WO2024097133A1 - Sélection de ressources de domaine temporel - Google Patents

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WO2024097133A1
WO2024097133A1 PCT/US2023/036288 US2023036288W WO2024097133A1 WO 2024097133 A1 WO2024097133 A1 WO 2024097133A1 US 2023036288 W US2023036288 W US 2023036288W WO 2024097133 A1 WO2024097133 A1 WO 2024097133A1
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Weidong Yang
Dawei Zhang
Wei Zeng
Haitong Sun
Hong He
Sigen Ye
Ankit Bhamri
Oghenekome Oteri
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  • the present application relates to wireless communications, and more particularly t( systems, apparatuses, and methods for selecting time domain resources in a wirelesi communication system.
  • Wireless communication systems are rapidly growing in usage.
  • wireless devices such as smart phones and tablet computers have become increasingly sophisticated.
  • mobile devices i.e., use equipment devices or UEs
  • GPS global positioning system
  • wirelesi communication standards include GSM, UMTS (associated with, for example, WCDMA o TD-SCDMA air interfaces), LTE, LTE Advanced (LTE- A), NR, HSPA, 3GPP2 CDMA200C (e g., IxRTT, IxEV-DO, HRPD, eHRPD), IEEE 802.11 (WLAN or Wi-Fi), BLUETOOTHTM etc.
  • Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for selecting time domain resources in a wireless communication system.
  • a wireless device may be capable o using a resource adjustment rule to select a subset of time domain resources provided by ai uplink grant when not all of the time domain resources provided by the uplink grant are needec by the wireless device to perform uplink transmissions.
  • it may be possibh to use techniques described herein in conjunction with either or both of configured grant o dynamic grant uplink grant types.
  • the wireless device may perform the uplink transmission ⁇ to a serving cellular base station using the selected subset of the time domain resources.
  • the cellular base station may perform transmission coordination between multiph such wireless devices, for example by providing uplink grants that include the same or at leas partially overlapping resources to multiple wireless devices that are configured with differen resource adjustment rules.
  • the resource adjustment rules with which the wirelesi devices are configured may be designed to minimize overlap between the time domaii resources used by those wireless devices as much as possible.
  • the resource adjustment rule(s may be configured to be time-invariant or time-variant, according to various embodiments.
  • a cellular base station t dynamically schedule a wireless device to make use of time domain resources that are vacate! by another wireless device. This may be facilitated by a wireless device that is vacating sor time domain resources providing signaling to the cellular base station to indicate the vacate! resources, at least according to some embodiments.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary (and simplified) wireless communication system according to some embodiments
  • Figure 2 illustrates an exemplary base station in communication with an exemplan wireless user equipment (UE) device, according to some embodiments
  • Figure 3 illustrates an exemplary block diagram of a UE, according to sorm embodiments
  • Figure 4 illustrates an exemplary block diagram of a base station, according to sor embodiments
  • Figure 5 is a flowchart diagram illustrating aspects of an exemplary possible methoc for selecting time domain resources in a wireless communication system, according to sorm embodiments
  • FIGS 6-7 illustrate aspects of scenarios in which time domain resource adjustment: for uplink transmissions could be performed, according to various embodiments.
  • Figures 8-9 illustrate example aspects of possible sets of transmission occasioi patterns that could be selected according to various resource adjustment rules in a possibh transmission coordination scheme, according to some embodiments.
  • Memory Medium Any of various types of non-transitory memory devices or storagf devices.
  • the term “memory medium” is intended to include an installation medium, e.g., ; CD-ROM, floppy disks, or tape device; a computer system memory or random access memory such as DRAM, DDR RAM, SRAM, EDO RAM, Rambus RAM, etc.; a non-volatile memory such as a Flash, magnetic media, e.g., a hard drive, or optical storage; registers, or other simila types of memory elements, etc.
  • the memory medium may include other types of non transitory memory as well or combinations thereof.
  • the memory medium may b ⁇ located in a first computer system in which the programs are executed, or may be located in ⁇ second different computer system which connects to the first computer system over a network such as the Internet. In the latter instance, the second computer system may provide progran instructions to the first computer system for execution.
  • the term “memory medium” may; include two or more memory mediums which may reside in different locations, e.g., in differen computer systems that are connected over a network.
  • the memory medium may store progran instructions (e.g., embodied as computer programs) that may be executed by one or mon processors.
  • Carrier Medium - a memory medium as described above, as well as a physica transmission medium, such as a bus, network, and/or other physical transmission medium tha conveys signals such as electrical, electromagnetic, or digital signals.
  • a physica transmission medium such as a bus, network, and/or other physical transmission medium tha conveys signals such as electrical, electromagnetic, or digital signals.
  • Computer System any of various types of computing or processing systems, including a personal computer system (PC), mainframe computer system workstation, network appliance, Internet appliance, personal digital assistant (PDA), televisioi system, grid computing system, or other device or combinations of devices.
  • PC personal computer system
  • mainframe computer system workstation network appliance
  • Internet appliance Internet appliance
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • televisioi system grid computing system, or other device or combinations of devices.
  • computer system may be broadly defined to encompass any device (or combination o devices) having at least one processor that executes instructions from a memory medium.
  • UE User Equipment
  • UE Device any of various types of computer system: or devices that are mobile or portable and that perform wireless communications.
  • Example: of UE devices include mobile telephones or smart phones (e.g., iPhoneTM, AndroidTM-basec phones), tablet computers (e.g., iPadTM, Samsung GalaxyTM), portable gaming devices (e.g. Nintendo DSTM, PlayStation PortableTM, Gameboy AdvanceTM, iPhoneTM), wearable device: storage devices, other handheld devices, automobiles and/or motor vehicles, unmanned aeria vehicles (UAVs) (e.g., drones), UAV controllers (UACs), etc.
  • UAVs unmanned aeria vehicles
  • UACs UAV controllers
  • the term “UE” o “UE device” can be broadly defined to encompass any electronic, computing, and/o telecommunications device (or combination of devices) which is easily transported by a use and capable of wireless communication.
  • Wireless Device any of various types of computer systems or devices that perforn wireless communications.
  • a wireless device can be portable (or mobile) or may be stationary or fixed at a certain location.
  • a UE is an example of a wireless device.
  • Communication Device any of various types of computer systems or devices tha perform communications, where the communications can be wired or wireless.
  • communication device can be portable (or mobile) or may be stationary or fixed at a certaii location.
  • a wireless device is an example of a communication device.
  • a UE is anothe example of a communication device.
  • Base Station -
  • Base Station has the full breadth of its ordinary meaning, and at least includes a wireless communication station installed at a fixed locationoi and used to communicate as part of a wireless telephone system or radio system.
