IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,432,584
Granted Patent B2
US 12,432,584 · App. 17/734,998 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Communication method and device

Inventor: Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
H04W24/08H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 12,432,584
App. No.
17/734,998
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and device. The method comprises: the terminal measures at least two CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks selected from one or more resource settings configured for group-based SINR report; the terminal calculates SINRs of CRIs or SSBRIs corresponding to the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks according to the measurement results of the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks and the terminal reports the CRIs or SSBRIs and their SINRs to the network device.

Claims (33)

1. A communication method, comprising:

measuring, by a terminal, at least two channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks selected from one or more resource settings configured for group-based SINR report;

calculating, by the terminal, signal to interference noise ratios (SINRs) of CSI-RS resource indicators (CRIs) or SS/PBCH block resource indicators (SSBRIs) corresponding to the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks according to the measurement results of the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks; and

reporting, by the terminal, the CRIs or SSBRIs and their SINRs to a network device;

wherein the reported CRIs or SSBRIs are received simultaneously by the terminal and the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBIR is based on the other reported CRIs or SSBIRs; and

wherein using the quasi co-location (QCL)-type D configured to NZP CSI-RS resource indicated by each reported CRI to measure NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by the other reported CRIs for interference measurement.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there is one resource setting configured for the group-based SINR report and at least two non-zero-power channel state information reference signal (NZP CSI-RS) resources are configured in the resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resource indicated by each reported CRI is selected from the resource setting.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by the other reported CRIs.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI is further based on other interference signal on REs of NZP CSI-RS resource indicated by itself.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are two resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement and second resource setting configured with at least two CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one CSI-IM resource in the second resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block indicated by each reported CRI or SSBRI is selected from the first resource setting.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are two resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement and second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource in the second resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block indicated by each reported CRI or SSBRI is selected from the first resource setting.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are three resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement, second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources is used for interference measurement and third resource setting configured with one CSI-IM resource is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource in the second resource setting;

and NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block indicated by each reported CRI or SSBRI is selected from the first resource setting.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are two resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources is used for channel measurement, second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources is used for channel measurement; NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by some reported CRIs are selected from the first resource setting and NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by the other reported CRIs are selected from the second resource setting.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by the other reported CRIs.

13. The method according to claim 1 , there are three resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement, second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement and third resource setting configured with at least two CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one CSI-IM resource in the third resource setting; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the second resource setting is associated with one CSI-IM resource in the third resource setting; NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by some reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the first resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the second resource setting.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are four resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement; second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement; third resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; fourth resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource or CSI-IM resource in the third resource setting; NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the second resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource or CSI-IM resource in the fourth resource setting; NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by some reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the first resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the second resource setting.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein there are five resource settings configured for the group-based SINR report; first resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement; second resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks is used for channel measurement; third resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; fourth resource setting configured with at least two NZP CSI-RS resources or CSI-IM resources is used for interference measurement; fifth resource setting configured with one CSI-IM resource is used for interference measurement; each NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the first resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource or CSI-IM resource in the third resource setting; NZP CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block in the second resource setting is associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource or CSI-IM resource in the fourth resource setting; NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by some reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the first resource setting; and NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs are selected from the second resource setting.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBRI is based on NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks indicated by the other reported CRIs or SSBRIs.

19. A terminal device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to execute a communication method, comprising:

measuring, by the terminal device, at least two channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks selected from one or more resource settings configured for group-based SINR report;

calculating, by the terminal device, signal to interference noise ratios (SINRs) of CSI-RS resource indicators (CRIs) or SS/PBCH block resource indicators (SSBRIs) corresponding to the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks according to the measurement results of the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks; and

reporting, by the terminal device, the CRIs or SSBRIs and their SINRs to network device;

wherein the reported CRIs or SSBRIs are received simultaneously by the terminal and the interference measurement used for the SINR calculation of each reported CRI or SSBIR is based on the other reported CRIs or SSBIRs; and

wherein using the quasi co-location (QCL)-type D configured to NZP CSI-RS resource indicated by each reported CRI to measure NZP CSI-RS resources indicated by the other reported CRIs for interference measurement.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2022
From: GUO, LI
To: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060196/0017 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTCN2020127143 · Nov 6, 2020
Provisional Application 62932274 · Nov 7, 2019
Related Publication 20220264343A1 · Aug 18, 2022
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