Transmission in measurement window
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- EP · EP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
- Filing Date
- 2023-07-28
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-10
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Abstract
Description
TRANSMISSION IN MEASUREMENT WINDOWTECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present disclosure relates to wireless communications, and more specifically to a user equipment, a base station, processors, and methods for transmission in a measurement window.BACKGROUND
[0002] A wireless communications system may include one or multiple network communication devices, such as base stations, which may be otherwise known as an eNodeB (eNB) , a next-generation NodeB (gNB) , or other suitable terminology. Each network communication devices, such as a base station may support wireless communications for one or multiple user communication devices, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) , or other suitable terminology. The wireless communications system may support wireless communications with one or multiple user communication devices by utilizing resources of the wireless communication system (e.g., time resources (e.g., symbols, slots, subframes, frames, or the like) or frequency resources (e.g., subcarriers, carriers) . Additionally, the wireless communications system may support wireless communications across various radio access technologies including third generation (3G) radio access technology, fourth generation (4G) radio access technology, fifth generation (5G) radio access technology, among other suitable radio access technologies beyond 5G (e.g., sixth generation (6G) ) .
[0003] UE could be configured with a SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window, and do measurement in the window to assist cell selection and cell re-selection. In addition, UE could be also configured with Measurement gaps (MGs) used by 5G system for handoff and beam selection procedures. The measurement is key for best beam selection and cell selection during mobility. Thus it has been specified in the 3GPP specification that no data transmission is performed during the MG or SMTC window. However, for some services that require high throughput and low latency, for example, Xtended Reality (XR) service, if data transmission in the MG and SMTC window is not supported, then frequent MG or SMTC window would add latency to these traffic. The MG or SMTC window may have large impact on XR capacity, especially for larger measurement gap lengths. At RAN #100, some enhancements for XR service in Rel-19 were proposed, and it proposed to support XR override MG or SMTC window but many details on how to support XR override MG or SMTC window are needed.SUMMARY
[0004] The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatuses, and systems that support transmission in a measurement window.
[0005] In a first aspect of the solution, a user equipment (UE) may comprises: a processor; and a transceiver coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to:receive, via the transceiver and from a base station, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and transmit, via the transceiver and to the base station, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission. Since the measurement window may be used to transmit transmissions for a service, the latency of the service will be reduced.
[0006] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the predetermined transmission may include one of the following: physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; and reference signal (RS) transmission.
[0007] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, a measurement window may include one of a measurement gap (MG) and a synchronization signaling block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window.
[0008] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission may comprise: receiving, via the transceiver and from a base station, a control signalling; and determining whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission based on the control signalling.
[0009] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a first control signalling corresponding to the predetermined transmission, and the first control signalling may indicate one of the following: a priority of the predetermined transmission; whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission; and whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service, wherein the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the priority of the predetermined transmission is higher than a predetermined priority or is a predefined priority or the predetermined transmission is for the predetermined service.
[0010] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the first control signalling may be a property information on a downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the predetermined transmission or a predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission, wherein the property information on the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission may include one of the following: a DCI format of the DCI; a search space (SS) set where the DCI is received; and a control resource set (CORESET) where the DCI is received.
[0011] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission may further comprise: determining that the configured measurement window is not available for the predetermined transmission when there is no DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission or the predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission does not exist.
[0012] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the first control signalling may be indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for RRC configured transmission without DCI.
[0013] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the RRC configured transmission may include one of the following: type 1 configured grant (CG) PUSCH transmission; RRC configured PUCCH transmission; type 2 CG PUSCH transmission including the first PUSCH scheduled by an activation DCI; and type 2 CG PUSCH transmission without corresponding DCI.
[0014] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission may further comprise: determining, for CG PUSCH transmission, that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission if unused transmission occasion (TO) (UTO) -uplink control information (UCI) is configured by the RRC parameter for the CG configuration.
[0015] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a second control signalling indicating which configured measurement windows within a predetermined time domain window are available for the predetermined transmission.
[0016] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a third control signalling indicating a first measurement window in which one measurement is performed, the first measurement window being different from the configured at least one measurement window, and determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission may further comprise: determining that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission.
[0017] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a fourth control signalling for activating or releasing measurement in one measurement window or a set of measurement windows, and determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission may further comprise: determining that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission in response to a measurement in the configured measurement window is released via the fourth control signalling, or determining that the configured measurement window is not available for the predetermined transmission in response to the measurement in the configured measurement window is activated via the fourth control signalling.
[0018] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the fourth control signalling may be a DCI scrambled by a predetermined RNTI or a DCI with a predetermined DCI format.
[0019] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the DCI may include a field indicating a set of configuration parameters of a measurement window for which measurement is activated or released, or a field indicating a position of a measurement window from which measurement is activated or released.
[0020] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a fifth control signalling indicating a set of configuration parameters different from the at least one set of configuration parameters, and the processor is further configured to: determine to do measurement in measurement windows determined based on the set of configuration parameters, and determine that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission.
[0021] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the processor is further configured to transmit an indication of the configured measurement window to the base station indicating whether the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission.
[0022] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the at least one set of configuration parameters may include respective priorities of the configured at least one measurement window, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission by comparing the priority of the configured measurement window and a predefined priority of the predetermined transmission.
[0023] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the processor is configured to determine that the configured measurement window is not available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the configured measurement window is configured by a predefined set of configuration parameters.
[0024] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, in the case that configured measurement windows are configured by different sets of configuration parameters and are overlapped with each other, or the time difference between the configured measurement windows configured by the different sets of configuration parameters is lower than a threshold, the processor is configured to determine to do measurement only in the measurement windows with priorities higher than other measurement windows among the configured measurement windows
[0025] In a second aspect of the solution, a processor for wireless communication may comprises: at least one memory; and a controller coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the processor to: receive, via a transceiver and from a base station, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and transmit, via the transceiver and to the base station, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.
[0026] In a third aspect of the solution, a method performed by a user equipment, the method comprising: receiving from a base station, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and transmitting, to the base station, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.
[0027] In a fourth aspect of the solution, a base station comprises: a processor; and a transceiver coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit, via the transceiver and to a user equipment (UE) , at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; and transmit, via the transceiver and to the UE, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0028] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the predetermined transmission may include one of the following: physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; and reference signal (RS) transmission.
[0029] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, a measurement window may include one of a measurement gap (MG) and a synchronization signaling block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window.
[0030] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a first control signalling corresponding to the predetermined transmission, and the first control signalling may indicate one of the following: a priority of the predetermined transmission; whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission; and whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service, wherein the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the priority of the predetermined transmission is higher than a predetermined priority or is a predefined priority or the predetermined transmission is for the predetermined service.
[0031] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the first control signalling may be indicated by a property information on a downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the predetermined transmission or a predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission, wherein the property information on the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission includes one of the following: a DCI format of the DCI; a search space (SS) set where the DCI is received; and a control resource set (CORESET) where the DCI is received.
[0032] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the first control signalling may be indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for RRC configured transmission without DCI.
[0033] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the RRC configured transmission may include one of the following: type 1 configured grant (CG) PUSCH transmission; RRC configured PUCCH transmission; type 2 CG PUSCH transmission including the first PUSCH scheduled by an activation DCI; and type 2 CG PUSCH transmission without corresponding DCI.
[0034] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a second control signalling indicating which configured measurement windows within a predetermined time domain window are available for the predetermined transmission.
[0035] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a third control signalling indicating a first measurement window in which one measurement is performed, the first measurement window being different from the configured at least one measurement window, and the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission.
[0036] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a fourth control signalling for activating or releasing measurement in one measurement window or a set of measurement windows, and the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission in response to a measurement in the configured measurement window is released via the fourth control signalling, or the configured measurement window is determined to be not available for the predetermined transmission in response to the measurement in the configured measurement window is activated via the fourth control signalling.
[0037] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the fourth control signalling may be a DCI scrambled by a predetermined RNTI or a DCI with a predetermined DCI format.
[0038] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the DCI may include a field indicating a set of configuration parameters of a measurement window for which measurement is activated or released, or a field indicating a position of the measurement window from which measurement is activated or released.
[0039] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the control signalling may include a fifth control signalling indicating a set of configuration parameters different from the at least one set of configuration parameters, wherein: measurement is performed in measurement windows determined based on the set of configuration parameters, and the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission.
[0040] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the processor is further configured to: receive, via the transceiver and from the user equipment (UE) , an indication of a measurement window determined to be available for the predetermined transmission by the UE.
[0041] In some implementations of the method and apparatuses described herein, the at least one set of configuration parameters may include respective priorities of the configured at least one measurement window, wherein whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission is determined by comparing the priority of the configured measurement window and a predefined priority of the predetermined transmission.
[0042] In a fifth aspect of the solution, A processor for wireless communication comprises: at least one memory; and a controller coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the processor to: transmit, via a transceiver and to a user equipment (UE) , at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; and transmit, via the transceiver and to the UE, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0043] In a sixth aspect of the solution, a method performed by a base station comprises: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) , at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; and transmitting, to the UE, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0044] It is to be understood that the summary section is not intended to identify key or essential features of embodiments of the present disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become easily comprehensible through the following description.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0045] FIG. 1A illustrates an example of a wireless communications system that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0046] FIG. 1B illustrates an example of transmission occasions (TOs) in a configured grant (CG) period associated with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0047] FIG. 2A illustrates an example signalling procedure 200 for transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0048] FIG. 2B illustrates another example signalling procedure 200’ for transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0049] FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a control signalling for a predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0050] FIG. 4 illustrates an example of another control signalling for the predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0051] FIG. 5 illustrates an example of an indication indicating a measurement window available for a predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0052] FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate examples of devices that support transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0053] FIGS. 8 and 9 illustrate examples of processors that support transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0054] FIGS. 10 and 11 illustrate flowcharts of methods that support transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0055] Principles of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to some embodiments. It is to be understood that these embodiments are described only for the purpose of illustration and help those skilled in the art to understand and implement the present disclosure, without suggesting any limitation as to the scope of the disclosure. The disclosure described herein may be implemented in various manners other than the ones described below.
