IP Library Granted Patent US 12,659,869
Granted Patent B2
US 12,659,869 · App. 18/374,640 · Granted Jun 16, 2026

Power control parameter indication method, terminal, and network side device

Inventors: Rongrong Sun (Dongguan, CN); Yang Song (Dongguan, CN); Hao Liu (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W52/146H04W52/325H04W52/58
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Patent No.
US 12,659,869
App. No.
18/374,640
Granted
Jun 16, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application discloses a power control parameter indication method, a terminal, and a network side device. The power control parameter indication method includes: receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information; and performing, by the terminal, power control according to the downlink control information, where the downlink control information includes at least one power control parameter indicator field, the power control parameter indicator field indicates first power control parameters of different PUSCH transmission occasions, and the PUSCH transmission occasion is associated with an SRS resource or SRS resource set.

Claims (45)

1 . A method for power control parameter indication, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information comprises at least one power control parameter indicator field, the power control parameter indicator field indicating first power control parameters of different physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions, wherein each first power control parameter comprises a power control parameter P0, and the different PUSCH transmission occasions are associated with sounding reference signal (SRS) resources in different SRS resource sets;

determining, by the terminal, a second power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion, wherein the second power control parameter comprises a path loss reference signal (PL-RS), and the second power control parameter is determined according to the downlink control information and an SRS resource set associated with the PUSCH transmission occasion; or the second power control parameter is determined according to at least one power control parameter associated with a target transmission resource; and

performing, by the terminal, power control according to the first power control parameter and the second power control parameter.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information further comprises an SRS resource indicator SRI field, and the SRI field indicates a candidate parameter set of a first power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with an SRS resource set.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a candidate parameter set of a first power control parameter of at least one PUSCH transmission occasion in the different PUSCH transmission occasions is predefined or preconfigured.

4 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the candidate parameter set comprises at least one of the following:

a first candidate set; or

a second candidate set,

wherein the first candidate set belongs to a first set list, and the second candidate set belongs to a second set list.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first set list and the second set list are respectively associated with SRS resource sets.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a bit size of the power control parameter indicator field is 3 bits, wherein when the downlink control information does not comprise an SRI field,

a first bit in the power control parameter indicator field indicates that a first target parameter set is a target candidate set, the target candidate set belongs to a first target set list, and the first target parameter set is a target parameter set of the first power control parameters of the different PUSCH transmission occasions;

a second bit in the power control parameter indicator field indicates a power control parameter that is in the current target candidate set and that is used as a first power control parameter of a first PUSCH transmission occasion when the current target candidate set indicated by the first bit belongs to a second set list, and an SRS resource or SRS resource set associated with the first PUSCH transmission occasion belongs to a first SRS resource set; and

a third bit in the power control parameter indicator field indicates a power control parameter that is in the current target candidate set and that is used as a first power control parameter of a second PUSCH transmission occasion when the current target candidate set indicated by the first bit belongs to the second set list, and an SRS resource or SRS resource set associated with the second PUSCH transmission occasion belongs to a second SRS resource set.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein a first target set list to which a target candidate set corresponding to the first PUSCH transmission occasion belongs is the same as a first target set list to which a target candidate set corresponding to the second PUSCH transmission occasion belongs.

8 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein a first target set list to which a target candidate set corresponding to the first PUSCH transmission occasion belongs is different from a first target set list to which a target candidate set corresponding to the second PUSCH transmission occasion belongs.

9 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first bit is a most significant bit in the power control parameter indicator field.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the downlink control information comprises one SRI field,

when the SRI field is associated with a first SRS resource set, a first bit in the power control parameter indicator field indicates a first power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with a first SRS resource or SRS resource set, and a second bit and a third bit jointly indicate a first power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with a second SRS resource or SRS resource set; or

when the SRI field is associated with a second SRS resource set, a first bit and a second bit in the power control parameter indicator field jointly indicate a first power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with a first SRS resource or SRS resource set, and a third bit indicates a first power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with a second SRS resource or SRS resource set,

wherein the first SRS resource or SRS resource set belongs to the first SRS resource set, and the second SRS resource or SRS resource set belongs to the second SRS resource set.

11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first SRS resource set and the second SRS resource set are differentiated based on the following content:

an SRS resource set index size;

an SRS resource set configuration sequence;

a MAC CE indicator; or

configuration information of higher layer signaling.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the second power control parameter of the PUSCH transmission occasion according to the downlink control information and the SRS resource set associated with the PUSCH transmission occasion comprises:

when the downlink control information does not comprise an SRI field associated with a target SRS resource set, determining, in a second target parameter set, a second power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion associated with a target SRS resource set, wherein the second target parameter set is a first target set in a first set list.

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

receiving a Medium Access Control control element (MAC CE), wherein the MAC CE comprises a first field indicating to update power control parameter, and the first field indicating to update power control parameter indicates at least one set index and at least one parameter index; and

updating a set corresponding to the at least one set index, according to the first field indicating to update power control parameter and using the at least one parameter index.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the MAC CE further comprises a second power control parameter update indicator field, and the second power control parameter update indicator field indicates an SRS resource set associated with the set corresponding to the at least one set index or a set list to which the set corresponding to the at least one set index belongs.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein in a case that the second power control parameter update indicator field is a preset value, an N th set after the set corresponding to the at least one set index is updated according to the at least one parameter index, wherein N is a target offset value, wherein the target offset value is a total quantity of sets in a second target set list, and the second target set list is a first set list associated with a target SRS resource set.

16 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the MAC CE further comprises a third power control parameter update indicator field, and the third power control parameter update indicator field indicates an identifier of a correspondingly updated parameter index in the at least one parameter index in the set corresponding to the at least one set index.

17 . A terminal, comprising:

a memory storing a computer program; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computer program to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information comprises at least one power control parameter indicator field, the power control parameter indicator field indicating first power control parameters of different physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions, wherein each first power control parameter comprises a power control parameter P0, and the different PUSCH transmission occasions are associated with sounding reference signal (SRS) resources in different SRS resource sets;

determining, by the terminal, a second power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion, wherein the second power control parameter comprises a path loss reference signal (PL-RS), and the second power control parameter is determined according to the downlink control information and an SRS resource set associated with the PUSCH transmission occasion; or the second power control parameter is determined according to at least one power control parameter associated with a target transmission resource; and

performing, by the terminal, power control according to the first power control parameter and the second power control parameter.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor of a terminal, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information comprises at least one power control parameter indicator field, the power control parameter indicator field indicating first power control parameters of different physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions, wherein each first power control parameter comprises a power control parameter P0, and the different PUSCH transmission occasions are associated with sounding reference signal (SRS) resources in different SRS resource sets;

determining, by the terminal, a second power control parameter of a PUSCH transmission occasion, wherein the second power control parameter comprises a path loss reference signal (PL-RS), and the second power control parameter is determined according to the downlink control information and an SRS resource set associated with the PUSCH transmission occasion; or the second power control parameter is determined according to at least one power control parameter associated with a target transmission resource; and

performing, by the terminal, power control according to the first power control parameter and the second power control parameter.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2023
From: SUN, RONGRONG; SONG, YANG; LIU, HAO
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202110362410.0 · Apr 2, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2022085108 · Apr 2, 2022
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