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WO2020022766A1
WO2020022766A1 PCT/KR2019/009150 KR2019009150W WO2020022766A1 WO 2020022766 A1 WO2020022766 A1 WO 2020022766A1 KR 2019009150 W KR2019009150 W KR 2019009150W WO 2020022766 A1 WO2020022766 A1 WO 2020022766A1
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  • the present invention relates to a wireless communication system.
  • Various types of signals including data signals and control signals, are communicated via the UL and DL. Scheduling of such communications is typically performed, to achieve improved efficiency, latency, and/or reliability. Overcoming delay or latency has become an important challenge in applications whose performance critically depends on delay/latency.
  • a method for transmitting an uplink (UL) data by a first node in a wireless communication system comprises: transmitting time information regarding a time T for a first UL resource to a second node; and transmitting first data based on the first UL resource to the second node.
  • the first UL resource is available on or after the time T.
  • a device for a first node transmitting an uplink (UL) data in a wireless communication system comprises: at least one processor; and at least one computer memory.
  • the at least one computer memory is operably connectable to the at least one processor and that has stored thereon instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: transmitting, through a transceiver of the first node, time information regarding a time T for a first UL resource to a second node; and transmitting, through the transceiver, first data based on the first UL resource to the second node.
  • the first UL resource is available on or after the time T
  • the method or operations may further comprise: transmitting a first UL resource request for the first UL resource.
  • the method or operations may further comprise: receiving a second UL resource request from a third node; transmitting information regarding a second UL resource to the third node; and receiving second data based on the second UL resource from the third node, wherein the first data includes the second data.
  • the first UL resource request may be a buffer status report.
  • the method or operations may further comprise receiving, from the second node, scheduling information for allocating the first UL resource to the first node.
  • the time information may include information indicating the time T on or after which the UL resource requested by the first UL resource request is to be used for UL transmission by the first node to the second node.
  • the time information may include information regarding a time offset N between a time when the first node transmits the time information and the time T.
  • the first UL resource request may include information regarding a buffer size for a logical channel group (LCG).
  • the time information may include information regarding when data belonging to the LCG is available for transmission at the first node or when the UL resource is needed for transmission of data belonging to the LCG.
  • the first node or the child node of the first node may be an autonomous vehicle that communicates with at least a mobile terminal, a network, and another autonomous vehicle other than that node.
  • implementations of the present disclosure may provide one or more of the following advantages.
  • radio communication signals can be more efficiently transmitted and/or received. Therefore, overall throughput of a radio communication system can be improved.
  • delay/latency occurring during communication between a user equipment and a BS may be reduced.
  • signals in a new radio access technology system can be transmitted and/or received more effectively.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a communication system 1 to which implementations of the present disclosure is applied;
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating examples of communication devices which can perform a method according to the present disclosure
  • FIG. 3 illustrates another example of a wireless device which can perform implementations of the present invention
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example of protocol stacks in a third generation partnership project (3GPP) based wireless communication system
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a frame structure in a 3GPP based wireless communication system
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a data flow example in the 3GPP new radio (NR) system
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a reference diagram for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) architectures
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example of UL scheduling in IAB scenarios
  • FIG. 9 illustrates another example of UL scheduling in IAB scenarios
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a problem that can occur in UL scheduling with pre-BSR
  • FIG. 11 illustrates examples of formats for time information of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a data transmission according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 13 illustrates an example of a flow diagram for UL transmission according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • CDMA code division multiple access
  • FDMA frequency division multiple access
  • TDMA time division multiple access
  • OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
  • SC-FDMA single carrier frequency division multiple access
  • MC-FDMA multicarrier frequency division multiple access
  • CDMA may be embodied through radio technology such as universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) or CDMA2000.
  • TDMA may be embodied through radio technology such as global system for mobile communications (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS), or enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE).
  • GSM global system for mobile communications
  • GPRS general packet radio service
  • EDGE enhanced data rates for GSM evolution
  • OFDMA may be embodied through radio technology such as institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, or evolved UTRA (E-UTRA).
  • IEEE institute of electrical and electronics engineers
  • Wi-Fi Wi-Fi
  • WiMAX IEEE 802.16
  • E-UTRA evolved UTRA
  • UTRA is a part of a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS).
  • 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) is a part of evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using E-UTRA.
  • 3GPP LTE employs OFDMA in DL and SC-FDMA in UL.
  • LTE-advanced (LTE-A) is an evolved version of 3GPP LTE.
  • implementations of the present disclosure are mainly described in regards to a 3GPP based wireless communication system.
  • the technical features of the present disclosure are not limited thereto.
  • the following detailed description is given based on a mobile communication system corresponding to a 3GPP based wireless communication system, aspects of the present disclosure that are not limited to 3GPP based wireless communication system are applicable to other mobile communication systems.
  • UE User Equipment
  • PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • 3GPP NR e.g. 5G
  • UE User Equipment
  • PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • SDAP Service Data Adaptation Protocol
  • a user equipment may be a fixed or mobile device.
  • the UE include various devices that transmit and receive user data and/or various kinds of control information to and from a base station (BS).
  • a BS generally refers to a fixed station that performs communication with a UE and/or another BS, and exchanges various kinds of data and control information with the UE and another BS.
  • the BS may be referred to as an advanced base station (ABS), a node-B (NB), an evolved node-B (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS), an access point (AP), a processing server (PS), etc.
  • ABS advanced base station
  • NB node-B
  • eNB evolved node-B
  • BTS base transceiver system
  • AP access point
  • PS processing server
  • a BS of the UMTS is referred to as a NB
  • a BS of the enhanced packet core (EPC) / long term evolution (LTE) system is referred to as an eNB
  • a BS of the new radio (NR) system is referred to as a gNB.
  • a node refers to a point capable of transmitting/receiving a radio signal through communication with a UE.
  • Various types of BSs may be used as nodes irrespective of the terms thereof.
  • a BS, a node B (NB), an e-node B (eNB), a pico-cell eNB (PeNB), a home eNB (HeNB), a relay, a repeater, etc. may be a node.
  • the node may not be a BS.
  • the node may be a radio remote head (RRH) or a radio remote unit (RRU).
  • the RRH or RRU generally has a lower power level than a power level of a BS.
  • RRH/RRU Since the RRH or RRU (hereinafter, RRH/RRU) is generally connected to the BS through a dedicated line such as an optical cable, cooperative communication between RRH/RRU and the BS can be smoothly performed in comparison with cooperative communication between BSs connected by a radio line.
  • At least one antenna is installed per node.
  • the antenna may include a physical antenna or an antenna port or a virtual antenna.
  • the term "cell” may refer to a geographic area to which one or more nodes provide a communication system, or refer to radio resources.
  • a “cell” of a geographic area may be understood as coverage within which a node can provide service using a carrier and a "cell” as radio resources (e.g. time-frequency resources) is associated with bandwidth (BW) which is a frequency range configured by the carrier.
  • the "cell” associated with the radio resources is defined by a combination of downlink resources and uplink resources, for example, a combination of a downlink (DL) component carrier (CC) and an uplink (UL) CC.
  • the cell may be configured by downlink resources only, or may be configured by downlink resources and uplink resources.
  • the coverage of the node may be associated with coverage of the "cell" of radio resources used by the node. Accordingly, the term "cell" may be used to represent service coverage of the node sometimes, radio resources at other times, or a range that signals using the radio resources can reach with valid strength at other times.
