US 11,895,046 B2
Method and apparatus for slot aggregation design in non-terrestrial network communications
Abdelkader Medles, Cambridge (GB); Gilles Charbit, Cambridge (GB); and Chiao Yao Chuang, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed by MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/906,277.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/876,836, filed on Jul. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0028899 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0048 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0446 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. An apparatus, comprising:
a transceiver which, during operation, wirelessly communicates with network nodes of a wireless network; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver such that, during operation, the processor performs operations comprising:
receiving, via the transceiver, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) time bundling configuration used in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications;
determining a duration interval of the DMRS time bundling configuration; and
performing channel estimation cross slots of same aggregated slots transmitted in the NTN communications based on the duration interval,
wherein, in receiving the DMRS time bundling configuration, the processor receives the DMRS time bundling configuration via: an explicit signaling of an NTN transmission configuration.