Granted Patent B2

US 12,432,717 · App. 17/402,963 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Inventors: Ang Yang (Guangdong, CN); Xiaodong Shen (Guangdong, CN); Xueming Pan (Guangdong, CN); Peng Sun (Guangdong, CN)

Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.

H04W72/1268H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (51)

1. A method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band, comprising:

performing, by a terminal, listen before talk (LBT) on a scheduled resource to obtain a corresponding LBT result; wherein the LBT result comprises LBT success or LBT failure of at least part of the scheduled resource; and

transmitting, by the terminal, a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result;

wherein the transmitting a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result by the terminal comprises:

separately transmitting a first transport block and a second transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result, first downlink control information (DCI), and an update time, wherein the update time is associated with the LBT result;

wherein the step of separately transmitting a first transport block and a second transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result, the first DCI, and an update time comprises:

after determining that the LBT result indicates that LBT success of at least part of the scheduled resource, transmitting the first transport block in the first (n+i−1) slots in the scheduled resource; and

transmitting the second transport block in the (n+i) th to N th slots in the scheduled resource; wherein n is the update time, i is the first slot in which sensing succeeds, N is the number of slots comprised in the scheduled resource, and n, i, and N are all integers.

2. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein before the step of performing listen before talk (LBT) on a scheduled resource to obtain a corresponding LBT result by the terminal, the method further comprises:

receiving the first DCI used to indicate the scheduled resource.

3. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 2 , wherein the transmitting a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result by the terminal comprises:

receiving second downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the second DCI carries an updated uplink scheduling parameter; and

transmitting the transport block on the scheduled resource based on the updated uplink scheduling parameter in the second DCI.

4. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 3 , wherein the second DCI is triggered by the network device based on a received demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in the scheduled resource; or

the second DCI is triggered by the network device based on received first uplink control information (UCI) in the scheduled resource, wherein the first UCI carries the LBT result.

5. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 2 , wherein the first DCI comprises at least one of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) indication information, time domain resource allocation (TDRA) indication information, frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) indication information, a transport block scaling factor, or the number of consecutively scheduled slots.

6. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein the update time is carried in the first DCI, or the update time is determined based on a terminal capability.

7. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein after determining that the first DCI does not comprise the transport block scaling factor, the first transport block is determined based on the MCS indication information, the TDRA indication information, and the FDRA indication information; or

after determining that the first DCI comprises the transport block scaling factor, the first transport block is determined based on the MCS indication information, the TDRA indication information, the FDRA indication information, and the transport block scaling factor.

8. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein the second transport block is determined based on the MCS indication information, the TDRA indication information, the FDRA indication information, and the LBT result.

9. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein the transport block carries second UCI, and the second UCI comprises at least one of transmission resource indication information, indication information for indicating whether to perform puncturing, a transport block scaling factor, or indication information for indicating whether a transport block is to be adjusted in the next slot.

10. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 9 , wherein after determining that the second UCI comprises the indication information for indicating whether to perform puncturing and that the indication information indicates that no puncturing is to be performed, the transport block is associated with the LBT result.

11. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result by the terminal comprises:

after determining that the LBT result indicates that LBT failure of at least part of the scheduled resource, performing slot aggregation for the scheduled resource; and

transmitting a slot-aggregated transport block; or the transmitting a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result by the terminal comprises:

after determining that the LBT result indicates that LBT failure of at least part of the scheduled resource, performing initial transmission of the transport block in a first part of the scheduled resource; and

performing retransmission of the transport block in a second part of the scheduled resource.

12. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 11 , wherein the transport block carries third UCI, and the third UCI comprises a slot aggregation parameter used for slot aggregation; or wherein a slot aggregation parameter used for slot aggregation is predefined.

13. The method for uplink transmission in a 5G unlicensed band according to claim 11 , wherein the transport block carries fourth UCI, and the fourth UCI comprises at least one of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) identification information or redundancy version identification information.

14. A terminal, comprising a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to implement:

performing listen before talk (LBT) on a scheduled resource in a 5G unlicensed band to obtain a corresponding LBT result; wherein the LBT result comprises LBT success or LBT failure of at least part of the scheduled resource; and

transmitting a transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result;

wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

separately transmitting a first transport block and a second transport block on the scheduled resource based on the LBT result, first downlink control information (DCI), and an update time, wherein the update time is associated with the LBT result;

wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

after determining that the LBT result indicates that LBT success of at least part of the scheduled resource, transmitting the first transport block in the first (n+i−1) slots in the scheduled resource; and

transmitting the second transport block in the (n+i) th to Nth slots in the scheduled resource; wherein n is the update time, i is the first slot in which sensing succeeds, N is the number of slots comprised in the scheduled resource, and n, i, and N are all integers.

15. The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

receiving the first downlink control information (DCI) used to indicate the scheduled resource.

16. The terminal according to claim 15 , wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

receiving second downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the second DCI carries an updated uplink scheduling parameter; and

transmitting the transport block on the scheduled resource based on the updated uplink scheduling parameter in the second DCI.

17. The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein the transport block carries second UCI, and the second UCI comprises at least one of transmission resource indication information, indication information for indicating whether to perform puncturing, a transport block scaling factor, or indication information for indicating whether a transport block is to be adjusted in the next slot.

18. A network device, comprising a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to implement:

receiving a transport block on a scheduled resource in a 5G unlicensed band;

wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

separately receiving a first transport block and a second transport block on the scheduled resource; wherein the first transport block and the second transport block are transmitted based on a LBT result, first downlink control information (DCI), and an update time, wherein the update time is associated with the LBT result; wherein LBT result is obtained through performing listen before talk (LBT) on the scheduled resource;

wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement:

receiving, from a terminal, the first transport block in the first (n+i−1) slots in the scheduled resource after the terminal determining that the LBT result indicates that LBT success of at least part of the scheduled resource;

receiving, from the terminal, the second transport block in the (n+i) th to N th slots in the scheduled resource;

wherein n is the update time, i is the first slot in which sensing succeeds, N is the number of slots comprised in the scheduled resource, and n, i, and N are all integers.

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