  • Processing Element refers to various elements or combinations o elements that are capable of performing a function in a device, e.g., in a user equipment devic ⁇ or in a cellular network device.
  • Processing elements may include, for example: processors anc associated memory, portions or circuits of individual processor cores, entire processor cores processor arrays, circuits such as an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) programmable hardware elements such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA), as wel any of various combinations of the above.
  • ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
  • Wi-Fi has the full breadth of its ordinary meaning, and at leas includes a wireless communication network or RAT that is serviced by wireless LAN (WLAN access points and which provides connectivity through these access points to the Internet.
  • WLAN wireless LAN
  • Mos modern Wi-Fi networks or WLAN networks are based on IEEE 802.11 standards and an marketed under the name “Wi-Fi”.
  • Wi-Fi Wi-Fi
  • a Wi-Fi (WLAN) network is different from a cellula network.
  • Configured to - Various components may be described as “configured to” perform ⁇ task or tasks.
  • “configured to” is a broad recitation generally meaning “having structure that” performs the task or tasks during operation. As such, the component can b ⁇ configured to perform the task even when the component is not currently performing that tasl another module, even when the two modules are not connected).
  • “configurec to” may be a broad recitation of structure generally meaning “having circuitry that” perform: the task or tasks during operation. As such, the component can be configured to perform the task even when the component is not currently on.
  • the circuitry that forms the structure corresponding to “configured to” may include hardware circuits.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary (and simplified) wireless communication system it which aspects of this disclosure may be implemented, according to some embodiments. It i: noted that the system of Figure 1 is merely one example of a possible system, and embodiment: may be implemented in any of various systems, as desired.
  • the exemplary wireless communication system includes a base station 1(E which communicates over a transmission medium with one or more (e.g., an arbitrary numbe of) user devices 106 A, 106B, etc. through 106N.
  • Each of the user devices may be referred tc herein as a “user equipment” (UE) or UE device.
  • UE user equipment
  • the user devices 106 are referred to a: UEs or UE devices.
  • the base station 102 may be a base transceiver station (BTS) or cell site, and nw include hardware and/or software that enables wireless communication with the UEs 106 through 106N. If the base station 102 is implemented in the context of LTE, it may alternately be referred to as an 'eNodeB' or 'eNB'. If the base station 102 is implemented in the context o 5GNR, it may alternately be referred to as a 'gNodeB' or 'gNB'.
  • the base station 102 may als( be equipped to communicate with a network 100 (e.g., a core network of a cellular service provider, a telecommunication network such as a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and/or the Internet, among various possibilities).
  • a network 100 e.g., a core network of a cellular service provider, a telecommunication network such as a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and/or the Internet, among various possibilities.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the communication area (or coverage area) of the base station may be referred to as a “cell.’
  • a base station may sometimes be considerec as representing the network insofar as uplink and downlink communications of the UE an concerned.
  • a UE communicating with one or more base stations in the network may als ⁇ [0033]
  • base station (gNB) functionality can b ⁇ split between a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU).
  • the illustrated base statioi 102 may support the functionality of either or both of a CU or a DU, in such a networl deployment context, at least according to some embodiments.
  • the bas ⁇ station 102 may be configured to act as an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor (e.g. including IAB donor CU and/or IAB donor DU functionality).
  • the bas ⁇ station 102 may be configured to act as an IAB node (e.g., including IAB mobile terminatioi (MT) and IAB-DU functionality).
  • IAB integrated access and backhaul
  • IAB node e.g., including IAB mobile terminatioi (MT) and IAB-DU functionality
  • the base station 102 and the user devices may be configured to communicate over th ⁇ transmission medium using any of various radio access technologies (RATs), also referred t( as wireless communication technologies, or telecommunication standards, such as GSM UMTS (WCDMA), LTE, LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LAA/LTE-U, 5GNR, 3GPP2 CDMA200C (e g., IxRTT, IxEV-DO, HRPD, eHRPD), Wi-Fi, etc.
  • RATs radio access technologies
  • WCDMA wireless communication technologies
  • LTE LTE-Advanced
  • LAA/LTE-U LAA/LTE-U
  • 5GNR 5GNR
  • 3GPP2 CDMA200C e g., IxRTT, IxEV-DO, HRPD, eHRPD
  • Wi-Fi Wi-Fi
  • Base station 102 and other similar base stations operating according to the same or ⁇ different cellular communication standard may thus be provided as one or more networks o cells, which may provide continuous or nearly continuous overlapping service to UE 106 an( similar devices over a geographic area via one or more cellular communication standards.
  • a UE 106 may be capable of communicating using multiple wirelesi communication standards.
  • a UE 106 might be configured to communicate usins either or both of a 3 GPP cellular communication standard or a 3GPP2 cellular communicatioi standard.
  • the UE 106 may be configured to perform techniques fo selecting time domain resources in a wireless communication system, such as according to th ⁇ various methods described herein.
  • the UE 106 might also or alternatively be configured t( communicate using WLAN, BLUETOOTHTM, one or more global navigational satellite systems (GNSS, e.g., GPS or GLONASS), one and/or more mobile television broadcasting standards (e.g., ATSC-M/H), etc.
  • GNSS global navigational satellite systems
  • ATSC-M/H mobile television broadcasting standards
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary user equipment 106 (e.g., one of the devices 106 through 106N) in communication with the base station 102, according to some embodiments
  • the UE 106 may be a device with wireless network connectivity such as a mobile phone, i hand-held device, a wearable device, a computer or a tablet, an unmanned aerial vehich (UAV), an unmanned aerial controller (UAC), an automobile, or virtually any type of wirelesi program instructions stored in memory.
  • UAV unmanned aerial vehich
  • UAC unmanned aerial controller
  • the UE 106 may perform any of the methoc embodiments described herein by executing such stored instructions.
  • the UE 106 may include a programmable hardware element such as an FPGA (field programmable gate array), an integrated circuit, and/or any of various other possible hardwan components that are configured to perform (e.g., individually or in combination) any of th ⁇ method embodiments described herein, or any portion of any of the method embodiment! described herein.
  • the UE 106 may be configured to communicate using any of multiph wireless communication protocols.
  • the UE 106 may be configured t( communicate using two or more of CDMA2000, LTE, LTE-A, 5G NR, WLAN, or GNSS Other combinations of wireless communication standards are also possible.
  • the UE 106 may include one or more antennas for communicating using one or mon wireless communication protocols according to one or more RAT standards. In sor embodiments, the UE 106 may share one or more parts of a receive chain and/or transmit chaii between multiple wireless communication standards.
  • the shared radio may include a singh antenna, or may include multiple antennas (e.g., for multiple-input, multiple-output o “MIMO”) for performing wireless communications.
