CN109842469B

CN109842469B - Information indication method, information determination method, information indication device, information determination device and computer storage medium

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Publication number: CN109842469B
Application number: CN201711192570.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苏昕; 陈润华; 高秋彬; 拉盖施
Original assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology CATT
Current assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology CATT; Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-11-24
Filing date: 2017-11-24
Publication date: 2020-06-05
Anticipated expiration: 2037-11-24
Also published as: TWI679908B; CN109842469A; TW201927037A; WO2019100873A1

Abstract

The application discloses an information indicating method, an information determining method, an information indicating device, an information determining device and a computer storage medium, which are used for indicating QCL group information of DMRS ports, so that a terminal determines the QCL group information of the DMRS ports. An information indication method provided by an embodiment of the application includes: determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port; and informing the QCL group information to a terminal.

Description

Information indication method, information determination method, information indication device, information determination device and computer storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an information indicating method, an information determining method, an information indicating apparatus, an information determining apparatus, and a computer storage medium.

Background

In New Radio (NR) systems, a data Demodulation process needs to perform channel estimation based on a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS). In the prior art, DMRS in an NR system is transmitted in the same precoding manner as a corresponding data layer.

However, the prior art lacks an indication and determination scheme for DMRS port related information.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an information indicating method, an information determining method, an information indicating device, an information determining device and a computer storage medium, which are used for indicating QCL group information of DMRS ports, so that a terminal determines the QCL group information of the DMRS ports.

On a network side, an information indication method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

and informing the QCL group information to a terminal.

The method comprises the steps of determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port, and informing a terminal of the QCL group information, so that indication of the QCL group information of the DMRS port is achieved, and the terminal determines the QCL group information of the DMRS port.

Optionally, the QCL group information specifically includes one of the following information:

an identifier corresponding to a reference signal having a QCL relationship with each code division multiplexing, CDM, group in the DMRS pattern; the CDM groups with the same identifier comprise DMRS ports which form the same QCL group, the identifiers corresponding to the DMRS ports of different QCL groups are different, and the identifiers corresponding to the DMRS ports of the same QCL group are the same;

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the QCL group information of the DMRS port is notified to the terminal in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner through radio resource control RRC configuration, or media access control MAC control element CE, or downlink control information DCI.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and mapping the data layer to the DMRS port used in transmission according to a preset DMRS port sequencing rule for transmission.

Optionally, the mapping, according to a preset DMRS port ordering rule, the data layer to a DMRS port used in transmission to be transmitted specifically includes:

according to the number v of the parallel transmission data layers of the MIMO, arranging the data layers according to the number as the following transmission signal vectors:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports for transmission according to the following formula:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

In one modulation symbolAn ith modulation symbol; p0, …, Pv-1 indicate the number of v DMRS ports.

Alternatively, if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, the P0< P1<, …, Pv-1.

Optionally, if there are multiple QCL groups or CDM groups, determining the signal vector formed by v DMRS ports according to the result of sorting the numbers of the v DMRS ports.

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

sequencing the numbers of the DMRS ports in each DMRS port subset in a subset to obtain a sequencing result of the DMRS port number corresponding to each DMRS port subset in the subset;

sequencing among the DMRS port subsets based on the in-subset sequencing result of the DMRS port number corresponding to each DMRS port subset;

wherein, each DMRS port subset is a set formed by DMRS ports contained in each CDM group or QCL group.

Optionally, the inter-DMRS port subset ordering is performed in one of the following ways:

sequencing the DMRS port subsets according to the minimum DMRS port number in each DMRS port subset; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

sequencing the DMRS port subsets according to the number of a CDM group or a QCL group corresponding to each DMRS port subset; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and sequencing among the DMRS port subsets according to the number of the DMRS ports contained in each DMRS port subset.

Correspondingly, on the terminal side, the information determining method provided by the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps:

receiving a notification sent by a network side;

and determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port by using the notification.

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the notification is received in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner, and the QCL group information of the DMRS port is acquired from radio resource control RRC configuration, or media access control MAC control element CE, or downlink control information DCI in the notification.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and receiving a data layer which is mapped to the DMRS port used in transmission according to the preset DMRS port sequencing rule.

