Demodulation reference signal configuration and indication
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- EP · EP
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- ZTE CORP
- Filing Date
- 2023-08-30
- Publication Date
- 2026-07-01
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DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION AND INDICATIONTECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] This document is directed generally to digital wireless communications.BACKGROUND
[0002] Mobile telecommunication technologies are moving the world toward an increasingly connected and networked society. In comparison with the existing wireless networks, next generation systems and wireless communication techniques will need to support a much wider range of use-case characteristics and provide a more complex and sophisticated range of access requirements and flexibilities.
[0003] Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless communication for mobile devices and data terminals developed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . LTE Advanced (LTE-A) is a wireless communication standard that enhances the LTE standard. The 5th generation of wireless system, known as 5G, advances the LTE and LTE-Awireless standards and is committed to supporting higher data-rates, large number of connections, ultra-low latency, high reliability and other emerging business needs.SUMMARY
[0004] An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a network device, a message that includes a first value that indicates a first set of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports to a communication device, wherein a total number of DMRS ports in the first set of DMRS ports is greater than or equal to two; and receiving, by the network device from the communication device, a transmission that uses a single carrier and the first set of DMRS ports.
[0005] In some embodiments, the first value that identifies the first set of DMRS ports associated with any one or more of: a code division multiplexing (CDM) group, at least two CDM groups, a time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, 1] , or a time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, -1] , where the first value indicates the first set of DMRS ports is transmitted in response to a transmission rank for a single carrier based uplink shared channel transmission being greater than one. In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports, and the second set of DMRS ports is associated with a plurality of CDM groups, and at least one DMRS port of the second set of DMRS ports shares a same CDM group from the plurality of CDM groups with that of the first set of DMRS ports.
[0006] In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with another CDM group that is different from that associated with the first set of DMRS ports. In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with a same CDM group that is associated with the first set of DMRS ports in response to a same time division orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) being associated with the first set of DMRS ports. In some embodiments, the first set of DMRS ports is configured to be transform precoded and demodulated with pi / 2 BPSK in response to a transmission rank for the transmission that uses the single carrier being greater than one.
[0007] In some embodiments, one or more other DMRS ports in a same or different CDM group than that of the first set of DMRS ports are refrained from being indicated to a second communication device. In some embodiments, the first set of DMRS ports with same indexes and different scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device. In some embodiments, a second set of DMRS ports with different DMRS port indexes are indicated to another communication device. In some embodiments, different DMRS ports with a same scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device. In some embodiments, the transmission is associated with a plurality of phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) ports.
[0008] In some embodiments, data for the transmission is mapped according to where and relates to the plurality of PTRS ports, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0. In some embodiments, a number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated for each of the plurality PTRS ports respectively, wherein a number of samples per PTRS group is same for the plurality of PTRS ports, or the number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated to be same for each of the plurality PTRS ports, wherein the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports, or the number of PTRS groups and the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports. In some embodiments, for each transmission layer, only a position of associated PTRS port is considered for data mapping according to where and relates to an associated PTRS port, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0. In some embodiments, the message is configured by a radio resource control (RRC) , activated by medium access control-control element (MAC CE) , or indicated by downlink control information (DCI) .
[0009] In yet another exemplary aspect, the above-described methods are embodied in the form of processor-executable code and stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The code included in the computer readable storage medium when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement the methods described in this patent document.
[0010] In yet another exemplary embodiment, a device that is configured or operable to perform the above-described methods is disclosed.
[0011] The above and other aspects and their implementations are described in greater detail in the drawings, the descriptions, and the claims.
[0012] BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
[0013] FIG. 1 shows that the positions of two PTRS port are considered in each layer mapping.
[0014] FIG. 2 shows an exemplary flowchart for receiving a transmission that uses a single carrier and a set of DMRS ports.
[0015] FIG. 3 shows an exemplary block diagram of a hardware platform that may be a part of a network device or a communication device.
[0016] FIG. 4 shows an example of wireless communication including a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) based on some implementations of the disclosed technology.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0017] A one layer transmission can be supported for Discrete Fourier Transform-Spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) , which can also be referred to as a single carrier based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. For the data mapping for transmission, one layer (v=1) and which is the complex-valued symbols, depends on the configuration of phase-tracking reference signals (PTRSs) .