  • a radio may include am combination of a baseband processor, analog RF signal processing circuitry (e.g., including filters, mixers, oscillators, amplifiers, etc.), or digital processing circuitry (e.g., for digita modulation as well as other digital processing).
  • the radio may implement one o more receive and transmit chains using the aforementioned hardware.
  • the UE 106 may share one or more parts of a receive and/or transmit chain between multiple wirelesi communication technologies, such as those discussed above.
  • the UE 106 may include any number of antennas and may b ⁇ configured to use the antennas to transmit and/or receive directional wireless signals (e.g. beams).
  • the BS 102 may also include any number of antennas and may be configure! to use the antennas to transmit and/or receive directional wireless signals (e.g., beams).
  • T ⁇ receive and/or transmit such directional signals, the antennas of the UE 106 and/or BS 102 ma ⁇ be configured to apply different “weight” to different antennas. The process of applying thes ⁇ different weights may be referred to as “precoding”.
  • the UE 106 may include separate transmit and/or receive chain: (e.g., including separate antennas and other radio components) for each wirelesi communication protocol with which it is configured to communicate.
  • the UE 106 may include one or more radios that are shared between multiple wirelesi communication protocol.
  • the UE 106 may include a shared radio fo communicating using either of LTE or CDMA2000 IxRTT (or LTE or NR, or LTE or GSM etc.), and separate radios for communicating using each of Wi-Fi and BLUETOOTHTM. Othe configurations are also possible.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary UE 106, according to sorm embodiments.
  • the UE 106 may include a system on chip (SOC) 300, which ma ⁇ include portions for various purposes.
  • the SOC 300 may includedf processor(s) 302 which may execute program instructions for the UE 106 and display circuitr ⁇ 304 which may perform graphics processing and provide display signals to the display 360
  • the SOC 300 may also include sensor circuitry 370, which may include components fo sensing or measuring any of a variety of possible characteristics or parameters of the UE 106
  • the sensor circuitry 370 may include motion sensing circuitry configured to detec motion of the UE 106, for example using a gyroscope, accelerometer, and/or any of varioui other motion sensing components.
  • the sensor circuitry 370 may includedf one or more temperature sensing components, for example for measuring the temperature o each of one or more antenna panels and/or other components of the UE 106. Any of varioui other possible types of sensor circuitry may also or alternatively be included in UE 106, ai desired.
  • the processor(s) 302 may also be coupled to memory management unit (MMU) 340 which may be configured to receive addresses from the processor(s) 302 and translate thos ⁇ addresses to locations in memory (e.g., memory 306, read only memory (ROM) 350, NANE flash memory 310) and/or to other circuits or devices, such as the display circuitry 304, radif 330, connector I/F 320, and/or display 360.
  • the MMU 340 may be configured to perfom memory protection and page table translation or set up.
  • the MMU 34( may be included as a portion of the processor(s) 302.
  • the SOC 300 may be coupled to various other circuits of the UE 106.
  • the UE 106 may include various types of memory (e.g., including NAND flash 310) a connector interface 320 (e.g., for coupling to a computer system, dock, charging station, etc.) the display 360, and wireless communication circuitry 330 (e.g., for LTE, LTE-A, NR CDMA2000, BLUETOOTHTM, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc.).
  • memory e.g., including NAND flash 310
  • a connector interface 320 e.g., for coupling to a computer system, dock, charging station, etc.
  • wireless communication circuitry 330 e.g., for LTE, LTE-A, NR CDMA2000, BLUETOOTHTM, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc.
  • the UE device 106 may include or couplf to at least one antenna (e.g., 335a), and possibly multiple antennas (e.g., illustrated by antenna: 335a and 335b), for performing wireless communication with base stations and/or othe include fewer or more antennas. Overall, the one or more antennas are collectively referred t( as antenna 335. For example, the UE device 106 may use antenna 335 to perform the wirelesi communication with the aid of radio circuitry 330.
  • the communication circuitry may includf multiple receive chains and/or multiple transmit chains for receiving and/or transmitting multiple spatial streams, such as in a multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) configuration
  • MIMO multiple-input multiple output
  • the UE may be configured to communicate wirelessly using multiple wirelesi communication standards in some embodiments.
  • the UE 106 may include hardware and software components for implementing methods for the UE 106 to perform techniques for selecting time domain resources in a wirelesi communication system, such as described further subsequently herein.
  • the processor(s) 30 ⁇ of the UE device 106 may be configured to implement part or all of the methods describee herein, e.g., by executing program instructions stored on a memory medium (e.g., a non transitory computer-readable memory medium).
  • processor(s) 302 may ⁇ be configured as a programmable hardware element, such as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), or as an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit).
  • processor(s) 302 may be coupled to and/or may interoperate with other components as showi in Figure 3, to perform techniques for selecting time domain resources in a wirelesi communication system according to various embodiments disclosed herein.
  • Processor(s) 30 ⁇ may also implement various other applications and/or end-user applications running on UE 106.
  • radio 330 may include separate controllers dedicated t( controlling communications for various respective RAT standards.
  • radio 330 may include a Wi-Fi controller 352, a cellular controller (e.g., LTE and/o LTE-A controller) 354, and BLUETOOTHTM controller 356, and in at least som ⁇ embodiments, one or more or all of these controllers may be implemented as respectivf integrated circuits (ICs or chips, for short) in communication with each other and with SOC 300 (and more specifically with processor(s) 302).
  • Wi-Fi controller 352 maj communicate with cellular controller 354 over a cell-ISM link or WCI interface, and/o BLUETOOTHTM controller 356 may communicate with cellular controller 354 over a cell-ISA link, etc. While three separate controllers are illustrated within radio 330, other embodiment! have fewer or more similar controllers for various different RATs that may be implemented ii UE device 106.
  • the cellular controller 354 may, in addition to hardware and/or softwan components for performing cellular communication, include hardware and/or softwan components for performing one or more activities associated with Wi-Fi, such as Wi-F preamble detection, and/or generation and transmission of Wi-Fi physical layer preambh signals.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary base station 102, according t( some embodiments. It is noted that the base station of Figure 4 is merely one example of i possible base station. As shown, the base station 102 may include processor(s) 404 which ma ⁇ execute program instructions for the base station 102. The processor(s) 404 may also b ⁇ coupled to memory management unit (MMU) 440, which may be configured to receivf addresses from the processor(s) 404 and translate those addresses to locations in memory (e.g. memory 460 and read only memory (ROM) 450) or to other circuits or devices.
  • MMU memory management unit
  • the base station 102 may include at least one network port 470.
  • the network port 47( may be configured to couple to a telephone network and provide a plurality of devices, such ai UE devices 106, access to the telephone network as described above in Figures 1 and 2.
  • Th ⁇ network port 470 (or an additional network port) may also or alternatively be configured t( couple to a cellular network, e.g., a core network of a cellular service provider.
