This disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular to methods and apparatuses for information transmission and reception.
The Vehicle to Everything (V2X) in a long term evolution (LTE) system is a vehicle communication technology that is able to support communications between vehicles and vehicles, vehicles and roadside units, and vehicles and pedestrians.
A transmitting device in V2X may transmit data directly to a receiving device via a directly connected sidelink, that is, data need not to be relayed via a network device, such as a base station. A sidelink is a new air interface that provides a directly connected channel for communications between a transmitting device and a receiving device.
LTE V2X is based on an LTE architecture. For example, a sidelink may only use LTE uplink subframes, and the sidelink may perform data transmission in units of subframes, which may achieve coexistence and compatibility with LTE cellular communications, and may meet such service demands as basic road safety, and road condition warnings, etc.
With the emergence of new services and new scenarios, such as remote driving, autonomous driving, and real-time information exchange, etc., future V2X needs to meet higher service requirements and technical specifications. For example, remote driving requires lower communication latency to ensure instantaneity, and higher data transmission reliability is needed to ensure safety, real-time video exchange requires low latency, and at the same time, higher data transmission rates are required, etc.
It should be noted that the above description of the background is merely provided for clear and complete explanation of this disclosure and for easy understanding by those skilled in the art. And it should not be understood that the above technical solution is known to those skilled in the art as it is described in the background of this disclosure.
It was found by the inventors that in some scenarios, such as V2X, data scheduling needs to be performed at a length less than a subframe or a slot (which may be referred as non-slot or mini-slot). However, there currently exists no technical solution for how to perform transmission and reception of data information.
Addressed to at least one of the above problems, embodiments of this disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for information transmission and reception.
According to a first aspect of the embodiments of this disclosure, there is provided a method for information transmission, including:
According to a second aspect of the embodiments of this disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for information transmission, including:
According to a third aspect of the embodiments of this disclosure, there is provided a method for information reception, including:
According to a fourth aspect of the embodiments of this disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for information reception, including:
According to a fifth aspect of the embodiments of this disclosure, there is provided a communication system, including:
An advantage of the embodiments of this disclosure exists in that the transmitting device determines a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe. Hence, data information transmission of non-slot may be supported.
With reference to the following description and drawings, the particular embodiments of this disclosure are disclosed in detail, and the principle of this disclosure and the manners of use are indicated. It should be understood that the scope of the embodiments of this disclosure is not limited thereto. The embodiments of this disclosure contain many alternations, modifications and equivalents within the scope of the terms of the appended claims.
Features that are described and/or illustrated with respect to one embodiment may be used in the same way or in a similar way in one or more other embodiments and/or in combination with or instead of the features of the other embodiments.
It should be emphasized that the term “comprise/include” when used in this specification is taken to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps or components but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, components or groups thereof.
Elements and features depicted in one drawing or embodiment of the disclosure may be combined with elements and features depicted in one or more additional drawings or embodiments. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views and may be used to designate like or similar parts in more than one embodiment.
These and further aspects and features of this disclosure will be apparent with reference to the following description and attached drawings. In the description and drawings, particular embodiments of the disclosure have been disclosed in detail as being indicative of some of the ways in which the principles of the disclosure may be employed, but it is understood that the disclosure is not limited correspondingly in scope. Rather, the disclosure includes all changes, modifications and equivalents coming within the terms of the appended claims.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, terms “first”, and “second”, etc., are used to differentiate different elements with respect to names, and do not indicate spatial arrangement or temporal orders of these elements, and these elements should not be limited by these terms. Terms “and/or” include any one and all combinations of one or more relevantly listed terms. Terms “contain”, “include” and “have” refer to existence of stated features, elements, components, or assemblies, but do not exclude existence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components, or assemblies.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, single forms “a”, and “the”, etc., include plural forms, and should be understood as “a kind of” or “a type of” in a broad sense, but should not defined as a meaning of “one”; and the term “the” should be understood as including both a single form and a plural form, except specified otherwise. Furthermore, the term “according to” should be understood as “at least partially according to”, the term “based on” should be understood as “at least partially based on”, except specified otherwise.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, the term “communication network” or “wireless communication network” may refer to a network satisfying any one of the following communication standards: long term evolution (LTE), long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), and high-speed packet access (HSPA), etc.