  • a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) refer to a set of time-frequency resources or resource elements (REs) carrying downlink control information (DCI), and a set of time-frequency resources or REs carrying downlink data, respectively.
  • a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical random access channel (PRACH) refer to a set of time-frequency resources or REs carrying uplink control information (UCI), a set of time-frequency resources or REs carrying uplink data and a set of time-frequency resources or REs carrying random access signals, respectively.
  • CA carrier aggregation
  • a UE may simultaneously receive or transmit on one or multiple CCs depending on its capabilities.
  • CA is supported for both contiguous and non-contiguous CCs.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • one serving cell provides the non-access stratum (NAS) mobility information
  • NAS non-access stratum
  • RRC connection re-establishment/handover one serving cell provides the security input.
  • This cell is referred to as the Primary Cell (PCell).
  • the PCell is a cell, operating on the primary frequency, in which the UE either performs the initial connection establishment procedure or initiates the connection re-establishment procedure.
  • SCells can be configured to form together with the PCell a set of serving cells.
  • An SCell is a cell providing additional radio resources on top of Special Cell.
  • the configured set of serving cells for a UE therefore always consists of one PCell and one or more SCells.
  • special Cell refers to the PCell of the master cell group (MCG) or the PSCell of the secondary cell group (SCG), and otherwise the term Special Cell refers to the PCell.
  • MCG master cell group
  • SCG secondary cell group
  • An SpCell supports physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission and contention-based random access, and is always activated.
  • PUCCH physical uplink control channel
  • the MCG is a group of serving cells associated with a master node, comprising of the SpCell (PCell) and optionally one or more SCells.
  • the SCG is the subset of serving cells associated with a secondary node, comprising of the PSCell and zero or more SCells, for a UE configured with DC.
  • serving cells is used to denote the set of cells comprising of the SpCell(s) and all SCells.
  • the MCG is a group of serving cells associated with a master BS which terminates at least S1-MME
  • the SCG is a group of serving cells associated with a secondary BS that is providing additional radio resources for the UE but is not the master BS.
  • the SCG includes a primary SCell (PSCell) and optionally one or more SCells.
  • PSCell primary SCell
  • two MAC entities are configured in the UE: one for the MCG and one for the SCG.
  • Each MAC entity is configured by RRC with a serving cell supporting PUCCH transmission and contention based Random Access.
  • the term SpCell refers to such cell
  • SCell refers to other serving cells.
  • the term SpCell either refers to the PCell of the MCG or the PSCell of the SCG depending on if the MAC entity is associated to the MCG or the SCG, respectively.
  • monitoring a channel refers to attempting to decode the channel.
  • monitoring a physical downlink control channel refers to attempting to decode PDCCH(s) (or PDCCH candidates).
  • C-RNTI refers to a cell RNTI
  • SI-RNTI refers to a system information RNTI
  • P-RNTI refers to a paging RNTI
  • RA-RNTI refers to a random access RNTI
  • SC-RNTI refers to a single cell RNTI
  • SPS C-RNTI refers to a semi-persistent scheduling C-RNTI
  • CS-RNTI refers to a configured scheduling RNTI.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a communication system 1 to which implementations of the present disclosure is applied.
  • Three main requirement categories for 5G include (1) a category of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), (2) a category of massive machine type communication (mMTC), and (3) a category of ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC).
  • eMBB enhanced mobile broadband
  • mMTC massive machine type communication
  • URLLC ultra-reliable and low latency communications
  • Partial use cases may require a plurality of categories for optimization and other use cases may focus only upon one key performance indicator (KPI).
  • KPI key performance indicator
  • eMBB far surpasses basic mobile Internet access and covers abundant bidirectional work and media and entertainment applications in cloud and augmented reality.
  • Data is one of 5G core motive forces and, in a 5G era, a dedicated voice service may not be provided for the first time.
  • voice will be simply processed as an application program using data connection provided by a communication system.
  • Main causes for increased traffic volume are due to an increase in the size of content and an increase in the number of applications requiring high data transmission rate.
  • a streaming service (of audio and video), conversational video, and mobile Internet access will be more widely used as more devices are connected to the Internet.
  • Cloud storage and applications are rapidly increasing in a mobile communication platform and may be applied to both work and entertainment.
  • the cloud storage is a special use case which accelerates growth of uplink data transmission rate.
  • 5G is also used for remote work of cloud. When a tactile interface is used, 5G demands much lower end-to-end latency to maintain user good experience.
  • Entertainment for example, cloud gaming and video streaming, is another core element which increases demand for mobile broadband capability. Entertainment is essential for a smartphone and a tablet in any place including high mobility environments such as a train, a vehicle, and an airplane.
  • Other use cases are augmented reality for entertainment and information search. In this case, the augmented reality requires very low latency and instantaneous data volume.
  • one of the most expected 5G use cases relates a function capable of smoothly connecting embedded sensors in all fields, i.e., mMTC. It is expected that the number of potential IoT devices will reach 204 hundred million up to the year of 2020.
  • An industrial IoT is one of categories of performing a main role enabling a smart city, asset tracking, smart utility, agriculture, and security infrastructure through 5G.
  • URLLC includes a new service that will change industry through remote control of main infrastructure and an ultra-reliable/available low-latency link such as a self-driving vehicle.
  • a level of reliability and latency is essential to control a smart grid, automatize industry, achieve robotics, and control and adjust a drone.
  • 5G is a means of providing streaming evaluated as a few hundred megabits per second to gigabits per second and may complement fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and cable-based broadband (or DOCSIS). Such fast speed is needed to deliver TV in resolution of 4K or more (6K, 8K, and more), as well as virtual reality and augmented reality.
  • Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications include almost immersive sports games.
  • a specific application program may require a special network configuration. For example, for VR games, gaming companies need to incorporate a core server into an edge network server of a network operator in order to minimize latency.
  • Automotive is expected to be a new important motivated force in 5G together with many use cases for mobile communication for vehicles. For example, entertainment for passengers requires high simultaneous capacity and mobile broadband with high mobility. This is because future users continue to expect connection of high quality regardless of their locations and speeds.
  • Another use case of an automotive field is an AR dashboard.
  • the AR dashboard causes a driver to identify an object in the dark in addition to an object seen from a front window and displays a distance from the object and a movement of the object by overlapping information talking to the driver.
  • a wireless module enables communication between vehicles, information exchange between a vehicle and supporting infrastructure, and information exchange between a vehicle and other connected devices (e.g., devices accompanied by a pedestrian).
  • a safety system guides alternative courses of a behavior so that a driver may drive more safely drive, thereby lowering the danger of an accident.
  • the next stage will be a remotely controlled or self-driven vehicle. This requires very high reliability and very fast communication between different self-driven vehicles and between a vehicle and infrastructure. In the future, a self-driven vehicle will perform all driving activities and a driver will focus only upon abnormal traffic that the vehicle cannot identify.
  • Technical requirements of a self-driven vehicle demand ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability so that traffic safety is increased to a level that cannot be achieved by human being.
  • a smart city and a smart home/building mentioned as a smart society will be embedded in a high-density wireless sensor network.
  • a distributed network of an intelligent sensor will identify conditions for costs and energy-efficient maintenance of a city or a home. Similar configurations may be performed for respective households. All of temperature sensors, window and heating controllers, burglar alarms, and home appliances are wirelessly connected. Many of these sensors are typically low in data transmission rate, power, and cost. However, real-time HD video may be demanded by a specific type of device to perform monitoring.
