Multicast transmission method and apparatus, and computer storage medium
Provided are a multicast transmission method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: transmitting multicast channel data according to a multicast search space. The multicast search space is configured for transmitting multicast downlink control information. The multicast channel data includes at least one of multicast control channel data, multicast traffic channel data and multicast control channel change notification data.
1. A multicast transmission method, comprising:
configuring, by a base station, a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
transmitting multicast channel data to a terminal according to the narrow-band multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of the multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
2. A multicast transmission apparatus, comprising:
a processor, and
a memory including processor executable code, wherein the processor executable code upon execution by the processor configures the processor to:
configure a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
transmit multicast channel data to a terminal according to the narrow-band multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of the multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first type of downlink control information comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.
5. A multicast transmission method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal, a signaling message from a base station to configure a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
receiving, by the terminal, multicast channel data from the base station according to the narrow-band multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first type of downlink control information comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.
8. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first type of downlink control information associated with the multicast search space comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
9. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.
10. An apparatus for multicast transmission, comprising:
a processor, and
a memory including processor executable code, wherein the processor executable code upon execution by the processor configures the processor to:
receive a signaling message from a base station to configure a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
receive multicast channel data from the base station according to the narrow-band multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first type of downlink control information associated with the multicast search space comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.
13. A non-transitory storage medium having code stored thereon, the code upon execution by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method that comprises:
configuring, by a base station, a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
transmitting multicast channel data to a terminal according to the narrow-band multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of the multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the first type of downlink control information comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
15. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.
16. A non-transitory storage medium having code stored thereon, the code upon execution by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method that comprises:
receiving, by a terminal, a signaling message from a base station to configure a narrow-band multicast search space that comprises a first type of multicast search space and a second type of multicast search space, the first type of multicast search space corresponding to a first type of downlink control information comprising scheduling information of multicast control channel data and information for a multicast control channel change notification, and the second type of multicast search space corresponding to a second type of downlink control information; and
receiving, by the terminal, multicast channel data from the base station according to narrow-band the multicast search space,
wherein the second type of downlink control information comprises a scheduling delay, resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, repetitions of multicast data, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number.
17. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the first type of downlink control information comprises resource allocation, a modulation and coding scheme, and repetitions of multicast data.
18. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the first type of multicast search space has a same set of candidates as a paging search space and wherein a number of repetitions associated with the first type of multicast search space includes {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}.