US 11,716,729 B2
Resource mapping and multiplexing of uplink control channel and uplink data channel
Gang Xiong, Portland, OR (US); and Joonyoung Cho, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/476,040
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 6, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/017114
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 3, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/145115, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 9, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/457,596, filed on Feb. 10, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/455,443, filed on Feb. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0335449 A1, Oct. 31, 2019
Int. Cl. H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/21 (2023.01) [H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, comprising:
one or more processors to:
process a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) within a bandwidth at a start of a slot;
allocate a Guard Period (GP) within the bandwidth and subsequent and adjacent to the PDCCH;
generate a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) within the bandwidth and in one or more Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols including an end OFDM symbol at an end of the slot; and
generate a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) within the bandwidth and in a number of OFDM symbols occupying all OFDM symbols between the GP and the PUCCH at the end of the slot, the PUSCH including the end OFDM symbol at the end of the slot and being time-division multiplexed with the PUCCH and separating the GP from the PUCCH, wherein the GP is adjacent to the PUSCH; and
an interface for receiving the PDCCH from a receiving circuitry and for sending the PUCCH and the PUSCH to a transmission circuitry.