CN113709873B

CN113709873B - Configuration method and equipment for physical uplink control channel resources

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Publication number: CN113709873B
Application number: CN202010444423.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王蒙军; 苏昕; 高秋彬; 高雪娟; 高雪媛
Original assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-22
Filing date: 2020-05-22
Publication date: 2024-05-03
Anticipated expiration: 2040-05-22
Also published as: WO2021233430A1; CN113709873A

Abstract

The application discloses a method and equipment for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, wherein the method comprises the following steps: configuring PUCCH resources for a terminal, wherein the PUCCH resources comprise a first part of resources and a second part of resources, the first part of resources and the second part of resources are used for bearing the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information, and the first part of resources and the second part of resources are continuous frequency domain resources and have no overlapping part in a frequency domain; and activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship. The embodiment of the application can realize flexible configuration of PUCCH resources and spatial relationships, and further can improve the reliability of PUCCH transmission based on the configuration.

Description

Configuration method and equipment for physical uplink control channel resources

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for configuring physical uplink control channel (PUCCH, physical Uplink Control Channel) resources.

Background

In the current New air interface (NR, new Radio) communication system, a terminal may transmit two PUCCHs that do not overlap in a time domain in one slot (slot), and in addition, the NR system also supports PUCCH frequency hopping, where two frequency hopping resources do not overlap in the time domain.

The network side may configure the terminal to transmit PUCCH resources and spatial relationship (PUCCH) through radio resource control (RRC, radio Resource Control) signaling. The spatial relationship of the PUCCH refers to the spatial relationship of a reference signal, which may specifically be a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), a channel state Information reference signal (CSI-RS, channel State Information CSI REFERENCE SIGNAL), or a Sounding reference signal (SRS, sounding REFERENCE SIGNAL). The network side may command activation of one of the above spatial relationships via a medium access control (MAC, medium Access Control).

Disclosure of Invention

At least one embodiment of the invention provides a method and equipment for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, which can improve the flexibility of PUCCH resource configuration and further is beneficial to improving the transmission reliability of PUCCH.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a method for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, which is applied to a network side device, and includes:

Configuring PUCCH resources for a terminal, wherein the PUCCH resources comprise a first part of resources and a second part of resources, the first part of resources and the second part of resources are used for bearing the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information, and the first part of resources and the second part of resources are continuous frequency domain resources and have no overlapping part in a frequency domain;

And activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, or there is no overlapping portion in the time domain of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the step of configuring PUCCH resources for the terminal by the network side device includes:

and configuring the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capacity information and the uplink channel state of the terminal.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the step of configuring the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal includes:

configuring the PUCCH resource for the terminal when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

The terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams;

and the time selective fading, the space selective fading or the frequency selective fading of the uplink channel indicated by the uplink channel state information exceeds a corresponding preset threshold.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, in a case that the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, the step of configuring the PUCCH resources for the terminal includes:

Transmitting frequency hopping configuration information of the PUCCH resource to the terminal through high-layer signaling, wherein the frequency hopping configuration information comprises a frequency domain starting position of a first part of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in a closed time slot and a frequency domain starting position of a second part of resources;

Or alternatively

And sending the indication information of the frequency domain position of the first part of resources and the frequency domain offset of the second part of resources relative to the first part of resources to the terminal through physical layer signaling.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the method further includes:

and transmitting transmission scheduling information to a terminal, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively transmit the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship.

And detecting uplink control information respectively sent by the terminal on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the PUCCH resources configured by the terminal and the activated spatial relationship, and combining the uplink control information detected on the first part of resources and the second part of resources.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically used to:

scheduling the terminal to transmit first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in the case that the terminal supports the transmission capability of only one beam and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

Scheduling the terminal to transmit first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in case the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

Scheduling the terminal to transmit first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship and to transmit second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and a second spatial relationship under the condition that the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship;

The first uplink control information and the second uplink control information sent on the same PUCCH resource are the same uplink control information or are different parts of the same uplink control information; when the terminal only supports the transmission capability of one beam, the first transmission beam is one transmission beam supported by the terminal; and when the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams, the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are the two transmission beams supported by the terminal.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, there is no overlapping portion in a time domain of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for:

scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in case the terminal supports only the transmission capability of one beam and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

In case the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, and to transmit fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship,

Wherein, the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information; when the terminal only supports the transmission capability of one beam, the first transmission beam is one transmission beam supported by the terminal; and when the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams, the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are the two transmission beams supported by the terminal.

scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship and to transmit sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the second spatial relationship under the condition that the terminal supports the transmission capability of only one beam and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship;

Scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship and to transmit sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and a second spatial relationship under the condition that the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship;

Wherein the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information; when the terminal only supports the transmission capability of one beam, the first transmission beam is one transmission beam supported by the terminal; and when the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams, the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are the two transmission beams supported by the terminal.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the step of sending transmission scheduling information to the terminal includes:

Transmitting a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern to a terminal, wherein the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern comprises a first corresponding relationship and a second corresponding relationship, and in the first corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to the first spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to the second spatial relationship; in the first corresponding relation, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relation, and the second part of resources correspond to the first spatial relation; and

And sending a spatial relationship switching command to the terminal, wherein the spatial relationship switching command is used for indicating the terminal to send PUCCH by adopting the first corresponding relationship and the second corresponding relationship on a plurality of PUCCH resources on a target time slot or a target sub-time slot respectively.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a method for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, which is applied to a terminal, and includes:

Receiving configuration information of PUCCH resources sent by network side equipment, wherein the PUCCH resources comprise a first part of resources and a second part of resources, the first part of resources and the second part of resources are used for bearing the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information, and the first part of resources and the second part of resources are continuous frequency domain resources and have no overlapping part on a frequency domain;

and receiving an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, which is sent by the network side equipment, and activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first part of resources and the second part of resources respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first part of resources and the second part of resources correspond to the same spatial relationship.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the first partial resource and the second partial resource at least partially overlap in a time domain, or there is no overlapping portion of the first partial resource and the second partial resource in the time domain.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, before the step of receiving configuration information of PUCCH resources sent by the network side device, the method further includes:

and sending the beam capacity information of the terminal to network side equipment.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, in a case that the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, the step of receiving configuration information of a PUCCH resource sent by the network side device includes:

