Control information transmission method, base station, and user equipment

• US 10,492,178 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2017
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2015
• 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, Qiang, Qu, Bingyu, Xue, Lixia, Zhou, Yongxing, Zhang, Leiming, Liu, Jianqin, Liu, Kunpeng
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay P
• Application Number:
  US15/705,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20180027541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A control information sending method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. The method includes: sending, by a base station, first control information to first user equipment; transceiving, by the base station, first data to/from the first user equipment according to the first control information; and sending, by the base station, first trigger information to the first user equipment, where the first trigger information is used to indicate that the base station transceives second data to/from the first user equipment according to partial information or all information of the first control information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first user equipment, first control information from a base station;

transceiving, by the first user equipment, first data to and from the base station according to the first control information; and

receiving, by the first user equipment, a first control message from the base station,

wherein the first control message comprises first trigger information and at least one piece of second trigger information,

wherein the first trigger information instructs the first user equipment to transceive second data to and from the base station according to partial information or all information of the first control information,

wherein the at least one piece of second trigger information and the first trigger information are specific to different user equipments,

wherein the first trigger information or the at least one piece of second trigger information occupies X bits,

wherein a quantity N of the first trigger information or the at least one piece of second trigger information in the first control message makes the following equation true;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first control message further comprises at least one piece of second control information;

and

wherein a second user equipment transceives third data to and from the base station according to the at least one piece of second control information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein at the same time as receiving, by the first user equipment, the first trigger information from the base station, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first user equipment from the base station, at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request process number, new data indication information, a power control command of a physical uplink control channel, a cyclic shift sequence of a demodulation pilot, a power control command of a physical uplink data channel, a channel quality indicator, or data channel indication information,

wherein the new data indication information indicates whether the second data is initially transmitted data,

wherein the power control command of the physical uplink control channel indicates power of the physical uplink control channel, and

wherein the data channel indication information indicates that the first trigger information is used for the physical uplink data channel or a physical downlink data channel.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to partial information of the first control information and at least one of the hybrid automatic repeat request process number, the new data indication information, the power control command of the physical uplink control channel, the cyclic shift sequence of the demodulation pilot, the power control command of the physical uplink data channel, the channel quality indicator, or the data channel indication information that is comprised in the first trigger information;

or

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to the partial information of the first control information and predefined control information of the first control information, wherein the predefined control information does not include the partial information of the first control information.

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

receiving, by the first user equipment, third control information from the base station after receiving the first trigger information from the base station, wherein the third control information is used by the first user equipment to transceive fourth data to and from the base station according to the third control information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first control information is a last piece of control information that is associated with the first trigger information and that is received by the first user equipment from the base station before the first user equipment receives the first trigger information from the base station.

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

sending, by the first user equipment, an acknowledgement message to the base station after transceiving the first data to and from the base station according to the first control information, and before receiving the first trigger information from the base station, wherein the acknowledgement message notifies the base station that the first user equipment has successfully received the first data according to the first control information.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first user equipment, first control information from a base station;

transceiving, by the first user equipment, first data to and from the base station according to the first control information; and

receiving, by the first user equipment, first trigger information from the base station, wherein the first trigger information instructs the first user equipment to transceive second data to and from the base station according to partial information or all information of the first control information,

wherein the first user equipment receives at the same time as the first trigger information at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request process number, new data indication information, a power control command of a physical uplink control channel, a cyclic shift sequence of a demodulation pilot, a power control command of a physical uplink data channel, a channel quality indicator, or data channel indication information,

wherein the new data indication information indicates whether the second data is initially transmitted data,

wherein the power control command of the physical uplink control channel indicates power of the physical uplink control channel, and

wherein the data channel indication information indicates that the first trigger information is used for the physical uplink data channel or a physical downlink data channel.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein receiving the first trigger information from the base station comprises receiving a first control message from the base station, wherein the first control message comprises the first trigger information.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the first control message further comprises at least one piece of second trigger information, and the at least one piece of second trigger information and the first trigger information are specific to different user equipments.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the first control message further comprises at least one piece of second control information, and wherein a second user equipment transceives third data to and from the base station according to the at least one piece of second control information.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to partial information of the first control information and at least one of the hybrid automatic repeat request process number, the new data indication information, the power control command of the physical uplink control channel, the cyclic shift sequence of the demodulation pilot, the power control command of the physical uplink data channel, the channel quality indicator, or the data channel indication information that is comprised in the first trigger information, or

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to the partial information of the first control information and predefined control information of the first control information, wherein the predefined control information does not include the partial information of the first control information.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising receiving, by the first user equipment, third control information from the base station after receiving the first trigger information from the base station, wherein the third control information is used by the first user equipment to transceive fourth data to and from the base station according to the third control information.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first control information is a last piece of control information that is associated with the first trigger information and that is received by the first user equipment from the base station before the first user equipment receives the first trigger information from the base station.

15. The method according to claim 8, further comprising sending, by the first user equipment, an acknowledgement message to the base station after transceiving the first data to and from the base station according to the first control information, and before receiving the first trigger information from the base station, wherein the acknowledgement message notifies the base station that the first user equipment has successfully received the first data according to the first control information.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first user equipment, first control information from a base station;

transceiving, by the first user equipment, first data to and from the base station according to the first control information; and

receiving, by the first user equipment, first trigger information from the base station, wherein the first trigger information instructs the first user equipment to transceive second data to and from the base station according to partial information or all information of the first control information,

wherein the first control information is a last piece of control information that is associated with the first trigger information and that is received by the first user equipment from the base station before the first user equipment receives the first trigger information from the base station.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein receiving, by the first user equipment, the first trigger information from the base station comprises receiving, by the first user equipment, a first control message from the base station, wherein the first control message comprises the first trigger information.

18. The method according to claim 16,

wherein the first user equipment receives at the same time as the first trigger information at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request process number, new data indication information, a power control command of a physical uplink control channel, a cyclic shift sequence of a demodulation pilot, a power control command of a physical uplink data channel, a channel quality indicator, or data channel indication information,

wherein the new data indication information indicates whether the second data is initially transmitted data,

wherein the power control command of the physical uplink control channel indicates power of the physical uplink control channel, and

wherein the data channel indication information indicates that the first trigger information is used for the physical uplink data channel or a physical downlink data channel.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to partial information of the first control information and at least one of the hybrid automatic repeat request process number, the new data indication information, the power control command of the physical uplink control channel, the cyclic shift sequence of the demodulation pilot, the power control command of the physical uplink data channel, the channel quality indicator, or the data channel indication information that is comprised in the first trigger information;

or

transceiving, by the first user equipment, the second data to and from the base station according to the partial information of the first control information and predefined control information of the first control information, wherein the predefined control information does not include the partial information of the first control information.

20. The method according to claim 16, further comprising receiving, by the first user equipment, third control information from the base station after receiving the first trigger information from the base station, wherein the third control information is used by the first user equipment to transceive fourth data to and from the base station according to the third control information.