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Granted Patent B2
US 12,004,095 · App. 16/875,388 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Communication method and communications device

Inventors: Qiong Jia (Shanghai, CN); Jun Zhu (Shenzhen, CN); Ji Wu (Shanghai, CN); Jin Liu (Shenzhen, CN); Jun Luo (Kista, SE)
Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
H04W56/001H04L1/1614H04L27/2673H04W72/0453H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 12,004,095
App. No.
16/875,388
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: determining configuration information of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks located at different frequency domain positions on one carrier, where the configuration information indicates configuration parameters of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks, the configuration parameter comprises configuration pattern indication information, and the configuration pattern indication information indicates synchronization signal blocks actually sent; and sending the configuration information to a terminal device.

Claims (40)

1. A method, performed by a terminal device or a chip for the terminal device, comprising:

receiving configuration information from a network device; wherein the configuration information comprises a plurality of configuration parameters of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, the plurality of synchronization signal blocks comprising different synchronization signal block bursts located at different frequency domain positions, each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters comprises respective transmission pattern information, each respective transmission pattern information indicates actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks in a synchronization signal block burst, and wherein each respective transmission pattern information is a bitmap; and

determining the actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks based on the configuration information; and

wherein, for each respective transmission pattern information, the bitmap of the respective transmission pattern information includes a plurality of bits, and each bit indicates whether there is a synchronization signal block at a position corresponding to the bit; and

wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises a period for a synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the configuration information is received through radio resource control signaling.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises:

an absolute value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter; or

an offset value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks corresponding to the respective configuration parameter relative to a specific parameter.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises time domain position information of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

5. An apparatus, comprising:

a storage medium including executable instructions; and

a processor; wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive configuration information from a network device, wherein the configuration information comprises a plurality of configuration parameters of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, the plurality of synchronization signal blocks comprising different synchronization signal block bursts located at different frequency domain positions, each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters comprises respective transmission pattern information, each respective transmission pattern information indicates actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks in a synchronization signal block burst, and wherein each respective transmission pattern information is a bitmap; and

determining the actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks based on the configuration information; and

wherein, for each respective transmission pattern information, the bitmap of the respective transmission pattern information includes a plurality of bits, each bit of the plurality of bits indicates whether there is a synchronization signal block at a position corresponding to the bit, and each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises a period for a synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the configuration information is received through radio resource control signaling.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises:

an absolute value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter; or

an offset value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter relative to a specific parameter.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises time domain position information of a synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a storage medium including executable instructions; and

a processor;

wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

determine configuration information of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, wherein the plurality of synchronization signal blocks comprising different synchronization signal block bursts located at different frequency domain positions, the configuration information comprises a plurality of configuration parameters of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks, each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters comprises respective transmission pattern information, and each respective transmission pattern information indicates actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks in a synchronization signal block burst, and wherein each respective transmission pattern information is a bitmap; and

send the configuration information and the actually transmitted synchronization signal blocks to a terminal device; and

wherein, for each respective transmission pattern information, the bitmap of the respective transmission pattern information includes a plurality of bits, and each bit indicates whether there is a synchronization signal block at a position corresponding to the bit, and each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises a period of a synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the configuration information is sent through radio resource control signaling.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises:

an absolute value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter; or

an offset value of a frequency domain position of the synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter relative to a specific parameter.

12. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein each configuration parameter of the plurality of configuration parameters further comprises time domain position information of a synchronization signal block of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks that corresponds to the respective configuration parameter.

13. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

performing rate matching according to the configuration information.

14. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to:

perform rate matching according to the configuration information.

15. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the configuration information is usable for rate matching by the apparatus.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein all of the plurality of configuration parameters are different from each other.

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of configuration parameters contains at least one common characteristic.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2020
From: JIA, QIONG; ZHU, JUN; WU, JI; LIU, JIN; LUO, JUN
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053938/0875 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201711149026.2 · Nov 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2018111002 · Oct 19, 2018
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