阅读说明：本技术 用于基于多阵面及/或多波束码本的pusch传输的方法及设备 (Method and apparatus for PUSCH transmission based on multi-front and/or multi-beam codebooks ) 是由 刘兵朝 朱晨曦 肖玲玲 于 2018-10-11 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及用于基于多阵面及/或多波束码本的PUSCH传输的方法及设备。所述方法包含在用户设备UE处接收包含两组或更多组参数的下行链路控制信息DCI；及分别根据所述两组或更多组参数执行基于码本的物理上行共享信道PUSCH传输以传输所述两个或更多个码字；其中所述两组或更多组参数中的每一者包含探测参考信号资源指示符SRI、传输预编码矩阵指示符TPMI、调制编码方案MCS、新数据指示符NDI及冗余版本RV中的至少一者。(The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for multi-front and/or multi-beam codebook based PUSCH transmission. The method comprises receiving, at a user equipment, UE, downlink control information, DCI, comprising two or more sets of parameters; and performing codebook-based physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, transmission according to the two or more sets of parameters, respectively, to transmit the two or more codewords; wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).)

1. A method of transmitting two or more codewords in one physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, comprising:

receiving, at a user equipment, UE, downlink control information, DCI, comprising two or more sets of parameters; and

performing codebook-based PUSCH transmission according to the two or more sets of parameters, respectively, to transmit the two or more codewords;

wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters comprises at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting substantially simultaneously two or more Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources respectively configured in two or more SRS resource sets, respectively, wherein the two or more SRS resources are used for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing codeword to layer mapping, wherein a number of ranks of a first codeword of the two or more codewords is different from another number of ranks of a second codeword of the two or more codewords.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as two and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as one, mapping the first codeword to two layers and mapping the second codeword to one layer.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as three and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as one, mapping the first codeword to three layers and mapping the second codeword to one layer.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as three and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as two, mapping the first codeword to three layers and mapping the second codeword to two layers.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as one and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as four, mapping the first codeword to one layer and mapping the second codeword to four layers.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as two and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as four, mapping the first codeword to two layers and mapping the second codeword to four layers.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as four and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as three, mapping the first codeword to four layers and mapping the second codeword to three layers.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a precoding matrix from two or more sub-matrices respectively indicated by the two or more TPMI; and

and performing precoding according to the precoding matrix.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a first sub-matrix of the two or more sub-matrices is arranged at a first position on a diagonal of the precoding matrix, wherein a second sub-matrix of the two or more sub-matrices is arranged at a second position on the diagonal of the precoding matrix, and wherein the first position is different from the second position.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the TPMI is negligible if only two antennas are used for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

13. A method of configuring codebook-based PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, comprising:

transmitting DCI including two or more sets of parameters for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission using the two or more codewords, respectively;

wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters comprises at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising configuring two or more sets of SRS resources for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

15. An apparatus capable of transmitting two or more codewords in one PUSCH, comprising:

a receiver that receives a DCI comprising two or more sets of parameters;

a processor that performs codebook-based PUSCH transmission according to the two or more sets of parameters, respectively, to transmit the two or more codewords; and

a transmitter that transmits the codebook-based PUSCH transmission;

wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters comprises at least one of an SRI, a TPMI, an MCS, an NDI, and an RV.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the transmitter further transmits substantially simultaneously two or more sounding reference signal, SRS, resources configured in two or more SRS resource sets, respectively, wherein the two or more sounding reference signal, SRS, resources are used for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processor performs codeword to layer mapping, wherein a number of ranks of a first codeword of the two or more codewords is different from another number of ranks of a second codeword of the two or more codewords.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as two and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as one, mapping the first codeword to two layers and mapping the second codeword to one layer.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as three and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as one, mapping the first codeword to three layers and mapping the second codeword to one layer.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as three and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as two, mapping the first codeword to three layers and mapping the second codeword to two layers.

21. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as one and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as four, mapping the first codeword to one layer and mapping the second codeword to four layers.

22. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as two and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as four, mapping the first codeword to two layers and mapping the second codeword to four layers.

23. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the rank number of the first codeword is indicated as four and the other rank number of the second codeword is indicated as three, mapping the first codeword to four layers and mapping the second codeword to three layers.

24. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processor generates a precoding matrix according to two or more sub-matrices respectively indicated by the two or more TPMI, and performs precoding according to the precoding matrix.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein a first sub-matrix of the two or more sub-matrices is arranged at a first position on a diagonal of the precoding matrix, wherein a second sub-matrix of the two or more sub-matrices is arranged at a second position on the diagonal of the precoding matrix, and wherein the first position is different from the second position.

26. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the TPMI is negligible if only two antennas are used for the PUSCH transmission.

27. An apparatus capable of configuring codebook-based PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, comprising:

a receiver;

a processor; and

a transmitter that transmits DCI including two or more sets of parameters for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission for the two or more codewords, respectively;

wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters comprises at least one of an SRI, a TPMI, an MCS, an NDI, and an RV.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the processor configures two or more sets of SRS resources for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates generally to a method and apparatus for communication, and more specifically to a method and apparatus for codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

Background

Codebook-based Uplink (UL) transmission is supported in New Radio (NR) release 15, where only single-front (panel) transmission using a single beam is supported. In release 15, single-front based codebook transmission on Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) can be supported by using only one sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI) and one Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) indicated by Downlink Control Information (DCI). In NR version 16 a multi-front and/or multi-beam UL Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission protocol will be introduced.

In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access network, multiple Tx/Rx point (TRP) UL transmissions are provided as UL coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmissions. However, the LTE radio access network uses only the low band and performs PUSCH transmission to all CoMP nodes using omni-directional beams. NR radio access networks may use directional UL beams to perform transmissions in frequency range 2(FR2), which is from 6GHz to 52.6 GHz. Therefore, a new mechanism is needed to implement UL multi-front and multi-beam transmission in FR 2.

Disclosure of Invention

One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of transmitting two or more codewords in one Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission, the method comprising: receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), Downlink Control Information (DCI) having two or more sets of parameters; and performing codebook-based PUSCH transmission according to the two or more sets of parameters, respectively, to transmit the two or more codewords; wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of scheduling a codebook-based PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, the method comprising: transmitting DCI including two or more sets of parameters for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission using the two or more codewords, respectively; wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmission Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

Yet another embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus capable of transmitting PUSCH using two or more codewords, the apparatus comprising a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives DCI having two or more sets of parameters. The processor performs codebook-based PUSCH transmission for transmitting the two or more codewords according to the two or more sets of parameters, respectively. The transmitter transmits the codebook-based PUSCH transmission. Each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of SRI, TPMI, MCS, NDI, and RV.

Yet another embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus capable of configuring PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, the apparatus comprising a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits DCI including two or more sets of parameters for codebook-based PUSCH transmission using the two or more codewords, respectively. Each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of SRI, TPMI, MCS, NDI, and RV.

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Fig. 1 illustrates an example block diagram of a wireless communication network in accordance with an embodiment of this disclosure.

Fig. 2 illustrates a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords to four layers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 illustrates a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords to three layers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 illustrates a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords to six layers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example block diagram of a User Equipment (UE) in accordance with an embodiment of this disclosure.

Fig. 6 illustrates an example block diagram of a base station in accordance with an embodiment of this disclosure.

Detailed Description

The detailed description of the drawings is intended as a description of the presently preferred embodiments of the invention and is not intended to represent the only forms in which the present invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that the same or equivalent functions may be accomplished by different embodiments that are intended to be encompassed within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Embodiments provide methods and apparatus for multi-front and multi-beam codebook based PUSCH transmission. To facilitate understanding, embodiments are provided under specific network architectures and new service scenarios, such as 3GPP NR, 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) release 8, and so on. It is contemplated that embodiments of the present invention are applicable to similar technical problems as network architectures and new service scenarios are developed.

