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WO2024170476A1
WO2024170476A1 PCT/EP2024/053443 EP2024053443W WO2024170476A1 WO 2024170476 A1 WO2024170476 A1 WO 2024170476A1 EP 2024053443 W EP2024053443 W EP 2024053443W WO 2024170476 A1 WO2024170476 A1 WO 2024170476A1
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  • the present disclosure relates to communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods of operating communications devices and infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network.
  • Previous generation mobile telecommunication systems such as those based on the 3GPP defined UMTS and Long Term Evolution (LTE) architecture, are able to support a wider range of services than simple voice and messaging services offered by previous generations of mobile telecommunication systems.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • a user is able to enjoy high data rate applications such as mobile video streaming and mobile video conferencing that would previously only have been available via a fixed line data connection.
  • the demand to deploy such networks is therefore strong and the coverage area of these networks, i.e. geographic locations where access to the networks is possible, is expected to continue to increase rapidly.
  • Current and future wireless communications networks are expected to routinely and efficiently support communications with an ever-increasing range of devices associated with a wider range of data traffic profiles and types than existing systems are optimised to support.
  • it is expected future wireless communications networks will be expected to efficiently support communications with devices including reduced complexity devices, machine type communication (MTC) devices, high resolution video displays, virtual reality headsets, extended Reality (XR) and so on.
  • MTC machine type communication
  • XR extended Reality
  • Some of these different types of devices may be deployed in very large numbers, for example low complexity devices for supporting the “The Internet of Things”, and may typically be associated with the transmissions of relatively small amounts of data with relatively high latency tolerance.
  • Other types of device for example supporting high- definition video streaming, may be associated with transmissions of relatively large amounts of data with relatively low latency tolerance.
  • Other types of device may be characterised by data that should be transmitted through the network with low latency and high reliability.
  • a single device type might also be associated with different traffic profiles I characteristics depending on the application(s) it is running. For example, different consideration may apply for efficiently supporting data exchange with a smartphone when it is running a video streaming application (high downlink data) as compared to when it is running an Internet browsing application (sporadic uplink and downlink data) or being used for voice communications by an emergency responder in an emergency scenario (data subject to stringent reliability and latency requirements).
  • Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications URLLC
  • eMBB enhanced Mobile Broadband
  • 5G NR has continuously evolved and the current work plan includes 5G-NR-advanced in which some further enhancements are expected, especially to support new use- cases/scenarios with higher requirements.
  • the desire to support these new use-cases and scenarios gives rise to new challenges for efficiently handling communications in wireless communications systems that need to be addressed.
  • the present disclosure can help address or mitigate at least some of the issues discussed above.
  • Embodiments of the present technique can provide a method of communicating, by a communications device, via a wireless communications network, the method comprising, receiving, by the communications device, from an infrastructure equipment forming part of the wireless communications network, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and transmitting, by the communications device, an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment.
  • a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein information on the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • the information on the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment could be a downlink timing offset or a number of OFDM symbols from which the communications device can determine the alignment offset.
  • an alignment offset which is applied to the transmission of uplink signals by a communications device has an effect of advancing this transmission such that one or more OFDM symbols of the uplink transmitted signals substantially align with OFDM symbols of potential cross-link interfering signals, at a receiving infrastructure equipment with the effect that orthogonality exists between the uplink transmitted signals and the cross-link interfering signals.
  • Figure 1 schematically represents some aspects of an LTE-type wireless telecommunication system which may be configured to operate in accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 2 schematically represents some aspects of a new radio access technology (RAT) wireless telecommunications system which may be configured to operate in accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure
  • RAT radio access technology
  • Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of an example infrastructure equipment and communications device which may be configured to operate in accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure
  • Figure 4 schematically illustrates an example of inter-cell cross link interference
  • Figure 5 illustrates an example approach for accounting for inter-cell cross link interference
  • Figure 6 illustrates an example of a subband FD-TDD configuration with three subbands
  • Figure 7 illustrates an example of a subband FD-TDD configuration with two subbands
  • Figure 8 illustrates an example of inter sub-band interference
  • Figure 9 schematically illustrates an example of intra-cell cross link interference
  • Figure 10 illustrates an example of intra sub-band interference
  • Figure 11 illustrates an example of a gNB scheduling uplink and downlink communications with a UE, and illustrating switching time between reception and transmission;
  • Figure 12 illustrates an example of intra-subband self-interference at a gNB when scheduling uplink transmission from one UE and a downlink transmission to another UE;
  • Figure 13 illustrates an example of inter-gNB CLI and misalignment of cyclic prefixes of the transmissions;
  • Figure 14 illustrates a proposal to address intra-gNB self-interference
  • Figure 15 illustrates a proposal to address intra-gNB self-interference
  • Figure 16 illustrates a proposal containing several timing offsets for addressing inter-gNB interference at different distances
  • Figure 17 illustrates an example of UL and DL collision at the gNB, where a UE and/or a gNB is provided insufficient time to switch reception to transmission or vice versa;
  • Figure 18 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention, where a timing offset is applied to the scheduling of uplink and inter-gNB interference addressed;
  • Figure 19 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention, where the timing offset is applied to SBFD communications at a gNB.
  • Figure 1 provides a schematic diagram illustrating some basic functionality of a mobile telecommunications network / system 6 operating generally in accordance with LTE principles, but which may also support other radio access technologies, and which may be adapted to implement embodiments of the disclosure as described herein.
  • Various elements of Figure 1 and certain aspects of their respective modes of operation are well-known and defined in the relevant standards administered by the 3GPP (RTM) body, and also described in many books on the subject, for example, Holma H.
  • the network 6 includes a plurality of base stations 1 connected to a core network 2. Each base station provides a coverage area 3 (i.e. a cell) within which data can be communicated to and from communications devices 4. Although each base station 1 is shown in Figure 1 as a single entity, the skilled person will appreciate that some of the functions of the base station may be carried out by disparate, inter-connected elements, such as antennas (or antennae), remote radio heads, amplifiers, etc. Collectively, one or more base stations may form a radio access network.
  • Data is transmitted from base stations 1 to communications devices 4 within their respective coverage areas 3 via a radio downlink.
  • Data is transmitted from communications devices 4 to the base stations 1 via a radio uplink.
  • the core network 2 routes data to and from the communications devices 4 via the respective base stations 1 and provides functions such as authentication, mobility management, charging and so on.
  • Terminal devices may also be referred to as mobile stations, user equipment (UE), user terminal, mobile radio, communications device, and so forth.
  • Services provided by the core network 2 may include connectivity to the internet or to external telephony services.
  • the core network 2 may further track the location of the communications devices 4 so that it can efficiently contact (i.e. page) the communications devices 4 for transmitting downlink data towards the communications devices 4.
  • Base stations which are an example of network infrastructure equipment, may also be referred to as transceiver stations, nodeBs, e-nodeBs, eNB, g-nodeBs, gNB and so forth.
  • nodeBs nodeBs
  • e-nodeBs nodeBs
  • eNB nodeB
  • g-nodeBs gNodeBs
  • Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services are characterised by high capacity with a requirement to support up to 20 Gb/s.
