IP Library Granted Patent US 11,757,680
Granted Patent B2
US 11,757,680 · App. 17/862,584 · Granted Sep 12, 2023

Reference signal sending and receiving methods, device and storage medium

Inventors: Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN); YuNgok Li (Shenzhen, CN); Yuxin Wang (Shenzhen, CN); Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, CN); Hao Wu (Shenzhen, CN); Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
H04L25/0226H04B1/7143H04L5/0051H04L5/0092H04W24/10H04W80/08
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Patent No.
US 11,757,680
App. No.
17/862,584
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a reference signal sending method and device, a reference signal receiving method and device and a storage medium. The reference signal sending method includes: determining that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, where the predetermined condition includes: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal, and a union of the discontinuous frequency bands occupied by the reference signal is smaller than a frequency hopping bandwidth; and sending the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions; wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth is a bandwidth determined according to two frequency domain positions with a largest distance among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal or a predetermined bandwidth acquired by receiving a first signaling message; and wherein each frequency band comprises a physical resource block (PRB).

Claims (308)

1. A reference signal sending method, comprising:

determining that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition comprises: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal, and a union of the discontinuous frequency bands occupied by the reference signal is smaller than a frequency hopping bandwidth, wherein each frequency band comprises a physical resource block (PRB); and

sending the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions;

wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth is a bandwidth determined according to two frequency domain positions with a largest distance among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal and is a predetermined bandwidth acquired by receiving a first signaling message, wherein the predetermined bandwidth refers to a bandwidth corresponding to frequency hopping range configuration b hop notified by the first signaling message, wherein b hop is a frequency domain bandwidth level index; and

wherein in response to determining that a frequency domain bandwidth level does not belong to a frequency hopping bandwidth level set of the reference signal, the frequency domain bandwidth index occupied by the reference signal is a fixed value and a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the reference signal is a proper subset of a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level;

wherein one frequency domain bandwidth with a frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1) comprises one or more frequency domain bandwidths with a frequency domain bandwidth level of N, one or more frequency domain bandwidths exist under one frequency domain bandwidth level, and the frequency domain bandwidth index is indexes of a plurality of frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); and

wherein the frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level comprises a set of indexes of all frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal comprises at least one of:

in one frequency hopping period, the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal; or

the discontinuous frequency bands existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping;

wherein the frequency hopping period satisfies at least one of following characteristics:

in different frequency hopping periods, a repeated frequency band existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signals;

in different frequency hopping periods, frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal being the same; or

a relationship item in a first mapping relationship and a relationship item in a second mapping relationship having a corresponding relationship, wherein the first mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a first frequency hopping period and a time domain parameter, and the second mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a second frequency hopping period and the time domain parameter.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined condition further comprises:

frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping are distributed at equal intervals over the frequency hopping bandwidth.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain positions k(t) occupied by the reference signal are determined in the following manner:

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5. The method of claim 1 , wherein in response to determining that frequency domain bandwidths of the reference signal have a plurality of levels, the method further comprises:

receiving a second signaling message, wherein the second signaling message comprises at least one of following information: a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal at each frequency domain bandwidth level, or a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving physical layer dynamic control signaling, wherein the physical layer dynamic control signaling carries time domain offset information of the reference signal;

transmitting the reference signal according to the time domain offset information of the reference signal.

7. A reference signal receiving method, comprising:

determining that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition comprises: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal, and a union of the discontinuous frequency bands occupied by the reference signal is smaller than a frequency hopping bandwidth, wherein each frequency band comprises a physical resource block (PRB); and

receiving the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions;

wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth is a bandwidth determined according to two frequency domain positions with a largest distance among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal and is a predetermined bandwidth notified by sending a first signaling message, wherein the predetermined bandwidth refers to a bandwidth corresponding to frequency hopping range configuration b hop notified by the first signaling message, wherein b hop is a frequency domain bandwidth level index; and

wherein in response to determining that a frequency domain bandwidth level does not belong to a frequency hopping bandwidth level set of the reference signal, the frequency domain bandwidth index occupied by the reference signal is a fixed value and a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the reference signal is a proper subset of a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level;

wherein one frequency domain bandwidth with a frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1) comprises one or more frequency domain bandwidths with a frequency domain bandwidth level of N, one or more frequency domain bandwidths exist under one frequency domain bandwidth level, and the frequency domain bandwidth index is indexes of a plurality of frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); and

wherein the frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level comprises a set of indexes of all frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth level set satisfies:

a maximum level in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set is smaller than a first level, wherein the first level is a maximum frequency domain bandwidth level among frequency domain bandwidth levels corresponding to the reference signal.

