WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NETWORK DEVICE

• US 20200136780A1
• Filed: 12/24/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: CHEN, WENHONG
• Granted Patent: US 11,190,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0082 at predetermined intervals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: receiving first information and second information transmitted by a network device, where the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N CSIs, and to indicate a PUSCH resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs; determining M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the first information, the second information and M CSI processing units currently in an idle state; calculating payloads of the M CSIs that need to be fed back, respectively, and feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back on the PUSCH resource.

Claims

1. A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal device, first information and second information transmitted by a network device, wherein the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N pieces of channel state information (CSI), and to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2;

determining, by the terminal device, M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the first information, the second information and M CSI processing units currently in an idle state, M being an integer greater than 0 and less than N; and

calculating, by the terminal device, payloads of the M CSIs that need to be fed back, respectively, and feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back on the PUSCH resource.

2. A terminal device, comprising:

a transceiver, a memory and a processor coupled to the memory;

the memory storing thereon instructions executable by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to;

control the transceiver to receive first information and second information transmitted by a network device, wherein the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N pieces of channel state information (CSI), and to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and

determine M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the first information, the second information and M CSI processing units currently in idle state. M being an integer greater than 0 and less than N;

calculate payloads of the M CSIs that need to be fed back, respectively, and feed back the M CSIs that need to be fed back on the PUSCH resource.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine at least one first time span for CSI calculation according to the first information, the second information and the M CSI processing units currently in the idle state; and

determine the M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the at least one first time span.

4. The terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a time span between a last symbol of a resource that appears first among channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to each CSI group of X CSI groups following a Physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a first symbol reported on a PUSCH as one first time span, to obtain X first time spans, wherein each CSI group includes M CSIs, and each CSI in the X CSI groups belongs to the N CSIs X being an integer greater than or equal to 2.

5. The terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a time span between a last symbol of a resource that appears first among channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to T CSIs in each CSI group of X CSI groups following a PDCCH, and a first symbol reported on a PUSCH as one first time span, to obtain X first time spans, wherein each CSI group includes M CSIs, and channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to M-T CSIs included in each CSI group are periodic resources or quasi-periodic resources, and the terminal device has already cached downlink channel information corresponding to the M-T CSIs before receiving the first information and the second information, and each CSI in the X CSI groups belongs to the N CSIs, X being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and T being an integer greater than 0 and less than M.

6. The terminal device according to claim 4, wherein, when subcarrier spacings of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to different CSIs of the N CSIs are different, a calculation time required for each CSI of the N CSIs is obtained according to a time unit and a calculation time corresponding to a minimum subcarrier spacing of a subcarrier spacing of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to each CSI of the N CSIs and a subcarrier spacing for reporting the PUSCH.

7. The terminal device according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine at least one first time span satisfying a first condition from the X first time spans, and taking M CSIs corresponding to each of the at least one first time span satisfying the first condition as a CSI candidate, to obtain at least one CSI candidate, wherein the first condition is that a first time span is longer than or equal to a sum of respective calculation times of corresponding M CSIs; and

determine the M CSIs that need to be fed back from the at least one CSI candidate.

8. The terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a time span between a last symbol of a resource that appears first among the channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs following a PDCCH, and a first symbol reported on a PUSCH as the first time span, wherein the channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs are periodic resources, quasi-periodic resources, or aperiodic resources;

or

the processor is configured to;

determine a time span between a last symbol of a resource that appears first among channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to K CSIs of the N CSIs following a PDCCH, and a first symbol reported on a PUSCH as the first time span, wherein channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to N-K CSIs of the N CSIs are periodic resources or quasi-periodic resources, and the terminal device has already cached downlink channel information corresponding to the N-K CSIs before receiving the first information and the second information, K being an integer greater than 0 and less than N.

9. The terminal device according to claim 5, wherein, when subcarrier spacings of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to different CSIs of the N CSIs are different, a calculation time required for each CSI of the N CSIs is obtained according to a time wilt and a calculation time corresponding to a minimum subcarrier spacing of a subcarrier spacing of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to each CSI of the N CSIs and a subcarrier spacing for reporting the PUSCH.

10. The terminal device according to claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine M CSIs satisfying a second condition as a CSI candidate, to obtain at least one CSI candidate, wherein the second condition is that a sum of respective calculation times of the M CSIs is shorter than or equal to the first time span; and

determine the M CSIs that need to be fed back from the at least one CSI candidate.

11. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the processor is configured to:

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, a CSI candidate with a maximum sum of the calculation times required as the M CSIs that need to be fed back;

or

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, a CSI candidate with a highest priority as the M CSIs that need to be fed back;

or

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, the M CSIs that need to be fed back according to a CSI configuration order;

or

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, a CSI candidate with a minimum sum of CSI payloads as the M CSIs that need to be fed back;

or

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, a CSI candidate with a maximum sum of CSI payloads as the M CSIs that need to be fed back;

or

select, from the at least one CSI candidate, a CSI candidate with a maximum sum of CSI payloads that the PUSCH resources can support as the M CSIs that need to be fed back.

12. The terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor is configured to:

calculate priorities of the N CSIs and select sequentially, according to an order of the priorities. M CSIs with highest priorities from the N CSIs as the M CSIs that need to be fed back;

or

the processor is configured to;

select, according to an order of configuring the N CSIs, M CSIs that are configured first from the N CSIs as the M CSIs that need to be fed back.

13. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein, when subcarrier spacings of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to different CSIs of the N CSIs are different, a calculation time required for each CSI of the N CSIs is obtained according to a time unit and a calculation time corresponding to a minimum subcarrier spacing of a subcarrier spacing of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to each CSI of the N CSIs and a subcarrier spacing for reporting a PUSCH.

14. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein if a calculation time required for the M CSIs that need to be fed back is longer than a time span between a last symbol of channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the M CSIs that need to be fed back and a first symbol reported on a PUSCH, the processor is further configured to give up on feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back.

15. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein if a sum of time spans from detecting a PDCCH to reporting a PUSCH that respectively required for the M CSIs that need to be fed back is longer than a time span between a last symbol of the PDCCH and a first symbol reported on the PUSCH, the processor is further configured to give up on feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back.

16. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the first information is configured to indicate a PUSCH time domain resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the PUSCH time domain resource includes:

a slot location, a starting symbol and lasting symbols.

17. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement time domain resources corresponding to the N CSIs, and the channel measurement and interference measurement time domain resources include a slot location, a starting symbol and lasting symbols.

18. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the channel measurement and interference measurement resources indicated by the second information are one type among periodic resources, quasi-periodic resources and aperiodic resources.

19. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the first information is downlink control information (DCI), and the second information is one of DCI, radio resource control (RRC) dedicated signaling or media access control control element (MAC CE).

20. A network device, comprising:

a transceiver, a memory and a processor coupled to the memory;

the memory storing thereon instructions executable by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to;

control the transceiver to transmit first information and second information to a terminal device, wherein the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N pieces of channel state information (CSI), and to indicate a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource to be used when the CSIs are led back, the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs, and the terminal device has M CSI processing units in and idle state currently, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2 and M being an integer greater than 0 and less than N;

control the transceiver to receive M CSIs fed back the terminal device on the PUSCH resource.