INFORMATION TRANSMISSION AND ACQUISITION METHOD, ACCESS METHOD, NODE, SYSTEM AND MEDIUM

• US 20160345325A1
• Filed: 07/23/2014
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Kun, Dai, Bo, Lu, Zhaohua, Xia, Shuqiang, Fang, Huiying, Shi, Jing, Li, Xincai
• Application Number:
  US15/114,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20160345325A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 4/005 Transmultiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/26 Cell enhancers or enhancement, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

Methods for transmitting and acquiring configuration information, an access method, a node and a system are provided, and relate to a random access technology in the field of wireless communications. The method for transmitting configuration information of a random access channel includes that: configuration information of a random access channel is transmitted, the configuration information of the random access channel including configuration information of a first type of levels. A computer storage medium is also provided.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting configuration information of a random access channel, comprising:

transmitting configuration information of a random access channel, the configuration information of the random access channel comprising configuration information of a first type of levels.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first type of levels comprises a Coverage Improvement Level (CIL) and/or a physical channel repeat level.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein a physical channel corresponding to the physical channel repeat level comprises at least one of:

a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), an Enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH), a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the physical channel repeat level comprises a repeat level of at least one of:

a Master Information Block (MIB), System Information Block (SIB), Downlink Control Information (DCI), a downlink transmission block, an uplink transmission block, Message1 (Msg1), a Random Access Response (RAR) message, Msg3 and Msg4 born on the physical channel.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the configuration information of the first type of levels comprises at least one of:

bitmap information, index information of the first type of levels configured by the first type of node, information about repeat times of the physical channel corresponding to the first type of levels, predefined level amount of the first type of levels, configured level amount of the first type of levels, a configured highest level of the first type of levels and a configured lowest level of the first type of levels.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the configuration information of the first type of levels has a mapping relationship with a first type of information, and the mapping relationship is configured in a second type of node by communication system equipment or sent to the second type of node by the first type of node.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first type of information comprises at least one of:

the number of the levels of the first type;

configured number N1 of the first type of levels, wherein N1 is a positive integer;

index information of the N1 levels in the first type of levels;

predefined number N2 of the first type of levels, wherein N2 is a positive integer;

a value range of received signal quality of a predefined reference signal corresponding to the first type of levels;

a value range of Coverage Improvement Target (CIT) values corresponding to the first type of levels, wherein the value range is a maximum value, a minimum value, a specific value or a value interval;

a retransmission level of the physical channel corresponding to the first type of levels; and

a value range of repeat times of the physical channel corresponding to the first type of levels, wherein the value ranges are specific values or value intervals.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the repeat times of the physical channel corresponding to the first type of levels is a predefined value, wherein the predefined value is a positive integer.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the N1 levels of the first type are extracted from N2 predefined levels of the first type, and N2 is a positive integer larger than or equal to N1.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the configuration information of the first type of levels further comprises solution indication information about repeat times of the physical channel,

wherein the solution indication information about repeat times of the physical channel is configured to indicate to select one solution from multiple predefined solutions about the value range of repeat times of the physical channel corresponding to the first type of levels.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the predefined reference signal comprises at least one of:

a Cell-Specific Reference Signal (CRS), a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS), a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and a signal sent by a PBCH.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal comprises at least one of:

Reference Signal Receive Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Receive Quality (RSRQ), a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), a received signal to noise ratio of the reference signal, a path loss value between the second type of node and the first type of node, and retransmission times of the predefined reference signal under a condition of successful reception of the predefined reference signal.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the value range of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal comprises at least one of:

a value range of a measured value of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal; and

a value range of a difference between the measured value of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal and a reference value of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal or a value range of an absolute value of the difference,

wherein the value range refers to a maximum value, or a minimum value, or a specific value, or a value interval.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the reference value of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal is sent to the second type of node by the first type of node.

25. The method according to claim 9, wherein the configuration information of the random access channel further comprises random access channel resources allocated to the second type of node.

26. The method according to claim 25, wherein the random access channel resources allocated to the second type of node comprise at least one of:

time-domain resources, frequency-domain resources, and available random access sequences.

