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US 12,457,572 · App. 17/976,472 · Granted Oct 28, 2025

Timing adjustment method and related device

Inventors: Shuyan Peng (Guangdong, CN); Jinhua Liu (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W56/0045H04W72/0446H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,457,572
App. No.
17/976,472
Granted
Oct 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A timing adjustment method and a related device. The method includes: adjusting timing of a first link state based on first signaling, where the first link state is a link state of a first relay device or a terminal; and the first signaling is provided by a parent node of the first relay device, or a parent node of the terminal, or a first network-side device, where the parent node is a last-hop device of the first relay device or the terminal.

Claims (60)

1. A timing adjustment method, performed by a first relay device and comprising:

adjusting timing of a first link state based on first signaling, wherein

the first link state is a link state of the first relay device or the terminal; and

the first signaling is provided by a parent node of the first relay device, wherein the parent node is a last-hop device of the first relay device;

wherein the first relay device is a first integrated access backhaul IAB node;

wherein the first link state is a link state in a first transmission mode, wherein the first transmission mode is that mobile terminal transmission (MT TX) and distributed unit transmission (DU TX) of the IAB node are aligned on time domain unit or work simultaneously;

wherein in a case that the first signaling is medium access control control element (MAC CE) signaling, the MAC CE signaling is used for indicating that MT TX follows timing of DU TX.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first link state comprises at least one of the following:

MT TX and/or DU TX of the first IAB node.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an offset Tadditional of a timing advance (TA), wherein the TA is obtained based on NTA and NTA, offset;

the NTA and the NTA, offset; and

Tdelta, wherein the Tdelta is used to adjust timing of DU TX of the first IAB node.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least two first TAs, and at least one of the at least two first TAs is used to indicate a TA at a DU TX and/or MT TX occasion of the first IAB node.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an advance beta of DU TX with respect to DU RX; and

an offset gamma of a TA.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first signaling comprises first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate negative timing advance information supported by the first link state, and the first indication information comprises at least one of the following:

a negative value used to indicate a TA; and

an indication field used to indicate whether a TA field parameter is positive or negative.

7. A first relay device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the processor executes the computer program to perform:

adjusting timing of a first link state based on first signaling, wherein

the first link state is a link state of the first relay device; and

the first signaling is provided by a parent node of the first relay device, wherein the parent node is a last-hop device of the first relay device;

wherein the first relay device is a first integrated access backhaul IAB node;

wherein the first link state is a link state in a first transmission mode, wherein the first transmission mode is that mobile terminal transmission (MT TX) and distributed unit transmission (DU TX) of the IAB node are aligned on time domain unit or work simultaneously;

wherein in a case that the first signaling is medium access control control element (MAC CE) signaling, the MAC CE signaling is used for indicating that MT TX follows timing of DU TX.

8. The first relay device according to claim 7 , wherein the first link state comprises at least one of the following:

MT TX and/or DU TX of the first IAB node.

9. The first relay device according to claim 7 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an offset Tadditional of a timing advance (TA), wherein the TA is obtained based on NTA and NTA, offset;

the NTA and the NTA, offset; and

Tdelta, wherein the Tdelta is used to adjust timing of DU TX of the first IAB node.

10. The first relay device according to claim 7 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least two first TAs, and at least one of the at least two first TAs is used to indicate a TA at a DU TX and/or MT TX occasion of the first IAB node.

11. The first relay device according to claim 7 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an advance beta of DU TX with respect to DU RX; and

an offset gamma of a TA.

12. The first relay device according to claim 7 , wherein the first signaling comprises first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate negative timing advance information supported by the first link state, and the first indication information comprises at least one of the following:

a negative value used to indicate a TA; and

an indication field used to indicate whether a TA field parameter is positive or negative.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform the following steps:

adjusting timing of a first link state based on first signaling, wherein

the first link state is a link state of the first relay device; and

the first signaling is provided by a parent node of the first relay device, wherein the parent node is a last-hop device of the first relay device;

wherein the first relay device is a first integrated access backhaul IAB node;

wherein the first link state is a link state in a first transmission mode, wherein the first transmission mode is that mobile terminal transmission (MT TX) and distributed unit transmission (DU TX) of the IAB node are aligned on time domain unit or work simultaneously;

wherein in a case that the first signaling is medium access control control element (MAC CE) signaling, the MAC CE signaling is used for indicating that MT TX follows timing of DU TX.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to claim 13 , wherein the first link state comprises at least one of the following:

MT TX and/or DU TX of the first IAB node.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to claim 13 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an offset T additional of a timing advance (TA), wherein the TA is obtained based on NTA and NTA, offset;

the NTA and the NTA, offset; and

Tdelta, wherein the Tdelta is used to adjust timing of DU TX of the first IAB node.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to claim 13 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least two first TAs, and at least one of the at least two first TAs is used to indicate a TA at a DU TX and/or MT TX occasion of the first IAB node.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to claim 13 , wherein the first signaling comprises at least one of the following:

an advance beta of DU TX with respect to DU RX; and

an offset gamma of a TA.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to claim 13 , wherein the first signaling comprises first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate negative timing advance information supported by the first link state, and the first indication information comprises at least one of the following:

a negative value used to indicate a TA; and

an indication field used to indicate whether a TA field parameter is positive or negative.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2022
From: PENG, SHUYAN; LIU, JINHUA
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010368285.X · Apr 30, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021089578 · Apr 25, 2021
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