[0018] If phase-tracking reference signals are not being used, the block of complex-valued symbols for the single layer λ=0 may be divided into sets, each corresponding to one OFDM symbol and
[0019] If phase-tracking reference signals are being used, the block of complex-valued symbols may be divided into sets, each set corresponding to one OFDM symbol, and where set l contains symbols and is mapped to the complex-valued symbols corresponding to OFDM symbol l prior to transform precoding, with The index m of PT-RS samples in set l, the number of samples per PT-RS group and the number of PT-RS groups The quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0.
[0020] resulting in a block of complex-valued symbols The variable where represents the bandwidth of the PUSCH in terms of resource blocks, and may fulfil
[0021] where α2, α3, α5 is a set of non-negative integers.
[0022] For demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port indication, only one DMRS port is enabled, hence the transmitted precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) and the DMRS ports are both indicated with single layer transmission. One of the technical problems with current technology is that in an uplink transmission and for single carrier PUSCH transmission, only one DMRS port is supported. To support more than one layer transmission in an uplink direction from a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS) , techniques need to be developed regarding (1) how to generate the number of layers PUSCH, (2) the TPMI design, (3) the sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI) design, and (4) the DMRS port design, all of which can be different from the corresponding techniques for performing cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) .
[0023] The example headings for the various sections below are used to facilitate the understanding of the disclosed subject matter and do not limit the scope of the claimed subject matter in any way. Accordingly, one or more features of one example section can be combined with one or more features of another example section. Furthermore, 5G terminology is used for the sake of clarity of explanation, but the techniques disclosed in the present document are not limited to 5G technology only, and may be used in wireless systems that implemented other protocols.
[0024] I. Example Embodiment I
[0025] A base station (BS) can indicate a number of DMRS ports (e.g., a total number of DMRS ports) to UE, wherein the UE may perform UL transmission (e.g., on PUSCH) for single carrier (e.g. DFT-s-OFDM) based on the indicated DMRS ports, where the number of DMRS ports may be at least two. In some embodiments, a base station can transmit in a downlink control information (DCI) the identifier (s) of the DMRS port (s) which the UE can use to perform UL transmission on PUSCH.
[0026] Considering that the rank can be indicated by SRI or TPMI field, at least one new table may be used for DMRS port indication. For SC based PUSCH transmission, there are different use cases with different DMRS port indication.
[0027] For SC based PUSCH transmission, e.g., where a transform precoder is enabled, but transform precoder is not configured for DMRS, and π / 2-BPSK modulation is not used, two code division multiplexing (CDM) groups can be indicated for DMRS type 1, and three CDM groups can be indicated for DMRS type 2.
[0028] Considering for single symbol DMRS, e.g., only one OFDM symbol may be configured or indicated for front-loaded DMRS, up to two DMRS ports can be supported for one CDM group. In order to reduce the interference from other UEs, two restrictions for DMRS port indication can be considered.
[0029] In some embodiments, if a maximum rank (also known as transmission rank) for single carrier (SC) based PUSCH is configured to be more than 1, then the other DMRS port from all the CDM groups may not be indicated by the gNB to other UEs, so that multi-user (MU) scheduling may not be supported in this case. For example, using the information indicated in Table 1-1, if one UE is indicated a value of 0 to indicate to the UE that the UE can use DMRS ports 0, 1 for UL PUSCH transmission, then another UE cannot be indicated a value of 1 for the another UE to use DMRS ports 0, 2. So, for the DMRS port indication, when only one CDM group are supported, only DMRS port#0, 1 are indicated. Also, in order to reduce the interference from different DMRS ports, the two DMRS ports can be indicated from different CDM groups, e.g., DMRS ports#0, 2, where this combination can also be used for PUSCH to different TRPs. From above analysis, the DMRS port indication can be as shown in Table 1-1, only 1 bit may be needed. Also, in such case double symbol DMRS, i.e., maxlength =2 may not be configured.