  • the con network may provide mobility related services and/or other services to a plurality of devices such as UE devices 106.
  • the network port 470 may couple to a telephom network via the core network, and/or the core network may provide a telephone network (e.g. among other UE devices serviced by the cellular service provider).
  • base station 102 may be a next generation base station, e.g., i 5G New Radio (5G NR) base station, or “gNB”.
  • base station 102 maj be connected to a legacy evolved packet core (EPC) network and/or to a NR core (NRC network.
  • EPC legacy evolved packet core
  • NRC NR core
  • base station 102 may be considered a 5G NR cell and may include on ⁇ or more transmission and reception points (TRPs).
  • TRPs transmission and reception points
  • a UE capable of operating according to 5GNR may be connected to one or more TRPs within one or more gNBs.
  • the base station 102 may include at least one antenna 434, and possibly multiph antennas.
  • the antenna(s) 434 may be configured to operate as a wireless transceiver and maj be further configured to communicate with UE devices 106 via radio 430.
  • the antenna(s) 43 ⁇ communicates with the radio 430 via communication chain 432.
  • Communication chain 43 ⁇ communicate via various wireless telecommunication standards, including, but not limited to 5G NR, 5G NR SAT, LTE, LTE-A, GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000, Wi-Fi, etc.
  • the base station 102 may be configured to communicate wirelessly using multiph wireless communication standards.
  • the base station 102 may include multiple radios, which may enable the base station 102 to communicate according to multi ph wireless communication technologies.
  • the base station KL may include an LTE radio for performing communication according to LTE as well as a 5C NR radio for performing communication according to 5GNR.
  • the base statioi 102 may be capable of operating as both an LTE base station and a 5G NR base station.
  • the base station 102 may include a multi-mode radio which is capable o performing communications according to any of multiple wireless communicatioi technologies (e.g., 5GNR and Wi-Fi, 5GNR SAT and Wi-Fi, LTE and Wi-Fi, LTE and UMTS LTE and CDMA2000, UMTS and GSM, etc.).
  • a multi-mode radio which is capable o performing communications according to any of multiple wireless communicatioi technologies (e.g., 5GNR and Wi-Fi, 5GNR SAT and Wi-Fi, LTE and Wi-Fi, LTE and UMTS LTE and CDMA2000, UMTS and GSM, etc.).
  • the BS 102 may include hardware anc software components for implementing or supporting implementation of features describee herein.
  • the processor 404 of the base station 102 may be configured to implement and/o support implementation of part or all of the methods described herein, e.g., by executing program instructions stored on a memory medium (e.g., a non-transitory computer-readable memory medium).
  • the processor 404 may be configured as a programmable hardware element, such as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), or as an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), or a combination thereof.
  • base station 102 may be designed as an access point (AP), in whicl case network port 470 may be implemented to provide access to a wide area network and/o local area network (s), e.g., it may include at least one Ethernet port, and radio 430 may b ⁇ designed to communicate according to the Wi-Fi standard.
  • AP access point
  • network port 470 may be implemented to provide access to a wide area network and/o local area network (s), e.g., it may include at least one Ethernet port
  • radio 430 may b ⁇ designed to communicate according to the Wi-Fi standard.
  • processor(s) 404 may include one or more processing elements.
  • processor(s) 404 may include one or more integrated circuits (ICs) that an configured to perform the functions of processor(s) 404.
  • each integrated circui may include circuitry (e.g., first circuitry, second circuitry, etc.) configured to perform th ⁇ functions of processor(s) 404.
  • radio 430 may include one or more processing elements
  • radio 430 may include one or more integrated circuits (ICs) that are configured t( perform the functions of radio 430.
  • each integrated circuit may include circuits Figure 5 - Time Domain Resource Selection
  • Such scenarios could occur, for example, fo low-latency traffic with variable frame sizes, for which it may be important to regularly providf uplink resources in sufficient quantity to handle larger frame sizes, but also for which only ⁇ portion of those uplink resources may be needed for smaller frame sizes.
  • Such scenarios couk also occur, for example, when a wireless device has a mixture of higher reliability traffic am lower reliability traffic, such that uplink resources may be provided in sufficient quantity t( perform enough repetitions for the higher reliability traffic, although if none of the highe reliability traffic is present at the wireless device, the lower reliability traffic can be transmittei using fewer repetitions than could be supported with the amount of uplink resources provide! to the wireless device.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart diagram illustrating a method for selecting time domain resources in ⁇ wireless communication system, at least according to some embodiments.
  • a wireless device e.g., it conjunction with one or more cellular base stations, such as a UE 106 and a BS 102 illustrate! in and described with respect to various of the Figures herein, or more generally in conjunctioi with any of the computer circuitry, systems, devices, elements, or components shown in th ⁇ above Figures, among others, as desired.
  • a processor and/or other hardware
  • such a device may be configured to cause the device to perform any combination of the illustrated method elements and/or other method elements.
  • the wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station
  • the wireless link may include a cellular link according to 5C NR.
  • the wireless device may establish a session with an AMF entity of th ⁇ cellular network by way of one or more gNBs that provide radio access to the cellular network
  • the wireless link may include a cellular link according to LTE.
  • the wireless device may establish a session with a mobility management entity of th ⁇ cellular network by way of an eNB that provides radio access to the cellular network.
  • Othe types of cellular links are also possible, and the cellular network may also or alternative! operate according to another cellular communication technology (e.g., UMTS, CDMA2000 GSM, etc.), according to various embodiments.
  • Establishing the wireless link may include establishing a RRC connection with ⁇ serving cellular base station, at least according to some embodiments.
  • Establishing the firs RRC connection may include configuring various parameters for communication between th ⁇ wireless device and the cellular base station, establishing context information for the wirelesi device, and/or any of various other possible features, e.g., relating to establishing an ai interface for the wireless device to perform cellular communication with a cellular networl associated with the cellular base station.
  • the wirelesi device may operate in a RRC connected state.
  • the RRC connection ma ⁇ also be released (e.g., after a certain period of inactivity with respect to data communication) in which case the wireless device may operate in a RRC idle state or a RRC inactive state.
  • the wireless device may perform handover (e.g., while in RRC connectec mode) or cell re-selection (e.g., while in RRC idle or RRC inactive mode) to a new serving cell, e.g., due to wireless device mobility, changing wireless medium conditions, and/or for am of various other possible reasons.
  • establishing the wireless link(s) may include the wirelesi device providing capability information for the wireless device.
  • capability informatioi may include information relating to any of a variety of types of wireless device capabilities.
  • the wireless device may receive an uplink grant for an uplink transmission oi the wireless link.
  • the uplink grant may include a configurec grant (CG) or a dynamic grant (DG).
