阅读说明：本技术 在无线通信系统中发送/接收上行链路数据的方法及其装置 (Method for transmitting/receiving uplink data in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor ) 是由 朴海旭 姜智源 朴钟贤 金沂濬 尹硕铉 于 2020-02-14 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种在无线通信系统中用户设备(UE)在初始接入过程中发送消息的方法和装置。根据本发明,UE向基站发送与UE的传输功率有关的能力信息,其中,该信息可包括子集,该子集包括UE所支持的至少一个发送预编码矩阵指示符(TPMI)。UE从基站接收用于发送与初始接入有关的消息的第一控制信息,其中,该控制信息可包括为了UE发送所述消息而使用的TPMI。随后,UE使用基于TPMI确定的传输功率向基站发送所述消息,其中,传输功率可根据TPMI是否被包括在所述至少一个TPMI中来确定。(The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit a message during an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, the UE transmits capability information related to the transmission power of the UE to the base station, wherein the information may include a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE receives first control information for transmitting a message related to initial access from a base station, wherein the control information may include a TPMI used for the UE to transmit the message. Then, the UE transmits the message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power may be determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.)

1. A method for transmitting a message by a user equipment, UE, in an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE to a base station,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE;

receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from the base station,

wherein the first control information comprises a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and

transmitting the message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI,

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission power is full transmission power when the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a scaling factor used to determine the transmission power is configured to be "1".

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission power is a value less than full transmission power when the TPMI is not included in the at least one TPMI.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a scaling factor used to determine the transmission power is configured to be a value less than "1".

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving second control information including full transmission power available to the UE from the base station.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second control information further comprises mode information associated with at least one transmission mode applicable to the UE.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission power is a full transmission power when the capability information is information associated with a particular capability of the UE.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving a scaling value for determining the transmission power from the base station when the capability information is information associated with a specific capability of the UE,

Wherein the transmission power determined based on the scaling value is evenly distributed among the single or multiple antenna ports that use non-zero power to transmit the message.

10. A user equipment, UE, for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

one or more transceivers;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions for operations performed by the one or more processors and connected to the one or more processors,

wherein the operations comprise:

transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE to a base station,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE,

receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from the base station,

wherein the first control information includes TPMI used for the UE to transmit the message, an

Transmitting the message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, and

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

11. The UE of claim 10, wherein the transmission power is full transmission power when the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

12. The UE of claim 11, wherein a scaling factor used to determine the transmission power is configured to be "1".

13. The UE of claim 10, wherein the transmission power is a value less than full transmission power when the TPMI is not included in the at least one TPMI.

14. The UE of claim 13, wherein a scaling factor used to determine the transmission power is configured to be a value less than "1".

15. The UE of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise receiving second control information from the base station comprising a full transmission power available to the UE.

16. The UE of claim 15, wherein the second control information further comprises mode information associated with at least one transmission mode applicable to the UE.

17. The UE of claim 10, wherein the transmission power is a full transmission power when the capability information is information associated with a particular capability of the UE.

18. A method for receiving a message by a base station in an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

Receiving capability information associated with a transmission power of a UE from the UE,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE;

transmitting first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access to the UE,

wherein the first control information comprises a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and

receiving the message from the UE using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI,

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

19. A base station for receiving a message during initial access in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

one or more transceivers;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions for operations performed by the one or more processors and connected to the one or more processors,

wherein the operations comprise:

receiving capability information associated with a transmission power of a User Equipment (UE) from the UE,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE;

Transmitting first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access to the UE,

wherein the first control information comprises a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and

receiving the message from the UE using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI,

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

20. An apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors functionally connected to the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors control the apparatus to:

transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of the apparatus,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE;

receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access,

wherein the first control information comprises a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and is

Transmitting the message using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI,

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

21. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more instructions executable by one or more processors to instruct a user equipment, UE, to:

transmitting capability information associated with transmission power of the device to the base station,

wherein the capability information comprises a subset comprising at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator, TPMI, supported by the UE;

receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from the base station,

wherein the first control information comprises a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and is

Transmitting the message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI,

wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same.

Background

Mobile communication systems have been developed to provide voice services while ensuring user activity. However, in the mobile communication system, not only voice but also data services are expanded. Currently, due to the explosive growth of traffic, there is a shortage of resources and users demand higher speed services, and as a result, more advanced mobile communication systems are required.

The requirements for the next generation mobile communication system should be able to support accepting explosive data traffic, a drastic increase in the data rate per user, a significant increase in the number of accepting connected devices, a very low end-to-end delay, and high energy efficiency. To this end, various technologies are being investigated, including dual connectivity, massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), in-band full duplex, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), ultra-wideband support, device networking, and so on.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem

Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system.

Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of transmitting data using full transmission power configured by a base station when a UE transmits uplink data to the base station.

Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of transmitting information associated with a capability of a UE to a base station in order to determine a transmission power of uplink data when the UE transmits the uplink data to the base station.

Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of configuring a Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) for transmitting uplink data to a UE based on information associated with the capability of the UE received by a base station from the UE.

Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of transmitting transmission power of uplink data at full transmission power based on information associated with the capability of a UE transmitted by the UE to a base station and a TPMI configured by the base station.

The technical problems to be solved by the present disclosure are not limited to the above technical problems, and other technical problems not mentioned above may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains from the following description.

Technical scheme

To solve the technical problem, there is provided a method for transmitting a message by a User Equipment (UE) in an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE to the base station, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE; receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from a base station, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for a UE to transmit the message; and transmitting a message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Further, in the present disclosure, when the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI, the transmission power is a full transmission power.

Further, in the present disclosure, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power is configured to be "1".

Further, in the present disclosure, when the TPMI is not included in the at least one TPMI, the transmission power is a value less than a full transmission power.

Further, in the present disclosure, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power is configured to be a value less than "1".

Further, in the present disclosure, the method further comprises the steps of: second control information including full transmission power available to the UE is received from the base station.

Further, in the present disclosure, the second control information further includes mode information associated with at least one transmission mode applicable to the UE.

Further, in the present disclosure, when the information is information related to a specific capability of the UE, the transmission power is a full transmission power.

Further, in the present disclosure, the method may further include the steps of: when the information is information related to a specific capability of the UE, a scaling value for determining a transmission power is received from the base station, and the transmission power determined based on the scaling value may be equally distributed among single or multiple antenna ports transmitting an uplink channel using non-zero power.

Further, there is provided a User Equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising: one or more transceivers; one or more processors; and one or more memories storing instructions for operations performed by the one or more processors and connected to the one or more processors, wherein the operations comprise: transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE to the base station, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE; receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from a base station, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for a UE to transmit the message; and transmitting a message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Further, there is provided a method of receiving a message by a base station in an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE from the UE, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE; transmitting first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access to the UE, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and receiving a message from the UE using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Further, there is provided a base station for receiving a message in an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising: one or more transceivers; one or more processors; and one or more memories storing instructions for operations performed by the one or more processors and connected to the one or more processors, wherein the operations comprise: receiving capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE from the UE, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE; transmitting first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access to the UE, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and receiving a message from the UE using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, and wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Furthermore, there is provided an apparatus comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors functionally connected to the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: transmitting capability information associated with a transmission power of an apparatus, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by a UE; receiving first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for a UE to transmit the message; and transmitting a message using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Further, one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more instructions are provided, wherein the one or more instructions, executed by the one or more processors, are configured to: transmitting, by a User Equipment (UE), capability information associated with a transmission power of the UE to a base station, wherein the capability information includes a subset including at least one Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE; receiving, by the UE, first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from a base station, wherein the first control information includes a TPMI for the UE to transmit the message; and transmitting, by the UE, a message to the base station using a transmission power determined based on the TPMI, wherein the transmission power is determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.

Advantageous effects

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the present disclosure may provide a method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when the terminal transmits uplink data to the base station, the data may be transmitted using full transmission power configured by the base station.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the base station acquires information associated with the capability of the terminal to configure the TPMI according to the capability of the terminal.

The effects obtainable from the present disclosure are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned above can be clearly understood from the following description by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure and constitute a part of this detailed description, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an example of an overall system structure of NR to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 2 illustrates a relationship between an uplink frame and a downlink frame in a wireless communication system to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 3 shows an example of a frame structure in the NR system.

Fig. 4 illustrates an example of a resource grid supported by a wireless communication system to which the methods presented in this disclosure may be applied.

Fig. 5 illustrates an example of a resource grid and a set of parameters for respective antenna ports to which the methods presented in this disclosure may be applied.

Fig. 6 illustrates physical channels and general signal transmission used in the 3GPP system.

Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an antenna array to which the methods presented in this disclosure may be applied.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of beams for beam management.

Fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a downlink beam management procedure.

Fig. 10 illustrates an example of a downlink beam management procedure using a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS).

Fig. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of a reception beam determination process of the UE.

Fig. 12 is a flowchart showing an example of transmission beam determination processing by the eNB.

Fig. 13 illustrates an example of resource allocation in time and frequency domains associated with a DL BM process using CSI-RS.

Fig. 14 illustrates an example of an uplink beam management procedure using a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS).

Fig. 15 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an uplink beam management procedure using an SRS.

Fig. 16 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a CSI association process to which the method proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

Fig. 17 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a downlink transmission/reception operation to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 18 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an uplink transmission/reception operation to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 19 illustrates the SSB architecture.

Fig. 20 shows SSB transmission.

Fig. 21 illustrates a UE acquiring information on DL time synchronization.

Fig. 22 shows a System Information (SI) acquisition process.

Fig. 23 shows an example of a random access procedure.

Fig. 24 shows the concept of a threshold value for an SS block associated with a RACH resource.

Fig. 25 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Radio Frequency (RF) chain of an antenna port to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of timing advance to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

Fig. 27 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart of an eNB to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable to receive uplink data.

Fig. 28 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart of an eNB to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable to receive uplink data.

Fig. 29 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart in which a UE to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable determines transmission power for transmitting uplink data.

Fig. 30 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart in which an eNB, to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable, determines transmission power for transmitting uplink data.

Fig. 31 shows a communication system applied to the present disclosure.

Fig. 32 shows a wireless device applicable to the present disclosure.

Fig. 33 shows a signal processing circuit for transmitting a signal.

Fig. 34 shows another example of a wireless device applied to the present disclosure.

Fig. 35 shows a portable device applied to the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The detailed description to be disclosed below in connection with the appended drawings is intended to describe exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, and not to describe the only embodiments for practicing the present disclosure. The following detailed description includes details to provide a thorough understanding of the present disclosure. However, one skilled in the art will appreciate that the present disclosure may be practiced without these details.

In some cases, in order to prevent the concept of the present disclosure from being ambiguous, known structures and devices may be omitted or shown in a block diagram format based on core functions of the respective structures and devices.

Hereinafter, Downlink (DL) means communication from a base station to a terminal, and Uplink (UL) means communication from a terminal to a base station. In the downlink, a transmitter may be part of a base station and a receiver may be part of a terminal. In the uplink, the transmitter may be part of a terminal and the receiver may be part of a base station. The base station may be denoted as a first communication device and the terminal may be denoted as a second communication device. Base Stations (BSs) may be replaced by terms including fixed stations, node BS, evolved node BS (enbs), next generation node BS (gnbs), Base Transceiver Systems (BTSs), Access Points (APs), networks (5G networks), AI systems, roadside units (RSUs), vehicles, robots, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Augmented Reality (AR) devices, Virtual Reality (VR) devices, and the like. Further, the terminal may be fixed or mobile and may be replaced by terms including User Equipment (UE), a Mobile Station (MS), a User Terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station (MSs), a Subscriber Station (SS), an Advanced Mobile Station (AMS), a Wireless Terminal (WT), a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device, a machine-to-machine (M2M) device and device-to-device (D2D) device, a vehicle, a robot, an AI module, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, and the like.

The following techniques may be used in various radio access systems including CDMA, FDMA, TDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, and the like. CDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) or CDMA 2000. The TDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such as global system for mobile communications (GSM)/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)/enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE). OFDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16(WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), and so on. UTRA is part of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The 3 rd generation partnership project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) is part of evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using E-UTRA, LTE-advanced (A)/LTE-A pro is an evolved version of 3GPP LTE. The 3GPP NR (New radio or New radio Access technology) is an evolved version of the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A/LTE-A pro.

For clarity of description, the technical spirit of the present disclosure is described based on a 3GPP communication system (e.g., LTE-a or NR), but the technical spirit of the present disclosure is not limited thereto. LTE means technology after 3GPP TS36.xxx Release 8. In detail, the LTE technology after 3GPP TS36.xxx Release 10 is referred to as LTE-A, and the LTE technology after 3GPP TS36.xxx Release 13 is referred to as LTE-A pro. 3GPP NR means technology behind TS 38.xxx Release 15. LTE/NR may be referred to as a 3GPP system. "xxx" means standard document detail numbers. For background, terms, abbreviations, etc. used to describe the present disclosure, reference may be made to items disclosed in standard documents disclosed prior to the present disclosure. For example, the following documents may be referred to.

3GPP LTE

-36.211: physical channel and modulation

-36.212: multiplexing and channel coding

-36.213: physical layer procedure

-36.300: general description

-36.331: radio Resource Control (RRC)

3GPP NR

-38.211: physical channel and modulation

-38.212: multiplexing and channel coding

-38.213: physical layer procedure for control

-38.214: physical layer procedures for data

-38.300: general description of NR and NG-RAN

-36.331: radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification

As more and more communication devices require greater communication capacity, improved mobile broadband communications compared to existing Radio Access Technologies (RATs) are needed. In addition, large-scale Machine Type Communication (MTC) that provides various services by connecting many devices and objects anytime and anywhere is one of the major issues to be considered in next-generation communication. In addition, communication system design is being discussed that considers services/UEs that are sensitive to reliability and delay. Discussion introduction next generation radio access technology considering enhanced mobile broadband communication (eMBB), massive mtc (mtc), ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) is introduced and for convenience in this disclosure, this technology is referred to as a new RAT. NR is an expression representing an example of a 5G Radio Access Technology (RAT).

The three main areas of demand for 5G include (1) the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) area, (2) the large-scale machine type communication (mtc) area, and (3) the ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) area.

Some use cases may require multiple domains to optimize, and other use cases may focus on only one Key Performance Indicator (KPI). 5G supports these various use cases in a flexible and reliable manner.

The eMBB far surpasses basic mobile internet access and encompasses rich two-way tasks, media and entertainment applications in the cloud or augmented reality. Data is a key driver for 5G, where dedicated voice services may not be visible for the first time. In 5G, it is expected that speech will be processed into applications using the data connection that the communication system simply provides. The main reasons for the increase in traffic include the increase in content size and the increase in the number of applications requiring high data transfer rates. Streaming services (audio and video), conversational video, and mobile internet connections will be used more widely as more and more devices are connected to the internet. These many applications require an always-on connection in order to push real-time information and notifications to the user. Cloud storage and applications are suddenly increasing in mobile communication platforms, and this is applicable to both business and entertainment. Furthermore, cloud storage is a special use case that drives the growth of uplink data transfer rates. 5G is also used for remote cloud services. When using a haptic interface, a lower end-to-end delay is required to maintain an excellent user experience. Entertainment (e.g., cloud gaming and video streaming) is another key element that increases the demand for mobile broadband capabilities. Entertainment is essential in smart phones and tablets anywhere including high mobility environments such as trains, vehicles, and airplanes. Another use case is augmented reality and information search for entertainment. In this case, augmented reality requires very low latency and an immediate amount of data.

Furthermore, one of the most desirable 5G use cases relates to a function capable of smoothly connecting embedded sensors (i.e., mtc) in all fields. By 2020, it is expected that potential IoT devices will reach 204 billion. Industrial IoT is one of the areas where 5G plays a major role in enabling smart cities, asset tracking, smart public facilities, agriculture, and security infrastructure.

URLLC includes new services that will change the industry, such as self-driving vehicles, through remote control of the primary infrastructure and links with ultra-reliability/low available delay. For smart grid control, industrial automation, robotic engineering, unmanned aerial vehicle control and regulation, the level of reliability and latency is of paramount importance.

A number of use cases are described in more detail.

5G may supplement Fiber To The Home (FTTH) and cable-based broadband (or DOCSIS) as a means of providing streams from gigabits per second to hundreds of megabits per second evaluation. Such a fast speed is required to transmit TVs with a resolution of 4K or higher (6K, 8K or higher) in addition to virtual reality and augmented reality. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications include immersive sporting events. A particular application may require a particular network configuration. For example, in the case of VR games, a gaming company may need to integrate with the network operator's edge network servers in order to minimize delay.

