Timing Offset for Wireless Data Signaling Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-frequency wireless communication systems, particularly those using millimeter waves, face challenges in efficient time domain scheduling and beam management due to the small size and ubiquity of beams, leading to complications in data signaling and timing alignment.
Innovation Solution
A method for operating radio nodes in wireless communication networks that utilizes a timing offset for data signaling, allowing flexible scheduling and avoidance of overlap between control regions and data signaling, particularly suitable for 5G and future generations of wireless communication systems, by indicating a start timing based on a timing offset relative to control information messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If beamforming with small beams is used at high frequencies, then communication bandwidth is improved, but timing alignment and scheduling complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the time domain into distinct regions: control regions (CORESETs) and data signaling regions (PDSCH/PUSCH). By dividing the time domain resources and assigning different timing offsets to different UEs, the system manages scheduling complexity while maintaining high bandwidth utilization through beamforming.
2Productivity
If multiple UEs with different CORESET configurations are scheduled, then system capacity is improved, but overlap between control regions and data signaling occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a timing offset dimension to resolve conflicts in the time domain. By applying different timing offsets to different UEs, the system ensures that control regions and data signaling regions do not overlap, even when multiple UEs with different CORESET configurations are scheduled simultaneously, thus maintaining both system capacity and resource allocation reliability.
3Productivity
If flexible time domain scheduling is implemented, then communication efficiency is improved, but overhead for scheduling increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies timing offsets selectively based on UE-specific configurations and scheduling requirements. Rather than applying complex scheduling mechanisms to all UEs uniformly, the system uses timing offsets only where needed to prevent overlaps, thereby maintaining communication efficiency while minimizing scheduling overhead.
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AI summary
There is disclosed a method of operating a communicating radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating utilising data signaling based on a timing offset, wherein a start of the data signaling in time domain relative to a reception time of a control information message scheduling the data signaling is based on the timing offset. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.