  • the smart grid collects information and connects the sensors to each other using digital information and communication technology so as to act according to the collected information. Since this information may include behaviors of a supply company and a consumer, the smart grid may improve distribution of fuels such as electricity by a method having efficiency, reliability, economic feasibility, production sustainability, and automation.
  • the smart grid may also be regarded as another sensor network having low latency.
  • Mission critical application is one of 5G use scenarios.
  • a health part contains many application programs capable of enjoying benefit of mobile communication.
  • a communication system may support remote treatment that provides clinical treatment in a faraway place. Remote treatment may aid in reducing a barrier against distance and improve access to medical services that cannot be continuously available in a faraway rural area. Remote treatment is also used to perform important treatment and save lives in an emergency situation.
  • the wireless sensor network based on mobile communication may provide remote monitoring and sensors for parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure.
  • Wireless and mobile communication gradually becomes important in the field of an industrial application.
  • Wiring is high in installation and maintenance cost. Therefore, a possibility of replacing a cable with reconstructible wireless links is an attractive opportunity in many industrial fields.
  • it is necessary for wireless connection to be established with latency, reliability, and capacity similar to those of the cable and management of wireless connection needs to be simplified. Low latency and a very low error probability are new requirements when connection to 5G is needed.
  • Logistics and freight tracking are important use cases for mobile communication that enables inventory and package tracking anywhere using a location-based information system.
  • the use cases of logistics and freight typically demand low data rate but require location information with a wide range and reliability.
  • the communication system 1 includes wireless devices, base stations (BSs), and a network.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a 5G network as an example of the network of the communication system 1, the implementations of the present disclosure are not limited to the 5G system, and can be applied to the future communication system beyond the 5G system.
  • the BSs and the network may be implemented as wireless devices and a specific wireless device 200a may operate as a BS/network node with respect to other wireless devices.
  • the wireless devices represent devices performing communication using radio access technology (RAT) (e.g., 5G New RAT (NR)) or Long-Term Evolution (LTE)) and may be referred to as communication/radio/5G devices.
  • RAT radio access technology
  • the wireless devices may include, without being limited to, a robot 100a, vehicles 100b-1 and 100b-2, an eXtended Reality (XR) device 100c, a hand-held device 100d, a home appliance 100e, an Internet of Things (IoT) device 100f, and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) device/server 400.
  • the vehicles may include a vehicle having a wireless communication function, an autonomous driving vehicle, and a vehicle capable of performing communication between vehicles.
  • the vehicles may include an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (e.g., a drone).
  • UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  • the XR device may include an Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR)/Mixed Reality (MR) device and may be implemented in the form of a Head-Mounted Device (HMD), a Head-Up Display (HUD) mounted in a vehicle, a television, a smartphone, a computer, a wearable device, a home appliance device, a digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, etc.
  • the hand-held device may include a smartphone, a smartpad, a wearable device (e.g., a smartwatch or a smartglasses), and a computer (e.g., a notebook).
  • the home appliance may include a TV, a refrigerator, and a washing machine.
  • the IoT device may include a sensor and a smartmeter.
  • the wireless devices 100a to 100f may be called user equipments (UEs).
  • a user equipment (UE) may include, for example, a cellular phone, a smartphone, a laptop computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a navigation system, a slate personal computer (PC), a tablet PC, an ultrabook, a vehicle, a vehicle having an autonomous traveling function, a connected car, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an artificial intelligence (AI) module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a mixed reality (MR) device, a hologram device, a public safety device, an MTC device, an IoT device, a medical device, a FinTech device (or a financial device), a security device, a weather/environment device, a device related to a 5G service, or a device related to a fourth industrial revolution field.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • PMP portable multimedia player
  • PC
  • the unmanned aerial vehicle may be, for example, an aircraft aviated by a wireless control signal without a human being onboard.
  • the VR device may include, for example, a device for implementing an object or a background of the virtual world.
  • the AR device may include, for example, a device implemented by connecting an object or a background of the virtual world to an object or a background of the real world.
  • the MR device may include, for example, a device implemented by merging an object or a background of the virtual world into an object or a background of the real world.
  • the hologram device may include, for example, a device for implementing a stereoscopic image of 360 degrees by recording and reproducing stereoscopic information, using an interference phenomenon of light generated when two laser lights called holography meet.
  • the public safety device may include, for example, an image relay device or an image device that is wearable on the body of a user.
  • the MTC device and the IoT device may be, for example, devices that do not require direct human intervention or manipulation.
  • the MTC device and the IoT device may include smartmeters, vending machines, thermometers, smartbulbs, door locks, or various sensors.
  • the medical device may be, for example, a device used for the purpose of diagnosing, treating, relieving, curing, or preventing disease.
  • the medical device may be a device used for the purpose of diagnosing, treating, relieving, or correcting injury or impairment.
  • the medical device may be a device used for the purpose of inspecting, replacing, or modifying a structure or a function.
  • the medical device may be a device used for the purpose of adjusting pregnancy.
  • the medical device may include a device for treatment, a device for operation, a device for (in vitro) diagnosis, a hearing aid, or a device for procedure.
  • the security device may be, for example, a device installed to prevent a danger that may arise and to maintain safety.
  • the security device may be a camera, a CCTV, a recorder, or a black box.
  • the FinTech device may be, for example, a device capable of providing a financial service such as mobile payment.
  • the FinTech device may include a payment device or a point of sales (POS) system.
  • the weather/environment device may include, for example, a device for monitoring or predicting a weather/environment.
  • the wireless devices 100a to 100f may be connected to the network 300 via the BSs 200.
  • An AI technology may be applied to the wireless devices 100a to 100f and the wireless devices 100a to 100f may be connected to the AI server 400 via the network 300.
  • the network 300 may be configured using a 3G network, a 4G (e.g., LTE) network, a 5G (e.g., NR) network, and a beyond-5G network.
  • the wireless devices 100a to 100f may communicate with each other through the BSs 200/network 300, the wireless devices 100a to 100f may perform direct communication (e.g., sidelink communication) with each other without passing through the BSs/network.
  • the vehicles 100b-1 and 100b-2 may perform direct communication (e.g.
  • V2V Vehicle-to-Vehicle
  • V2X Vehicle-to-everything
  • Wireless communication/connections 150a and 150b may be established between the wireless devices 100a to 100f/BS 200-BS 200.
  • the wireless communication/connections may be established through various RATs (e.g., 5G NR) such as uplink/downlink communication 150a and sidelink communication 150b (or D2D communication).
  • the wireless devices and the BSs/the wireless devices may transmit/receive radio signals to/from each other through the wireless communication/connections 150a and 150b.
  • the wireless communication/connections 150a and 150b may transmit/receive signals through various physical channels.
  • various configuration information configuring processes various signal processing processes (e.g., channel encoding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, and resource mapping/demapping), and resource allocating processes, for transmitting/receiving radio signals, may be performed based on the various proposals of the present disclosure.
  • various signal processing processes e.g., channel encoding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, and resource mapping/demapping
  • resource allocating processes for transmitting/receiving radio signals
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating examples of communication devices which can perform a method according to the present disclosure.
  • a first wireless device 100 and a second wireless device 200 may transmit/receive radio signals to/from an external device through a variety of RATs (e.g., LTE and NR).
  • RATs e.g., LTE and NR
  • ⁇ the first wireless device 100 and the second wireless device 200 ⁇ may correspond to ⁇ the wireless device 100a to 100f and the BS 200 ⁇ and/or ⁇ the wireless device 100a to 100f and the wireless device 100a to 100f ⁇ of FIG. 1.
