Method, system and device for transmitting and detecting control signaling in backhaul link
A method, system and device for transmitting and detecting control signaling in a backhaul link are disclosed in the present application, and the application relating to the wireless communication field is used for saving time-frequency resources occupied by a base station for transmitting the control signaling on a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) of the backhaul link and reducing the complexity of the R-PDCCH detection by a relay node. In the present application, the base station, according to the preset correspondence between the control signaling and the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, determines the R-PDCCH resource sub-region corresponding to the control signaling to be transmitted among a plurality of resource sub-regions included in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH; the control signaling to be transmitted is transmitted to the relay node by using the time-frequency resources in the determined R-PDCCH resource sub-region; the relay node acquires the location information of the R-PDCCH resource sub-region and detects the control signaling to be transmitted in the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the location information. With the present application, the time-frequency resources occupied by the base station for transmitting the control signaling on the R-PDCCH are saved and the complexity of the R-PDCCH detection by the relay node is reduced.
1. A method for transmitting control signaling in a backhaul link of a relay system, the method comprising:
determining, by a base station, control signaling to be transmitted on a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel, R-PDCCH, in a current backhaul link;
determining, by the base station, an R-PDCCH resource sub-region corresponding to the control signaling to be transmitted among as plurality of R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, into which a resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH is divided, according to a preset correspondence relationship between the control signaling and the R-PDCCH resource sub-region; and
transmitting, by the base station, the control signaling to be transmitted to a relay node by using time-frequency resources in the determined R-PDCCH resource sub-region,
wherein the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH is divided into two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, wherein a first R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions is located preceding a second R-PDCCH resource sub-region in the time domain; and
wherein the preset correspondence relationship comprises a correspondence relationship between a first category of control signaling and the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region and a correspondence relationship between a second category of control signaling and the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region, wherein the first category of control signaling has a higher demodulation delay requirement than that of the second category of control signaling.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,
the first category of control signaling comprises downlink scheduling signaling DL Grant; and
the second category of control signaling comprises uplink scheduling signaling UL.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein it is determined that the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region is located preceding the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region in the time domain when the following relationship is satisfied:
all the time units occupied by the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region precede all the time units occupied by the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region; or
a starting time unit of the first R-PDCCH resource sub region is the same as that of the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region, and an ending time unit of the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region precedes that of the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region.
4. The method according to claim 3 ,wherein,
the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region is located in a first time lot of a sub-frame in time domain; and
the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region is located in a second timeslot the sub-frame in the time domain, or the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region is located in the first timeslot and the second timeslot of the sub-frame in the time domain.
5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a step A and/or a step B:
the step A, transmitting, by the base station, time-domain location information and/or frequency-domain location information of a plurality of R-PDCCH resource sub-regions to the relay node; and
the step B, transmitting, by the base station, the correspondence relationships between the control signaling and the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions to the relay node.
6. A method for detecting control signaling in a backhaul link or a relay system, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a relay node, location information of one or more Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel, R-PDCCH, resource sub-regions, wherein the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions are R-PDCC,H resource sub-regions formed by dividing a resource region occupied by an R-PDCCH; and
for each R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the one or more R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, determining control signaling corresponding to the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to a preset correspondence relationship between the R-PDCCH resource sub-region and the control signaling and detecting the control signaling in the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the location information of the R-PDCCH resource sub-region,
wherein the one or more R-PDCCH resource sub-regions comprise two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, wherein a first R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions is located preceding a second -PDCCH resource sub-region in the time domain: and
wherein the preset correspondence relationship comprises a correspondence relationship between a first category of control signaling and the lust R-PDCCH resource sub-region and a correspondence relationship between a second category of control signaling and the second R-PDCCH resource sub-regions wherein the first category of control signaling has a higher demodulation delay requirement than that of the second category of control signaling.
7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein for each R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the one or more R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, determining the control signaling corresponding to the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the preset correspondence relationship between the R-PDCCH resource sub-region and the control signaling and detecting the control signaling in the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the location information of the R-PDCCH resource sub-region comprises:
determining the first category of control signaling corresponding to the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions and the second category of control signaling corresponding to the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions according to the preset correspondence relationships between the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions and the control signaling; and
detecting the first category of control signaling in the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the obtained location information Of the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region; and detecting the Second category, of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the obtained location information of the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region.
8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein detecting the first category of control signaling in the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region comprises:
detecting, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in a sub-frame, the first category of control signaling in the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in a first timeslot of the sub-frame; and
detecting, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in the sub-frame, the second category of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in a second timeslot of the sub-frame, or detecting, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in the sub-frame, the second category of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in the first timeslot and the second timeslot of the sub-frame.
9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein,
detecting the first category of control signaling comprises detecting downlink scheduling signaling DL Grant; and
detecting the second category of control signaling comprises detecting uplink scheduling signaling UL Grant.
10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein,
detecting the first category of control signaling comprises detecting downlink scheduling signaling DL Grant and
detecting the second category of control signaling comprises detecting scheduling signaling UL Grant.
11. A relay node comprising:
a configuration information obtaining unit configured to obtain location information of one or more Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel, R-PDCCH, resource sub-regions, wherein the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions are R-PDCCH resource sub-regions formed by dividing a resource region occupied by an R-PDCCH; and
signaling detecting unit configured, for each R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the one or more R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, to determine control signaling corresponding to the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to a preset correspondence relationship between the R-PDCCH resource sub-region and the control signaling and to detect the control signaling in the R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the location information of the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions,
wherein one or more resource sub-regions comprise two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions, wherein a first R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions is located preceding a second R-PDCCH resource sub-regions in the time domain: and
wherein the preset correspondence relationship comprises a correspondence relationship between a first category of control signaling and the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region and a correspondence relationship between a second category of control signaling second R-PDCCH resource sub-region, wherein the first category of control signaling a higher demodulation delay requirement than the second category control signaling.
12. The relay node according to claim 11 , wherein the signaling detecting unit comprises:
a determining unit configured, to determine a the first category of control signaling corresponding to the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions and the second category of control signaling corresponding to the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region among the two R-PDCCH resource sub-regions according to preset correspondence relationships between the R-PDCCH resource sub-regions and the control signaling; and
a detecting nit configured to detect the first category of control signaling in the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the obtained location information of the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region; and to detect the second category of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region according to the obtained location information of the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region.
13. The relay node according to claim 12 , wherein the detecting unit configured
to detect, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in a sub-frame, the first category of control signaling in the first R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in a first timeslot of the sub-frame; and
to detect, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in the sub-frame, the second category of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in a second timeslot of the sub-frame, or detect, in the resource region occupied by the R-PDCCH in the sub-frame, the second category of control signaling in the second R-PDCCH resource sub-region consisted of resource units located in the first timeslot and the second timeslot of the sub-frame.