IP Library Granted Patent US 10,999,047
Granted Patent B2
US 10,999,047 · App. 16/053,464 · Granted May 4, 2021

Frequency band configuration apparatus, method and communication system

Inventors: Weiwei Wang (Beijing, CN); Xin Wang (Beijing, CN); Lei Song (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04L5/16H04L5/001H04L5/0053H04L5/0091H04L5/0092H04L5/14H04L5/1469H04W72/042H04W72/0453H04W72/12H04W72/1289H04L5/0044
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Patent No.
US 10,999,047
App. No.
16/053,464
Granted
May 4, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A frequency band configuration apparatus and method of a half-duplex system and a communication system. The method includes: determining a half-duplex frequency band, and receiving configuration information of the half-duplex frequency band; and receiving indication information for reconfiguring the half-duplex frequency band transmitted by a network device; the indication information indicates that the half-duplex frequency band is used for both uplink transmission and downlink transmission. Hence, it is supported that the half-duplex frequency band can be configured as both an uplink frequency band and a downlink frequency band at the same time, a cell capacity is not limited too much, and cases where uplink and downlink capacities are relatively large can be well supported.

Claims (28)

1. A frequency band configuration apparatus, configured in a user equipment (UE) of a half-duplex system, the frequency band configuration apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores a plurality of instructions;

a processor that couples to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to:

receive indication information for configuring a half-duplex frequency band transmitted by a network device, wherein the indication information indicates that the half-duplex frequency band is used for both uplink transmission and downlink transmission; and

receive scheduling information transmitted by the network device, and dynamically perform uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band according to the scheduling information.

2. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the indication information further comprises information related to the half-duplex frequency band.

3. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the half-duplex frequency band is a time division duplex frequency band, or a frequency division duplex downlink frequency band, or a frequency division duplex uplink frequency band, or an unlicensed frequency band.

4. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a transmission point performing downlink service on the half-duplex frequency band is different from a transmission point performing an uplink service on the half-duplex frequency band.

5. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the UE is scheduled on the half-duplex frequency band at a timeslot, the UE performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band at the timeslot according to the scheduling information.

6. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the UE is not scheduled on the half-duplex frequency band at a timeslot, the UE performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band at the timeslot according to a predetermined default setting.

7. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the UE is not scheduled on the half-duplex frequency band at a timeslot, the UE performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band at the timeslot according to the configuration information.

8. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the scheduling information comprises one or more of the following information: information on a scheduled frequency band, information on a scheduled direction, information on a scheduled timeslot, information on a scheduled resource, and information on a modulation and coding scheme.

9. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive the scheduling information on the half-duplex frequency band, or receive the scheduling information on a frequency band other than the half-duplex frequency band in a cross-carrier scheduling manner.

10. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the UE is configured to perform uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band according to a timing relationship of a frequency division duplex mode.

11. A frequency band configuration apparatus, configured in a network device of a half-duplex system, the frequency band configuration apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores a plurality of instructions;

a processor that couples to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to:

configuring a half-duplex frequency band to a User Equipment (UE), wherein the indication information indicates that the half-duplex frequency band is used for both uplink transmission and downlink transmission; and

transmit scheduling information to the UE, wherein the UE dynamically performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band according to the scheduling information.

12. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a part of multiple UEs in the same cell perform uplink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band, and at the same time, another part of UEs perform downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band.

13. The frequency band configuration apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a part of multiple UEs in the same cell are served by one or more transmission points, and at the same time, another part of UEs are served by one or more other transmission points.

14. A communication system, performing half-duplex communication, the communication system comprising:

a base station configured to:

transmit indication information for configuring a half-duplex frequency band to a User Equipment (UE), wherein the indication information indicates that the half-duplex frequency band is used for both uplink transmission and downlink transmission; and

transmit scheduling information to the UE, wherein the UE dynamically performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band according to the scheduling information; and

the UE configured to:

receive indication information for reconfiguring the half-duplex frequency band; and

receive scheduling information transmitted by the base station, and dynamically perform uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the half-duplex frequency band according to the scheduling information.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 072423/0322 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2018
From: WANG, WEIWEI; WANG, XIN; SONG, LEI
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046547/0735 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2016074126 · Feb 19, 2016
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