  • the first wireless device 100 may include one or more processors 102 and one or more memories 104 and additionally further include one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more antennas 108.
  • the processor(s) 102 may control the memory(s) 104 and/or the transceiver(s) 106 and may be configured to implement the functions, procedures, and/or methods described in the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 102 may process information within the memory(s) 104 to generate first information/signals and then transmit radio signals including the first information/signals through the transceiver(s) 106.
  • the processor(s) 102 may receive radio signals including second information/signals through the transceiver 106 and then store information obtained by processing the second information/signals in the memory(s) 104.
  • the memory(s) 104 may be connected to the processor(s) 102 and may store a variety of information related to operations of the processor(s) 102.
  • the memory(s) 104 may store software code including commands for performing a part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 102 or for performing the procedures and/or methods described in the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 102 and the memory(s) 104 may be a part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE or NR).
  • RAT e.g., LTE or NR
  • the transceiver(s) 106 may be connected to the processor(s) 102 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 108. Each of the transceiver(s) 106 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver(s) 106 may be interchangeably used with radio frequency (RF) unit(s). In the present invention, the wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the second wireless device 200 may include one or more processors 202 and one or more memories 204 and additionally further include one or more transceivers 206 and/or one or more antennas 208.
  • the processor(s) 202 may control the memory(s) 204 and/or the transceiver(s) 206 and may be configured to implement the functions, procedures, and/or methods described in the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 202 may process information within the memory(s) 204 to generate third information/signals and then transmit radio signals including the third information/signals through the transceiver(s) 206.
  • the processor(s) 202 may receive radio signals including fourth information/signals through the transceiver(s) 106 and then store information obtained by processing the fourth information/signals in the memory(s) 204.
  • the memory(s) 204 may be connected to the processor(s) 202 and may store a variety of information related to operations of the processor(s) 202.
  • the memory(s) 204 may store software code including commands for performing a part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 202 or for performing the procedures and/or methods described in the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 202 and the memory(s) 204 may be a part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE or NR).
  • RAT e.g., LTE or NR
  • the transceiver(s) 206 may be connected to the processor(s) 202 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 208. Each of the transceiver(s) 206 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver(s) 206 may be interchangeably used with RF unit(s). In the present invention, the wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.
  • One or more protocol layers may be implemented by, without being limited to, one or more processors 102 and 202.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may implement one or more layers (e.g., functional layers such as PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, and SDAP).
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate one or more Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and/or one or more Service Data Unit (SDUs) according to the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure.
  • PDUs Protocol Data Units
  • SDUs Service Data Unit
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate messages, control information, data, or information according to the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate signals (e.g., baseband signals) including PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure and provide the generated signals to the one or more transceivers 106 and 206.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may receive the signals (e.g., baseband signals) from the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and acquire the PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure.
  • signals e.g., baseband signals
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may be referred to as controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or microcomputers.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof.
  • ASICs Application Specific Integrated Circuits
  • DSPs Digital Signal Processors
  • DSPDs Digital Signal Processing Devices
  • PLDs Programmable Logic Devices
  • FPGAs Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure may be implemented using firmware or software and the firmware or software may be configured to include the modules, procedures, or functions.
  • Firmware or software configured to perform the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure may be included in the one or more processors 102 and 202 or stored in the one or more memories 104 and 204 so as to be driven by the one or more processors 102 and 202.
  • the functions, procedures, proposals, and/or methods disclosed in the present disclosure may be implemented using firmware or software in the form of code, commands, and/or a set of commands.
  • the one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and store various types of data, signals, messages, information, programs, code, instructions, and/or commands.
  • the one or more memories 104 and 204 may be configured by Read-Only Memories (ROMs), Random Access Memories (RAMs), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs), flash memories, hard drives, registers, cash memories, computer-readable storage media, and/or combinations thereof.
  • the one or more memories 104 and 204 may be located at the interior and/or exterior of the one or more processors 102 and 202.
  • the one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 through various technologies such as wired or wireless connection.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the methods and/or operational flowcharts of the present disclosure, to one or more other devices.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in the present disclosure, from one or more other devices.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and transmit and receive radio signals.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform control so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, or radio signals to one or more other devices.
  • the one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform control so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, or radio signals from one or more other devices.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to the one or more antennas 108 and 208 and the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be configured to transmit and receive user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in the present disclosure, through the one or more antennas 108 and 208.
  • the one or more antennas may be a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality of logical antennas (e.g., antenna ports).
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert received radio signals/channels etc.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert the user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc. processed using the one or more processors 102 and 202 from the base band signals into the RF band signals.
  • the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may include (analog) oscillators and/or filters.
  • the transceivers 106 and 206 can up-convert OFDM baseband signals to a carrier frequency by their (analog) oscillators and/or filters under the control of the processors 102 and 202 and transmit the up-converted OFDM signals at the carrier frequency.
  • the transceivers 106 and 206 may receive OFDM signals at a carrier frequency and down-convert the OFDM signals into OFDM baseband signals by their (analog) oscillators and/or filters under the control of the transceivers 102 and 202.
  • a UE may operate as a transmitting device in uplink (UL) and as a receiving device in downlink (DL).
  • a BS may operate as a receiving device in UL and as a transmitting device in DL.
  • the processor(s) 102 connected to, mounted on or launched in the first wireless device 100 may be configured to perform the UE behaviour according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 106 to perform the UE behaviour according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 202 connected to, mounted on or launched in the second wireless device 200 may be configured to perform the BS behaviour according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 206 to perform the BS behaviour according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates another example of a wireless device which can perform implementations of the present invention.
  • the wireless device may be implemented in various forms according to a use-case/service (refer to FIG. 1).
  • wireless devices 100 and 200 may correspond to the wireless devices 100 and 200 of FIG. 2 and may be configured by various elements, components, units/portions, and/or modules.
  • each of the wireless devices 100 and 200 may include a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, and additional components 140.
  • the communication unit may include a communication circuit 112 and transceiver(s) 114.
  • the communication circuit 112 may include the one or more processors 102 and 202 of FIG. 2 and/or the one or more memories 104 and 204 of FIG. 2.
  • the transceiver(s) 114 may include the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 of FIG.
  • the control unit 120 is electrically connected to the communication unit 110, the memory 130, and the additional components 140 and controls overall operation of the wireless devices. For example, the control unit 120 may control an electric/mechanical operation of the wireless device based on programs/code/commands/information stored in the memory unit 130.
  • the control unit 120 may transmit the information stored in the memory unit 130 to the exterior (e.g., other communication devices) via the communication unit 110 through a wireless/wired interface or store, in the memory unit 130, information received through the wireless/wired interface from the exterior (e.g., other communication devices) via the communication unit 110.
  • the additional components 140 may be variously configured according to types of wireless devices.
  • the additional components 140 may include at least one of a power unit/battery, input/output (I/O) unit (e.g. audio I/O port, video I/O port), a driving unit, and a computing unit.
  • I/O input/output
  • the wireless device may be implemented in the form of, without being limited to, the robot (100a of FIG. 1), the vehicles (100b-1 and 100b-2 of FIG. 1), the XR device (100c of FIG. 1), the hand-held device (100d of FIG. 1), the home appliance (100e of FIG. 1), the IoT device (100f of FIG.
  • the wireless device may be used in a mobile or fixed place according to a use-example/service.