With many use cases for automotive mobile communications, automobiles are expected to be an important new driving force in 5G. For example, entertainment for passengers requires both high capacity and high mobility mobile broadband. The reason for this is that future users continue to expect high quality connections regardless of their location and speed. Another example of use in the automotive field is augmented reality instrument panels. The augmented reality instrument panel overlaps and displays information identifying the object in the dark and informing the driver of the distance and movement of the object over what the driver sees through the front window. In the future, wireless modules enable communication between automobiles, information exchange between automobiles and supported infrastructure, and information exchange between automobiles and other connected devices (e.g., devices carried by pedestrians). The safety system guides alternative behavioral routes so that the driver can drive more safely, thereby reducing the risk of accidents. The next step would be to remotely control or self-drive the vehicle. This requires very reliable, very fast communication between different self-driven vehicles and between the car and the infrastructure. In the future, self-driving vehicles may perform all driving activities, and drivers will be concerned about things other than traffic that the cars themselves cannot recognize. The technical requirements for self-driving vehicles require ultra-low latency and ultra-high speed reliability to increase traffic safety to levels that cannot be achieved by humans.

Smart cities and smart homes mentioned as smart societies will be embedded as high-density radio sensor networks. A distributed network of smart sensors will identify the cost of a city or home and the conditions for energy saving maintenance. Similar configurations may be performed for individual households. The temperature sensor, the window and heating controller, the anti-theft alarm and the household appliance are all in wireless connection. Many of these sensors are typically low data transfer rates, low energy and low cost. However, for example, certain types of surveillance devices may require real-time HD video.

The consumption and distribution of energy, including heat or gas, is highly distributed, thus requiring automated control of a distributed sensor network. The smart grid collects information and interconnects these sensors using digital information and communication techniques so that the sensors operate based on the information. This information may include the behavior of suppliers and consumers, so the smart grid may improve the distribution of fuels such as electricity in an efficient, reliable, economical, production-sustainable, and automated manner. The smart grid may be considered as another sensor network with small delays.

The healthy part has many applications that benefit from mobile communication. The communication system may support teletherapy to provide clinical therapy at a remote location. This helps to reduce the obstruction to distance and may improve the acquisition of medical services that are not continuously available in remote rural areas. Furthermore, this is used to save lives in important therapeutic and emergency situations. A mobile communication based radio sensor network may provide remote monitoring and sensors for parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure.

Radio and mobile communications are becoming increasingly important in the field of industrial applications. Wiring requires high installation and maintenance costs. Thus, in many industrial fields the possibility to replace the cable with a reconfigurable radio link is an attractive opportunity. However, achieving this possibility requires a radio connection to operate with similar delay, reliability and capacity as the cable and management simplification. Low latency and low error probability are new requirements for 5G connections.

Logistics and shipment tracking is an important use case for mobile communications that allows inventory and packages to be tracked anywhere using location-based information systems. Logistics and freight tracking use cases typically require lower data rates, but wider areas and reliable location information.

An OFDM transmission scheme or a similar transmission scheme is used in a new RAT system including NR. The new RAT system may follow different OFDM parameters than those of LTE. Alternatively, the new RAT system may follow the parameter set of legacy LTE/LTE-a as is or have a larger system bandwidth (e.g., 100 MHz). Alternatively, one cell may support multiple parameter sets. In other words, UEs operating with different sets of parameters may coexist in one cell.

The parameter set corresponds to one subcarrier spacing in the frequency domain. Different parameter sets may be defined by scaling the reference subcarrier spacing to an integer N.

Definition of terms

eLTeeNB: the etlenb is an evolution of enbs that support connectivity with the EPC and NGCs.

And g NB: nodes supporting NRs and connectivity to NGCs.

The new RAN: a radio access network supporting NR or E-UTRA or an interface with NGC.

Network slicing: a network slice is a network created by an operator that is customized to provide an optimized solution for a particular market scenario requiring specific requirements with an end-to-end scope.

Network function: a network function is a logical node within the network infrastructure that has well-defined external interfaces and well-defined functional behavior.

NG-C: the control plane interface used on the NG2 reference point between the new RAN and the NGC.

NG-U: the user plane interface used on the NG3 reference point between the new RAN and the NGC.

Non-independent NR: the gNB requires deployment configurations of LTE enbs as anchors for control plane connectivity with the EPC or etlenb as anchor for control plane connectivity with the NGC.

Non-independent E-UTRA: the etlenb requires a deployment configuration of the gNB as an anchor point for control plane connectivity with the NGC.

A user plane gateway: termination point of NG-U interface.

Overview of the System

Fig. 1 shows an example of the overall structure of an NR system to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applied.

Referring to fig. 1, the NG-RAN consists of a gNB providing NG-RA user plane (new AS sublayer/PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol termination for User Equipment (UE).

The gnbs are interconnected to each other by an Xn interface.

The gNB is also connected to the NGC through the NG interface.

More specifically, the gNB is connected to an access and mobility management function (AMF) through an N2 interface and to a User Plane Function (UPF) through an N3 interface.

NR (New Ra)t) parameter set and frame structure

In NR systems, multiple parameter sets may be supported. The parameter set may be defined by subcarrier spacing and CP (cyclic prefix) overhead. The spacing between the multiple subcarriers may be derived by scaling the fundamental subcarrier spacing to an integer N (or μ). In addition, although it is assumed that very low subcarrier spacing is not used at very high subcarrier frequencies, the parameter set to be used may be selected independently of the frequency band.

In addition, in the NR system, various frame structures according to a plurality of parameter sets may be supported.

Hereinafter, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) parameter set and a frame structure that can be considered in the NR system will be described.

The plurality of OFDM parameter sets supported in the NR system may be as defined in table 1.

[ Table 1]

μ	Δf＝2μ·15[kHz]	Cyclic prefix
			0	15	Is normal
1	30	Is normal
			2	60	Normal, extended
3	120	Is normal
			4	240	Is normal

NR supports multiple parameter sets (or subcarrier spacings (SCS)) for supporting various 5G services. For example, a wide region in a conventional cellular band is supported when the SCS is 15kHz, dense urban areas, lower delay, and wider carrier bandwidth are supported when the SCS is 30kHz/60kHz, and a bandwidth greater than 24.25GHz is supported when the SCS is 60kHz or higher in order to overcome phase noise.

The NR frequency band is defined as two types of frequency ranges (FR1 and FR 2). FR1 and FR2 may be configured as shown in table 2 below. Further, FR2 may mean millimeter wave (mmW).

[ Table 2]

Frequency range designation	Corresponding frequency range	Subcarrier spacing
			FR1	410MHz-7125MHz	15,30,60kHz
FR2	24250MHz-52600MHz	60,120,240kHz

Regarding the frame structure in the NR system, the sizes of various fields in the time domain are represented as time units T_s＝1/(Δf_max·N_f) Multiples of (a). In this case,. DELTA.f_max＝480·10³And N is_f4096. DL and UL transmissions are configured with T_f＝(Δf_maxN_f/100)·T_sRadio frame of 10ms section. The radio frames each have T_sf＝(Δf_maxN_f/1000)·T_sTen subframes for a 1ms segment. In this case, there may be a UL frame set and a DL frame set.

Fig. 2 illustrates a relationship between an uplink frame and a downlink frame in a wireless communication system to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applied.

As shown in FIG. 2, the uplink frame number i for a transmission from a User Equipment (UE) should be T before the start of the corresponding downlink frame at the corresponding UE_TA＝N_TAT_sAnd starting.

With respect to parameter set μ, slots are per subframeAre numbered in ascending order and are ordered within a radio frameThe ascending order of (1). A time slot is formed byA number of consecutive OFDM symbols, anddetermined according to the parameter set and time slot configuration used. Time slots in subframesIs temporally identical to an OFDM symbol in the same subframeIs aligned.

Not all UEs are capable of transmitting and receiving simultaneously, which means that not all OFDM symbols in a downlink slot or an uplink slot may be used.

Table 3 shows the number of OFDM symbols per slot in the normal CPNumber of time slots per radio frameAnd the number of slots per subframeTable 4 shows the number of OFDM symbols per slot, the number of slots per radio frame, and the number of slots per subframe in the extended CP.

[ Table 3]

[ Table 4]

Fig. 3 shows an example of a frame structure in the NR system. Fig. 3 is for convenience of illustration only, and does not limit the scope of the present disclosure.

In table 4, in the case of μ ═ 2, that is, as an example where the subcarrier spacing (SCS) is 60kHz, one subframe (or frame) may include four slots with reference to table 3, and one subframe ═ 1,2,4 slots as shown in fig. 3, for example, the number of slots that may be included in one subframe may be as defined in table 3.

Further, a mini-slot may consist of 2, 4, or 7 symbols, or may consist of more symbols or less symbols.

Regarding physical resources in the NR system, antenna ports, resource grid, resource elements, resource blocks, carrier parts, etc. may be considered.

Hereinafter, the above-described physical resources that can be considered in the NR system are described in more detail.

First, with respect to an antenna port, an antenna port is defined such that a channel transmitting a symbol on the antenna port can be inferred from a channel transmitting another symbol on the same antenna port. When the large-scale nature of a channel transmitting symbols on one antenna port may be inferred from a channel transmitting symbols on another antenna port, the two antenna ports may be considered to be in a quasi-co-located or quasi-co-located (QC/QCL) relationship. Here, the large-scale property may include at least one of delay spread, doppler spread, frequency shift, average received power, and reception timing.

Fig. 4 illustrates an example of a resource grid supported in a wireless communication system to which the methods presented in this disclosure are applicable.

Referring to fig. 4, the resource grid consists of resources in the frequency domainSub-carriers, each sub-frame consisting of 14.2^μOne OFDM symbol, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.

In an NR system, the transmitted signal is composed ofSub-carriers andone or more resource grid descriptions of OFDM symbols, whereinRepresents the maximum transmission bandwidth and may vary not only between parameter sets but also between uplink and downlink.

In this case, one resource grid may be configured per parameter set μ and antenna port p, as shown in fig. 5.

Fig. 5 illustrates an example of a resource grid and parameter set per antenna port to which the methods presented in this disclosure are applicable.

The individual elements of the resource grid for the parameter set μ and the antenna port p are called resource elements and are grouped by index pairsIs uniquely identified, whereinIs an index on the frequency domain and,refers to the location of the symbols in the subframe. The index pair (k, l) is used to refer to resource elements in a slot, where

Resource elements for parameter set mu and antenna port pCorresponding to complex valuesWhen there is no risk of confusion or when no specific antenna port or parameter set is specified, the indices p and μmay be discarded, and as a result, the complex value may beOr

Further, physical resource blocks are defined as in the frequency domainA number of consecutive subcarriers.

Point a serves as a common reference point for the resource block grid and may be obtained as follows.

-offsetttopointa for PCell downlink represents the frequency offset between point a and the lowest subcarrier of the lowest resource block overlapping with the SS/PBCH block used by the UE for initial cell selection and is represented in units of resource blocks, assuming a 15kHz subcarrier spacing for FR1 and a 60kHz subcarrier spacing for FR 2;

-absoluteFrequencyPointA denotes the frequency position of point a in Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN);

for the subcarrier spacing configuration μ, the common resource blocks are numbered from 0 upwards in the frequency domain.

The center of subcarrier 0 of common resource block 0 in which the subcarrier spacing configuration μ coincides with "point a". Common resource block numbers in the frequency domainAnd the resource elements (k, l) of the subcarrier spacing configuration μ can be given by the following equation 1.

[ formula 1]

Here, k may be defined with respect to point a such that k — 0 corresponds to a subcarrier centered on point a. Physical resource blocks are defined within a bandwidth part (BWP) and from 0 toNumber, where i is the number of BWP. Physical resource block n in BWP i_PRBWith a common resource block n_CRBThe relationship therebetween can be given by the following equation 2.

[ formula 2]

Here, the first and second liquid crystal display panels are,may be a common resource block, where BWP starts with respect to common resource block 0.

Physical channel and general signal transmission

Fig. 6 illustrates physical channels and general signal transmission used in the 3GPP system. In a wireless communication system, a UE receives information from an eNB through a Downlink (DL), and the UE transmits information to the eNB through an Uplink (UL). Information transmitted and received by the eNB and the UE includes data and various control information, and there are various physical channels according to the type/use of the information transmitted and received by the eNB and the UE.

When the UE is powered on or newly enters a cell, the UE performs an initial cell search operation (e.g., synchronization with the eNB) (S601). To this end, the UE may receive and synchronize a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) and a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) from the eNB and acquire information such as a cell ID. Thereafter, the UE may receive a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) from the eNB and acquire intra-cell broadcast information. In addition, the UE receives a downlink reference signal (DL RS) to check a downlink channel state in the initial cell search step.

The UE that completes the initial cell search receives a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) according to information loaded on the PDCCH to acquire more specific system information (S602).

Further, when there is no radio resource to first access the eNB or for signal transmission, the UE may perform a random access procedure (RACH) to the eNB (S603 to S606). For this, the UE may transmit a specific sequence to a preamble through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) (S603 and S605) and receive a response message to the preamble through the PDCCH and a corresponding PDSCH (random access response (RAR) message). In case of the contention-based RACH, a contention resolution procedure may be additionally performed (S606).

The UE performing the above-described procedure may then perform PDCCH/PDSCH reception (S607) and Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)/Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission (S608) as a general uplink/downlink signal transmission procedure. Specifically, the UE may receive Downlink Control Information (DCI) through the PDCCH. Here, the DCI may include control information such as resource allocation information of the UE, and the format may be differently applied according to a use purpose.

Also, the control information that the UE transmits to the eNB through an uplink or the UE receives from the eNB may include a downlink/uplink ACK/NACK signal, a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), a Precoding Matrix Index (PMI), a Rank Indicator (RI), and the like. The UE may transmit control information such as CQI/PMI/RI through PUSCH and/or PUCCH.

Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an antenna array to which the methods presented in this disclosure may be applied.

In fig. 7, the normalized panel antenna array may be composed of Mg panels and Ng panels in the horizontal domain and the vertical domain, respectively.

In this case, one panel is constituted by M columns and N rows, respectively, and an X-pole antenna is assumed in fig. 7. Thus, the total number of antenna elements may be 2 × M × N × Mg × Ng.

Beam Management (BM)

The BM process, which is a layer 1 (L1)/layer 2(L2) process for acquiring and maintaining a set of base station (e.g., gNB, TRP, etc.) and/or terminal (e.g., UE) beams available for Downlink (DL) and Uplink (UL) transmission/reception, may include the following processes and terms.

-beam measurement: an operation of measuring characteristics of a beamforming signal received by the eNB or the UE.

-beam determination: an operation of selecting a transmit (Tx) beam/receive (Rx) beam of the eNB or the UE by the eNB or the UE.

-beam scanning: operation for covering a spatial region with transmit and/or receive beams at time intervals in a predetermined scheme.

-beam reporting: an operation in which the UE reports information of the beamformed signals based on the beam measurement.

The BM process may be divided into (1) a DL BM process using a Synchronization Signal (SS)/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) block or CSI-RS and (2) a UL BM process using a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). Further, each BM process may include Tx beam scanning for determining Tx beams and Rx beam scanning for determining Rx beams.

Downlink beam management (DL BM)

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of beams for beam management.

The DL BM process may include (1) transmission of beamformed DL Reference Signals (RSs) of the eNB (e.g., CIS-RSs or SS blocks (SSBs)) and (2) beam reporting of the UE.

Here, the beam report preferably includes a DL RS Identifier (ID) and L1 Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP).

The DL RS ID may be an SSB resource indicator (SSBRI) or a CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI).

As shown in fig. 8, SSB beams and CSI-RS beams may be used for beam management. The measurement metric is L1-RSRP for each resource/block. The SSBs may be used for coarse beam management and the CSI-RS may be used for fine beam management. SSB may be used for both Tx beam scanning and Rx beam scanning.

Rx beam scanning using SSBs may be performed while the UE changes Rx beams for the same SSBRI across multiple SSB bursts. Here, one SS burst includes one or more SSBs, and one set of SS bursts includes one or more SSB bursts.

DL BM using SSB

Fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a downlink beam management procedure.

The configuration of beam reporting using the SSB is performed during CSI/beam configuration in an RRC connected state (or RRC connected mode).