Optionally, the receiving, according to a preset DMRS port ordering rule, a data layer mapped to a DMRS port used in transmission according to the preset DMRS port ordering rule includes:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

according to the following formula, the receiving network side maps to v data layers on v DMRS ports by using the following formula:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

An ith modulation symbol of the modulation symbols; p0, …, Pv-1 indicate the number of v DMRS ports.

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

An information indicating device provided by the embodiment of the application comprises: the device comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

and informing the QCL group information to a terminal.

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the processor is further configured to:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

Optionally, the processor performs the inter-DMRS port subset ordering in one of the following ways:

An information determining apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes: the device comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

receiving a notification sent by a network side;

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the processor receives the notification in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner, and acquires the QCL group information of the DMRS port from radio resource control RRC configuration, or a media access control MAC control element CE, or downlink control information DCI in the notification.

Optionally, the processor is further configured to:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

Another information indicating device provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

the device comprises a determining unit, a judging unit and a judging unit, wherein the determining unit is used for determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

and the indicating unit is used for informing the QCL group information to a terminal.

Another information determining apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a notification sent by a network side;

a determining unit, configured to determine QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port using the notification.

Another embodiment of the present application provides a computer storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform any one of the methods described above.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a pattern diagram of a first DMRS provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a pattern diagram of a second DMRS provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a pattern diagram of a third DMRS provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a pattern diagram of a fourth DMRS provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart of an information indicating method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic flowchart of an information determining method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an information indicating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an information determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another information indicating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of another information determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The basic pattern (front-load DMRS) configuration of DMRS includes the following cases:

configuration (Configuration) 1:

the number of DMRS symbols is 1, and the maximum support is 4 ports by adopting Combination (comb) 2+ cyclic shift mode (CS) 2.

See fig. 1, where comb2 is frequency domain multiplexing, such as the multiplexing relationship between ports 0 and 2 is comb 2. CS2 multiplexes sequences between ports by cyclic shifts, for example, the multiplexing relationship between ports 0 and 1 is CS 2.

The number of DMRS symbols is 2, and the maximum support is up to 8 ports by using comb2+ CS2+ TD-OCC ({1, 1} and {1, -1 }). TD-OCC ({1, 1} and {1, -1}) indicates that time domain orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) multiplexing is adopted between two ports, and {1,1} {1, -1} are multiplexing coefficients of the two ports, respectively.

Referring to fig. 2, TD-OCC is time domain Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) multiplexing, for example, time domain OCC multiplexing is adopted between ports 0/1 and 4/5. The CS2 multiplexing is performed between port 0 and port 1, the CS2 multiplexing is performed between port 4 and port 5, and the time domain OCC multiplexing is performed between port 0/1 and port 4/5.

Configuration 2：

The number of DMRS symbols is 1, 2-FD-OCC (Resource Element, RE) is adopted, and the maximum support is realized to 6 ports.

See fig. 3, 2-FD-OCC, i.e., frequency domain OCC multiplexing, e.g., between ports 0 and 1. And Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) is used between the other ports, such as between ports 0/1 and 2/3.

The number of DMRS symbols is 2 with 2-FD-OCC (adjacent frequency domain RE) + TD-OCC ({1, 1} and {1, -1}), maximally supported to 12 ports.

Referring to fig. 4, TD-OCC is time domain OCC multiplexing, for example, time domain OCC multiplexing is adopted between ports 0/1 and 6/7.

As can be seen from the above DMRS various pilot patterns (patterns), the configuration1 may be configured with the pattern of fig. 1 if the maximum number of supported ports is not more than 4, or may be configured with the pattern of fig. 2 if the maximum number of supported ports exceeds 4 but does not exceed 8; in the case of configuration2, if the maximum number of supported ports does not exceed 6, it may be configured with the pattern of fig. 3, and if it exceeds 6, but does not exceed 12, it may be configured with the pattern of fig. 4. The port number described herein refers to the sum of the port numbers of all terminals multiplexed on each resource location.

