Data transmission method and apparatus

• US 11,140,684 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2019
• Issued: 10/05/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2017
• 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, Ma, Ruixiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Latorre, Ivan O
• Application Number:
  US16/577,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20200015233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0005 applied to payload information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0032 Without explicit signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0058 Block-coded modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0278 using buffer status reports dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0466 the resource being a scrambling code
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes coding, by a terminal device, a first transport block to obtain a first coded transport block, where the first transport block includes first data; coding, by the terminal device, indication information to obtain coded indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal device sends a first buffer status report BSR when the terminal device sends the first data, and the first BSR indicates a data amount of to-be-transmitted data currently buffered in a buffer of the terminal device; and sending, by the terminal device, the first coded transport block and the coded indication information to a network device. According to the data transmission method and apparatus provided in embodiments of this application, the network device can directly learn whether the terminal device sends a BSR, so as to reduce a communication delay.

Claims

1. A data transmission method, comprising:

coding and modulating, by a terminal device, a first transport block to obtain a first coded transport block for transmission in a transmission time interval being a minimum scheduling period, the first transport block comprising a buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of to-be-transmitted data currently buffered in a buffer of the terminal device;

sending, by the terminal device, the first coded transport block comprising the BSR to a network device;

separately coding and modulating, by the terminal device, indication information to obtain a different coded transport block comprising the indication information, the indication information being used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the first coded transport block; and

sending, by the terminal device, the different coded transport block comprising the indication information to the network device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the data, and the method further comprises:

coding and modulating, by the terminal device, a third transport block to obtain a third coded transport block, the third transport block also comprising the BSR; and

sending, by the terminal device, the third coded transport block to the network device.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the first transport block and the third transport block are coded by using different modulation and coding schemes.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the sending, by the terminal device, the first coded transport block comprising the BSR and the different coded transport block comprising the indication information to the network device comprises:

sending, by the terminal device, the first coded transport block comprising the BSR and the different coded transport block comprising the indication information to the network device on a time-frequency resource pre-allocated by the network device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first transport block further comprises the data.

6. A data transmission method, comprising:

receiving, by a network device, a first coded transport block in a transmission time interval being a minimum scheduling period from a terminal device, the first coded transport block comprising a buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of to-be-transmitted data currently buffered in a buffer of the terminal device;

decoding and demodulating, by the network device, the first coded transport block to obtain the BSR;

receiving, by the network device, a different coded transport block from the terminal device, the different coded transport block comprising indication information used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the first coded transport block; and

separately decoding and demodulating, by the network device, the different coded transport block to obtain the indication information.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the data, and the method further comprises:

receiving, by the network device, a third coded transport block from the terminal device; and

decoding and demodulating, by the network device, the third coded transport block to obtain a third transport block, the third transport block also comprising the BSR.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the first coded transport block and the third coded transport block are decoded and demodulated using different demodulation and decoding schemes.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the receiving the first coded transport block comprising the BSR and the different coded transport block comprising the indication information comprises:

receiving, by the network device, the first coded transport block comprising the BSR and the different coded transport block comprising the indication information on a time-frequency resource pre-allocated by the network device.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first coded transport block further comprises the data.

11. A terminal device, comprising:

a processor, configured to;

code and modulate a first transport block to obtain a first coded transport block for transmission in a transmission time interval being a minimum scheduling period, wherein the first transport block comprises a buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of to-be-transmitted data currently buffered in a buffer of the terminal device;

separately code and modulate indication information to obtain a different coded transport block comprising the indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the first coded transport block; and

a transceiver, configured to;

send the first coded transport block comprising the BSR to a network device; and

send the different coded transport block comprising the indication information to the network device.

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

the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device sends the BSR when the terminal device sends the data;

the processor is further configured to code and modulate a third transport block to obtain a third coded transport block, wherein the third transport block also comprises the BSR; and

the transceiver is further configured to send the third coded transport block to the network device.

13. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the first transport block and the third transport block are coded by using different modulation and coding schemes.

14. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the transceiver is configured to send the first coded transport block comprising the BSR and the different coded transport block comprising the indication information to the network device on a time-frequency resource pre-allocated by the network device.

15. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the first transport block further comprises the BSR.