[0056] In the following description and claims, unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skills in the art to which this disclosure belongs.
[0057] References in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “some embodiments, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment (s) described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment (s) . Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
[0058] It shall be understood that although the terms “first” and “second” or the like may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another element. For example, a first element could also be termed as a second element, and similarly, a second element could also be termed as a first element, without departing from the scope of embodiments. As used herein, the term “and / or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the listed terms.
[0059] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a” , “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” , “comprising” , “has” , “having” , “includes” and / or “including” , when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, elements, and / or components etc., but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components and / or combinations thereof.
[0060] As used herein, the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as, 5G NR, long term evolution (LTE) , LTE-advanced (LTE-A) , wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) , high-speed packet access (HSPA) , narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) , and so on. Further, the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) communication protocols, and / or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will also be future type communication technologies and systems in which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned systems.
[0061] As used herein, the term “network device” generally refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device can access the communication network and receive services therefrom. The network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , a radio access network (RAN) node, an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , a NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a remote radio unit (RRU) , a radio header (RH) , an infrastructure device for a V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communication, a transmission and reception point (TRP) , a reception point (RP) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, a low power node such as a femto BS, a pico BS, and so forth, depending on the applied terminology and technology.
[0062] As used herein, the term “terminal device” generally refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communications. By way of example rather than a limitation, a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, a user equipment (UE) , an end user device, a subscriber station (SS) , an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) , a portable subscriber station, a mobile station (MS) , or an access terminal (AT) . The terminal device may include, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a voice over IP (VoIP) phone, a wireless local loop phone, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , a portable computer, a desktop computer, an image capture terminal device such as a digital camera, a gaming terminal device, a music storage and playback appliance, a vehicle-mounted wireless terminal device, a wireless endpoint, a mobile station, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , a USB dongle, a smart device, wireless customer- premises equipment (CPE) , an internet of things (loT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device (for example, a remote surgery device) , an industrial device (for example, a robot and / or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and / or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and / or industrial wireless networks, and the like. In the following description, the terms: “terminal device, ” “communication device, ” “terminal, ” “user equipment” and “UE, ” may be used interchangeably.
[0063] Before discussing the embodiments, for ease understanding of the description, some terms and / or concepts that may be used herein are explained as below.
[0064] A measurement window may include at least one of a MG or a SMTC window. UE 104 could be configured with a SMTC window by receiving a set of configuration parameters from gNB, and do measurement in the SMTC window to assist cell selection and cell re-selection. The set of configuration parameters for a SMTC window could be shown in the following:
[0065] sf5, sf10, ……sf160 in periodicityAndOffset indicate the periodicity of the SMTC window, INTEGER (0.. X) indicates the offset, and sf1, sf2, sf3, sf4, sf5 in ENUMERATED {} indicated the duration of the SMTC window. For example, if the periodicityAndOffset configures the periodicity to be 5 and the offset to be 4, and duration =sf1 then, UE could determine the measurement window based on the set of the configuration parameters for SMTC window, the measurement period is 5 subframes and the UE should do the measurement in the 4th subframe in each period. Multiple measurement windows could be determined and each measurement is done in the 4th subframe in each period.
[0066] MG is used by 5G network for handoff and beam selection procedures, and the measurement configuration thereof could be similar to the configuration of SMTC window. The measurement is important for best beam and cell selection during mobility. So it has been specified in present 3GPP specification that no data transmission during the MG or SMTC window.
[0067] PUSCH transmission (s) can be dynamically scheduled by an UL grant in a DCI, for example, DCI format 0_1, the DCI could indicate the SLIV by an index to a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table. PUSCH transmission (s) can also correspond to a configured grant (CG) Type 1 or Type 2. The CG Type 1 PUSCH transmission is semi-statically configured to operate upon the reception of higher layer parameter of configuredGrantConfig including rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant without the detection of an UL grant in a DCI. The CG Type 2 PUSCH transmission is semi-persistently scheduled by an UL grant in a valid activation DCI after the reception of higher layer parameter configuredGrantConfig not including rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant. UE would be configured with one or multiple CG configurations, and for each CG configuration, a period P and the CG type are provided.
[0068] XR is a broad term covering Augmented Reality (AR) , Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) . Along with Cloud Computing, XR applications typically require high throughput and low latency, and have a big packet size and variable data packet size. To realize the low latency requirement and the big packet size, it has been decided in 3GPP to configure multiple CG PUSCH transmission occasions (TOs) in a period of a single CG PUSCH configuration. gNB could configure a parameter N and indicate a single SLIV from a configured time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table, and UE 104 could determine N resource in each of N consecutive slots per CG period, and each resource has same SLIV in the slot.
[0069] FIG. 1B illustrates an example of TOs in a CG period associated with aspects of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1B, assuming the period of a CG is 5 slots, and N=4, and a SLIV is indicated, then the determined 4 TOs in a CG period could be shown in FIG. 1B by black squares.
[0070] For each TO, the corresponding HARQ process number (HPN) could be determined as follows. The HPN for the first configured TO should be determined according to:
[0071] HARQ Process ID = [X*floor ( (CURRENT_symbol) / periodicity) ] modulo nrofHARQ-Processes
[0072] The HPN of the remaining configured and valid CG PUSCHs in the period is determined by incrementing the HARQ process ID of the preceding PUSCH. Thus, in the above example, the HPNs in the first period include 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the HPNs in the second period include 5, 6, 7, and 8.
[0073] For the XR service, reliability and latency are important requirement, if data transmission in the MG and SMTC window is not supported, then frequent MGs or SMTC window would add latency to XR traffic. For example, if there is XR traffic should be transmitted, but it is in the MG or SMTC window, it should be delayed to the next DRX cycle. Thus, it needs a solution to guarantee the latency of XR while guarantying the performance of measurement. Considering the low latency requirement and the big packet size for services such as XR service, the main object is to reduce the latency caused by the MGs or SMTC window.
[0074] The present disclosure proposed a solution to support transmission in a measurement window. In this solution, if a transmission to be transmitted is overlapped with a MG or a SMTC window, instead of being delayed to the next DRX cycle, it may be transmitted in the MG or SMTC window according to the UE’s determination. By implementing the example embodiments of the present disclosure, the latency of services such as XR service can be reduced without significant effect to the performance of measurement.
[0075] Aspects of the present disclosure are described in the context of a wireless communication system.
[0076] FIG. 1A illustrates an example of a wireless communications system 100 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The wireless communications system 100 may include one or more network entities 102 (also referred to as network equipment (NE) ) , one or more UEs 104, a core network 106, and a packet data network 108. The wireless communications system 100 may support various radio access technologies. In some implementations, the wireless communications system 100 may be a 4G network, such as an LTE network or an LTE-advanced (LTE-A) network. In some other implementations, the wireless communications system 100 may be a 5G network, such as an NR network. In other implementations, the wireless communications system 100 may be a combination of a 4G network and a 5G network, or other suitable radio access technology including institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.11 (Wi-Fi) , IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) , IEEE 802.20. The wireless communications system 100 may support radio access technologies beyond 5G. Additionally, the wireless communications system 100 may support technologies, such as time division multiple access (TDMA) , frequency division multiple access (FDMA) , or code division multiple access (CDMA) , etc.
[0077] The one or more network entities 102 may be dispersed throughout a geographic region to form the wireless communications system 100. One or more of the network entities 102 described herein may be or include or may be referred to as a network node, a base station, a network element, a radio access network (RAN) , a base transceiver station, an access point, a NodeB, an eNodeB (eNB) , a next-generation NodeB (gNB) , or other suitable terminology. A network entity 102 and a UE 104 may communicate via a communication link 110, which may be a wireless or wired connection. For example, a network entity 102 and a UE 104 may perform wireless communication (e.g., receive signaling, transmit signaling) over a Uu interface.
[0078] A network entity 102 may provide a geographic coverage area 112 for which the network entity 102 may support services (e.g., voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, etc. ) for one or more UEs 104 within the geographic coverage area 112. For example, a network entity 102 and a UE 104 may support wireless communication of signals related to services (e.g., voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, etc. ) according to one or multiple radio access technologies. In some implementations, a network entity 102 may be moveable, for example, a satellite associated with a non-terrestrial network. In some implementations, different geographic coverage areas 112 associated with the same or different radio access technologies may overlap, but the different geographic coverage areas 112 may be associated with different network entities 102. Information and signals described herein may be represented using any of a variety of different technologies and techniques. For example, data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, and chips that may be referenced throughout the description may be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or particles, or any combination thereof.
