Patent ID: 11924848
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for explicitly linking repeated physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) by a user equipment (UE):
receiving, at the UE, PDCCHs from a network;
prior to decoding the PDCCHs, identifying PDCCH candidate numbers of the PDCCHs; and
linking, at the UE, two or more of the PDCCHs having common PDCCH candidate numbers as repeated PDCCHs, wherein the common PDCCH candidate numbers are across search space (SS) sets of a control resource set (CORESET), and each of the repeated PDCCHs comprises downlink control information (DCI) that schedules reception of a same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) at the UE,
wherein the repeated PDCCHs are received in accordance with the UE and the network communicating using a multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) repetition scheme or a multi-TRP multi-chance scheme.