Receiving frequency hopping configuration information of PUCCH resources sent by network side equipment through high-layer signaling, wherein the frequency hopping configuration information comprises a frequency domain starting position of a first part of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in a closed time slot and a frequency domain starting position of a second part of resources;

Or alternatively

And receiving the indication information of the frequency domain position of the first part of resources and the frequency domain offset of the second part of resources relative to the first part of resources, which are sent by the network side equipment through the physical layer signaling.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method further includes:

receiving transmission scheduling information sent by network side equipment, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the spatial relationship between the PUCCH resources and the activation;

And respectively transmitting the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the transmission scheduling information.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

scheduling the terminal to transmit first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in case the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources do not have an overlapping portion in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

Scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in the case that the terminal supports transmission capability of only one beam and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

In case the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, and to transmit fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship,

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the step of receiving transmission scheduling information sent by the network side device includes:

Receiving a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern sent by network side equipment, wherein the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern comprises a first corresponding relationship and a second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to the first spatial relationship in the first corresponding relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to the second spatial relationship; in the first corresponding relation, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relation, and the second part of resources correspond to the first spatial relation; and

And receiving a spatial relationship switching command sent by the network side equipment, wherein the spatial relationship switching command is used for indicating the terminal to send PUCCH by adopting the first corresponding relationship and the second corresponding relationship on a plurality of PUCCH resources on a target time slot or a target sub-time slot respectively.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, according to the transmission scheduling information, sending different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource respectively includes:

According to the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern and the spatial relationship switching command, respectively adopting the first corresponding relationship to send the fifth uplink control information and adopting the second corresponding relationship to send the sixth uplink control information on a first PUCCH resource; and on a second PUCCH resource, respectively adopting the second corresponding relation to send the fifth uplink control information, and adopting the first corresponding relation to send the sixth uplink control information.

In a third aspect, the present application provides an information receiving apparatus, applied to a network side device, including:

the first configuration module is used for configuring PUCCH resources for the terminal, wherein the PUCCH resources comprise a first part of resources and a second part of resources, the first part of resources and the second part of resources are used for bearing the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information, and the first part of resources and the second part of resources are continuous frequency domain resources and have no overlapping part on a frequency domain;

and the second configuration module is used for activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, or there is no overlapping portion of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources in the time domain.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the first configuration module is further configured to configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to beam capability information and an uplink channel state of the terminal.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the first configuration module is further configured to configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

The terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams;

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the first configuration module is further configured to send, to the terminal through higher layer signaling, frequency hopping configuration information of a PUCCH resource, where the frequency hopping configuration information includes a frequency domain starting position of a first part of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in a closed slot, and a frequency domain starting position of a second part of resources;

Or alternatively

With reference to the third aspect, in certain implementations of the third aspect, the method further includes:

the transmission scheduling module is used for sending transmission scheduling information to the terminal, and the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship.

And the receiving module is used for detecting uplink control information respectively sent by the terminal on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the PUCCH resources configured by the terminal and the activated spatial relationship, and combining the uplink control information detected on the first part of resources and the second part of resources.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

Scheduling the terminal to transmit first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, and transmitting second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, under the condition that the terminal only supports the transmission capability of one beam and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, there is no overlapping portion in a time domain of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the third aspect, the transmission scheduling module is further configured to, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information:

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a network side device, including: a memory, a processor, a transceiver, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor;

the processor, when executing the program, performs the steps of:

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a PUCCH resource allocation device, applied to a terminal, including:

the first receiving module is used for receiving configuration information of PUCCH resources sent by network side equipment, wherein the PUCCH resources comprise a first part of resources and a second part of resources, the first part of resources and the second part of resources are used for bearing the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information, and the first part of resources and the second part of resources are continuous frequency domain resources and have no overlapped part on a frequency domain;

The second receiving module is configured to receive an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, where the activation command is sent by the network side device, and activate the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in certain implementations of the fifth aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, or there is no overlapping portion of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources in the time domain.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in certain implementations of the fifth aspect, the method further includes:

the first sending module is used for sending the beam capacity information of the terminal to the network side equipment before receiving the configuration information of the PUCCH resource sent by the network side equipment.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in certain implementations of the fifth aspect, the first receiving module is further configured to, in a case where the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources overlap at least partially in a time domain,

Or alternatively

A third receiving module, configured to receive transmission scheduling information sent by a network side device, where the transmission scheduling information is used to schedule the terminal to send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the spatial relationship between the PUCCH resource and the activation;

and the transmission module is used for respectively transmitting the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the transmission scheduling information.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in certain implementation manners of the fifth aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

With reference to the fifth aspect, in some implementations of the fifth aspect, the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources do not have an overlapping portion in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to:

Scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the first spatial relationship and to transmit sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the second spatial relationship, in the case that the terminal supports only the transmission capability of one beam and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship;

With reference to the fifth aspect, in some implementations of the fifth aspect, the third receiving module is further configured to, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information:

With reference to the fifth aspect, in some implementations of the fifth aspect, the transmission module is further configured to send, on a first PUCCH resource, the fifth uplink control information by using the first correspondence, and send the sixth uplink control information by using the second correspondence, according to the time domain repetition transmission spatial relationship pattern and a spatial relationship switching command; and on a second PUCCH resource, respectively adopting the second corresponding relation to send the fifth uplink control information, and adopting the first corresponding relation to send the sixth uplink control information.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides a terminal, including: a memory, a processor, a transceiver, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor;

the processor, when executing the program, performs the steps of:

In a seventh aspect, the present application provides a computer storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of configuring physical uplink control channel resources as described in the first aspect, or to perform the method of configuring physical uplink control channel resources as described in the second aspect.