-the UE receiving, from the eNB, a CSI-ResourceConfig IE comprising a CSI-SSB-ResourceSetList, which comprises SSB resources for the BM (S901).

Table 5 shows an example of the CSI-ResourceConfig IE, and as shown in table a, BM configuration using SSBs is not separately defined, and SSBs are configured like CSI-RS resources.

[ Table 5]

In table 5, the csi-SSB-ResourceSetList parameter represents a list of SSB resources used for beam management and reported in one resource set. Here, the set of SSB resources may be configured as { SSBx1, SSBx2, SSBx3, SSBx4, … }. The SSB index may be defined as 0 to 63.

-the UE receiving SSB resources from the eNB based on the CSI-SSB-ResourceSetList (S920).

When configuring the CSI-RS reportConfig associated with the reporting of SSBRI and L1-RSRP, the UE (beam) reports the best SSBRI and the L1-RSRP corresponding thereto to the eNB (S930).

In other words, when the reportQuantity of the CSI-RS reportConfig IE is configured as "ssb-Index-RSRP", the UE reports the best SSBRI and L1-RSRP corresponding thereto to the eNB.

In addition, when the CSI-RS resource is configured in the same OFDM symbol as the SSB (SS/PBCH block) and "QCL-type" is applicable, the UE may assume CSI-RS and SSB quasi-co-location from the perspective of "QCL-type".

Here, QCL type may mean an antenna port QCL from the perspective of spatial Rx parameters. When the UE receives a plurality of DL antenna ports having QCL type D relationship, the same Rx beam may be applied. Further, the UE does not expect the CSI-RS configuration in the REs overlapping with the REs of the SSB.

DL BM using CSI-RS

Regarding CSI-RS usage, i) when a repetition parameter is configured in a specific CSI-RS resource set and TRS _ info is not configured, CSI-RS is used for beam management. ii) when the repetition parameter is not configured and the TRS _ info is configured, the CSI-RS is used to track The Reference Signal (TRS). iii) when the repetition parameter is not configured and the TRS _ info is not configured, the CSI-RS is used for CSI acquisition.

The repetition parameter may be configured only for the CSI-RS resource sets associated with the CSI-ReportConfig reported L1 RSRP or "no report (or no)".

When the UE is configured with a CSI-ReportConfig with a reportQuantity configured as "cri-RSRP" or "none" and a CSI-ResourceConfig (higher layer parameter, resourceforchannelmeasurement) for channel measurement does not include the higher layer parameter "trs-Info" but is configured with a NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet of the higher layer parameter "repetition", the UE may be configured with only the same number of ports (1 port or 2 ports) with the higher layer parameter "nrofPorts" for all CSI-RS resources in the NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceSet.

When the (higher layer parameter) repetition is configured to be "ON", the (higher layer parameter) repetition is associated with an Rx beam scanning procedure of the UE. In this case, when the UE is configured with NZP-CSI-RS-resources set, the UE may assume that at least one CSI-RS resource of the NZP-CSI-RS-resources set is sent to the same downlink spatial transmission filter. In other words, at least one CSI-RS resource in the NZP-CSI-RS-resource set is transmitted through the same Tx beam. Here, at least one CSI-RS resource in the NZP-CSI-RS-resource set may be transmitted to a different OFDM symbol. Furthermore, the UE does not expect to receive different periodicities with periodicityAndOffset in all CSI-RS resources in the NZP-CSI-RS-resources.

In contrast, when Repetition is configured to be "OFF", Repetition is associated with the Tx beam scanning procedure of the eNB. In this case, when the repetition is configured to be "OFF", the UE does not assume that at least one CSI-RS resource in the NZP-CSI-RS-resources set is transmitted to the same downlink spatial transmission filter. In other words, at least one CSI-RS resource in the NZP-CSI-RS-resources set is transmitted over a different Tx beam.

Fig. 10 illustrates an example of a downlink beam management procedure using a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS).

Fig. 10 (a) illustrates an Rx beam determination (or refinement) procedure of the UE, and fig. 10 (b) illustrates an eNB Tx beam scanning procedure. Further, (a) of fig. 10 shows a case where the repetition parameter is configured to be "ON", and (b) of fig. 10 shows a case where the repetition parameter is configured to be "OFF".

Referring to (a) of fig. 10 and 11, Rx beam determination processing of the UE will be described.

Fig. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of a reception beam determination process of the UE.

-the UE receiving an NZP CSI-RS resource set IE including a higher layer parameter repetition from the eNB through RRC signaling (S1110). Here, the repetition parameter is configured to be "ON".

The UE repeatedly receives resources in the CSI-RS resource set configured to repeat "ON" in different OFDM symbols through the same Tx beam (or DL spatial transmission filter) of the eNB (S1120).

-the UE determines its Rx beam (S1130).

-the UE skipping CSI reporting (S1140). In this case, the reportQuantity of the CSI report config may be configured as "no report (or no)".

In other words, the UE may skip CSI reporting when the configuration repeats "ON".

Referring to (b) of fig. 10 and 12, a Tx beam determination process of the eNB will be described.

Fig. 12 is a flowchart showing an example of transmission beam determination processing by the eNB.

-the UE receiving an NZP CSI-RS resource set IE including a higher layer parameter repetition from the eNB through RRC signaling (S1210). Here, the repetition parameter is configured to be "OFF" and associated with a Tx beam scanning procedure of the eNB.

-the UE receiving resources in the CSI-RS resource set configured to repeat "OFF" through different Tx beams (DL spatial transmission filters) of the eNB (S1220).

-the UE selects (or determines) the best beam (S1230).

The UE reports the ID of the selected beam and related quality information (e.g., L1-RSRP) to the eNB (S1240). In this case, the reportQuantity of CSIreport config may be configured as "CRI + L1-RSRP".

In other words, when sending CSI-RS for BM, the UE reports its CRI and L1-RSRP to the eNB.

Fig. 13 illustrates an example of resource allocation in time and frequency domains associated with a DL BM process using CSI-RS.

In particular, it can be seen that a plurality of CSI-RS resources are repeatedly used by applying the same Tx beam when the CSI-RS resource set configuration is repeated "ON", and different CSI-RS resources are transmitted through different Tx beams when the CSI-RS resource set configuration is repeated "OFF".

DL BM association beam indication

The UE may RRC be configured with a list of up to M candidate Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states, at least for quasi co-location (QCL) indication. Here, M may be 64.

Each TCI state may be configured as a set of RSs. For spatial QCL (QCL type D) in RS set, the ID of each DL RS may refer to at least one of DL RS types including SSB, P-CSI RS, SP-CSI RS, a-CSI RS, and the like.

The initialization/update of the IDs of the DL RSs in the RS set used for spatial QCL purposes may be performed at least by explicit signaling.

Table 6 shows an example of the TCI-State IE.

The TCI-State IE is associated with a quasi co-location (QCL) type corresponding to one or two DL Reference Signals (RSs).

[ Table 6]

In table 6, the BWP-Id parameter indicates DL BWP where the RS is located, the cell parameter indicates the carrier where the RS is located, and the reference signal parameter indicates the reference antenna port that becomes the quasi-co-located source of the corresponding target antenna port or the reference signaling including the reference antenna port. The target antenna port may be CSI-RS, PDCCH DMRS, or PDSCH DMRS. As an example, the corresponding TCI state ID may be indicated for the NZP CSI-RS resource configuration information to indicate QCL reference RS information of the NZP CSI-RS. As another example, a TCI status ID may be configured for each CORESET to indicate PDCCH DMRS QCL reference information for the antenna port. As another example, the TCI status ID may be indicated by the DCI to indicate PDSCH DMRS QCL reference information for the antenna port.

QCL (quasi co-location)

The antenna ports are defined such that the channel on which the symbols on the antenna ports are transmitted can be inferred from the channel on which different symbols on the same antenna port are transmitted. Two antenna ports may have a quasi-co-location or quasi-co-location (QC/QCL) relationship when the nature of the channel transmitting symbols on one antenna port may be inferred from the channel transmitting symbols on different antenna ports.

Here, the channel property includes at least one of delay spread, doppler spread, frequency/doppler shift, average received power, reception timing/average delay, and spatial Rx parameter. Here, the spatial Rx parameter means a spatial (reception) channel property parameter such as an angle of arrival.

The US may be configured as a list of at most M TCI-State configurations in the higher layer parameter PDSCH-Config in order to decode PDSCH according to detected PDCCH with expected DCI for the corresponding UE and given serving cell. M depends on the UE capabilities.

Each TCI-State includes parameters for configuring a quasi co-location relationship between one or two DL reference signals and a DM-RS port of a PDSCH.

The quasi co-location relationship is configured as a high layer parameter qcl-Type1 for the first DL RS and qcl-Type2 for the second DL RS (when configured). Regardless of whether the two DL RSs have the same reference or have different references, the two DL RSs are different from each other in terms of QCL type.

The quasi co-located Type corresponding to each DL RS may be given by the QCL-Info high level parameter QCL-Type, and may take one of the following values:

- "QCL-TypeA": { Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay spread }

- "QCL-TypeB": { Doppler shift, Doppler spread }

- "QCL-TypeC": { Doppler shift, average delay }

- "QCL-type": { space Rx parameter }

For example, when the target antenna port is a particular NZP CSI-RS, the corresponding NZP CSI-RS antenna port may be indicated/configured with a particular TRS QCL from the perspective of QCL-Type a and a particular SSBQCL from the perspective of QCL-Type D. The UE receiving the indication/configuration may receive the corresponding NZP CSI-RS using the doppler delay value measured in the QCL-TypeA TRS and apply an Rx beam for receiving the QCL-TypeD SSB for reception of the corresponding NZP CSI-RS.

The UE may receive the enable command through MAC CE signaling for mapping up to eight TCI states to code points of the DCI field "transmission configuration indication".

UL BM

In case of UL BM, beam reciprocity (or beam correspondence) between Tx beam and Rx beam may or may not be established depending on UE implementation. If reciprocity between Tx beams and Tx beams is established in both the eNB and the UE, the UL beam pairs may be matched by the DL beam pairs. However, when reciprocity between Tx beams and Rx beams is not established even in any of the eNB and the UE, UL beam pair determination processing is required in addition to DL beam pair determination.

Furthermore, even when the eNB and the UE maintain beam correspondence, the eNB may use the UL BM procedure in order to determine the DL Tx beam without requesting the UE to report the preferred beam.

UL BM may be performed by beamforming UL SRS transmission and whether to apply the UL BM of SRS resource set is configured by (higher layer parameter) usage. When the usage is configured as "beammanagement (bm)", one SRS resource may be transmitted to each of a plurality of SRS resource sets only at a given timing.

The UE may be configured with one or more sets of Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) resources configured by (higher layer parameters) SRS-resources set (through higher layer signaling, RRC signaling, etc.). For each set of SRS resources, the UE may be configured with K (≧ 1) SRS resources (high-level parameters SRS-resources). Here, K is a natural number, and the maximum value of K is indicated by SRS _ capability.

Similar to DL BM, UL BM procedures can also be divided into Tx beam scanning for the UE and Rx beam scanning for the eNB.

Fig. 14 illustrates an example of an uplink beam management procedure using a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). Fig. 14 (a) illustrates an Rx beam determination procedure of the eNB and fig. 14 (b) illustrates a Tx beam scanning procedure of the UE.

Fig. 15 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an uplink beam management procedure using an SRS.

The UE receives RRC signaling (e.g., SRS-Config IE) including a (higher layer parameter) usage parameter configured as "beam management" from the eNB (S15010).

Table 7 shows an example of an SRS-Config Information Element (IE) and the SRS-Config IE is used for SRS transmission configuration. The SRS-Config IE includes a list of SRS-Resources and a list of SRS-Resources. Each set of SRS resources means a set of SRS-resources.

The network may use the configured aperiodic SRS-resource trigger (L1 DCI) to trigger transmission of a set of SRS resources.

[ Table 7]

In table 7, usage denotes a higher layer parameter indicating whether the SRS resource set is used for beam management or whether the SRS resource set is used for codebook-based or non-codebook-based transmission. The usage parameter corresponds to the L1 parameter "SRS-SetUse". "spatialrelalationinfo" is a parameter indicating the configuration of the spatial relationship between the reference RS and the target SRS. Here, the reference RS may become an SSB, CSI-RS, or SRS corresponding to the L1 parameter "SRS-spatialrelalationinfo". And configuring the use for each SRS resource set.

The UE determines a Tx beam for the SRS resource to be transmitted based on the SRS-spatialrelationship Info included in the SRS-Config IE (S1520). Here, the SRS-spatialrelationship Info is configured for each SRS resource and indicates the same beam as that used in the SSB, CSI-RS, or SRS to be applied to each SRS resource. Further, the SRS-SpatialRelationInfo may be configured or not in each SRS resource.

-transmitting the SRS-spatialRelationInfo by applying the same beam as used in the SSB, the CSI-RS or the SRS, if the SRS-spatialRelationInfo is configured in the SRS resource. However, if the SRS-SpatialRelationInfo is not configured in the SRS resource, the UE arbitrarily determines a Tx beam and transmits the SRS through the determined Tx beam (S1530).

More specifically, for a P-SRS with "SRS-ResourceConfigType" configured as "period":

i) when the SRS-spatialRelationInfo is configured as "SSB/PBCH," the UE transmits corresponding SRS resources by applying the same spatial transmission filter as (or generated from) the spatial Rx filter used to receive the SSB/PBCH; or

ii) when the SRS-spatialRelationInfo is configured as "CSI-RS", the UE transmits the SRS resources by applying the same spatial transmission filter for receiving the periodic CSI-RS or the SP CSI-RS; or

iii) when the SRS-spatialRelationInfo is configured as an "SRS", the UE transmits the SRS resources by applying the same spatial transmission filter used to transmit the periodic CSI-RS.

Even when the "SRS-ResourceConfigType" is configured as the "SP-SRS" or the "AP-SRS", the beam determination and transmission operation can be similarly applied.

In addition, the UE may receive or not receive feedback on the SRS from the eNB similarly to the following three cases (S1540).

i) When the Spatial _ relationship _ Info is configured for all SRS resources in the SRS resource set, the UE transmits the SRS with a beam indicated by the eNB. For example, when all Spatial _ relationship _ Info indicate the same SSB, CRI, or SRI, the UE repeatedly transmits the SRS using the same beam. This case as a purpose of the eNB selecting the Rx beam corresponds to (a) of fig. 14.

ii) the Spatial _ relationship _ Info may not be configured for all SRS resources in the SRS resource set. In this case, the UE may transmit the SRS while arbitrarily changing the SRS beam. In other words, this case as a purpose for which the UE selects the Tx beam corresponds to (b) of fig. 16.

iii) the Spatial _ RelationInfo may be configured for some SRS resources in the SRS resource set. In this case, the SRS may be transmitted using a beam configured for the configured SRS resource, and the UE may arbitrarily transmit the SRS by applying a Tx beam to the SRS resource for which the Spatial _ relationship _ Info is not configured.

Channel state information correlation procedure

Fig. 16 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a CSI association process to which the method proposed in the present disclosure may be applied.

In New Radio (NR) systems, channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) are used for time and/or frequency tracking, CSI calculation, layer 1(L1) Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) calculation, and mobility.

The expression "a and/or B" as used in the present disclosure may be interpreted as the same meaning as "comprising at least one of a and B".

The CSI calculation is related to CSI acquisition and the L1-RSRP calculation is related to Beam Management (BM).

Channel State Information (CSI) collectively refers to information that may indicate the quality of a radio channel (or link) formed between a UE and an antenna port.

In order to perform one of the purposes of the CSI-RS, a terminal (e.g., a User Equipment (UE)) receives configuration information related to CSI through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling from a base station (e.g., a general node B or a gNB) (S1610).

The CSI-related configuration information may include at least one of CSI Interference Management (IM) resource-related information, CSI measurement configuration-related information, CSI resource configuration-related information, CSI-RS resource-related information, or CSI report configuration-related information.

The CSI-IM resource-related information may include CSI-IM resource information, CSI-IM resource set information, and the like.

The CSI-IM resource sets are identified by CSI-IM resource set Identifiers (IDs), and one resource set includes at least one CSI-IM resource.

Each CSI-IM resource is identified by a CSI-IM resource ID.

The CSI resource configuration related information defines a group including at least one of a non-zero power (NZP) CSI-RS resource set, a CSI-IM resource set, or a CSI-SSB resource set.