And communication between devices in a communication system may be performed according to communication protocols at any stage, which may, for example, include but not limited to the following communication protocols: 1G (generation), 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G, 4G, 4.5G, and 5G and new radio (NR) in the future, etc., and/or other communication protocols that are currently known or will be developed in the future.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, the term “network device”, for example, refers to a device in a communication system that accesses a terminal equipment to the communication network and provides services for the terminal equipment. The network device may include but not limited to the following equipment: a base station (BS), an access point (AP), a transmission reception point (TRP), a broadcast transmitter, a mobile management entity (MME), a gateway, a server, a radio network controller (RNC), a base station controller (BSC), etc.
The base station may include but not limited to a node B (NodeB or NB), an evolved node B (eNodeB or eNB), and a 5G base station (gNB), etc. Furthermore, it may include a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio unit (RRU), a relay, or a low-power node (such as a femto, and a pico, etc.). The term “base station” may include some or all of its functions, and each base station may provide communication coverage for a dedicated geographical area. And a term “cell” may refer to a base station and/or its coverage area, which is dependent on a context of the term.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, the term “user equipment (UE)” or “terminal equipment (TE) or terminal device” refers to, for example, equipment accessing to a communication network and receiving network services via a network device. The user equipment may be fixed or mobile, and may also be referred to as a mobile station (MS), a terminal, a subscriber station (SS), an access terminal (AT), or a station, etc.
The terminal equipment may include but not limited to the following devices: a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a hand-held device, a machine-type communication device, a lap-top, a cordless telephone, a smart cell phone, a smart watch, and a digital camera, etc.
For another example, in a scenario of the Internet of Things (IoT), etc., the user equipment may also be a machine or a device performing monitoring or measurement. For example, it may include but not limited to a machine-type communication (MTC) terminal, a vehicle mounted communication terminal, a device to device (D2D) terminal, and a machine to machine (M2M) terminal, etc.
Moreover, the term “network side” or “network device side” refers to a side of a network, which may be a base station, and may include one or more network devices described above. The term “user side” or “terminal side” or “terminal equipment side” refers to a side of a user or a terminal, which may be a UE, and may include one or more terminal equipments described above.
Scenarios in the embodiments of this disclosure shall be described below by way of examples; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
In the embodiment of this disclosure, existing traffics or traffics that may be implemented in the future may be performed between the network device 101 and the terminal equipment 102. For example, such traffics may include but not limited to an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (MTC), and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), etc.
It should be noted that
In the embodiments of this disclosure, sidelink transmission may be performed between two terminal equipments 102. For example, the two terminal equipments 102 may both perform sidelink transmission within the coverage of the network device 101 to implement V2X communications, or both of them may perform sidelink transmission outside the coverage of the network device 101 to implement V2X communications, and it may also be that one terminal equipment 102 is within the coverage of the network device 101 and another terminal equipment 102 is outside the coverage of the network device 101 and perform sidelink transmission to implement V2X communications.
According to the requirement documents of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), for certain application scenarios, a maximum peer-to-peer latency that V2X can tolerate in the future needs to be as low as several milliseconds (such as 3 milliseconds). In contrast, a minimum granularity of LTE V2X sidelink data transmission is as high as 1 millisecond (1 subframe), and its requirement for latency is usually on the order of ten milliseconds and hundred milliseconds. Therefore, the LTE V2X with subframes as a transmission granularity will not be able to meet the above requirement on low latency.
In addition, a more flexible slot format is introduced into New Radio (NR) systems of 5G, and a change of directions of uplink and downlink transmission may occur within a subframe or slot, that is, resources in a subframe or slot are not all uplink resources. For example, when V2X and a cellular system work at the same frequency, as only uplink resources may be used by a sidelink, if only a subframe or a slot is used as a transmission granularity, the LTE V2X will not be able to use a subframe or slot having only partial uplink resources, which will greatly increase waiting time of sidelink transmission, and is not conducive to meeting the requirement on low latency.
Therefore, there is a need to perform transmission and reception of sidelink data and/or control information at a resource granularity smaller than a subframe or slot (which may also be referred to as non-slot or mini-slot), so as to meet demands for more low latency requirements. The embodiments of this disclosure shall be described by taking a sidelink and V2X as examples; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
The embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for information transmission, which are described from a transmitting device side. The transmitting device may be a terminal equipment; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and, for example, it may also be a network device.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe, and the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe may be, for example, 14; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
In the embodiments of this disclosure, for example, waveforms, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM), single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), or discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplex (DFT-s-OFDM), may be used, hence, the above symbols may be such symbols as OFDM, or SC-FDMA or DFT-s-OFDM, etc., which are hereinafter referred to as symbols; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
In an embodiment, the time-domain resource may be used for transmission or reception of sidelink information; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto. Following description shall be given by taking a sidelink and V2X as examples.