  • eMBB Enhanced Mobile Broadband
  • the requirements for Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) services are for one transmission of a 32 byte packet to be transmitted from the radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU ingress point to the radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU egress point of the radio interface within 1 ms with a reliability of 1 - 10’ 5 (99.999 %) or higher (99.9999%) [2],
  • Massive Machine Type Communications is another example of a service which may be supported by NR-based communications networks.
  • systems may be expected to support further enhancements related to Industrial Internet of Things (lloT) in order to support services with new requirements of high availability, high reliability, low latency, and in some cases, high-accuracy positioning.
  • lloT Industrial Internet of Things
  • FIG. 2 An example configuration of a wireless communications network which uses some of the terminology proposed for and used in NR and 5G is shown in Figure 2.
  • a plurality of transmission and reception points (TRPs) 10 are connected to distributed control units (DUs) 41 , 42 by a connection interface represented as a line 16.
  • Each of the TRPs 10 is arranged to transmit and receive signals via a wireless access interface within a radio frequency bandwidth available to the wireless communications network.
  • DUs distributed control units
  • DUs distributed control units
  • Each of the distributed units 41 , 42 are connected to a central unit (CU) 40 (which may be referred to as a controlling node) via an interface 46.
  • the central unit 40 is then connected to the core network 20 which may contain all other functions required to transmit data for communicating to and from the wireless communications devices and the core network 20 may be connected to other networks 30.
  • the elements of the wireless access network shown in Figure 2 may operate in a similar way to corresponding elements of an LTE network as described with regard to the example of Figure 1. It will be appreciated that operational aspects of the telecommunications network represented in Figure 2, and of other networks discussed herein in accordance with embodiments of the disclosure, which are not specifically described (for example in relation to specific communication protocols and physical channels for communicating between different elements) may be implemented in accordance with any known techniques, for example according to currently used approaches for implementing such operational aspects of wireless telecommunications systems, e.g. in accordance with the relevant standards.
  • the TRPs 10 of Figure 2 may in part have a corresponding functionality to a base station or eNodeB of an LTE network.
  • the communications devices 14 may have a functionality corresponding to the UE devices 4 known for operation with an LTE network.
  • operational aspects of a new RAT network may be different to those known from LTE or other known mobile telecommunications standards.
  • each of the core network component, base stations and communications devices of a new RAT network will be functionally similar to, respectively, the core network component, base stations and communications devices of an LTE wireless communications network.
  • the core network 20 connected to the new RAT telecommunications system represented in Figure 2 may be broadly considered to correspond with the core network 2 represented in Figure 1
  • the respective central units 40 and their associated distributed units I TRPs 10 may be broadly considered to provide functionality corresponding to the base stations 1 of Figure 1.
  • the term network infrastructure equipment I access node may be used to encompass these elements and more conventional base station type elements of wireless telecommunications systems.
  • the responsibility for scheduling transmissions which are scheduled on the radio interface between the respective distributed units and the communications devices may lie with the controlling node I central unit and I or the distributed units I TRPs.
  • a communications device 14 is represented in Figure 2 within the coverage area of the first communication cell 12. This communications device 14 may thus exchange signalling with the first central unit 40 in the first communication cell 12 via one of the distributed units I TRPs 10 associated with the first communication cell 12.
  • Figure 2 represents merely one example of a proposed architecture for a new RAT based telecommunications system in which approaches in accordance with the principles described herein may be adopted, and the functionality disclosed herein may also be applied in respect of wireless telecommunications systems having different architectures.
  • certain embodiments of the disclosure as discussed herein may be implemented in wireless telecommunication systems I networks according to various different architectures, such as the example architectures shown in Figures 1 and 2. It will thus be appreciated the specific wireless telecommunications architecture in any given implementation is not of primary significance to the principles described herein. In this regard, certain embodiments of the disclosure may be described generally in the context of communications between network infrastructure equipment I access nodes and a communications device, wherein the specific nature of the network infrastructure equipment I access node and the communications device will depend on the network infrastructure for the implementation at hand.
  • the network infrastructure equipment I access node may comprise a base station, such as an LTE-type base station 1 as shown in Figure 1 which is adapted to provide functionality in accordance with the principles described herein, and in other examples the network infrastructure equipment may comprise a control unit I controlling node 40 and / or a TRP 10 of the kind shown in Figure 2 which is adapted to provide functionality in accordance with the principles described herein.
  • a base station such as an LTE-type base station 1 as shown in Figure 1 which is adapted to provide functionality in accordance with the principles described herein
  • the network infrastructure equipment may comprise a control unit I controlling node 40 and / or a TRP 10 of the kind shown in Figure 2 which is adapted to provide functionality in accordance with the principles described herein.
  • a TRP 10 as shown in Figure 2 comprises, as a simplified representation, a wireless transmitter 30, a wireless receiver 32 and a controller or controlling processor 34 which may operate to control the transmitter 30 and the wireless receiver 32 to transmit and receive radio signals to one or more UEs 14 within a cell 12 formed by the TRP 10.
  • an example UE 14 is shown to include a corresponding transmitter 49, a receiver 48 and a controller 44 which is configured to control the transmitter 49 and the receiver 48 to transmit signals representing uplink data to the wireless communications network via the wireless access interface formed by the TRP 10 and to receive downlink data as signals transmitted by the transmitter 30 and received by the receiver 48 in accordance with the conventional operation.
  • the transmitters 30, 49 and the receivers 32, 48 may include radio frequency filters and amplifiers as well as signal processing components and devices in order to transmit and receive radio signals in accordance for example with the 5G/NR standard.
  • the controllers 34, 44 (as well as other controllers described in relation to examples and embodiments of the present disclosure) may be, for example, a microprocessor, a CPU, or a dedicated chipset, etc., configured to carry out instructions which are stored on a computer readable medium, such as a non-volatile memory.
  • the processing steps described herein may be carried out by, for example, a microprocessor in conjunction with a random access memory, operating according to instructions stored on a computer readable medium.
  • the transmitters, the receivers and the controllers are schematically shown in Figure 3 as separate elements for ease of representation. However, it will be appreciated that the functionality of these elements can be provided in various different ways, for example using one or more suitably programmed programmable computer(s), or one or more suitably configured application-specific integrated circuit(s) I circuitry I chip(s) I chipset(s).
  • the infrastructure equipment I TRP I base station as well as the UE I communications device will in general comprise various other elements associated with its operating functionality.
  • the TRP 10 also includes a network interface 50 which connects to the DU 42 via a physical interface 16.
  • the network interface 50 therefore provides a communication link for data and signalling traffic from the TRP 10 via the DU 42 and the CU 40 to the core network 20.
  • the interface 46 between the DU 42 and the CU 40 is known as the F1 interface which can be a physical or a logical interface.
  • the F1 interface 46 between CU and DU may operate in accordance with specifications 3GPP TS 38.470 and 3GPP TS 38.473, and may be formed from a fibre optic or other wired or wireless high bandwidth connection.
