Base station and user equipment
A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: transmit, to the at least one user equipment, a multi-level pre-emption indicator for indicating, as first level information, first information about resources used for at least one short-data transmission within a transmission region which may contain at least one long-data transmission of the at least one user equipment, and, as second level information, second information about the resources used for the short-data transmission, wherein the second information more accurately indicates the resources used than the first information.
1. Circuitry for a user equipment in a mobile telecommunications system, the circuitry comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry configured with the transceiver circuitry to receive, from at least one base station, a multi-level pre-emption indicator indicating, as first level information, first information about resources used for at least one short data transmission within a transmission region which may contain at least one long data transmission of the at least one user equipment, and, as second level information, second information about the resources used for the short-data transmission, wherein
the second information more accurately indicates the resources used more accurately than the first information indicates resources used,
the first level information indicates the resources used based on a first resource grid indicating the transmission region divided into first resource regions, and
the second level information indicates the resources used within the indicated first resource regions.
2. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second level information indicates the resources used based on a second resource grid dividing the indicated first resource regions into second resource regions, the second resource regions being smaller than the first resource regions.
3. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second resource grid is included in the multi-level pre-emption indicator or wherein the configuration of the second resource grid is radio resource control configured.
4. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first level information indicates resources used being logically associated with each other within the transmission region and wherein the second level information is referred to the logically associated resources.
5. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first level information or the second level information includes a two-dimensional bitmap.
6. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second level information indicates whether to ignore the first level information or not.
7. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first level information or the second level information is included in group common downlink control information.
8. The circuitry of claim 7 , wherein the first level information and the second level information are included in the same group common downlink control information.
9. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first level information and the second level information are transmitted with different periodicity and wherein the second level information includes information about a time interval associated with the first level information.
10. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second level information is included in user equipment specific downlink control information.
11. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second level information is included in each carrier of a carrier aggregation operation.
12. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first level information is transmitted in a primary carrier and the second level information is transmitted in a secondary carrier.
13. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the second level information is transmitted for different bandwidth parts.
14. The circuitry of claim 13 , wherein a same first level information is associated with the different bandwidth parts.
15. Circuitry for a base station of a mobile telecommunications system, the circuitry comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry configured with the transceiver circuitry to transmit, to at least one user equipment, a multi-level pre-emption indicator for indicating, as first level information, first information about resources used for at least one short-data transmission within a transmission region which may contain at least one long-data transmission of the at least one user equipment, and, as second level information, second information about the resources used for the short-data transmission, wherein
the second information indicates the resources used more accurately than the first information indicates resources used,
the first level information indicates the resources used based on a first resource grid indicating the transmission region divided into first resource regions, and
the second level information indicates the resources used within the indicated first resource regions.
16. The circuitry of claim 15 , wherein the second level information indicates the resources used based on a second resource grid dividing the indicated first resource regions into second resource regions, the second resource regions being smaller than the first resource regions.
17. The circuitry of claim 15 , wherein the second resource grid is included in the multi-level pre-emption indicator or wherein the configuration of the second resource grid is radio resource control configured.
18. The circuitry of claim 15 , wherein the first level information indicates resources used being logically associated with each other within the transmission region and wherein the second level information is referred to the logically associated resources.
19. The circuitry of claim 15 , wherein the first level information or the second level information is included in group common downlink control information.
20. The circuitry of claim 19 , wherein the first level information and the second level information are included in the same group common downlink control information.