In other words, the CSI resource configuration related information may include a CSI-RS resource set list, and the CSI-RS resource set list may include at least one of an NZP CSI-RS resource set list, a CSI-IM resource set list, or a CSI-SSB resource set list.

The CSI resource configuration-related information may be represented as a CSI-ResourceConfig IE.

The CSI-RS resource sets are identified by CSI-RS resource set IDs, and one resource set includes at least one CSI-RS resource.

Each CSI-RS resource is identified by a CSI-RS resource ID.

As shown in table 8, parameters (e.g., BM-related "repetition" parameter and tracking-related "trs-Info" parameter) indicating usage may be configured for each NZP CSI-RS resource set.

Table 8 shows an example of an NZP CSI-RS resource set IE.

[ Table 8]

In table 8, the repetition parameter, which is a parameter indicating whether the same beam is repeatedly transmitted, indicates whether the repetition is "ON" or "OFF" for each NZP CSI-RS resource set.

The Tx beam used in the present disclosure may be interpreted as the same meaning as the spatial transmission filter, and the Rx beam may be interpreted as the same meaning as the spatial reception filter.

For example, when the repetition parameter of table 8 is configured to "OFF," the UE does not assume that the NZP CSI-RS resources in the resource set are transmitted with the same nroforts and the same spatial transmission filter in all symbols.

In addition, the repetition parameter corresponding to the higher layer parameter corresponds to "CSI-RS-ResourceRep" of the L1 parameter.

The CSI report configuration-related information includes a reportConfigType parameter representing a time-domain behavior and a reportQuantity parameter representing a CSI-related quantity for reporting.

The time domain behavior may be periodic, aperiodic, or semi-persistent.

In addition, the CSI report configuration-related information may be represented as CSI-ReportConfig IE, and table 9 below shows an example of the CSI-ReportConfig IE.

[ Table 9]

In addition, the UE measures CSI based on the configuration information on CSI (S1620).

The CSI measurement may include (1) a CSI-RS reception process (S1622) and (2) a process of calculating CSI through the received CSI-RS (S1624).

The sequence for CSI-RS is generated by the following equation 3, and the initialization value of the pseudo random sequence c (i) is defined by equation 4.

[ formula 3]

[ formula 4]

In the case of the formulas 3 and 4,indicates the number of slots in a radio frame, and in each OFDM symbol (i.e.,) Initializing a pseudo-random sequence generator to C_int。

In addition, l represents an OFDM symbol number in a slot, and n_IDSame as the higher layer parameter scramblingID.

In addition, for the CSI-RS, Resource Element (RE) mapping of a time domain and a frequency domain is configured through a higher-layer parameter CSI-RS-resourceApping.

Table 10 shows an example of the CSI-RS-resourcemaping IE.

[ Table 10]

In table 10, density (D) represents the density of CSI-RS resources measured in RE/port/Physical Resource Block (PRB), and nrofPorts represents the number of antenna ports.

In addition, the UE reports the measured CSI to the eNB (S12030).

Here, in the case where the amount of CSI-ReportConfig of table 10 is configured as "none (or no report)", the UE may skip reporting.

However, even in case the amount is configured as "none (or no report)", the UE may report the measured CSI to the eNB.

The case where the volume is configured as "none (or no report)" is the case where aperiodic TRS is triggered or the case where configuration is repeated.

Here, the UE may be defined to skip reporting only in case the repetition is configured to be "ON".

In summary, in the case where the repetition is configured as "ON" and "OFF," none report "," SSB resource indicator (SSBRI), and L1-RSRP "and" CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI), and L1-RSRP "may all be available as CSI reports.

Alternatively, in the case where the repetition is "OFF", it may be defined to transmit a CSI report of "SSBRI and L1-RSRP" or "CRI and L1-RSRP", and in the case where the repetition is "ON", it may be defined to transmit "no report", "SSBRI and L1-RSRP" or "CRI and L1-RSRP".

CSI measurement and reporting procedure

NR systems support more flexible and dynamic CSI measurement and reporting.

The CSI measurement may include a process of acquiring CSI by receiving CSI-RS and calculating the received CSI-RS.

Aperiodic/semi-persistent/periodic Channel Measurements (CM) and Interference Measurements (IM) are supported as time-domain behaviors for CSI measurement and reporting.

The 4-port NZP CSI-RS RE pattern is used to configure CSI-IM.

The CSI-IM based IMR of NR has a similar design to that of LTE and is configured independently of ZP CSI-RS resources for PDSCH rate matching.

In addition, in ZP CSI-RS based IMR, each port simulates an interference layer with (preferred channel and) precoded NZP CSI-RS.

This is for intra-cell interference measurement for multi-user case and is mainly targeted to MUs.

And the eNB sends the precoded NZP CSI-RS to the UE on each port of the configured IMR based on the NZP CSI-RS.

The UE assumes a channel/interference layer for each port and measures interference.

With respect to the channel, when there is no PMI and RI feedback, multiple resources are configured in the set and the base station or network indicates a subset of NZP CSI-RS resources through DCI with respect to channel/interference measurements.

The resource setting and the resource setting configuration will be described in more detail.

Resource setting

Each CSI resource setting "CSI-ResourceConfig" includes a configuration of S ≧ 1 CSI resource set (given by the higher-layer parameter CSI-RS-ResourceSetList).

Here, the CSI resource setting corresponds to CSI-RS-resourcesetlist.

Here, S denotes the number of configured CSI-RS resource sets.

Here, the configuration of S ≧ 1 CSI resource sets includes CSI resource sets each containing a CSI-RS resource (consisting of NZP CSI-RS or CSI IM) and an SS/PBCH block (SSB) resource for L1-RSRP calculation.

The respective CSI resource settings are located in the DL BWP (bandwidth part) identified by the higher layer parameter BWP-id.

In addition, all CSI resource settings linked to a CSI report setting have the same DL BWP.

The time domain behavior of the CSI-RS resources within the CSI resource setting included in the CSI-ResourceConfig IE is indicated by a higher layer parameter resourceType and may be configured to be aperiodic, periodic, or semi-persistent.

With respect to the periodic and semi-persistent CSI resource settings, the number S of configured CSI-RS resource sets is limited to "1".

The configured periodicity and slot offset are given in the parameter set that sets the associated DL BWP given by BWP-id for the periodic and semi-persistent CSI resources.

When the UE is configured as multiple CSI-ResourceConfig including the same NZP CSI-RS resource ID, the same time domain behavior is configured for CSI-ResourceConfig.

When the UE is configured to include multiple CSI-ResourceConfig for the same CSI-IM resource ID, the same time domain behavior is configured for the CSI-ResourceConfig.

Next, one or more CSI resource settings for Channel Measurement (CM) and Interference Measurement (IM) are configured by higher layer signaling.

-CSI-IM resources for interference measurements.

-NZP CSI-RS resources for interference measurements.

-NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurements.

That is, the Channel Measurement Resource (CMR) may be NZP CSI-RS, and the Interference Measurement Resource (IMR) may be NZP CSI-RS for CSI-IM and IM.

Here, CSI-IM (or ZP CSI-RS for IM) is mainly used for inter-cell interference measurement.

In addition, the NZP CSI-RS for IM is mainly used for intra-cell interference measurements from multiple users.

The UE may assume that the CSI-RS resource for channel measurement and the CSI-IM/NZP CSI-RS resource for interference measurement configured for one CSI report are "QCL-type" for each resource.

Resource setting configuration

As noted, a resource setting may mean a list of resource sets.

In each state using a higher layer parameter CSI-Aperiodic TriggerState configuration for aperiodic CSI, each CSI-ReportConfig is associated with one or more CSI-ReportConfig linked to a periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic resource setting.

One report setting may be connected with up to three resource settings.

When configuring one resource setting, the resource setting (given by the higher layer parameter resource for channel measurement) is used for channel measurement for L1-RSRP calculation.

When two resource settings are configured, a first resource setting (given by the higher layer parameter, resource for channel measurement) is used for channel measurement and a second resource setting (given by CSI-IM-resource for interference or NZP-CSI-RS-resource for interference) is used for interference measurement performed on CSI-IM or NZP CSI-RS.

When three resource settings are configured, a first resource setting (given by resources for channel measurement), a second resource setting (given by CSI-IM-resources for interference measurement) for CSI-IM based interference measurement, and a third resource setting (given by NZP-CSI-RS-resources for interference measurement) for NZP CSI-RS based interference measurement.

Each CSI-ReportConfig is linked to a periodic or semi-persistent resource setting for semi-persistent or periodic CSI.

When configuring one resource setting (given by resourcesForChannelMeasurement), the resource setting is used for channel measurement for L1-RSRP calculation.

When two resource settings are configured, a first resource setting (given by the resource ForChannelMeasurement) is used for channel measurement and a second resource setting (given by the higher layer parameter CSI-IM-resource ForInterference) is used for interference measurement performed on CSI-IM.

CSI measurement-related CSI calculation will be described.

When performing interference measurement on the CSI-IM, each CSI-RS resource for channel measurement is associated with a CSI-IM resource of each resource in the order of the CSI-RS resource and the CSI-IM resource within the corresponding resource set.

The number of CSI-RS resources used for channel measurement is equal to the number of CSI-IM resources.

In addition, when performing interference measurements in the NZP CSI-RS, the UE does not expect one or more NZP CSI-RS resources in the associated set of resources within the resource setting configured for channel measurements.

A UE configured with the higher layer parameters NZP-CSI-RS-resources for interference is not expected to configure 18 or more NZP CSI-RS ports in the NZP CSI-RS resource set.

For CSI measurement, the UE assumes the following.

-each NZP CSI-RS port configured for interference measurement corresponds to an interfering transmission layer.

-considering an Energy Per Resource Element (EPRE) ratio in all interfering transmission layers of the NZP CSI-RS ports used for interference measurement.

-different interference signals on REs of NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurements, NZP CSI-RS resources for interference measurements or CSI-IM resources for interference measurements.

The CSI reporting process will be described in more detail.

For CSI reporting, the time resources and frequency resources that the UE can use are controlled by the eNB.

The Channel State Information (CSI) may include at least one of a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI), a CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI), a SS/PBCH block resource indicator (SSBRI), a Layer Indicator (LI), a Rank Indicator (RI), and L1-RSRP.

For CQI, PMI, CRI, SSBRI, LI, RI, and L1-RSRP, the UE is configured by the higher layer with N ≧ 1 CSI-ReportConfig report setting, M ≧ 1 CSI-ResourceConfig resource setting, and a list of one or two trigger states (provided by aperiodtrigger StateList and semiPercistemOnPUSCH).

In the aperiodicTriggerStateList, the respective trigger state comprises the channel and optionally an associated CSI-reportconfigurations list indicating the resource set ID used for interference.

In semipersistent onpusch-TriggerStateList, each trigger state includes an associated CSI-ReportConfig.

In addition, the time-domain behavior of CSI reporting supports periodicity, semi-persistence, and aperiodicity.

Hereinafter, each of periodic, semi-persistent (SP) and aperiodic CSI reports will be described.

Periodic CSI reporting is performed on the short PUCCH and the long PUCCH.

The periodicity and slot offset of the periodic CSI report may be configured by RRC and refer to the CSI-ReportConfig IE.

Next, SP CSI reporting is performed on the short PUCCH, the long PUCCH, or the PUSCH.

In case of SP CSI on short/long PUCCH, periodicity and slot offset are configured as RRC and CSI reporting of separate MAC CE is enabled/disabled.

In case of SP CSI on PUSCH, the periodicity of SP CSI reporting is configured by RRC, but the slot offset is not configured by RRC, and the SP CSI reporting is enabled/disabled by DCI (format 0_ 1).

The initial CSI reporting timing follows the PUSCH time domain allocation value indicated in the DCI, and the subsequent CSI reporting timing follows periodicity configured by RRC.

Separate RNTI (SP-CSI C-RNTI) is used for SP CSI reporting on PUSCH.

DCI format 0_1 may include a CSI request field and may enable/disable a specific configured SP-CSI trigger state.

In addition, SP CSI reporting has the same or similar activation/deactivation as the mechanism with data transmission on SPs PUSCH.

Next, aperiodic CSI reporting is performed on PUSCH and triggered by DCI.

In the case of AP CSI with AP CSI-RS, the AP CSI-RS timing is configured by RRC.

Here, the timing of AP CSI reporting is dynamically controlled by DCI.

NR does not employ a scheme of dividing and reporting CSI among multiple reporting instances applied to PUCCH-based CSI reporting in LTE (e.g., sequentially transmitting RI, WB PMI/CQI, and SB PMI/CQI).

In contrast, NR restriction does not configure a specific CSI report in the short/long PUCCH and defines CSI omission rules.

In addition, regarding AP CSI reporting timing, PUSCH symbol/slot positions are dynamically indicated by DCI. In addition, the candidate slot offset is configured by RRC.

For CSI reporting, a configuration slot offset (Y) is set for each report.

For the UL-SCH, the slot offset K2 is separately configured.

Two CSI-delay classes (low-delay class and high-delay class) are defined in terms of CSI computation complexity.

The low-latency CSI is WB CSI including up to a 4-port Type-I codebook or up to a 4-port non-PMI feedback CSI.

The high-delay CSI refers to CSI other than the low-delay CSI.

For a normal UE, (Z, Z') is defined in units of OFDM symbols.

Z denotes a minimum CSI processing time from receiving an aperiodic CSI trigger DCI to performing CSI reporting.

Z' represents a minimum CSI process time from receiving a CSI-RS for channel/interference to performing CSI reporting.

In addition, the UE reports the number of CSI that can be calculated simultaneously.

Fig. 17 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a downlink transmission/reception operation to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

-the eNB schedules downlink transmission such as frequency/time resources, transmission layer, downlink precoder, MCS, etc. (S1710). Specifically, the eNB may determine a beam for PDSCH transmission to the UE through the above-described operations.

The UE receives Downlink Control Information (DCI) for downlink scheduling (i.e., scheduling information including the PDSCH) on the PDCCH (S1720).

DCI format 1_0 or 1_1 may be used for downlink scheduling, and in particular, DCI format 1_1 includes the following information: an identifier of a DCI format, a bandwidth part indicator, a frequency domain resource assignment, a time domain resource assignment, a PRB bundling size indicator, a rate matching indicator, a ZP CSI-RS trigger, an antenna port, a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI), an SRS request, and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence initialization.

In particular, the number of DMRS ports may be scheduled, and Single User (SU)/multi-user (MU) transmission scheduling may also be available, according to the respective states indicated in the antenna port field.

Further, the TCI field is configured by 3 bits, and indicates up to 8 TCI states to dynamically QCL for DMRS according to the TCI field value.

-the UE receiving downlink data from the eNB on the PDSCH (S1730).

When the UE detects a PDCCH including DCI format 1_0 or 1_1, the UE decodes the PDSCH according to the indication of the corresponding DCI.

Here, when the UE receives the PDSCH scheduled by DCI format 1, the DMRS configuration Type may be configured by a higher layer parameter "DMRS-Type" in the UE, and the DMRS Type is used to receive the PDSCH. Furthermore, in the UE, the maximum number of the preamble DMRS symbols for the PDSCH may be configured by a higher layer parameter "maxLength".

In case of DMRS configuration type 1, when a single codeword is scheduled and an antenna port mapped to index {2, 9, 10, 11, or 30} is specified in the UE, or when two codewords are scheduled in the UE, the UE assumes that all remaining orthogonal antenna ports are not associated with PDSCH transmission to another UE.

Alternatively, in case of DMRS configuration type 2, when a single codeword is scheduled and an antenna port mapped to index {2, 10, or 23} is specified in the UE, or when two codewords are scheduled in the UE, the UE assumes that all remaining orthogonal antenna ports are not associated with PDSCH transmission to another UE.

When the UE receives the PDSCH, the precoding granularity P' may be assumed to be consecutive resource blocks in the frequency domain. Here, P' may correspond to one value of {2, 4, and wideband }.

When P' is determined to be wideband, the UE does not predict that PDSCH is scheduled to non-contiguous PRB, and the UE may assume that the same precoding is applied to the allocated resources.

In contrast, when P 'is determined as any one of {2 and 4}, a precoding resource block group (PRG) is divided into P' consecutive PRBs. The number of actually consecutive PRBs in each PRG may be one or more. The UE may assume that the same precoding is applied to consecutive downlink PRBs in the PRG.