  • the connection 16 from the TRP 10 to the DU 42 is via fibre optic.
  • the connection between a TRP 10 and the core network 20 can be generally referred to as a backhaul, which comprises the interface 16 from the network interface 50 of the TRP 10 to the DU 42 and the F1 interface 46 from the DU 42 to the CU 40.
  • NR/5G networks can operate using Time Division Duplex (TDD), where an entire frequency band or carrier is switched to either downlink or uplink transmissions for a time period and can be switched to the other of downlink or uplink transmissions at a later time period.
  • TDD operates in Half Duplex mode (HD-TDD) where the gNB or UE can, at a given time, either transmit or receive packets, but not both at the same time.
  • HD-TDD Half Duplex mode
  • a proposed new feature of such networks is to enhance duplexing operation for Time Division Multiplexing (TDD) by enabling Full Duplex operation in TDD (FD-TDD) [3], [4],
  • a gNB can transmit and receive data to and from the UEs at the same time on the same frequency band.
  • a UE can operate either in HD-TDD or FD-TDD mode, depending on its capability. For example, when UEs are only capable of supporting HD-TDD, FD-TDD is achieved at the gNB by scheduling a DL transmission to a first UE and scheduling an UL transmission from a second UE within the same orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol (i.e. at the same time).
  • OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • FD-TDD may be achieved both at the gNB and the UE, where the gNB can simultaneously schedule this UE with DL and UL transmissions within the same OFDM symbol by scheduling the DL and UL transmissions at different frequencies (e.g. physical resource blocks (PRBs)) of the system bandwidth.
  • PRBs physical resource blocks
  • a UE supporting FD-TDD requires more complex hardware than a UE that only supports HD-TDD.
  • Development of current 5G networks is focused primarily on enabling FD-TDD at the gNB with UEs operating in HD-TDD mode.
  • a gNB or UE is allowed to transmit and receive data at the same time (as with FD-TDD), the traffic latency will be improved.
  • UEs are usually coverage limited in the UL transmissions when located close to the edge of a cell. While the UE coverage at the cell-edge can be improved if more time domain resources are assigned to UL transmissions (e.g. repetitions), if the UL direction is assigned more time resources, fewer time resources can be assigned to the DL direction, which can lead to system imbalance. Enabling FD-TDD would help allow a UE to be assigned more UL time resources when required, without sacrificing DL time resources.
  • a slot format (i.e. the allocation of DL and UL OFDM symbols in a slot) can be semi-statically or dynamically configured, where each OFDM symbol (OS) in a slot can be configured as Downlink (DL), Uplink (UL) or Flexible (F).
  • An OFDM symbol that is semi- statically configured to be Flexible can be indicated dynamically as DL, UL or remain as Flexible by a Dynamic Slot Format Indicator (SFI), which is transmitted in a Group Common (GO) DCI using DCI Format 2_0, where the CRC of the GC-DCI is masked with SFI-RNTI.
  • SFI Dynamic Slot Format Indicator
  • Flexible OFDM Symbols that remain Flexible after instruction from the SFI can be changed to a DL symbol or an UL symbol by a DL Grant or a UL Grant respectively. That is, a DL Grant scheduling a PDSCH that overlaps Flexible OFDM Symbols would convert these Flexible OFDM Symbols to DL and similarly an UL Grant scheduling a PUSCH that overlaps Flexible OFDM Symbols would convert these Flexible OFDM Symbols to UL.
  • each gNB in a network can independently change the configuration of each OFDM symbol, either semi-statically or dynamically, it is possible that in a particular OFDM symbol, one gNB is configured for UL and a neighbour gNB is configured for DL.
  • This causes intercell Cross Link Interference (CLI) among the conflicting gNBs (due to the UL/DL symbol clash for one or more symbols).
  • Inter-cell CLI occurs when a UE’s UL transmission interferes with a DL reception by another UE in another cell, or when a gNB’s DL transmission interferes with an UL reception by another gNB. That is, inter-cell CLI is caused by non-aligned (conflicting) slot formats among neighbouring cells.
  • FIG. 4 An example is shown in Figure 4, where gNB1 411 and gNB2 412 have synchronised slots.
  • gNBTs 411 slot format ⁇ D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, U, U, U ⁇
  • gNB2’s 412 slot format ⁇ D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, U, U, U ⁇ , where ‘D’ indicates DL and ‘U’ indicates UL.
  • Inter-cell CLI occurs during an 11 th OFDM symbol, OS, of a slot, where gNB1 411 is performing UL whilst gNB2 412 is performing DL.
  • inter-cell CLI 441 occurs between gNB1 411 and gNB2 412, where gNB2’s 412 DL transmission 431 interferes with gNBTs 411 UL reception 432.
  • CLI 442 also occurs between UE1 421 and UE2 422, where UETs 421 UL transmission 432 interferes with UE2’s 422 DL reception 431.
  • the transmitting entity may be referred to as an aggressor entity and the receiving entity as the victim entity.
  • gNB1 411 and UE2 422 are receiving in the 11 th OS where interference is caused, and so they would be the victim gNB and victim UE, whereas gNB2 412 and UE1 421 are the transmitting entities, so they may be known as the aggressor gNB and the aggressor UE.
  • Two CLI measurement reports to manage and coordinate the scheduling among neighbouring gNBs include: sounding reference signal (SRS) reference signal received power (RSRP) and CLI received signal strength indicator (RSSI).
  • SRS-RSRP sounding reference signal
  • RSRP reference signal received power
  • RSSI CLI received signal strength indicator
  • SRS-RSRP a linear average of the power contribution of an SRS transmitted by a UE is measured by a UE in a neighbour cell. This is measured over the configured resource elements within the considered measurement frequency bandwidth, in the time resources in the configured measurement occasions.
  • CLI-RSSI a linear average of the total received power observed is measured only at certain OFDM symbols of the measurement time resource(s), in the measurement bandwidth, over the configured resource elements for measurement by a UE.
  • Both SRS-RSRP and CLI-RSSI are RRC measurements and are performed by a UE, for use in mitigating against UE to UE inter-cell CLI.
  • an aggressor UE i.e. a UE whose UL transmissions cause interference at another UE in a neighbouring cell
  • a victim UE i.e. a UE that experiences interference due to an UL transmission from the UE in the neighbouring cell
  • a neighbour cell would be configured with a measurement configuration including the aggressor UE’s SRS parameters, in order to allow the interference from the aggressor UE to be measured.
  • FIG. 5 An example is shown in Figure 5 where, at a particular slot, the 11 th OS (OFDM symbol) of gNB1 511 and gNB2 512 causes inter-cell CLI.
  • gNB1 511 has configured UE1 521
  • the aggressor UE to transmit an SRS 540
  • gNB2 512 has configured UE2 522, the victim UE, to measure that SRS 540.
  • UE2 522 is provided with UE1’s 521 SRS configured parameters, e.g. RS sequence used, frequency resource, frequency transmission comb structure and time resources, so that UE2 522 can measure the SRS 540.
