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Granted Patent B2
US 11,375,511 · App. 16/636,587 · Granted Jun 28, 2022

Method for transmitting and receiving slot setting information in communication system

Inventors: Hoi Yoon Jung (Daejeon, KR); Sung Ik Park (Daejeon, KR); Heung Mook Kim (Daejeon, KR); Nam Ho Hur (Sejong, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04W72/0493H04L27/26025H04W72/042H04W72/0446H04W72/1289H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 11,375,511
App. No.
16/636,587
Granted
Jun 28, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for transmitting and receiving slot setting information in a communication system is disclosed. An operating method of a UE comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first upper layer message including SFI for indicating a format of a slot; receiving, from the base station, DCI or a second upper layer message for indicating a use of a flexible symbol belonging to the slot set by the SFI; and determining the flexible symbol belonging to the slot as a DL symbol or a UL symbol on the basis of the second upper layer message or the DCI. Therefore, a performance of a communication system can be improved.

Claims (21)

1. An operation method of a user equipment (UE) in a communication system, the operation method comprising:

receiving from a base station a cell-specific radio resource control (RRC) message including slot format configuration and a slot configuration period to which the slot format configuration is applied, the slot format configuration including information indicating a number of downlink (DL) symbols and information indicating a number of uplink (UL) symbols;

receiving from the base station a UE-specific RRC message indicating a use of a flexible symbol belonging to the slot configuration period to which the slot format configuration is applied; and

determining the flexible symbol as a DL symbol, an UL symbol, or a flexible symbol based on the UE-specific RRC message.

2. The operation method according to claim 1 , wherein a slot configured by the slot format configuration includes one or more DL symbols, one or more UL symbols, and one or more flexible symbols.

3. The operation method according to claim 1 , further comprising, when the flexible symbol is determined as a DL symbol, receiving from the base station at least one of a DL channel and a DL signal in the flexible symbol.

4. The operation method according to claim 1 , further comprising, when the flexible symbol is determined as a UL symbol, transmitting to the base station at least one of a UL channel and a UL signal in the flexible symbol.

5. The operation method according to claim 1 , wherein an operation for transmitting or receiving a channel or a signal is not performed in the flexible symbol when the flexible symbol is determined to be maintained based on the UE-specific RRC message.

6. An operation method of a base station in a communication system, the operation method comprising:

transmitting a cell-specific radio resource control (RRC) message including a slot format configuration and a slot configuration period to which the slot format configuration is applied, the slot format configuration including information indicating a number of DL symbols and information indicating a number of UL symbols; and

transmitting downlink control information (DCI) indicating a use of a flexible symbol belonging to the slot configuration period to which the slot format configuration is applied,

wherein the flexible symbol is determined as a DL symbol, an UL symbol, or a flexible symbol based on the DCI.

7. The operation method according to claim 6 , wherein the DCI includes scheduling information indicating whether the flexible symbol is used for downlink transmission or uplink transmission.

8. The operation method according to claim 6 , further comprising, when the flexible symbol is determined as a DL symbol, transmitting to the UE at least one of a DL channel and a DL signal in the flexible symbol.

9. The operation method according to claim 6 , further comprising, when the flexible symbol is determined as a UL symbol, receiving from the UE at least one of a UL channel and a UL signal in the flexible symbol.

10. An operation method of a user equipment (UE) in a communication system, the operation method comprising:

receiving from a base station a slot format indication (SFI) indicating a format of a slot #i belonging to a bandwidth part #1 having a subcarrier spacing of m kHz;

determining types of symbols included in the slot #i based on the SFI; and

determining types of symbols included in slots #j to #(j+2 u -1) belonging to a bandwidth part #2 having a subcarrier spacing of 2 u ×m kHz based on the SFI,

wherein m is 15, 30, 60, 120 or 240, u is an integer equal to or greater than 1, each of i and j is an integer equal to or greater than 0, a type of each of the symbols is a downlink (DL) symbol, a flexible symbol, or an uplink (UL) symbol, a type of a symbol #p belonging to each of the slots #j to #(j+2 u -1) is determined to be identical to a type of a symbol #p belonging to the slot #i, a number of symbols belonging to each of the slots #j to #(j+2 u -1) is equal to a number of symbols belonging to the slot #i, and p is an integer equal to or greater than 0.

11. The operation method according to claim 10 , wherein the SFI is received from the base station through a-downlink control information (DCI), and the DCI further includes information indicating a slot configuration period for which the SFI is applied.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2020
From: JUNG, HOI YOON; PARK, SUNG IK; KIM, HEUNG MOOK; HUR, NAM HO
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Priority Claims (3)
KR 10-2017-0102973 · Aug 14, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0128144 · Sep 29, 2017 · national
KR 10-2018-0027086 · Mar 7, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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