  • the uplink grant may provide multiph uplink transmission occasions (e.g., a set of time domain uplink transmission resources). Fo set of frequency domain uplink transmission resources) may be provided by the uplink grant
  • the frequency resources may, for example, include a contiguous or non-contiguous allocatioi of physical resource blocks (PRBs).
  • PRBs physical resource blocks
  • the wireless device may select a subset of uplink transmission occasion: provided by the uplink grant. Selecting the subset of uplink transmission occasions may b ⁇ based at least in part on determining that fewer uplink transmission occasions than allocate! by the uplink grant are needed at the current time, for example based at least in part on uplinl data buffer size for the uplink data buffer of the wireless device (e.g., if the amount of data ii the data buffer can be transmitted using fewer uplink transmission occasions than are allocatec by the uplink grant), and/or based at least in part on reliability target information for uplinl data stored in the uplink data buffer of the wireless device (e.g., if fewer uplink transmissioi occasions are needed to meet the reliability target than are allocated by the uplink grant).
  • selecting the subset o uplink transmission occasions may also include selecting which of the uplink transmissioi occasions allocated by the uplink grant to use (e.g., which pattern of uplink transmissioi occasions among multiple possible patterns of uplink transmission occasions).
  • the selection of which uplink transmission occasions to use may be based at least ii part on a resource adjustment rule, which could be configured by the cellular base station (e.g.
  • the wireless device could receive an explicit indication of the resource adjustment rule for th ⁇ wireless device from the cellular base station), determined based on standard specificatioi documents (e.g., the resource adjustment rule for the wireless device could be implicitly determined from multiple defined resource adjustment rules based on some wireless devic ⁇ characteristics or parameters or cellular network characteristics or parameters, among variou: possibilities), and/or determined based on wireless device implementation.
  • standard specificatioi documents e.g., the resource adjustment rule for the wireless device could be implicitly determined from multiple defined resource adjustment rules based on some wireless devic ⁇ characteristics or parameters or cellular network characteristics or parameters, among variou: possibilities
  • a variety of resource adjustment rules may be possible, and could include time invariant and/or time-variant resource adjustment rules.
  • one time-invarian resource adjustment rule could include always selecting as many uplink transmission occasion: as needed starting from the earliest uplink transmission occasion allocated by the uplink grant
  • Another time-invariant resource adjustment rule could include selecting as many uplinl transmission occasions as needed starting from the latest uplink transmission occasioi allocated by the uplink grant.
  • a time-variant resource adjustment rule could includedf determining whether to select as many uplink transmission occasions as needed starting fron depending at least in part on a configured grant index for the uplink grant within the curren radio frame.
  • resource adjustment rules e.g., potentially including rules tha result in patterns of non-contiguous uplink transmission occasions being selected, rules that an time-dependent based on other variables, etc.
  • resource adjustment rules e.g., potentially including rules tha result in patterns of non-contiguous uplink transmission occasions being selected, rules that an time-dependent based on other variables, etc.
  • one possible benefit of using a time-variant resource adjustment rub could include potential randomization of interference effects on the selected subset of tir domain resources for any given wireless device.
  • the wireless device may perform uplink transmissions during the selectee subset of uplink transmission occasions.
  • the wireless device may include an indication of unused uplink transmission occasions with each of the uplinl transmissions performed by the wireless device that are associated with the uplink grant.
  • a wireless device may include an indication of unused uplink transmissioi occasions with each of the configured grant PUSCHs performed by the wireless device that an associated with an uplink configured grant configuration, at least as one possibility.
  • Such ai indication may be provided in any of a variety of possible formats.
  • each o the uplink transmissions may include an indication of a number of remaining uplinl transmission occasions in the selected subset of the uplink transmission occasions associate! with the uplink grant (e.g., thereby indicating that any other uplink transmission occasion: associated with the uplink grant are being vacated by the wireless device).
  • each of the uplink transmissions may include an indication of a total number o uplink transmission occasions in the selected subset of the uplink transmission occasions and/or an indication of a total number of uplink transmission occasions associated with the uplink grant that are being vacated by the wireless device.
  • eacl of the uplink transmissions could include an indication of when the selected subset of the uplinl transmission occasions associated with the uplink grant terminates (e.g., thereby indicating tha any uplink transmission occasions subsequent to the indicated time are being vacated by the wireless device).
  • the wireles device to provide an indication to the cellular base station of uplink resources for a subsequen uplink grant period (e.g., a subsequent configured grant period) for the wireless device that an being vacated by the wireless device. This may depend at least in part on the buffer status fo the wireless device (e.g., if it is empty and/or the wireless device does not expect uplink traffic arrival during the next configured grant period) and/or other considerations, in variou: [0067] At least according to some embodiments, such an approach to performing time domaii resource selection may be conducive to transmission coordination between multiple wirelesi devices, e.g., to potentially improve overall network resource use efficiency.
  • th ⁇ cellular base station may establish a wireless link with another device, and may provide ai uplink grant to that other wireless device, where the uplink grants for the wireless devices hav ⁇ at least some overlapping time and frequency resources.
  • the different wireless devices may be configured with different (e.g., complementary) resource adjustment rules, such that if eacl of the wireless devices uses a subset of the allocated uplink transmission occasions according to their respective resource adjustment rules, it may be possible that there is no or minima overlap between the resources actually used by the wireless devices.
  • the cellular bas ⁇ station may be able to receive one or more uplink transmissions from one wireless device oi one subset of the allocated uplink transmission occasions, and to receive one or more uplinl transmissions from the other wireless device on a different subset of the allocated uplinl transmission occasions, where the subsets of uplink transmission occasions for the differen wireless devices are selected based on different resource adjustment rules.
  • a cellular bas ⁇ station may make use of such an approach to performing time domain resource selection t( improve network resource use efficiency by providing a conditional or unconditional uplinl grant to one or more wireless devices for uplink transmission occasions that are vacated by ; wireless device.
  • the cellular base station could provide another uplink grant to another wireless device where that second uplink grant includes the some or all of the uplink resources indicated to b ⁇ unused/vacated by the first wireless device.
  • the cellular base station could provide another uplink grant to another wireless device where that second uplink grant includes the some or all of the uplink resources indicated to b ⁇ unused/vacated by the first wireless device for the subsequent uplink grant period.
  • the cellular base station may provide i conditional uplink grant to a second wireless device, where the conditional uplink gran overlaps at least partially with the uplink grant provided to the first wireless device.
  • ⁇ e.g., low overhead/latency
  • the cellular base station may provide a such a signa to the second wireless device, e.g., to indicate that the conditional uplink transmissioi occasion(s) are available to the second wireless device.