To determine the modulation order, target code rate, and transport block size in PDSCH, the UE first reads the 5-bit MCD field in DCI and determines the modulation order and target code rate. In addition, the UE reads the redundancy version field in the DCI and determines the redundancy version. In addition, the UE determines the transport block size using the number of layers before rate matching and the total number of allocated PRBs.

Fig. 18 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an uplink transmission/reception operation to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

The eNB schedules uplink transmission such as frequency/time resources, a transmission layer, an uplink precoder, an MCS, and the like (S1810). Specifically, the eNB may determine a beam for PUSCH transmission of the UE through the above-described operations.

The UE receives DCI for downlink scheduling (i.e., scheduling information including PUSCH) on the PDCCH (S1820).

DCI format 0_0 or 0_1 may be used for uplink scheduling, specifically, DCI format 0_1 includes the following information: an identifier of a DCI format, a UL/Supplemental Uplink (SUL) indicator, a bandwidth part indicator, a frequency domain resource assignment, a time domain resource assignment, a frequency hopping flag, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS), an SRS Resource Indicator (SRI), precoding information and number of layers, an antenna port, an SRS request, a DMRS sequence initialization, and an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) indicator.

Specifically, the SRS resource configured in the SRS resource set associated with the higher layer parameter "usage" may be indicated by an SRS resource indicator field. Further, "spatialRelationInfo" may be configured for each SRS resource, and the value of "spatialRelationInfo" may be one of { CRI, SSB, and SRI }.

The UE transmits uplink data to the eNB on the PUSCH (S1830).

When the UE detects a PDCCH including DCI format 0_0 or 0_1, the UE transmits a corresponding PUSCH according to an indication of a corresponding DCI.

PUSCH transmission supports two transmission schemes (i.e., codebook-based transmission and non-codebook-based transmission):

i) when the higher layer parameter "txConfig" is set to "codebook", the UE is configured for codebook-based transmission. In contrast, when the higher layer parameter "txConfig" is set to "nocodebook", the UE is configured for non-codebook based transmission. When the higher layer parameter "txConfig" is not configured, the UE does not predict that the PUSCH is scheduled by DCI format 0_ 1. When PUSCH is scheduled by DCI format 0_0, PUSCH transmission is based on a single antenna port.

In the case of codebook-based transmission, the PUSCH may be scheduled by DCI format 0_0, DCI format 0_1, or semi-statically. When PUSCH is scheduled by DCI format 0_1, the UE determines PUSCH transmission precoder based on SRI, Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI), and transmission rank from DCI given by SRS resource indicator and precoding information and layer number field. The TPMI is used to indicate a precoder to be applied on the antenna port, and when a plurality of SRS resources are configured, the TPMI corresponds to the SRS resource selected by the SRI. Alternatively, when a single SRS resource is configured, the TPMI is used to indicate a precoder to be applied on an antenna port and corresponds to the single SRS resource. The transmission precoder is selected from an uplink codebook having the same number of antenna Ports as the higher layer parameter "nrofSRS-Ports". When the UE is set to a high-layer parameter "txConfig" set to "codebook", at least one SRS resource is configured in the UE. The SRI indicated in slot n is associated with the most recent transmission of the SRS resource identified by the SRI, and here, the SRS resource precedes the PDCCH carrying the SRI (i.e., slot n).

ii) in case of non-codebook based transmission, PUSCH may be scheduled by DCI format 0_0, DCI format 0_1, or semi-statically. When configuring a plurality of SRS resources, the UE may determine a PUSCH precoder and a transmission rank based on a wideband SRI, and here, the SRI is given by an SRS resource indicator in DCI or by a higher layer parameter "SRS-resource indicator". The UE may use one or more SRS resources for SRS transmission, and here, multiple SRS resources may be configured for simultaneous transmission in the same RB based on the UE capabilities. Only one SRS port is configured for each SRS resource. Only one SRS resource may be configured to the higher layer parameter "usage" set to "nocodebook". The maximum number of SRS resources that may be configured for non-codebook based uplink transmission is 4. The SRI indicated in slot n is associated with the most recent transmission of the SRS resource identified by the SRI, and here, the SRS transmission precedes the PDCCH carrying the SRI (i.e., slot n).

Initial Access (IA) procedure

Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) transmission and related operations

Fig. 19 illustrates the SSB architecture. The UE may perform cell search, system information acquisition, beam alignment for initial access, DL measurements, etc., based on the SSBs. SSB is used in combination with SS/synchronization signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) blocks.

Referring to fig. 19, the SSB is composed of PSS, SSS, and PBCH. The SSB is composed of four consecutive OFDM symbols, and transmits PSS, PBCH, SSS/PBCH, and PBCH for each OFDM symbol. Each of the PSS and SSS may be composed of one OFDM symbol and 127 subcarriers, and the PBCH is composed of 3 OFDM symbols and 576 subcarriers. Polar coding and Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) are applied to PBCH. The PBCH is composed of data REs and demodulation reference signals (DMRS) REs for respective OFDM symbols. There are three DMRS REs for each RB, and three data REs between the DMRS REs.

Cell search

The cell search refers to a process in which the UE acquires time/frequency synchronization of a cell and detects a cell Identifier (ID) of the cell (e.g., a physical layer cell ID (pcid)). PSS is used to detect cell ID within a cell ID group and SSS is used to detect the cell ID group. PBCH is used for SSB (time) index detection and field detection.

The cell search process of the UE may be organized as shown in table 11 below.

[ Table 11]

There are 336 cell ID groups and three cell IDs for each cell ID group. There is a total of 1008 cell IDs.

Fig. 20 shows SSB transmission.

Referring to fig. 20, SSBs are periodically transmitted according to SSB periodicity. The SSB basic periodicity assumed by the UE in the initial cell search is defined as 20 ms. After cell access, the SSB periodicity may be configured by the network (e.g., eNB) as one of {5ms,10ms,20ms,40ms,80ms,160ms }. At the beginning of the SSB periodicity, a set of SSB bursts is configured. The set of SSB bursts may be configured by a 5ms time window (i.e., half frame), and the SSB may be sent up to L times within the set of SS bursts. As the maximum number of transmissions of the SSB, L may be given as follows according to the frequency band of the carrier. One slot includes at most two SSBs.

Fig. 21 illustrates a UE acquiring information on DL time synchronization.

The UE may acquire DL synchronization by detecting the SSB. The UE may identify the structure of the set of SSB bursts based on the detected SSB index, thus detecting the symbol/slot/field boundary. The number of frames/fields to which the detected SSB belongs can be identified using SFN information and field indication information.

Specifically, the UE may acquire 10-bit System Frame Number (SFN) information from the PBCH (s0 through s 9). 6 bits of 10-bit SFN information are obtained from the Master Information Block (MIB) and the remaining 4 bits are obtained from the PBCH Transport Block (TB).

Next, the UE may acquire 1-bit field indication information (c 0). When the carrier frequency is 3GHz or lower, the field indication information may be implicitly signaled using PBCH DMRS. The PBCH DMRS indicates 3-bit information using one of eight PBCH DMRS sequences. Therefore, in case of L ═ 4, the remaining 1 bit after indicating the SSB index among the 3 bits indicated by the eight PBCH DRMS sequences may be used for the half frame indication.

Finally, the UE may obtain the SSB index based on the DMRS sequence and the PBCH payload. The SSB candidates are indexed chronologically from 0 to L-1 within the SSB burst set (i.e., half-frame). In the case of L ═ 8 or 64, the Least Significant Bit (LSB)3 bits of the SSB index may be indicated using eight different PBCH DMRS sequences (b0 through b 2). In case of L ═ 64, the Most Significant Bit (MSB)3 bit of the SSB index is indicated by PBCH (b3 through b 5). In case of L ═ 2, LSB 2 bits of the SSB index may be indicated using PBCH DMRS sequences of four bits (b0 and b 1). In case of L-4, the remaining 1 bit after indicating the SSB index among the 3 bits of the eight PBCH DRMS sequence indications may be used for the half frame indication (b 2).

System information acquisition

Fig. 22 shows a System Information (SI) acquisition process. The UE may acquire AS/NAS information through an SI acquisition process. The SI acquisition process may be applied to UEs in RRC _ IDLE, RRC _ INACTIVE, and RRC _ CONNECTED states.

The SI is divided into a Master Information Block (MIB) and a plurality of System Information Blocks (SIBs). SI other than MIB may be referred to as minimum system information Remaining (RSI). For details, reference may be made to the following.

MIB comprises information/parameters related to systemlnformationblock 1(SIB1) reception and is sent over PBCH of SSB. In initial cell selection, the UE assumes that the half-frame with SSB repeats with a periodicity of 20 ms. The UE may check whether there is a control resource set (CORESET) for the Type0-PDCCH common search space based on the MIB. Type0-PDCCH common search space is a PDCCH search space and is used to transmit PDCCH for scheduling SI messages. If there is a Type0-PDCCH common search space, the UE can (i) form a plurality of consecutive RBs and one or more consecutive symbols of CORESET and (ii) PDCCH occasion (i.e., a time domain location for receiving PDCCH) based on information in the MIB (e.g., PDCCH-ConfigSIB 1). If there is no Type0-PDCCH common search space, the PDCCH-ConfigSIB1 provides information on frequency locations where SSB/SIB1 exists and frequency ranges where SSB/SIB1 does not exist.

The SIB1 contains information about the availability and scheduling (e.g., transmission periodicity, SI window size) of the remaining SIBs (hereinafter SIBx, x being an integer of 2 or more). For example, the SIB1 may tell whether to broadcast SIBx periodically or whether to provide SIBx at the request of the UE according to an on-demand scheme. When SIBx is provided by an on-demand scheme, the SIB1 may include information needed by the UE to perform the SI request. SIB1 is transmitted through PDSCH, a PDCCH for scheduling SIB1 is transmitted through Type0-PDCCH common search space, and SIB1 is transmitted through PDSCH indicated by PDCCH.

-SIBx is included in the SI message and sent over PDSCH. Each SI message is sent within a periodically occurring time window (i.e., an SI window).

Random access procedure

The random access procedure of the UE can be summarized as shown in table 12 and fig. 23.

[ Table 12]

Fig. 23 shows an example of a random access procedure.

First, the UE may send the PRACH preamble in the UL as Msg1 of the random access procedure.

Random access preamble sequences with two different lengths are supported. The long sequence length 839 is applied as subcarrier spacing of 1.25kHz and 5kHz, and the short sequence length 139 is applied as subcarrier spacing of 15kHz, 30kHz, 60kHz and 120 kHz. Long sequences support both non-restricted and restricted sets of type a and type B, while short sequences support only non-restricted sets.

A variety of RACH preamble formats are defined in one or more RACH OFDM symbols, different cyclic prefixes, and guard times. The PRACH preamble configuration used is provided to the UE in the system information.

If there is no response to Msg1, the UE may retransmit the PRACH preamble within a predetermined number of times with increasing power. The UE calculates PRACH transmission power for preamble retransmission based on the recent path loss and the power ramping counter. The counter for the power increase remains unchanged when the terminal performs the beam switching.

The system information informs the UE of the association between the SS block and the RACH resource.

Fig. 24 shows the concept of a threshold value for an SS block associated with a RACH resource.

The threshold for the SS block of RACH resource association is based on RSRP and the configurable network. The transmission or retransmission of the RACH preamble is based on the SS blocks satisfying the threshold.

When the UE receives a random access response on the DL-SCH, the DL-SCH can provide timing alignment information, an RA preamble ID, an initial UL grant, and a temporary C-RNTI.

Based on this information, the UE may send the UL transmission on the UL-SCH as Msg3 for the random access procedure. Msg3 may include an RRC connection request and a UE identifier.

In response, the network may send Msg4, and Msg4 may be treated as a contention resolution message in the DL. By receiving the Msg4, the UE may enter an RRC connected state.

Precoding

Block vectorPrecoding may be performed according to the following equation 5.

[ formula 5]

In the formula 5, the first and second groups,set of antenna ports p₀,...,p_ρ-1May be determined according to procedures related to PUSCH.

In non-codebook based transmission, the precoding matrix W is the same as the identity matrix. In codebook-based transmission, the precoding matrix W may be given by W ═ 1 for single layer transmission in a single antenna port, otherwise for a Transmit Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) obtained from DCI for scheduling uplink transmission, the precoding matrix W may be given by tables 11 to 17 or procedures related to PUSCH.

When the high layer parameter txConfig is not configured, the precoding matrix W may be 1.

Table 13 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for single-layer transmission using two antenna ports.

[ Table 13]

Table 14 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for single layer transmission using four antenna ports, in which transform precoding is enabled.

[ Table 14]

Table 15 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for single layer transmission using four antenna ports, in which transform precoding is deactivated.

[ Table 15]

Table 16 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for two layer transmission using two antenna ports, where transform precoding is deactivated.

[ Table 16]

Table 17 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for two layer transmission using four antenna ports, in which transform precoding is deactivated.

[ Table 17]

Table 18 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for a three-layer transmission using four antenna ports, in which transform precoding is deactivated.

[ Table 18]

Table 19 below shows an example of a precoding matrix for a four-layer transmission using four antenna ports, in which transform precoding is deactivated.

[ Table 19]

Power Control (PC)

In a wireless communication system, the transmission power of a terminal (e.g., User Equipment (UE)) and/or mobile device may need to be increased or decreased as the case may be. Thus, controlling the transmission power of the UE and/or the mobile device may be referred to as uplink power control. As an example, a transmission power control scheme may be applied in a base station (e.g., a gNB, eNB, etc.) to meet requirements (e.g., signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), Bit Error Rate (BER), block error rate (BLER), etc.).

The above power control may be performed by an open loop power control scheme and a closed loop power control scheme.

Specifically, the open loop power control scheme means a scheme of controlling transmission power without feedback from a transmitting apparatus (e.g., eNB, etc.) to a receiving apparatus (e.g., UE, etc.) and/or feedback from the receiving apparatus to the transmitting apparatus. As an example, the UE may receive a pilot channel/signal from the eNB and use the received pilot channel/signal to estimate the strength of the received power. Thereafter, the UE may control the transmission power using the strength of the estimated reception power.

In contrast, the closed-loop power control scheme means a scheme of controlling transmission power based on feedback from a transmitting apparatus to a receiving apparatus and/or feedback from the receiving apparatus to the transmitting apparatus. As an example, the eNB receives a pilot channel/signal from the UE and estimates an optimal power level of the UE based on a power level, SNR, BEER, BLER, etc., measured through the received pilot channel/signal. The eNB may transmit information (i.e., feedback) about the determined optimal power level to the UE through a control channel, and the corresponding UE may control transmission power using the feedback provided by the eNB.

Hereinafter, a power control scheme for a case where a UE and/or a mobile device performs uplink transmission to an eNB in a wireless communication system will be described in detail.

Specifically, hereinafter, a power control scheme for transmission of 1) an uplink data channel (e.g., a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), 2) an uplink control channel (e.g., a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), 3) a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and 4) a random access channel (e.g., a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH)) will be described. In this case, (i) the transmission occasion (i.e., transmission time unit) for the PUSCH, PUCCH, SRS, and/or PRACH may be defined by a slot index n _ S in a frame of a System Frame Number (SFN), a first symbol S in a slot, the number L of consecutive symbols, and the like.

Power control for uplink data channel

Hereinafter, for convenience of description, the power control scheme will be described based on a case where the UE performs PUSCH transmission. Of course, the corresponding scheme may be widely applied to another uplink data channel supported in the wireless communication system.

In PUSCH transmission in the active uplink UL bandwidth part (UL BWP) of carrier f of serving cell c, the UE may calculate a linear power value for the transmission power determined by the following equation P1. Thereafter, the corresponding UE may control transmission power in consideration of the calculated linear power value, the number of antenna ports, and/or the number of SRS ports.

Specifically, when the UE performs PUSCH transmission in active UL BWP (b) of carrier f of serving cell c using parameter set configuration based on index j and PUSCH power control adjustment state based on index l, the UE may determine PUSCH transmission power P in PUSCH transmission occasion i based on equation 6 below_PUSCH,b,f,c(i,j,q_d,l)(dBm)。

[ formula 6]

In equation 6, an index j denotes an index of an open loop power control parameter (e.g., Po, alpha (α), etc.), and a maximum of 32 parameter sets per cell may be configured. The index q _ d represents a metric for Path Loss (PL) (e.g., PL)_b,f,c(q_d) Index of DL RS resources and a maximum of four measurements per cell may be configured. The index l represents an index of the closed loop power control procedure and a maximum of two procedures per cell can be configured.