  • a UE can be configured to monitor 32 different SRSs, at a maximum rate of 8 SRSs per slot.
  • the UE measures the total received power, i.e. signal and interference, following a configured periodicity, start and end OFDM symbols of a slot, and a set of frequency Resource Blocks (RBs). Since SRS-RSRP measures a transmission by a specific UE, the network can target a specific aggressor UE to reduce its transmission power and in some cases not schedule the aggressor UE at the same time as a victim UE that reports a high SRS-RSRP measurement. In contrast, CLI-RSSI cannot be used to identify a specific aggressor UE’s transmission, but CLI-RSSI does provide an overall estimate of the inter-cell CLI experienced by the victim UE.
  • SRS-RSRP measures a transmission by a specific UE
  • RBs frequency Resource Blocks
  • SBFD Subband Full Duplex
  • Subband Full Duplex is an object of current research [5], and being considered in the Rel-18 Duplex Evolution Study Item.
  • SBFD the frequency resource at the UE/gNB of a TDD system bandwidth or Bandwidth Part (BWP) within a carrier is divided into multiple subbands, where any one particular subband can be used for DL and UL at different times, and different subbands may be scheduled for UL or DL simultaneously [5], Guard subbands may be used between DL and UL subbands to reduce inter subband interference.
  • BWP Bandwidth Part
  • FIG. 6 An example configuration is shown in Figure 6, where a TDD system bandwidth is divided into three non-overlapping subbands by frequency where Subband#1 606 and Subband#3 602 are used for DL transmissions and Subband#2 604 is used for UL transmission.
  • guard subbands 608 and 610 are added between the DL and UL subbands.
  • Rel-18 is limited to three non-overlapping subbands any number of subbands may be used in other releases or different configurations.
  • four subbands could be used, where, for instance, two down and two uplink bands could be interspersed in the frequency dimension, with guard bands between the transmission subbands.
  • Example configurations with two subbands are shown in Figure 7, where on the left-hand side, the UL subband is at the lower portion of the bandwidth, Subband#1 702, whilst the DL subband, Subband#2 704 is at the upper portion of the bandwidth. As in the previous figure, a guard subband 706 is present between the other two subbands. In the right-hand side of Figure 7, the DL subband, Subband#1 712, and the UL subband, Subband#2 708, are at the lower and upper portion of the bandwidth respectively. Again, a guard subband 710 is inserted between the subbands.
  • CLI Inter-cell Cross Link Interference
  • SBFD also suffers from inter (and intra) subband interferences, which may be caused by transmission leakage and receiver selectivity as shown in Figure 8.
  • a transmission is typically scheduled within a specific frequency channel (or subband) i.e. a specific set of resource blocks RBs
  • transmission power can leak out to other channels. This occurs due to the channel filters not being perfect and the roll-off of the filter causing power to leak into channels adjacent to the intended specific frequency channel.
  • channel the term “subband” such as the subbands shown in Figures 6 and 7, may be used instead.
  • transmission from one subband leaks into the reception of another subband, and reception in one subband selects transmission in another subband (i.e. the receiver inadvertently receives some signal from an adjacent subband).
  • the wanted transmission (Tx) power is the transmission power in the selected frequency band (i.e. the aggressor channel 810). Due to roll-off of the transmission filter and nonlinearities in components of the transmitter, some transmission power is leaked into adjacent channels (including an adjacent victim channel 820), as shown in Figure 8. The leakage power 851 will cause interference at a receiver that is receiving the signal in the adjacent channels 820.
  • a receiver’s filter is also not perfect and will receive unwanted power from adjacent channels due to its own filter roll-off.
  • An example of filter roll-off at a receiver is shown by receiver selectivity 852 of Figure 8.
  • a receiver is configured to receive transmissions in an assigned channel 820.
  • the imperfect nature of the receiver filter means that some transmission power 852 can be received in adjacent channels 810. Therefore, if a signal is transmitted on an adjacent channel, such as 810 by the aggressor transmitter, the receiver will inadvertently receive the adjacent signal in the adjacent channel 810, to an extent.
  • an aggressor for example a gNB such as gNB2 412, transmits a signal 810 in an adjacent channel at a lower frequency than the frequency of the receiving channel 820 of the victim, such as gNB1 411.
  • the interference 850 caused by the aggressor’s transmission includes the includes the Adjacent Channel Leakage, ACL, 851 caused by the aggressor’s transmitting filter and the Adjacent Channel Selectivity, ACS, 852 caused by the victim’s receiving filter.
  • One of the causes of this interference is the imperfect functioning of the aggressor’s, and victim’s, filters.
  • the receiver will experience interference 850 in the adjacent channel interference, ACI, frequency range shown in Figure 8.
  • Inter subband interference causes intra-cell Cross Link Interference, CLI, at the gNB and at the UE.
  • CLI Cross Link Interference
  • gNB1 910 is capable of FD-TDD and is simultaneously receiving an UL transmission 931 from UE1 921 and transmitting a DL transmission 942 to UE2 922.
  • intra-cell CLI is caused by the DL transmission 942 in a DL subband at the gNB’s 910 transmitter self-interfering 941 with its own receiver that is trying to decode UL signals 931 in an adjacent UL subband.
  • intra-cell CLI is caused by an aggressor UE, e.g. UE1 921 transmitting UL signals 931 in an UL subband whilst a victim UE, e.g. UE2 922, is receiving a DL signal 942 in an adjacent DL subband.
  • the intra-cell CLI at the gNB due to self-interference is very significant as the difference in power between the DL transmission and the UL reception can be over 100 dB.
  • Complex radio frequency, RF, hardware and interference cancellation are required to isolate this selfinterference.
  • guard subbands may be inserted between two subbands of different link directions as shown in Figures 6 and 7.
  • Intra subband interference can occur if the subband configurations among gNBs in the frequency domain are not aligned.
  • CLI may occur in the overlapping frequencies of intercell sub-bands.
  • An example is shown Figure 10, where gNBTs 1011 system bandwidth is divided into UL subband UL-SB#1 1052 occupying f 0 to f2 and DL subband DL-SB#1 1051 occupying f2 to fs, whilst gNB2’s 1012 system bandwidth is divided into UL subband UL-SB#2 1054 occupying f 0 to fi and DL subband DL-SB#2 1053 occupying fi to fs.
  • the non-aligned subband configurations cause UL-SB#1 1052 to overlap with DL-SB#2 1053 thereby causing intra subband CLI within the overlapping frequencies fi to f2.
  • intra subband CLI from gNB2’s 1012 DL transmission 1032 within fi to f2 in DL-SB#2 1053 interfering with gNBTs 1011 reception of UL signals 1031 within fi to f2 in UL-SB#1 1052, and UETs 1021 UL transmission 1031 within fi to f2 interfering with UE2’s 1022 DL reception 1032 within fi to f2 in DL-SB#2 1053.
  • intra subband interference at the gNB side and the UE side of the interaction.
  • a switching time NTX-RX For a half duplex UE that cannot receive and transmit at the same time, transmission and reception need to be separated by an amount of time referred to as a switching time NTX-RX, between an end of an UL transmission and a start of a DL reception, in order to switch from an UL transmission to a DL reception.
