IP Library Granted Patent US 11,337,235
Granted Patent B2
US 11,337,235 · App. 16/654,269 · Granted May 17, 2022

Signal transmission method and communications apparatus

Inventors: Di Zhang (Beijing, CN); Xu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
H04W72/1263H04L5/0092H04W56/001H04W72/042H04W72/046H04W76/27H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 11,337,235
App. No.
16/654,269
Granted
May 17, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application provides a signal transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, configuration information, where the configuration information is used to configure the terminal device to transmit M signals in a first time unit, the terminal device has N antenna panels, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and transmitting, by the terminal device, at least one of the M signals based on first information by using at least one of the N antenna panels. According to embodiments of this application, the terminal device can select a panel based on the first information and select a signal that needs to be transmitted.

Claims (32)

1. A communication method, comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling indicates candidates of spatial information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

receiving medium access control control element (MAC-CE) signaling, wherein the MAC-CE signaling indicates one piece of spatial information for a first control resource set, wherein the one piece of spatial information is one of the candidates of spatial information of the PDSCH in a current active bandwidth part (BWP), and wherein the first control resource set is a control resource set used at least for transmitting scheduling information of system information, the first control resource set is a control resource set whose identifier is 0, and the spatial information is quasi-co-location (QCL) information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the spatial information comprises information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) satisfying a QCL relationship with a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB).

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises: determining a time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on information about the SSB, wherein the time-frequency resource comprises monitoring occasions of a search space set associated with the first control resource set.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the method further comprises: monitoring a downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on the spatial information.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the information about the SSB is an index of the SSB.

6. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling indicates candidates of spatial information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

the receiver, further configured to receive medium access control control element (MAC-CE) signaling, wherein the MAC-CE signaling indicates one piece of spatial information for a first control resource set, wherein the one piece of spatial information is one of the candidates of spatial information of the PDSCH in a current active bandwidth part (BWP), and wherein the first control resource set is a control resource set used at least for transmitting scheduling information of system information, the first control resource set is a control resource set whose identifier is 0, and the spatial information is quasi-co-location (QCL) information.

7. The communications apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the spatial information comprises information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) satisfying a QCL relationship with a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB).

8. The communications apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the apparatus further comprises a processor, configured to determine a time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on information about the SSB, wherein the time-frequency resource comprises monitoring occasions of a search space set associated with the first control resource set.

9. The communications apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to monitor a downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on the spatial information.

10. The communications apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the information about the SSB is an index of the SSB.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program or an instruction, and when the computer program or the instruction is executed by one or more processors, the computer program or the instruction causes a communication device to perform following operations:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling indicates candidates of spatial information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

receiving medium access control control element (MAC-CE) signaling, wherein the MAC-CE signaling indicates one piece of spatial information for a first control resource set, wherein the one piece of spatial information is one of the candidates of spatial information of the PDSCH in a current active bandwidth part (BWP), and wherein the first control resource set is a control resource set used at least for transmitting scheduling information of system information, the first control resource set is a control resource set whose identifier is 0, and the spatial information is quasi-co-location (QCL) information.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11 , wherein the spatial information comprises information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) satisfying a QCL relationship with a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB).

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise: determining a time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on information about the SSB, wherein the time-frequency resource comprises monitoring occasions of a search space set associated with the first control resource set.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise: monitoring a downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on the spatial information.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12 , wherein the information about the SSB is an index of the SSB.

16. A processing apparatus, comprising at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to read an instruction in a memory, and implement:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling indicates candidates of spatial information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

receiving medium access control control element (MAC-CE) signaling, wherein the MAC-CE signaling indicates one piece of spatial information for a first control resource set, wherein the one piece of spatial information is one of the candidates of spatial information of the PDSCH in a current active bandwidth part (BWP), and wherein the first control resource set is a control resource set used at least for transmitting scheduling information of system information, the first control resource set is a control resource set whose identifier is 0, and the spatial information is quasi-co-location (QCL) information.

17. The processing apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the spatial information comprises information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) satisfying a QCL relationship with a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB).

18. The processing apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to read the instruction in the memory, and implement:

determining a time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on information about the SSB, wherein the time-frequency resource comprises monitoring occasions of a search space set associated with the first control resource set.

19. The processing apparatus according to claim 18 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to read the instruction in the memory, and implement:

monitoring a downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the time-frequency resource of the first control resource set based on the spatial information.

20. The processing apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the information about the SSB is an index of the SSB.

21. The processing apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the processing apparatus comprises the memory.

22. The processing apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the processing apparatus is a chip or a terminal device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 29, 2020
From: ZHANG, DI; ZHANG, XU
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053072/0623 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201811143507.7 · Sep 28, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
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