Granted Patent B2

US 12,641,608 · App. 18/212,028 · Granted May 26, 2026

Inventors: Can Li (Guangdong, CN); Gen Li (Guangdong, CN); Huaming Wu (Guangdong, CN)

Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.

H04W72/21H04W72/0453

Abstract

Claims (91)

1 . A resource mapping method, wherein the method comprises:

determining, by user equipment UE, location information of N target physical resource blocks PRBs, wherein the N target PRBs are frequency domain resources for a target physical uplink control channel PUCCH; and

mapping, by the user equipment UE, sequence information of the target PUCCH to the N target PRBs based on the location information, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1;

wherein the mapping sequence information of the target PUCCH to the N target PRBs based on the location information comprises:

mapping, by the user equipment UE, to the N target PRBs in a preset manner based on a sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH and the location information;

wherein in a case that the sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH is equal to the number of REs of the N target PRBs, the preset manner comprises: mapping the sequence information to resource elements REs of the N target PRBs in a one-to-one manner based on the sequence length of the sequence information.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining location information of N target PRBs comprises:

determining, by the user equipment UE, first index information of M first PRBs, wherein the first index information is used to indicate location information of the M first PRBs, the M first PRBs are M PRBs in the N target PRBs, and M is a positive integer less than or equal to N; and

determining, by the user equipment UE, the location information of the N target PRBs based on the first index information.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein in a case that M is less than N, after the determining first index information of M first PRBs, the method further comprises:

determining, by the user equipment UE, location information of at least one second PRB based on the first index information; wherein

the at least one second PRB is a PRB in the N target PRBs other than the M PRBs.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein in a case that the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH are dedicated PUCCH resources, the determining location information of at least one second PRB based on the first index information comprises:

determining, by the user equipment UE, second index information of the at least one second PRB based on the first index information and first information; wherein

the first information comprises any one of the following:

in a case for the user equipment UE that indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes, the number of the target PRBs and relative location information of at least one of the first PRBs on the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH;

in a case for the user equipment UE that the UE is unable to know whether indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes or not, relative location information between each second PRB and at least one of the first PRBs; and

in a case for the user equipment UE that the UE is unable to know whether indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes or not, target pattern information corresponding to the N target PRBs and relative location information of at least one of the first PRBs on the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH; and

the second index information is used to indicate location information of each second PRB.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein in a case that the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH are common frequency domain resources, the determining first index information of M first PRBs comprises:

calculating, by the user equipment UE, the first index information of the M first PRBs based on second information; wherein

the second information comprises at least one of the following:

the number of CCEs in a CORESET to which a PDCCH corresponding to the target PUCCH belongs;

index information of a first CCE of the PDCCH;

a value of a PUCCH resource indication field in a DCI format corresponding to the PDCCH;

frequency hopping indication information;

a total number of cyclic shifts in an initial cyclic shift index set of the target PUCCH;

the number of PRBs of a BWP on which the target PUCCH is located; and

a PRB offset of a BWP on which the target PUCCH is located; wherein

the resource indication field is used to indicate a frequency domain resource location of the target PUCCH; and the frequency hopping indication information is used to indicate whether the target PUCCH supports frequency hopping or not.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein

in a case that the sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH is equal to the number of REs of each target PRB, the preset manner comprises any one of the following: performing mapping repetition on the N target PRBs, performing cyclic shift on the N target PRBs, and performing phase rotation between some PRBs of the N target PRBs; wherein one of the some PRBs comprises some REs of the target PRB.

7 . A resource mapping method, wherein the method comprises:

determining, by a network-side device, target information; and

transmitting, by the network-side device, the target information to UE; wherein

the target information is used for determining location information of N target PRBs;

the N target PRBs are frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH;

the target information comprises PRB information of the N target PRBs;

the PRB information comprises at least one of the following:

target pattern information corresponding to the N target PRBs;

an index set of indexes of the N target PRBs;

a relative location relationship between M first PRBs and at least one second PRB;

the N target PRBs comprise the M first PRBs and the at least one second PRB; and

relative location information of at least one of the first PRBs on the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH;

wherein the method further comprises:

configuring, by the network-side device, a sequence length of sequence information of the target PUCCH for the UE; wherein

the sequence length is used for determining the location information of the N target PRBs.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein

the target information comprises SCS information corresponding to X subcarrier spacings SCSs; and each piece of SCS information comprises PRB information of the N target PRBs; wherein

the SCS information corresponding to X SCSs comprises any one of the following:

index information corresponding to each SCS;

first location information corresponding to each SCS; and

pattern information corresponding to each SCS; wherein

the first location information corresponding to one of the SCSs is relative location information between the first PRB corresponding to the one SCS and the at least one second PRB.