Fig. 1 illustrates a wireless communication network 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a wireless communication network 100 includes a UE101 and base stations 103, 105, and 107. It is contemplated that in some other embodiments of the present application, the wireless communication network 100 may include more UEs. Similarly, it is also contemplated that in some other embodiments of the present application, the wireless communication network 100 may include more or fewer base stations.

The UE101 may include computing devices such as desktop computers, laptop computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), tablet computers, smart televisions (e.g., televisions connected to the internet), set top boxes, gaming consoles, security systems (including security cameras), on-board computers, network devices (e.g., routers, switches, and modems), device(s) making up the internet of things (IoT), and so forth. According to embodiments of the invention, the UE101 may comprise a portable wireless communication device, a smart phone, a cellular phone, a flip phone, a device with a subscriber identity module, a personal computer, a selective call receiver, or any other device capable of sending and receiving communication signals over a wireless network. In some embodiments, the UE101 includes a wearable device, such as a smart watch, a fitness band, an optical head-mounted display, and so forth. Moreover, the UE101 may be referred to as a subscriber unit, mobile device, mobile station, user, terminal, mobile terminal, wireless terminal, fixed terminal, subscriber station, user terminal, or device, or described using other terms used in the art. UE101 may communicate directly with base station 102 via UL communication signals.

Base stations 103, 105, and 107 may be distributed over a geographic area. In certain embodiments, each base station 103, 105, or 107 may also be referred to as an access point, an access terminal, a base (base), a base unit (base unit), a macro cell, a node B, an enhanced node B (enb), a gNB, a home node B, a relay node, or a device, or described using other terminology used in the art. Base stations 103, 105, or 107 are typically part of a radio access network, which may include one or more controllers communicatively coupled to one or more corresponding base stations.

The wireless communication system 100 is compatible with any type of network capable of sending and receiving wireless communication signals. For example, the wireless communication system 100 is compatible with wireless communication networks, cellular telephone networks, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) -based networks, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -based networks, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) -based networks, LTE networks, third generation partnership project (3GPP) -based networks, 3GPP 5G networks, satellite communication networks, high altitude platform networks, and/or other communication networks.

In one embodiment, the wireless communication system 100 is compatible with the 5G New Radio (NR) of the 3GPP protocol, where the base station 103, 105, or 107 transmits data using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme on the DL and the UE101 transmits data using a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) or OFDM scheme on the UL. More generally, however, the wireless communication system 100 may implement some other open or proprietary communication protocol, such as WiMAX, among others.

In other embodiments, the base station 103, 105, or 107 may communicate using other communication protocols, such as IEEE 802.11 family of wireless communication protocols. Further, in some embodiments, base stations 103, 105, or 107 may communicate over licensed spectrum, while in other embodiments, base stations 103, 105, or 107 may communicate over unlicensed spectrum. The present invention is not intended to be limited to implementation by any particular wireless communication system architecture or protocol. In another embodiment, the base station 103, 105, or 107 may communicate with the UE101 using 3GPP 5G protocols.

In accordance with the present invention, a UE is equipped with two or more fronts, and each front communicates with a base unit in a wireless communication system.

As shown in fig. 1, the UE101 is equipped with two fronts 111 and 113, where the fronts 111 and 113 communicate simultaneously with the base units 103 and 105, respectively. Two codewords (e.g., CW0 and CW1) may be transmitted substantially simultaneously from two preambles 111 and 113 over one PUSCH.

The present invention also provides a method performed by a UE for multi-front and/or multi-beam codebook based PUSCH transmission. The method includes receiving DCI having two or more sets of wavefront-specific parameters; and performing codebook-based PUSCH transmission according to the two or more sets of wavefront-specific parameters, respectively, to transmit two or more codewords; wherein each of the two or more sets of wavefront-specific parameters includes at least one of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

According to some embodiments of the invention, the method further comprises transmitting substantially simultaneously two or more Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources respectively configured in two or more SRS resource sets, wherein the two or more SRS resources are for one codebook-based PUSCH transmission.

Still referring to fig. 1, two distinct or different sets of SRS resources are configured for the fronts 111 and 113 of the UE101, respectively. In other words, one set of SRS is configured for the front 111 of the UE101 and another set of SRS is configured for the front 113 of the UE 101.

