Signal reception apparatus and method and communications system
A terminal includes a memory, and processor circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to receive a first signal including first control information at a first time domain resource section according to an assumption that a network device uses a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, the first signal being physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first control information being downlink control information (DCI), and receive a second signal at a second time domain resource section according to an assumption that the network device uses a second transmission configuration indication state, a starting position of the second time domain resource section being determined according to a reference time domain resource section, the reference time domain resource section being a time domain symbol at a last position in the PDCCH where the DCI is located on a time axis.
1. A terminal comprising:
a memory; and
processor circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to:
receive a first signal including first control information at a first time domain resource section according to an assumption that a network device uses a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, the first signal being physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first control information being downlink control information (DCI); and
receive a second signal at a second time domain resource section according to an assumption that the network device uses a second transmission configuration indication state, a starting position of the second time domain resource section being determined according to a reference time domain resource section, the reference time domain resource section being a time domain symbol at a last position in the PDCCH where the DCI is located on a time axis.
2. The terminal according to the claim 1 , wherein
the processor circuitry is further configured to receive a third signal at a third time domain resource section based on an assumption that the network device uses a third transmission configuration indication state, the third time domain resource section starting from an S-th time domain resource unit after the reference time domain resource section, S being indicated by the first control information, and S being a natural number.
3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the processor circuitry is further configured to detect the first control information in one of configured control resource sets (CORESET).
4. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein,
the reference time domain resource section is a time domain resource unit at a last position on a time axis in a configured control resource set.
5. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein,
the reference time domain resource section is a time domain resource unit at a last position of a resource where a search space set in a configured control resource set is located on a time axis.
6. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the reference time domain resource section is a time domain resource unit at a last position in a control resource set where the first control information is located on a time axis.
7. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the reference time domain resource section is a time domain resource unit at a last position of a resource where a search space set is located on a time axis, the search space set being in a control resource set where the first control information is located.
8. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein,
the second signal is a first data channel, the first control information being used to indicate to receive the first data channel,
the third signal is a second data channel, the first control information being used to indicate to receive the second data channel, and
the first data channel and the second data channel being identical or different.
9. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the second signal includes second control information, the first control information being used to indicate a transmission parameter of the second control information, the transmission parameter including at least one of the following: channel coding, a coding rate, a modulation scheme, a time-frequency resource position, and a transmission configuration indication state.
10. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the second time domain resource section starts from the reference time domain resource section, or
the second time domain resource section starts from a time domain resource unit next to the reference time domain resource section, or
the second time domain resource section starts from an N-th time domain resource unit after the reference time domain resource section, N being indicated by the first control information, and N being a natural number.
11. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the first transmission configuration indication state is identical to the second transmission configuration indication state.
12. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein,
the first transmission configuration indication state is different from the second transmission configuration indication state.
13. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein,
the first time domain resource section includes at least one time domain resource unit, the second time domain resource section includes at least one time domain resource unit, and the third time domain resource section includes at least one time domain resource unit, the time domain resource units being time domain symbols, or slots, or subframes.
14. A network device comprising:
a memory; and
processor circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to:
transmit, to a terminal, a first signal including first control information at a first time domain resource section, the first signal being received by the terminal according to an assumption that a network device uses a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, the first signal being physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first control information being downlink control information (DCI); and
transmit, to the terminal, a second signal at a second time domain resource section, the second signal being received by the terminal according to an assumption that the network device uses a second transmission configuration indication state, a starting position of the second time domain resource section being determined according to a reference time domain resource section, the reference time domain resource section being a time domain symbol at a last position in the PDCCH where the DCI is located on a time axis.
15. A communication system comprising:
a network device configured to:
transmit a first signal including first control information at a first time domain resource section, the first signal being physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first control information being downlink control information (DCI), and
transmit a second signal at a second time domain resource section, a starting position of the second time domain resource section being determined according to a reference time domain resource section, the reference time domain resource section being a time domain symbol at a last position in the PDCCH where the DCI is located on a time axis; and
a terminal configured to:
receive the first signal at the first time domain according to an assumption that a network device uses a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state,
receive the second signal at the second time domain resource section according to an assumption that the network device uses a second transmission configuration indication state.