Non-slot resources may be used to transmit and receive data information, such as a PSSCH (physical sidelink shared channel); and it may also be used to transmit and receive control information, such as a PSCCH (physical sidelink control channel). In the embodiments of this disclosure, non-slot time-domain resources (such as symbols) shall be mainly describes, but non-slot frequency domain resources are not limited. Frequency-domain resources may be configured by the network device, or may also be pre-configured. And furthermore, the embodiments of this disclosure may be applicable to different subcarrier intervals, such as 15 KHz, 30 KHz, 60 KHz, 120 KHz, etc.; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
In an embodiment, the time-domain resources include: one or more symbols occupied by the data information, and one or more symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal (DM-RS). Alternatively, the time-domain resource further includes at least one symbol used for automatic gain control (AGC) and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
For example, suppose that a time-domain resource used for one time of V2X sidelink transmission includes N symbols, and last E symbols need to be taken as guard periods for transmission and reception switching between sidelinks, or transmission and reception switching between a sidelink and a cellular link; and former-most F symbols need to be used for automatic gain control.
For LTE V2X, it takes a subframe as a granularity of sidelink resource allocation. A subframe contains 14 symbols, that is, N=14; a first symbol and a last symbol are respectively used for AGC and a guard period, that is, E=F=1; and symbol positions where demodulation reference signals (DM-RSs) used for PSCCH and PSSCH demodulation are located are fixed, located at symbols #2, #5, #8, #11 (the 14 symbols are numbered in accordance with #0 to #13).
However, when non-slot is used as a granularity of sidelink resource allocation, the number of symbols contained in non-slot is variable, hence, symbol positions of DM-RSs also change along with a length of non-slot, and symbol positions of DM-RSs of LTE V2X cannot be used.
In an embodiment, the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource is the number of symbols in the time-domain resource except at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period. For example, the transmitting device may determine the number of symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal and positions of the symbols where they are located in the time-domain resource at least according to the number of symbols in the time-domain resource except the at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or the at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
It should be noted that following description shall be given by taking the number of symbols of the DM-RS and symbol positions thereof as examples; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto. For example, the transmitting device may also determine a sequence, cyclic shift, a frequency domain position, and an orthogonal cover code (OCC), etc., of the demodulation reference signal in the time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource.
In an embodiment, the number of symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal and the positions of the symbols where they are located are determined according to parameters D, C and Δ; where, D is the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource, C is a number parameter of the demodulation reference signal, and Δ denotes offset taking symbol as a unit.
For example, the positions of the symbols of the DM-RS may be determined by using a lookup table. Table 1 is an example of a lookup table used for determining the DM-RS of the embodiment of this disclosure.
For example, l0 denotes a reference amount of a starting position of the DM-RS, a value of l0 denotes a number in D symbols, and in Table 1, for example, it may be taken that l0=0. Considering influence of the AGC and the guard period in the sidelink, the position of the DM-RS in looking up the table may be independence on the D symbols obtained above, rather than symbols contained in the entire non-slot. According to D, a value is taken for the number of the part of symbols in the lookup table, and the position the DM-RS is determined by a row to which D corresponds and a column in the table.
For example, if D=4, C=0, corresponding to l0+Δ4,0 according to Table 1, it shows that the DM-RS occupies one symbol and is located at a position l0+Δ4,0 in the D symbols, and a value of l0+Δi,j denotes the number in the D symbols. For another example, if D=5, C=1, corresponding to l0+Δ5,1 and 4+Δ5,1 according to Table 1, it shows that the DM-RS occupies two symbols and is located at position l0+Δ5,1 and 4+Δ5,1 in the D symbols, and a value of l0+Δi,j denotes the number in the D symbols.
Values of elements in Table 1 (such as l0+Δi,j, x+Δi,j, etc., where, x=3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) denotes the numbers in D symbols (not the numbers in the non-slot), that is, from 0 to D−1. For example, suppose N=14, F=1, E=1, then D=12, and numbers #1, #4, #7, #10 in D correspond to the numbers #2, #5, #8, #11 in N (non-slot), and so on. Which column is used is in dependence on the DM-RS number parameter C.