[0079] The one or more UEs 104 may be dispersed throughout a geographic region of the wireless communications system 100. A UE 104 may include or may be referred to as a mobile device, a wireless device, a remote device, a remote unit, a handheld device, or a subscriber device, or some other suitable terminology. In some implementations, the UE 104 may be referred to as a unit, a station, a terminal, or a client, among other examples. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE 104 may be referred to as an internet-of-things (IoT) device, an internet-of-everything (IoE) device, or machine-type communication (MTC) device, among other examples. In some implementations, a UE 104 may be stationary in the wireless communications system 100. In some other implementations, a UE 104 may be mobile in the wireless communications system 100.
[0080] The one or more UEs 104 may be devices in different forms or having different capabilities. Some examples of UEs 104 are illustrated in FIG. 1A. A UE 104 may be capable of communicating with various types of devices, such as the network entities 102, other UEs 104, or network equipment (e.g., the core network 106, the packet data network 108, a relay device, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, or another network equipment) , as shown in FIG. 1A. Additionally, or alternatively, a UE 104 may support communication with other network entities 102 or UEs 104, which may act as relays in the wireless communications system 100.
[0081] A UE 104 may also be able to support wireless communication directly with other UEs 104 over a communication link 114. For example, a UE 104 may support wireless communication directly with another UE 104 over a device-to-device (D2D) communication link. In some implementations, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) deployments, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) deployments, or cellular-V2X deployments, the communication link 114 may be referred to as a sidelink. For example, a UE 104 may support wireless communication directly with another UE 104 over a PC5 interface.
[0082] A network entity 102 may support communications with the core network 106, or with another network entity 102, or both. For example, a network entity 102 may interface with the core network 106 through one or more backhaul links 116 (e.g., via an S1, N2, N2, or another network interface) . The network entities 102 may communicate with each other over the backhaul links 116 (e.g., via an X2, Xn, or another network interface) . In some implementations, the network entities 102 may communicate with each other directly (e.g., between the network entities 102) . In some other implementations, the network entities 102 may communicate with each other or indirectly (e.g., via the core network 106) . In some implementations, one or more network entities 102 may include subcomponents, such as an access network entity, which may be an example of an access node controller (ANC) . An ANC may communicate with the one or more UEs 104 through one or more other access network transmission entities, which may be referred to as a radio heads, smart radio heads, or transmission-reception points (TRPs) .
[0083] In some implementations, a network entity 102 may be configured in a disaggregated architecture, which may be configured to utilize a protocol stack physically or logically distributed among two or more network entities 102, such as an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network, an open radio access network (O-RAN) (e.g., a network configuration sponsored by the O-RAN Alliance) , or a virtualized RAN (vRAN) (e.g., a cloud RAN (C-RAN) ) . For example, a network entity 102 may include one or more of a CU, a DU, a radio unit (RU) , a RAN intelligent controller (RIC) (e.g., a near-real time RIC (Near-RT RIC) , a non-real time RIC (Non-RT RIC) ) , a service management and orchestration (SMO) system, or any combination thereof.
[0084] An RU may also be referred to as a radio head, a smart radio head, a remote radio head (RRH) , a remote radio unit (RRU) , or a transmission reception point (TRP) . One or more components of the network entities 102 in a disaggregated RAN architecture may be co-located, or one or more components of the network entities 102 may be located in distributed locations (e.g., separate physical locations) . In some implementations, one or more network entities 102 of a disaggregated RAN architecture may be implemented as virtual units (e.g., a virtual CU (VCU) , a virtual DU (VDU) , a virtual RU (VRU) ) .
[0085] Split of functionality between a CU, a DU, and an RU may be flexible and may support different functionalities depending upon which functions (e.g., network layer functions, protocol layer functions, baseband functions, radio frequency functions, and any combinations thereof) are performed at a CU, a DU, or an RU. For example, a functional split of a protocol stack may be employed between a CU and a DU such that the CU may support one or more layers of the protocol stack and the DU may support one or more different layers of the protocol stack. In some implementations, the CU may host upper protocol layer (e.g., a layer 3 (L3) , a layer 2 (L2) ) functionality and signaling (e.g., radio resource control (RRC) , service data adaption protocol (SDAP) , packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) ) . The CU may be connected to one or more DUs or RUs, and the one or more DUs or RUs may host lower protocol layers, such as a layer 1 (L1) (e.g., physical (PHY) layer) or an L2 (e.g., radio link control (RLC) layer, medium access control (MAC) layer) functionality and signaling, and may each be at least partially controlled by the CU 160.
[0086] Additionally, or alternatively, a functional split of the protocol stack may be employed between a DU and an RU such that the DU may support one or more layers of the protocol stack and the RU may support one or more different layers of the protocol stack. The DU may support one or multiple different cells (e.g., via one or more RUs) . In some implementations, a functional split between a CU and a DU, or between a DU and an RU may be within a protocol layer (e.g., some functions for a protocol layer may be performed by one of a CU, a DU, or an RU, while other functions of the protocol layer are performed by a different one of the CU, the DU, or the RU) .
[0087] A CU may be functionally split further into CU control plane (CU-CP) and CU user plane (CU-UP) functions. A CU may be connected to one or more DUs via a midhaul communication link (e.g., F1, F1-c, F1-u) , and a DU may be connected to one or more RUs via a fronthaul communication link (e.g., open fronthaul (FH) interface) . In some implementations, a midhaul communication link or a fronthaul communication link may be implemented in accordance with an interface (e.g., a channel) between layers of a protocol stack supported by respective network entities 102 that are in communication via such communication links.
[0088] The core network 106 may support user authentication, access authorization, tracking, connectivity, and other access, routing, or mobility functions. The core network 106 may be an evolved packet core (EPC) , or a 5G core (5GC) , which may include a control plane entity that manages access and mobility (e.g., a mobility management entity (MME) , an access and mobility management functions (AMF) ) and a user plane entity that routes packets or interconnects to external networks (e.g., a serving gateway (S-GW) , a packet data network (PDN) gateway (P-GW) , or a user plane function (UPF) ) . In some implementations, the control plane entity may manage non-access stratum (NAS) functions, such as mobility, authentication, and bearer management (e.g., data bearers, signal bearers, etc. ) for the one or more UEs 104 served by the one or more network entities 102 associated with the core network 106.
[0089] The core network 106 may communicate with the packet data network 108 over one or more backhaul links 116 (e.g., via an S1, N2, N2, or another network interface) . The packet data network 108 may include an application server 118. In some implementations, one or more UEs 104 may communicate with the application server 118. A UE 104 may establish a session (e.g., a protocol data unit (PDU) session, or the like) with the core network 106 via a network entity 102. The core network 106 may route traffic (e.g., control information, data, and the like) between the UE 104 and the application server 118 using the established session (e.g., the established PDU session) . The PDU session may be an example of a logical connection between the UE 104 and the core network 106 (e.g., one or more network functions of the core network 106) .
[0090] In the wireless communications system 100, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may use resources of the wireless communications system 100 (e.g., time resources (e.g., symbols, slots, subframes, frames, or the like) or frequency resources (e.g., subcarriers, carriers) ) to perform various operations (e.g., wireless communications) . In some implementations, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may support different resource structures. For example, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may support different frame structures. In some implementations, such as in 4G, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may support a single frame structure. In some other implementations, such as in 5G and among other suitable radio access technologies, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may support various frame structures (i.e., multiple frame structures) . The network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may support various frame structures based on one or more numerologies.
[0091] One or more numerologies may be supported in the wireless communications system 100, and a numerology may include a subcarrier spacing and a cyclic prefix. A first numerology (e.g., μ=0) may be associated with a first subcarrier spacing (e.g., 15 kHz) and a normal cyclic prefix. In some implementations, the first numerology (e.g., μ=0) associated with the first subcarrier spacing (e.g., 15 kHz) may utilize one slot per subframe. A second numerology (e.g., μ=1) may be associated with a second subcarrier spacing (e.g., 30 kHz) and a normal cyclic prefix. A third numerology (e.g., μ=2) may be associated with a third subcarrier spacing (e.g., 60 kHz) and a normal cyclic prefix or an extended cyclic prefix. A fourth numerology (e.g., μ=3) may be associated with a fourth subcarrier spacing (e.g., 120 kHz) and a normal cyclic prefix. A fifth numerology (e.g., μ=4) may be associated with a fifth subcarrier spacing (e.g., 240 kHz) and a normal cyclic prefix.
[0092] A time interval of a resource (e.g., a communication resource) may be organized according to frames (also referred to as radio frames) . Each frame may have a duration, for example, a 10 millisecond (ms) duration. In some implementations, each frame may include multiple subframes. For example, each frame may include 10 subframes, and each subframe may have a duration, for example, a 1 ms duration. In some implementations, each frame may have the same duration. In some implementations, each subframe of a frame may have the same duration.
[0093] Additionally or alternatively, a time interval of a resource (e.g., a communication resource) may be organized according to slots. For example, a subframe may include a number (e.g., quantity) of slots. The number of slots in each subframe may also depend on the one or more numerologies supported in the wireless communications system 100. For instance, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth numerologies (i.e., μ=0, μ=1, μ=2, μ=3, μ=4) associated with respective subcarrier spacings of 15 kHz, 30 kHz, 60 kHz, 120 kHz, and 240 kHz may utilize a single slot per subframe, two slots per subframe, four slots per subframe, eight slots per subframe, and 16 slots per subframe, respectively. Each slot may include a number (e.g., quantity) of symbols (e.g., OFDM symbols) . In some implementations, the number (e.g., quantity) of slots for a subframe may depend on a numerology. For a normal cyclic prefix, a slot may include 14 symbols. For an extended cyclic prefix (e.g., applicable for 60 kHz subcarrier spacing) , a slot may include 12 symbols. The relationship between the number of symbols per slot, the number of slots per subframe, and the number of slots per frame for a normal cyclic prefix and an extended cyclic prefix may depend on a numerology. It should be understood that reference to a first numerology (e.g., μ=0) associated with a first subcarrier spacing (e.g., 15 kHz) may be used interchangeably between subframes and slots.
