Uplink control information transmission with large number of bits

• US 9,313,779 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2013
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• 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:
  US13/953,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20140029533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/27 for locating or positioning the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0067 Rate matching H04L1/0013 and H04L1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0072 Error control for data other than payload data, e.g. control data
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0659 by isolating or reconfiguring faulty entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0836 to enhance reliability, e.g. reduce downtime
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/306 Route determination based on the nature of the carried application
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 : Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 : Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 : for generating different versions
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 : Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 : using beam steering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 : Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 : Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/1446 : wherein at least one of the networks is unlicensed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 : Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 : based on geographic position or location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/246 : Connectivity information discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/14 : using user query or user detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 : Selecting a network or a communication service
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0209 : in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 : managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 : using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 : where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0258 : controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 : Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 : Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 : Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 : in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 : Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 : Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 : Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 : Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/16 : Involving different core network technologies, e.g. a packet-switched [PS] bearer in combination with a circuit-switched [CS] bearer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 : Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• 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. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate UCI that includes one or more sets of periodic channel state information (p-CSI) that respectively correspond with one or more serving cells or with one or more CSI processes;

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to;

determine a number of encoded bits to convey the UCI;

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

encode the UCI with the encoding scheme for transmission using physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the number of encoded bits is less than 12 bits, the coding scheme is Reed Muller (RM) encoding, and the feedback circuitry comprises:

a (32, O) RM encoder to encode the UCI with RM encoding.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the number of encoded bits is greater than 11 and less than 23, the coding scheme is dual Reed Muller (RM) encoding, and the feedback circuitry comprises:

two (32, O) RM encoders to encode the UCI with dual RM encoding.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the number of encoded bits is greater than 22, the coding scheme is tail biting convolutional encoding (TBCC), and the feedback circuitry comprises:

a TBCC encoder to encode the UCI with TBCC.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the feedback circuitry includes a plurality of transmitters configured to provide a plurality of PUCCH-resource based transmissions using more than one transmit antennae.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the feedback circuitry is to provide spatial orthogonal resource transmit diversity (SORTD).

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more serving cells comprises four or five serving cells.

7. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate UCI that includes one or more sets of periodic channel state information (p-CSI) that respectively correspond with one or more serving cells or with one or more CSI processes;

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to;

determine a number of encoded bits to convey the UCI;

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

encode the UCI with the encoding scheme for transmission using physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3,

wherein the number of encoded bits is greater than 23, the coding scheme is quad Reed Muller (RM) encoding, and the feedback circuitry comprises;

four (32, O) RM encoders to encode the UCI with quad-RM encoding.

8. An apparatus comprising:

uplink control information (UCI) circuitry to generate UCI that includes one or more sets of periodic channel state information (p-CSI) that respectively correspond with one or more serving cells or with one or more CSI processes;

feedback circuitry coupled with the UCI circuitry, the feedback circuitry to;

determine a number of encoded bits to convey the UCI, the number of encoded bits being greater than 22;

select tail biting convolutional encoding (TBCC) as an encoding scheme from a plurality of encoding schemes based on the number of encoded bits; and

encode the UCI with the encoding scheme for transmission using physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3,

wherein the feedback circuitry comprises a TBCC encoder to encode the UCI with TBCC;

includes a plurality of transmitters to provide a plurality of PUCCH-resource based transmissions using more than one transmit antennae; and

is to turn off a frequency hopping function when using TBCC.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a tail-biting convolutional code (TBCC) encoder to receive a plurality of bits that represents periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for one or more serving cells or one or more CSI processes and encode the plurality of bits;

a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulator coupled with the TBCC encoder, the QPSK modulator to modulate the plurality of bits into a plurality of symbols;

a mapper coupled with the QPSK modulator, the mapper to interleave the plurality of symbols on first and second orthogonal physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3 resources for different antennas and slots; and

when the TBCC encoder is in use the frequency hopping function is turned off.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the mapper is to:

map a first set of the plurality of symbols onto a first resource for transmission by a first antenna in a first slot of a subframe;

map a second set of the plurality of symbols onto a second resource for transmission by a second antenna in the first slot of the subframe;

map a third set of the plurality of symbols onto the first resource for transmission by the first antenna in a second slot; and

map a fourth set of the plurality of symbols onto the second resource for transmission by the second antenna in the second slot,

wherein the second set includes symbols that are between symbols of the first set and the third set.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the mapper is to:

map a first set of the plurality of symbols onto a first resource for transmission by a first antenna in a first slot of a subframe;

map a second set of the plurality of symbols onto the first resource for transmission by the first antenna in a second slot of the subframe;

map a third set of the plurality of symbols onto a second resource for transmission by a second antenna in the first slot; and

map a fourth set of the plurality of symbols onto the second resource for transmission by the second antenna in the second slot,

wherein the second set includes symbols that are between symbols of the first set and the third set.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of symbols comprises 48 symbols.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

feedback circuitry that includes the TBCC encoder, the feedback circuitry to determine the plurality of bits is greater than 22 and to provide the plurality of bits to the TBCC encoder based on said determination that the plurality of bits is greater than 22.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a scrambler coupled with the TBCC encoder and the modulator to scramble the plurality of bits,

wherein the QPSK modulator is to modulate the scrambled plurality of bits into the plurality of symbols.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a communication device having the TBCC encoder, a QPSK modulator, and the mapper; and

a plurality of antennas coupled with the communication device.

17. An apparatus comprising:

encoder circuitry having four Reed Muller (RM) encoders to respectively receive four sets of bits that represent periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for one or more serving cells or CSI processes and encode the four sets of bits and wherein the received four sets of bits are greater than 22;

modulator circuitry having four quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulators respectively coupled with the four RM encoders to respectively modulate the four sets of bits into four sets of symbols; and

mapper circuitry having four mappers, wherein a first mapper is coupled with a first QPSK modulator to receive a first set of the four sets of symbols and to map a first subset of the first set of symbols onto a first resource for transmission by a first antenna in a first slot of a subframe;

map a second subset of the first set of symbols onto a second resource for transmission by the first antenna in the first slot of the subframe;

map a third subset of the plurality of symbols onto a second resource for transmission by a second antenna in the second slot; and

map a fourth subset of the plurality of symbols onto the second resource for transmission by the second antenna in the second slot, wherein the first and second resources are orthogonal to one another and are physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3 resources.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

a segmenter coupled with the encoder circuitry, the segmenter to segment a plurality of bits into four sets of bits and provide the four sets of bits to the encoder circuitry.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

feedback circuitry that includes the encoder circuitry, the feedback circuitry to determine the plurality of bits is greater than 22 and to provide the plurality of bits to a TBCC encoder based on said determination that the plurality of bits is greater than 22.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

four discrete Fourier transformers (DFTs) coupled with the four mappers,

wherein each of the four mappers are to provide three symbols to each of the four DFTs.

21. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a communication device to:

generate uplink control information UCI that includes periodic channel state information (p-CSI) for one or more serving cells or CSI processes;

determine an uplink transmit power to transmit the UCI on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on

22. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 21, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the communication device to:

receive a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for delta F that corresponds to an offset associated with transmission of p-CSI on PUSCH; and

determine an uplink transmit power based on the RRC parameter.

23. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 21, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the communication device to:

receive a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for delta F that corresponds to an offset associated with transmission of p-CSI using tailbiting convolutional coding with spatial orthogonal transmit diversity.

24. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 21, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the communication device to:

determine the number of p-CSI bits; and

select a channel encoding scheme based on the number of p-CSI bits.