In particular, Po (e.g., P) as a parameter broadcast to a portion of system information_{O_PUSCHb,,f,c}(j) May represent a target received power at the receiver. The corresponding Po value may be configured in consideration of throughput of the UE, capacity of the cell, noise and/or interference. Further, α (e.g., α)_b,f,c(j) May represent a ratio at which compensation for path loss is performed. α may be configured to a value of 0 to 1, and full path loss compensation or partial path loss compensation may be performed according to the configured value. In this case, the α value may be configured according to interference between UEs and/or data speed. Furthermore, P _CMAX,f,c(i) May represent the configured UE transmission power. As an example, the configured UE transmission power may be interpreted as "configured maximum UE output power" as defined in 3GPP TS38.101-1 and/or TS 38.101-2. In addition to this, the present invention is,may represent a bandwidth of a PUSCH resource allocation expressed as a number of Resource Blocks (RBs) for a PUSCH transmission occasion based on a subcarrier spacing μ. Further, f related to PUSCH power control adjustment status may be configured or indicated based on the TPC command field of DCI (e.g., DCI format 0_0, DCI format 0_1, DCI format 2_2, DCI format 2_3, etc.)_b,f,c(i,l)。

In this case, a specific Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter (e.g., SRI-puschpwowercontrol-Mapping, etc.) may represent a relationship between an SRS Resource Indicator (SRI) field of Downlink Control Information (DCI) and indexes j, q _ d, and l. In other words, the indices j, l, and q _ d may be associated with beams, panels, and/or spatial transmission filters based on particular information. Thus, beam, panel and/or spatial transmission filter unit PUSCH transmission power control may be performed.

Parameters and/or information for PUSCH power control may be configured separately (i.e., independently) for each BWP. In this case, the parameters and/or information may be configured or indicated by higher layer signaling (e.g., RRC signaling, medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), etc.) and/or DCI. As an example, the parameters and/or information for PUSCH power control may be transmitted through RRC signaling PUSCH-ConfigCommon, PUSCH-PowerControl, etc., and PUSCH-ConfigCommon and PUSCH-PowerControl may be configured as shown in table 20 below.

[ Table 20]

The UE may determine or calculate a PUSCH transmission power by the scheme and transmit a PUSCH using the determined or calculated PUSCH transmission power.

With respect to PUSCH transmission, there may be the following method for uplink full power transmission.

Option 1: refinement/adjustment of the uplink codebook may be supported.

Option 1-1: the UE may support new codebook subsets for non-coherent and partially coherent transmittable UEs.

Options 1-2: additional scaling factors for the uplink codebook.

Option 2: the UE may transparently apply small cyclic or linear delays.

Option 3: a power control mechanism that is modified to support uplink full power transmission is supported without precluding the use of a maximum rated PA.

Option 4: may depend on the implementation of the UE capability signaling for uplink full power transmission by the UE.

Full transmit power uplink transmission through multiple power amplifiers for codebook-based uplink transmission for non-coherent and partially coherent capable UEs may be supported.

The following options may additionally be considered with respect to uplink transmission at full transmission power.

Option 5: linear value of PUSCH transmission power in case of precoder with entry of 0Can be given a ratio of_Rel-16And (4) zooming. Can be in [ alpha ] _Rel-16,1]Within a range of_Rel-16Up to the range where the UE is implemented. Alpha is alpha_Rel-16Indicating the number of antenna ports with non-zero PUSCH transmission power and the number of antenna ports configured for the PUSCH transmission scheme as defined in the NR Rel-15 specification.

The UE may need to maintain consistent alpha in different cases of PUSCH transmission by using the same precoder for PUSCH_Rel-16The value is obtained.

Codebook-based uplink transmission for coherent and partial/non-coherent capable UEs may support at least full transmission power uplink transmission with multiple power amplifiers. Support for this feature may be denoted by the UE as part of the UE capability signaling.

In case of power class 3:

UE capability 1: the new UE functionality may support full-rated PAs for each Tx chain so that the UE may support full Tx power in UL transmissions.

UE capability 2: it may be assumed that the new UE functionality does not exist with a full power transmission chain in order for the UE to support full transmission power in UL transmissions.

UE capability 3: a subset of Tx chains with all classes PA may be supported as a new UE functionality in order for the UE to support full Tx power in UL transmission.

Fig. 25 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Radio Frequency (RF) chain of an antenna port to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

In case of codebook-based uplink transmission, as shown in table 19 below, when a specific uplink TPMI (e.g., 1/2 [ 1000 ] < Lambda > T of rank 1TPMI 0 as 4 ports) is used, the power that the UE can transmit may be determined by the ratio of the number of ports other than 0 among the TPMIs indicated by the eNB to the maximum number of SRS ports determined by the capability of the UE.

In this case, only 1/4 at full power can be used, and as a result, there is a disadvantage of reduced coverage, and the present disclosure proposes a solution to this problem.

Fig. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of timing advance to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable.

The timing advance may be initiated by the eNB along with a MAC message that implies and adjusts the timing advance.

The UE should adjust the timing of the uplink transmission timing in slot n + k for the timing advance command received in slot n. Due to the channel assessment procedure, the same requirements can be applied even when the UE cannot perform the configured uplink transmission.

The UE may compare the transmission timing with the timing of the previous uplink transmission with a relative accuracy equal to or higher than the UE timing advance adjustment accuracy requirement in table 21 below and adjust the corresponding timing to the signaled timing advance value.

[ Table 21]

Subcarrier spacing, SCS kHz	15	30	60	120
					UE timing advance adjustment accuracy	±256Tc	±256Tc	±128Tc	±32Tc

The timing advance command MAC CE may identify the lower header of the MAC PDU using the LCID.

The timing advance command MAC CE may have a fixed size as shown in fig. 26 and may be configured as a single octet (octet) as defined below.

-TAG ID (TAG ID): this field indicates the TAG ID of the TAG specifying the address. The TAG comprising SpCell has TAG Identity 0. The length of this field is 2 bits.

-timing advance command: this field indicates an index value TA (0, 1, 2 … 63) for controlling the amount of timing adjustment that the MAC entity should apply. The length of this field is 6 bits.

The UE may receive the value N of the timing advance offset of the serving cell through N-TimingAdvanceOffset of the serving cell_{TA_offset}. When N-timing AdvanceOffset of the serving cell is not provided to the UE, the UE determines a default value N of the timing advance offset of the serving cell_{TA_offset}。

When the UE consists of two UL carriers for a serving cell, the same timing advance offset value N is applied to both carriers_{TA_offset}。

Upon receiving a timing advance command or timing adjustment indication of TAG, the UE expects the same value N based on the UE_{TA_offset}To adjust the uplink timing of PUSCH/SRS/PUCCH transmission for all serving cells of the TAG.

When the uplink timing of the PUSCH/SRS/PUCCH transmission is the same for all serving cells of the TAG, the uplink timing is based on all serving cells and the received timing advance command or timing adjustment indication.

Timing adjustment indication indicates an initial time alignment value N for TAG_TA. In 2^μSCS at 15kHz, 16.64. T_c/2^μA timing advance command of a multiple of TAG indicates an uplink timing change for the current uplink timing of the TAG.

Timing advance command T of TAG in case of random access response_AIndicates an index value of T_AN of 3846, 0, 1, 2_TAAnd here, the time alignment amount of TAG with SCS is 2^μ15kHz and N_TA＝T_A·16·64/2^μ。N_TARelated to the SCS of a first uplink transmission from the UE after receiving the random access response.

When the UE has multiple active UL BWPs in the same TAG comprising UL BWPs in both UL carriers of the serving cell, the timing advance command value is the largest SCS relative to the multiple active UL BWPs. The applicable value of the UL BWP with the lower SCS may be rounded to match the timing progress granularity of the UL BWP with the lower SCS while meeting the timing progress accuracy requirement.

Will N_TAThe value adjustment positive or negative amounts indicate that the uplink transmission timing of the TAG is advanced or delayed by respective corresponding amounts.

With respect to transmissions other than PUSCH scheduled by RAR UL grant and timing advance command in slot n, the corresponding adjustment of uplink transmission timing is applied from the beginning of uplink slot n + k + 1. Here, the first and second liquid crystal display panels are,and N is_T,1Symbol N representing PDSCH reception time corresponding to UE processing capability 1 when additional PDSCH DM-RS is configured₁And N, and_T,2symbol N indicating the PUSCH preparation time corresponding to UE processing capability 1₂The duration of (c). N is a radical of_TA,maxRepresents a maximum timing advance value that can be provided by a 12-bit TA command field, anddenotes the number of slots per subframe, and T_sfRepresenting a subframe duration of 1 msec. N is a radical of₁And N₂Determined by the smallest of the SCS of all configured UL BWPs and the SCS of configured DL BWPs for all uplink carriers of the TAG.

Time slot n and SCS determination for minimum SCS of all UL BWP configured for all uplink carriersSCS determination N of UL BWP for all configurations of all uplink carriers of TAG and minimal SCS determination of initially active UL BWP provided by initialullinkBWP_TA,max。

When the UE changes the active UL BWP between the timing advance command reception time and the time at which the adjustment corresponding to the uplink transmission timing is applied, the UE determines the timing advance command value based on the SCS of the new active UL BWP. When the UE applies the adjustment of the uplink transmission timing and then changes the active UL BWP, the UE assumes an absolute timing advance command value that does not change before and after changing the active UL BWP.

When the received downlink timing changes and is only partially compensated by uplink timing adjustment without timing advance commands, the UE changes accordingly.

When two adjacent slots overlap each other due to the TA command, the duration of the latter slot may be reduced compared to the duration of the former slot.

Hereinafter, a method of transmitting uplink data using full power transmission power proposed in the present disclosure will be described.

< proposal 1: when the UE reports UE capability 1, the power scaling value is calculated as 1 when active BWP transmits PUSCH and antenna port average division transmission power of non-zero power PUSCH transmission of the UE is performed. < CHEM > A

In the case of codebook-based uplink transmission, when the above-described PUSCH power control is performed, the ratio of available full power is shown in tables 20 and 21 below.

Further, in tables 22 and 23, ρ represents the number of configured SRS ports (the number of configured SRS ports) or SRS ports fully supported according to UE capability, and ρ₀Representing the number of non-zero elements or the number of non-zero power PUSCH transmission ports in the TPMI indicated by the eNB. Further, coherent transmission is defined as follows.

Full coherence: all ports may transmit coherently.

Partial coherence: the port pairs may be sent coherently.

Non-coherence: the port pair cannot be sent coherently.

[ Table 22]

[ Table 23]

In proposal 1, when the UE supports UE capability 1, since full-power transmission is available for each of all ports, it is preferable to allow full-power transmission of the respective ports in order to improve the uplink coverage of the UE. For this reason, in proposal 1, when the UE reports UE capability 1 to the eNB, the power scaling factor (value) may be calculated as 1 regardless of TPMI indicated by Downlink Control Information (DCI) of the eNB when the active BWP transmits the PUSCH.

In this case, the UE may equally distribute transmission power among antenna ports performing non-zero power PUSCH transmission and transmit PUSCH as uplink data. Power control may be limited to certain rank (e.g., when the rank is 1) transmissions.

In other words, when the value of TRI is 1 in proposal 1, 1 is used as a scaling value for determining transmission power, and when TRI is indicated as another value, the above-described power control method may be used.

In this case, the UE may report the capability of the UE directly to the eNB or report information associated with the capability (e.g., maximum port number, subset of TPMI may be supported, etc.).

For example, the UE may directly report to the eNB whether the capability of the UE is capability 1, 2, or 3 or send information about the capability to the eNB. In this case, the capability-related information may include a maximum number of ports and/or a subset of TPMI supported by the UE for PUSCH transmission, and the subset of TPMI may include at least one TPMI supported by the UE.

In the case of uplink full power transmission for both capability 2 and capability 3 of the UE, the following may be supported.

To support capability 2 and capability 3 according to the UE's capabilities, the UE may be configured to one of two full power modes of operation.

The UE may be configured in the network to support full power transmission.

-mode 1: the configuration that the UE can use by the resource is configured as one or more SRS resource configurations having the same number of SRS ports in the SRS resource set of the codebook.

The eNB may configure the UE to use the lower set of TPMI that generates full power transmission through the ports in the combined layer.

The new codebook subset may only be applied to rank values where full power transmission is not available in the uplink.

-mode 2: the configuration that the UE can use by the resource is configured as a plurality of SRS resource configurations having one SRS resource or a plurality of SRS resources in an SRS resource set of the codebook.

The UE may transmit the SRS and the PUSCH through the same scheme regardless of whether antenna virtualization is used.

A Rel-15 codebook and codebook subsets may be used.

Uplink full power transmission may be performed according to the indicated SRI and/or TPMI for PUSCH transmission.

In this regard, for SRS resources with one or more ports, to support at least UE capability 3, the UE may signal the eNB to transmit a full power set of TPMI.

< proposal 2: when the UE reports UE capability 1, the power scaling value is calculated as α when active BWP transmits PUSCH, and the antenna port performing non-zero power PUSCH transmission for the UE divides the transmission power equally. Here, the value of α may be determined by higher layer signaling (e.g., RRC or MAC CE) or dynamic signaling (e.g., DCI). < CHEM > A

In the case of proposal 2, even if the UE reports UE capability 1, higher layer signaling or dynamic signaling may be used to determine what power scaling the UE is to perform.

As follows, as an example of an α value according to 1-bit signaling, when the eNB indicates a status of "0" to the UE, the UE operates in the existing Rel-15 power control mode to save the battery of the UE by performing antenna shutdown in a specific port selection or port group selection TPMI.

Further, when the eNB indicates status "1" to the UE, the UE may increase the coverage of the UE by performing full power transmission (e.g., maximum 23dBm transmission) regardless of the TPMI indicated by the eNB.

Power control may be limited to only apply to the case of a specific rank (e.g., when the rank is 1) transmission. In other words, in an example, 1 may be used as a scaling value in case of TRI ═ 1, and Rel-15 power control may be applied when another TRI is indicated.

[ Table 24]

In other words, in proposal 2, even when the UE directly or indirectly reports its capability as a capability of allowing full-power transmission, the transmission power may be limited by the α value transmitted by the eNB.

< proposal 3: the TPMI of the new codebook subset may be indicated regardless of whether the capability of the UE is reported as incoherent or incoherent partially coherent capability. For example, the eNB may indicate the codebook subset to the UE such that the non-coherent UE also uses a fully coherent TPMI. < CHEM > A

In other words, even when reporting to the eNB that the UE's capabilities are non-coherent or non-partially coherent, the eNB may indicate to the UE the TPMI for PUSCH transmissions using full power transmission, regardless of the capabilities reported by the UE.

In this case, proposal 3 can be executed only in the following limited cases.

The fully coherent TPMI may be used only in case of rank 1 of 2 ports, or may be used only in case of rank 1 of 4 ports.

Partial coherence TPMI for non-coherent UEs may be allowed with ranks 1, 2, and 3 of 4 ports. Since the TPMI to which the codebook subset is applied is distinguished in tables 20 and 21, the codebook subset may be applied at a TPMI group level including an incoherent TPMI, a partially coherent TPMI, a fully coherent TPMI, etc., and this may be applied only to a specific rank specified as described above.

Alternatively, for flexibility, the eNB may indicate to the UE the restriction of the codebook subset of all TPMI in a 9-bit bitmap (6+3) in case of 2 ports and the restriction of the codebook subset of TPMI in a 62-bit bitmap (28+22+7+5) in case of 4 ports.

Alternatively, to reduce signaling overhead, the eNB may indicate to the UE only a codebook subset of a particular rank (e.g., when the rank value is 1, etc.) as a bitmap. Proposal 3 and proposal 3-1 are applicable to the case where the UE reports UE capabilities 2 and/or 3.

If the codebook subset determined by the capability of full power transmission is different from the codebook subset related to coherent transmission, the codebook subset of full power capability may be further prioritized or the union of the two subsets may become the final codebook subset when the two codebook subsets collide with each other, e.g., when the codebook subsets indicated by full power capability and non-coherent capability collide with each other. The UE may not expect to receive an indication of a TPMI other than the TPMI included in the codebook subset. In other words, when the eNB indicates a TPMI value other than the TPMI included in the codebook subset, the UE may determine the corresponding indication as an error indication.