[0030] Table 1-1: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=2, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and transform precoding (tp) -pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0031] If the rank is indicated with more than 2, then the indication for 3 layers and 4 layers transmission are shown in Tables 1-2 and 1-3
[0032] Table 1-2: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=3, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured and π / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0033] Table 1-3: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=4, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0034] For double symbol DMRS, if the rank is indicated with more than 2, then the indication for 3 layers and 4 layers transmission are shown as table 1-4 and 1-5
[0035] Table 1-4: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=3, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0036] Table 1-5: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=4, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured and π / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0037] In some other embodiments, if max rank for SC based PUSCH is configured more than 1, then the other DMRS ports from the CDM groups which is indicated to the target UE may not be indicated to other UEs, e.g., different UEs can be co-scheduled with different DMRS CDM groups. For example, if UE1 is indicated with DMRS port#0, 1, e.g., DMRS ports from CDM group#0, the other UEs can be indicated with the DMRS ports from other CDM groups, e.g. DMRS ports#2, 3 for other UEs. However, in this example, the gNB does not indicate to the other UE a value of 2 for DMRS ports#0, 2 because DMRS port#0 is assigned to UE1. For single symbol DMRS, the DMRS ports can be indicated as shown in table 1-2, 1-3 and 1-4.
[0038] Table 1-2: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=2, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0039] Table 1-3: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=3, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured and π / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0040] Table 1-4: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=4, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0041] In such case, for double symbol DMRS, up to 4 DMRS ports are supported, the different UEs can be indicated with the DMRS ports from different CDM groups for rank =3 and 4.
[0042] Table 1-5: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=2, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured and π / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0043] Table 1-6: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=3, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0044] Table 1-7: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=4, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0045] In some other embodiments, if max rank for SC based PUSCH is configured more than 1, then the other DMRS ports from the CDM groups with the same TD-OCC code which is indicated to the target UE may not be indicated by the gNB to other UEs. For example, different UEs can be co-scheduled with different TD-OCC in the same DMRS CDM groups. For example, for rank=2, DMRS#0, 1, 4, 5 are in the same CDM group#0, DMRS port#0, 1 can be indicated to the target UE with TD-OCC = [1, 1] , DMRS port 4, 5 with TD-OCC= [1, -1] can be indicated to other UEs. The DMRS port indication table can be found in table 1-8.
[0046] Table 1-8: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=2, except that dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured andπ / 2-BPSK modulation is used
[0047] II. Example Embodiment 2
[0048] For low PAPR based PUSCH where DMRS may be used as transform precoding, and π / 2-BPSK modulation is used. The similar restriction rule can be reused. And the DMRS port can be indicated as shown in table 2-1.
[0049] Table 2-1: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured, π / 2-BPSK modulation is used, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=1, rank=2
[0050] When low PAPR based PUSCH is configured by the gNB, and with rank>1, MU scheduling may not be supported by the gNB. Thus, for example, only value 0 can supported or indicated by the gNB, and there may not be a need to indicate the DMRS ports by the gNB. When different DMRS ports can be supported for different UEs, for example, values 4 and 5 can be supported, and each value can be indicated to different UEs respectively. It can be similar for double symbol DMRS, as shown in table 2-2.
[0051] Table 2-2: Antenna port (s) , transform precoder is enabled, dmrs-UplinkTransformPrecoding and tp-pi2BPSK are both configured, π / 2-BPSK modulation is used, dmrs-Type=1, maxLength=2, rank=2
[0052] If it is restricted that different UEs are indicated with different DMRS ports, then only value 20-25 may be supported.
[0053] If UE are restricted that may not be scheduled for MU-MIMO, then the value 0 can be supported as value 0 or 20. By default, value 0 can be supported.
[0054] Similar with TD-OCC based DMRS, DMRS ports#0, 4 can be indicated to one UE and DMRS port #2, 6 can be indicated to other UEs, e.g., value 8 and value 12. Or DMRS port#0, 2 can be indicated to one UE and DMRS port 4, 6 can be indicated to other UEs, e.g., value 0 and value 16.
[0055] In order to reduce the DCI overhead, if UE is indicated with different DMRS port, the related value of nSCID=0 may be considered and other values can be deleted in table 2-2, e.g., value 1-3, 5-7, 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19 may not be needed.
[0056] III. Example Embodiment 3
[0057] For SC based PUSCH data mapping for transmission, each layer is mapped on symbols and is mapped to the complex-valued symbols corresponding to OFDM symbol l prior to transform precoding, with and i′≠m. The index m of PT-RS samples in set l, the number of samples per PT-RS group and the number of PT-RS groups The quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0.
[0058] If more than one PTRS port are supported, the positions of the two PTRS port may be all considered, as shown in FIG. 1. For each layer mapping, both of the two PTRS ports can be considered by mapping the related PTRS port with PTRS sequence and by mapping the other PTRS port being without data, e.g., zero padding.