  • the method of Figure 5 may be used t( provide a framework according to which a wireless device can perform uplink transmission: using a subset (or the full set) of the possible time domain resources, and thus to potentially reduce wireless device power consumption and/or to assist a cellular network to mon effectively and efficiently use network resources in a variety of possible scenarios, at least it some instances.
  • a subset or the full set can be used, it may be possible that al of the various possible patterns of contiguous and non-contiguous uplink transmissions(s) may be selectable by a wireless device.
  • Figures 6-9 illustrate further aspects that might be used in conjunction with the methoc of Figure 5 if desired. It should be noted, however, that the exemplary details illustrated in anc described with respect to Figures 6-9 are not intended to be limiting to the disclosure as i whole: numerous variations and alternatives to the details provided herein below are possibh and should be considered within the scope of the disclosure.
  • uplink transmissions can b ⁇ scheduled using dynamic grants or configured grants.
  • a configured grant provides more resources than needed for the uplink traffic at a wireles: device.
  • the video frame size can vary with time at least in some instances.
  • time-frequency resources may be over-provisioned (e.g., to support the large end of the range of possible video frame sizes, which may result in more resources bein ⁇ available than needed when the XR traffic is at the smaller end of the range of possible vide ⁇ frame sizes) in order to avoid prolonged transmissions, which may not be conducive to low latency targets for transmission in the XR use case.
  • the gNB may not knov precisely the buffer status of a UE.
  • a configured gran configuration for such a UE is configured for a traffic stream with a high reliability target whei from a high reliability traffic stream, in which case the UE may be able to use a lower reliability target for the configured grant, which may utilize fewer of the configured grant resources.
  • a single-slot PUSCH design could include a configured grant design in which th ⁇ configured grant provides a single slot PUSCH transmission opportunity.
  • This design may b ⁇ supported from 3GPP Release 15, according to some embodiments.
  • PRBs physical resourcf blocks
  • using a single PUSCH allocation e.g., including 5 PRBs ove: 14 symbols
  • tw( PUSCHs e.g., with the first PUSCH including 5 PRBs over symbols 0-6 and the seconc PUSCH including 5 PRBs over symbols 7-13).
  • a URLLC design (e.g., supported from 3 GPP Release 16, according to sorm embodiments) multiple CG configurations with Type 1 (e.g., RRC configured) and Type i (e.g., DCI configured) may be supported on the same cell, and PUSCH repetition Type A am PUSCH repetition Type B may be supported for configured grants; note that for transmission: over slots/actual transmissions, the same transport block may be carried.
  • resource adjustment for such a design can be motivated to improve support fo data with different reliability requirements.
  • the UE may b ⁇ able to adjust the number of repetitions needed for a given uplink transmission depending oi whether packets from the first data stream are sent or packets from the second data stream an sent.
  • a NR-U design e.g., supported from 3 GPP Release 16, according to som ⁇ embodiments
  • multiple occasions of PU SCH with different transport blocks may be supported
  • resource adjustment for such a design can be motivated to improvs support for scenarios in which packet size in a data stream varies over time (e.g., in whicl video frame size can vary from time to time), at least according to some embodiments.
  • Figure 6 illustrates aspects of one possible scenario in which a CG PUSCH ii associated with multiple transmission occasions (e.g., in a URLLC design or NR-U desigi scenario).
  • a PUSCH is associated with transmissions in slot n, slo n+1, slot n+2, and slot n+3.
  • the UE may be able to use a single occasioi (e.g., slot n) or two occasions (e.g., slot n, slot n+1), while vacating the remaining resource: (e.g., slots n+1 through n+3 may be vacated if only slot n is used, slots n+2 through n+3 ma; be vacated if slot n and slot n+1 are used, etc.).
  • the vacated resources may not general interference to other uplink transmissions, and the gNB may be able to schedule UEs in th ⁇ vacated uplink transmission resources.
  • the gNB may need i certain amount of time to process an indication received in slot n, e.g., such that ai instantaneous reaction leading to a scheduling decision and corresponding signaling may no be possible in sufficient time to effectively use the vacated resources in response to ai indication at slot n, at least in some instances, e.g., in particular if the configured grant include: consecutive slots.
  • TDD time division duplexing
  • Figure 7 illustrates aspects of another possible scenario in which a CG PUSCH i: associated with multiple transmission occasions (e.g., in a URLLC design or NR-U desigi scenario).
  • a PUSCH is associated with transmissions in slot n, slo n+1 *D, slot n+2*D, and slot n+3 *D.
  • the “step” between neighboring occasion: for the configured grant may be D (e.g., instead of 1), such that the occasions may be non consecutive.
  • the UE may be able to use a single occasion (e.g., slot n) o two occasions (e.g., slot n, slot n+l*D), while vacating the remaining resources (e.g., slot: be vacated if slot n and slot n+l*D are used, etc.).
  • the vacated resources may not general interference to other uplink transmissions, and the gNB may be able to schedule UEs in th ⁇ vacated uplink transmission resources.
  • Such a setup may work with a typical TDD DL/UI split, and may provide more time for a gNB schedule to react to an indication received in slo n.
  • a gNB schedule may be used to react to an indication received in slo n.
  • one or more dynamic grants are used t( schedule the uplink transmi ssion(s) instead of a configured grant for such a scenario.
  • Such ⁇ spread (in the time domain) of uplink slots may serve the low latency requirements for sor XR uplink traffic well.
  • the indication may be for eligible uplinl transmission occasions only.
  • a UE vacates some time-domaii resources provided by an uplink grant to provide an indication of the unused uplink resources e.g., to facilitate their scheduling and use by another UE for improved network resource usag ⁇ efficiency.
  • a UE may provide one indication of i time-domain resource adjustment, e.g., in the first uplink transmission occasion for ⁇ configured grant.
  • Such an approach may, for example, target a scenario in which uplink slot! for CG transmissions are spread out (e.g., such as in the scenario of Figure 7), so that the gNF may have enough time to reschedule other UEs on the vacated resources.
  • the “first CG PUSCH” occasion could be ambiguous for example, in CG design, with Type A PUSCH repetition with a redundance version sequencf [0303], it may be the case that the UE is allowed to start a CG transmission at the firs configured slot or the 3 rd configured slot (a slot associated with redundance version “0”), henc ⁇ where the indication of used CG PUSCHs is to be included may not be clear.
  • the gNB may be able to obtain information on the buffer status of the UE in any or all of slot n+D, slot n+2*D, and slot n+3*D, in which case resource adjustment fo the CG may not be needed.
  • BSR buffer status report
  • B SR quantization is relatively coarse. As i result, it may be possible that a gNB and a UE are not closely synchronized on the data buffe size of the UE, which could result in overallocation in dynamic grant PUSCH allocations ai well. It may be possible, at least according to some embodiments, that a single DCI scheduling multiple PUSCHs can be used (e.g., for XR and/or for other possible use cases, according t( various embodiments).