The embodiment of the application has the beneficial effects that:

The PUCCH resources configured in the embodiment of the present application may include two partial resources whose time domain position and frequency domain position are not identical, and the two partial resources may correspond to the same spatial relationship or correspond to different spatial relationships, thereby implementing a flexible configuration of PUCCH resources and spatial relationships. Based on the configuration, when the uplink control information transmission is scheduled, the embodiment of the application can fully utilize the repeated transmission gain, the space diversity gain, the time diversity gain, the frequency diversity gain and the like, improve the transmission performance of the PUCCH and improve the transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to designate like parts throughout the figures. In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication system suitable for use in embodiments of the present application;

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a method for configuring PUCCH resources according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is an exemplary diagram of PUCCH resources according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 4 is an interactive flowchart of a PUCCH resource configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 5 is another flowchart of a PUCCH resource configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 6 is a block diagram of a configuration apparatus for PUCCH resources according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 7 is a block diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is another block diagram of a PUCCH resource configuration device according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 9 is a block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present invention may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate such that the embodiments of the application described herein may be implemented, for example, in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of the connected objects.

The techniques described herein are not limited to long term evolution (Long Time Evolution, LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-a) systems, and 5G NR systems, and may also be used for other various wireless communication systems such as code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single-carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), and new communication systems that come up in the future. The terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably. A CDMA system may implement radio technologies such as CDMA2000, universal terrestrial radio access (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access, UTRA), and the like. UTRA includes wideband CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) and other CDMA variants. TDMA systems may implement radio technologies such as the global system for mobile communications (Global System for Mobile Communication, GSM). OFDMA systems may implement radio technologies such as ultra mobile broadband (UltraMobile Broadband, UMB), evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), IEEE 802.21 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, flash-OFDM, and the like. UTRA and E-UTRA are parts of the universal mobile telecommunications system (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS). LTE and higher LTE (e.g., LTE-a) are new UMTS releases that use E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-a and GSM are described in the literature from an organization named "third generation partnership project" (3rd Generation Partnership Project,3GPP). CDMA2000 and UMB are described in the literature from an organization named "third generation partnership project 2" (3 GPP 2). The techniques described herein may be used for the systems and radio technologies mentioned above as well as for other systems and radio technologies. However, the following description describes an NR system for purposes of example, and NR terminology is used in much of the description below, although the techniques may also be applied to applications other than NR system applications.

The following description provides examples and does not limit the scope, applicability, or configuration as set forth in the claims. Changes may be made in the function and arrangement of elements discussed without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Various examples may omit, substitute, or add various procedures or components as appropriate. For example, the described methods may be performed in an order different than described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network device 12. The terminal 11 may also be referred to as a User terminal or a User Equipment (UE), and the terminal 11 may be a terminal-side device such as a Mobile phone, a tablet Computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer), a Personal digital assistant (Personal DIGITAL ASSISTANT, PDA), a Mobile internet device (Mobile INTERNET DEVICE, MID), a wearable device (Wearable Device), or a vehicle-mounted device, which is not limited to the specific type of the terminal 11 in the embodiment of the present application. The network side device 12 may be a base station and/or a core network element, where the base station may be a 5G or later version base station (e.g., a gNB, a 5G NR NB, etc.), or a base station in another communication system (e.g., an eNB, a WLAN access point, or other access points, etc.), where the base station may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B, an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, a BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a Basic service set (Basic SERVICE SET, BSS), an Extended service set (Extended SERVICE SET, ESS), a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, or some other suitable terminology in the field, so long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary, and it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

The base stations may communicate with the terminal 11 under the control of a base station controller, which may be part of the core network or some base stations in various examples. Some base stations may communicate control information or user data with the core network over a backhaul. In some examples, some of these base stations may communicate with each other directly or indirectly over a backhaul link, which may be a wired or wireless communication link. A wireless communication system may support operation on multiple carriers (waveform signals of different frequencies). A multicarrier transmitter may transmit modulated signals on the multiple carriers simultaneously. For example, each communication link may be a multicarrier signal modulated according to various radio technologies. Each modulated signal may be transmitted on a different carrier and may carry control information (e.g., reference signals, control channels, etc.), overhead information, data, and so on.

The base station may communicate wirelessly with the terminal 11 via one or more access point antennas. Each base station may provide communication coverage for a respective corresponding coverage area. The coverage area of an access point may be partitioned into sectors that form only a portion of that coverage area. A wireless communication system may include different types of base stations (e.g., macro base stations, micro base stations, or pico base stations). The base station may also utilize different radio technologies, such as cellular or WLAN radio access technologies. The base stations may be associated with the same or different access networks or operator deployments. The coverage areas of different base stations, including coverage areas of the same or different types of base stations, coverage areas utilizing the same or different radio technologies, or coverage areas belonging to the same or different access networks, may overlap.

The communication link in the wireless communication system may include an Uplink for carrying Uplink (UL) transmissions (e.g., from the terminal 11 to the network device 12) or a Downlink for carrying Downlink (DL) transmissions (e.g., from the network device 12 to the terminal 11). UL transmissions may also be referred to as reverse link transmissions, while DL transmissions may also be referred to as forward link transmissions. Downlink transmissions may be made using licensed bands, unlicensed bands, or both. Similarly, uplink transmissions may be made using licensed bands, unlicensed bands, or both.

Improving the transmission reliability of PUCCH is very important for improving the performance of a communication system. The PUCCH transmission scheme of NR supports only PUCCH transmission on one continuous frequency domain resource in the same time domain, and when there is instantaneous deep fading on the frequency domain channel of the segment, the transmission reliability of PUCCH may be severely affected. For another example, in PUCCH configuration frequency hopping, multiple Transmit and Receive Points (TRPs) may be deployed within the same cell or different beams of the same TRP may receive signals from beams of the same terminal. At this time, how to use these beams to improve the reliability of PUCCH is also a problem to be solved.

