Facilitating hybrid automatic repeat request reliability improvement for advanced networks

Abstract

Facilitating hybrid automatic repeat request reliability improvement for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise obtaining information related to a capability of a user equipment device and configuring the user equipment device with respect to control channel resources and a number of repetitions per slot based on the capability of the user equipment device. The operations can also comprise indicating the control channel resources and the number of repetitions per slot to the user equipment device via a control channel. Further, the operations can comprise detecting an acknowledgement, from the user equipment device, via an uplink control channel that comprises the control channel resources.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 determining, by network equipment comprising a processor, a configuration of a user equipment based on a first ability of the user equipment to support a multiple hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement within a slot and a second ability of the user equipment to support an ultra-reliable low-latency application; and   facilitating, by the network equipment, a transmission of information indicative of the configuration to the user equipment.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises determining that the configuration comprises a maximum number of replication factors for a group of uplink control channel formats. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the maximum number of replication factors comprises a first replication factor for a first uplink control channel format of the group of uplink control channel formats and at least a second replication factor for a second uplink control channel format of the group of uplink control channel formats. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining, by the network equipment, a group of resources for the user equipment based on a higher layer parameter resource group.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , further comprising:
 indicating, by the network equipment, a number of resources in the group of resources.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the indicating comprises indicating the number of resources via a higher layer parameter resource index. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the transmission is a first transmission, and wherein the method further comprises:
 facilitating, by the network equipment, a second transmission of an indication of the group of resources via radio resource signaling.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises determining that the configuration of the user equipment comprises a first replication factor for a first uplink control channel format and a second replication factor for a second uplink control channel format. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises determining the configuration as respective repletion factors for control channel formats of a group of control channel formats. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the determining comprises determining that the configuration supports multiple uplink control channel resources and repetition within the slot. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the facilitating comprises facilitating the transmission via a downlink control channel configured to operate according to a fifth generation wireless network communication protocol. 
     
     
         12 . A system, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 based on a capability of a user equipment to support an ultra-reliable low latency application and a multiple hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement within a slot, determining a configuration of the user equipment, wherein the configuration comprises respective replication factors for uplink control channel formats; and 
 conveying, to the user equipment, information related to the configuration. 
   
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the respective replication factors comprise a maximum number of replication factors for respective uplink control channel formats of the uplink control channel formats. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 13 , wherein the uplink control channel formats comprise a first uplink control channel format and a second uplink channel format, and wherein the respective replication factors comprise a first replication factor for the first uplink control channel format and at least a second replication factor for the second uplink channel format. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 determining, for the user equipment, a group of resources based on a higher layer parameter resource group.   
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 indicating, to the user equipment, the group of resources via a higher layer parameter resource index.   
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the conveying comprises conveying the information via a downlink control channel configured to operate according to a fifth generation wireless network communication protocol. 
     
     
         18 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 determining a configuration for a user equipment based on a first ability of the user equipment to support a multiple hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement within a slot and a second ability of the user equipment to support an ultra-reliable low-latency application; and   sending, to the user equipment, information related to the configuration.   
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 18 , wherein the configuration comprises a first replication factor for a first uplink control channel format of the respective uplink control channel formats and at least a second replication factor for a second uplink control channel format of the respective uplink control channel formats. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 defining a group of resources for the user equipment based on a higher layer parameter resource group;   indicating a number of resources in the group of resources based on a higher layer parameter resource group size; and   conveying, to the user equipment, resources in the group of resources via a higher layer parameter resource index.