< proposal 4: the UE may report to the eNB the subset of TPMI that the UE may use and apply/transmit with capability signaling that the UE uses full power for uplink transmission. < CHEM > A

Proposal 4 is a scheme to cover various RF architectures according to a UE implementation like UE capability 3. In other words, the eNB may obtain some information about what RF architecture of the UE by proposal 3. Thus, the offer may operate in connection with offer 1 or offer 1-1 based on the information that the UE reports as its capabilities.

In other words, when the UE reports the codebook subset to the eNB as the capability of the UE, the eNB may determine that uplink transmission of the corresponding TPMI may be performed at full power and use 1 as a power scaling value when transmitting PUSCH using the corresponding TPMI.

Table 25 below shows an example of signaling for reporting the capability of the UE using a 3-bit bitmap.

[ Table 25]

Status of state	TPMI subset
		0	Incoherent TPMI
1	Partially coherent TPMI
		2	Fully coherent TPMI

Alternatively, the UE may report available TPMI among all available TPMI to the eNB in a 9-bit bitmap (6+3) in case of 2 ports, and report whether full TPMI is used to the eNB using a 62-bit bitmap (28+22+7+5) in case of 4 ports.

Such an approach may be limited to a specific rank and/or a specific TPMI group in order to reduce the overhead of UE capability signaling.

For example, when the UE reports the capability to the eNB only with rank 1 and the non-coherent codebook, the UE may report the available part to the eNB using a 2-bit bitmap for 2 ports (TPMI 0 and 1) and a 4-bit bitmap for 4 ports (TPMI 0 to 3).

As another example, when the UE reports the capability to the eNB only with rank 1 and the non-partially coherent codebook, the UE may report information on available TPMI to the eNB using an intact 2-bit bitmap for 2 ports and a 12-bit bitmap for 4 ports (TPMI 0 to 11).

In a bitmap, "0" indicates unavailable and "1" indicates available (and vice versa). Alternatively, when only rank 1 is used, 6 bits may be used for 2 ports and 28 bits may be used for 4 ports. In case of full power transmittable rank limitation, the UE may configure information as separate fields (2 port 2 bits and 4 port 4 bits) and report the information to the eNB.

In other words, in proposal 4, the UE may transmit the information associated with the capabilities including a TPMI subset including at least one TPMI capable of performing uplink transmission at full transmission power by the UE while transmitting the information associated with the capabilities of the UE to the eNB.

In this case, when a control message (e.g., DCI) including at least one TPMI transmitted by the UE, which is transmitted from the eNB, is indicated, the UE may transmit uplink data using full transmission power. In other words, in this case, the uplink data can be transmitted with the transmission power by configuring the scaling value to "1".

However, when the TPMI indicated by the eNB is not included in the at least one subset, the UE may transmit uplink data using a value less than the full transmission power. In other words, in this case, the uplink data can be transmitted with the transmission power by configuring the scaling value to a value smaller than "1".

< proposal 4-1: based on the codebook subset reported by proposal 4 (via UE capability signaling), the size of the TRI + TPMI field in the DCI indicated by the eNB is reduced to reduce the DCI payload. < CHEM > A

In the case of proposal 4-1, for example, when the UE reports information associated with its capabilities to the eNB using bitmap [ 101111111 ] among 2-port 9-bit bitmaps, the size of the TRI + TPMI field in the DCI may indicate the TPMI that the UE uses for PUSCH transmission using a bit width reduced from the existing 4 bits to 3 bits.

< proposal 4-2: with UE capabilities 1, 2, 3 and/or coherence capabilities (non-, partial-, full coherence) reported by the UE, the eNB indicates to the UE, through higher layers (e.g., MAC CE or DCI), the subset of codebooks to be used by the UE. < CHEM > A

For example, when the UE reports UE capability 2 and non-coherent capability to the eNB, the eNB may, like Rel-15, not only indicate a subset of non-coherent TPMI for coherent transmission (e.g., 2-port TPMI indices 0-1 of rank 1), but use non-and fully coherent TPMI, i.e., (e.g., 2-port TPMI indices 0-5 of rank 1), and may configure restrictions only for certain ranks. When codebook subsets indicated by full power capability and non-coherent capability conflict with each other, the codebook subset of full power capability may be further prioritized or the union of the two subsets may be the final codebook subset.

< proposal 5: for coherent uplink transmission by the UE, the eNB may indicate to the UE a per-port (or per-beam or per-antenna or panel) timing advance. < CHEM > A

It is proposed to use a higher subset of TPMI for full power uplink transmission than its coherent transmission capability in case of UE capability 2 and capability 3. In this case, depending on the channel experienced by the UE, in any case, when the eNB receives uplink signals transmitted with good capability in each port, the phases are well matched in most of the uplink scheduling frequency band, and as a result, the UE shows good capability, and in any case, the phases are not well matched in the uplink scheduling frequency band, and as a result, the capability may be deteriorated.

Thus, the eNB may calculate and indicate an optimal Timing Advance (TA) per port to the UE based on information measured, for example, from SRS or channel reciprocity, and the UE may use this information for uplink full power transmission using the optimal TA. In the case of this proposal, codebook-based uplink transmission is described as an example, but the proposal can be applied even to non-codebook based UL. The scheme of configuring the TA independently per antenna may be used to compensate for the capability deterioration by acquiring the effect of small delay Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) according to the resolution of the indicated TA. Thus, the resolution of the TA may have a different time resolution (e.g., OFDM symbol level or less) than the TA offset value configured by the MAC-CE.

< proposal 5-1: in the case of proposal 5, since it may be inefficient to allocate individual TAs to respective ports, signaling overhead may be effectively reduced in the form of a common TA + differential TA. < CHEM > A

Basically, the TA is indicated to the UE through a MAC CE (e.g., 12 bits). Thus, both the common TA and the differential TA proposed above may be indicated by the MAC CE, and the differential bits may be used for trimming with bit widths smaller than the common value. Alternatively, it may be considered that in order to more effectively use proposal 5 or proposal 5-1, the common TA is indicated by the MAC CE (e.g., 12 bits) and the UE differential TA is signaled by DCI (e.g., 2 bits).

Table 26 below shows an example of indicating the difference TA by 2-bit signaling. In this proposal, the common TA may be a value allocated to the UE, and there may be a scheme in which a differential TA is independently applied to all ports used by the UE for uplink transmission. Alternatively, the common TA may use a specific reference port (e.g., port 0), and the remaining ports (or beams or antennas or panels) are indicated by a differential TA to further reduce the payload (e.g., DCI).

[ Table 26]

The above proposals 1 to 5-1 can be used alone or as a combination of proposals.

Fig. 27 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart of an eNB to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable to receive uplink data.

Referring to fig. 27, the eNB may receive information associated with the capability of the UE from the UE (S27010). For example, the eNB may receive information including information directly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., capability 1, 2, or 3) from the UE or information including information indirectly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., number of ports supported, coherence capability, and full power transmission capability).

For example, the eNB may receive information from the UE including a TPMI subset including at least one TPMI capable of transmitting uplink data at the maximum number of ports and/or full transmission power supported by the UE.

Thereafter, the eNB may transmit system information and scheduling information to the UE through higher layer signaling (S27020). In this case, the system information and the scheduling information may be transmitted through a higher layer (e.g., RRC or MAC CE).

Thereafter, the eNB may transmit a reference signal (e.g., SRSSB, CSI-RS, TRS, or PT-RS) for acquiring an uplink channel state and a downlink channel state (S27030), and the UE may transmit an RS (e.g., SRS) to the eNB in order to acquire uplink channel state information of the UE.

Thereafter, the eNB may acquire channel state information from the UE (S27040), and the eNB may indicate uplink scheduling information and SRI/TPMI/TRI/MCS information to the UE using the acquired channel information of the UE (S27050). In this case, uplink scheduling information and SRI/TPMI/TRI/MCS information may be included in DCI and transmitted.

Thereafter, the eNB may receive uplink data and a reference signal for decoding the uplink data from the UE (S27060). In other words, the eNB may receive data to which precoding is applied and an RS (e.g., DMRS) for data decoding (scheduled) from the UE.

Fig. 28 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart of an eNB to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable to receive uplink data.

The UE may transmit information related to the capability of the UE to the eNB (S28010). For example, the UE may transmit information including information directly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., capability 1, 2, or 3) to the eNB or information including information indirectly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., the number of ports supported, the coherence capability, and the full power transmission capability) to the eNB (S28010).

For example, the UE may transmit information to the eNB including a TPMI subset including at least one TPMI capable of transmitting uplink data at the maximum number of ports and/or full transmission power supported by the UE.

Thereafter, the UE may receive system information and scheduling information from the eNB through higher layer signaling (S28020). In this case, the system information and the scheduling information may be received through a higher layer (e.g., RRC or MAC CE).

Thereafter, the UE may receive a reference signal (e.g., SRSSB, CSI-RS, TRS, or PT-RS) for acquiring uplink and downlink channel states (S28030), and the UE may transmit an RS (e.g., SRS) to the eNB in order to acquire uplink channel state information of the UE.

Thereafter, the UE may transmit channel state information to the eNB (S28040) and receive an indication of uplink scheduling information and SRI/TPMI/TRI/MCS information from the eNB based on the channel information (S28050). In this case, uplink scheduling information and SRI/TPMI/TRI/MCS information may be included in DCI and received.

Thereafter, the UE transmits uplink data and a reference signal for decoding the uplink data to the eNB (S28060). In other words, the UE may transmit data to which precoding is applied and an RS (e.g., DMRS) for data decoding (scheduling) from the eNB.

Fig. 29 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart in which a UE to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable determines transmission power for transmitting uplink data. For example, the uplink data of fig. 29 may be a message that the UE transmits to the eNB in an initial access procedure.

The UE may transmit information associated with the capability of the UE to the eNB (S29010). For example, as described in proposals 1 to 5-1 and fig. 28, the UE may transmit information including information directly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., capability 1, 2, or 3) to the eNB or information including information indirectly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., number of ports supported, coherence capability, and full power transmission capability) to the eNB.

For example, the UE may transmit information to the eNB including a TPMI subset including at least one TPMI capable of transmitting uplink data at the maximum number of ports and/or full transmission power supported by the UE.

For example, the operation (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 34) in which the UE transmits information in the above-described step S29010 may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 34 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, one or more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more memories 104 to transmit configuration information, and one or more transceivers 106 may transmit the information.

Thereafter, the UE may receive first control information for transmitting a message associated with initial access from the eNB (S29020).

In this case, the first control information may include a TPMI for the UE to transmit uplink data. In other words, the DCI may include a TPMI that the UE configured by the eNB is to use to transmit uplink data.

For example, the operation of the UE receiving the first control information (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 34) in step S29020 described above may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 34 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, one or more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more memories 104 to receive first control information, and one or more transceivers 106 may receive DCI.

Thereafter, the UE may transmit a message to the eNB using the transmission power determined based on the TPMI (S29030). For example, when the TPMI indicated by the eNB through the first control information is included in at least one TPMI included in the information reported by the UE to the eNB, the UE may transmit uplink data to the eNB through full transmission power.

The operation of the UE transmitting the message in the above-described step S29030 (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 34) may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 34 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, one or more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more memories 104 to transmit messages, and one or more transceivers 106 may transmit messages.

In this case, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power may be configured to be "1".

However, when the TPMI indicated by the eNB through the first control information is not included in at least one TPMI included in the information reported by the UE to the eNB, the UE may transmit uplink data to the eNB through a transmission power less than the full transmission power.

In this case, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power may be configured to be a value less than "1".

In an embodiment, the UE may receive second control information including full transmission power usable by the UE from the eNB, and the second control information may further include mode information regarding at least one transmission mode applicable to the UE. Further, when the information reported to the eNB by the UE is information related to a specific capability of the UE, the transmission power for transmitting uplink data may be configured to be a full transmission power. Alternatively, when the information reported to the eNB by the UE is information associated with a specific capability of the UE, a scaling value for determining the transmission power may be received from the eNB. Further, the transmission power determined based on the scaling value may be evenly distributed among the single or multiple antenna ports that use non-zero power to transmit the uplink channel.

Fig. 30 illustrates an example of an operation flowchart in which an eNB, to which the method proposed in the present disclosure is applicable, determines transmission power for transmitting uplink data.

Referring to fig. 30, the eNB may receive capability information associated with transmission power of the UE from the UE (S30010). For example, as described in proposals 1 to 5-1 and fig. 27, the UE may transmit information including information directly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., capability 1, 2, or 3) to the eNB or information including information indirectly indicating the capability of the UE (e.g., number of ports supported, coherence capability, and full power transmission capability) to the eNB.

For example, the UE may transmit information to the eNB including a TPMI subset including at least one TPMI capable of transmitting uplink data at the maximum number of ports and/or full transmission power supported by the UE.

For example, the operation of the eNB receiving the information in the above step S30010 (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 35) may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 35 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, one or more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more memories 104 to transmit information, and one or more transceivers 106 may receive information.

Thereafter, the eNB may transmit first control information for transmission of uplink data to the UE (S30020).

In this case, the first control information may include a TPMI for the UE to transmit uplink data. In other words, the first control information may include a TPMI that the UE configured by the eNB is to use to transmit uplink data.

For example, the operation of the eNB transmitting the first control information (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 35) in the above step S30020 may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 35 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, the one or more processors 102 may control the one or more transceivers 106 and/or the one or more memories 104 to transmit the first control information, and the one or more transceivers 106 may transmit the first control information.

Thereafter, the eNB may receive a message from the UE using the transmission power determined based on the TPMI (S30030). For example, when the TPMI indicated by the eNB through the first control information is included in at least one TPMI included in the information reported by the UE to the eNB, the eNB may receive uplink data from the UE through full transmission power.

For example, the operation of the eNB receiving the message in the above step S30020 (e.g., reference numeral 3110 and/or 3120 of fig. 31 to 35) may be implemented by the apparatuses of fig. 31 to 35 to be described below. For example, referring to fig. 31, one or more processors 102 may control one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more memories 104 to transmit messages, and one or more transceivers 106 may transmit messages.

In this case, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power may be configured to be "1".

However, when the TPMI indicated by the eNB through the first control information is not included in at least one TPMI included in the information reported by the UE to the eNB, the eNB may receive uplink data from the UE through a transmission power less than the full transmission power.

In this case, the scaling factor for determining the transmission power may be configured to be a value less than "1".

In an embodiment, the eNB may transmit second control information including full transmission power available to the UE, and the second control information may further include mode information regarding at least one transmission mode applicable to the UE. Further, when the information reported to the eNB by the UE is information related to a specific capability of the UE, the transmission power for transmitting uplink data may be configured to be a full transmission power.

Furthermore, in methods and embodiments, a UE and/or eNB operating according to the various steps of fig. 27-30 may be specifically implemented by the apparatus of fig. 31-35 to be described below. For example, the eNB may correspond to a first wireless device and the UE may correspond to a second wireless device, in some cases, the reverse may also be considered.

For example, eNB/UE signaling and operations (e.g., fig. 27-30) may be processed by one or more processors (e.g., 102 and 202) of fig. 31-35, and eNB/UE signaling and operations (e.g., fig. 27-30) may be stored in a memory (e.g., one or more memories (e.g., 104 and 204) of fig. 28-32) in the form of commands/programs (e.g., instructions and executable code) for driving at least one processor (e.g., 102 and 202) of fig. 31-35.

Communication system applied to the present disclosure

The various descriptions, functions, processes, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams of the present disclosure described in this document are applicable to, but not limited to, various fields requiring wireless communication/connection (e.g., 5G) between devices.

Hereinafter, a description will be given in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following figures/descriptions, the same reference numbers may indicate the same or corresponding hardware, software, or functional blocks, unless otherwise described.

Fig. 31 shows a communication system applied to the present disclosure.

Referring to fig. 31, a communication system 3100 applied to the present disclosure includes a wireless device, a Base Station (BS), and a network. Herein, a wireless device denotes a device that performs communication using a Radio Access Technology (RAT), such as a 5G new RAT (nr) or Long Term Evolution (LTE), and may be referred to as a communication/radio/5G device. The wireless devices may include, but are not limited to, a robot 3110a, vehicles 3110b-1 and 3110b-2, an augmented reality (XR) device 3110c, a handheld device 3110d, a household appliance 3110e, an internet of things (IoT) device 3110f, and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) device/server 400. For example, the vehicles may include vehicles having a wireless communication function, autonomously driven vehicles, and vehicles capable of performing communication between the vehicles. Herein, a vehicle may include an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (e.g., drone). The XR device may include an Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR)/Mixed Reality (MR) device, and may be implemented in the form of a Head Mounted Device (HMD), a Head Up Display (HUD) installed in a vehicle, a television, a smart phone, a computer, a wearable device, an appliance device, a digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, and the like. Handheld devices may include smart phones, smart pads, wearable devices (e.g., smart watches or smart glasses), and computers (e.g., notebooks). The home appliances may include a TV, a refrigerator, and a washing machine. The IoT devices may include sensors and smart meters. For example, the BS and network may be implemented as wireless devices, and a particular wireless device 3120a may operate as a BS/network node with respect to other wireless devices.