  • the entirety of the various elements, components, units/portions, and/or modules in the wireless devices 100 and 200 may be connected to each other through a wired interface or at least a part thereof may be wirelessly connected through the communication unit 110.
  • the control unit 120 and the communication unit 110 may be connected by wire and the control unit 120 and first units (e.g., 130 and 140) may be wirelessly connected through the communication unit 110.
  • Each element, component, unit/portion, and/or module within the wireless devices 100 and 200 may further include one or more elements.
  • the control unit 120 may be configured by a set of one or more processors.
  • control unit 120 may be configured by a set of a communication control processor, an application processor, an electronic control unit (ECU), a graphical processing unit, and a memory control processor.
  • memory 130 may be configured by a random access memory (RAM), a dynamic RAM (DRAM), a read only memory (ROM)), a flash memory, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and/or a combination thereof.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example of protocol stacks in a 3GPP based wireless communication system.
  • FIG. 4(a) illustrates an example of a radio interface user plane protocol stack between a UE and a base station (BS)
  • FIG. 4(b) illustrates an example of a radio interface control plane protocol stack between a UE and a BS.
  • the control plane refers to a path through which control messages used to manage call by a UE and a network are transported.
  • the user plane refers to a path through which data generated in an application layer, for example, voice data or Internet packet data are transported.
  • the user plane protocol stack may be divided into a first layer (Layer 1) (i.e., a physical (PHY) layer) and a second layer (Layer 2).
  • Layer 1 i.e., a physical (PHY) layer
  • the control plane protocol stack may be divided into Layer 1 (i.e., a PHY layer), Layer 2, Layer 3 (e.g., a radio resource control (RRC) layer), and a non-access stratum (NAS) layer.
  • Layer 1 i.e., a PHY layer
  • Layer 2 e.g., a radio resource control (RRC) layer
  • NAS non-access stratum
  • Layer 1 and Layer 3 are referred to as an access stratum (AS).
  • the NAS control protocol is terminated in an access management function (AMF) on the network side, and performs functions such as authentication, mobility management, security control and etc.
  • AMF access management function
  • the layer 2 is split into the following sublayers: medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and packet data convergence protocol (PDCP).
  • MAC medium access control
  • RLC radio link control
  • PDCP packet data convergence protocol
  • the layer 2 is split into the following sublayers: MAC, RLC, PDCP and SDAP.
  • the PHY layer offers to the MAC sublayer transport channels, the MAC sublayer offers to the RLC sublayer logical channels, the RLC sublayer offers to the PDCP sublayer RLC channels, the PDCP sublayer offers to the SDAP sublayer radio bearers.
  • the SDAP sublayer offers to 5G Core Network quality of service (QoS) flows.
  • QoS 5G Core Network quality of service
  • the main services and functions of SDAP include: mapping between a QoS flow and a data radio bearer; marking QoS flow ID (QFI) in both DL and UL packets.
  • QFI QoS flow ID
  • a single protocol entity of SDAP is configured for each individual PDU session.
  • the main services and functions of the RRC sublayer include: broadcast of system information related to AS and NAS; paging initiated by 5G core (5GC) or NG-RAN; establishment, maintenance and release of an RRC connection between the UE and NG-RAN; security functions including key management; establishment, configuration, maintenance and release of signalling radio bearers (SRBs) and data radio bearers (DRBs); mobility functions (including: handover and context transfer; UE cell selection and reselection and control of cell selection and reselection; Inter-RAT mobility); QoS management functions; UE measurement reporting and control of the reporting; detection of and recovery from radio link failure; NAS message transfer to/from NAS from/to UE.
  • 5GC 5G core
  • NG-RAN paging initiated by 5G core
  • NG-RAN paging initiated by 5G core
  • security functions including key management
  • SRBs signalling radio bearers
  • DRBs data radio bearers
  • mobility functions including: handover and context transfer; UE cell selection and res
  • the main services and functions of the PDCP sublayer for the user plane include: sequence numbering; header compression and decompression: ROHC only; transfer of user data; reordering and duplicate detection; in-order delivery; PDCP PDU routing (in case of split bearers); retransmission of PDCP SDUs; ciphering, deciphering and integrity protection; PDCP SDU discard; PDCP re-establishment and data recovery for RLC AM; PDCP status reporting for RLC AM; duplication of PDCP PDUs and duplicate discard indication to lower layers.
  • the main services and functions of the PDCP sublayer for the control plane include: sequence numbering; ciphering, deciphering and integrity protection; transfer of control plane data; reordering and duplicate detection; in-order delivery; duplication of PDCP PDUs and duplicate discard indication to lower layers.
  • the RLC sublayer supports three transmission modes: Transparent Mode (TM); Unacknowledged Mode (UM); and Acknowledged Mode (AM).
  • the RLC configuration is per logical channel with no dependency on numerologies and/or transmission durations.
  • the main services and functions of the RLC sublayer depend on the transmission mode and include: Transfer of upper layer PDUs; sequence numbering independent of the one in PDCP (UM and AM); error correction through ARQ (AM only); segmentation (AM and UM) and re-segmentation (AM only) of RLC SDUs; reassembly of SDU (AM and UM); duplicate detection (AM only); RLC SDU discard (AM and UM); RLC re-establishment; protocol error detection (AM only).
  • the main services and functions of the MAC sublayer include: mapping between logical channels and transport channels; multiplexing/demultiplexing of MAC SDUs belonging to one or different logical channels into/from transport blocks (TB) delivered to/from the physical layer on transport channels; scheduling information reporting; error correction through HARQ (one HARQ entity per cell in case of carrier aggregation (CA)); priority handling between UEs by means of dynamic scheduling; priority handling between logical channels of one UE by means of logical channel prioritization; padding.
  • a single MAC entity may support multiple numerologies, transmission timings and cells. Mapping restrictions in logical channel prioritization control which numerology(ies), cell(s), and transmission timing(s) a logical channel can use.
  • MAC Different kinds of data transfer services are offered by MAC.
  • multiple types of logical channels are defined i.e. each supporting transfer of a particular type of information.
  • Each logical channel type is defined by what type of information is transferred.
  • Logical channels are classified into two groups: Control Channels and Traffic Channels. Control channels are used for the transfer of control plane information only, and traffic channels are used for the transfer of user plane information only.
  • Broadcast Control Channel is a downlink logical channel for broadcasting system control information
  • PCCH paging Control Channel
  • PCCH is a downlink logical channel that transfers paging information
  • Common Control Channel is a logical channel for transmitting control information between UEs and network and used for UEs having no RRC connection with the network
  • DCCH Dedicated Control Channel
  • DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
  • a DTCH can exist in both uplink and downlink.
  • BCCH can be mapped to BCH; BCCH can be mapped to downlink shared channel (DL-SCH); PCCH can be mapped to PCH; CCCH can be mapped to DL-SCH; DCCH can be mapped to DL-SCH; and DTCH can be mapped to DL-SCH.
  • CCCH can be mapped to uplink shared channel (UL-SCH); DCCH can be mapped to UL-SCH; and DTCH can be mapped to UL-SCH.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a frame structure in a 3GPP based wireless communication system.
  • OFDM numerologies e.g., subcarrier spacing (SCS), transmission time interval (TTI) duration
  • SCCS subcarrier spacing
  • TTI transmission time interval
  • symbols may include OFDM symbols (or CP-OFDM symbols), SC-FDMA symbols (or discrete Fourier transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) symbols).