[0094] In the wireless communications system 100, an electromagnetic (EM) spectrum may be split, based on frequency or wavelength, into various classes, frequency bands, frequency channels, etc. By way of example, the wireless communications system 100 may support one or multiple operating frequency bands, such as frequency range designations FR1 (410 MHz –7.125 GHz) , FR2 (24.25 GHz –52.6 GHz) , FR3 (7.125 GHz –24.25 GHz) , FR4 (52.6 GHz –114.25 GHz) , FR4a or FR4-1 (52.6 GHz –71 GHz) , and FR5 (114.25 GHz –300 GHz) . In some implementations, the network entities 102 and the UEs 104 may perform wireless communications over one or more of the operating frequency bands. In some implementations, FR1 may be used by the network entities 102 and the UEs 104, among other equipment or devices for cellular communications traffic (e.g., control information, data) . In some implementations, FR2 may be used by the network entities 102 and the UEs 104, among other equipment or devices for short-range, high data rate capabilities.
[0095] FR1 may be associated with one or multiple numerologies (e.g., at least three numerologies) . For example, FR1 may be associated with a first numerology (e.g., μ=0) , which includes 15 kHz subcarrier spacing; a second numerology (e.g., μ=1) , which includes 30 kHz subcarrier spacing; and a third numerology (e.g., μ=2) , which includes 60 kHz subcarrier spacing. FR2 may be associated with one or multiple numerologies (e.g., at least 2 numerologies) . For example, FR2 may be associated with a third numerology (e.g., μ=2) , which includes 60 kHz subcarrier spacing; and a fourth numerology (e.g., μ=3) , which includes 120 kHz subcarrier spacing.
[0096] FIG. 2A illustrates an example signalling procedure 200 for transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. A base station (also referred to network entity or network equipment as illustrated in FIG. 1A) 102 transmits (202) at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window (such as a MG or a SMTC window) to the UE 104.
[0097] For example, a set of configuration parameters could be same as the set of configuration parameters for SMTC window as mentioned above.
[0098] The UE 104 receives (204) the at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window from the base station 102 and then may determine at least one measurement window based on the received configuration parameters. As for how to determine at least one measurement window based on the received configuration parameters, UE could use the same methods as mentioned above based on the set of the configuration parameter for SMTC window.
[0099] In some example embodiments, instead of transmitting at least one set of configuration parameters, the base station 102 may also send at least one configuration index to the UE 104, a configuration index indicates a corresponding set of configuration parameters preset in advance and known by both the UE 104 and the base station 102. In this case, the UE 104 may determine at least one measurement window based on configuration parameters indicated by the received configuration index.
[0100] At 206, the UE 104 determines, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window (hereafter also referred to configured measurement window X for clarity) is available for a predetermined transmission (such as physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, or reference signal (RS) transmission) when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window X. A configured measurement window being available for a predetermined transmission could mean if when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window, the predetermined transmission is transmitted, or the measurement is stopped in the measurement window.
[0101] At 208, the UE 104 transmits, to the base station 102, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window X in response to determining that the configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission.
[0102] By implementing the example embodiments of FIG. 2A, the UE 104 may determine measurement windows available for transmissions for other services, and use the same for these transmissions, thereby reducing latency of these services.
[0103] In present disclosure, there are several ways of determining whether a configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission. As an example, the UE 104 may determine whether a configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission based on a control signalling from the base station, a corresponding signalling procedure is shown in FIG. 2B.
[0104] FIG. 2B illustrates another example signalling procedure 200’ for transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
[0105] At 212, the base station 102 may transmit, to the UE 104, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window. These configuration parameters may be used by the UE 104 to determine at least one measurement window.
[0106] Thereafter, at 214, the base station 102 may transmit, to the UE 104, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling may be used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0107] The details of determining whether a configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission will be discussed below and with reference to FIGS. 3-5.
[0108] In the description below, a measurement window may include, but not limited to, a MG or a SMTC window, and the predetermined transmission may include, but not limited to, PUSCH transmission, or PUCCH transmission, or RS transmission.
[0109] In some example embodiments, whether a configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission may be determined by the UE 104. In other words, the UE 104 may determine whether the predetermined transmission (for example, PUSCH transmission, or PUCCH transmission, or RS transmission) should be transmitted in the configured measurement window X (for example. A MG or a SMTC window) , or in other words, whether the predetermined transmission (for example, PUSCH transmission, or PUCCH transmission, or RS transmission) should be transmitted.
[0110] In some example embodiments, the UE 104 may receive a control signalling from the base station 102 and determine whether the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission based on the control signalling.
[0111] In some example embodiments, the control signalling may include a first control signalling corresponding to the predetermined transmission, and the first control signalling may indicate one of the following: a priority of the predetermined transmission; whether the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission (for example, whether the predetermined transmission could override the configured measurement window X) ; and whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service (for example, the XR service) . The configured measurement window X may be determined to be available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the priority of the predetermined transmission is higher than a predetermined priority, or is a predefined priority, or the predetermined transmission is for the predetermined service, or the signaling indicates that the predetermined transmission could override the configured measurement window X.
[0112] In some example embodiments, the first control signalling may be or may be carried in a downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the predetermined transmission. For example, The DCI may be used to schedule the PUSCH transmission or PUCCH transmission, or the DCI may trigger the RS transmission.
[0113] In some example embodiments, the first control signalling may be indicated by a property information on the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission or a predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission.
[0114] In the case that the first control signalling is indicated by a predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission, the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission may include the predetermined field (i.e., bit field) to indicate a priority of the predetermined transmission, whether the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission, whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service, or the like. The first PUSCH transmission scheduled by the activation DCI for type 2 CG PUSCH transmission may also apply to this case.
[0115] For example, assuming that only PUSCH transmission with priority 2 or higher could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, then if the bit field indicates that a priority of a PUSCH transmission is 2, the PUSCH transmission could override the SMTC window or MG (that is, could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, or the SMTC window or MG is available for the PUSCH transmission) ; otherwise if the bit field indicates that the priority of the PUSCH transmission is 0 or 1, then the PUSCH transmission could not override the SMTC window or MG (that is, could not be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, or the SMTC window or MG is not available for the PUSCH transmission) .
[0116] In some example embodiments, whether the bit field is existed or not may be configured by RRC parameter per UE, per bandwidth part (BWP) or per DCI format. For example, the bit field may be only existed in some DCI formats. In such case, for a PUSCH or PUCCH or RS transmission corresponding to a DCI without the bit field, the default behavior may be that the PUSCH or PUCCH or RS transmission could not override the SMTC window or MG, that is, the UE 104 may determine that a PUSCH or PUCCH or RS transmission corresponding to a DCI without the bit field could not be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, or in other words, the SMTC window or MG is not available for a PUSCH or PUCCH or RS transmission corresponding to a DCI without the bit field.
[0117] In the case that the first control signalling is indicated by a property information on the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission, the property information may include one of a DCI format of the DCI, a search space (SS) set where the DCI is received, and a control resource set (CORESET) where the DCI is received. That is, the property information (e.g., the DCI format of the DCI, or the SS set where the DCI is received or the CORESET where the DCI is received) may be used to indicate a priority of the predetermined transmission, whether the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission, and / or whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service.
[0118] For example, if the DCI format of the DCI is a special DCI format or the DCI is received in a special SS set or a special CORESET, then it means that the priority of the PUSCH transmission or PUCCH transmission or RS transmission is higher and thus it could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, or that the PUSCH transmission or PUCCH transmission or RS transmission could override the SMTC window or MG (that is, could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG) , or that the PUSCH transmission or PUCCH transmission or RS transmission is for XR service and thus could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG.
[0119] In some example embodiments, above special DCI format or special SS set or special CORESET could be configured, for example, newly configured for the predetermined transmission, or predefined by the specification.
[0120] In some example embodiments, when there is no DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission or the predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission does not exist, the UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is not available for the predetermined transmission, that is, the predetermined transmission could not override the current measurement window X such as the SMTC window or MG.
[0121] For example, for RRC configured transmission without DCI, such as type 1 CG PUSCH transmission and RRC configured PUCCH transmission (including periodic and semi-static CSI or SR transmission and HARQ transmission for SPS PDSCH) , the configured measurement window X is not available for them, for example, they could not override the configured measurement window X such as the SMTC window or MG.
[0122] In some example embodiments, the first control signalling may also be or be indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for RRC configured transmission without DCI. For example, the RRC configured transmission includes one of type 1 configured grant (CG) PUSCH transmission, RRC configured PUCCH transmission (including: periodic and semi-static CSI or SR transmission and HARQ transmission for SPS PDSCH) , type 2 CG PUSCH transmission including the first PUSCH scheduled by an activation DCI, and type 2 CG PUSCH transmission without corresponding DCI. The RRC parameter may, like the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission, indicate a priority of the predetermined transmission, whether the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission, and / or whether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service.
[0123] For example, assuming that only PUSCH transmission with priority 2 or higher could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG, then if the RRC parameter indicates that a priority of a PUSCH transmission is 2, the PUSCH transmission could override the SMTC window or MG (that is, could be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG) ; otherwise if RRC parameter indicates that the priority of the PUSCH transmission is 0 or 1, then the PUSCH transmission could not override the SMTC window or MG (that is, could not be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG) .