In addition, in fig. 1 to 4, the first two columns represent control symbol fields, that is, symbol positions required to be occupied by a downlink control channel, and the second two columns may be symbol positions required to be occupied by an uplink control channel, that is, symbol resources that cannot be used for a PDSCH data channel.

In the NR system, a case where a plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs)/antenna panels or sub-arrays (panels) perform cooperative transmission may need to be considered. In this case, signals transmitted by different TRP/panels may have relatively independent large scale features, such as average delay, delay spread, average doppler shift, doppler spread, spatial domain reception parameters, and the like. Therefore, in NR, the case where two or more reference signal channel large-scale parameters coincide is called Quasi co-location (QCL). Otherwise, it is called non-QCL. The large-scale parameters include, for example, average delay, delay spread, doppler shift, doppler spread, spatial reception parameters, average received power, and the like. And, QCL is further explained as follows: the terminal cannot judge that each received reference signal port is from a site or an antenna subarray at the same or different physical positions, and if parameters (or subsets thereof) such as average delay, delay spread, doppler shift, doppler spread, spatial receiving parameters, average receiving power and the like of the two reference signal ports are the same, the two reference signals can be considered to be quasi co-located in the sense of the large-scale parameters.

For DMRS ports, the concept of QCL group (group) is defined in NR system, that is, QCL group (may be abbreviated as QCL group) of DMRS ports: each DMRS port QCL within a QCL group, while DMRS ports belonging to different QCL groups are non-QCLs. In the NR system, DMRS ports in the same Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) group have a QCL relationship. That is, in one CDM group, each reference signal port occupies the same time-frequency resource and is distinguished by orthogonal code words. Taking fig. 4 as an example, due to the characteristic of DMRS design, when one DMRS symbol is used, port 0/1 is in CDM relationship, port 2/3 is in CDM relationship, and port 0/1 and port 2/3 are in FDM relationship. In fig. 1 to 4, adjacent blocks of the same padding form one CDM group. Each data channel may support two QCL sets. The data Channel is, for example, a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH).

The QCL group of the DMRS port described in this embodiment may be referred to as a QCL group for short, and may also be referred to as a DMRS group.

The DMRS port described in this embodiment may be simply referred to as a port, and may also be referred to as an antenna port.

The specific scheme provided by the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps:

the method comprises the following steps: and the network side indicates QCL group information (used for indicating the QCL grouping situation of the DMRS ports) of the DMRS ports through control signaling, wherein the content of the QCL group information of the DMRS ports is optionally the content shown in the following modes 1-1, 1-2 or 1-3.

The CDM group in the DMRS pattern is denoted as: CDM group 1, CDM group 2, …, CDM group N. For example, according to the current DMRS pattern (see fig. 1 to 4), the CDM group of the DMRS configuration type1 is 2 at most, and the CDM group of the DMRS configuration type2 is 3 at most.

Mode 1-1 (e.g., may be notified by DCI or MAC CE):

in the DMRS pattern, a flag corresponding to a reference signal having a QCL relationship with each CDM group n (i.e., a QCL reference source for each DMRS port in the CDM group n) is notified by control signaling, for example, a reference signal having a QCL relationship with CDM group n is Ref _ n, and a corresponding flag is ID _ n, that is, only ID _ n is notified, and the terminal can determine that a reference signal having a QCL relationship with CDM group n is Ref _ n from ID _ n, perform QCL grouping according to the QCL reference sources, that is, CDM groups having the same ID _ n, and include DMRS ports that form the same QCL group, wherein ID _ n corresponding to DMRS ports of different QCL groups is different, and ID _ n corresponding to DMRS ports of the same QCL group is the same.

For CDM groups with the same reference source reference signal identifier, a set of DMRS ports included in the CDM group may be regarded as a QCL group of one DMRS port, and it should be noted that one here means that one group is not one DMRS port, that is, one QCL group, or may also be referred to as DMRS group for short.

Mode 1 to 2: the CDM group contained in the QCL group i is directly indicated through control signaling. For example, for dmrs configuration type2, QCL group 1 may be indicated in the control signaling to include

CDM groups

1 and 2, and QCL group 2 may include CDM group 3.