After receiving the SRS resources, the SRS resources are transmitted substantially simultaneously to the base units 103 and 105 by the fronts 111 and 113, respectively. A dedicated SRI is specified for each wavefront to indicate the spatial relationship of PUSCH transmission by the wavefront. In addition, the front-specific MIMO parameters, such as TPMI, MCS, NDI or RV or a combination of at least two of the above parameters, should be indicated by the uplink grant along with the SRI.

Single beam transmission between a single wavefront and a single base unit can be supported. However, multi-beam transmissions in the wireless communication network 100 may have different characteristics. For example, the transmission characteristics on the radio link (between the wavefront 111 and the base unit 103) may be completely different from the transmission characteristics on the radio link (between the wavefront 113 and the base unit 105). Thus, a single MCS and Transport Block Size (TBS) cannot support the channels of both links simultaneously (as mentioned above).

To perform multi-beam transmission in the wireless communication network 100, the present application provides a method of codeword to layer mapping. A UE101 with two preambles 111 and 113 for transmitting two codewords in parallel may use a codeword to layer mapping scheme as provided in table 1 below:

TABLE 1

Table 1 was developed based on the LTE Downlink (DL) codeword to layer mapping scheme. In Table 1, "d⁽ⁿ⁾"denotes a symbol in codeword n, where n is 0 or 1; "x^(m)"denotes the symbol in layer M, where M is 0, 1, 2, 3^(layer)-1；M^(layer)Number of symbols representing a layer; and "M⁽ⁿ⁾"denotes the number of symbols of codeword n. Although table 1 lists only cases for transmitting two codewords in parallel (e.g., n is 0 or 1) for simplicity, it is contemplated that other cases for transmitting more than two codewords in parallel may be developed from the example of table 1. In other words, n may not be limited to 0 or 1. The codeword to layer mapping scheme as shown in table 1 above may also be detailed below.

Fig. 2 is a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords (e.g., CW0 and CW1 as shown in fig. 1) to four layers according to an embodiment of the invention.

With reference to FIG. 2, the symbol d will be included⁽⁰⁾(i) D of⁽⁰⁾(e.g., CW0 as shown in fig. 1) to two layers x⁽⁰⁾(i) And x⁽¹⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽⁰⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i) And x⁽¹⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i +1), which means that the symbols in CW0 are assigned to layer 0 and layer 1 in this order.

Referring back to FIG. 2, including the symbol d⁽¹⁾(i) D of⁽¹⁾(e.g., CW1 as shown in fig. 1) to two layers x⁽²⁾(i) And x⁽³⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽²⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(2i) And x⁽³⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(2i +1), which means that the symbols in CW1 are assigned to layer 2 and layer 3 in order. In this case, the number of symbols transmitted in the layer (e.g.,) Equal to the number of CWs 0 (e.g.,) And is equal to the number of CWs 1 (e.g.,)。

fig. 3 is a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords (e.g., CW0 and CW1 as shown in fig. 1) to three layers according to an embodiment of the invention.

With reference to fig. 3, the symbol d will be included⁽⁰⁾(i) D of⁽⁰⁾(e.g., CW0 as shown in fig. 1) to two layers x⁽⁰⁾(i) And x⁽¹⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽⁰⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i) And x⁽¹⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i +1), which means that the symbols in CW0 are assigned to layer 0 and layer 1 in this order.

Referring back to FIG. 3, the symbol d will be included⁽¹⁾(i) D of⁽¹⁾(e.g., CW1 as shown in fig. 1) to only one layer x⁽²⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽²⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(i) This means that all symbols in CW1 are assigned to layer 2. In this case, the number of symbols in the layer (e.g.,) Equal to half the number of symbols transmitted in CW0 (e.g.,) And is equal to the number of symbols transmitted in CW1 (e.g.,)。

fig. 4 is a partial functional block diagram of a UE for mapping two codewords (e.g., CW0 and CW1 as shown in fig. 1) to six layers according to an embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 4, will include the symbol d⁽⁰⁾(i) D of⁽⁰⁾(e.g., CW0 as shown in fig. 1) to two layers x⁽⁰⁾(i) And x⁽¹⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽⁰⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i) And x⁽¹⁾(i)＝d⁽⁰⁾(2i +1), which means that the symbols in CW0 are assigned to layer 0 and layer 1 in this order.