9 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the index set is an index set of SCSs corresponding to the target PUCCH, and the index set is a common index set for all UEs or a cell-level index set.

10 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the transmitting the target information to UE comprises:

transmitting, by the network-side device, the index set of the N target PRBs to the UE in a broadcast manner.

11 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the transmitting the target information to UE comprises:

configuring, by the network-side device, the target information for the UE using RRC.

12 . A terminal, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein when the program or instructions are executed by the processor, implementing:

determining, by user equipment UE, location information of N target physical resource blocks PRBs, wherein the N target PRBs are frequency domain resources for target physical uplink control channel PUCCH; and

mapping, by the user equipment UE, sequence information of the target PUCCH to the N target PRBs based on the location information, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1;

wherein the mapping sequence information of the target PUCCH to the N target PRBs based on the location information comprises:

mapping, by the user equipment UE, to the N target PRBs in a preset manner based on a sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH and the location information;

wherein in a case that the sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH is equal to the number of REs of the N target PRBs, the preset manner comprises: mapping the sequence information to resource elements REs of the N target PRBs in a one-to-one manner based on the sequence length of the sequence information.

13 . The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein the determining location information of N target PRBs comprises:

determining, by the user equipment UE, first index information of M first PRBs, wherein the first index information is used to indicate location information of the M first PRBs, the M first PRBs are M PRBs in the N target PRBs, and M is a positive integer less than or equal to N; and

determining, by the user equipment UE, the location information of the N target PRBs based on the first index information.

14 . The terminal according to claim 13 , wherein in a case that M is less than N, after the determining first index information of M first PRBs, the terminal further implements:

determining, by the user equipment UE, location information of at least one second PRB based on the first index information; wherein

the at least one second PRB is a PRB in the N target PRBs other than the M PRBs.

15 . The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein in a case that the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH are dedicated PUCCH resources, the determining location information of at least one second PRB based on the first index information comprises:

determining, by the user equipment UE, second index information of the at least one second PRB based on the first index information and first information; wherein

the first information comprises any one of the following:

in a case for the user equipment UE that indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes, the number of the target PRBs and relative location information of at least one of the first PRBs on the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH;

in a case for the user equipment UE that the UE is unable to know whether indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes or not, relative location information between each second PRB and at least one of the first PRBs; and

in a case for the user equipment UE that the UE is unable to know whether indexes corresponding to the N target PRBs are consecutive indexes or not, target pattern information corresponding to the N target PRBs and relative location information of at least one of the first PRBs on the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH; and

the second index information is used to indicate location information of each second PRB.

16 . The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein in a case that the frequency domain resources for the target PUCCH are common frequency domain resources, the determining first index information of M first PRBs comprises:

calculating, by the user equipment UE, the first index information of the M first PRBs based on second information; wherein

the second information comprises at least one of the following:

the number of CCEs in a CORESET to which a PDCCH corresponding to the target PUCCH belongs;

index information of a first CCE of the PDCCH;

a value of a PUCCH resource indication field in a DCI format corresponding to the PDCCH;

frequency hopping indication information;

a total number of cyclic shifts in an initial cyclic shift index set of the target PUCCH;

the number of PRBs of a BWP on which the target PUCCH is located; and

a PRB offset of a BWP on which the target PUCCH is located; wherein

the resource indication field is used to indicate a frequency domain resource location of the target PUCCH; and the frequency hopping indication information is used to indicate whether the target PUCCH supports frequency hopping or not.

17 . The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein

in a case that the sequence length of the sequence information of the target PUCCH is equal to the number of REs of each target PRB, the preset manner comprises any one of the following: performing mapping repetition on the N target PRBs, performing cyclic shift on the N target PRBs, and performing phase rotation between some PRBs of the N target PRBs; wherein one of the some PRBs comprises some REs of the target PRB.

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