  • the value of NTX-RX is set as 13 ps or 7 ps for FR1 and FR2 respectively.
  • the UE may perform a timing advance of NTA, to compensate for a propagation delay between a gNB and the UE, which would lead to an UL transmission ending NTA earlier, thereby creating a time gap at the end of UL and start of the next DL transmissions.
  • the NTA is 3.3 ps to 6.6 ps, which is a fraction of NTX-RX, and so NTA alone would not provide sufficient time for the UE to switch from UL to DL.
  • the UL to DL switching time NTX-RX can be provided by a common timing advance offset NTA, offset which is indicated in the SIB and can be configured to ⁇ 0, 13, 20 ⁇ ps.
  • NTA timing advance offset
  • TTA NTA + NTA, offset.
  • This provides at least NTx-Rx time gap 1160 at the UE 1121 between the end of PUSCH 1131 at time te and the start of the PDSCH 1132 at time ts, for the UE 1121 to perform UL to DL switching.
  • Figure 12 shows a depiction of the scheduling for communication in a network such as shown in Figure 9, and the right-hand-side shows an expanded view of a slot boundary, showing misalignment of OFDM symbols in the UL and DL directions.
  • the gNB 1211 transmits a PDSCH 1232 to UE2, which is not OFDM symbol aligned with the received PUSCH 1231 from UE1 1221.
  • FIG. 12 The right-hand-side of Figure 12 shows the first two OFDM symbols of the PUSCH 1231 from UE1 1221 and the 1st OFDM symbol of the PDSCH 1232 for UE2, where here we assume a 60 kHz subcarrier spacing. Due to the common timing advance NTA, offset, PUSCH 1231 from UE1 1221 and PDSCH 1232 for UE2 are not within each other’s cyclic prefix, which results in a loss of orthogonality between them making it difficult for the gNB’s 1211 receiver to remove the inter subband self-interference of the PDSCH 1232 from the received PUSCH 1231.
  • NTA offset is not an issue since it is a common timing advance offset and UL transmissions occur in UL only OFDM symbols (i.e. no self interference caused by DL transmission at the gNB), and so all UEs’ transmissions would arrive at the gNB that is NTA, offset from the start of the scheduled slot or OFDM symbols and they would all be aligned, i.e. their transmissions are within the cyclic prefix.
  • the introduction of SBFD in a slot thereby causes this misalignment.
  • the timing advance detailed above therefore also plays the role of introducing interference to a gNB or UE operating in a FD-TDD mode, or rather increasing the efforts that may be required to be taken to combat interference for the same reduction in interference, since there is in this example a loss of orthogonality.
  • the common timing advance offset NTA may also cause misalignment issues due to inter gNB CLI at a victim gNB receiver, between UL reception and CLI caused by an aggressor gNB’s DL transmissions in dynamic/flexible TDD [7], This is caused by the early arrival of UL transmissions from UEs at the victim gNB’s receiver, which are misaligned at the OFDM symbol level with DL CLI from an aggressor gN B’s DL transmission.
  • Figure 13 depicts the scheduling of a FD-TDD gNB in a synchronised network with one other gNB and a UE, and an expanded view of the start of a second slot where misalignment of a DL transmission from the other gNB and an UL transmission from the UE may be seen.
  • FIG. 13 An example of this inter-cell interference is shown in Figure 13, where gNB1 1311 and gNB2 1312 are operating dynamic/flexible TDD in a synchronised network, i.e., their slots start at the same time.
  • gNB1 1311 transmits an UL Grant 1301 to UE1 1321 scheduling a PUSCH 1331 to start at the beginning of Slot n+1 1341.
  • gNB1 1311 is operating in the UL whilst gNB2 1312 is operating in the DL, causing CLI where gNB1 1311 is the victim gNB and gNB2 1312 is the aggressor gNB.
  • gNB2 1312 transmits a PDSCH 1332 to one of its UEs and that transmission reaches gNBTs 1311 receiver at time t?, after propagation delay of TgNB-gNB, i.e., it arrives at gNB1 1311 after the start of Slot n+1 1341 at gNBI 1311.
  • the PDSCH 1332 from gNB2 1312 causes CLI to gNBTs 1311 reception of the PUSCH 1331 from UE1 1321.
  • FIG. 13 shows the first two OFDM symbols of the PUSCH 1331 , where here the PUSCH 1331 and the interfering PDSCH 1332 are misaligned by NTA, offset + TgNB-gNB, which may also lead to misalignment of their cyclic prefixes, i.e, their cyclic prefixes do not overlap, and as a result have lost their orthogonality.
  • the orthogonality between the PUSCH 1331 signal and the PDSCH interferer 1332 may make it difficult for the victim gNB1 1311 to perform interference cancellation of the PDSCH 1332.
  • TTA NTA
  • the approach of the prior art is to reduce the timing advance applied to the transmission, so that the orthogonality of the transmissions can be maintained. This would not cause the UL reception and DL transmission to lose orthogonality at the gNB, and thus the interference of the DL transmission could be mitigated.
  • FIG. 14 An example is shown in Figure 14, where a slot pattern with 1 DL slot (Slot n) 1440, 3 SBFD slots (Slot n+1 , n+2 and n+3) 1441 , 1442, 1443, and 1 UL slot (Slot n+4) 1444 are repeated.
  • the gNB 1411 transmits an UL Grant 1401 to UE1 1421 to schedule PUSCH#1 1431 to start at Slot n+1 1441. Due to propagation delay T 9 NB-UE, the UL Grant 1403 arrives at UE1 1421 at time ti.
  • the gNB 1411 schedules PDSCH#1 1432 to UE2 at the start of Slot n+1 1441 and here PUSCH#1 1431 and PDSCH#1 1432 are aligned thereby maintaining their orthogonality.
  • PUSCH#1 1531 was time advanced by only NTA, i.e. ending at time ts at UE1 1521 , it does not provide sufficient time for it to switch from UL to DL in order to receive the UL Grant 1508 at time t?, that is, the time between the start of the UL Grant 1508 at time t? and the end of PUSCH#1 1531 at time ts is less than the required UL to DL switching time NTX-RX.
  • UE1 is also scheduled PDSCH#2 1536 at the 7 th OFDM symbol of Slot n+3 1543, where PDSCH#2 1536 may be a semi-persistent transmission, i.e., an SPS PDSCH that occurs periodically.
  • the time gap between the end of PUSCH#2 1535 transmission at time tn and the start of PDSCH#2 1536 at time ti2 is approximate NTA which is less than the required NTX-RX time gap required for UL to DL switching.
  • the method in [6] which uses separate common TA offsets for SBFD and non-SBFD slots may not provide sufficient time gap between UL transmission and DL reception between two SBFD slots or within a single SBFD slot.
  • NTA offset to be set to 0 or negative values, i.e. NTA, offset s 0 to align UL transmissions with DL interference from aggressor gNB in dynamic/flexible TDD operations.
