using a (32,

     0) RM encoder.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1,

wherein execution of the instructions is to cause the UE to:

select a dual RM encoding scheme of the plurality of encoding schemes when the number of bits including pCSI bits is greater than 11 bits and less than or equal to 22 bits; and

encode the UCI with dual RM encoding using two (32,

     0) RM encoders.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1,

wherein execution of the instructions is to cause the UE to:

select a tail biting convolutional coding (TBCC) encoding scheme of the plurality of encoding schemes when the number of bits including pCSI bits is greater than 22 bits; and

encode the UCI with TBCC using a TBCC encoder.

5. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more serving cells comprises no more than five serving cells.

6. An apparatus to be implemented in a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

processor circuitry coupled with a memory, the processor circuitry to implement uplink control information (UCI) logic to generate UCI that includes hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) information, scheduling request (SR) information, and/or periodic channel state information that corresponds with one or more serving cells;

the processor circuity to implement feedback logic to;

determine a number of bits to encode for inclusion in the UCI,

select an encoding scheme from a plurality of encoding schemes based on the

number of bits and a number of the one or more serving cells,

encode the number of bits, for transmission over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) using a PUCCH format, according to the encoding scheme, wherein, to encode the number of bits, the feedback logic is to;

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme using PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is less than or equal to 22 bits, and

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme using a PUCCH format with a UCI capacity that is larger than a UCI capacity of PUCCH format 1/1a/1b, PUCCH format 2/2a/2b, and PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits; and

transmission circuitry coupled with the processor circuitry, the transmission circuitry to transmit the encoded number of bits on the PUCCH based on the selected PUCCH format.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein, to select the encoding scheme, the processor circuitry is to implement the feedback logic to:

select a Reed-Muller (RM) encoding scheme when the number of bits is less than or equal to 11 bits;

select a dual RM encoding scheme when the number of bits is greater than 11 bits and less than or equal to 22 bits; and

select a tail biting convolutional coding (TBCC) encoding scheme when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein, to encode the number of bits, the processor circuitry is to implement the feedback logic to:

encode the UCI with RM encoding using a (32,

     0) RM encoder when the number of bits is less than or equal to 11 bits;

encode the UCI with dual RM encoding using two (32,

     0) RM encoders when the number of bits is greater than 11 bits and less than or equal to 22 bits; and

encode the UCI with TBCC using a TBCC encoder when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the periodic channel state information includes a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), and a precoding type indicator (PTI).

10. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media comprising instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors is to cause a communication device to:

generate uplink control information (UCI) to include a combination of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) information, scheduling request (SR) information, and/or periodic channel state information (p-CSI) that corresponds with one or more serving cells, wherein the p-CSI includes channel quality indicator (CQI) and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI);

determine a number of UCI bits to encode for inclusion in the UCI, the number of UCI bits including at least a number of HARQ-ACK bits and a number of p-CSI bits;

select an encoding scheme from a plurality of encoding schemes based on the number of UCI bits and a number of the one or more serving cells;

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme for transmission using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format, wherein, to encode the number of bits, execution of the instructions is to cause the communication device to;

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme using PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is less than or equal to 22 bits, and

encode the number of bits according to the encoding scheme using a PUCCH format with a UCI capacity that is larger than a UCI capacity of PUCCH format 1/1a/1b, PUCCH format 2/2a/2b, and PUCCH format 3 when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits; and

control transmission of the encoded number of bits over the PUCCH according to the PUCCH format.

11. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein the one or more serving cells comprises no more than five serving cells.

12. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 10, wherein, to select the encoding scheme, execution of the instructions is to cause the communication device to:

select a Reed Muller (RM) encoding scheme when the number of bits is less than or equal to 11 bits;

select a dual Reed Muller (RM) encoding scheme when the number of bits is greater than 11 bits and less than or equal to 22 bits; and

select a tail biting convolutional coding (TBCC) encoding scheme when the number of bits is greater than 22 bits.