  • anothe possible approach may include providing an indication of unused PUSCH resources (e.g. vacated uplink time-domain resources) that can be carried in every CG and/or DG transmission
  • the indication of the unused resources can be carried, for example, in CG-UC signaling or a similar signaling design to leverage an existing processing procedure for CG UCI such as UCI-multiplexing. There may be multiple possible approaches to how th ⁇ presence of unused resources can be indicated.
  • the signaling may b ⁇ indicative for a number of PUSCH transmissions to follow the current PUSCH transmission
  • the signaling content for “unused resources” could change for each PUSCH transmission for example, for a scenario with 4 PUSCH occasions for the number of PUSCH transmission: following the current PUSCH transmission, where the first and second occasions are actually used, then the “unused resources” signaling in the first PUSCH may indicate that 1 PUSCT transmission following the current PUSCH transmission is used, and the “unused resources’ signaling in the second PUSCH may indicate that 0 PUSCH transmissions following the curren PUSCH transmission is used.
  • the signaling may be indicative of the total number of PUSCT transmissions actually used by the UE.
  • the signaling content for “unused resources’ could remain the same for each PUSCH transmission; for example, for a scenario with ⁇ PUSCH occasions, where the first and second occasions are actually used, then the “unusec resources” signaling in the first PUSCH may indicate that 2 PUSCH transmissions are used and the “unused resources” signaling in the second PUSCH may also indicate that 2 PUSCT transmissions are used.
  • an approach in which the signaling content does not changf in the PUSCH transmissions may be more beneficial for facilitating combining PUSCT repetitions, at least according to some embodiments.
  • the selected CG PUSCH transmission(s) from some UEi may be configured to start from the first occasions within a window, while other UEs may b ⁇ configured to start from the last occasions within a window.
  • the signaling content for “unused resources” couk indicate the termination time of all transmissions in the CG PUSCH transmission opportunitiei provided by the uplink grant. This may facilitate unequivocal determination of the terminatioi time for the resources used by a UE, at least according to some embodiments.
  • the UE may be able to indicate potential unused resources for th ⁇ next CG period (e.g., assuming it is not too early for the UE to determine whether and whicl CG resources it might use in the next CG period), which may give the gNB enough time t( schedule other UEs on the vacated resources.
  • the “unused resources” indication can b ⁇ applied to uplink transmission occasions across CG period boundaries, at least in sorm embodiments.
  • a gNB may opportunistically scheduh another UE or set of UEs, e.g., conditionally, at the same or an overlapping set of times as i CG.
  • the gNB may be able to send ; low overhead signal to a UE that was conditionally scheduled to transmit in the remainder o the resources.
  • the other UEs could, for example, be enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) o industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices (e.g., sensors with data), among various possibilities [0092]
  • eMBB enhanced mobile broadband
  • IIoT industrial internet of things
  • the gNB does not have enough time to schedule othe: UEs on the vacated resources in response to an indication that those resources have beet vacated.
  • Figures 8-9 illustrate aspects o an example of such a possible transmission coordination scheme, according to sorm embodiments.
  • 4 occasions may be configured for two UEs (e.g., th ⁇ UEs may be in UL MU-MIMO pairing at the same cell, or the two UEs may be from adjacen may use set 1 (illustrated in Figure 8) to decide on which occasions to perform uplinl transmissions.
  • the second UI may use set 2 (illustrated in Figure 9) to decide on which occasions to perform uplinl transmissions.
  • the transmissions of UE 1 and UE 2 may not interfen with each other at all.
  • non contiguous patterns e.g., [1 0 1 0] as candidate 2 for set 1 instead of [1 1 0 0] and [0 1 0 1] ai candidate 2 for set 2 instead of [0 0 1 1], as one option
  • the pattern which may contain non-contiguous “l”s, can be indicated by a combinatorial index e.g., to indicate the selected k positions out of N possible positions.
  • such an indo could be configured such that l ⁇ K 1 ⁇ k ⁇ K 2 ⁇ N, where Ki is the smallest number o occasions the UE can take, K2 is the largest number of occasions the UE can take, and N is th ⁇ total number of occasions available in a grant.
  • a UE is configured to alwayi use the same set / resource selection rule to determine on which occasions to perform uplinl transmissions depending on the buffer status of the UE.
  • i may be preferable to configure time-varying set selection, e.g., to randomize interferencf among UEs in the system.
  • the index of CG occurrences withii a radio frame can be used to choose one set out of multiple sets.
  • RRC configuration of th ⁇ initial set selection Imit and set selection periodicity can be used:
  • One set of embodiments may include a method, comprising: by a wireless device establishing a wireless link with a cellular base station; receiving an uplink grant, wherein th ⁇ uplink grant provides multiple uplink transmission occasions; selecting a subset of the multiph uplink transmission occasions; and performing uplink transmissions during the selected subse of the multiple uplink transmission occasions, wherein each of the uplink transmission: includes an indication of unused uplink transmission occasions.
  • each of the uplink transmissions includes ai indication of a number of remaining uplink transmission occasions in the selected subset of th ⁇ multiple uplink transmission occasions.
  • each of the uplink transmissions includes ai indication of a number of uplink transmission occasions in the selected subset of the multiph uplink transmission occasions.
  • each of the uplink transmissions includes ai indication of a total number of uplink transmission occasions in the selected subset of th ⁇ multiple uplink transmission occasions.
  • each of the uplink transmissions includes ai indication of when the selected subset of the multiple uplink transmission occasions terminates [00101]
  • the method further comprises: providing ai indication to the cellular base station of uplink resources for a subsequent configured gran period for the wireless device that are vacated by the wireless device.
  • selecting the subset of the multiple uplinl transmission occasions is based at least in part on one or more of: uplink data buffer size fo an uplink data buffer of the wireless device; or reliability target information for uplink dat; stored in the uplink data buffer of the wireless device.
  • selection of the subset of the multiple uplinl transmission occasions is performed based at least in part on a time-invariant resourc ⁇ adjustment rule.
  • selection of the subset of the multiple uplinl transmission occasions is performed based at least in part on a time-variant resource adjustmen rule.
  • the uplink grant includes a configured grant (CG) wherein the time-variant resource adjustment rule is based at least in part on a CG index withii a current radio frame.
  • CG configured grant
  • Another set of embodiments may include a wireless device, comprising: an antenna; i radio operably coupled to the antenna; and a processor operably coupled to the radio; whereii the wireless device is configured to: establish a wireless link with a cellular base station; receivf an uplink grant, wherein the uplink grant provides multiple uplink transmission occasions select a subset of the multiple uplink transmission occasions, wherein the subset of the multiph and perform uplink transmissions during the selected subset of the multiple uplink transmissioi occasions.