  • Each frame is divided into two half-frames, where each of the half-frames has 5 ms duration.
  • Each half-frame consists of 5 subframes, where the duration T sf per subframe is 1 ms.
  • Each subframe is divided into slots and the number of slots in a subframe depends on a subcarrier spacing.
  • Each slot includes 14 or 12 OFDM symbols based on a cyclic prefix (CP). In a normal CP, each slot includes 14 OFDM symbols and, in an extended CP, each slot includes 12 OFDM symbols.
  • a slot includes plural symbols (e.g., 14 or 12 symbols) in the time domain.
  • a resource grid of N size,u grid,x * N RB sc subcarriers and N subframe,u symb OFDM symbols is defined, starting at common resource block (CRB) N start,u grid indicated by higher-layer signaling (e.g. radio resource control (RRC) signaling), where N size,u grid,x is the number of resource blocks (RBs) in the resource grid and the subscript x is DL for downlink and UL for uplink.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • N RB sc is 12 generally.
  • the carrier bandwidth N size,u grid for subcarrier spacing configuration u is given by the higher-layer parameter (e.g. RRC parameter).
  • Each element in the resource grid for the antenna port p and the subcarrier spacing configuration u is referred to as a resource element (RE) and one complex symbol may be mapped to each RE.
  • Each RE in the resource grid is uniquely identified by an index k in the frequency domain and an index l representing a symbol location relative to a reference point in the time domain.
  • an RB is defined by 12 consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain.
  • RBs are classified into CRBs and physical resource blocks (PRBs).
  • CRBs are numbered from 0 and upwards in the frequency domain for subcarrier spacing configuration u .
  • the center of subcarrier 0 of CRB 0 for subcarrier spacing configuration u coincides with 'point A' which serves as a common reference point for resource block grids.
  • PRBs are defined within a bandwidth part (BWP) and numbered from 0 to N size BWP,i -1, where i is the number of the bandwidth part.
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • n PRB n CRB + N size BWP,i , where N size BWP,i is the common resource block where bandwidth part starts relative to CRB 0.
  • the BWP includes a plurality of consecutive RBs.
  • a carrier may include a maximum of N (e.g., 5) BWPs.
  • a UE may be configured with one or more BWPs on a given component carrier. Only one BWP among BWPs configured to the UE can active at a time. The active BWP defines the UE's operating bandwidth within the cell's operating bandwidth.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a data flow example in the 3GPP NR system.
  • Radio bearers are categorized into two groups: data radio bearers (DRB) for user plane data and signalling radio bearers (SRB) for control plane data.
  • DRB data radio bearers
  • SRB signalling radio bearers
  • the MAC PDU is transmitted/received using radio resources through the PHY layer to/from an external device.
  • the MAC PDU arrives to the PHY layer in the form of a transport block.
  • the uplink transport channels UL-SCH and RACH are mapped to physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and physical random access channel (PRACH), respectively, and the downlink transport channels DL-SCH, BCH and PCH are mapped to physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), physical broad cast channel (PBCH) and PDSCH, respectively.
  • uplink control information (UCI) is mapped to PUCCH
  • downlink control information (DCI) is mapped to PDCCH.
  • a MAC PDU related to UL-SCH is transmitted by a UE via a PUSCH based on an UL grant
  • a MAC PDU related to DL-SCH is transmitted by a BS via a PDSCH based on a DL assignment.
  • the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands have been studied as a means to support the extreme data rate demands of the 5G system.
  • the ultra-dense BS deployment is required in order to overcome the high propagation loss occurring at the mmWave and to guarantee line-of-site (LOS) links at any given time.
  • LOS line-of-site
  • Providing wired backhaul to each BS in such a dense BS deployment will require significantly high cost for the network operators.
  • IAB integrated access and backhaul
  • IAB integrated access and backhaul
  • the IAB networks In the IAB networks, some of BSs have traditional fiber-like backhaul capabilities, and the rest of BSs are connected to the fiber infrastructures wirelessly, possibly through multiple hops.
  • the IAB networks may reduce deployment costs by obviating the need to provide the wired backhaul to each BS.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a reference diagram for IAB-architectures.
  • an IAB-node denotes a radio access network (RAN) node that supports wireless access to UEs and wirelessly backhauls the access traffic
  • an IAB-donor denotes a RAN node which provides UE's interface to core network (e.g. EPC, 5GC) and wireless backhauling functionality to IAB-nodes.
  • Each IAB-node connects as a UE to the core network (CN).
  • an IAB-node may connect as a UE to EPC using evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) - new radio (NR) dual connectivity (EN-DC).
  • E-UTRA evolved universal terrestrial radio access
  • NR new radio
  • EN-DC evolved universal terrestrial radio access
  • an IAB-node may connect as a UE to 5GC using the new radio (NR).
  • a transmission and reception point (TRP) with IAB functionalities may act as an IAB-node.
  • An IAB-donor may be a BS with
  • an IAB node closer to the CN could be a scheduler for another IAB node or UE that connects as a UE to the IAB node wirelessly.
  • an IAB-node that schedules wireless transmission/reception for another IAB-node or UE is referred to as a parent node
  • an IAB-node or UE for which wireless transmission/reception is scheduled by another node is referred to as a child node.
  • a UE of which transmission/reception is scheduled by a BS may be a child node of the BS
  • the BS may be a parent node of the UE.
  • downlink IAB node transmissions i.e. transmissions on backhaul links from an IAB-node to child IAB-nodes served by the IAB-node and transmissions on access links from an IAB-node to UEs served by the IAB-node
  • uplink IAB transmission i.e. transmissions on a backhaul link from an IAB-node to its parent IAB-node or IAB-donor
  • IAB-donor is scheduled by the parent IAB-node or IAB-donor.
  • a scheduling request For uplink transmission by a UE to a BS, a scheduling request (SR) is used for requesting UL-SCH resources for new transmission, and a buffer status reporting (BSR) procedure is used to provide the serving BS with information about UL volume in the MAC entity.
  • SR scheduling request
  • BSR buffer status reporting
  • the SR and the BSR procedure may be configured and performed as follows.
  • the MAC entity of the UE may be configured with zero, one, or more SR configurations.
  • An SR configuration consists of a set of PUCCH resources for SR across different BWPs and cells. For a logical channel, at most one PUCCH resource for SR is configured per BWP by RRC signaling from the BS. Each SR configuration corresponds to one or more logical channels. Each logical channel may be mapped to zero or one SR configuration, which is configured by the BS through RRC signaling. The SR configuration of the logical channel that triggered the BSR (if such a configuration exists) is considered as a corresponding SR configuration for the triggered SR.
  • the network e.g.
  • BS configures, to the UE through RRC signaling, the following parameters for the SR procedure: sr-ProhibitTimer (per SR configuration); sr-TransMax (per SR configuration).
  • SR_COUNTER per SR configuration.
  • the MAC entity sets the SR_COUNTER of the corresponding SR configuration to 0.
  • All pending SR(s) triggered prior to the MAC PDU assembly shall be cancelled and each respective sr-ProhibitTimer is stopped when the MAC PDU is transmitted and this PDU includes a BSR MAC control element (CE) which contains buffer status up to (and including) the last event that triggered a BSR prior to the MAC PDU assembly.