Currently, the PUCCH transmission mechanism of the NR system in the prior art does not support transmission of two PUCCHs in the same time domain, and cannot improve the reliability of the PUCCHs by repeated transmission in the frequency domain. For the frequency hopping PUCCH, it is assumed that two spatial relationships of the PUCCH are activated at a time, and there is no corresponding transmission mechanism to further improve transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

It can be seen that the PUCCH resource allocation in the prior art is not flexible enough, and is difficult to adapt to different application environments, which is not beneficial to improving the transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

To solve at least one of the above problems, at least one embodiment of the present application provides a method for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, which is applied to the network side device described above. As shown in fig. 2, the method includes:

step 21, configuring a PUCCH resource for a terminal, where the PUCCH resource includes a first portion of resource and a second portion of resource, where the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are used to carry the same uplink control information or different portions of the same uplink control information, and the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are continuous frequency domain resources and there is no overlapping portion in the frequency domain.

In this embodiment of the present application, the PUCCH resource configured by the network side device for the terminal includes two parts (i.e. a first part of resource and a second part of resource), where the first part of resource and the second part of resource are continuous resources in a frequency domain, and in a time domain, the first part of resource and the second part of resource may be partially overlapped or completely overlapped or there is no overlap. The specific configuration mode may be that the network side device configures through higher layer signaling (such as RRC signaling) or physical layer signaling (such as MAC CE or DCI). Fig. 3 shows several examples of two partial resources, each small block in fig. 3 corresponds to one time domain symbol, and each dashed box represents one PUCCH resource, which includes a first partial resource and a second partial resource.

For example, the first portion of resources 311 and the second portion of resources 312 in the virtual box 31 each include 2 time domain symbols. It can be seen that the first portion of resources 311 and the second portion of resources 312 overlap completely in the time domain and there is no overlapping portion in the frequency domain. For another example, first portion resource 321 and second portion resource 322 in virtual box 32 partially overlap in the time domain and there is no overlap in the frequency domain. For another example, the first portion of resources 331 and the second portion of resources 332 in the virtual frame 33 do not have an overlapping portion in the time domain and do not have an overlapping portion in the frequency domain. The PUCCH resources represented by the above-mentioned virtual boxes 31 and 32 may be regarded as two-part resources as frequency-division resources, and the PUCCH resources represented by the above-mentioned virtual box 33 may be regarded as a kind of frequency-hopping resources.

Step 22, activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

That is, the spatial relationship of the activations may be: the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships; or the first and second partial resources correspond to the same spatial relationship.

Here, the spatial relationship of the PUCCH refers to the spatial relationship of the reference signal and the PUCCH. In general, the network side device may configure multiple spatial relationships of PUCCH resources for the terminal through higher layer signaling, and then activate one or more of the spatial relationships through physical layer signaling as needed. Each spatial relationship may correspond to a type of receive beam of the network-side device. In the embodiment of the present application, two partial resources of the same PUCCH resource may each correspond to a different spatial relationship, or may both correspond to the same spatial relationship.

Through the steps, the embodiment of the application realizes the flexible configuration of the PUCCH resources and the spatial relationship, thereby providing support for improving the transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

According to some embodiments of the present application, in the step 21, the network side device may configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal. Before this, the network side device may receive beam capability information sent by the terminal, where the beam capability information is used to indicate the number of transmission beams supported by the terminal.

Herein, when the terminal supports only one beam of transmission capability, it is assumed that the first transmission beam is one transmission beam supported by the terminal; when the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams, the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are assumed to be the two transmission beams supported by the terminal.

Specifically, the network side device may execute the above steps 21 to 22 when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied, and configure the PUCCH resource and the spatial relationship for the terminal:

1) The terminal supports transmission capabilities of at least two beams.

When the terminal supports at least two transmission beams, the PUCCH resources comprising two parts in the embodiment of the application can be configured, so that two partial resources with different time domain and frequency domain positions of the terminal can be respectively transmitted by using different transmission beams of the terminal, thereby improving the space diversity gain, the time diversity gain and the frequency diversity gain and improving the transmission performance of the PUCCH. In addition, the beam capabilities of the terminal described herein are all for the transmission beam of the terminal.

2) And the time selective fading, the space selective fading or the frequency selective fading of the uplink channel indicated by the uplink channel state information exceeds a corresponding preset threshold.

When the uplink channel condition of the terminal is poor, the PUCCH resources comprising two parts can be configured, so that the two partial resources with the incomplete time domain and frequency domain positions can be utilized subsequently, the time diversity gain and the frequency diversity gain of PUCCH transmission are improved, and the PUCCH transmission performance is improved.

In addition, the obtaining of the uplink channel state information may be that the network side device receives the uplink channel state information reported by the terminal, and/or the network side device obtains the uplink channel state information by measuring the relevant reference signal. The uplink channel state information may specifically include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following parameters: signal-to-noise ratio, rank Indicator (RI), channel quality indicator (CQI, channel quality indicator), precoding matrix indicator (PMI, precoding matrix indicator), and the like.

The following provides a configuration manner of the two specific PUCCH resources in the step 21 in the case that the first partial resource and the second partial resource at least partially overlap in the time domain:

Configuration mode one of PUCCH resource (based on higher layer signaling):

And transmitting frequency hopping configuration information of the PUCCH resource to the terminal through high-layer signaling, wherein the frequency hopping configuration information comprises a frequency domain starting position of a first part of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in a closed time slot and a frequency domain starting position of a second part of resources.

Here, the PUCCH resource may be configured through RRC signaling, and relevant parameters in the RRC signaling are shown in table 1, where a starting PRB is used to indicate a starting PRB of a second part of resources of the configured PUCCH resource; the intra-slot frequency hopping function of the PUCCH is configured to be off, at which time the second hop PRB (sencondHopPRB) is used to indicate the starting PRB of the second partial resource of the configured PUCCH resource.