The parameter C may be pre-defined for numbers of each part of symbols, and the parameter C may also be configured by the network device. For example, it may be configured by the network device via at least one of a master information block (MIB) or system information block (SIB), radio resource control (RRC) signaling, and downlink control information (DCI).
Δi,j denotes offset performed in units of symbols, and for each combination of (D, C) values, a value of Δi,j may be independently configured and determined. Δ is greater than or equal to 0, and less than or equal to the number of symbols included in the slot or subframe; for example, 0≤Δi,j≤14. For a combination of values of N, E and F, only some rows in Table 1 may be available.
Table 2 is another example of a lookup table used for determining the DM-RS of the embodiment of this disclosure.
How to determine the DM-RS is schematically described above; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto. For example, Table 1 and Table 2 may be appropriately adjusted, and particular expressions or numeral values may be modified according to an actual scenario. A symbol taken as a guard period in the time-domain resource shall be described below.
In an LTE time division duplex (TDD) system, subframes that may be used by an LTE V2X sidelink may only be uplink subframes of the LTE TDD. More flexible TDD configuration and a slot format are introduced into a 5G NR system, in which uplink and downlink conversion may occur not only between slots (or subframes), but also may occur within a slot (or subframe).
If the V2X sidelink is still restricted to use entire uplink slot (or subframe), a V2X device will wait for arrival of a complete uplink slot (or subframe), thereby increasing a waiting time for sidelink transmission, which is not conducive to meet a requirement on low latency. For example, for a case where V2X and NR use the same frequency, by introducing non-slot, a V2X sidelink is able to use slots with only a part of uplink resources and complete uplink slots, thereby having more sidelink transmissions opportunities, which is helpful for reducing waiting time and lowering transmission latency.
In LTE V2X, one subframe contains 14 symbols, and a guard period occupies 1 symbol, hence, the guard period occupies 1/14 of the entire subframe. As the non-slot may contain fewer symbols and a proportion of the overhead of the guard period in the non-slot is higher than that of the LTE V2X, lowering the overhead of the guard period has a more significant effect on improving transmission efficiency of the non-slot sidelink.
It should be noted that all following uplink symbol (U), downlink symbol (D) and flexibly configured symbol (F) refer to cellular resource symbols, and a sidelink transmits on the uplink symbol (U) only.
In an embodiment, the sidelink time-domain resource includes multiple consecutive uplink symbols, and when a first symbol after the sidelink time-domain resource is a downlink symbol or a flexibly configured symbol, the time-domain resource doest no include a symbol taken as a guard period.
For example, the NR defines a variety of slot formats. For some slot formats, the non-slot used for sidelink transmission may have no guard period. That is, the non-slot may only include data symbols and DM-RS symbols, or may only include data symbols, DM-RS symbols and AGC symbols.
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In an embodiment, the sidelink time-domain resource includes multiple consecutive uplink symbols, and in a case where a first symbol after the sidelink time-domain resource is an uplink symbol and the uplink symbol does not belong to the sidelink time-domain resource (that is, the uplink symbol U is not used for sidelink transmission), the sidelink time-domain resource does not include a symbol taken as a guard period.
The above not using a guard period or not including a symbol taken as a guard period is also equivalent to that the sidelink time-domain resource includes: one or more symbols occupied by the data information and one or more symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal, or, one or more symbols occupied by the data information, one or more symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal and the at least one symbol used for automatic gain control.
For example, for a transmitting device outside a coverage of a network device, although the non-slot used for the sidelink is immediately followed by an uplink symbol for cellular communication, as the transmitting device does not need to transmit information to the network device, transfer of reception and transmission will not occur, hence, a guard period may not be used.
In an embodiment, multiple sidelink time-domain resources occupy consecutive symbols in the time domain, and a last sidelink time-domain resource includes a symbol taken as a guard period, while other sidelink time-domain resources do not include a symbol taken as a guard period.
For example, in order to meet requirements on higher reliabilities, the non-slot of the sidelink may be repeatedly transmitted. A last non-slot contains data symbols, DM-RS symbols, and guard period symbols, or contains data symbols, DM-RS symbols, AGC symbols and guard period symbols, and other non-slots may only contain data symbols and DM-RS symbols, or may only contain data symbols, DM-RS symbols and AGC symbols.
