5G/NR Downlink Schedule

1. High Level Factors for Scheduling

2. Type of Downlink Scheduling

There are two types of scheduling for downlink. One is called ‘Dynamic Scheduling’ and the other one SPS(Semi Persistent Scheduling’). Dynamic scheduling is the mechanism in which each and every PDSCH is scheduled by DCI(DCI 1_0 or DCI 1_1). SPS is the mechanism in which the PDSCH transmission is scheduled by RRC message.

3. DYNAMIC DOWNLINK SCHEDULING

• The gain obtained by transmitting to users with favorable radio-link conditions is commonly known as multiuser diversity. The larger the channel variation and the larger the number of users in a cell, the larger the multiuser diversity gain.
• Lately, there has also been a large interest in various massive multiuser MIMO schemes [55] where a large number of antenna elements are used to create very narrow “beams,” or, expressed differently, isolate the different users in the spatial domain.
  • It can be shown that, under certain conditions, the use of a large number of antennas results in an effect known as “channel hardening.”

Defination :

In NR, the downlink scheduler is responsible for dynamically controlling the device(s) to transmit to. Each of the scheduled devices is provided with a scheduling assignment including information on the set of time frequency resources upon which the device’s DL-SCH is transmitted, the modulation-and-coding scheme, hybrid-ARQ-related information, and multi-antenna parameters.

Common :

The information needed by the scheduler depends on the specific scheduling strategy implemented, but most
schedulers need information about at least:

• Channel conditions at the device, including spatial-domain properties;
• Buffer status of the different data flows;
• Priorities of the different data flows, including the amount of data pending retransmission.

Information about the channel conditions ：

There is a wide range of CSI reports that can be configured where the device reports the channel quality in the time, frequency, and spatial domains.

carrier aggregation：

In the case of carrier aggregation, the scheduling decisions are taken per carrier and the scheduling assignments are transmitted separately for each carrier, that is, a device scheduled to receive data from multiple carriers simultaneously receives multiple PDCCHs.

4. 待解决

1. In most cases the scheduling assignment is transmitted just before the data on the PDSCH, but the timing information in the scheduling assignment can also schedule in OFDM symbols later in the slot or in later slots.

如何理解时间信息调度呢？

2. A PDCCH received can either point to the same carrier, known as self-scheduling, or to another carrier, commonly referred to as cross-carrier scheduling (see Fig. 14.1). In the case of cross-carrier scheduling of a carrier with a different numerology than the one upon which the PDCCH was transmitted, timing offsets in the scheduling assignment, for example, which slot the assignment relates to, are interpreted in the PDSCH numerology (and not the PDCCH numerology).

这里自调度和跨载波调度如何理解呢？