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US 12,745,268 · App. 18/257,582 · Granted Sep 22, 2026

Resource management method and device in wireless communication system

Inventors: Hoon Dong Noh (Daejeon, KR); Moon Sik Lee (Daejeon, KR); Jae Seung Lee (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04W72/27H04W16/28H04W72/0446H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 12,745,268
App. No.
18/257,582
Granted
Sep 22, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A resource management method carried out by an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: receiving, from an upper-level node of an IAB node, a first upper layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node; receiving, from the upper-level node of the IAB node, a second upper layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node; and, on the basis of the first and second upper layer signaling signals, determining that an IAB-mobile terminal (IAB-MT) and an IAB-distributed unit (IAB-DU) constituting the IAB node carry out communication by being multiplexed by any one scheme among time division, frequency division and spatial division.

Claims (38)

1 . A resource management method performed by an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a communication system, the resource management method comprising:

obtaining, based on at least one higher layer signaling signal received from an upper node of the IAB node, first information for resource configuration of the IAB node;

obtaining, based on the at least one higher layer signaling signal received from the upper node, second information for resource configuration of the IAB node; and

determining a multiplexing communication of an IAB-mobile terminal (MT) and an IAB-distributed unit (DU) constituting the IAB node based on at least one of the first information and the second information,

wherein in the determining, the IAB node determines whether frequency division multiplexing is applied to the multiplexing communication of the IAB-MT and the IAB-DU.

2 . The resource management method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information includes at least one of information on a communication direction configured for the IAB-MT and information on a communication direction configured for the IAB-DU in a time domain, and the communication direction includes at least one of downlink (DL), uplink (UL), flexible and a combination thereof.

3 . The resource management method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information includes at least one of a hard/soft/not-available (HSNA) configuration configured for the IAB-MT and an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-DU in a time domain.

4 . The resource management method according to claim 1 , wherein the second information includes information on a simultaneous operation (SO) scheme of the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT.

5 . The resource management method according to claim 4 , wherein the information on the simultaneous operation scheme includes at least one of:

a first case in which both the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT perform transmissions;

a second case in which both the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT perform receptions;

a third case in which the IAB-DU performs reception and the IAB-MT performs transmission;

a fourth case in which the IAB-DU performs transmission and the IAB-MT performs reception; and

a fifth case in which radio resources used by the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT are multiplexed in the frequency division scheme.

6 . The resource management method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information includes at least one of an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-MT and an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-DU in a frequency domain.

7 . The resource management method according to claim 1 , further comprising, before the determining, receiving, from the upper node, at least one physical layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node, wherein in the determining, the IAB-MT and the IAB-DU are determined to perform communications by being multiplexed, based on at least one of the first information, the second information and the at least one physical layer signaling signal.

8 . The resource management method according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one physical layer signaling signal includes information related to an availability indicator (AI) for a soft resource of the IAB-MT or the IAB-DU.

9 . The resource management method according to claim 8 , wherein the information related to the AI for the soft resource includes information on availability of at least one of a DL soft resource, a UL soft resource, a flexible soft resource and a simultaneous operation (SO) soft resource.

10 . The resource management method according to claim 8 , wherein the information related to the AI for the soft resource includes information related to an HSNA configuration configured for at least one of the IAB-MT and IAB-DU in a frequency domain included in the first information.

11 . A resource management method performed by a first communication node in a communication system, the resource management method comprising:

generating at least one higher layer signaling signal including first information and second information for resource configuration of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node that is a lower node of the first communication node;

transmitting, to the IAB node, the at least one higher layer signaling signal; and

performing communication with the IAB node based on a multiplexing communication determined by the IAB node based on at least one of the first information and the second information,

wherein the multiplexing communication is a communication based on multiplexing of an IAB-mobile terminal (MT) and an IAB-distributed unit (DU) constituting the IAB node, and whether frequency division multiplexing is applied to the multiplexing communication of the IAB-MT and the IAB-DU is determined based on at least one of the first information and the second information.

12 . The resource management method according to claim 11 , wherein the first information includes at least one of information on a communication direction configured for the IAB-MT and information on a communication direction configured for the IAB-DU in a time domain, and the communication direction includes at least one of downlink (DL), uplink (UL), flexible and a combination thereof.

13 . The resource management method according to claim 11 , wherein the first information includes at least one of a hard/soft/not-available (HSNA) configuration configured for the LAB-MT and an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-DU in a time domain.

14 . The resource management method according to claim 11 , wherein the second information includes information on a simultaneous operation (SO) scheme of the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT.

15 . The resource management method according to claim 14 , wherein the information on the simultaneous operation scheme includes at least one of:

a first case in which both the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT perform transmissions;

a second case in which both the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT perform receptions;

a third case in which the IAB-DU performs reception and the IAB-MT performs transmission;

a fourth case in which the IAB-DU performs transmission and the IAB-MT performs reception; and

a fifth case in which radio resources used by the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT are multiplexed in the frequency division scheme.

16 . The resource management method according to claim 11 , wherein the first information includes at least one of an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-MT and an HSNA configuration configured for the IAB-DU in a frequency domain.

17 . The resource management method according to claim 11 , further comprising, before the performing, transmitting, to the IAB node, at least one physical layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node.

18 . The resource management method according to claim 17 , wherein the at least one physical layer signaling signal includes information related to an availability indicator (AI) for a soft resource of the IAB-MT or the IAB-DU.

19 . The resource management method according to claim 18 , wherein the information related to the AI for the soft resource includes information on availability of at least one of a DL soft resource, a UL soft resource, a flexible soft resource and a simultaneous operation (SO) soft resource.

20 . The resource management method according to claim 18 , wherein the information related to the AI for the soft resource includes information related to an HSNA configuration configured for at least one of the IAB-MT and IAB-DU in a frequency domain included in the first information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2023
From: NOH, HOON DONG; LEE, MOON SIK; LEE, JAE SEUNG
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 063954/0654 →
Priority Claims (3)
KR 10-2020-0175772 · Dec 15, 2020 · national
KR 10-2021-0111100 · Aug 23, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0180169 · Dec 15, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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