Modes 1 to 3: and directly indicating the DMRS port list contained in the QCL group i through control signaling. For example, for DMRS configuration type2, if the number of data layers is 8, the control signaling may indicate that QCL group 1 includes

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, and 7, and QCL group 2DMRS includes

ports

2, 3, 8, and 9.

In the above process, the Control Information for indicating the QCL grouping condition of the DMRS port (i.e., the QCL group Information of the DMRS port) may be notified to the terminal in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner (terminal-specific) through Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration, Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI).

Through the first step, the terminal may determine, according to QCL group information of the DMRS ports notified by the network side, a ranking manner of the DMRS ports occupied by the terminal in combination with a preset ranking rule of the DMRS ports (a specific rule may be determined according to actual needs, and examples of some rules are given in the following embodiments, but not limited to these rules).

Step two: according to the number of layers of parallel transmission data of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), i.e. the number v of ranks, arranging the transmission data layers (each data layer is one path of data stream) into transmission signal vectors according to the number:

that is, X is a column vector having v elements, the superscript 0 … v-1 is the number of its elements, i.e. the number of each data layer,

indicating a need for transmission per data layer

The ith of the individual modulation symbols.

And recording a signal vector formed by v DMRS ports as Y, wherein the ports contained in the set { P0, …, Pv-1} are indicated by the DCI, and the ordering mode is determined by the step three.

Wherein Y is a column vector having v elements, superscripts P0, …, Pv-1 is the element in YIs the number of v DMRS ports, superscript P0, …, Pv-1,

indicating the need for transmission of data layers per data layer

The ith of the individual modulation symbols.

Step three: and mapping the data layer to the DMRS port used in transmission for transmission according to a preset DMRS port sequencing rule.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present application, a set of DMRS ports for which a packet is formed may be greater than or equal to a set of DMRS ports actually used in transmission, where the DMRS ports actually used in transmission depend on the number of transmission layers. And the actually used DMRS port is indicated by DCI.

The specific optional mode of the step three is shown in the following modes 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4 and 3-5:

mode 3-1:

case one, if there is only one QCL group or CDM group:

sequencing the numbers of v DMRS ports allocated to a terminal in DCI, so that P0< P1<, … and Pv-1 are a preset DMRS port sequencing rule;

mapping v data layers (which may also be referred to as data streams, the number v of data layers transmitted in parallel at the same time, i.e., the number v of data streams transmitted in parallel at the same time) to v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

the above formula indicates that each corresponding element in the vector is equal, i.e. the data layer is divided into

Mapping to DMRS port x used in transmission⁽⁰⁾(i) In the above, and so on, the data layer

Mapping to DMRS port x used in transmission^(υ-1)(i) In the above, the same subsequent formulas are the same, and are not repeated.

For example, for DMRS configuration type2, if the number of data layers v is 8 and

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8, 9 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are mapped to

DMRS ports

0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 used in transmission, respectively.

Case two, for the case where there are multiple QCL groups (or CDM groups, the same applies):

port group internal sequencing, namely performing intra-subset sequencing on the numbers of the DMRS ports in each DMRS port subset to obtain an intra-subset sequencing result of the DMRS port numbers corresponding to each DMRS port subset, which specifically comprises the following steps: sequencing all DMRS ports indicated in the DCI in QCL groups to which the DMRS ports belong according to QCL group information of the DMRS ports configured/indicated in the step one, and arranging DMRS port numbers in each QCL group in an ascending order (from small to large);

sequencing among port groups, namely sequencing among DMRS port subsets based on the sequencing result in the subset of the DMRS port number corresponding to each DMRS port subset, specifically comprising the following steps: in each port subset obtained by the grouping and sequencing, according to the minimum DMRS port number in each subset, further performing ascending (from small to large) sequencing on each port subset, that is, the subset with the smaller minimum DMRS port number in the subset is in the front (of course, DMRS port numbers between subsets may also be sequenced according to other principles, for example, the subset with the larger maximum DMRS port number in the subset is in the front); each port subset, referred to as a subset for short, is a DMRS port in one QCL group.

Each DMRS port subset described in the embodiments of the present application is a set of DMRS ports included in each CDM group or QCL group.