Referring back to FIG. 4, the symbol d will be included⁽¹⁾(i) D of⁽¹⁾(e.g., CW1 as shown in FIG. 1) to four layers x⁽²⁾(i)、x⁽³⁾(i)、x⁽⁴⁾(i) And x⁽⁵⁾(i) In that respect With reference to Table 1, x⁽²⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(4i)、x⁽³⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(4i+1)、x⁽⁴⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(4i +2) and x⁽⁵⁾(i)＝d⁽¹⁾(4i +3), which means that the symbols in CW1 are assigned to layer 2, layer 3, layer 4, and layer 5 in this order. In this case, the number of symbols transmitted in the layer (e.g.,) Equal to half the number of symbols transmitted in CW0 (e.g.,) And is equal to one-fourth of the number of symbols transmitted in CW1 (e.g.,)。

the rank indicator is used to indicate the number of layers that each codeword can transmit. The rank number is the number of layers transmitted for each codeword. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the number of ranks of one codeword may be different from the number of ranks of another codeword. In LTE DL transmission, the layers are arranged somewhat uniformly to each codeword. For example, if there are four layers for transmitting two codewords, each codeword is mapped to two layers; if there are five layers, then one codeword is mapped to two layers and the other codeword is mapped to three layers. According to some embodiments of the invention, the layers may be arranged non-uniformly to each codeword. For example, if there are four layers, one codeword may be mapped to one layer and another codeword may be mapped to three layers; and if there are five layers, one codeword may be mapped to one layer and another codeword may be mapped to four layers. It is contemplated that the layers may also be arranged uniformly to each codeword, according to some other embodiments.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a method performed by a UE for multi-front and/or multi-beam codebook based PUSCH transmission may include generating a precoding matrix according to two or more sub-matrices respectively indicated by two or more TPMIs; and performing precoding according to the precoding matrix.

In order to perform PUSCH transmission based on a multi-preamble and/or multi-beam codebook, TPMI is required to indicate a precoding matrix for each preamble.

Referring back to fig. 1, two preambles 111 and 113 for performing PUSCH transmission require two TPMI for indicating a precoding matrix. In the case where each of the fronts 111 and 113 has two antenna ports, the precoding matrix W for each front can be selected from the Rel-15 NR UL codebook defined in table 6.3.1.5-1 and table 6.3.1.5-4 in TS 38.211. In the case where each of the fronts has four antenna ports, the precoding matrix W for each front may be selected from the Rel-15 NR UL codebooks defined in table 6.3.1.5-3, table 6.3.1.5-5, table 6.3.1.5.4-6 and table 6.3.1.5-7 in TS 38.211.

Assume that TPMI indicates a precoding matrix W for the wavefront 111₁And another TPMI indicates a precoding matrix W for the front 113₂Then may be based on the precoding matrix W₁And a precoding matrix W₂A precoding matrix W is generated for precoding the data streams converted from two codewords, e.g., CW0 and CW1 as shown in fig. 1. According to some embodiments of the invention, W may be generated by mixing W₁And W₂The precoding matrix W is generated by being arranged on a diagonal of the precoding matrix W, and the remaining elements in the precoding matrix W may be set to zero. In other words, according to two sub-matrices W₁And W₂A precoding matrix W is generated.

Referring back to fig. 2, assuming that each front plane has two antenna ports, precoders (or precoding matrices) for the four antenna ports can be generated as follows:

wherein 0₁Is provided withAll-zero matrix of the same dimension, and 0₂Is provided withAll-zero matrices of the same dimension.

The output of the precoder isIt will transmit through four antenna ports.

Referring back to fig. 4, assuming that each wavefront has four antenna ports, precoders (or precoding matrices) for eight antenna ports can be generated as follows:

in some other embodiments of the present invention, precoders (or precoding matrices) for two antenna ports may be represented as follows.