TABLE 1

Configuration scheme two of PUCCH resource (based on physical layer command):

Here, frequency domain offset (frequency offset) information may be added to the downlink control information DCI 1-0/1-1, and the frequency domain offset information is a PRB offset based on the first partial resource of the PUCCH resource, that is, a base value of a starting PRB of the first partial resource, and a difference value with respect to the base value or an index of the difference value. In addition, the difference index table may be semi-statically configured in advance through higher layer signaling.

In this way, after the PUCCH resources and the spatial relationships in the foregoing step 21 and step 22 are configured, the network side device in the embodiment of the present application may further send, to a terminal, transmission scheduling information, where the transmission scheduling information is used to schedule the terminal to send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource, based on the PUCCH resources and the active spatial relationships. Furthermore, the network side device may further detect uplink control information sent by the terminal on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the PUCCH resource configured by the terminal and the activated spatial relationship, and combine the uplink control information detected on the first part of resources and the second part of resources.

Fig. 4 shows an exemplary interaction diagram between a network side device and a terminal according to the method of the embodiment of the present application. In this example:

and step 41, the terminal reports the beam capability information.

In step 42, the network side device configures PUCCH resources according to the embodiment of the present application for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal. In addition, the network side device in the embodiment of the application can default that the terminal only has the capability of a single sending beam under the condition that the beam capability information reported by the terminal is not received.

In step 43, the network side device activates at least one spatial relationship of PUCCH.

Step 44, the network side device schedules the terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship

Step 45, the terminal sends the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the transmission scheduling information; the network side equipment detects uplink control information which is respectively sent by the terminal on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource, and combines the uplink control information detected on the first part of resources and the second part of resources.

Several examples of transmission scheduling information for embodiments of the present application are provided below to enable transmission of different portions of PUCCH resources based on different transmit beams and spatial relationships.

A) The first and second partial resources at least partially overlap in the time domain

This case a corresponds to the PUCCH resource shown by the dashed box 31 or 32 in fig. 3. At this time, there may be the following different scheduling manners according to the transmission beam capability of the terminal and the activated spatial relationship:

Scheduling method 1:

In case the terminal supports only one beam transmission capability and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for: and scheduling the terminal to send first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first sending beam and the activated spatial relationship, and sending second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first sending beam and the activated spatial relationship. Here, the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information transmitted on the same PUCCH resource may be the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 1, the terminal adopts 1 transmission beam and 1 spatial relationship, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 1 transmission beam for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 1 reception beam for reception. When both parts of the PUCCH resource transmit the same uplink control information, scheduling mode 1 may obtain a gain of repeated transmission and a gain of frequency diversity. When two parts of the PUCCH resource respectively transmit different parts of the same uplink control information, scheduling mode 1 may obtain a gain of frequency diversity.

Scheduling method 2:

In case the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically for: and scheduling the terminal to send first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first sending beam and an activated spatial relationship, and sending second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second sending beam and the activated spatial relationship. Here, the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information transmitted on the same PUCCH resource may be the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 2, the terminal adopts 2 transmission beams and 1 spatial relationship, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 2 transmission beams for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 1 reception beam for reception. When both parts of the PUCCH resource transmit the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 2 may obtain gains of repeated transmission, spatial diversity, and frequency diversity. When two parts of the PUCCH resource respectively transmit different parts of the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 2 may obtain gains of space diversity and frequency diversity.

Scheduling method 3:

In the case that the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to: and scheduling the terminal to send first uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first sending beam and a first spatial relationship, and sending second uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second sending beam and a second spatial relationship. Here, the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information sent on the same PUCCH resource are the same uplink control information, or are different parts of the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 3, the terminal adopts 2 transmission beams and 2 spatial relations, and different parts of the PUCCH resource are transmitted, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 2 transmission beams for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 2 receiving beams for reception. When both parts of the PUCCH resource transmit the same uplink control information, the scheduling manner 3 may obtain gains of repeated transmission, spatial diversity, and frequency diversity. When two parts of the PUCCH resource respectively transmit different parts of the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 3 may obtain gains of space diversity and frequency diversity.

B) The first part of resources and the second part of resources have no overlapping part in time domain

This case B corresponds to the PUCCH resource shown by the dashed box 33 in fig. 3. At this time, there may be the following different scheduling manners according to the transmission beam capability of the terminal and the activated spatial relationship:

Scheduling method 4:

In case the terminal supports only one beam transmission capability and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for: and scheduling the terminal to send third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first sending beam and the activated spatial relationship, and sending fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first sending beam and the activated spatial relationship, wherein the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 4, the terminal adopts 1 transmission beam and 1 spatial relationship, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 1 transmission beam for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 1 reception beam for reception. Scheduling method 4 can obtain the gain of repeated transmission, the gain of time diversity and the gain of frequency diversity.

Scheduling method 5:

In case the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically for: and scheduling the terminal to send third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first sending beam and the activated spatial relationship, and sending fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second sending beam and the activated spatial relationship, wherein the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 5, the terminal adopts 2 transmission beams and 1 spatial relationship, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 2 transmission beams for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 1 reception beam for reception. The scheduling method 5 can obtain the gains of repeated transmission, time diversity, space diversity and frequency diversity.

Scheduling method 6:

In the case that the terminal supports only the transmission capability of one beam, and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to: scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship, and transmitting sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and a second spatial relationship; here, the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information.

In scheduling mode 6, the terminal adopts 1 transmission beam and 2 spatial relations, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 1 transmission beam for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 2 reception beams for reception. When both parts of the PUCCH resource transmit the same uplink control information, the scheduling manner 6 may obtain gains of repeated transmission, time diversity, space diversity, and frequency diversity. When two parts of the PUCCH resource respectively transmit different parts of the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 6 may obtain gains of time diversity, space diversity, and frequency diversity.

Scheduling method 7:

In the case that the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship, the transmission scheduling information is specifically configured to: scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship, and transmitting sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second transmission beam and a second spatial relationship; here, the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information.