[0059] If more than one PTRS ports are configured or indicated, the number of PTRS group is doubled, or the number of samples per PTRS group is doubled. In this case, UE should map the PTRS on the UE should map the data on or which means, for each layer transmission, if SDM is used between the two PTRS ports by using OCC, the positions of PTRS port related the the transmission layer should be considered not to be used for data mapping, if the two PTRS ports are mapped on different resources, the positions of the two PTRS ports should not be used for data mapping for all the layers.
[0060] Considering the scheduling bandwidth is the same for different transmission layers, the number of PTRS groups and number of samples per PTRS group are the same for different PTRS ports.
[0061] If number of PTRS group is doubled, the number of samples per group stays the same for different PTRS ports, i.e., wherein the parameter P is the total number of PTRS port
[0062] If the number of samples per PTRS group are doubled, the number of PTRS groups stays the same for different PTRS port, i.e., wherein the parameter P is the total number of PTRS port
[0063] If more than one PTRS port are supported, the positions of the only related PTRS port is considered, then the data is mapped as where the and relates the associated PTRS port.
[0064] IV. Example Embodiment 4
[0065] For PUSCH, the precoding and Rank are indicated by the gNB by TPMI field for codebook based transmission. The precoder for 2 layers may be indicated as shown in table 4-1. In Table 4-1, TPMI index 0 indicates precoding W indicated as in second row, second column from left, TPMI index 1 indicates precoding W indicated as in second row, third column from left, and so on.
[0066] Table 4-1 precoder for 2 layers
[0067] FIG. 2 shows an exemplary flowchart for receiving a transmission that uses a single carrier and a set of DMRS ports. Operation 202 includes transmitting, by a network device, a message that includes a first value that indicates a first set of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports to a communication device, wherein a total number of DMRS ports in the first set of DMRS ports is greater than or equal to two. Operation 204 includes receiving, by the network device from the communication device, a transmission that uses a single carrier and the first set of DMRS ports.
[0068] In some embodiments, the first value that identifies the first set of DMRS ports associated with any one or more of: a code division multiplexing (CDM) group, at least two CDM groups, a time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, 1] , or a time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, -1] , where the first value indicates the first set of DMRS ports is transmitted in response to a transmission rank for a single carrier based uplink shared channel transmission being greater than one. In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports, and the second set of DMRS ports is associated with a plurality of CDM groups, and at least one DMRS port of the second set of DMRS ports shares a same CDM group from the plurality of CDM groups with that of the first set of DMRS ports.
[0069] In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with another CDM group that is different from that associated with the first set of DMRS ports. In some embodiments, the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with a same CDM group that is associated with the first set of DMRS ports in response to a same time division orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) being associated with the first set of DMRS ports. In some embodiments, the first set of DMRS ports is configured to be transform precoded and demodulated with pi / 2 BPSK in response to a transmission rank for the transmission that uses the single carrier being greater than one.
[0070] In some embodiments, one or more other DMRS ports in a same or different CDM group than that of the first set of DMRS ports are refrained from being indicated to a second communication device. In some embodiments, the first set of DMRS ports with same indexes and different scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device. In some embodiments, a second set of DMRS ports with different DMRS port indexes are indicated to another communication device. In some embodiments, different DMRS ports with a same scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device. In some embodiments, the transmission is associated with a plurality of phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) ports.
[0071] In some embodiments, data for the transmission is mapped according to where and relates to the plurality of PTRS ports, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0. In some embodiments, a number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated for each of the plurality PTRS ports respectively, wherein a number of samples per PTRS group is same for the plurality of PTRS ports, or the number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated to be same for each of the plurality PTRS ports, wherein the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports, or the number of PTRS groups and the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports. In some embodiments, for each transmission layer, only a position of associated PTRS port is considered for data mapping according to where and relates to an associated PTRS port, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0. In some embodiments, the message is configured by a radio resource control (RRC) , activated by medium access control-control element (MAC CE) , or indicated by downlink control information (DCI) .