  • All pending SR(s) is(are) cancelled when the UL grant(s) can accommodate all pending data available for transmission. Only PUCCH resources on a BWP which is active at the time of SR transmission occasion are considered valid. As long as at least one SR is pending, the MAC entity shall for each pending SR:
  • the network configures, to a UE through RRC signaling, the following parameters to control the buffer status reporting (BSR): periodicBSR-Timer ; retxBSR-Timer ; logicalChannelSR-DelayTimerApplied ; logicalChannelSR-DelayTimer ; logicalChannelSR-Mask ; logicalChannelGroup .
  • BSR buffer status reporting
  • Each logical channel may be allocated to an LCG using the logicalChannelGroup .
  • the MAC entity of the UE determines the amount of UL data available for a logical channel according to the data volume calculation procedure in RLC and PDCP.
  • a BSR is triggered if any of the following events occur:
  • the MAC entity has new UL data available for a logical channel which belongs to an LCG; and either i) the new UL data belongs to a logical channel with higher priority than the priority of any logical channel containing available UL data which belong to any LCG; or ii) none of the logical channels which belong to an LCG contains any available UL data, in which case the BSR is referred to as 'Regular BSR';
  • - UL resources are allocated and number of padding bits is equal to or larger than the size of the Buffer Status Report MAC CE plus its subheader, in which case the BSR is referred to as 'Padding BSR';
  • - retxBSR-Timer expires, and at least one of the logical channels which belong to an LCG contains UL data, in which case the BSR is referred to as 'Regular BSR';
  • the MAC entity shall:
  • the MAC entity shall:
  • the MAC entity For BSR triggered by retxBSR-Timer expiry, the MAC entity considers that the logical channel that triggered the BSR is the highest priority logical channel that has data available for transmission at the time the BSR is triggered.
  • the MAC entity shall:
  • a MAC PDU contains at most one BSR MAC CE, even when multiple events have triggered a BSR. All triggered BSRs may be cancelled when the UL grant(s) can accommodate all pending data available for transmission but is not sufficient to additionally accommodate the BSR MAC CE plus its subheader. All BSRs triggered prior to MAC PDU assembly shall be cancelled when a MAC PDU which includes a BSR MAC CE is transmitted.
  • each IAB node would schedule its childe node(s) by itself.
  • UL scheduling in IAB is to be performed based on SR/BSR and UL resource allocation between the scheduling and scheduled nodes.
  • UL resource scheduling in IAB needs to consider the fact that a node would request an UL resource for data/information which is to be received by that node.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example of UL scheduling in IAB scenarios.
  • UL scheduling in IAB would be that, a node requests UL resource to its parent node when UL data is received from its child node as shown in the example of FIG. 8. In this way, the node can accurately request the required UL resources.
  • the delay would be inevitable because the scheduling can only be done in serial manner.
  • the latency between the UE and the IAB donor (end-to-end) may increase as the number of hops increases, if the IAB nodes schedules its child node only after being scheduled by its parent node, i.e., cascade scheduling.
  • hop agnostic performance is one important thig that needs to be guaranteed, implying that IAB scheduling should meet the QoS requirement, e.g., in terms of latency, regardless of how far the UE is away from the IAB donor.
  • the cascade scheduling cannot fulfil the required performance.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates another example of UL scheduling in IAB scenarios.
  • Another way of UL scheduling in IAB would be that, a node requests UL resource to its parent node prior to the reception of UL data from its child node, i.e., pre-BSR. It may be possible because the node can estimate the amount of UL data that the node will receive based on the received BSR from its child node. This method would be good from latency perspective because the node can be scheduled earlier by its parent node than the method of FIG. 8 and use the scheduled UL resource as soon as the node receives UL data from its child node.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a problem that can occur in UL scheduling with pre-BSR.
  • the node In order for a node to transmit UL data by using the scheduled UL resource, the node should have the UL data received from its child node. However, the parent node may not be able to know when the node will receive the UL data from the child node because each node may schedule its child node independently in IAB scenarios. As a result, the parent node may provide UL resource which occurs before the node receives an UL data from the child node. In this case, the node will either transmit dummy data by using the scheduled UL resources or skip transmission, and then the node needs to request UL resource again when the UL data is actually received from its child node.
  • the parent node In order for the node to be provided with the UL resource which can be used without waste, the parent node should know when the node needs the UL resource actually. Given that the node plays a role of scheduling node to its child node, that node would be able to assist its parent node by providing its scheduling plan when requesting a UL resource.
  • a node transmits, to a scheduling node, time information regarding a requested UL resource when the node requests.
  • the time information may indicate a desirable time domain point(s) where the requested UL resource exists.
  • the node which requests a UL resource or sends a BSR can be either a relay node (IAB node) or a UE.
  • the node can act as a child node to its parent node or act as a parent node to its child node.
  • the child node refers to a scheduled node and the parent node refers to a scheduling node.
  • the child node requests an UL resource to its parent node.
  • the child may request an UL resource through a random access procedure, scheduling request, or buffer status reporting.
  • the parent node allocates, to its child node, an UL resource to be used for transmission of the UL data from the child node to the parent node.
  • the time information may be a time point in symbol, slot, subframe, or radio frame.
  • the time information may be a time offset in unit of symbol, slot, subframe, or absolute value (e.g., in units of ms).
  • the node transmits the time information to the scheduling node if the node requests, to its scheduling node, an UL resource used for transmission of an UL data from the node to its scheduling node.
  • the time information can be included in the BSR or transmitted together with the BSR.
  • the time information can be transmitted alone via L2 signalling (e.g., MAC control element).
  • FIG. 11 illustrates examples of formats for time information of the present disclosure.
  • the time information of the present disclosure may be transmitted/received in the form of a time information MAC control element (CE), e.g., as shown in FIG. 11(a) or FIG. 11(b).
  • CE time information MAC control element
  • the time information field of the time information MAC CE may indicate the time information related to the requested UL resource.
  • the time information field of the time information MAC CE may indicate the time information related to logical channel group (LCG) indicated by the LCG ID field of the time information MAC CE.
  • the time information related to the LCG may include, e.g., information regarding when data will be available for the LCG or information regarding when UL resources are needed for transmission of data belonging to the LCG.
  • the time information of the present disclosure may be included in a BSR MC CE to be transmitted/received, e.g., as shown in FIG. 11(c) or FIG. 11(d).
  • FIG. 11(c) shows an example of a short BSR MAC CE including the time information of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 11(d) shows an example of a long BSR MAC CE including the time information of the present disclosure.
  • the Logical Channel Group ID field identifies the group of logical channel(s) whose buffer status is being reported.
  • this field indicates the presence of the Buffer Size field for the logical channel group i.
  • the LCGi field set to "1" indicates that the Buffer Size field for the logical channel group i is reported.
  • the LCGi field set to "0” indicates that the Buffer Size field for the logical channel group i is not reported.
  • this field indicates whether logical channel group i has data available.
  • the LCGi field set to "1” indicates that logical channel group i has data available.
  • the LCGi field set to "0” indicates that logical channel group i does not have data available;
  • the Buffer Size field identifies the total amount of data available according to the data volume calculation procedure in RLC and PDCP across all logical channels of a logical channel group after the MAC PDU has been built (i.e. after the logical channel prioritization procedure, which may result the value of the Buffer Size field to zero).
  • the amount of data is indicated in number of bytes.
  • the size of the RLC and MAC headers are not considered in the buffer size computation.
  • the Buffer Size fields are included in ascending order based on the LCGi. The number of the Buffer Size fields in the Long BSR format can be zero.
  • the time information field may indicate the time information related to LCG indicated by LCG ID field.