The combination of the port intra-group ordering and the port inter-group ordering can be regarded as another preset DMRS port ordering rule, and the following methods are the same and will not be described again.

According to the above ordering, v DMRS ports are grouped into a vector:

mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

for example, for DMRS configuration type2, if the number of data layers v is 8,

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8, 9 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, and from step one, the terminal knows that its DMRS ports are divided into two QCL groups, corresponding to subset 1 (including ports {0, 1, 6, 7} (ascending arrangement)) and subset 2 (including ports {2, 3, 8, 9} (ascending arrangement)), respectively. Since the minimum DMRS port number of port subset 1 is 0, which is smaller than the minimum DMRS port number 2 of subset 2, the port subsets are further ordered, i.e. subset 1 is ranked in front of subset 2, and the ports are ordered as 0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, 9, resulting in P0, P1, P2, P3 being equal to 0, 1, 6, 7, respectively, and P4, P5, P6, P7 being equal to 2, 3, 8, 9, respectively. Finally, mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

that is, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are mapped to

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, and 9 used for transmission, respectively.

Mode 3-2:

port group internal ordering: and sequencing the DMRS ports indicated in the DCI in a CDM group to which the DMRS ports belong according to the CDM group relation of the DMRS ports in the DMRS pattern, wherein the DMRS ports in each CDM group are numbered in ascending order (from small to large).

And (3) sorting among port groups: in each port subset obtained by grouping and sequencing, according to the minimum DMRS port number in each subset, further sequencing each port subset in an ascending order, namely the subset with the smaller minimum DMRS port number is in the front; where each subset, i.e., DMRS ports in one CDM group.

According to the above ordering, v DMRS ports are grouped into a vector:

for example, with DMRS configuration type2, if the number of data layers v is 8,

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8, 9 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, and from the DMRS pattern, the terminal knows that its DMRS ports are divided into two CDM groups, corresponding to CDM group 1 (including ports {0, 1, 6, 7} (ascending arrangement)) and CDM group 2 (including ports {2, 3, 8, 9} (ascending arrangement)), respectively. Since the minimum DMRS port number of port subset 1 (i.e., {0, 1, 6, 7}) is 0 and smaller than the minimum DMRS port number 2 of subset 2 (i.e., {2, 3, 8, 9}), port subsets are further ordered, subset 1 being ranked before subset 2, ports ordered as 0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, 9, resulting in P0, P1, P2, P3 being equal to 0, 1, 6, 7, respectively, and P4, P5, P6, P7 being equal to 2, 3, 8, 9, respectively. Finally, mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

that is, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are mapped to

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, and 9 used for transmission, respectively.

Mode 3 to 3:

port group internal ordering: and sequencing the DMRS ports indicated in the DCI in respective CDM groups to which the DMRS ports belong according to the CDM group relation of the DMRS ports in the DMRS pattern, wherein the DMRS ports in each group are numbered in ascending order (from small to large).

And (3) sorting among port groups: the subsets are arranged according to the sequence from small to large of the belonging CDM group sequence numbers.

According to the above ordering, v DMRS ports are grouped into a vector:

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8, 9 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, and from the DMRS pattern, the terminal knows that its DMRS ports are divided into two CDM groups, corresponding to CDM group 1 (including ports {0, 1, 6, 7} (ascending arrangement)) and CDM group 2 (including ports {2, 3, 8, 9} (ascending arrangement)), respectively. Then, according to the CDM group number to which each subset belongs (of course, in the case of the second mode 3-1, the subset-to-subset sorting may be performed according to the number of the QCL group to which each subset belongs), the port subsets are further sorted (i.e., { CDM group 1, CDM group 2}), the subset 1 (i.e., the ports {0, 1, 6, 7}) is arranged in front of the subset 2 (i.e., the ports {2, 3, 8, 9}), the ports are sorted to 0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, 9, so as to obtain P0, P1, P2, and P3 equal to 0, 1, 6, and 7, respectively, and P4, P5, P6, and P7 equal to 2, 3, 8, and 9, respectively. Finally, mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

that is, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are mapped to

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7, 2, 3, 8, and 9 used for transmission, respectively.

