Method and apparatus for sending uplink/downlink scheduling information, and method and apparatus for receiving uplink/downlink scheduling information

• US 9,504,054 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2013
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2011
• 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: Guan, Lei, Liu, Wenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chuong M
• Application Number:
  US13/956,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20130322378A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for sending uplink/downlink scheduling information, and a method and an apparatus for receiving uplink/downlink scheduling information. The method for sending downlink scheduling information includes: determining, in downlink subframes on a second carrier, a first downlink subframe, in which at time corresponding to the first downlink subframe, a subframe on a first carrier is an uplink subframe; and sending, on a fifth downlink subframe on the first carrier, downlink scheduling information corresponding to the first downlink subframe on the second carrier to a terminal, in which time corresponding to the fifth downlink subframe is before the time corresponding to the first downlink subframe. The present invention achieves the purpose of performing uplink and downlink scheduling on a second carrier through a first carrier bearing a PDCCH.

Claims

1. A method for sending uplink scheduling information, comprising:

determining, in uplink subframes on a second carrier, a first uplink subframe, wherein at a time corresponding to a third downlink subframe for scheduling the first uplink subframe on the second carrier during non-cross-carrier scheduling, a subframe on a first carrier is an uplink subframe; and

sending, on a sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier, uplink scheduling information corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier to a terminal, wherein time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe is before time corresponding to the first uplink subframe.

2. The method for sending uplink scheduling information according to claim 1, wherein the latency between the time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe and the time corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier is minimum, and the sixth downlink subframe and the first uplink subframe are spaced by at least N subframes, wherein the N is the number of subframes which are between receiving, by the terminal, the uplink scheduling information and sending, by the terminal, uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information;

or

at the time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe, a subframe on the second carrier does not bear the uplink scheduling information during non-cross-carrier scheduling.

3. The method for sending uplink scheduling information according to claim 1, wherein the sixth downlink subframe bears uplink scheduling information corresponding to at most one first uplink subframe on the second carrier.

4. The method for sending uplink scheduling information according to claim 1, wherein indicating a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier to the terminal through a newly added bit, a newly added scrambling code, a carrier indicator field, transmit power control, a downlink assignment indication, or an uplink index in a physical downlink control channel;

or, indicating a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier to the terminal through radio resource control signaling, media access control signaling, a search space of a physical downlink control channel or scheduling time of the physical downlink control channel.

5. A method for receiving uplink scheduling information, comprising:

on a sixth downlink subframe that is on a first carrier and that is at time before that of a first uplink subframe, receiving uplink scheduling information which is sent by a base station and is corresponding to the first uplink subframe on a second carrier, wherein at a time corresponding to a third downlink subframe for scheduling the first uplink subframe on the second carrier during non-cross-carrier scheduling, a subframe on the first carrier is an uplink subframe; and

sending, on the first uplink subframe on the second carrier, uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information according to the received uplink scheduling information.

6. The method for receiving uplink scheduling information according to claim 5, wherein the latency between sending time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe and sending time corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier is minimum, and the sixth downlink subframe and the first uplink subframe are spaced by at least N subframes, wherein the N is the number of subframes which are between receiving, by a terminal, the uplink scheduling information and sending, by the terminal, the uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information;

or

at the time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe, a subframe on the second carrier does not bear the uplink scheduling information during non-cross-carrier scheduling;

or

the sixth downlink subframe bears uplink scheduling information corresponding to at most one first uplink subframe on the second carrier.

7. The method for receiving uplink scheduling information according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe, wherein the cross-carrier uplink scheduling type is indicated by a newly added bit, a newly added scrambling code, a carrier indicator field, transmit power control, or an uplink assignment indication in a physical downlink control channel;

or indicated by radio resource control signaling, media access control signaling, a search space of a physical downlink control channel or a scheduling time of the physical downlink control channel, wherein

the sending, on the first uplink subframe on the second carrier, uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information according to the received uplink scheduling information comprises;

sending, on the first uplink subframe on the second carrier, the uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information according to the cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe and the uplink scheduling information.

8. An apparatus for sending uplink scheduling information, comprising:

an uplink subframe determining module, configured to determine, in uplink subframes on a second carrier, a first uplink subframe, wherein at a time corresponding to a third downlink subframe for scheduling the first uplink subframe on the second carrier during non-cross-carrier scheduling, a subframe on the a carrier is an uplink subframe; and

an uplink scheduling sending module, configured to send, on a sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier, uplink scheduling information corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier to a terminal, wherein time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe is before time corresponding to the first uplink subframe.

9. The apparatus for sending uplink scheduling information according to claim 8, wherein the latency between sending time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe and sending time corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier is minimum, and the sixth downlink subframe and the first uplink subframe are spaced by at least N subframes, wherein the N is the number of subframes which are between receiving, by the terminal, the uplink scheduling information and sending, by the terminal, uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information;

or

at the time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe, a subframe on the second carrier does not bear the uplink scheduling information during non-cross-carrier scheduling.

10. The apparatus for sending uplink scheduling information according to claim 8, wherein

the uplink scheduling sending module is specifically configured to indicate a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier to the terminal through a newly added bit, a newly added scrambling code, a carrier indicator field, transmit power control, a downlink assignment indication, or an uplink index in a physical downlink control channel;

or, indicate a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe on the first carrier to the terminal through radio resource control signaling, media access control signaling, a search space of a physical downlink control channel or scheduling time of the physical downlink control channel.

11. An apparatus for receiving uplink scheduling information, comprising:

an uplink scheduling receiving module, configured to receive, on a sixth downlink subframe that is on a first carrier and that is at time before that of a first uplink subframe, uplink scheduling information which is sent by a base station and is corresponding to the first uplink subframe on a second carrier, wherein at a time corresponding to a third downlink subframe for scheduling the first uplink subframe on the second carrier during non-cross-carrier scheduling, a subframe on the first carrier is an uplink subframe; and

an uplink data sending module, configured to send, on the first uplink subframe on the second carrier, uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information according to the received uplink scheduling information.

12. The apparatus for receiving uplink scheduling information according to claim 11, wherein the latency between sending time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe and sending time corresponding to the first uplink subframe on the second carrier is minimum, and the sixth downlink subframe and the first uplink subframe are spaced by at least N subframes, wherein the N is the number of subframes which are between receiving, by a terminal, the uplink scheduling information and sending, by the terminal, the uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information;

or

at the time corresponding to the sixth downlink subframe, a subframe on the second carrier does not bear the uplink scheduling information during non-cross-carrier scheduling;

or

the sixth downlink subframe bears uplink scheduling information corresponding to at most one first uplink subframe on the second carrier.

13. The apparatus for receiving uplink scheduling information according to claim 11, further comprising:

an uplink scheduling type receiving module, configured to receive a cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe, wherein the cross-carrier uplink scheduling type is indicated by a newly added bit, a newly added scrambling code, a carrier indicator field, transmit power control, or an uplink assignment indication in a physical downlink control channel;

or indicated by radio resource control signaling, media access control signaling, a search space of a physical downlink control channel or scheduling time of the physical downlink control channel, wherein

the uplink scheduling sending module is specifically configured to send, on the first uplink subframe on the second carrier, the uplink data corresponding to the uplink scheduling information according to the cross-carrier uplink scheduling type of the sixth downlink subframe and the uplink scheduling information.