Therefore, TPMI is not required in this case. In other words, the TPMI may be negligible or negligible.

According to some other embodiments of the present invention, if the UE is equipped with more than two fronts, a precoding matrix may be generated using more than two sub-matrices, which are respectively indicated by more than two TPMIs. It is contemplated that other equation(s) for generating the precoding matrix W may be derived from the above disclosure.

The present invention also provides a method performed by a base unit (e.g., one of the base units 103, 105, or 107 as shown in fig. 1 or any base unit (not shown in fig. 1) other than the base unit 103, 105, or 107) for configuring a PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, the method including transmitting a DCI including two or more sets of parameters for a codebook-based PUSCH using two or more codewords, respectively, wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes each of a sounding reference Signal Resource Indicator (SRI), a transmission precoding matrix mi indicator (TPMI), a Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS), a New Data Indicator (NDI), and a Redundancy Version (RV).

The above method may be performed by a base unit (e.g., base unit 103 as shown in fig. 1) to which the UE performs a PUSCH transmission or another base unit (e.g., base unit 105 as shown in fig. 1) other than the base unit (e.g., base unit 103 as shown in fig. 1) to which the UE performs a PUSCH transmission.

According to some embodiments of the invention, a method is provided. The method includes configuring two or more sets of SRS resources for codebook-based PUSCH transmission. A base unit that may receive PUSCH transmissions (e.g., base unit 103, 105, or 107 as shown in fig. 1) may configure two or more sets of SRS resources for a codebook of a UE and determine an SRI based on received SRS resources transmitted from the UE. The determined SRI may be forwarded to the UE directly or through another base unit, such as base units 103, 105, or 107 as shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 5 illustrates a block diagram of a UE according to an embodiment of the present invention. The UE may include a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. In certain embodiments, the UE may further include an input device, a display, a memory, and/or other elements. In one embodiment, a receiver receives DCI having two or more sets of parameters; the processor performs codebook-based PUSCH transmission for two or more codewords according to two or more sets of received parameters, respectively; and a transmitter to transmit a PUSCH transmission; wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of an SRI, a TPMI, an MCS, an NDI, and an RV. The functions and implementations of all elements in the UE and the definitions of related technical terms are disclosed in the preceding corresponding paragraphs of the present specification.

Fig. 6 illustrates a block diagram of a base unit according to an embodiment of the invention. A base station may include a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. In certain embodiments, the base station may further include an input device, a display, a memory, and/or other elements. In one embodiment, a transmitter transmits DCI including two or more sets of parameters for codebook-based PUSCH transmission using two or more codewords, respectively; wherein each of the two or more sets of parameters includes at least one of an SRI, a TPMI, an MCS, an NDI, and an RV. The function and implementation of all elements in the base unit and the definition of related art terms are disclosed in the preceding corresponding paragraphs of this specification.

The method of the present invention may be implemented on a programmed processor. However, the controllers, flow charts and modules may also be implemented on a general purpose or special purpose computer, a programmed microprocessor or microcontroller and peripheral integrated circuit elements, integrated circuits, hardware electronic or logic circuits (e.g., discrete element circuits), programmable logic devices or the like. In general, any device having a finite state machine capable of implementing the flowcharts shown in the figures may be used to implement the processing functions of this disclosure.

While the present invention has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. For example, in other embodiments, various components of the embodiments may be interchanged, added, or substituted. Moreover, all of the elements shown in each figure are not necessary for operation of the disclosed embodiments. For example, those skilled in the art of the disclosed embodiments will be able to make and use the teachings of the present disclosure by simply employing the elements of the independent claims. Accordingly, the embodiments of the invention as set forth herein are intended to be illustrative, not limiting. Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

In this document, relational terms such as "first," "second," and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities. The terms "comprises/comprising," "including/having," "has," "having," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, elements recited as "a," "an," or the like do not exclude the presence of additional similar elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that includes the recited elements. Also, the term another is defined as at least a second or more. As used herein, the terms "comprising," having, "and the like are defined as" including.