Uplink Resource Switching After Cancellation Indication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Preemption or cancellation of downlink and uplink transmissions in wireless communication systems can reduce reliability and coverage for non-URLLC service UEs, such as eMBB service UEs, and subsequent signaling to provide new resources results in excessive overhead.

Innovation Solution

UEs are configured with scheduled alternate resources and dynamically select these resources based on information in a cancellation indication to maintain reliability and coverage without additional signaling overhead.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If preemption or cancellation of downlink and uplink transmissions is performed to support URLLC services, then URLLC service quality is improved, but reliability and coverage for non-URLLC service UEs deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability for non-URLLC service UEsVSAvoidURLLC service quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-configures alternate uplink resources for non-URLLC UEs before cancellation indications are received. When a cancellation indication occurs, the UE can immediately switch to the pre-configured alternate resources without waiting for additional signaling, thereby maintaining reliability while allowing URLLC preemption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The cancellation indication message serves as an intermediary that carries implicit information about which resources are affected. The UE uses this intermediate signal to trigger switching to alternate resources, resolving the conflict between URLLC quality and non-URLLC reliability without requiring direct re-scheduling signaling

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If subsequent signaling is used to provide new resources after cancellation indication, then resource allocation for non-URLLC UEs is maintained, but signaling overhead increases excessively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation for non-URLLC UEsVSAvoidsignaling overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The non-URLLC UE autonomously identifies and switches to alternate uplink resources based on the cancellation indication received, without requiring the network to send additional re-scheduling signaling. The UE uses the implicit information in the cancellation indication (such as the time resource index) to self-determine the alternate resources, thereby eliminating excessive signaling overhead while maintaining resource allocation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Alternate resources and the rules for identifying them are pre-configured in the UE before cancellation occurs. This preliminary configuration enables the UE to immediately switch resources upon receiving the cancellation indication without waiting for subsequent signaling, thus reducing signaling overhead while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4147521B1Resource identification for uplink scheduled transmission after cancellation indication receipt
Publication Date: 2025.11.19 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a cancellation indication, to drop one or more scheduled uplink communications associated with a first one or more scheduled uplink resources, in a group-common downlink control information message of a downlink control channel communication; identify, based at least in part on the cancellation indication, a second one or more scheduled uplink resources for a particular uplink communication; and transmit the particular uplink communication using the second one or more scheduled uplink resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.