Mode 3-4 (as opposed to mode 3-1 above):

case one, if there is only one QCL group:

sequencing v DMRS ports allocated to a terminal in DCI, and ensuring that P0< P1<, … and Pv-1;

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

DMRS ports

0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 used in transmission, respectively.

Case two, for the case where there is more than one QCL group:

port group internal ordering: and sequencing the DMRS ports indicated in the DCI in the QCL groups to which the DMRS ports belong according to the QCL group relation of the DMRS ports configured/indicated in the step one, wherein the DMRS ports in each group are numbered in ascending order (from small to large).

And (3) sorting among port groups: in each port subset obtained by the grouping and sequencing, according to the number of DMRS ports contained in each subset, further performing ascending (from small to large) sequencing on each port subset, that is, the subset with the smaller number of DMRS ports is in the front (of course, the subset with the larger number of DMRS ports may be in the front of the sequence); wherein one subset, i.e., a set of DMRS ports in one QCL group.

According to the above ordering, v DMRS ports are grouped into a vector:

for example, for DMRS configuration type2, if the number of data layers v is 7, e.g., data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, respectively,

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, and from step one, the terminal knows that its DMRS ports are divided into two QCL groups, corresponding to subset 1 (including ports {0, 1, 6, 7} (ascending order)) and subset 2 (including ports {2, 3, 8} (ascending order)), respectively. Since port subset 1 contains 4 DMRS ports, which is greater than the number of DMRS ports of subset 2 (3), port subsets are further ordered, resulting in { subset 2, subset 1}, i.e., P0, P1, P2 are equal to 2, 3, 8, respectively, and P3, P4, P5, P6, P7 are equal to 0, 1, 6, 7, respectively. Finally, mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

that is, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are mapped to

DMRS ports

2, 3, 8, 0, 1, 6, and 7 used for transmission, respectively.

Mode 3-5 (comparable to mode 3-3):

And (3) sorting among port groups: the subsets are arranged in the order of the number of the included DMRS ports from small to large, that is, the subset including the smaller number of DMRS ports is in the front (of course, the subset including the larger number of DMRS ports may be ordered in the front).

According to the above ordering, v DMRS ports are grouped into a vector:

DMRS ports

0, 1, 6, 7 and

ports

2, 3, 8 are allocated to the terminal in DCI, and from the DMRS pattern, the terminal knows that its DMRS ports are divided into two CDM groups, corresponding to CDM group 1 (including ports {0, 1, 6, 7} (ascending arrangement)) and CDM group 2 (including ports {2, 3, 8} (ascending arrangement)), respectively. Then, according to the number of ports contained in each subset, the port subsets are further ordered, i.e., { CDM group 2, CDM group 1}, resulting in P0, P1, P2 being equal to 2, 3, 8, respectively, and P3, P4, P5, P6, P7 being equal to 0, 1, 6, 7, respectively. Finally, mapping the v data layers to the v DMRS ports according to the following formula:

that is, data layers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are mapped to

DMRS ports

2, 3, 8, 0, 1, 6, and 7 used for transmission, respectively.

It should be noted that, the order from small to large mentioned in any of the above embodiments, and the same reason, may be replaced by the order from large to small (descending order), and the embodiments of the present application do not limit how to sort specifically. In addition, the embodiments of the present application are not limited to the determination of the v DMRS port component vectors and the specific mapping between the v DMRS ports and the v data layers, and those skilled in the art can also consider other alternatives based on the description of the embodiments of the present application, and all of them are within the scope of the present application.

In addition, the preset DMRS port ordering rules in the embodiment of the application may be preset at the network side and the terminal side, that is, the two sides are both provided with the same DMRS port ordering rules; and the network side and the terminal side can be preset with the same formula, so that the data layer is mapped to the DMRS port used in transmission in the same manner.

In addition, the second step and the third step can be combined into one step. Also, for the purposes of this application, the above-mentioned step two and step three are not necessarily steps to be performed, but are optional steps.

In summary, referring to fig. 5, at a network side, an information indication method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

s101, determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

and S102, notifying the QCL group information in the S101 to a terminal.