  • NTA, offset ⁇ 0 can be used to align with DL interference from an aggressor gNB that is further in distance from the victim gNB.
  • FIG. 16 An example is shown in Figure 16, where gNB1 1611 is the victim and gNB2 1612 and gNB3 1613 are the aggressors and in a particular slot, gNB1 1611 is receiving in the UL whilst gNB2 1612 and gNB3 1613 are transmitting in the DL.
  • is offset from the UL slot boundary, gNB1 1611 can use NTA, offset 0 so that UETs 1621 PLISCH 1631 arrives at the UL slot boundary of gNB1 1611 , where their cyclic prefix overlaps as shown in the left hand side of Figure 16.
  • gNB1 1611 can configure NTA, offset ⁇ 0 so that UETs 1621 PUSCH 1634 arrives later in the UL slot, where its cyclic prefix overlaps with the cyclic prefix of the DL interference from gNB3 1613 as shown in the right hand side of Figure 16.
  • FIG. 17 An example of this collision is shown in Figure 17, where in Slot n+1 1741 , gNB1 1711 is operating in the UL and gNB3 1713 is operating in the DL, i.e., gNB3 1713 is the aggressor and gNB1 1711 is the victim.
  • gNB3 1713 is the aggressor
  • gNB1 1711 is the victim.
  • gNB1 1711 transmits an UL Grant 1701 to UE1 1721 at time to, to schedule a PUSCH 1731 at the start of Slot n+1 1741.
  • gNB1 1711 transmits a DL Grant 1735 to UE1 1721 and here the DL Grant transmission 1735 overlaps with the last OFDM symbol reception of the PUSCH 1731 causing self-interference, i.e., the DL Grant 1735 interferes with the PUSCH 1731 at gNBTs 1711 receiver.
  • a gNB operating dynamic/flexible TDD may not implement SBFD and therefore may not be able to mitigate against inter subband self-interference.
  • the time period between the end of the PUSCH 1731 transmission at time ts and the start of the DL Grant 1736 at time t?, is significantly less than the required UL to DL switching time NTX-RX.
  • a technical problem to address is how to enable UL reception at the gNB to align with DL transmission from the gNB in SBFD operation and/or DL interference from an aggressor gNB in dynamic/flexible TDD operation but still provide sufficient time gap for UL to DL switching.
  • An embodiment of the present technique provides a method of communicating, by a communications device, via a wireless communications network, the method comprising, receiving, by the communications device, from an infrastructure equipment forming part of the wireless communications network, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and transmitting, by the communications device, an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment.
  • a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • the value of TUL is selected such that the UL transmission arrives at the gNB within the cyclic prefix of the DL interferer, thereby maintaining the orthogonality between the UL transmission and the DL interferer, and at the same time provide at least NTX-RX time gap at the UE, between the end of the UL transmission and the start of a DL reception.
  • the alignment offset TUL may be a function of the DL interferer time offset TDL, offset, relative to the victim gNB’s OFDM symbol. This recognizes that the aim of TUL is to align with the DL interferer at the gNB’s receiver and hence the amount of additional timing advance used should take TDL, offset into account.
  • TDL, offset 0
  • the alignment offset TUL takes the common TA offset NTA, offset into account. This embodiment is to ensure that TUL provides at least NTA, offset time gap at the UE between the end of the UL transmission and the start of a DL reception for UL to DL switching.
  • the time alignment offset TUL moves the UL transmission earlier by one or more OFDM symbols at the victim gNB, i.e. , earlier by NOFDM OFDM symbols, and then forward by an amount proportional to the time offset between the DL interferer and OFDM symbol boundary of the victim gNB.
  • the time alignment offset TUL aligns the 2 nd or later OFDM symbol of an UL transmission with the 1 st OFDM symbol of the DL interferer at the gNB’s receiver. This recognizes that to maintain orthogonality between the UL transmission and the DL interferer at the gNB, it is not necessary to align the 1 st OFDM symbol of the UL transmission with the 1 st OFDM symbol of the DL interferer, but instead any OFDM symbol of the UL transmission can be aligned with the 1 st OFDM symbol of the DL interferer is sufficient to maintain orthogonality.
  • TUL (NOFDM X TOFDM) — NTA, offset — TDL, offset, where NOFDM is the number of OFDM symbols, TOFDM is the duration of an OFDM symbol and TDL, offset is the time offset between the DL interferer and the boundary of the OFDM symbol where the DL interferer arrives at the victim gNB. That is, the NOFDM X TOFDM is the said one or more OFDM symbols and TDL, offset is the time offset, i.e. time delay of the DL interferer at the gNB’s receiver.
  • the applied time alignment could be represented as TTA - NTA + NTA, offset + TuL - NTA + NTA, offset + (NoFDM x TOFDM) — NTA, offset — TDL, Offset
  • the said number of OFDM symbol NOFDM is selected such that TUL s NTX-RX. That is, the said one or more OFDM symbol is the required number of OFDM symbols that ensures that there is at least NTX-RX time gap at the UE, between the end of its UL transmission and the start of its DL reception.
  • gNB2’s 1812 PDSCH 1832 transmissions causes DL CLI to gNBTs 1811 PUSCH 1831 reception, where gNB2’s 1812 PDSCH 1832 arrives at gNB1 1811 at time ts after a gNB-gNB propagation delay T 9 NB- 9 NB.
  • TTA NTA + NTA, offset + TUL to the PUSCH 1831 and transmits it at time t2, where the PUSCH 1831 reaches gNB1 1811 at time t4.
  • this invention aligns any OFDM symbol, in this example any OFDM symbol of the PUSCH 1831 , with the DL interferer 1832 to provide sufficient time gap at the UE between the end of a PUSCH transmission 1831 and the start of a DL reception for UL to DL switching.
  • the 2 nd OFDM symbol 1831 b (instead of the 1 st OFDM symbol 1831a as in the prior art) is aligned with the DL interferer i.e., PDSCH 1832 from gNB2 1812, thereby enabling the UE 1821 to finish the PUSCH 1831 transmission at time tg leaving a time gap > NTX-RX before the start of a potential DL reception at time ti2-
  • TDL, offset is set to 0 for the determination of the alignment offset TUL.
  • the said DL interferer time offset TDL, offset is the time offset of the DL interferer relative to the victim gNB OFDM boundary and if TDL, offset is less than the cyclic prefix, then the cyclic prefixes of DL interferer and the UL channel reception at the gNB overlap, which maintains their orthogonality.
  • TDL, offset 0 anyway, since the DL interferer is self-interference from the gNB and there is no propagation delay within itself, or viewed another way the propagation delay from the transmitting antenna to the receiving antenna, assuming they are different, is still negligible.
  • TDL TgNB-gNB then if the aggressor gNB is close to the victim gNB such that the gNB-gNB propagation delay TgNB-gNB ⁇ TCP, then TDL, offset can be set to zero.
  • the alignment offset TUL (NOFDM X TOFDM) - NTA, offset, and the OFDM symbols of the UL transmission are aligned with the OFDM boundary at the gNB’s receiver.
