QUALCOMM Incorporated
Downlink demodulation reference signal sharing for short transmission time intervals

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may communicate with a user equipment (UE) during short transmission time intervals (sTTIs). The base station may transmit reference signals in an sTTI for the UE to use to perform channel estimation for demodulating the data received in the sTTI. As described herein, a base station may transmit reference signals in a subset of the sTTIs used for downlink communications with the UE. The UE may receive the reference signals in the subset of the sTTIs and use these reference signals to perform channel estimation for demodulating data received in other sTTIs. In some cases, the UE may use the reference signals in one or more previous sTTIs in combination with the reference signals received in a current sTTI to perform channel estimation for demodulating data received in the current sTTI.