  • the subset of the multiple uplink transmissioi occasions is selected based at least in part on one or more of: uplink data buffer size for ai uplink data buffer of the wireless device; or reliability target information for uplink data storec in the uplink data buffer of the wireless device.
  • the wireless device is further configured to: receivf an indication of the resource adjustment rule from the cellular base station.
  • the resource adjustment rule is used to determine ai uplink transmission occasion pattern for the selected subset of the multiple uplink transmissioi occasions from multiple possible uplink transmission occasion patterns.
  • each of the uplink transmissions includes ai indication of unused uplink transmission occasions.
  • Yet another set of embodiments may include an apparatus, comprising: a processo configured to cause a cellular base station to: establish a first wireless link with a first wirelesi device; provide a first uplink grant to the first wireless device, wherein the first uplink gran provides a first set of uplink transmission occasions to the first wireless device; and receivf uplink transmissions from the first wireless device during a subset of the first set of uplinl transmission occasions, wherein each of the uplink transmissions received from the firs wireless device includes an indication of unused uplink transmission occasions associated witl the first uplink grant.
  • each of the uplink transmissions received from th ⁇ first wireless device during the subset of the first set of uplink transmission occasions include: an indication of one or more of: a number of remaining uplink transmission occasion: associated with the first uplink grant that are used by the wireless device; a total number o uplink transmission occasions associated with the first uplink grant that are used by the wireles: device; or an indication of when uplink transmission occasions associated with the first uplinl grant that are used by the wireless device terminate; or the contiguous or non-contiguous uplinl transmission pattern itself.
  • the processor is further configured to cause th ⁇ cellular base station to: receive an indication from the first wireless device of uplink resource: for a subsequent configured grant period for the first wireless device that are vacated by th ⁇ first wireless device; and provide a second uplink grant to a second wireless device, whereii the second uplink grant includes the uplink resources for the subsequent configured gran period for the first wireless device that are vacated by the first wireless device.
  • the processor is further configured to cause th ⁇ cellular base station to: establish a second wireless link with a second wireless device; providf a second uplink grant to the second wireless device, wherein the second uplink grant provide: one or more conditional uplink transmission occasions to the second wireless device, whereii the one or more conditional uplink transmission occasions overlap with one or more uplinl transmission occasions in the first set of uplink transmission occasions; and provide a signal t( the second wireless device to indicate that the one or more conditional uplink transmissioi occasions are available based at least in part on the indication of unused uplink transmissioi occasions from the first wireless device.
  • the processor is further configured to cause th ⁇ cellular base station to: provide an indication of a resource adjustment rule to the first wireles: device, wherein the subset of the first set of uplink transmission occasions is selected by th ⁇ first wireless device based at least in part on the resource adjustment rule.
  • the processor is further configured to cause th ⁇ cellular base station to: establish a second wireless link with a second wireless device; providf a second uplink grant to the second wireless device, wherein the second uplink grant provide: a second set of uplink transmission occasions to the second wireless device, wherein the firs set of uplink transmission occasions overlap at least partially with the second set of uplinl transmission occasions; and receive uplink transmissions from the second wireless devic ⁇ during a subset of the second set of uplink transmission occasions, wherein the subset of th ⁇ first set of uplink transmission occasions and the subset of the second set of uplink transmissioi occasions are selected based on different resource adjustment rules.
  • a further exemplary embodiment may include a method, comprising: performing, b ⁇ a wireless device, any or all parts of the preceding examples.
  • Another exemplary embodiment may include a device, comprising: an antenna; a radif coupled to the antenna; and a processing element operably coupled to the radio, wherein th ⁇ device is configured to implement any or all parts of the preceding examples.
  • a further exemplary set of embodiments may include a non-transitory compute accessible memory medium comprising program instructions which, when executed at i device, cause the device to implement any or all parts of any of the preceding examples.
  • a still further exemplary set of embodiments may include a computer progran
  • Yet another exemplary set of embodiments may include an apparatus comprising means for performing any or all of the elements of any of the preceding examples.
  • Still another exemplary set of embodiments may include an apparatus comprising ⁇ processing element configured to cause a wireless device to perform any or all of the element: of any of the preceding examples.
  • personally identifiable information should follov privacy policies and practices that are generally recognized as meeting or exceeding industry or governmental requirements for maintaining the privacy of users.
  • personally identifiable information data should be managed and handled so as to minimizf risks of unintentional or unauthorized access or use, and the nature of authorized use shouh be clearly indicated to users.
  • Any of the methods described herein for operating a user equipment may be th ⁇ basis of a corresponding method for operating a base station, by interpreting eacl message/signal X received by the UE in the downlink as message/signal X transmitted by th ⁇ base station, and each message/signal Y transmitted in the uplink by the UE as a message/signa Y received by the base station.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure may be realized in any of various forms.
  • the present subject matter may be realized as a computer implemented method, a computer-readable memory medium, or a computer system.
  • the present subject matter may be realized using one or more custom-designei hardware devices such as ASICs.
  • the present subject matter may b ⁇ realized using one or more programmable hardware elements such as FPGAs.
  • a non-transitory computer-readable memory medium e.g., i non-transitory memory element
  • a non-transitory computer-readable memory medium may be configured so that it stores program instruction: and/or data, where the program instructions, if executed by a computer system, cause th ⁇ computer system to perform a method, e.g., any of a method embodiments described herein or, any combination of the method embodiments described herein, or, any subset of any of th ⁇ method embodiments described herein, or, any combination of such subsets.
  • a device e.g., a UE
  • a device may be configured to include a processo (or a set of processors) and a memory medium (or memory element), where the mem on medium stores program instructions, where the processor is configured to read and execute the program instructions from the memory medium, where the program instructions are executabh of the method embodiments described herein, or, any subset of any of the method embodiment: described herein, or, any combination of such subsets).
  • the device may be realized in any o various forms.

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La présente divulgation concerne des techniques de sélection de ressources de domaine temporel dans un système de communication sans fil. Un dispositif sans fil et une station de base cellulaire peuvent établir une liaison sans fil. Le dispositif sans fil peut recevoir une autorisation de liaison montante qui fournit de multiples occasions de transmission de liaison montante. Le dispositif sans fil peut sélectionner un sous-ensemble des multiples occasions de transmission en liaison montante et peut effectuer des transmissions en liaison montante pendant le sous-ensemble sélectionné. Le sous-ensemble sélectionné par le dispositif sans fil peut être déterminé sur la base d'une règle d'ajustement de ressource pour le dispositif sans fil. Chacune des transmissions en liaison montante peut comprendre une indication d'occasions de transmission en liaison montante qui sont inutilisées par le dispositif sans fil.
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