US 12,015,506 B2
Base station signaling for enhanced channel estimation for new radio coverage
Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Hauning Niu, 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); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,827
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/117353
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/061635, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0216712 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 25/0228 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0051 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for channel estimation in a wireless system, comprising:
transmitting, to a wireless device, an indication of a physical downlink channel configuration for receiving a physical downlink channel transmission, the physical downlink channel transmission including a demodulation reference signal (DMRS);
receiving, from the wireless device, an indication that the wireless device supports bundling DMRS signals across multiple slots and an indication that the wireless device supports dynamic DMRS reconfiguration;
transmitting, to the wireless device, a DMRS configuration, wherein the DMRS configuration includes a channel estimation bundle window indicating that channel estimation may be performed across multiple slots, and wherein the DMRS configuration further indicates a number of DMRS signals to transmit in at least one of the multiple slots of the channel estimation bundle window;
transmitting, by a wireless node and based on the DMRS configuration, a set of DMRS signals in the channel estimation bundle window, wherein a first DMRS signal of the set of DMRS signals is transmitted in a first slot, and wherein a second DMRS signal of the set of DMRS signals is transmitted in a second slot, and wherein the first DMRS signal and the second DMRS signal are configured for use by the wireless device to estimate a radio channel based on the first DMRS signal and the second DMRS signal, and
transmit a DMRS reconfiguration indication, the DMRS reconfiguration indication changing the number of DMRS signals to transmit in at least one of the multiple slots of the channel estimation bundle window.