US 12,335,963 B2
Network data scheduling and transmission for reduced capability UEs
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US); Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,492
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/119773
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/067840, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312462 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station of a wireless network, comprising:
a transceiver configured to connect to a plurality of user equipments (UEs); and
a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations comprising:
dividing scheduling information for the UE into a common downlink control information (DCI) portion and a UE-specific DCI portion;
encoding the common DCI portion for transmission on a first physical resource;
encoding the UE-specific DCI portion for transmission on a second physical resource;
transmitting the encoded common DCI portion on the first physical resource, wherein the common DCI portion comprises a Frequency Domain Resource Assignment (FDRA) field; and
transmitting the encoded UE-specific DCI portion on the second physical resource, wherein the encoded UE-specific DCI portion comprises a plurality of blocks, each block comprising scheduling information for a specific one of the plurality of UEs, and wherein the encoded UE-specific DCI portion further comprises a single modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field that is to be applied to each of the plurality of blocks.