[0124] In some example embodiments, for CG PUSCH transmission, the UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission (for example, the PUSCH transmission should be transmitted in the SMTC window or MG) if unused transmission occasion (TO) (UTO) -uplink control information (UCI) is configured by the RRC parameter for the CG configuration.
[0125] In some example embodiments, the control signalling may include a second control signalling indicating which configured measurement windows within a predetermined time domain window are available for the predetermined transmission (for example, should be override by the predetermined transmission) . The predetermined time domain window may be configured by an RRC parameter, and it could be a time domain window whose starting symbol is after a time difference of the second control signalling (for example, it could be a time domain window whose starting symbol is after a time difference of starting symbol or ending symbol of the second control signalling) . The time difference may be configured by an RRC parameter or could be indicated by the second control signalling itself.
[0126] FIG. 3 illustrates an example of the second control signalling for the predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 3, the second control signalling may be a DCI 301. Block 302 indicates the predetermined time domain window configured by an RRC parameter, the time domain window length of it may be equal to M*period of the measurement window (M is a Positive integer, for example, 4) . TD indicates the time difference between the DCI 301 and the first symbol of the predetermined time domain window 302, and it may be configured by an RRC parameter or could be indicated by the DCI 301. Blocks 303-306 indicates measurement windows in the predetermined time domain window 302, and whether these measurement windows indicated by the blocks 303-306 are available for a predetermined transmission may be indicated by respective bit in the DCI 301. For example, for the four measurement windows 303-306 shown in FIG. 3, 4 bits in the DCI 301 may be used to indicate whether they are available for a predetermined transmission, e.g., a first bit value, e.g., “0” , means that a corresponding measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission, a second bit value, e.g., “1” , means that a corresponding measurement window is not available for a predetermined transmission, vice versa.
[0127] In some example embodiments, the second control signalling may be used alone as mentioned above, or may be used in combination with the first control signalling, that is, with respect to a measurement window determined to be available for a predetermined transmission according to the second control signalling or a measurement window other than the measurement windows determined to be not available for a predetermined transmission according to the second control signalling, the UE 104 may further determine whether it could be used for the predetermined transmission according to the first control signalling, and when it is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission (or could be override by the predetermined transmission) according to both the first control signalling and the second control signalling, the predetermined transmission may be transmitted in this measurement window.
[0128] In some example embodiments, the control signalling may include a third control signalling indicating a new measurement window (e.g., a MG or SMTC window) in which one measurement should be performed, the new measurement window is different from the at least one measurement window configured previously. Then the UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission.
[0129] Particularly, in the case of the third control signalling, a new measurement window (or a predetermined time duration) may be indicated by the third control signalling such that the measurement may be only performed in the new measurement window, which means that the new measurement window is not available for a predetermined transmission or should not override by the predetermined transmission, but the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission since measurement will not be performed in the configured measurement window X.
[0130] Particularly, a new measurement window (or a predetermined time duration) may be indicated by the third control signalling such that the measurement may be only performed in the new measurement window, which could guarantee the requirements of cell selection or beam selection, which means that the new measurement window is not available for a predetermined transmission or should not override by the predetermined transmission, but all the previously configured measurement window are available for the predetermined transmission.
[0131] FIG. 4 illustrates an example of the third control signalling for the predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 4, the third control signalling may be a DCI 401. It may also be a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling (not shown) . The third control signalling may indicate a time difference between it and the new measurement window (indicated by a black block in FIG. 4) , and the duration of the measurement, for example, the third control signalling may indicate a duration from a set of configured or predefined durations.
[0132] Similar as the second signalling, the third control signalling may be used alone as mentioned above, or may be used in combination with the first control signalling, that is, with respect to a measurement window determined to be available for a predetermined transmission according to the third control signalling, the UE 104 may further determine whether it could be used for the predetermined transmission according to the first control signalling, and when it is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission (or could be override by the predetermined transmission) according to both the first control signalling and the third control signalling, the predetermined transmission may be transmitted in this measurement window.
[0133] In some example embodiments, the control signalling may include a fourth control signalling for activating or releasing measurement in one measurement window or a set of measurement windows. The UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission in response to a measurement in the configured measurement window X is released (that is, will not be performed) via the fourth control signalling. Alternatively, the UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is not available for the predetermined transmission in response to the measurement in the configured measurement window is activated (that is, may be performed) via the fourth control signalling.
[0134] Similar as the second and the third signalling , the fourth control signalling may be used alone as mentioned above, or may be used in combination with the first control signalling, that is, with respect to a measurement window determined to be available for a predetermined transmission according to the fourth control signalling, or a measurement window other than measurement windows determined to be not available for a predetermined transmission according to the fourth control signalling, the UE 104 may further determine whether it could be used for the predetermined transmission according to the first control signalling, and when it is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission (or could be override by the predetermined transmission) according to both the first control signalling and the fourth control signalling, the predetermined transmission may be transmitted in this measurement window.
[0135] Herein, the fourth control signalling may be a DCI, and the DCI may be scrambled by a special (or predetermined) RNTI or has a special (or predetermined) DCI format. In the case that the fourth control signalling is a DCI, it may include a DCI field indicating a set of configuration parameters of a measurement window for which measurement is activated or released, and / or a DCI field indicating a position of the measurement window from which measurement is activated or released. That is, UE 104 may determine that a measurement window configured by the set of configuration parameters indicated in the fourth control signalling will be activated for measurement, or a measurement window located in a position indicated in the fourth control signalling will be activated for measurement.
[0136] For example, the DCI field may include a DCI field that could indicate which configuration (which set of configuration parameters) is activated. Alternatively or additionally, the DCI field (for example, TDRA field) could be used to indicate the duration (from the configured or predefined multiple durations) . Alternatively or additionally, the DCI field (for example, FDRA field) could be used to indicate the offset and period (from the configured or predefined multiple offsets and periods) . Alternatively or additionally, the DCI field can include a DCI field that could be used to indicate the time difference between the DCI and the start of the period of the measurement window.
[0137] In some example embodiments, the control signalling may include a fifth control signalling for indicating a new set of configuration parameters different from the at least one set of configuration parameters transmitted by the base station previously (for example, at 202 in FIG. 2) , and the UE 104 may determine to do measurement in measurement windows configured based on the new set of configuration parameters, and determine that the configured measurement window X is available for the predetermined transmission. That is, the measurement may be only performed in the measurement windows configured based on the new set of configuration parameters, which means that the new measurement window is not available for a predetermined transmission, but the other measurement windows including the configured measurement window X are available for the predetermined transmission. Herein, the fifth control signalling may be a UE specific DCI or a group common DCI or MAC CE.
[0138] In some example embodiments, the fifth control signalling may indicate a measurement window, in which a measurement is to be done, to switch to a new set of configuration parameters (such as the duration or a period or a new offset) , and it may indicate which set of configuration parameters to switch to, by an index of the set, or switch to a default set of configuration parameters. Thereby, the configured measurement window X will not be used for measurement anymore and thus become available for the predetermined transmission (or could be override by the UE 104) .
[0139] In some example embodiments, the UE 104 may do measurement in the measurement window configured by the new set of configuration parameters in a time window configured or predefined or indicated by the fifth control signalling.
[0140] Similar as abovementioned signalling, the fifth control signalling may be used alone as mentioned above, or may be used in combination with the first control signalling, that is, with respect to a measurement window determined to be available for a predetermined transmission according to the fifth control signalling, the UE 104 may further determine whether it could be used for the predetermined transmission according to the first control signalling, and when it is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission (or could be override by the predetermined transmission) according to both the first control signalling and the fifth control signalling, the predetermined transmission may be transmitted in this measurement window.
[0141] Discussed in the previous whether a predetermined transmission may be transmitted in a configured measurement window X is determined by signalling (s) from the base station 102. However, present application is not limited thereto. The UE 104 may determine whether a predetermined transmission may be transmitted in a configured measurement window X without those signalling, which will be discussed in detail below.
[0142] In some example embodiments, the UE 104 may determine whether a predetermined transmission may be transmitted in a configured measurement window X by itself (for example, based on the UE implementation) , and then send an indication of the configured measurement window X to the base station indicating whether the configured measurement window X is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission. The indication could be in a same channel with the signalling used to indicate which TO is unused. The indication can be indicated before a time offset before a corresponding time window predefined or configured by RRC signalling, and indicate which measurement window in the time window is available.
[0143] In some example embodiments, if a TO is overlapped with a measurement window, and if the TO is not indicated as unused, then it means the measurement window is override (i.e., be used for the predetermined transmission) , and if the TO is indicated as unused, then it means the measurement window is not override (i.e., be not used for the predetermined transmission) .
[0144] FIG. 5 illustrates an example of an indication of a measurement window available for a predetermined transmission in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 5, uplink control information (UCI) 501 is used as an example of the indication. Block 502 is the time window configured by RRC signalling or predefined, TL indicates the time difference between the UCI 501 and the first symbol of the predetermined time window 502. Blocks 503-506 in the block 502 indicate measurement windows, and whether these measurement windows indicated by the blocks 503-506 could be used for a predetermined transmission may be indicated by respective bits in the UCI 501. For example, for the four measurement windows 503-506 shown in FIG. 5, 4 bits in the UCI 501 may be used to indicates whether they are to be used for a predetermined transmission, e.g., a bit value “0” means that corresponding measurement window is to be used for a predetermined transmission, and a bit value “1” means that corresponding measurement window is not used for a predetermined transmission, vice versa.