9. A non-transitory storage medium, which stores a program, wherein when the program is executed, the reference signal sending method of claim 1 or the reference signal receiving method of claim 7 is performed.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal comprises at least one of:

in one frequency hopping period, the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal; or

the discontinuous frequency bands existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping;

wherein the frequency hopping period satisfies at least one of following characteristics:

in different frequency hopping periods, a repeated frequency band existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signals;

in different frequency hopping periods, frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal being the same; or

a relationship item in a first mapping relationship and a relationship item in a second mapping relationship having a corresponding relationship, wherein the first mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a first frequency hopping period and a time domain parameter, and the second mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a second frequency hopping period and the time domain parameter.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predetermined condition further comprises: frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping are distributed at equal intervals over the frequency hopping bandwidth.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

transmitting physical layer dynamic control signaling, wherein the physical layer dynamic control signaling carries time domain offset information of the reference signal;

receiving the reference signal according to the time domain offset information of the reference signal.

13. The method of claim 7 , wherein in response to determining that frequency domain bandwidths of the reference signal have a plurality of levels, the method further comprises:

sending a second signaling message, wherein the second signaling message comprises at least one of following information: a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal at each frequency domain bandwidth level, or a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set.

14. A reference signal receiving device, comprising: a processor and a memory storing a program instruction, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program instruction to perform the reference signal receiving method of claim 7 .

15. The method of claim 7 , wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth level set satisfies:

a maximum level in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set is smaller than a first level, wherein the first level is a maximum frequency domain bandwidth level among frequency domain bandwidth levels corresponding to the reference signal.

16. A reference signal sending device, comprising: a processor and a memory storing a program instruction executable by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition comprises: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal, and a union of the discontinuous frequency bands occupied by the reference signal is smaller than a frequency hopping bandwidth, wherein each frequency band comprises a physical resource block (PRB); and

send the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions;

wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth is a bandwidth determined according to two frequency domain positions with a largest distance among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal and is a predetermined bandwidth acquired by receiving a first signaling message, wherein the predetermined bandwidth refers to a bandwidth corresponding to frequency hopping range configuration b hop notified by the first signaling message, wherein b hop is a frequency domain bandwidth level index; and

wherein in response to determining that a frequency domain bandwidth level does not belong to a frequency hopping bandwidth level set of the reference signal, the frequency domain bandwidth index occupied by the reference signal is a fixed value and a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the reference signal is a proper subset of a frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level;

wherein one frequency domain bandwidth with a frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1) comprises one or more frequency domain bandwidths with a frequency domain bandwidth level of N, one or more frequency domain bandwidths exist under one frequency domain bandwidth level, and the frequency domain bandwidth index is indexes of a plurality of frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); and

wherein the frequency domain bandwidth index set corresponding to the frequency domain bandwidth level comprises a set of indexes of all frequency domain bandwidths with the frequency domain bandwidth level of N comprised by the one frequency domain bandwidth with the frequency domain bandwidth level of (N−1); wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

17. The device of claim 16 , wherein the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal comprises at least one of:

in one frequency hopping period, the discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal; or

the discontinuous frequency bands existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping;

wherein the frequency hopping period satisfies at least one of following characteristics:

in different frequency hopping periods, a repeated frequency band existing among frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signals;

in different frequency hopping periods, frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal being the same; or

a relationship item in a first mapping relationship and a relationship item in a second mapping relationship having a corresponding relationship, wherein the first mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a first frequency hopping period and a time domain parameter, and the second mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a second frequency hopping period and the time domain parameter.

18. The device of claim 16 , wherein the predetermined condition further comprises: frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal in a manner of frequency hopping are distributed at equal intervals over the frequency hopping bandwidth.

19. The device of claim 16 , wherein in response to determining that frequency domain bandwidths of the reference signal have a plurality of levels, the processor is further configured to receive a second signaling message;

wherein the second signaling message comprises at least one of following information: a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal at each frequency domain bandwidth level, or a frequency domain bandwidth index set of hopping of the reference signal in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set.

20. The device of claim 16 , wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth level set satisfies:

a maximum level in the frequency hopping bandwidth level set is smaller than a first level, wherein the first level is a maximum frequency domain bandwidth level among frequency domain bandwidth levels corresponding to the reference signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2022
From: ZHANG, SHUJUAN; LU, ZHAOHUA; LI, YUNGOK; WANG, YUXIN; JIANG, CHUANGXIN; WU, HAO; ZHANG, NAN
To: ZTE CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
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