Granted Patent B2

US 12,652,131 · App. 18/351,299 · Granted Jun 9, 2026

Inventors: Hongjian Yang (Beijing, CN); Ruixiang Ma (Shenzhen, CN); Lei Guan (Beijing, CN); Jinhuan Xia (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

H04L1/1812H04L5/0053H04W72/232

Abstract

Claims (73)

1 . An uplink acknowledgement information transmission method, applied to a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:

obtaining, by the terminal device, a plurality of first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebooks,

wherein each of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one downlink data channel,

wherein each first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to one first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), and

wherein first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks are different;

obtaining, by the terminal device, indication information indicating the terminal device to concatenate the at least one of the plurality of HARQ-ACK codebooks in a preset order;

concatenating, by the terminal device, the at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order based on the indication information, to obtain a second HARQ-ACK codebook; and

sending, by the terminal device, a physical uplink channel to a network device,

wherein the physical uplink channel carries a second HARQ-ACK codebook,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook comprises at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks that are concatenated in a preset order, and

wherein the preset order is determined based on a plurality of first RNTIs corresponding to the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprise a third HARQ-ACK codebook and a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook,

wherein the third HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one first downlink data channel,

wherein the fourth HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one second downlink data channel, and

wherein there is an intersection between time domain resources occupied by the at least one first downlink data channel and the at least one second downlink data channel.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the indication information comprises a first value or a second value, and the method further comprises:

based on the indication information comprising the first value, concatenating, by the terminal device, the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order to obtain the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

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

based on the indication information comprising a second value, removing, by the terminal device, HARQ-ACK information of at least one first downlink data channel from a third HARQ-ACK codebook, and concatenating a processed third HARQ-ACK codebook and a first HARQ-ACK codebook other than the third HARQ-ACK codebook in the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order to obtain the second HARQ-ACK codebook; or

based on the indication information comprising the second value, removing, by the terminal device, the HARQ-ACK information of at least one second downlink data channel from a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook, and concatenating a processed fourth HARQ-ACK codebook and a first HARQ-ACK codebook other than the fourth HARQ-ACK codebook in the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order to obtain the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining the indication information comprises:

receiving, by the terminal device, higher layer signaling comprising the indication information; or

receiving, by the terminal device, downlink control information (DCI) comprising the indication information.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the preset order comprises:

arranging in descending order of the first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks; or

arranging in ascending order of the first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first RNTI comprises a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) and/or a group radio network temporary identifier (G-RNTI), and

wherein the preset order comprises that a first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the C-RNTI is before or after a first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the G-RNTI.

8 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first RNTI comprises a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) and/or a group radio network temporary identifier (G-RNTI), and

wherein the preset order comprises that first HARQ-ACK codebooks corresponding to a plurality of G-RNTIs arranged in descending or ascending order of the G-RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining the indication information comprises obtaining, by the terminal device, capability information of the terminal device,

wherein the capability information indicates whether the terminal device supports frequency division multiplexing, and

wherein the capability information comprises the indication information.

10 . An uplink acknowledgement information transmission method, applied to a network device, wherein the method comprises:

receiving, by the network device, a physical uplink channel from a terminal device,

wherein the physical uplink channel carries a second hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook,

wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook comprises at least one of a plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks concatenated in a preset order,

wherein each of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one downlink data channel,

wherein each first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to one first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI),

wherein first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks are different,

wherein the preset order is determined based on a plurality of first RNTIs associated with the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks; and

sending, by the network device, indication information to the terminal device,

wherein the indication information indicates the terminal device to concatenate the at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprise a third HARQ-ACK codebook and a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook,

wherein the third HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one first downlink data channel,

wherein the fourth HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one second downlink data channel, and

wherein there is an intersection between time domain resources occupied by the at least one first downlink data channel and the at least one second downlink data channel.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein sending the indication information to the terminal device comprises:

sending, by the network device, downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, wherein the DCI comprises the indication information.

13 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein sending the indication information to the terminal device comprises:

sending, by the network device, higher layer signaling to the terminal device, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises the indication information.

14 . The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:

obtaining, by the network device, capability information of the terminal device, wherein the capability information indicates whether the terminal device supports frequency division multiplexing, and wherein the capability information comprises the indication information.

15 . An uplink acknowledgement information transmission apparatus comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory storing instructions and configured to execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to perform:

obtaining a plurality of first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebooks,

wherein each of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one downlink data channel,

wherein each first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to one first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), and

wherein first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks are different;

obtaining indication information that indicates to a terminal device to concatenate the at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in a preset order;

concatenating the at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks in the preset order based on the indication information to obtain a second HARQ-ACK codebook; and

sending a physical uplink channel that carries a second HARQ-ACK codebook that comprises at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks concatenated in a preset order,

wherein the preset order is determined based on a plurality of first RNTIs corresponding to the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

16 . The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks comprise a third HARQ-ACK codebook and a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook,

wherein the third HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one first downlink data channel,

wherein the fourth HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of at least one second downlink data channel, and

wherein there is an intersection between time domain resources occupied by the at least one first downlink data channel and the at least one second downlink data channel.

17 . The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein obtaining the indication information comprises:

receiving higher layer signaling that comprises the indication information; or

receiving, downlink control information (DCI) that comprises the indication information.

18 . The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the preset order comprises arranging in descending or ascending order of the first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

19 . The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the first RNTI comprises a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) and/or a group radio network temporary identifier (G-RNTI), and wherein the preset order comprises a first HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the C-RNTI is before or after a first HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the G-RNTI.

20 . The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein obtaining the indication information comprises:

obtaining capability information of the terminal device, wherein the capability information indicates whether the terminal device supports frequency division multiplexing, and the capability information comprises the indication information.

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