Optionally, the QCL group information specifically includes one of the following information (i.e., the content described in the above manner 1-1, 1-2, or 1-3):

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Alternatively, if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, the P0< P1<, …, Pv-1. For example, the first case in the above-described mode 3-1 and the first case in the mode 3-4.

Optionally, if there are multiple QCL groups or CDM groups, determining the signal vector formed by v DMRS ports according to the result of sorting the numbers of the v DMRS ports. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, the DMRS port numbers within and between the DMRS port subsets are ordered in units of CDM groups, and the DMRS port numbers within and between the DMRS port subsets are ordered in units of QCL groups, which are two cases of parallel arrangement. For example, the second case in the above-described mode 3-1, the second case in the mode 3-4, the mode 3-2, the mode 3-3, and the mode 3-5.

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained as follows (applicable to the case of multiple QCL groups or CDM groups):

sequencing among the DMRS port subsets according to the minimum DMRS port number in each DMRS port subset, for example, in the second case and the 3-2 case in the mode 3-1; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

sequencing among the DMRS port subsets according to the number of the CDM group or QCL group corresponding to each DMRS port subset, for example, in the manner 3-3 described above; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and sequencing among the DMRS port subsets according to the number of the DMRS ports contained in each DMRS port subset, for example, in the modes 3-5.

Correspondingly, referring to fig. 6, on the terminal side, an information determining method provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

s201, receiving a notification sent by a network side;

and S202, determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port by using the notification in the S201.

Further, the terminal may determine, according to the QCL group information of the DMRS ports, an ordering manner of the DMRS ports occupied by the terminal.

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

On the network side, referring to fig. 7, an information indicating apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes: a memory 520 and a processor 500, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

the QCL group information is notified to the terminal through the transceiver 510.

It should be noted that, the bus interface, the transceiver 510, and the like in fig. 7 may be present as optional components in an information indicating apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application, and are not necessary.

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the processor 500 is further configured to:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

Optionally, the processor 500 performs the inter-DMRS port subset ordering in one of the following manners:

A transceiver 510 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 500.

Where in fig. 7, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with various circuits being linked together, particularly one or more processors represented by processor 500 and memory represented by memory 520. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 510 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a transceiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The processor 500 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 520 may store data used by the processor 500 in performing operations.

The processor 500 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD).

Referring to fig. 8, on the terminal side, an information determining apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes: a memory 620 and a processor 600, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

receiving, by the transceiver 610, QCL group information of a DMRS port of a demodulation reference signal notified by a network side;

and determining the sequencing mode of the DMRS ports occupied by the terminal according to the QCL group information of the DMRS ports.

It should be noted that the components in fig. 8 except for the memory 620 and the processor 600 are optional components, and are not necessarily required to be present in the information determination apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application.

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

Optionally, the processor 600 receives QCL group information of a DMRS port, which is notified by a network side, through radio resource control RRC configuration, or media access control MAC control element CE, or downlink control information DCI in a broadcast, multicast, or terminal-specific manner.

Optionally, the processor 600 is further configured to:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

Optionally, the sorting result is obtained by:

A transceiver 610 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 600.

Where in fig. 8, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with various circuits being linked together, particularly one or more processors represented by processor 600 and memory represented by memory 620. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 610 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For different user devices, the user interface 630 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with a desired device externally, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 600 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 620 may store data used by the processor 600 in performing operations.

Alternatively, the processor 600 may be a CPU (central processing unit), an ASIC (Application specific integrated Circuit), an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), or a CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device).

On the network side, referring to fig. 9, another information indicating apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

a determining unit 11, configured to determine QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

and an indicating unit 12, configured to notify the QCL group information to a terminal.

On the terminal side, referring to fig. 10, another information determining apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

a receiving unit 21, configured to receive QCL group information of a DMRS port of a demodulation reference signal notified by a network side;

and a determining unit 22, configured to determine, according to the QCL group information of the DMRS ports, an ordering manner of the DMRS ports occupied by the terminal.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer storage medium for storing computer program instructions for the above-mentioned computing device, which includes a program for executing the above-mentioned information indication or determination method.

