QUALCOMM Incorporated
Partitioning of downlink feedback indication bits

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications in a shared spectrum are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, via an autonomous uplink (AUL) communication, one or more transport blocks to a base station. Each transport block may include a plurality of code block groups (CBGs). The base station may provide CBG-level feedback to the UE based at least in part on the AUL communication. For example, a downlink feedback indication (DFI) bit sequence may be partitioned to include a first partition comprising AUL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information and a second partition comprising contention window (CW) update information (e.g., for a subsequent AUL clear channel assessment). In some cases, the number of bits in the first partition may be based on a number of AUL HARQ processes of the UE and an AUL HARQ process granularity.