Wireless Signal Reception Scheduling via HARQ Process Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems face challenges in effectively scheduling and transmitting multiple data signals, particularly in efficiently allocating hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process numbers and applying control information across multiple subframes.

Innovation Solution

The method involves receiving downlink control information that schedules multiple subframes, allocating HARQ process numbers, and applying scheduling information to specific subframes while omitting others, with the option to pre-allocate HARQ process numbers and using combinatorial indexing for efficient resource management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If one control information schedules multiple data signals across multiple subframes, then control signaling overhead is reduced and resource utilization is improved, but allocation of HARQ process numbers becomes more complex and difficult to manage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidHARQ process number allocation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the allocation of HARQ process numbers by dividing them into different groups or sets, where each group corresponds to specific subframes or data signals. This segmentation allows the system to manage multiple HARQ processes independently, reducing the complexity of allocating and tracking HARQ process numbers across multiple subframes while maintaining efficient resource utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If control information is applied across multiple subframes for scheduling, then spectrum efficiency is improved, but handling and applying control information correctly becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectrum efficiencyVSAvoidcontrol information application difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by associating specific control information with particular subframes or resource allocations rather than applying uniform control information across all subframes. This allows the system to optimize control information application for each local context (specific subframe or data signal), making it easier to handle and apply control information correctly while maintaining high spectrum efficiency across the multiple subframes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Loss of energy

If multiple data signals are scheduled using single control information, then control signaling overhead is reduced, but reliability of correct signal transmission and reception becomes more challenging to ensure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol signaling overheadVSAvoidsignal transmission reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring and pre-notifying parameters such as HARQ process numbers, resource allocations, and other critical scheduling information before the actual data transmission occurs. This preliminary configuration ensures that both the base station and user equipment have a clear understanding of the transmission parameters in advance, reducing control signaling overhead during actual transmission while ensuring reliable signal transmission and reception through pre-established agreements on resource usage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3664353B1Method for receiving signal and apparatus for same
Publication Date: 2022.05.04 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a method for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for same, and comprises a step of receiving, via a physical downlink control channel, downlink control information including scheduling information for a K number of subframes, wherein K is bigger than 1, the scheduling information is not applied to at least one subframe when the at least one subframe from among the K number of subframes is a special subframe, and wherein the special subframe is at least a subframe configured to a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN), a subframe configured to receive a physical multicast channel (PMCH), a subframe configured so that a positioning reference signal (PRS) is transmitted, or a subframe including a downlink section, a protection section, and an uplink section.