In the scheduling mode 7, the terminal adopts 2 transmission beams and 2 spatial relations, and transmits different parts of the PUCCH resource, which is equivalent to the terminal side adopting 2 transmission beams for transmission, and the network side equipment adopting 2 reception beams for reception. When both parts of the PUCCH resource transmit the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 7 may obtain gains of repeated transmission, time diversity, space diversity, and frequency diversity. When two parts of the PUCCH resource respectively transmit different parts of the same uplink control information, the scheduling mode 7 may obtain gains of time diversity, space diversity, and frequency diversity.

In addition, in the scheduling manner 6 and the scheduling manner 7, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the network side device may specifically include:

Table 2 gives an example of a specific implementation of the above spatial relationship switch command. The spatial relationship corresponding to each portion of the PUCCH resource within a slot or sub-slot (subslot) is changed by the turning on or off of the hopping spatial relationship switch enable flag.

TABLE 2

For example, for a first PUCCH resource, the scheduling terminal uses a first correspondence to transmit a first portion of the first PUCCH resource in a certain slot, and uses a second correspondence to transmit a second portion of the first PUCCH resource; and for the second PUCCH resource in the same time slot, the terminal can be scheduled to adopt the second corresponding relation to send the first part of resource of the second PUCCH resource, and the first corresponding relation is adopted to send the second part of resource of the second PUCCH resource. Through the mode, the embodiment of the application can further improve the gain of frequency diversity, reduce the adverse effect of frequency selective fading and improve the transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, when the network side device sends the transmission scheduling information to the terminal, the transmission scheduling information may carry a transmission mode indication information, where the transmission mode indication information is used to indicate: the same uplink control information is repeatedly transmitted in different parts in the same PUCCH resource, or different parts of the same uplink control information are transmitted in different parts in the same PUCCH resource.

Referring to fig. 5, the method for configuring PUCCH resources according to the embodiment of the present application includes, when applied to a terminal side:

Step 51, receiving configuration information of a PUCCH resource sent by a network side device, where the PUCCH resource includes a first portion of resource and a second portion of resource, where the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are used to carry the same uplink control information or different portions of the same uplink control information, and the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are continuous frequency domain resources and there is no overlapping portion in a frequency domain.

Here, the first partial resource and the second partial resource at least partially overlap in a time domain, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource do not have an overlapping portion in a time domain.

Step 51, receiving an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource sent by the network side device, and activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first part of resources and the second part of resources respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first part of resources and the second part of resources correspond to the same spatial relationship.

Through the steps, the embodiment of the application can realize flexible configuration of the PUCCH resources and the spatial relationship, thereby providing support for improving the transmission reliability of the PUCCH.

According to some embodiments of the present application, before the step 51, the terminal may further send beam capability information of the terminal to the network side device, so as to configure PUCCH resources as reference information at the network side device.

In the case that the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources overlap at least partially in the time domain, in the step 51, the terminal may receive frequency hopping configuration information of the PUCCH resources sent by the network side device through the higher layer signaling, where the frequency hopping configuration information includes a frequency domain starting position of the first portion of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in the closed time slot, and a frequency domain starting position of the second portion of resources, which corresponds to the first configuration mode of the PUCCH resources; the terminal may receive the frequency domain position of the first part of resources and the indication information of the frequency domain offset of the second part of resources relative to the first part of resources, which are sent by the network side device through the physical layer signaling, so as to obtain a specific frequency domain position of the PUCCH resources.

After the step 52, the terminal may further receive transmission scheduling information sent by the network side device, where the transmission scheduling information is used to schedule the terminal to send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the spatial relationship between the PUCCH resource and the activation; and further, according to the transmission scheduling information, the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information are respectively sent on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource.

For a specific example of the above transmission scheduling information, reference may be made to the foregoing description of the network side device portion, which is not repeated herein for saving space.

In addition, corresponding to the foregoing scheduling manner 6 and scheduling manner 7, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the terminal specifically includes, when receiving transmission scheduling information sent by the network side device:

Further, when the terminal sends different parts of the same uplink control information on the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the transmission scheduling information, the terminal may repeatedly transmit a spatial relationship pattern and a spatial relationship switching command according to the time domain, send the fifth uplink control information on the first PUCCH resource by using the first correspondence respectively, and send the sixth uplink control information by using the second correspondence; and on a second PUCCH resource, respectively adopting the second corresponding relation to send the fifth uplink control information, and adopting the first corresponding relation to send the sixth uplink control information.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal may further obtain, in receiving transmission scheduling information sent by the network side device, transmission mode indication information from the transmission scheduling information, where the transmission mode indication information is used to indicate: the same uplink control information is repeatedly transmitted in different parts in the same PUCCH resource, or different parts of the same uplink control information are transmitted in different parts in the same PUCCH resource. And determining the transmission contents of the first part of resources and the second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource according to the transmission mode indication information.

By the mode, the embodiment of the application can realize flexible configuration of the PUCCH resources and the spatial relationship, and further can improve the reliability of PUCCH transmission based on the configuration.

The foregoing describes various methods of embodiments of the present application. An apparatus for carrying out the above method is further provided below.

The embodiment of the application provides a configuration device of physical uplink control channel resources shown in fig. 6, which can be applied to network side equipment. Referring to fig. 6, an information sending apparatus 60 provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

A first configuration module 61, configured to configure a PUCCH resource for a terminal, where the PUCCH resource includes a first portion of resource and a second portion of resource, where the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are used to carry the same uplink control information or different portions of the same uplink control information, and the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are continuous frequency domain resources and there is no overlapping portion in a frequency domain;

a second configuration module 62, configured to activate the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

Optionally, the first part of resources and the second part of resources at least partially overlap in the time domain, or the first part of resources and the second part of resources do not have an overlapping part in the time domain.

Optionally, the first configuration module is further configured to configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal.