27. The method according to claim 26, further comprising:

determining a multiplexing manner for random access channel resources allocated by each of the levels of the first type at least according to the number of the levels of the first type and the random access channel resources allocated to the second type of node.

28. The method according to claim 26, wherein, when random access channel resources allocated by each of different levels in the first type of levels are distinguished by available random access sequences, the number of random access sequences allocated by each of the levels of the first type is directly proportional to the number of the second type of nodes corresponding to each level in the first type of levels.

29. The method according to claim 26, wherein, when random access channel resources allocated by each of different levels in the first type of levels are distinguished by available random access sequences, the number of random access sequences allocated by each of different levels in the first type of levels is the same, and the allocated random access sequences are different;

or,

the number of random access sequences allocated by different levels in the first type of levels allocated by different levels in the first type of levels is increased along with increase of levels in the first type of levels;

or,

when random access channel resources allocated by each level in the first type of levels are distinguished by available random access sequences, the number of random access sequences allocated by each level in the first type of levels is configured by the first type of node;

or,

when random access channel resources allocated by each level in the first type of levels are distinguished by available random access sequences, the number of random access sequences allocated by each level in the first type of levels is configured by the first type of node;

or,

the configuration information of the random access channel further comprises;

random access channel resources allocated to the second type of node, the random access channel resources being allocated according to a predefined resource allocation strategy;

the predefined resource allocation strategy comprises a first strategy and a second strategy;

the first strategy is one of that;

the number of the available random access sequences is smaller than a first predefined value;

the number of the available random access sequences is larger than a second predefined value; and

the number of the available random access sequences is larger than the first predefined value and smaller than the second predefined value;

the first predefined value is smaller than the second predefined value;

the second strategy is one of that;

the number of the available random access sequences is larger than a third predefined value;

the number of the available random access sequences is smaller than a fourth predefined value; and

that the number of the available random access sequences is smaller than the third predefined value and larger than the fourth predefined value;

the third predefined value is larger than the second predefined value;

when the first strategy is met, each level in the first type of levels multiplexes a same frequency-domain resource in a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) manner or multiplexes a same time-domain resource in a Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) manner; and

when the second strategy is met, the random access channel resources allocated by each level in the first type of levels occupy the same time-domain resources and/or frequency-domain resources, and the random access channel resources allocated by each level in the first type of levels comprise different random access sequences,

wherein the first predefined value, the second predefined value, the third predefined value and the fourth predefined value are configured and transmitted to the second type of node by communication system equipment, or are configured and sent to the second type of node by the first type of node.

34. The method according to claim 28, wherein a proportion of the numbers of random access sequences allocated by two levels in the first type of levels is consistent with a preset proportional relationship A^m(i):

A^m(n),

where i and n are indexes of the two levels in the first type of levels; and

m⁽ⁱ⁾ and m⁽ⁿ⁾ are power exponents corresponding to the two levels,

corresponding to the indexes i and n, in the first type of levels, and A is a base number.

35. The method according to claim 34, wherein A^m(i) and A^m(n) are configured by communication system equipment according to a size of the value range of the received signal quality of the predefined reference signal corresponding to each level in the first type of levels and/or a size of a value range of a CIT value corresponding to each level in the first type of levels.

41. A computer storage medium, having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to execute the method according to claim 1.

5-6. -6. (canceled)

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36. A method for acquiring configuration information of a random access channel, comprising:

receiving configuration information of a random access channel, the configuration information of the random access channel comprising configuration information of a first type of levels; and

searching for a first type of information in a pre-stored information table of the first type according to the configuration information of the first type of levels and a predefined rule.

37. (canceled)

38. A communication node, which is a first type of node, the first type of node comprising:

a first transmitting unit, configured to transmit configuration information of a random access channel, the configuration information of the random access channel comprising configuration information of a first type of levels.

39. A communication node, which is a second type of node, the second type of node comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive configuration information of a random access channel, the configuration information of the random access channel comprising configuration information of a first type of levels; and

a query unit, configured to search for a first type of information in a pre-stored information table of the first type according to the configuration information of the first type of levels and a predefined rule.

40. (canceled)