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US 12,432,747 · App. 17/982,848 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Frequency domain resource assignment method and device

Inventors: Gen Li (Dongguan, CN); Zichao Ji (Dongguan, CN); Siqi Liu (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,432,747
App. No.
17/982,848
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A frequency domain resource assignment method includes: receiving downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts; and determining, based on a frequency domain resource assignment field in the downlink control information, frequency domain resources of the terminal on at least part of the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

Claims (102)

1. A frequency domain resource assignment method, performed by a terminal and comprising:

receiving downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts; and

determining, based on a frequency domain resource assignment field in the downlink control information, frequency domain resources of the terminal on at least part of the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

wherein one information bit in the frequency domain resource assignment field indicates frequency domain resources assigned to at least two scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment field is determined based on joint coding of frequency domain resources assigned to the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the frequency domain resource assignment field is related to N i and T, wherein

T represents a quantity of scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts, and T is a positive integer; and

N i represents a quantity of frequency domain resources of an i-th scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part, or

N i =K i −L i +1, K i is a quantity of frequency domain resources of an i-th scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part, and L i is a minimum or maximum quantity of frequency domain resources that can be assigned to the i-th scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part, wherein i=0, 1, . . . , T−1.

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5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the information bit indicates:

a start frequency domain resource and a quantity of frequency domain resources assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

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a start frequency domain resource and an end frequency domain resource of frequency domain resources assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

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a start frequency domain resource of frequency domain resources assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts and a quantity of frequency domain resources actually assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

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a start frequency domain resource of frequency domain resources assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts, and a difference between a quantity of frequency domain resources actually assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts and a minimum or maximum quantity of frequency domain resources that can be assigned to the scheduled at least two carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein a number of the frequency domain resource is an independent number of a frequency domain resource of each scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part;

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the number of the frequency domain resource is a joint number of frequency domain resources of all scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment field comprises: an index corresponding to one or more resource indication values.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

receiving a resource indication value list configured by a network device for each scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part, wherein the index indicates a position of a resource indication value in the resource indication value list.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein a size of the frequency domain resource assignment field is related to a quantity of resource indication values in a resource indication value list of each scheduled carrier, cell, or bandwidth part.

10. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

receiving a resource indication value list jointly configured by a network device for the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts, wherein the index indicates a position of a resource indication value in the resource indication value list.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein a size of the frequency domain resource assignment field is related to a quantity of resource indication values in a jointly configured resource indication value list.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment field comprises: indexes corresponding to frequency domain resource sets, and the frequency domain resource sets satisfy a preset condition.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the preset condition comprises one or more of following:

a quantity of frequency domain resources in the frequency domain resource set is greater than or equal to a first preset value; and

a ratio of the quantity of frequency domain resources in the frequency domain resource set to a quantity of frequency domain resources that can be assigned to the scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts is greater than or equal to a second preset value; and/or

a size of the frequency domain resource assignment field is related to the quantity of the frequency domain resource sets; and/or

the indexes indicate that the frequency domain resource sets are arranged in an ascending or a descending order based on corresponding resource indication values.

14. A frequency domain resource assignment method, performed by a network device and comprising:

sending downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts, wherein

a frequency domain resource assignment field in the downlink control information is used to obtain frequency domain resources of the network device on at least part of the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

wherein one information bit in the frequency domain resource assignment field indicates frequency domain resources assigned to at least two scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment field is determined based on assignment joint coding of frequency domain resources assigned to the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

16. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the frequency domain resource assignment field comprises: an index corresponding to one or more resource indication values; or

the frequency domain resource assignment field comprises: indexes corresponding to frequency domain resource sets, and a frequency domain resource in the frequency domain resource sets satisfies a preset condition.

17. A communications device, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein when the program is executed by the processor, steps of the method according to claim 14 are implemented.

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

receiving downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts; and

determining, based on a frequency domain resource assignment field in the downlink control information, frequency domain resources of the communications device on at least part of the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts;

wherein one information bit in the frequency domain resource assignment field indicates frequency domain resources assigned to at least two scheduled carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 8, 2022
From: LI, GEN; JI, ZICHAO; LIU, SIQI
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010383540.8 · May 8, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021091862 · May 6, 2021
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