Optionally, the first configuration module is further configured to configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

The terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams;

Optionally, the first configuration module is further configured to, in case the first part of resources and the second part of resources at least partially overlap in the time domain,

Transmitting frequency hopping configuration information of PUCCH resources to the terminal through high-layer signaling, wherein the frequency hopping configuration information comprises a frequency domain starting position of a first part of resources, frequency hopping indication information for indicating frequency hopping in a closed time slot and a frequency domain starting position of a second part of resources;

Or alternatively

Optionally, the apparatus further includes:

The scheduling module is used for sending transmission scheduling information to the terminal, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship.

Optionally, the apparatus further includes:

Optionally, the first part of resources and the second part of resources at least partially overlap in a time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for:

the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information sent on the same PUCCH resource are the same uplink control information, or are different parts of the same uplink control information.

Optionally, the first part of resources and the second part of resources do not have overlapping portions in the time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for:

Wherein the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information.

The fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information.

Optionally, the scheduling module is further configured to send a time domain repetitive transmission spatial relationship pattern to the terminal, where the time domain repetitive transmission spatial relationship pattern includes a first corresponding relationship and a second corresponding relationship, in the first corresponding relationship, the first part of resources corresponds to the first spatial relationship, and the second part of resources corresponds to the second spatial relationship; in the first corresponding relation, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relation, and the second part of resources correspond to the first spatial relation; and

Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application provides a schematic structural diagram of a network side device 700, including: a processor 701, a transceiver 702, a memory 703 and a bus interface, wherein:

In the embodiment of the present application, the network side device 700 further includes: a program stored on the memory 703 and executable on the processor 701, which when executed by the processor 701 performs the steps of:

It can be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the computer program, when executed by the processor 701, may implement each process of the embodiment of the method for configuring physical uplink control channel resources shown in fig. 2 and achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided and no further description is given here.

In fig. 7, a bus architecture may be comprised of any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and in particular, one or more processors represented by the processor 701 and various circuits of memory represented by the memory 703. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 702 may be a number of elements, i.e., including a transmitter and a receiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium.

The processor 701 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 703 may store data used by the processor 701 in performing operations.

It should be noted that, the embodiment of the network side device is a device corresponding to the embodiment of the method applied to the network side device, and all the implementation manners in the embodiment of the method are applicable to the embodiment of the network side device, so that the same or similar technical effects can be achieved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of:

When the program is executed by the processor, all the implementation modes in the configuration method of the physical uplink control channel resource applied to the network side equipment can be realized, the same technical effect can be achieved, and the repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

Referring to fig. 8, an embodiment of the present application provides a device 80 for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, which can be applied to a terminal, as shown in fig. 8, where the device 80 for configuring physical uplink control channel resources includes:

A first receiving module 81, configured to receive configuration information of a PUCCH resource sent by a network side device, where the PUCCH resource includes a first portion of resource and a second portion of resource, where the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are used to carry the same uplink control information or different portions of the same uplink control information, and the first portion of resource and the second portion of resource are continuous frequency domain resources and there is no overlapping portion in a frequency domain;

the second receiving module 82 is configured to receive an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, where the activation command is sent by the network side device, and activate the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship.

Optionally, the apparatus further includes:

Optionally, the first receiving module 81 is further configured to:

Or alternatively

Optionally, the apparatus further includes:

Under the condition that the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates a first spatial relationship and a second spatial relationship, the terminal is scheduled to send third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first sending beam and the first spatial relationship, and send fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second sending beam and the second spatial relationship, wherein the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or are different parts of the same uplink control information;

Scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, and transmitting fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the first transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in the case that the terminal supports the transmission capability of only one beam and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

scheduling the terminal to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and a first spatial relationship and to transmit sixth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on the second transmission beam and a second spatial relationship under the condition that the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates the first spatial relationship and the second spatial relationship;

Optionally, the third receiving module is further configured to, when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information,

Optionally, the transmission module is further configured to send, on a first PUCCH resource, the fifth uplink control information by using the first correspondence, and send the sixth uplink control information by using the second correspondence according to the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern and a spatial relationship switching command; and on a second PUCCH resource, respectively adopting the second corresponding relation to send the fifth uplink control information, and adopting the first corresponding relation to send the sixth uplink control information.

Referring to fig. 9, a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application is provided, and the terminal 900 includes: processor 901, transceiver 902, memory 903, user interface 904, and bus interface.

In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal 900 further includes: a program stored on the memory 903 and executable on the processor 901.

The processor 901, when executing the program, performs the steps of:

It can be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, when the computer program is executed by the processor 901, the above-mentioned respective processes of the embodiment of the method for configuring physical uplink control channel resources shown in fig. 5 can be implemented, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

In fig. 9, a bus architecture may comprise any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with various circuits of the one or more processors, represented in particular by processor 901, and the memory, represented by memory 903, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 902 may be a number of elements, i.e., include a transmitter and a receiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The user interface 904 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with an inscribed desired device for a different user device, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 901 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 903 may store data used by the processor 901 in performing operations.

It should be noted that, the terminal embodiment is a terminal corresponding to the method embodiment applied to the terminal, and all the implementation manners in the method embodiment are applicable to the embodiment of the terminal, so that the same or similar technical effects can be achieved.

When the program is executed by the processor, all the implementation modes in the configuration method of the physical uplink control channel resource applied to the terminal side can be realized, the same technical effect can be achieved, and the repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not repeated herein.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the embodiment of the present application.

