Pilot sequence transmission method and apparatus

• US 10,419,182 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2017
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Yiqun, Chen, Yan, Xu, Xiuqiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Qureshi, Afsar M
• Application Number:
  US15/847,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20180109366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/26 Systems using multi-frequency codes H04L27/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2613 Structure of the reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/26132 using repetition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0032 Distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each making partial allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal

Abstract

The present invention discloses a pilot sequence transmission method and apparatus. A terminal device determines a first pilot number, determines a first pilot sequence and a second pilot sequence according to the first pilot number, respectively maps the first pilot sequence and the second pilot sequence to a first OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol of a grant free transmission resource, and sends the first pilot sequence and the second pilot sequence by using the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol. Therefore, a network device can determine activeness of the terminal device by detecting the first pilot sequence, and can detect only the second pilot sequence corresponding to the first pilot sequence, and does not need to detect all possible second pilot sequences, so that a quantity of detected pilots can be significantly reduced, and pilot detection complexity is reduced.

Claims

1. A pilot sequence transmission method, comprising:

determining a first pilot sequence to indicate whether a terminal device is in an active state;

determining a second pilot sequence for uplink data demodulation;

mapping the first pilot sequence to a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a grant free transmission resource;

mapping the second pilot sequence to a second OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource; and

sending the first pilot sequence and the second pilot sequence based on the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a first pilot number wherein the first pilot sequence is determined according to the first pilot number, and

wherein the second pilot sequence is determined according to the first pilot number.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the first pilot number is determined according to an identifier of the terminal device, or

an identifier of the grant free transmission resource and an identifier of the terminal device, or

a random number generator.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first pilot sequence is mapped to a part of a subband of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the first pilot sequence includes a non-zero element.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the first pilot sequence comprises a first pilot sub-sequence and a second pilot sub-sequence, each element of the first pilot sub-sequence is a zero element, and the second pilot sub-sequence includes a non-zero element.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the non-zero element of the first pilot sequence is mapped to a first subband of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource, wherein the first subband comprises M resource elements (REs), and a non-zero symbol as an M-order Walsh code, and wherein M is a positive integer and is an exponential power of 2.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the REs include M consecutive REs.

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

repeatedly mapping the first pilot sequence to different OFDM symbols of the grant free transmission resource or different subbands of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first pilot sequence is in one-to-one correspondence with the second pilot sequence.

11. A pilot sequence transmission apparatus, comprising:

a processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processor to;

determine a first pilot sequence to indicate whether a terminal device is in an active state;

determine a second pilot sequence for uplink data demodulation;

map the first pilot sequence to a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a grant free transmission resource; and

map the second pilot sequence to a second OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processor is coupled to a transmitter, and wherein the transmitter is configured to:

send the first pilot sequence and the second pilot sequence based on the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the instructions are stored in a memory coupled to the processor.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a first pilot number,

wherein the first pilot sequence and the second pilot sequence are determined according to the first pilot number.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the first pilot number according to an identifier of the terminal device, or

an identifier of the grant free transmission resource and an identifier of the terminal device, or a random number generator.

16. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first pilot sequence is mapped to a part of a subband of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the first pilot sequence includes a non-zero element.

18. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the first pilot sequence comprises a first pilot sub-sequence and a second pilot sub-sequence, each element of the first pilot sub-sequence is a zero element, and the second pilot sub-sequence includes a non-zero element.

19. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein t the non-zero element of the first pilot sequence is mapped to a first subband of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource, wherein the first subband comprises M resource elements (REs), and a non-zero symbol as an M-order Walsh code, and wherein M is a positive integer and is an exponential power of 2.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the REs include M consecutive REs.

21. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

repeatedly map the first pilot sequence to different OFDM symbols of the grant free transmission resource or different subbands of the first OFDM symbol of the grant free transmission resource.

22. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first pilot sequence is in one-to-one correspondence with the second pilot sequence.