  • the time information related to the LCG may include, e.g., information regarding when data will be available for the LCG or information regarding when UL resources are needed for transmission of data belonging to the LCG.
  • the time information field may indicate the time information related to LCG indicated by LCG ID field.
  • the time information related to the LCG may include, e.g., information regarding when data will be available for the LCG or when UL resources are needed for transmission of data belonging to the LCG.
  • the time information indicates a desirable point(s) in time domain where the requested UL resource exists.
  • the node suggests or recommends a proper time point of the requested UL resources to the scheduling node in consideration of the node's scheduling for its scheduled node.
  • the time information may carry information regarding when undesirable time point(s) of the request UL resources is(are) or information regarding when desirable time point(s) of the requested UL resource is(are).
  • time information N which is sent to a scheduling node by a node may mean that:
  • the requested UL resource is expected to exist or should be available after the time point N, where the requested UL resource is to be used for transmission of UL data from the node to the scheduling node;
  • the node is expected to have UL data to transmit after the time point N;
  • the node is expected to receive UL data from the child node after the time point N;
  • the node schedules an UL resource 2 to its child node to receive UL data, where the UL resource 2 exists after the time point N;
  • the requested UL resource is expected to exist N time offset after the node sends the time information to the scheduling node;
  • the node is expected to have UL data to transmit N time offset after the node sends the time information to the scheduling node;
  • the node is expected to receive UL data from the child node N time offset after the node sends the time information to the scheduling node. If a node sends time information N together with the request for the UL resource to a scheduling node, the time information N which is sent to a scheduling node by a node may mean that:
  • the requested UL resource is expected to exist N time offset after the node requests the UL resource to the scheduling node;
  • the node is expected to have an UL data to transmit N time offset after the node requests the UL resource to the scheduling node;
  • the node is expected to receive an UL data from the child node N time offset after the node requests the UL resource to the scheduling node.
  • the scheduling node may:
  • the scheduling node's allocating/scheduling the UL resource to the node such that the UL resource occurs after the time point N or the UL resource occurs N time offset after the node sends the time information N to the scheduling node does not necessarily mean that the scheduling node should transmit the scheduling command later.
  • the scheduling node can transmit the scheduling command indicating the UL resource, e.g., PDCCH, before the time point N or within the N time offset.
  • the node If the node is allocated, by the scheduling node, the UL resource that occurs after a time point N or the UL resource that occurs N time offset after the node sends the time information to the scheduling node, the node transmits UL data to the scheduling node by using the allocated UL resource.
  • the node may not be able to transmit the UL data to the scheduling node by using the allocated UL resource. In this case, the node may transmit data with padding bits by using the allocated UL resource. Alternatively, the node may discard the allocated UL resource because there may be no UL data to be transmitted by the node.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a data transmission according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • Node 1 is a parent node to Node 2.
  • Node 2 is a child node to Node1 and a parent node to Node 3.
  • Node 3 is a child node to Node 2.
  • the Node 2 receives a BSR2 from the Node 3 (S1201), and sends a BSR1 to the Node 1 together with time information (S1202).
  • the Time information is set to Time Offset N, which is the time duration between the time point when the Node 2 sends the BSR1 and the time point when the Node 2 is to receive Data1 from the Node 3.
  • the Node 2 allocates/schedules an UL resource for Node 3 (S1204, Schedule2) in order to receive the Data1 from the Node 3.
  • the Node 1 may consider that the UL resource for the Node 2 should exist Time Offset N after the Node 1 receives the time information.
  • the Node 1 transmits a scheduling command (Schedule1) within the Time Offset N, where the Schedule 1 indicates the UL resource occurring after the Time Offset N.
  • the Node 2 receives the Data1 from the Node3 based on the Schedule2 (S1206), and transmits (forwards or relays) the Data1 to the Node1 by using the UL resource allocated via the Schedule1 (S1207).
  • FIG. 13 illustrates an example of a flow diagram for UL transmission according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • a node may transmit a UL resource request (first UL resource request) and time information related to the first UL resource request to its parent node (S1301).
  • the first node may receive scheduling information for allocating a UL resource (first UL resource) (S1303), and transmit UL data based on the first UL resource to the parent node (S1305).
  • the parent node receiving the time information may allocate a UL resource available on or after the time point T as the first UL resource, based on the time information, and receive UL transmission of the first node by using the first UL resource.
  • the first UL resource request may be a random access preamble of a random access procedure, a scheduling request (SR) or a buffer status reporting (BSR).
  • SR scheduling request
  • BSR buffer status reporting
  • the first node may receive UL resource request(s) from its child node(s), and transmit the first UL resource request and the time information, taking the UL resource request(s) from its child node(s) into consideration.
  • the UL data transmitted by the first node to the parent node of the first node may include data received by the first node from the child node(s).
  • the time information related to the first UL resource request may be included in the first UL resource request or included in a format separate from the first UL resource request.
  • the time information related to the first UL resource request may be transmitted together with the first UL resource request or transmitted separately from the first UL resource request.
  • the time information may include information regarding when UL resources could be used for transmission at the first node or when UL resources could not be used for transmission at the first node.
  • the time information may indicate a time point T on or after which a UL resource requested by the first UL resource request is to be used for UL transmission by the first node.
  • the time information may indicate a time offset N between a time when the first node transmits the time information to its parent node and the time point T.
  • the first UL resource request may include information regarding a buffer size for a logical channel group (LCG), and the time information includes information regarding when data belonging to the LCG is available for transmission at the first node or when a UL resource is needed for transmission of data belonging to the LCG.
  • LCG logical channel group
  • the first node or a child node of the first node may be an autonomous vehicle that communicates with at least a mobile terminal, a network, and another autonomous vehicle other than that node.
  • the first wireless device 100 of FIG. 2 may act as the first node, and the second wireless device 200 of FIG. 2 may act as the parent node of the first node.
  • the processor(s) 102 connected to, mounted on or launched in the first wireless device 100 may be configured to perform the behavior of the first node according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 106 to perform the behavior of the first node according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 202 connected to, mounted on or launched in the second wireless device 200 may be configured to perform the behavior of the parent node according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 206 to perform the behavior of the parent node according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • the first wireless device 100 of FIG. 2 may act as the child node of the first node, and the second wireless device 200 of FIG. 2 may act as the first node.
  • the processor(s) 102 connected to, mounted on or launched in the first wireless device 100 may be configured to perform the behavior of the child node according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 106 to perform the behavior of the child node according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • the processor(s) 202 connected to, mounted on or launched in the second wireless device 200 may be configured to perform the behavior of the first node according to an implementation of the present disclosure or control the transceiver(s) 206 to perform the behavior of the first node according to an implementation of the present disclosure.
  • the time information related to a UL resource request may be or may not be transmitted by a node depending on the type of the UL resource request. For example, a first node may not transmit the time information if the first node transmits a BSR based on only data available for transmission at the first node, whereas the first node transmits the time information if the first node transmits a BSR (e.g. pre-BSR) based on data including data expected to receive from its child node(s).
  • a BSR e.g. pre-BSR
  • the implementations of the present disclosure are applicable to a network node (e.g., BS), a UE, or other devices in a wireless communication system.
  • a network node e.g., BS
  • UE User Equipment

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Selon la présente invention, un procédé ou un dispositif transmet, à un second nœud, des informations temporelles concernant un temps T pour une première ressource de liaison montante ; puis transmet, au second nœud, des premières données sur la base de la première ressource de liaison montante, la première ressource de liaison montante étant disponible au temps T ou après.
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