The computer storage media may be any available media or data storage device that can be accessed by a computer, including, but not limited to, magnetic memory (e.g., floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tape, magneto-optical disks (MOs), etc.), optical memory (e.g., CDs, DVDs, BDs, HVDs, etc.), and semiconductor memory (e.g., ROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, non-volatile memory (NAND FLASH), Solid State Disks (SSDs)), etc.

The method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to terminal equipment and also can be applied to network equipment.

The Terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (User Equipment, abbreviated as "UE"), a Mobile Station (Mobile Station, abbreviated as "MS"), a Mobile Terminal (Mobile Terminal), or the like, and optionally, the Terminal may have a capability of communicating with one or more core networks through a Radio Access Network (RAN), for example, the Terminal may be a Mobile phone (or referred to as a "cellular" phone), a computer with Mobile property, or the like, and for example, the Terminal may also be a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-built-in, or vehicle-mounted Mobile device.

A network device may be a base station (e.g., access point) that refers to a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminals. The base station may be configured to interconvert received air frames and IP packets as a router between the wireless terminal and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The base station may also coordinate management of attributes for the air interface. For example, the base Station may be a base Station (BTS) in GSM or CDMA, a base Station (NodeB) in WCDMA, or an evolved Node B (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB) in LTE, which is not limited in this embodiment. As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

Claims

1. An information indication method, comprising:

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

notifying the QCL group information to a terminal;

the method further comprises the following steps:

mapping the data of the data layer to a DMRS port used in transmission for transmission according to a preset DMRS port sequencing rule;

the mapping the data of the data layer to the DMRS port used in transmission according to the preset DMRS port ordering rule to send the data specifically includes:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

An ith modulation symbol of the modulation symbols; p0, …, Pv-1 denotes the number of v DMRS ports;

if a plurality of QCL groups or CDM groups exist, determining the signal vector formed by the v DMRS ports according to the sequencing result of the serial numbers of the v DMRS ports;

the sorting result is obtained by adopting the following method:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said QCL group information specifically includes one of the following:

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the QCL group information of the DMRS port is notified to the terminal in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner through Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration, or Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, then P0< P1<, …, Pv-1.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the inter-subset DMRS ports ordering is performed in one of the following ways:

6. An information determination method, comprising:

receiving a notification sent by a network side;

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port by using the notification;

the method further comprises the following steps:

receiving data of a data layer which is mapped to a DMRS port used in transmission according to a preset DMRS port sequencing rule;

the method for receiving the data of the data layer, which is mapped to the DMRS port used in transmission according to the preset DMRS port sequencing rule, includes the following steps:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

the sorting result is obtained by adopting the following method:

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said QCL group information includes one of the following:

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the notification is received in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner, and wherein the QCL group information for the DMRS port is obtained from a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration, a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI) in the notification.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, then P0< P1<, …, Pv-1.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the inter-subset DMRS ports ordering is performed in one of:

11. An information indicating device, comprising: the device comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

determining QCL group information of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port;

notifying the QCL group information to a terminal;

the processor is further configured to:

the mapping and sending of the data layer to the DMRS port used in transmission according to the preset DMRS port ordering rule specifically includes:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

the sorting result is obtained by adopting the following method:

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said QCL group information includes one of:

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the QCL group information for the DMRS port is notified to the terminal in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner through Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration, or Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI).

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, then P0< P1<, …, Pv-1.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor performs the DMRS port subset inter-subset ordering in one of:

16. An information determining apparatus, comprising: the device comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is used for storing program instructions, and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the following steps according to the obtained program:

receiving a notification sent by a network side;

the processor is further configured to:

determining the following signal vector consisting of v DMRS ports:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

i indicates for each data layer that transmission is required

the sorting result is obtained by adopting the following method:

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said QCL group information includes one of:

CDM group contained in QCL group;

list of DMRS ports contained in QCL group.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor receives the notification in a broadcast, multicast or terminal-specific manner, and wherein the QCL group information for the DMRS port is obtained from a radio resource control, RRC, configuration, or a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, or downlink control information, DCI, in the notification.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein if there is only one QCL group or CDM group, then P0< P1<, …, Pv-1.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor performs the DMRS port subset inter-subset ordering in one of:

21. A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 10.