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US 12,200,785 · App. 17/423,792 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

User equipment and base station, and method executed by user equipment and base station

Inventors: Neng Ye (Beijing, CN); Xiangming Li (Beijing, CN); Wenjia Liu (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W76/11
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Patent No.
US 12,200,785
App. No.
17/423,792
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user equipment and a base station that can be used in a wireless communication system, or a method executed by a user equipment and a base station. The user equipment in the embodiments of the present invention includes: a control unit, configured to acquire a multiple access signature, wherein the multiple access signature is determined, from a multiple access signature pool, according to activation information of the user equipment, and the activation information of the user equipment is related to the activation of the user equipment; and a sending unit, configured to use the multiple access signature to send data.

Claims (29)

1. A user equipment, comprising:

a control unit configured to acquire a multiple access signature, the multiple access signature being determined from a multiple access signature pool according to activation information of the user equipment, the activation information of the user equipment being related to activation of the user equipment;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit data by using the multiple access signature,

wherein:

the control unit acquires the activation information of the user equipment according to at least one of historical activation information and higher layer activation information, wherein the historical activation information indicates information related to historical activation behaviors of the user equipment, and the higher layer activation information is information related to activation of the user equipment notified by a higher layer.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein:

the control unit acquires the multiple access signature determined by the user equipment from the multiple access signature pool according to the activation information.

3. The user equipment of claim 2 , wherein:

the user equipment further comprises a receiving unit configured to receive information about a group of multiple access signatures transmitted by a base station, the information about the group of multiple access signatures being used to indicate at least one group of multiple access signatures in the multiple access signature pool, and each group of multiple access signatures including at least one multiple access signature;

the control unit determines the multiple access signature based on the activation information of the user equipment and the information about the group of multiple access signatures.

4. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein:

the control unit acquires the activation information of the user equipment;

the transmitting unit transmits the activation information of the user equipment to a base station, so that the base station determines, from the multiple access signature pool, at least one of the multiple access signature and a group of multiple access signatures according to the activation information of the user equipment;

the user equipment further comprises a receiving unit configured to receive at least one of information about the multiple access signature and the group of multiple access signatures determined by the base station, to acquire the multiple access signature.

5. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein:

the transmitting unit transmits, to a base station, an indication signal indicating the base station to estimate the activation information of the user equipment;

the user equipment further comprises a receiving unit configured to receive information about the multiple access signature from the base station, the information about the multiple access signature being used to indicate the multiple access signature, and the multiple access signature being determined from the multiple access signature pool by the base station according to an estimation result of the activation information of the user equipment.

6. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the multiple access signature includes at least one of a bit-to-symbol mapping and a spreading sequence.

7. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein:

multiple access signatures in the multiple access signature pool are constructed based on an error rate of symbol detection and an error rate of detection for the user equipment's activation state by using a deep learning algorithm; or

at least a part of multiple access signatures in the multiple access signature pool are acquired based on another multiple access signature pool.

8. A base station, comprising:

a control unit configured to acquire activation information of a user equipment, the activation information of the user equipment being related to activation of the user equipment, and determine, from a multiple access signature pool, at least one of a group of multiple access signatures and a multiple access signature used by the user equipment for data transmission at least according to the activation information of the user equipment, each group of multiple access signatures including at least one multiple access signature;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of information about the group of multiple access signatures and information about the multiple access signature,

wherein, the activation information of the user equipment is acquired according to at least one of historical activation information and higher layer activation information, wherein the historical activation information indicates information related to historical activation behaviors of the user equipment, and the higher layer activation information is information related to activation of the user equipment notified by a higher layer.

9. A method executed by a user equipment, the method comprising:

acquiring a multiple access signature, the multiple access signature being determined from a multiple access signatures pool according to activation information of the user equipment, the activation information of the user equipment being related to activation of the user equipment;

transmitting data by using the multiple access signature,

wherein, the acquiring a multiple access signature further comprises acquiring the activation information of the user equipment according to at least one of historical activation information and higher layer activation information, wherein the historical activation information indicates information related to historical activation behaviors of the user equipment, and the higher layer activation information is information related to activation of the user equipment notified by a higher layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 23, 2021
From: YE, NENG; LI, XIANGMING; LIU, WENJIA; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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