User equipment and data transmission method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10375717-B2
Application number	US-201715402022-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2017
Priority date	May 9, 2016
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

A UE and a data transmission method thereof are provided. The method includes: acquiring configuration information of a first shortened TTI sent by a base station; blindly detecting a predetermined physical downlink link control channel with a period of the first shortened TTI, until primary DCI corresponding to the UE is acquired; determining secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the acquired primary DCI; and performing data transmission with the base station in a second shortened TTI scheduled by the secondary DCI. Flexibility of application of a shortened TTI may be improved, and resources may be saved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A data transmission method of a User Equipment (UE), comprising:
acquiring first configuration information of a first shortened Transmission Time Interval (TTI) sent by a base station; blindly detecting a predetermined physical downlink link control channel with a period of the first shortened TTI, until primary Downlink Control Information (DCI) corresponding to the UE is acquired, wherein the primary DCI comprises third configuration information of an exit frame number;
determining secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the primary DCI, wherein the secondary DCI comprises an exit indicator; and
performing data transmission with the base station in a second shortened TTI scheduled by the secondary DCI,
when a frame number of transmitted data does not exceed the exit frame number and the exit indicator is detected to be valid, blindly detecting the predetermined physical downlink link control channel again to acquire next primary DCI corresponding to the UE; and
when the frame number of transmitted data exceeds the exit frame number, starting to blindly detect the predetermined physical downlink link control channel again from a next shortened TTI to acquire next primary DCI.

2. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the first configuration information of the first shortened TTI comprises a number of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols contained in the first shortened TTI.

3. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein determining secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the primary DCI comprises:
acquiring second configuration information of the secondary DCI by analyzing the primary DCI; and
blindly detecting the predetermined physical downlink link control channel based on the second configuration information of the secondary DCI, to acquire the secondary DCI corresponding to the UE.

4. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein the second configuration information of the secondary DCI comprises a format, an effective time, and a position of the secondary DCI.

5. The data transmission method according to claim 4 , wherein the position of the secondary DCI is determined by bit mapping.

6. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein determining secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the primary DCI comprises: analyzing the primary DCI to acquire the secondary DCI which is set in the primary DCI.

7. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein if the exit frame number is greater than one, shortened TTIs scheduled by the secondary DCI are located at a same position in each sub-frame corresponding to the exit frame number.

8. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the primary DCI comprises a first portion of the secondary DCI, and second configuration information of a second portion of the secondary DCI, and
wherein determining secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the primary DCI comprises:
analyzing the primary DCI to acquire the first portion of the secondary DCI;
acquiring the second configuration information of the second portion of the secondary DCI by analyzing the primary DCI; and
blindly detecting the predetermined physical downlink link control channel based on the second configuration information of the second portion of the secondary DCI, to acquire the second portion of the secondary DCI.

9. A User Equipment (UE), comprising:
a configuration acquiring circuitry adapted to acquire first configuration information of a first shortened Transmission Time Interval (TTI) sent by a base station;
a blindly detecting circuitry adapted to blindly detect a predetermined physical downlink link control channel with a period of the first shortened TTI, until primary Downlink Control Information (DCI) corresponding to the UE is acquired, wherein the primary DCI comprises third configuration information of an exit frame number;
a secondary DCI determining circuitry adapted to determine secondary DCI corresponding to the UE based on the primary DCI, wherein the secondary DCI comprises an exit indicator; and
a transmission circuitry adapted to perform data transmission with the base station in a second shortened TTI scheduled by the secondary DCI,
wherein when a frame number of transmitted data does not exceed the exit frame number and the exit indicator is detected to be valid, the blindly detecting circuitry blindly detects the predetermined physical downlink link control channel again to acquire next primary DCI corresponding to the UE; and
wherein when the frame number of transmitted data exceeds the exit frame number, the blindly detecting circuitry starts to blindly detect the predetermined physical downlink link control channel again from a next shortened TTI to acquire next primary DCI.

10. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the first configuration information of the first shortened TTI comprises a number of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols contained in the first shortened TTI.

11. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the secondary DCI determining circuitry acquires second configuration information of the secondary DCI by analyzing the primary DCI; and
blindly detects the predetermined physical downlink link control channel based on the second configuration information of the secondary DCI, to acquire the secondary DCI corresponding to the UE.

12. The UE according to claim 11 , wherein the second configuration information of the secondary DCI comprises a format, an effective time, and a position of the secondary DCI.

13. The UE according to claim 12 , wherein the position of the secondary DCI is determined by bit mapping.

14. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the secondary DCI determining circuitry analyzes the primary DCI to acquire the secondary DCI which is set in the primary DCI.

15. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein if the exit frame number is greater than one, shortened TTIs scheduled by the secondary DCI are located at a same position in each sub-frame corresponding to the exit frame number.

16. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the primary DCI comprises a first portion of the secondary DCI, and second configuration information of a second portion of the secondary DCI,
wherein the secondary DCI determining circuitry analyzes the primary DCI to acquire the first portion of the secondary DCI, and
wherein the secondary DCI determining circuitry acquires the second configuration information of the second portion of the secondary DCI by analyzing the primary DCI; and blindly detects the predetermined physical downlink link control channel based on the second configuration information of the second portion of the secondary DCI, to acquire the second portion of the secondary DCI.

Assignees

• Beijing Spreadtrum High Tech Communications Tech Co Ltd
• Spreadtrum Comm Shanghai Co

Inventors

• Liu Yang

Classifications

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04L5/0053 Primary

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04W72/1289

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/042

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/1263 Primary

  Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows · CPC title