In addition, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art or in a part of the technical solution, in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, comprising several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method described in the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, etc.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will readily recognize that variations or substitutions are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the invention is subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. The method for configuring the physical uplink control channel resources is applied to network side equipment and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

Activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship;

The method further comprises the steps of:

Transmitting transmission scheduling information to a terminal, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively transmit the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship;

In the case that the first part of resources and the second part of resources do not have an overlapping portion in the time domain, the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for:

under the condition that the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams and an activation command activates a first spatial relationship and a second spatial relationship, the terminal is scheduled to transmit fifth uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and the first spatial relationship, and sixth uplink control information is transmitted on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and the second spatial relationship, wherein the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are two transmission beams supported by the terminal;

When the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the step of sending transmission scheduling information to the terminal includes:

Transmitting a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern to a terminal, wherein the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern comprises a first corresponding relationship and a second corresponding relationship, and in the first corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to the first spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to the second spatial relationship; in the second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to a first spatial relationship; and

2. The method of claim 1, wherein,

The first and second partial resources at least partially overlap in the time domain, or the first and second partial resources do not have overlapping portions in the time domain.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of configuring PUCCH resources for the terminal by the network side device includes:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of configuring the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal comprises:

The terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams;

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of configuring the PUCCH resource for the terminal in the case that the first partial resource and the second partial resource at least partially overlap in the time domain comprises:

Or alternatively

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources overlap at least partially in a time domain, the transmission scheduling information being specific to:

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources do not have overlapping portions in the time domain, the transmission scheduling information being specific to:

Scheduling the terminal to transmit third uplink control information on the first part of resources based on a first transmission beam and an activated spatial relationship and to transmit fourth uplink control information on the second part of resources based on a second transmission beam and the activated spatial relationship, in case the terminal supports transmission capability of at least two beams and the activation command activates only one spatial relationship;

Wherein, the third uplink control information and the fourth uplink control information are the same uplink control information; the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information; when the terminal only supports the transmission capability of one beam, the first transmission beam is one transmission beam supported by the terminal; and when the terminal supports the transmission capability of at least two beams, the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam are the two transmission beams supported by the terminal.

9. The configuration method of the physical uplink control channel PUCCH resource is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, which is sent by the network side equipment, and activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first part of resource and the second part of resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first part of resource and the second part of resource correspond to the same spatial relationship;

The method further comprises the steps of:

Receiving transmission scheduling information sent by network side equipment, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling a terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship;

According to the transmission scheduling information, the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information are respectively sent on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource;

The first part of resources and the second part of resources do not have overlapping parts in the time domain, and the transmission scheduling information is specifically used for:

when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, the step of receiving the transmission scheduling information sent by the network side device includes:

Receiving a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern sent by network side equipment, wherein the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern comprises a first corresponding relationship and a second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to the first spatial relationship in the first corresponding relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to the second spatial relationship; in the second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to a first spatial relationship; and

Receiving a spatial relationship switching command sent by network side equipment, wherein the spatial relationship switching command is used for indicating the terminal to send PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) by adopting the first corresponding relationship and the second corresponding relationship on a plurality of PUCCH resources on a target time slot or a target sub-time slot respectively;

according to the transmission scheduling information, different parts of the same uplink control information are respectively sent on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource, and the method comprises the following steps:

10. The method of claim 9, wherein,

11. The method of claim 10, wherein prior to the step of receiving the configuration information of the PUCCH resource transmitted by the network side device, the method further comprises:

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of receiving the configuration information of the PUCCH resource sent by the network side device in the case where the first partial resource and the second partial resource at least partially overlap in the time domain includes:

Or alternatively

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources overlap at least partially in a time domain, the transmission scheduling information being specific to:

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources do not have overlapping portions in the time domain, the transmission scheduling information being specific to:

15. A device for configuring physical uplink control channel resources, applied to a network side device, comprising:

a second configuration module, configured to activate a spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource, so that the first partial resource and the second partial resource respectively correspond to different spatial relationships, or the first partial resource and the second partial resource correspond to the same spatial relationship;

The apparatus further comprises:

The scheduling module is used for sending transmission scheduling information to the terminal, wherein the transmission scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to respectively send the same uplink control information or different parts of the same uplink control information on a first part of resources and a second part of resources of the same PUCCH resource based on the PUCCH resource and the activated spatial relationship;

The scheduling module is further configured to send a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern to a terminal when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, where the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern includes a first correspondence and a second correspondence, and in the first correspondence, the first part of resources corresponds to the first spatial relationship, and the second part of resources corresponds to the second spatial relationship; in the second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to a first spatial relationship; and

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources overlap at least partially in a time domain, or wherein there is no overlapping portion of the first portion of resources and the second portion of resources in the time domain.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

The first configuration module is further configured to configure the PUCCH resource for the terminal according to the beam capability information and the uplink channel state of the terminal.

18. A network side device, comprising: a memory, a processor, a transceiver, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; it is characterized in that the method comprises the steps of,

The processor, when executing the program, performs the steps of:

19. A configuration apparatus of physical uplink control channel PUCCH resources, applied to a terminal, comprising:

The second receiving module is used for receiving an activation command of the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource sent by the network side equipment, and activating the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource to enable the first part of resources and the second part of resources to respectively correspond to different spatial relationships or enable the first part of resources and the second part of resources to correspond to the same spatial relationship;

The apparatus further comprises:

The third receiving module is further configured to receive a time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern sent by the network side device when the fifth uplink control information and the sixth uplink control information are different parts of the same uplink control information, where the time domain repeated transmission spatial relationship pattern includes a first correspondence and a second correspondence, and in the first correspondence, the first part of resources correspond to the first spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to the second spatial relationship; in the second corresponding relationship, the first part of resources correspond to a second spatial relationship, and the second part of resources correspond to a first spatial relationship; and

The apparatus further comprises:

The transmission module is used for transmitting the fifth uplink control information by adopting the first corresponding relation and the sixth uplink control information by adopting the second corresponding relation on a first PUCCH resource according to the time domain repeated transmission spatial relation pattern and the spatial relation switching command; and on a second PUCCH resource, respectively adopting the second corresponding relation to send the fifth uplink control information, and adopting the first corresponding relation to send the sixth uplink control information.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

21. A terminal, comprising: a memory, a processor, a transceiver, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; it is characterized in that the method comprises the steps of,

The processor, when executing the program, performs the steps of:

22. A computer storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of configuring physical uplink control channel resources according to any one of claims 1 to 8 or to perform the method of configuring physical uplink control channel resources according to any one of claims 9 to 14.