Downlink control information sending method and device, and downlink control information receiving method and device

• US 10,244,552 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• 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: Lyu, Yongxia, Zhang, Wen, Sun, Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Pezzlo, John
• Application Number:
  US15/363,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20170079065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• Field of Search: 370252, 370329, 370430, 370278
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1415 using control lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention discloses a downlink control information sending method and device, and a downlink control information receiving method and device. The sending method includes: sending, by a base station device, downlink control information DCI on a physical downlink control channel PDCCH of a downlink subframe, where the DCI is used to instruct user equipment UE to receive physical downlink shared channel PDSCH information in an uplink subframe; and sending the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe. In this way, the base station can effectively schedule an uplink subframe, and a purpose of transmitting a downlink service by using an uplink subframe is achieved, which not only improves utilization of a wireless spectrum resource corresponding to the uplink subframe, but also effectively diverts load pressure of a wireless spectrum resource corresponding to a downlink subframe. Therefore, overall utilization of wireless spectrum resources of a system is improved.

Claims

1. A downlink control information sending method, comprising:

sending, by a base station device, downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a downlink subframe, wherein the DCI is used to instruct user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) information in an uplink subframe; and

sending, by the base station device, the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

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

sending, by the base station device, a notification message to the UE, wherein the notification message is used to indicate a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, and the notification message comprises a system information block (SIB) or radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, by a base station device, DCI on a PDCCH of a downlink subframe meets:

a quantity of bits of the DCI sent by the base station device is the same as a quantity of bits of DCI format 0/format 1A sent by the base station, and the DCI sent by the base station device comprises a CRC and/or a scrambling code, wherein the CRC and/or the scrambling code is used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the sending, by a base station device, DCI on a PDCCH of a downlink subframe, the method further comprises:

selecting, by the base station device, an uplink subframe that can be used to send the PDSCH information, and determining, according to a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, a subframe number that is of a downlink subframe and corresponding to a subframe number of the selected uplink subframe used to send the PDSCH information;

the sending, by a base station device, downlink control information DCI on a PDCCH of a downlink subframe comprises;

sending, by the base station device, the downlink control information DCI on the PDCCH of the downlink subframe corresponding to the determined subframe number of the downlink subframe; and

the sending, by the base station device, the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe comprises;

sending, by the base station device, the PDSCH information in the selected uplink subframe.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the uplink subframe is carried on an uplink carrier, the downlink subframe is carried on a downlink carrier, and the uplink carrier and the downlink carrier are wireless spectrum resources configured in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system.

6. A downlink control information receiving method, comprising:

receiving, by user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) from a base station device, wherein the DCI instructs the UE to receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) information in an uplink subframe; and

receiving, by the UE according to the DCI, the PDSCH information from the base station device in the uplink subframe.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the UE, a notification message from the base station device, wherein the notification message is used to indicate a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, and the notification message comprises a system information block (SIB) or radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the receiving, by UE, DCI sent by a base station device comprises:

performing, by the UE according to downlink transmission mode information, blind detection on the DCI from the base station device, wherein the DCI from the base station device meets;

a quantity of bits of the DCI from the base station device that corresponds to a quantity of bits of DCI format 0/format 1A from the base station device, and the DCI from the base station device comprises a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and/or a scrambling code, wherein the CRC and/or the scrambling code is used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the performing, by the UE according to the downlink transmission mode information, blind detection on the DCI from the base station device comprises:

descrambling or demasking, by the UE each time a piece of DCI is detected, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the detected DCI by using a scrambling or masking C-RNTI code x_rnti,k, and determining whether the CRC obtained after the descrambling or demasking is b_k; and

if the obtained CRC is not b_k, descrambling or demasking the CRC of the detected DCI by using the scrambling or masking C-RNTI code x_rnti,k and a scrambling code a_k, and determining, when the CRC obtained after the descrambling or demasking is C_k, that the DCI from the base station device and used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe is received.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the UE receives the PDSCH information, the method further comprises:

determining, by the UE according to a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to receive DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send ACK/NACK, a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send the ACK/NACK, and sending the ACK/NACK in the uplink subframe corresponding to the determined subframe number of the uplink subframe.

11. A downlink control information sending device, comprising:

a signal transmitter, configured to send downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a downlink subframe, wherein the DCI is used to instruct user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) information in an uplink subframe; and

the signal transmitter is further configured to send the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

12. The sending device according to claim 11, wherein:

the signal transmitter is further configured to send a notification message to the UE, wherein the notification message is used to indicate a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, and the notification message comprises a a system information block (SIB) or radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

13. The sending device according to claim 11, wherein that the sending device sends the DCI on the PDCCH of the downlink subframe meets:

a quantity of bits of the DCI sent by the sending device is the same as a quantity of bits of DCI format 0/format 1A sent by the sending device, and the DCI sent by the sending device comprises a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and/or a scrambling code, wherein the CRC and/or the scrambling code is used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

14. The sending device according to claim 11, wherein the sending device further comprises:

a processor, wherein

the processor is configured to;

before the DCI is sent on the PDCCH of the downlink subframe, select an uplink subframe that can be used to send the PDSCH information, and determine, according to the correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, a subframe number that is of a downlink subframe and corresponding to a subframe number of the selected uplink subframe used to send the PDSCH information;

the signal transmitter is specifically configured to send the DCI on the PDCCH of the downlink subframe corresponding to the determined subframe number of the downlink subframe; and

the signal transmitter is further specifically configured to send the PDSCH information in the selected uplink subframe.

15. The sending device according to claim 11, wherein the uplink subframe is carried on an uplink carrier, the downlink subframe is carried on a downlink carrier, and the uplink carrier and the downlink carrier are wireless spectrum resources configured in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system.

16. A downlink control information receiving device, comprising:

a signal receiver, configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) from a base station device, wherein the DCI instructs user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) information in an uplink subframe; and

the signal receiver is further configured to receive, according to the DCI, the PDSCH information from the base station device in the uplink subframe.

17. The receiving device according to claim 16, wherein:

the signal receiver is further configured to receive a notification message from the base station device, wherein the notification message is used to indicate a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to send DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send PDSCH information, and the notification message comprises a system information block (SIB) or radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

18. The receiving device according to claim 16, wherein:

the signal receiver is specifically configured to perform, according to downlink transmission mode information, blind detection on the DCI from the base station device, wherein the DCI from the base station device meets;

a quantity of bits of the DCI from the base station device that corresponds to a quantity of bits of DCI format 0/format 1A from the base station device, and the DCI from the base station device comprises a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and/or a scrambling code, wherein the CRC and/or the scrambling code is used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe.

19. The receiving device according to claim 18, wherein

the signal receiver is specifically configured to:

descramble or demask, each time a piece of DCI is detected, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the detected DCI by using a scrambling or masking C-RNTI code x_rnti,k, and determine whether the CRC obtained after the descrambling or demasking is b_k; and

if the obtained CRC is not b_k, descramble or demask the CRC of the detected DCI by using the scrambling or masking C-RNTI code x_rnti,k and a scrambling code a_k, and determine, when the CRC obtained after the descrambling or demasking is C_k, that the DCI from the base station device and used to instruct the UE to receive the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe is received.

20. The receiving device according to claim 16, wherein the receiving device further comprises:

a signal transmitter,

the signal transmitter is specifically configured to;

determine, according to a correspondence between a subframe number of a downlink subframe used to receive DCI and a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send ACK/NACK, a subframe number of an uplink subframe used to send the ACK/NACK, and send the ACK/NACK in the uplink subframe corresponding to the determined subframe number of the uplink subframe.