[0145] In some example embodiments, if there is no such indication, which means no measurement window is override (i.e. no measurement window will be used for the predetermined transmission) .
[0146] In some example embodiments, UE may use multiple set of configuration parameters when configuring measurement windows, and for each set of configuration parameters, the duration and periodicity and offset may be configured differently.
[0147] In some example embodiments, the multiple set of configuration parameters may include respective priorities of corresponding measurement windows. For example, a first measurement window configured by a first set of configuration parameter may have a priority 1, and a second measurement window configured by a second set of configuration parameter may have a priority 2, and so on. The UE 104 may determine whether a configured measurement window X is available for a predetermined transmission (or whether the predetermined transmission could be transmitted in the configured measurement window X) by comparing the priority of the configured measurement window X and a predefined priority of the predetermined transmission. If the priority of the configured measurement window X is higher than (or higher than or equal to) the predefined priority of the predetermined transmission, the configured measurement window X is not override and the predetermined transmission cannot be transmitted in the configured measurement window X, else, the configured measurement window X should be override and the predetermined transmission is to be transmitted in the configured measurement window X.
[0148] In some example embodiments, the UE 104 may determine that the configured measurement window X is not available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the configured measurement window X is configured by a predefined set of configuration parameters (may be indicated by lowest or highest or specific configuration index) .
[0149] In some example embodiments, in the case that measurement windows are configured by different sets of configuration parameters and are overlapped with each other, or the time difference between these measurement windows configured by the different sets of configuration parameters is lower than a threshold, UE 104 may determine to do measurement only in the measurement windows with priorities higher than other measurement windows among the configured measurement windows. The priority may be configured in corresponding configuration parameters or determined based on corresponding index of the measurement window. For example, small index or large index may correspond to higher priority
[0150] FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a device 600 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The device 600 may be an example of a UE 104 as described herein. The device 600 may support wireless communication with one or more network entities 102. The device 600 may include components for bi-directional communications including components for transmitting and receiving communications, such as a processor 602, a memory 604, a transceiver 606, and, optionally, an I / O controller 608. These components may be in electronic communication or otherwise coupled (e.g., operatively, communicatively, functionally, electronically, electrically) via one or more interfaces (e.g., buses) .
[0151] The processor 602, the memory 604, the transceiver 606, or various combinations thereof or various components thereof may be examples of means for performing various aspects of the present disclosure as described herein. For example, the processor 602, the memory 604, the transceiver 606, or various combinations or components thereof may support a method for performing one or more of the operations described herein.
[0152] In some implementations, the processor 602, the memory 604, the transceiver 606, or various combinations or components thereof may be implemented in hardware (e.g., in communications management circuitry) . The hardware may include a processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) , an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof configured as or otherwise supporting a means for performing the functions described in the present disclosure. In some implementations, the processor 602 and the memory 604 coupled with the processor 602 may be configured to perform one or more of the functions described herein (e.g., executing, by the processor 602, instructions stored in the memory 604) .
[0153] For example, the processor 602 may support wireless communication at the device 600 in accordance with examples as disclosed herein. The processor 602 may be configured to operable to support a means for receiving, via the transceiver 606 and from a base station 102, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; means for determining, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and means for transmitting, via the transceiver 606 and to the base station 102, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.
[0154] The processor 602 may include an intelligent hardware device (e.g., a general-purpose processor, a DSP, a CPU, a microcontroller, an ASIC, an FPGA, a programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic component, a discrete hardware component, or any combination thereof) . In some implementations, the processor 602 may be configured to operate a memory array using a memory controller. In some other implementations, a memory controller may be integrated into the processor 602. The processor 602 may be configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in a memory (e.g., the memory 604) to cause the device 600 to perform various functions of the present disclosure.
[0155] The memory 604 may include random access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM) . The memory 604 may store computer-readable, computer-executable code including instructions that, when executed by the processor 602 cause the device 600 to perform various functions described herein. The code may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium such as system memory or another type of memory. In some implementations, the code may not be directly executable by the processor 602 but may cause a computer (e.g., when compiled and executed) to perform functions described herein. In some implementations, the memory 604 may include, among other things, a basic I / O system (BIOS) which may control basic hardware or software operation such as the interaction with peripheral components or devices.
[0156] The I / O controller 608 may manage input and output signals for the device 600. The I / O controller 608 may also manage peripherals not integrated into the device M02. In some implementations, the I / O controller 608 may represent a physical connection or port to an external peripheral. In some implementations, the I / O controller 608 may utilize an operating system such as or another known operating system. In some implementations, the I / O controller 608 may be implemented as part of a processor, such as the processor 606. In some implementations, a user may interact with the device 600 via the I / O controller 608 or via hardware components controlled by the I / O controller 608.
[0157] In some implementations, the device 600 may include a single antenna 610. However, in some other implementations, the device 600 may have more than one antenna 610 (i.e., multiple antennas) , including multiple antenna panels or antenna arrays, which may be capable of concurrently transmitting or receiving multiple wireless transmissions. The transceiver 606 may communicate bi-directionally, via the one or more antennas 610, wired, or wireless links as described herein. For example, the transceiver 606 may represent a wireless transceiver and may communicate bi-directionally with another wireless transceiver. The transceiver 606 may also include a modem to modulate the packets, to provide the modulated packets to one or more antennas 610 for transmission, and to demodulate packets received from the one or more antennas 610. The transceiver 606 may include one or more transmit chains, one or more receive chains, or a combination thereof.
[0158] A transmit chain may be configured to generate and transmit signals (e.g., control information, data, packets) . The transmit chain may include at least one modulator for modulating data onto a carrier signal, preparing the signal for transmission over a wireless medium. The at least one modulator may be configured to support one or more techniques such as amplitude modulation (AM) , frequency modulation (FM) , or digital modulation schemes like phase-shift keying (PSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) . The transmit chain may also include at least one power amplifier configured to amplify the modulated signal to an appropriate power level suitable for transmission over the wireless medium. The transmit chain may also include one or more antennas 610 for transmitting the amplified signal into the air or wireless medium.
[0159] A receive chain may be configured to receive signals (e.g., control information, data, packets) over a wireless medium. For example, the receive chain may include one or more antennas 610 for receive the signal over the air or wireless medium. The receive chain may include at least one amplifier (e.g., a low-noise amplifier (LNA) ) configured to amplify the received signal. The receive chain may include at least one demodulator configured to demodulate the receive signal and obtain the transmitted data by reversing the modulation technique applied during transmission of the signal. The receive chain may include at least one decoder for decoding the processing the demodulated signal to receive the transmitted data.
[0160] FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a device 700 that supports transmission in measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The device 700 may be an example of a base station 102 as described herein. The device 700 may support wireless communication with UE 104. The device 700 may include components for bi-directional communications including components for transmitting and receiving communications, such as a processor 702, a memory 704, a transceiver 706, and, optionally, an I / O controller 708. These components may be in electronic communication or otherwise coupled (e.g., operatively, communicatively, functionally, electronically, electrically) via one or more interfaces (e.g., buses) .
[0161] The processor 702, the memory 704, the transceiver 706, or various combinations thereof or various components thereof may be examples of means for performing various aspects of the present disclosure as described herein. For example, the processor 702, the memory 704, the transceiver 706, or various combinations or components thereof may support a method for performing one or more of the operations described herein.
[0162] In some implementations, the processor 702, the memory 704, the transceiver 706, or various combinations or components thereof may be implemented in hardware (e.g., in communications management circuitry) . The hardware may include a processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) , an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof configured as or otherwise supporting a means for performing the functions described in the present disclosure. In some implementations, the processor 702 and the memory 704 coupled with the processor 702 may be configured to perform one or more of the functions described herein (e.g., executing, by the processor 702, instructions stored in the memory 704) .
[0163] For example, the processor 702 may support wireless communication at the device 700 in accordance with examples as disclosed herein. The processor 702 may be configured to operable to support a means for transmitting, via the transceiver 706 and to a UE 104, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; and means for transmitting, via the transceiver 706 and to the UE 104, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE 104 to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0164] The processor 702 may include an intelligent hardware device (e.g., a general-purpose processor, a DSP, a CPU, a microcontroller, an ASIC, an FPGA, a programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic component, a discrete hardware component, or any combination thereof) . In some implementations, the processor 702 may be configured to operate a memory array using a memory controller. In some other implementations, a memory controller may be integrated into the processor 702. The processor 702 may be configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in a memory (e.g., the memory 704) to cause the device 700 to perform various functions of the present disclosure.
[0165] The memory 704 may include random access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM) . The memory 704 may store computer-readable, computer-executable code including instructions that, when executed by the processor 702 cause the device 700 to perform various functions described herein. The code may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium such as system memory or another type of memory. In some implementations, the code may not be directly executable by the processor 702 but may cause a computer (e.g., when compiled and executed) to perform functions described herein. In some implementations, the memory 704 may include, among other things, a basic I / O system (BIOS) which may control basic hardware or software operation such as the interaction with peripheral components or devices.
[0166] The I / O controller 708 may manage input and output signals for the device 700. The I / O controller 708 may also manage peripherals not integrated into the device M02. In some implementations, the I / O controller 708 may represent a physical connection or port to an external peripheral. In some implementations, the I / O controller 708 may utilize an operating system such as or another known operating system. In some implementations, the I / O controller 708 may be implemented as part of a processor, such as the processor 706. In some implementations, a user may interact with the device 700 via the I / O controller 708 or via hardware components controlled by the I / O controller 708.
