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US 11,985,679 · App. 17/319,575 · Granted May 14, 2024

Wireless communication method and device

Inventors: Yu Yang (Dongguan, CN); Peng Sun (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W72/23H04W72/046H04W28/06
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Patent No.
US 11,985,679
App. No.
17/319,575
Granted
May 14, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless communication method includes: receiving association relationship indication information; and determining that multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship according to the association relationship indication information, where the multiple first CORESETs share first QCL information.

Claims (76)

1. A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal device, association relationship indication information; and

determining, by the terminal device, according to the association relationship indication information, that multiple first control resource sets (CORESETs) have an association relationship, wherein the multiple first CORESETs share first quasi co-location (QCL) information;

wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, according to the association relationship indication information, that multiple second CORESETs have an association relationship, wherein the multiple first CORESETs and the multiple second CORESETs have no association relationship, and the multiple second CORESETs share second QCL information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the multiple first CORESETs are in a same component carrier (CC); or

at least two first CORESETs of the multiple first CORESETs are in different CCs.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, by the terminal device, a target reference signal (RS) or a target channel associated with the multiple first CORESETs; and

determining, by the terminal device, according to the first QCL information, beam information of the target RS or the target channel.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the determining, by the terminal device, according to the first QCL information, beam information of the target RS or the target channel according to the first QCL information comprises:

in a case where the target RS is a target downlink RS or the target channel is a target downlink channel, determining, by the terminal device, the first QCL information as QCL information of the target RS or the target channel; and

in a case where the target RS is a target uplink RS or the target channel is a target uplink channel, determining, by the terminal device, spatial relation information of the target RS or the target channel according to a source RS corresponding to a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state used to indicate the first QCL information.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the target RS comprises at least one of:

a source RS corresponding to a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configured for the multiple first CORESETs;

an RS whose corresponding source RS is the same as a source RS corresponding to a TCI state configured for the multiple first CORESETs;

an RS that is associated with the multiple first CORESETs and indicated by radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

an RS that is associated with the multiple first CORESETs and indicated by a media access control (MAC) control element (CE); or

all RSs transmitted in an antenna set corresponding to the multiple first CORESETs.

6. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the target channel comprises at least one of:

a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted on the multiple first CORESETs;

a channel whose corresponding source RS is the same as a source RS corresponding to a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configured for the multiple first CORESETs;

a channel that is associated with the multiple first CORESETs and indicated by RRC signaling;

a channel that is associated with the multiple first CORESETs and indicated by a media access control (MAC) control element (CE);

channels in all channels transmitted in an antenna set corresponding to the multiple first CORESETs other than channels in the multiple first CORESETs; or

a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) scheduled by a PDCCH transmitted in the multiple first CORESETs.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the association relationship indication information comprises antenna set related information; and

the determining, by the terminal device, according to the association relationship indication information, that multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, according to the association relationship indication information, that the multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the determining, by the terminal device, according to the association relationship indication information, that the multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship comprises:

in a case where antenna set related information corresponding to the multiple first CORESETs is the same, determining, by the terminal device, that the multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the antenna set related information comprises one of following information:

an antenna set identifier;

related information of a reference signal (RS) resource, wherein the related information of the RS resource and the antenna set have an association relationship;

related information of an RS resource set, wherein the related information of the RS resource set and the antenna set have an association relationship;

a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state in configuration information of a CORESET, wherein the TCI state and the antenna set have an association relationship;

an RS set corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET, wherein the RS set and the antenna set have an association relationship; and

an RS corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET, wherein the RS and the antenna set have an association relationship.

10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the receiving, by the terminal device, the association relationship indication information comprises:

receiving, by the terminal device, the antenna set related information through at least one of:

configuration information of a CORESET;

a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state in configuration information of a CORESET;

configuration information of a reference signal (RS) set corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET;

configuration information of an RS corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET;

configuration information of an RS resource corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET;

configuration information of an RS resource set, wherein at least one RS resource in the RS resource set is an RS resource corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET;

configuration information of an RS resource, wherein at least one RS resource in at least one RS resource set in the configuration information of the RS resource is an RS resource corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET; or

reporting configuration information, wherein at least one RS resource in at least one RS resource set associated with the reporting configuration information is an RS resource corresponding to a TCI state in configuration information of a CORESET.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, by the terminal device, a target first CORESET in the multiple first CORESETs; and

determining, by the terminal device, QCL information of the target first CORESET as the first QCL information.

12. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, by the terminal device, a first shared resource used by feedback information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the control information in the multiple first CORESETs; and

determining, by the terminal device, a second shared resource used by feedback information of a PDSCH scheduled by control information in the multiple second CORESETs, wherein the first shared resource is different from the second shared resource.

13. A terminal device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform:

receiving association relationship indication information;

determining according to the association relationship indication information, that multiple first control resource sets (CORESETs) have an association relationship, wherein the multiple first CORESETs share first quasi co-location (QCL) information; and

determining that multiple second CORESETs have an association relationship according to the association relationship indication information, wherein the multiple first CORESETs and the multiple second CORESETs have no association relationship, and the multiple second CORESETs share second QCL information.

14. The terminal device according to claim 13 , wherein the multiple first CORESETs are in a same component carrier (CC); or

at least two first CORESETs of the multiple first CORESETs are in different CCs.

15. The terminal device according to claim 13 , wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to further perform:

determining a target reference signal (RS) or a target channel associated with the multiple first CORESETs; and

determining beam information of the target RS or the target channel according to the first QCL information.

16. The terminal device according to claim 13 , wherein the association relationship indication information comprises antenna set related information; and

the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform:

determining, according to the association relationship indication information, that the multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship.

17. The terminal device according to claim 16 , wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform:

in a case where antenna set related information corresponding to the multiple first CORESETs is the same, determining that the multiple first CORESETs have an association relationship.

18. A network device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the network device to perform:

generating association relationship indication information, wherein the association relationship indication information is used to indicate that multiple first control resource sets (CORESETs) have an association relationship, and the multiple first CORESETs share first quasi co-location (QCL) information; and

sending the association relationship indication information;

wherein the association relationship indication information is further used to indicate that multiple second CORESETs have an association relationship, wherein the multiple first CORESETs and the multiple second CORESETs have no association relationship, and the multiple second CORESETs share second QCL information.

19. The network device according to claim 18 , wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the network device to further perform:

determining a first shared beam set of the multiple first CORESETs according to the first QCL information; and

determining the first shared beam set as a default beam set of the multiple first CORESETs.

20. The network device according to claim 19 , wherein a beam in the first shared beam set corresponds to at least one antenna set.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 13, 2021
From: YANG, YU; SUN, PENG
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056233/0140 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201811368456.8 · Nov 16, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
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