The above schematically illustrates how to omit a guard period; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto. How to configure resources and how to transmit data information shall be described below.
In an embodiment, the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes are determined according to a predefined rule, or are configured by a network device via one piece of the following information or signaling: a master information block, a system information block, radio resource control signaling, and downlink control information.
For example, in order to support non-slot in a sidelink, available non-slot resources, i.e. a non-slot resource pool, need to be configured for the sidelink. The configuration information may be transmitted by the network device via at least one of broadcast information (MIB/SIB), RRC signaling and DCI signaling. That is, M candidate non-slots may be preconfigured.
In an embodiment, candidate time-domain resources in a starting slot or subframe may be configured via an initial time-domain resource indication and a first period parameter, and then the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes are obtained by repeating the starting slot or subframe with a period of subframe or slot.
For example, the SLIV and Pin are used for determining candidate non-slots within a starting slot, and then repeated in units of slots to obtain candidate non-slots in a plurality of slot. The SLIV is used for indicating a first candidate non-slot within the starting slot, and then repeated within the slot in unit of Pin to obtain other non-slots within the slot. Reference may be made to definitions in sub-section 6.1.2.1 in TS 38.213 for an implementation of the SLIV.
In another embodiment, the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes may be configured via a plurality of initial time-domain resource indications, then the starting slot or subframe is repeated in a period of slot or subframe to obtain the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes.
For example, at least one SLIV is used for determining at least one candidate non-slot within a staring slot, and then is repeated in unit of slot to obtain candidate non-slots within a plurality of slots.
In a further embodiment, candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes may be determined via an initial time-domain resource indication and a second period parameter.
For example, SLIV and Pcross are used to determine candidate non-slots in multiple slots. The SLIV is used to indicate a first candidate non-slot in the starting slot, and is repeated in a period of Pcross. Such a process of repetition may be performed in an across slot manner, and candidate non-slots in a plurality of slots may be obtained.
It should be noted that the above starting slot may be slot #0 of frame #0, and may also be a configured slot. When the starting slot is a configured slot, the above configuration information further includes an indication of a starting slot position. Furthermore, candidate non-slots may also be determined by pre-defining. For example, each slot is divided into S candidate non-slots in advance, and the above M candidate non-slots are a set of candidate non-slots in a plurality of slots.
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In an embodiment, the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes may be determined by the transmitting device and the receiving device according to a predefined rule, or may be determined by the network device by indicating to the transmitting device and the receiving device via a bitmap.
For example, the bitmap may be configured by the network device via one piece of the following information or signaling: an MIB, a SIB, RRC signaling, and DCI; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto.
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The above embodiments or implementations only illustrate the embodiment of this disclosure. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and appropriate variants may be made on the basis of these implementation. For example, the above implementations may be executed separately, or one or more of them may be executed in a combined manner.
It can be seen from the above embodiments that the transmitting device determines a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe. Hence, data information transmission of non-slot may be supported.
The embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for information reception, which is described from a receiving device side. The receiving device may be a terminal equipment; however, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and, for example, it may also be a network device.
In an embodiment, the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource may be the number of symbols in the time-domain resource except at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
It should be noted that
The above embodiments or implementations only illustrate the embodiment of this disclosure. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and appropriate variants may be made on the basis of these implementation. For example, the above implementations may be executed separately, or one or more of them may be executed in a combined manner.
It can be seen from the above embodiments that the transmitting device determines a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe. Hence, data information transmission of non-slot may be supported.
The embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus for information transmission. The apparatus may be, for example, a terminal equipment, and may also be one or more components or assemblies configured in a terminal equipment. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and for example, it may also be a network device, or one or more components or assemblies configured in a network device. Contents in the embodiments identical to those in Embodiment 1 shall not be described herein any further.
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It should be noted that the components or modules related to this disclosure are only described above. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and the apparatus for information transmission 1400 may further include other components or modules, and reference may be made to related techniques for particulars of these components or modules.
Furthermore, for the sake of simplicity, connection relationships between the components or modules or signal profiles thereof are only illustrated in
It can be seen from the above embodiments that the transmitting device determines a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe. Hence, data information transmission of non-slot may be supported.
The embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus for information reception. The apparatus may be, for example, a terminal equipment, and may also be one or more components or assemblies configured in a terminal equipment. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and for example, it may also be a network device, or one or more components or assemblies configured in a network device. Contents in the embodiments identical to those in Embodiment 2 shall not be described herein any further.
It should be noted that the components or modules related to this disclosure are only described above. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and the apparatus for information reception 1500 may further include other components or modules, and reference may be made to related techniques for particulars of these components or modules.
Furthermore, for the sake of simplicity, connection relationships between the components or modules or signal profiles thereof are only illustrated in
It can be seen from the above embodiments that the transmitting device determines a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe. Hence, data information transmission of non-slot may be supported.
The embodiments of this disclosure provide a communication system, and reference may be made to
The embodiment of this disclosure further provides a network device, which may be, for example, a base station. However, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and it may also be another network device.
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The embodiment of this disclosure further provides a terminal equipment, however, this disclosure is not limited thereto, and it may also be another equipment.
For example, the processor 1710 may be configured to execute a program to carry out the method for data transmission described in Embodiment 1. For example, the processor 1710 may be configured to execute the following control: determining a demodulation reference signal in a time-domain resource at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource; wherein the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe; and transmitting data information and the demodulation reference signal to a receiving device by at least using the time-domain resource.
For another example, the processor 1710 may be configured to execute the program to carry out the method for data reception described in Embodiment 2. For example, the processor 1710 may be configured to execute the following control: receiving data information and a demodulation reference signal transmitted by a transmitting device by at least using a time-domain resource; wherein, the demodulation reference signal is determined at least according to the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource, and the number of symbols contained in the time-domain resource is less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in a slot or a subframe.
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An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer readable program code, which, when executed in a network device, will cause the network device to carry out the method for data transmission described in Embodiment 1 or the method for data reception described in Embodiment 2.
An embodiment of this disclosure provides a computer readable medium, including a computer readable program code, which will cause a network device to carry out the method for data transmission described in Embodiment 1 or the method for data reception described in Embodiment 2.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer readable program code, which, when executed in a terminal equipment, will cause the terminal equipment to carry out the method for data transmission described in Embodiment 1 or the method for data reception described in Embodiment 2.
An embodiment of this disclosure provides a computer readable medium, including a computer readable program code, which will cause a terminal equipment to carry out the method for data transmission described in Embodiment 1 or the method for data reception described in Embodiment 2.
The above apparatuses and methods of this disclosure may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware in combination with software. This disclosure relates to such a computer-readable program that when the program is executed by a logic device, the logic device is enabled to carry out the apparatus or components as described above, or to carry out the methods or steps as described above. The present disclosure also relates to a storage medium for storing the above program, such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, a CD, a DVD, and a flash memory, etc.
The methods/apparatuses described with reference to the embodiments of this disclosure may be directly embodied as hardware, software modules executed by a processor, or a combination thereof. For example, one or more functional block diagrams and/or one or more combinations of the functional block diagrams shown in the drawings may either correspond to software modules of procedures of a computer program, or correspond to hardware modules. Such software modules may respectively correspond to the steps shown in the drawings. And the hardware module, for example, may be carried out by firming the soft modules by using a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
The soft modules may be located in an RAM, a flash memory, an ROM, an EPROM, and EEPROM, a register, a hard disc, a floppy disc, a CD-ROM, or any memory medium in other forms known in the art. A memory medium may be coupled to a processor, so that the processor may be able to read information from the memory medium, and write information into the memory medium; or the memory medium may be a component of the processor. The processor and the memory medium may be located in an ASIC. The soft modules may be stored in a memory of a mobile terminal, and may also be stored in a memory card of a pluggable mobile terminal. For example, if equipment (such as a mobile terminal) employs an MEGA-SIM card of a relatively large capacity or a flash memory device of a large capacity, the soft modules may be stored in the MEGA-SIM card or the flash memory device of a large capacity.
One or more functional blocks and/or one or more combinations of the functional blocks in the drawings may be realized as a universal processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware component or any appropriate combinations thereof carrying out the functions described in this application. And the one or more functional block diagrams and/or one or more combinations of the functional block diagrams in the drawings may also be realized as a combination of computing equipment, such as a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, multiple processors, one or more microprocessors in communication combination with a DSP, or any other such configuration.
This disclosure is described above with reference to particular embodiments. However, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that such a description is illustrative only, and not intended to limit the protection scope of the present disclosure. Various variants and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art according to the principle of the present disclosure, and such variants and modifications fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
As to implementations containing the above embodiments, following supplements are further disclosed.
