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US 12,739,847 · App. 18/250,217 · Granted Sep 15, 2026

Transmission resource determination method and apparatus, and storage medium

Inventors: Lei Song (Beijing, CN); Xin Su (Beijing, CN); Qiubin Gao (Beijing, CN); Lei Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
H04W72/232H04W72/12
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Patent No.
US 12,739,847
App. No.
18/250,217
Granted
Sep 15, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a determining transmission resources method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes receiving first configuration information transmitted by a network side device, and the first configuration information is used for indicating a repetition of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and determining an association between resources used by two or more repetitions of PDCCH or determining the resources used by the two or more repetitions of PDCCH based on one or more of the first configuration information, a first PDCCH association configured by the network side device and a predefined second PDCCH association. The present disclosure can reduce the complexity of blind detection of a terminal device and the number and range of attempts for blind combination.

Claims (44)

1 . A method for determining a transmission resource, comprising:

receiving first configuration information transmitted by a network side device, wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating a repetition of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and

determining, based on a first PDCCH association configured by the network side device and a predefined second PDCCH association, an association between two or more repetitions of PDCCH,

wherein the first PDCCH association comprises an association between two or more search space set (SS set) indexes; periodicities and offsets of the two or more SS set are same, and

the second PDCCH association comprises: the PDCCH is transmitted in PDCCH candidates having a same PDCCH candidate index in different SS sets, wherein the PDCCH candidates having the same PDCCH candidate index have a same aggregation level.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining one or more of a SS set to be monitored, a PDCCH candidate and a CORESET based on a periodicity and/or offset configured by a higher layer parameter and a periodicity and/or offset configured for the SS set;

wherein the determining the one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate and the CORESET based on the periodicity and/or offset configured by the higher layer parameter and the periodicity and/or offset configured for the SS set comprises any one of:

determining the one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate or the CORESET as an intersection of the periodicity and/or offset configured by the higher layer parameter and the periodicity and/or offset configured for the SS set; and

determining one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate or the CORESET as a union of the periodicity and/or offset configured by the higher layer parameter and the periodicity and/or offset configured for the SS set.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining the number of the determined one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate and the CORESET as an actual repetition number;

wherein the determining the number of the determined one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate and the CORESET as an actual repetition number comprises any one of:

determining the number of the determined one or more of the SS set to be monitored, the PDCCH candidate and the CORESET as the actual repetition number, wherein one or more of each SS set, each PDCCH candidate and each CORESET carry one repetition; and

determining a predefined repetition number as the actual repetition number, and determining that a SS set or a PDCCH candidate with a smaller index carries two or more repetitions in case that the number of SS sets or PDCCH candidates is less than the predefined repetition number.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PDCCH association further comprises:

two or more dedicated SS set indexes.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating one or more of:

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to same DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to different parts of same DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to different DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to two or more DCI with different information fields or different DCI formats;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to two or more DCI for scheduling the same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or the same physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to DCI with the same purpose; and

a PDCCH multiplexing transmission scheme being one or more of: time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing, space division multiplexing, intra-CORESET multiplexing, inter-CORESET multiplexing, intra-slot multiplexing and inter-slot multiplexing.

6 . A method for determining a transmission resource, comprising:

transmitting first configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating a repetition of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH),

wherein a first PDCCH association configured by a network side device and a predefined second PDCCH association are used for determining an association between two or more repetitions of PDCCH,

wherein the first PDCCH association comprises an association between two or more search space set (SS set) indexes; periodicities and offsets of the two or more SS set are same, and

the second PDCCH association comprises: the PDCCH is transmitted in PDCCH candidates having a same PDCCH candidate index in different SS sets, wherein the PDCCH candidates having the same PDCCH candidate index have a same aggregation level.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating one or more of:

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to same DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to different parts of same DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to different DCI;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to two or more DCI with different information fields or different DCI formats;

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to two or more DCI for scheduling the same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or the same physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH);

the repetition of the PDCCH corresponding to DCI with the same purpose; and

a PDCCH multiplexing transmission scheme being one or more of: time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing, space division multiplexing, intra-CORESET multiplexing intra-CORESET multiplexing, intra-slot multiplexing and inter-slot multiplexing.

8 . A network side device, comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the method of claim 6 .

9 . A terminal device, comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive first configuration information transmitted by a network side device, wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating a repetition of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and

determine, based on a first PDCCH association configured by the network side device and a predefined second PDCCH association, an association between two or more repetitions of PDCCH,

wherein the first PDCCH association comprises an association between two or more search space set (SS set) indexes; periodicities and offsets of the two or more SS set are same, and

the second PDCCH association comprises: the PDCCH is transmitted in PDCCH candidates having a same PDCCH candidate index in different SS sets, wherein the PDCCH candidates having the same PDCCH candidate index have a same aggregation level.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2023
From: SONG, LEI; SU, XIN; GAO, QIUBIN; WANG, LEI
To: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202011149241.4 · Oct 23, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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