[0072] FIG. 3 shows an exemplary block diagram of a hardware platform 300 that may be a part of a network device (e.g., base station) or a communication device (e.g., a user equipment (UE) ) . The hardware platform 300 includes at least one processor 310 and a memory 305 having instructions stored thereupon. The instructions upon execution by the processor 310 configure the hardware platform 300 to perform the operations described in FIGS. 1 to 2 and in the various embodiments described in this patent document. The transmitter 315 transmits or sends information or data to another device. For example, a network device transmitter can send a message to a user equipment. The receiver 320 receives information or data transmitted or sent by another device. For example, a user equipment can receive a message from a network device.
[0073] The implementations as discussed above will apply to a wireless communication. FIG. 4 shows an example of a wireless communication system (e.g., a 5G or NR cellular network) that includes a base station 420 and one or more user equipment (UE) 411, 412 and 413. In some embodiments, the UEs access the BS (e.g., the network) using a communication link to the network (sometimes called uplink direction, as depicted by dashed arrows 431, 432, 433) , which then enables subsequent communication (e.g., shown in the direction from the network to the UEs, sometimes called downlink direction, shown by arrows 441, 442, 443) from the BS to the UEs. In some embodiments, the BS send information to the UEs (sometimes called downlink direction, as depicted by arrows 441, 442, 443) , which then enables subsequent communication (e.g., shown in the direction from the UEs to the BS, sometimes called uplink direction, shown by dashed arrows 431, 432, 433) from the UEs to the BS. The UE may be, for example, a smartphone, a tablet, a mobile computer, a machine to machine (M2M) device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, and so on.
[0074] This patent document describes at least the following example techniques:
[0075] A number of DMRS ports may be indicated to UE, where the UE may perform UL transmission for single carrier based on the indicated DMRS port, wherein the number of DMRS ports may be at least 2.
[0076] ● If max rank for SC based PUSCH is configured more than 1, then the other DMRS port from all the CDM groups may not be indicated to other UEs, e.g., MU scheduling may not be supported in this case.
[0077] ● If max rank for SC based PUSCH is configured more than 1, then the other DMRS ports from the CDM groups which is indicated to the target UE may not be indicated to other UEs, e.g., different UEs can be co-scheduled with different DMRS CDM groups.
[0078] ● If max rank for SC based PUSCH is configured more than 1, then the other DMRS ports from the CDM groups with the same TD-OCC code which is indicated to the target UE may not be indicated to other UEs, e.g., different UEs can be co-scheduled with different TD-OCC in the same DMRS CDM groups.
[0079] When low PAPR based PUSCH is configured, and with rank>1,
[0080] ● MU scheduling may not be supported.
[0081] ● Different DMRS ports can be indicated for different UEs, the same DMRS with different nSCID are indicated to one UE
[0082] ○ For example, DMRS ports#0, 4 can be indicated to one UE and DMRS port #2, 6 can be indicated to other UEs
[0083] ○ For example, DMRS port#0, 2 can be indicated to one UE and DMRS port 4,6 can be indicated to other UEs, e.g., value 0 and value 16 in Table 2-2.
[0084] ● Different DMRS ports can be indicated to one UE with the same nSCID
[0085] If more than one PTRS port are supported, the positions of the two PTRS port may be all considered for data mapping for transmission.
[0086] ● If number of PTRS group is doubled, the number of samples per group stays the same for different PTRS ports, i.e., wherein the parameter P is the total number of PTRS port
[0087] ● If the number of samples per PTRS group are doubled, the number of PTRS groups stays the same for different PTRS port. i.e., wherein the parameter P is the total number of PTRS port
[0088] If more than one PTRS port are supported, the positions of the only related PTRS port is considered, then the data is mapped as where the and relates the associated PTRS port.
[0089] In this document the term “exemplary” is used to mean “an example of” and, unless otherwise stated, does not imply an ideal or a preferred embodiment.
[0090] Some of the embodiments described herein are described in the general context of methods or processes, which may be implemented in one embodiment by a computer program product, embodied in a computer-readable medium, including computer-executable instructions, such as program code, executed by computers in networked environments. A computer-readable medium may include removable and non-removable storage devices including, but not limited to, Read Only Memory (ROM) , Random Access Memory (RAM) , compact discs (CDs) , digital versatile discs (DVD) , etc. Therefore, the computer-readable media can include a non-transitory storage media. Generally, program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Computer-or processor-executable instructions, associated data structures, and program modules represent examples of program code for executing steps of the methods disclosed herein. The particular sequence of such executable instructions or associated data structures represents examples of corresponding acts for implementing the functions described in such steps or processes.