Supplement 1. A method for information transmission, including:
Supplement 2. The method according to supplement 1, wherein the time-domain resource includes one or more symbols occupied by the data information and one or more symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal.
Supplement 3. The method according to supplement 2, wherein the time-domain resource further includes at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
Supplement 4. The method according to any one of supplements 1-3, wherein the time-domain resource is used for transmission or reception of sidelink information;
Supplement 5. The method according to any one of supplements 1-4, wherein the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource is the number of symbols in the time-domain resource except at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
Supplement 6. The method according to any one of supplements 1-5, wherein,
Supplement 7. The method according to supplement 6, wherein the number of symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal and the positions of the symbols where they are located are determined according to parameters D, C and Δ;
Supplement 8. The method according to supplement 7, wherein the number parameter of the demodulation reference signal is predefined, or is configured by a network device via one piece of the following information or signaling: a master information block, a system information block, radio resource control signaling, and downlink control information.
Supplement 9. The method according to supplement 7 or 8, wherein for each combination of D and C, Δ is configured or determined independently.
Supplement 10. The method according to any one of supplements 7-9, wherein A is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the number of symbols contained in the slot or the subframe.
Supplement 11. The method according to any one of supplements 1-10, wherein the number of the symbols included in the slot or subframe is 14.
Supplement 12. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a sidelink time-domain resource includes a plurality of consecutive uplink symbols;
Supplement 13. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a sidelink time-domain resource includes a plurality of consecutive uplink symbols;
Supplement 14. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a sidelink time-domain resource includes a plurality of consecutive uplink symbols;
Supplement 15. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a sidelink time-domain resource includes a plurality of consecutive uplink symbols;
Supplement 16. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a plurality of sidelink time-domain resources occupy consecutive symbols in the time domain; a final sidelink time-domain resource includes one or more symbols occupied by the data information, one or more symbols occupied by the demodulation reference signal, the at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or the at least one symbol taken as a guard period;
Supplement 17. The method according to supplement 4, wherein a plurality of sidelink time-domain resources occupy consecutive symbols in the time domain; a final sidelink time-domain resource includes a symbol taken as a guard period, and other sidelink time-domain resources do not include a symbol taken as a guard period.
Supplement 18. The method according to any one of supplements 1-17, wherein method further includes:
Supplement 19. The method according to supplement 18, wherein the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes are determined according to a predefined rule, or are configured by a network device via one piece of the following information or signaling: a master information block, a system information block, radio resource control signaling, and downlink control information.
Supplement 20. The method according to supplement 18 or 19, wherein candidate time-domain resources in a starting slot or subframe are configured via an initial time-domain resource indication and a first period parameter.
Supplement 21. The method according to supplement 18 or 19, wherein candidate time-domain resources in a starting slot or subframe are configured via a plurality of time-domain resource indications.
Supplement 22. The method according to supplement 20 or 21, wherein method further includes:
Supplement 23. The method according to supplement 18 or 19, wherein the candidate time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes are configured via an initial time-domain resource indication and a second period parameter.
Supplement 24. The method according to any one of supplements 18-23, wherein the method further includes:
Supplement 25. The method according to supplement 24, wherein the time-domain resources in the plurality of slots or subframes are determined by the transmitting device and receiving device according to a predefined rule, or are determined by indicating to the transmitting device and/or the receiving device by a network device via a bitmap.
Supplement 26. The method according to supplement 25, wherein the bitmap is configured by the network device via one piece of the following information or signaling: a master information block, a system information block, radio resource control signaling, and downlink control information.
Supplement 27. An information reception method, including:
Supplement 28. The method according to supplement 27, wherein the number of a part of symbols in the time-domain resource is the number of symbols in the time-domain resource except at least one symbol used for automatic gain control and/or at least one symbol taken as a guard period.
Supplement 29. A network device, including a memory and a processor, the memory storing a computer program, and the processor being configured to execute the computer program to carry out the method as described in any one of supplements 1-28.
Supplement 30. A terminal equipment, including a memory and a processor, the memory storing a computer program, and the processor being configured to execute the computer program to carry out the method as described in any one of supplements 1-28.
This application is a continuation application of International Application No PCT/CN2018/100000 filed on Aug. 10, 2018, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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