PUSCH transmission method and apparatus

• US 10,674,503 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2014
• 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: Li, Zhongfeng, Tang, Zhenfei
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Asad M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harley, Jason A
• Application Number:
  US15/388,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20170105212A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,258 Days
• Field of Search: 370329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/00 Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a PUSCH transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, in a first subframe, downlink control signaling that instructs user equipment UE to transmit a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, where the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH, where the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is any one of or any combination of N subframes, the N subframes include a special subframe, and N is an integer not less than 1; and receiving the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information. It can be seen that, in the embodiments of the present invention, a subframe in which a PUSCH is transmitted and that is indicated by downlink control information includes a special subframe; therefore, the special subframe can be scheduled to transmit the PUSCH.

Claims

1. A PUSCH transmission method, comprising:

sending downlink control signaling in a first subframe by a base station, wherein the downlink control signaling instructs user equipment (UE) to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH and a scaled-up physical resource block (PRB) quantity, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is a special subframe;

scaling down, by the base station, the scaled-up PRB quantity; and

receiving according to the scaled down PRB quantity, by the base station, the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information,

wherein the scaling down, by the base station, of the scaled-up PRB quantity comprises;

scaling down the scaled-up PRB quantity PRB_2 to obtain the scaled down PRB quantity PRB_1 by using a scale factor S_f, wherein the PRB_1 satisfies;

PRB_1=└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

or PRB_1=max{└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

, 1},

wherein └

*┘

indicates rounding down.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is one of or a combination of the special subframe, a second subframe, and a third subframe, and is indicated by using three bits.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the three bits comprise two bits of an uplink index.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the three bits are all newly added bits.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is either of or a combination of the special subframe and a second subframe, and is indicated by using two bits.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the two bits are two bits of an uplink index or two newly added bits.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting uplink data by using the PUSCH.

8. A PUSCH transmission method, performed by user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, in a first subframe by the UE, downlink control signaling of an instruction to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH and a scaled-up physical resource block (PRB) quantity, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is a special subframe;

scaling down, by the UE, the scaled-up PRB quantity; and

sending according to the scaled down PRB quantity, by the UE, the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information,

wherein the scaling down, by the UE, of the scaled-up PRB quantity comprises;

scaling down the scaled-up PRB quantity PRB_2 to obtain the scaled down PRB quantity PRB_1 by using a scale factor S_f, wherein the PRB_1 satisfies;

PRB_1=└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

or PRB_1=max{└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

, 1},

wherein └

*┘

indicates rounding down.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is one of or a combination of the special subframe, a second subframe, and a third subframe, and is indicated by using three bits.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is either of or a combination of the special subframe and a second subframe, and is indicated by using two bits.

11. A PUSCH transmission apparatus, comprising at least a processor, a transceiver, and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to instruct, by running a software program stored in the memory and invoking data stored in the memory, the transceiver to perform the following steps:

sending downlink control signaling in a first subframe, wherein the downlink control signaling instructs user equipment (UE) to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH and a scaled-up physical resource block (PRB) quantity, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is a special subframe;

scaling down, by the base station, the scaled-up PRB quantity; and

receiving, according to the scaled down PRB quantity, the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information,

wherein the scaling down of the scaled-up PRB quantity comprises;

scaling down the scaled-up PRB quantity PRB_2 to obtain the scaled down PRB quantity PRB_1 by using a scale factor S_f, wherein the PRB_1 satisfies;

PRB_1=└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

or PRB_1=max{└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

, 1},

wherein └

*┘

indicates rounding down.

12. A PUSCH transmission apparatus, comprising at least a processor, a transceiver, and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to instruct, by running a software program stored in the memory and invoking data stored in the memory, the transceiver to perform the following steps:

receiving, in a first subframe, downlink control signaling of an instruction to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the downlink control signaling carries downlink control information, and the downlink control information is used to indicate a subframe for transmitting the PUSCH and a scaled-up physical resource block (PRB) quantity, wherein the subframe for transmitting the PUSCH is a special subframe;

scaling down the scaled-up PRB quantity; and

sending, according to the scaled down PRB quantity, the PUSCH in the subframe indicated by the downlink control information,

wherein the scaling down of the scaled-up PRB quantity comprises;

scaling down the scaled-up PRB quantity PRB_2 to obtain the scaled down PRB quantity PRB_1 by using a scale factor S_f, wherein the PRB_1 satisfies;

PRB_1=└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

or PRB_1=max{└

PRB_2×

S_f┘

, 1},

wherein └

*┘

indicates rounding down.