[0167] In some implementations, the device 700 may include a single antenna 710. However, in some other implementations, the device 700 may have more than one antenna 710 (i.e., multiple antennas) , including multiple antenna panels or antenna arrays, which may be capable of concurrently transmitting or receiving multiple wireless transmissions. The transceiver 706 may communicate bi-directionally, via the one or more antennas 710, wired, or wireless links as described herein. For example, the transceiver 706 may represent a wireless transceiver and may communicate bi- directionally with another wireless transceiver. The transceiver 706 may also include a modem to modulate the packets, to provide the modulated packets to one or more antennas 710 for transmission, and to demodulate packets received from the one or more antennas 710. The transceiver 706 may include one or more transmit chains, one or more receive chains, or a combination thereof.
[0168] A transmit chain may be configured to generate and transmit signals (e.g., control information, data, packets) . The transmit chain may include at least one modulator for modulating data onto a carrier signal, preparing the signal for transmission over a wireless medium. The at least one modulator may be configured to support one or more techniques such as amplitude modulation (AM) , frequency modulation (FM) , or digital modulation schemes like phase-shift keying (PSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) . The transmit chain may also include at least one power amplifier configured to amplify the modulated signal to an appropriate power level suitable for transmission over the wireless medium. The transmit chain may also include one or more antennas 710 for transmitting the amplified signal into the air or wireless medium.
[0169] A receive chain may be configured to receive signals (e.g., control information, data, packets) over a wireless medium. For example, the receive chain may include one or more antennas 710 for receive the signal over the air or wireless medium. The receive chain may include at least one amplifier (e.g., a low-noise amplifier (LNA) ) configured to amplify the received signal. The receive chain may include at least one demodulator configured to demodulate the receive signal and obtain the transmitted data by reversing the modulation technique applied during transmission of the signal. The receive chain may include at least one decoder for decoding the processing the demodulated signal to receive the transmitted data.
[0170] FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a processor 800 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The processor 800 may be an example of a processor configured to perform various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor 800 may include a controller 802 configured to perform various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor 800 may optionally include at least one memory 804, such as L1 / L2 / L3 cache. Additionally, or alternatively, the processor 800 may optionally include one or more arithmetic-logic units (ALUs) 800. One or more of these components may be in electronic communication or otherwise coupled (e.g., operatively, communicatively, functionally, electronically, electrically) via one or more interfaces (e.g., buses) .
[0171] The processor 800 may be a processor chipset and include a protocol stack (e.g., a software stack) executed by the processor chipset to perform various operations (e.g., receiving, obtaining, retrieving, transmitting, outputting, forwarding, storing, determining, identifying, accessing, writing, reading) in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor chipset may include one or more cores, one or more caches (e.g., memory local to or included in the processor chipset (e.g., the processor 800) or other memory (e.g., random access memory (RAM) , read-only memory (ROM) , dynamic RAM (DRAM) , synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) , static RAM (SRAM) , ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) , magnetic RAM (MRAM) , resistive RAM (RRAM) , flash memory, phase change memory (PCM) , and others) .
[0172] The controller 802 may be configured to manage and coordinate various operations (e.g., signaling, receiving, obtaining, retrieving, transmitting, outputting, forwarding, storing, determining, identifying, accessing, writing, reading) of the processor 800 to cause the processor 800 to support various operations of a base station in accordance with examples as described herein. For example, the controller 802 may operate as a control unit of the processor 800, generating control signals that manage the operation of various components of the processor 800. These control signals include enabling or disabling functional units, selecting data paths, initiating memory access, and coordinating timing of operations.
[0173] The controller 802 may be configured to fetch (e.g., obtain, retrieve, receive) instructions from the memory 804 and determine subsequent instruction (s) to be executed to cause the processor 800 to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The controller 802 may be configured to track memory address of instructions associated with the memory 804. The controller 802 may be configured to decode instructions to determine the operation to be performed and the operands involved. For example, the controller 802 may be configured to interpret the instruction and determine control signals to be output to other components of the processor 800 to cause the processor 800 to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. Additionally, or alternatively, the controller 802 may be configured to manage flow of data within the processor 800. The controller 802 may be configured to control transfer of data between registers, arithmetic logic units (ALUs) , and other functional units of the processor 800.
[0174] The memory 804 may include one or more caches (e.g., memory local to or included in the processor 800 or other memory, such RAM, ROM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM, MRAM, flash memory, etc. In some implementation, the memory 804 may reside within or on a processor chipset (e.g., local to the processor 800) . In some other implementations, the memory 804 may reside external to the processor chipset (e.g., remote to the processor 800) .
[0175] The memory 804 may store computer-readable, computer-executable code including instructions that, when executed by the processor 800, cause the processor 800 to perform various functions described herein. The code may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium such as system memory or another type of memory. The controller 802 and / or the processor 800 may be configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in the memory 804 to cause the processor 800 to perform various functions. For example, the processor 800 and / or the controller 802 may be coupled with or to the memory 804, and the processor 800, the controller 802, and the memory 804 may be configured to perform various functions described herein. In some examples, the processor 800 may include multiple processors and the memory 804 may include multiple memories. One or more of the multiple processors may be coupled with one or more of the multiple memories, which may, individually or collectively, be configured to perform various functions herein.
[0176] The one or more ALUs 800 may be configured to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementation, the one or more ALUs 800 may reside within or on a processor chipset (e.g., the processor 800) . In some other implementations, the one or more ALUs 800 may reside external to the processor chipset (e.g., the processor 800) . One or more ALUs 800 may perform one or more computations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on data. For example, one or more ALUs 800 may receive input operands and an operation code, which determines an operation to be executed. One or more ALUs 800 be configured with a variety of logical and arithmetic circuits, including adders, subtractors, shifters, and logic gates, to process and manipulate the data according to the operation. Additionally, or alternatively, the one or more ALUs 800 may support logical operations such as AND, OR, exclusive-OR (XOR) , not-OR (NOR) , and not-AND (NAND) , enabling the one or more ALUs 800 to handle conditional operations, comparisons, and bitwise operations.
[0177] The processor 800 may support wireless communication in accordance with examples as disclosed herein. The processor 800 may be configured to or operable to support a means for receiving, via a transceiver 606 and from a base station102, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; means for determining, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and means for transmitting, via the transceiver 606 and to the base station 102, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.
[0178] FIG. 9 illustrates an example of a processor 900 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The processor 900 may be an example of a processor configured to perform various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor 900 may include a controller 902 configured to perform various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor 900 may optionally include at least one memory 904, such as L1 / L2 / L3 cache. Additionally, or alternatively, the processor 900 may optionally include one or more arithmetic-logic units (ALUs) 900. One or more of these components may be in electronic communication or otherwise coupled (e.g., operatively, communicatively, functionally, electronically, electrically) via one or more interfaces (e.g., buses) .
[0179] The processor 900 may be a processor chipset and include a protocol stack (e.g., a software stack) executed by the processor chipset to perform various operations (e.g., receiving, obtaining, retrieving, transmitting, outputting, forwarding, storing, determining, identifying, accessing, writing, reading) in accordance with examples as described herein. The processor chipset may include one or more cores, one or more caches (e.g., memory local to or included in the processor chipset (e.g., the processor 900) or other memory (e.g., random access memory (RAM) , read-only memory (ROM) , dynamic RAM (DRAM) , synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) , static RAM (SRAM) , ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) , magnetic RAM (MRAM) , resistive RAM (RRAM) , flash memory, phase change memory (PCM) , and others) .
[0180] The controller 902 may be configured to manage and coordinate various operations (e.g., signaling, receiving, obtaining, retrieving, transmitting, outputting, forwarding, storing, determining, identifying, accessing, writing, reading) of the processor 900 to cause the processor 900 to support various operations of a UE in accordance with examples as described herein. For example, the controller 902 may operate as a control unit of the processor 900, generating control signals that manage the operation of various components of the processor 900. These control signals include enabling or disabling functional units, selecting data paths, initiating memory access, and coordinating timing of operations.
[0181] The controller 902 may be configured to fetch (e.g., obtain, retrieve, receive) instructions from the memory 904 and determine subsequent instruction (s) to be executed to cause the processor 900 to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. The controller 902 may be configured to track memory address of instructions associated with the memory 904. The controller 902 may be configured to decode instructions to determine the operation to be performed and the operands involved. For example, the controller 902 may be configured to interpret the instruction and determine control signals to be output to other components of the processor 900 to cause the processor 900 to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. Additionally, or alternatively, the controller 902 may be configured to manage flow of data within the processor 900. The controller 902 may be configured to control transfer of data between registers, arithmetic logic units (ALUs) , and other functional units of the processor 900.
[0182] The memory 904 may include one or more caches (e.g., memory local to or included in the processor 900 or other memory, such RAM, ROM, DRAM, SDRAM, SRAM, MRAM, flash memory, etc. In some implementation, the memory 904 may reside within or on a processor chipset (e.g., local to the processor 900) . In some other implementations, the memory 904 may reside external to the processor chipset (e.g., remote to the processor 900) .
[0183] The memory 904 may store computer-readable, computer-executable code including instructions that, when executed by the processor 900, cause the processor 900 to perform various functions described herein. The code may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium such as system memory or another type of memory. The controller 902 and / or the processor 900 may be configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in the memory 904 to cause the processor 900 to perform various functions. For example, the processor 900 and / or the controller 902 may be coupled with or to the memory 904, and the processor 900, the controller 902, and the memory 904 may be configured to perform various functions described herein. In some examples, the processor 900 may include multiple processors and the memory 904 may include multiple memories. One or more of the multiple processors may be coupled with one or more of the multiple memories, which may, individually or collectively, be configured to perform various functions herein.