  • An example is in Figure 19, showing Slot n 1940 and Slot n+1 1941 , which are DL and SBFD slots respectively.
  • the gNB 1911 transmits an UL Grant 1901 at time to to UE1 1921 to schedule a PUSCH 1931 to start at the beginning of SBFD Slot n+1 1941.
  • the gNB 1921 transmits a PDSCH 1932 to UE2, thereby causing selfinterference to its UL reception.
  • the application of TUL effectively caused the PUSCH 1931 to arrive 1 OFDM symbol early at the gNB 1911 , i.e.
  • the PUSCH 1931 arrives at the start of the 14 th OFDM symbol 1940a of Slot n 1940 at time t 3 and this causes the 2 nd OFDM symbol 1931b of PUSCH 1931 to align with the boundary of Slot n+1 1941 , which aligns with DL transmissions, i.e., PDSCH 1932 for UE2, at the gNB 1911.
  • this embodiment aligns one of the OFDM symbol of the UL transmission with the slot boundary, which would lead to the UL transmission aligning with any DL transmission at the gNB 1911 , thereby enabling the UL and DL cyclic prefixes to overlap.
  • the PUSCH 1931 in this example is transmitted early by 1 OFDM symbol, this provides sufficient time gap at the UE 1921 between the end of the PUSCH 1931 at time ts and a potential start of a DL reception, such as PDCCH or PDSCH, at time tw, for the UE 1921 to switch from UL to DL, i.e. time between ts and t > NTX-RX.
  • the prior art of setting NTA, offset 0 would lead to insufficient time gap for UL to DL switching.
  • TDL, offset TgNB-gNB, if T 9 NB- 9 NB > Tcp.
  • TDL, offset can be determined by the gNB and is based on the target DL interferer.
  • TDL, offset 0 as the target DL interferer is the self-interference from the gNB’s own DL transmission.
  • the gNB may wish to target more than one aggressor gNB.
  • the victim gNB may use multiple TDL, offset and thereby have different TUL values targeting different aggressor gNBs.
  • an uplink transmission can only be advanced by one timing advance amount, and so only one of these aggressor gNBs could be addressed with respect to any one uplink transmission.
  • the gNB may decide to mitigate the interference of the aggressor gNB that causes the greatest amount of interference with the reception of the uplink transmission.
  • NOFDM is selected to provide at least NTX-RX time gap at the UE between the end of an UL transmission and the start of a DL reception whilst minimising TUL, i.e. , minimizes the amount of timing advance needed to align with the target DL interferer.
  • N O FDM NTA ' OFFSET+TDL OFFSET l
  • H the ceiling function which rounds up the number to the nearest integer.
  • N O FDM r NTX ⁇ Rx +TDL offset 1 , where H is the ceiling function which I T 0FDM I rounds up the number to the nearest integer.
  • H is the ceiling function which I T 0FDM I rounds up the number to the nearest integer.
  • the gNB may signal the value of TUL to the UE. That is, the gNB performs the calculation of TUL and signals the calculated TUL to the UE.
  • the parameter TUL is signalled to the UE semi-statically via the SIBs or UE dedicated RRC signalling or dynamically indicated to the UE via group common DCI, activation DCI for CG-PUSCH or SPS and/or UL/DL Grant.
  • Activation DCI for SPS and DL Grant may be used to indicate TUL for the corresponding PUCCH carrying the HARQ-ACK for the PDSCH.
  • the gNB may semi-statically indicate via the SIBs, or UE dedicated RRC signalling, several TUL values and the gNB may dynamically indicate one of these TUL values in a DCI, such as UL Grant, DL Grant or activation DCI for CG-PUSCH or SPS.
  • the gNB may target different DL interferes with respect to mitigating the interference affecting particular uplink transmissions and hence may use different TUL values for different UL transmissions.
  • TUL may be a floating point number and would require a plurality of bits to indicate to the UE and which may not be practical to signal in a DCI. Therefore, by configuring a set of TUL numbers and using the DCI to indicate the index of one of these TUL numbers, the number of DCI bits is minimized.
  • Dynamic indication of TUL provides gNB with flexibility to manage the alignment of UL transmissions, for example, the gNB may apply TuL for SBFD slot where it also has overlapping DL transmissions and may not apply TUL if it does not have any DL transmissions. Similarly, for inter gNB CLI in dynamic/flexible TDD, the gNB may apply TUL if the DL interferer from an aggressor gNB is strong and if the DL interferer is weak it may not apply TUL on its UL transmissions.
  • the gNB may signal the DL interferer time offset TDL, offset to the UE and the UE may in response calculate the TUL.
  • the parameter TDL, offset can be indicated in the SIB, UE dedicated RRC signalling, group common DCI, activation DCI for CG-PUSCH or SPS and/or dynamic DCI for UL/DL Grant.
  • the gNB may semi-statically configure via the SIB or UE dedicated RRC signalling a plurality of TDL, offset values and dynamically indicate one of these TDL, offset values for one or more UL transmissions.
  • the gNB can use 1 bit to indicate one of the two values of TDL, offset in a DCI. It should be noted that the number of DCI bits of course depends on the number of TDL, offset values that are semi-statically configured and that another number of DCI bits may be implemented.
  • the parameter NOFDM can also be indicated to the UE via SIB broadcast, UE dedicated RRC configuration, group common DCI, activation DCI for CG-PUSCH or SPS and/or UL/DL Grant.
  • SIB broadcast SIB broadcast
  • UE dedicated RRC configuration group common DCI
  • activation DCI for CG-PUSCH or SPS and/or UL/DL Grant.
  • the UE can determine NOFDM from NTA, offset and TDL, offset, there may be situations where it is advantageous for the gNB to instead indicate to the UE the number of OFDM symbols to be advanced.
  • Paragraph 1 A method of communicating, by a communications device, via a wireless communications network, the method comprising, receiving, by the communications device, from an infrastructure equipment forming part of the wireless communications network, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and transmitting, by the communications device, an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment, wherein a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein information on the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 2 The method of paragraph 1 , wherein the uplink transmission and the interfering signal each comprise one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated, OFDM, symbols, and the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission aligns an OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission with one of the OFDM symbols of the interfering signal at a receiver of the infrastructure equipment.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated
  • Paragraph 3 The method in paragraph 2, wherein the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission aligns a second or later OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission with one of the OFDM symbols of the interfering signal at the receiver of the infrastructure equipment.
  • Paragraph 4 The method of paragraph 3, wherein the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission causes a cyclic prefix of the OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission to at least overlap in time with a cyclic prefix portion of the OFDM symbol of the interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 5 The method of any of paragraphs 1 to 4, wherein the interfering signal is a downlink interfering signal and the alignment offset TUL is a function of a downlink DL interferer time offset TDL, offset, relative to the OFDM of the infrastructure equipment’s OFDM symbol.
