US 11,937,241 B2
UCI on grant-free PUSCH
Robert Baldemair, Solna (SE); Ali Behravan, Stockholm (SE); Sorour Falahati, Stockholm (SE); Daniel Larsson, Lund (SE); and Stefan Parkvall, Bromma (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 16/096,471
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Oct. 10, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/057859
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 25, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/073414, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/571,112, filed on Oct. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0235477 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 72/21 (2023.01) [H04L 5/0005 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a wireless device for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) on grant-free resources, the grant-free resources pertaining to Type 1 and Type 2 Uplink (UL) transmission without grant in New Radio (NR), the method comprising:
receiving UCI configuration information from a network node, the UCI configuration information including at least an indication of a subset of time/frequency resources of a grant-free uplink channel to reserve to transmit UCI;
reserving the subset of time/frequency resources of the grant-free uplink channel for transmitting UCI; and
when the wireless device has UCI to transmit on the grant-free uplink channel, transmitting the UCI to a network node in the reserved subset of time/frequency resources.