[0184] The one or more ALUs 900 may be configured to support various operations in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementation, the one or more ALUs 900 may reside within or on a processor chipset (e.g., the processor 900) . In some other implementations, the one or more ALUs 900 may reside external to the processor chipset (e.g., the processor 900) . One or more ALUs 900 may perform one or more computations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on data. For example, one or more ALUs 900 may receive input operands and an operation code, which determines an operation to be executed. One or more ALUs 900 be configured with a variety of logical and arithmetic circuits, including adders, subtractors, shifters, and logic gates, to process and manipulate the data according to the operation. Additionally, or alternatively, the one or more ALUs 900 may support logical operations such as AND, OR, exclusive-OR (XOR) , not-OR (NOR) , and not-AND (NAND) , enabling the one or more ALUs 900 to handle conditional operations, comparisons, and bitwise operations.
[0185] The processor 900 may support wireless communication in accordance with examples as disclosed herein. The processor 900 may be configured to or operable to support a means for transmitting, via a transceiver 706 and to a UE 104, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; and means for transmitting, via the transceiver706 and to the UE 104, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.
[0186] FIG. 10 illustrates a flowchart of a method 1000 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of the method 1000 may be implemented by a device or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of the method 1000 may be performed by a UE 104 as described herein. In some implementations, the device may execute a set of instructions to control the function elements of the device to perform the described functions. Additionally, or alternatively, the device may perform aspects of the described functions using special-purpose hardware.
[0187] At 1005, the method may include receiving from a base station 102, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window. The operations of 1005 may be performed in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementations, aspects of the operations of 1005 may be performed by a device as described with reference to FIG. 1A.
[0188] At 1010, the method may include determining, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window. The operations of 1010 may be performed in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementations, aspects of the operations of 1010 may be performed by a device as described with reference to FIG. 1A.
[0189] At 1015, the method may include transmitting, to the base station 102, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission. The operations of 1015 may be performed in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementations, aspects of the operations of 1015 may be performed by a device as described with reference to FIG. 1A.
[0190] FIG. 11 illustrates a flowchart of a method 1100 that supports transmission in a measurement window in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of the method 1100 may be implemented by a device or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of the method 1100 may be performed by a base station 102 as described herein. In some implementations, the device may execute a set of instructions to control the function elements of the device to perform the described functions. Additionally, or alternatively, the device may perform aspects of the described functions using special-purpose hardware.
[0191] At 1105, the method may include transmitting, to a UE 104, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window. The operations of 1105 may be performed in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementations, aspects of the operations of 1105 may be performed by a device as described with reference to FIG. 1A.
[0192] At 1110, the method may include transmitting, to the UE 104, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window. The operations of 1110 may be performed in accordance with examples as described herein. In some implementations, aspects of the operations of 1110 may be performed by a device as described with reference to FIG. 1A.
[0193] It should be noted that the methods described herein describes possible implementations, and that the operations and the steps may be rearranged or otherwise modified and that other implementations are possible. Further, aspects from two or more of the methods may be combined.
[0194] The various illustrative blocks and components described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented or performed with a general-purpose processor, a DSP, an ASIC, a CPU, an FPGA or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices (e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
[0195] The functions described herein may be implemented in hardware, software executed by a processor, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software executed by a processor, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Other examples and implementations are within the scope of the disclosure and appended claims. For example, due to the nature of software, functions described herein may be implemented using software executed by a processor, hardware, firmware, hardwiring, or combinations of any of these. Features implementing functions may also be physically located at various positions, including being distributed such that portions of functions are implemented at different physical locations.
[0196] Computer-readable media includes both non-transitory computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A non-transitory storage medium may be any available medium that may be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer. By way of example, non-transitory computer-readable media may include RAM, ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM) , flash memory, compact disk (CD) ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transitory medium that may be used to carry or store desired program code means in the form of instructions or data structures and that may be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor.
[0197] As used herein, including in the claims, an article “a” before an element is unrestricted and understood to refer to “at least one” of those elements or “one or more” of those elements. The terms “a, ” “at least one, ” “one or more, ” and “at least one of one or more” may be interchangeable. As used herein, including in the claims, “or” as used in a list of items (e.g., a list of items prefaced by a phrase such as “at least one of” or “one or more of” or “one or both of” ) indicates an inclusive list such that, for example, a list of at least one of A, B, or C means A or B or C or AB or AC or BC or ABC (i.e., A and B and C) . Also, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall not be construed as a reference to a closed set of conditions. For example, an example step that is described as “based on condition A” may be based on both a condition A and a condition B without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. In other words, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall be construed in the same manner as the phrase “based at least in part on. Further, as used herein, including in the claims, a “set” may include one or more elements.
[0198] The description herein is provided to enable a person having ordinary skill in the art to make or use the disclosure. Various modifications to the disclosure will be apparent to a person having ordinary skill in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other variations without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Thus, the disclosure is not limited to the examples and designs described herein but is to be accorded the broadest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
Claims
1.A user equipment (UE) comprising:a processor; anda transceiver coupled to the processor,wherein the processor is configured to:receive, via the transceiver and from a base station, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window;determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; andtransmit, via the transceiver and to the base station, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.2.The UE of claim 1, wherein the predetermined transmission includes one of the following:physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission;physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; andreference signal (RS) transmission.3.The UE of claim 1, wherein a measurement window includes one of a measurement gap (MG) and a synchronization signalling block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window.4.The UE of claim 1, wherein determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission comprises:receiving, via the transceiver and from a base station, a control signalling; anddetermining whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission based on the control signalling.5.The UE of claim 4, wherein the control signalling includes a first control signalling corresponding to the predetermined transmission, and the first control signalling indicates one of the following:a priority of the predetermined transmission;whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission; andwhether the predetermined transmission is for a predetermined service,wherein the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the priority of the predetermined transmission is higher than a predetermined priority or is a predefined priority or the predetermined transmission is for the predetermined service.6.The UE of claim 5, wherein the first control signalling is a property information on a downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the predetermined transmission or a predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission,wherein the property information on the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission includes one of the following:a DCI format of the DCI;a search space (SS) set where the DCI is received; anda control resource set (CORESET) where the DCI is received.7.The UE of claim 1, wherein determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission further comprises:determining the configured measurement window is not available for the predetermined transmission when there is no DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission or the predetermined field of the DCI corresponding to the predetermined transmission does not exist.8.The UE of claim 5, wherein the first control signalling is indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) parameter for RRC configured transmission without DCI.9.The UE of claim 8, wherein the RRC configured transmission includes one of the following:type 1 configured grant (CG) PUSCH transmission;RRC configured PUCCH transmission;type 2 CG PUSCH transmission including the first PUSCH scheduled by an activation DCI; andtype 2 CG PUSCH transmission without corresponding DCI.10.The UE of claim 9, wherein determining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission further comprises:determining, for CG PUSCH transmission, that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission if unused transmission occasion (TO) (UTO) -uplink control information (UCI) is configured by the RRC parameter for the CG configuration.11.The UE of claim 4 or 5, wherein the control signalling includes a second control signalling indicating which configured measurement windows within a predetermined time domain window are available for the predetermined transmission.12.The UE of claim 4 or 5, wherein the control signalling includes a third control signalling indicating a first measurement window in which one measurement is performed, the first measurement window being different from the configured at least one measurement window, anddetermining whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission further comprises: determining that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission.13.The UE of claim 4, wherein the control signalling includes a fifth control signalling indicating a set of configuration parameters different from the at least one set of configuration parameters, and the processor is further configured to:determine to do measurement in measurement windows determined based on the set of configuration parameters, anddetermine that the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission.14.The UE of claim 1, the processor is further configured to transmit an indication of the configured measurement window to the base station indicating whether the configured measurement window is determined to be available for the predetermined transmission.15.The UE of claim 1, wherein the at least one set of configuration parameters include respective priorities of the configured at least one measurement window,wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission by comparing the priority of the configured measurement window and a predefined priority of the predetermined transmission.16.The UE of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine that the configured measurement window is not available for the predetermined transmission in the case that the configured measurement window is configured by a predefined set of configuration parameters.17.The UE of claim 1, wherein in the case that configured measurement windows are configured by different sets of configuration parameters and are overlapped with each other, or the time difference between the configured measurement windows configured by the different sets of configuration parameters is lower than a threshold, the processor is configured to determine to do measurement only in the measurement windows with priorities higher than other measurement windows among the configured measurement windows.18.A method performed by a user equipment, the method comprising:receiving, from a base station, at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window;determining, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window; and transmitting, to the base station, the predetermined transmission in the configured measurement window in response to determining that the configured measurement window is available for a predetermined transmission.19.A base station, comprising:a processor; anda transceiver coupled to the processor,wherein the processor is configured to:transmit, via the transceiver and to a user equipment (UE) , at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; andtransmit, via the transceiver and to the UE, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.20.A method performed by a base station, the method comprising:transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) , at least one set of configuration parameters for configuring at least one measurement window; andtransmitting, to the UE, a control signalling corresponding to a predetermined transmission, the control signalling being used by the UE to determine, among the configured at least one measurement window, whether a configured measurement window is available for the predetermined transmission when the predetermined transmission is overlapped with the configured measurement window.