  • TTA NTA + NTA
  • offset + TUL NTA + NTA
  • offset — TDL offset - NTA + (NOFDM x TQFDM) - T D L
  • TTA is a total timing advance
  • NTA is a timing advance compensating for a propagation delay between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment
  • NTA offset is a common timing advance offset
  • TUL is the alignment offset
  • NOFDM is a number of OFDM symbols and TOFDM a duration of an OFDM symbol
  • TDL offset is a downlink interferer time offset, wherein NOFDM is selected such that TUL s NTX-RX, a switching time.
  • Paragraph 7 The method of any of paragraphs 1 to 6, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of one of a number of possible alignment offset values to be applied, the possible alignment offset values having been signalled to the communications device by the infrastructure equipment.
  • Paragraph 8 The method of paragraph 7, wherein the signalling of the possible alignment values is performed via a SIB, UE dedicated RRC signalling, group common DCI, activation DCI for CG-PUSCH, SPS, and/or UL/DL Grant.
  • Paragraph 9 The method of any of paragraphs 1 to 8, wherein the alignment offset is semi- statically configured.
  • Paragraph 10 The method of paragraph 4, 5 or 6, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of the downlink interferer time offset TDL, offset.
  • Paragraph 11 The method in paragraph 10, wherein the downlink interferer time offset is zero if it is less than the cyclic prefix duration, otherwise it is proportional to a propagation delay between a transmitted of the potential interfering signal and the infrastructure equipment’s receiver.
  • Paragraph 12 The method in paragraph 10 and 11, wherein the downlink interferer time offset is indicated as multiple units of the cyclic prefix duration.
  • Paragraph 13 The method of paragraph 1 to 6, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of the number of OFDM symbols NOFDM.
  • a communications device for receiving and transmitting data comprising, a receiver, configured to receive signals from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, a transmitter, configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment, and a controller, configured to control the receiver and the transmitter, to receive, from the infrastructure equipment, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and to transmit an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment, wherein a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein information of the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 15 A method of communicating, by an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, via the wireless communications network, the method comprising, transmitting, by the infrastructure equipment, to a communications device, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and receiving, by the infrastructure equipment, an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment, wherein a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein information of the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 16 The method of paragraph 15, wherein the uplink transmission and the interfering signal each comprise one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated, OFDM, symbols, and the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission aligns an OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission with one of the OFDM symbols of the interfering signal at a receiver of the infrastructure equipment.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated
  • Paragraph 17 The method in paragraph 16, wherein the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission aligns a second or later OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission with one of the OFDM symbols of the interfering signal at the receiver of the infrastructure equipment.
  • Paragraph 18 The method of paragraph 17, wherein the alignment offset applied to the uplink transmission causes a cyclic prefix of the OFDM symbol of the uplink transmission to at least overlap in time with a cyclic prefix portion of the OFDM symbol of the interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 19 The method of any of paragraphs 15 to 18, wherein the interfering signal is a downlink interfering signal and the alignment offset TUL is a function of a downlink DL interferer time offset TDL, offset, relative to the OFDM of the infrastructure equipment’s OFDM symbol.
  • TTA NTA + NTA
  • offset + TUL NTA + NTA
  • offset — TDL offset - NTA + (NOFDM x TOFDM) - T D L
  • TTA is a total timing advance
  • NTA is a timing advance compensating for a propagation delay between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment
  • NTA offset is a common timing advance offset
  • TUL is the alignment offset
  • NOFDM is a number of OFDM symbols and TOFDM a duration of an OFDM symbol
  • TDL, offset is a downlink interferer time offset, wherein NOFDM is selected such that TUL s NTX-RX, a switching time.
  • Paragraph 21 The method of any of paragraphs 15 to 20, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of one of a number of possible alignment offset values to be applied, the possible alignment offset values having been signalled to the communications device by the infrastructure equipment.
  • Paragraph 22 The method of paragraph 21 , wherein the signalling of the possible alignment values is performed via a SIB, UE dedicated RRC signalling, group common DCI, activation DCI for CG-PUSCH, SPS, and/or UL/DL Grant.
  • Paragraph 23 The method of any of paragraphs 15 to 22, wherein the alignment offset is semi-statically configured.
  • Paragraph 24 The method of any of paragraphs 19 to 23, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of the downlink interferer time offset TDL, offset.
  • Paragraph 25 The method in paragraph 24, wherein the downlink interferer time offset is zero if it is less than the cyclic prefix duration, otherwise it is proportional to a propagation delay between a transmitted of the potential interfering signal and the infrastructure equipment’s receiver
  • Paragraph 26 The method in paragraph 24 or 25, wherein the downlink interferer time offset is indicated as multiple units of the cyclic prefix duration.
  • Paragraph 27 The method of any of paragraphs 15 to 26, wherein the information of the alignment offset indicated by the infrastructure equipment is an indication of the number of OFDM symbols NOFDM.
  • An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, for receiving and transmitting data, comprising, a receiver, configured to receive signals from a communications device, a transmitter, configured to transmit signals to the communications device, and a controller, configured to control the receiver and the transmitter to transmit, to a communications device, an indication of uplink communications resources for transmitting uplink signals by the communications device, and to receive an uplink transmission via the uplink communications resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment, wherein a timing of the uplink transmission is advanced by an alignment offset, wherein information of the alignment offset is indicated by the infrastructure equipment, the alignment offset being applied to the uplink transmission by the communications device with an effect that the uplink transmission is received by the infrastructure equipment at a time that aligns with a potential interfering signal.
  • Paragraph 29 A computer programme to execute instructions according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 15.
  • Paragraph 30 A storage medium storing instructions which when executed cause a processor to perform steps according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 15.
  • Described embodiments may be implemented in any suitable form including hardware, software, firmware or any combination of these. Described embodiments may optionally be implemented at least partly as computer software running on one or more data processors and/or digital signal processors.
  • the elements and components of any embodiment may be physically, functionally and logically implemented in any suitable way. Indeed, the functionality may be implemented in a single unit, in a plurality of units or as part of other functional units. As such, the disclosed embodiments may be implemented in a single unit or may be physically and functionally distributed between different units, circuitry and/or processors.

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Des modes de réalisation de la présente technique concernent des dispositifs de communication, un équipement d'infrastructure et des procédés de fonctionnement de ceux-ci pour une communication. Un mode de réalisation de la présente technique concerne un procédé de communication, par un dispositif de communication, par l'intermédiaire d'un réseau de communication sans fil, le procédé comprenant : la réception, par le dispositif de communication, en provenance d'un équipement d'infrastructure faisant partie du réseau de communication sans fil, d'une indication de ressources de communication de liaison montante pour transmettre des signaux de liaison montante par le dispositif de communication, et la transmission, par le dispositif de communication, d'une transmission de liaison montante par l'intermédiaire des ressources de communication de liaison montante indiquées par l'équipement d'infrastructure. Une synchronisation de la transmission de liaison montante est avancée par un décalage d'alignement, des informations du décalage d'alignement étant indiquées par l'équipement d'infrastructure, le décalage d'alignement étant appliqué à la transmission de liaison montante par le dispositif de communication avec un effet selon lequel la transmission de liaison montante est reçue par l'équipement d'infrastructure à un instant qui s'aligne avec un signal d'interférence potentiel.
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