The wireless devices 3110a through 3110f may connect to the network 300 via the BS 3120. AI technology may be applied to the wireless devices 1010a to 3110f, and the wireless devices 3110a to 3110f may be connected to the AI server 400 via the network 300. The network 300 may be configured using a 3G network, a 4G (e.g., LTE) network, or a 5G (e.g., NR) network. Although the wireless devices 3110 a-3110 f may communicate with each other through the BS 3120/network 300, the wireless devices 3110 a-3110 f may perform direct communication (e.g., sidelink communication) with each other without passing through the BS/network. For example, vehicles 3110b-1 and 3110b-2 may perform direct communication (e.g., vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-all (V2X) communication). IoT devices (e.g., sensors) may perform direct communication with other IoT devices (e.g., sensors) or other wireless devices 3110 a-3110 f.

A wireless communication/connection 150a, 150b, or 150c may be established between wireless devices 3110 a-3110 f/BS 3120 or BS 1020/BS 3120. Herein, wireless communications/connections may be established over various RATs (e.g., 5G NR) such as uplink/downlink communications 150a, sidelink communications 150b (or, D2D communications), or inter-BS communications (e.g., relay, Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB)). The wireless device and the BS/wireless device may send/receive radio signals to/from each other through wireless communications/connections 150a and 150 b. For example, wireless communications/connections 150a and 150b may transmit/receive signals over various physical channels. To this end, at least a portion of various configuration information configuration processes, various signal processing processes (e.g., channel coding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, and resource mapping/demapping), and resource allocation processes for transmitting/receiving radio signals may be performed based on various proposals of the present disclosure.

Wireless device suitable for this disclosure

Fig. 32 shows a wireless device suitable for use in the present disclosure.

Referring to fig. 32, the first wireless device 3110 and the second wireless device 3120 may transmit radio signals through various RATs (e.g., LTE and NR). Herein, { first wireless device 3110 and second wireless device 3120} may correspond to { wireless device 3110x and BS 3120} and/or { wireless device 3110x and wireless device 3110x } of fig. 31.

The first wireless device 3110 may include one or more processors 102 and one or more memories 104, and additionally include one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more antennas 108. The processor 102 may control the memory 104 and/or the transceiver 106 and may be configured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. For example, the processor 102 may process information within the memory 104 to generate a first information/signal and then send a radio signal including the first information/signal through the transceiver 106. The processor 102 may receive the radio signal including the second information/signal through the transceiver 106 and then store information obtained by processing the second information/signal in the memory 104. The memory 104 may be connected to the processor 102 and may store various information related to the operation of the processor 102. For example, the memory 104 may store software code including instructions for performing some or all of the processes controlled by the processor 102 or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. Herein, the processor 102 and memory 104 may be part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement a RAT (e.g., LTE or NR). The transceiver 106 may be connected to the processor 102 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 108. Each transceiver 106 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver 106 may be used interchangeably with a Radio Frequency (RF) unit. In this disclosure, a wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.

The second wireless device 3120 may include one or more processors 202 and one or more memories 204, and additionally include one or more transceivers 206 and/or one or more antennas 208. The processor 202 may control the memory 204 and/or the transceiver 206 and may be configured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. For example, the processor 202 may process the information in the memory 204 to generate a third information/signal and then send a radio signal including the third information/signal through the transceiver 206. The processor 202 may receive a radio signal including the fourth information/signal through the transceiver 206 and then store information obtained by processing the fourth information/signal in the memory 204. The memory 204 may be connected to the processor 202 and may store various information related to the operation of the processor 202. For example, memory 204 may store software code including instructions for performing some or all of the processes controlled by processor 202 or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. Herein, the processor 202 and memory 204 may be part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement a RAT (e.g., LTE or NR). The transceiver 206 may be connected to the processor 202 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 208. Each transceiver 206 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver 206 may be used interchangeably with a Radio Frequency (RF) unit. In this disclosure, a wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.

Hereinafter, hardware elements of the wireless devices 3110 and 3120 will be described in more detail. One or more protocol layers may be implemented by, but are not limited to, one or more processors 102 and 202. For example, the one or more processors 102 and 202 may implement one or more layers (e.g., functional layers such as PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, and SDAP). The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate one or more Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and/or one or more Service Data Units (SDUs) according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate signals (e.g., baseband signals) including PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document and provide the generated signals to the one or more transceivers 106 and 206. One or more processors 102 and 202 can receive signals (e.g., baseband signals) from one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and retrieve PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document.

The one or more processors 102 and 202 may be referred to as controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or microcomputers. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. As examples, one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), one or more Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), one or more Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), one or more Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), or one or more Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) may be included in the one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document may be implemented using firmware or software, and the firmware or software may be configured to include a module, a procedure or a function. Firmware or software configured to perform the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document may be included in the one or more processors 102 and 202 or stored in the one or more memories 104 and 204 to be driven by the one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document may be implemented using firmware or software in the form of codes, commands and/or command sets.

One or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and store various types of data, signals, messages, information, programs, code, instructions, and/or commands. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be configured from read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), flash memory, hard drives, registers, cache memory, computer-readable storage media, and/or combinations thereof. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be internal and/or external to the one or more processors 102 and 202. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 through various techniques, such as wired or wireless connections.

One or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels referred to in the methods and/or operational flow diagrams of this document to one or more other devices. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels from one or more other devices mentioned in the description, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. For example, one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to one or more processors 102 and 202 and transmit and receive radio signals. For example, the one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform controls such that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, or radio signals to one or more other devices. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform control such that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, or radio signals from one or more other devices. One or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to one or more antennas 108 and 208, and one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be configured to transmit and receive, through one or more antennas 108 and 208, user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels mentioned in the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flow diagrams disclosed in this document. In this document, the one or more antennas may be multiple physical antennas or multiple logical antennas (e.g., antenna ports). The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert received radio signals/channels, etc. from RF band signals to baseband signals for processing received user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc. using the one or more processors 102 and 202. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc. processed using the one or more processors 102 and 202 from baseband signals to RF band signals. To this end, one or more of the transceivers 106 and 206 may include an (analog) oscillator and/or a filter.

Signal processing circuit example to which the present disclosure is applied

Fig. 33 shows a signal processing circuit of a transmission signal.

Referring to fig. 33, the signal processing circuit 3300 may include a scrambler 3310, a modulator 3320, a layer mapper 3330, a precoder 3340, a resource mapper 3350, and a signal generator 3360. Although not limited thereto, the operations/functions of fig. 33 may be performed by the processors 102 and 202 and/or the transceivers 106 and 206 of fig. 32. The hardware elements of fig. 33 may be implemented in the processors 102 and 202 and/or the transceivers 106 and 206 of fig. 32. For example, blocks 3310 through 3360 may be implemented in processors 102 and 202 of FIG. 32. Further, blocks 3310 through 3350 may be implemented in the processors 102 and 202 of fig. 32, and blocks 3360 and 2760 of fig. 32 may be implemented in the transceivers 106 and 206 of fig. 32.

The codeword may be transformed into a radio signal via the signal processing circuit 3300 of fig. 33. Here, a codeword is a coded bit sequence of an information block. The information block may include transport blocks (e.g., UL-SCH transport blocks and DL-SCH transport blocks). Radio signals may be transmitted through various physical channels (e.g., PUSCH and PDSCH).

In particular, the codeword may be transformed into a bit sequence scrambled by the scrambler 3310. The scrambling sequence for scrambling may be generated based on an initialization value, and the initialization value may include ID information of the wireless device. The scrambled bit sequence may be modulated into a modulation symbol sequence by a modulator 3320. The modulation scheme may include pi/2-BPSK (pi/2-binary phase shift keying), m-PSK (m-phase shift keying), m-QAM (m-quadrature amplitude modulation), and so on. The complex modulation symbol sequences may be mapped to one or more transmission layers by a layer mapper 3330. Modulation symbols for each transmission layer may be mapped to corresponding antenna ports by precoder 3340 (precoding). The output z of the precoder 3340 may be obtained by multiplying the output y of the layer mapper 3330 by a precoding matrix W of N × M. Here, N denotes the number of antenna ports, and M denotes the number of transmission layers. Here, the precoder 3340 may perform precoding after performing transform precoding (e.g., DFT transform) on the complex modulation symbols. Further, the precoder 3340 may perform precoding without performing transform precoding.

The resource mapper 3350 may map the modulation symbols of the respective antenna ports to time-frequency resources. The time-frequency resources may include a plurality of symbols (e.g., CP-OFDMA symbols and DFT-s-OFDMA symbols) in the time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain. The signal generator 3360 may generate radio signals from the mapped modulation symbols, and the generated radio signals may be transmitted to another apparatus through respective antennas. To this end, the signal generator 3360 may include an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) module, a Cyclic Prefix (CP) inserter, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a frequency uplink converter, and the like.

The signal processing procedure for the received signal in the wireless device may be configured in reverse to the signal processing procedures (3310-3360) of fig. 33. For example, a wireless device (e.g., 100 or 200 of fig. 32) may receive radio signals from the outside through an antenna port/transceiver. The received radio signal may be converted to a baseband signal by a signal reconstructor. To this end, the signal reconstructor may include a frequency downlink converter, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a CP remover, and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) module. Thereafter, the baseband signal may be reconstructed into codewords through a resource demapper process, a post-encoding process, a demodulation process, and a descrambling process. The codeword can be reconstructed into the original information block via decoding. Accordingly, a signal processing circuit (not shown) receiving the signal may include a signal reconstructor, a resource demapper, a postencoder, a demodulator, a descrambler, and a decoder.

Example of Wireless device to which the present disclosure is applied

Fig. 34 shows another example of a wireless device applied to the present disclosure. The wireless device may be implemented in various forms according to use cases/services (refer to fig. 34).

Referring to fig. 34, wireless devices 3110 and 3120 may correspond to wireless devices 3110 and 3120 of fig. 31 and may be configured by various elements, components, units/sections, and/or modules. For example, each of the wireless devices 3110 and 3120 may include a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, and additional components 140. The communication unit may include a communication circuit 112 and a transceiver 114. For example, the communication circuitry 112 may include one or more processors 102 and 202 and/or one or more memories 104 and 204 of fig. 32. For example, the transceiver 114 may include one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and/or one or more antennas 108 and 208 of fig. 32. The control unit 120 is electrically connected to the communication unit 110, the memory 130, and the additional components 140, and controls the overall operation of the wireless device. For example, the control unit 120 may control the electrical/mechanical operation of the wireless device based on programs/codes/commands/information stored in the memory unit 130. The control unit 120 may transmit information stored in the memory unit 130 to the outside (e.g., other communication devices) through the communication unit 110 through a wireless/wired interface or store information received from the outside (e.g., other communication devices) through a wireless/wired interface via the communication unit 110 in the memory unit 130.

The additional components 140 may be configured differently depending on the type of wireless device. For example, the add-on components 140 may include at least one of a power supply unit/battery, an input/output (I/O) unit, a drive unit, and a computing unit. The wireless devices may be implemented in the form of, but not limited to, a robot (3110 a of fig. 31), a vehicle (3110 b-1 and 3110b-2 of fig. 31), an XR device (3110 c of fig. 31), a handheld device (3110 d of fig. 31), a home appliance (3110 e of fig. 31), an IoT device (3110 f of fig. 31), a digital broadcast terminal, a holographic device, a public safety device, an MTC device, a medical device, a financial technology device (or financial device), a security device, a climate/environment device, an AI server/device (400 of fig. 31), a BS (3120 of fig. 31), a network node, and the like. The wireless device may be used in a mobile or fixed location depending on the use case/service.

In fig. 34, various elements, components, units/sections, and/or modules in the wireless devices 3110 and 3120 may be all connected to each other through a wired interface, or at least a part thereof may be wirelessly connected through the communication unit 110. For example, in each of the wireless devices 3110 and 3120, the control unit 120 and the communication unit 110 may be connected by wire, and the control unit 120 and the first unit (e.g., 130 and 140) may be connected wirelessly through the communication unit 110. Each element, component, unit/portion, and/or module within wireless devices 3110 and 3120 may also include one or more elements. For example, the control unit 120 may be configured by a set of one or more processors. As an example, the control unit 120 may be configured by a set of a communication control processor, an application processor, an Electronic Control Unit (ECU), a graphics processing unit, and a memory control processor. As another example, the memory 130 may be configured from Random Access Memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (dram), Read Only Memory (ROM), flash memory, volatile memory, non-volatile memory, and/or combinations thereof.

Example of a Portable device to which the present disclosure is applied

Fig. 35 shows a portable device applied to the present disclosure. Portable devices may include smart phones, smart pads, wearable devices (e.g., smart watches, smart glasses), and portable computers (e.g., notebooks, etc.). The portable device may be referred to as a Mobile Station (MS), a User Terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station (MSs), a Subscriber Station (SS), an Advanced Mobile Station (AMS), or a Wireless Terminal (WT).

Referring to fig. 35, the portable device 3110 may include an antenna unit 108, a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, a power supply unit 140a, an interface unit 140b, and an input/output unit 140 c. The antenna unit 108 may be configured as part of a communication unit 110. The blocks 110 to 130/140a to 140c correspond to the blocks 110 to 130/140 of fig. 31, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit/receive signals (e.g., data, control signals, etc.) to/from another wireless device and an eNB. The control unit 120 may perform various operations by controlling components of the portable device 3110. The control unit 120 may include an Application Processor (AP). The memory unit 130 may store data/parameters/programs/codes/instructions required to drive the portable device 3110. In addition, the memory unit 130 may store input/output data/information and the like. The power supply unit 140a may supply power to the portable device 3110 and include a wired/wireless charging circuit, a battery, and the like. The interface unit 140b may support connection between the portable device 3110 and another external device. The interface unit 140b may include various ports (e.g., audio input/output port, video input/output port) for connection with external devices. The input/output unit 140c may receive or output video information/signals, audio information/signals, data and/or information input from a user. The input/output unit 140c may include a camera, a microphone, a user input unit, a display unit 140d, a speaker, and/or a haptic module.

As one example, in the case of data communication, the input/output unit 140c may acquire information/signals (e.g., touch, text, voice, image, and video) input from a user, and the acquired information/signals may be stored in the memory unit 130. The communication unit 110 may convert information/signals stored in the memory into radio signals and transmit the radio signals directly to another wireless device or transmit the radio signals to an eNB. Further, the communication unit 110 may receive a radio signal from another wireless device or eNB and then reconstruct the received radio signal into original information/signals. The reconstructed information/signal may be stored in the memory unit 130 and then output in various forms (e.g., text, voice, image, video, tactile) through the input/output unit 140 c.

The above embodiments are achieved by combinations of components and features of the present disclosure in predetermined forms. Each component or feature should be considered selectively unless indicated separately. Each component or feature may be implemented without being combined with another component or feature. Further, some components and/or features are combined with each other and may implement embodiments of the present disclosure. The order of operations described in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be changed. Some components or features of one embodiment may be included in another embodiment or may be replaced by corresponding components or features of another embodiment. It is obvious that some claims referring to specific claims may be combined with another claims referring to claims other than the specific claims to constitute the embodiment, or new claims may be added by modification after filing the application.

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by various means, such as hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. When the embodiments are implemented by hardware, one embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, and the like.

When the embodiments are implemented by firmware or software, one embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented by modules, procedures, functions, and the like, which perform the functions or operations described above. The software codes may be stored in a memory and may be driven by a processor. The memory is provided inside or outside the processor and may exchange data with the processor through various well-known means.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present disclosure may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. The foregoing detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and is to be construed as illustrative in all aspects. The scope of the disclosure should be determined by reasonable interpretation of the appended claims and all modifications within the equivalent scope of the disclosure are included in the scope of the disclosure.

Industrial applicability

Although the scheme of the present disclosure for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system is described with reference to an example applied to a 3GPP LTE/LTE-a system or a 5G system (new RAT system), the scheme may be applied to various wireless communication systems in addition to the 3GPP LTE/LTE-a system or the 5G system.