QUALCOMM Incorporated
Rate-matching behavior for overlapping resource block (RB) sets

Abstract:

Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for rate-matching between overlapping resource block (RB) sets within a transmission time interval (TTI). A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying downlink control information (DCI) including a downlink assignment for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) may be received by a user equipment (UE) within the TTI. In some examples, the DCI may be included within control channel elements (CCEs) located within shared resource elements between two overlapping RB sets. If the CCEs forming a decoding candidate over which the DCI may be detected are entirely contained within the shared resource elements, the UE may perform rate-matching around the two overlapping RB sets.