[0091] Some of the disclosed embodiments can be implemented as devices or modules using hardware circuits, software, or combinations thereof. For example, a hardware circuit implementation can include discrete analog and / or digital components that are, for example, integrated as part of a printed circuit board. Alternatively, or additionally, the disclosed components or modules can be implemented as an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and / or as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Some implementations may additionally or alternatively include a digital signal processor (DSP) that is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing associated with the disclosed functionalities of this application. Similarly, the various components or sub-components within each module may be implemented in software, hardware or firmware. The connectivity between the modules and / or components within the modules may be provided using any one of the connectivity methods and media that is known in the art, including, but not limited to, communications over the Internet, wired, or wireless networks using the appropriate protocols.
[0092] While this document contains many specifics, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of an invention that is claimed or of what may be claimed, but rather as descriptions of features specific to particular embodiments. Certain features that are described in this document in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination. Moreover, although features may be described above as acting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excised from the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to a sub-combination or a variation of a sub-combination. Similarly, while operations are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results.
[0093] Only a few implementations and examples are described and other implementations, enhancements and variations can be made based on what is described and illustrated in this disclosure.
Claims
1.A wireless communication method, comprising:transmitting, by a network device, a message that includes a first value that indicates a first set of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports to a communication device, wherein a total number of DMRS ports in the first set of DMRS ports is greater than or equal to two; andreceiving, by the network device from the communication device, a transmission that uses a single carrier and the first set of DMRS ports.2.The method of claim 1, wherein the first value that identifies the first set of DMRS ports associated with any one or more of:a code division multiplexing (CDM) group,at least two CDM groups,a time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, 1] , ora time domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) of [1, -1] ,wherein the first value indicates the first set of DMRS ports is transmitted in response to a transmission rank for a single carrier based uplink shared channel transmission being greater than one.3.The method of claim 2,wherein the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports, andwherein the second set of DMRS ports is associated with a plurality of CDM groups, andwherein at least one DMRS port of the second set of DMRS ports shares a same CDM group from the plurality of CDM groups with that of the first set of DMRS ports.4.The method of claim 2,wherein the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with another CDM group that is different from that associated with the first set of DMRS ports.5.The method of claim 2,wherein the network device refrains from transmitting to another communication device a second value that indicates a second set of DMRS ports that is associated with a same CDM group that is associated with the first set of DMRS ports in response to a same time division orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) being associated with the first set of DMRS ports.6.The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of DMRS ports is configured to be transform precoded and demodulated with pi / 2 BPSK in response to a transmission rank for the transmission that uses the single carrier being greater than one.7.The method of claim 6, wherein one or more other DMRS ports in a same or different CDM group than that of the first set of DMRS ports are refrained from being indicated to a second communication device.8.The method of claim 6, wherein the first set of DMRS ports with same indexes and different scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device.9.The method of claim 8, wherein a second set of DMRS ports with different DMRS port indexes are indicated to another communication device.10.The method of claim 6, wherein different DMRS ports with a same scrambling identifier (nSCID) are indicated to the communication device.11.The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission is associated with a plurality of phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) ports.12.The method of claim 11, wherein data for the transmission is mapped according to wherein and relates to the plurality of PTRS ports, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0.13.The method of claim 11,wherein a number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated for each of the plurality PTRS ports respectively, wherein a number of samples per PTRS group is same for the plurality of PTRS ports, orwherein the number of PTRS groups is configured or indicated to be same for each of the plurality PTRS ports, wherein the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports, orwherein the number of PTRS groups and the number of samples per PTRS group are configured or indicated to be same for the plurality of PTRS ports.14.The method of claim 11, wherein for each transmission layer, only a position of associated PTRS port is considered for data mapping according to where and relates to an associated PTRS port, relates to a scheduled bandwidth for uplink transmission expressed as a number of subcarriers, a quantity εl=1 when OFDM symbol l contains one or more PT-RS samples, otherwise εl=0.15.The method of claim 1, wherein the message is configured by a radio resource control (RRC) , activated by medium access control-control element (MAC CE) , or indicated by downlink control information (DCI) .16.An apparatus for wireless communication comprising a processor, configured to implement a method recited in one or more of claims 1 to 15.17.A non-transitory computer readable program storage medium having code stored thereon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method recited in one or more of claims 1 to 15.