Downlink control information transmission method and apparatus

• US 10,264,601 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• 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: Wang, Lei, Xu, Xiuqiang, Chen, Yan
• Primary Examiner(s): Kading, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US15/687,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20170359834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0456 Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/00 Baseband systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users
• 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 disclosure describes a downlink control information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining multiple terminal devices used for downlink scheduling; determining downlink control information used by the multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, where the downlink control information includes common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device; and sending the downlink control information to the multiple terminal devices.

Claims

1. A downlink control information transmission method, comprising:

determining multiple terminal devices used for downlink scheduling;

determining downlink control information used by the multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, wherein the downlink control information comprises common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device; and

sending the downlink control information to the multiple terminal devices.

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

sending the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices to the multiple terminal devices according to the downlink control information, wherein the order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of a downlink data flow of each terminal device.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein each terminal device has a same quantity of downlink data flows.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the common control information comprises at least one of the following:

resource allocation information of time-frequency resources for carrying the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices;

or

precoding matrix information or non-orthogonal multiple access codebook information for sending the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the dedicated control information of each terminal device comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information and/or modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information of each terminal device.

6. A downlink control information transmission method, comprising:

receiving downlink control information sent by a network device and used by multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, wherein the downlink control information comprises common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device;

obtaining the common control information according to the downlink control information;

determining order information of device identifier information of a first terminal device according to the device identifier information of each terminal device in the downlink control information; and

obtaining dedicated control information of the first terminal device from the downlink control information according to the order information.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein after receiving the downlink control information sent by the network device, the method further comprises:

receiving downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices that are sent by the network device; and

determining, according to the common control information, the dedicated control information of the first terminal device, and the order information, a downlink data flow of the first terminal device from the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices that are sent by the network device, wherein the order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of a downlink data flow of each terminal device.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein each terminal device has a same quantity of downlink data flows.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the common control information comprises at least one of the following:

resource allocation information of time-frequency resources for carrying the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices;

or

precoding matrix information or non-orthogonal multiple access codebook information for sending the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the dedicated control information of each terminal device comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information and/or modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information of each terminal device.

11. A downlink control information transmission apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to;

determine multiple terminal devices used for downlink scheduling, and

determine downlink control information used by the determined multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, wherein the downlink control information comprises common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device; and

a transmitter configured to send the downlink control information determined by the processor to the multiple terminal devices.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the transmitter is configured to:

send the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices to the multiple terminal devices according to the downlink control information, wherein the order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of a downlink data flow of each terminal device.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein each terminal device has a same quantity of downlink data flows sent by the transmitter.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the common control information comprises at least one of the following:

resource allocation information of time-frequency resources for carrying the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices;

or

precoding matrix information or non-orthogonal multiple access codebook information for sending the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices.

15. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the dedicated control information of each terminal device comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information and/or modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information of each terminal device.

16. A downlink control information transmission apparatus, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive downlink control information sent by a network device and used by multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, wherein the downlink control information comprises common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device; and

a processor configured to;

obtain the common control information according to the downlink control information received by the receiver,

determine order information of device identifier information of a first terminal device according to the device identifier information of each terminal device in the downlink control information received by the receiver, and

obtain dedicated control information of the first terminal device from the downlink control information according to the determined order information.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein:

the receiver is configured to;

after receiving the downlink control information sent by the network device, receive downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices sent by the network device; and

the processor is configured to;

determine, according to the common control information, the dedicated control information of the first terminal device, and the order information, a downlink data flow of the first terminal device from the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices sent by the network device, wherein the order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of a downlink data flow of each terminal device.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein each terminal device has a same quantity of downlink data flows.

19. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the common control information comprises at least one of the following:

resource allocation information of time-frequency resources for carrying the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices;

or

precoding matrix information or non-orthogonal multiple access codebook information for sending the downlink data flows of the multiple terminal devices.

20. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the dedicated control information of each terminal device comprises hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information and/or modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information of each terminal device.