Data transmission method, device, and communications system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10911978-B2
Application number	US-201916716333-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2019
Priority date	Aug 11, 2017
Publication date	Feb 2, 2021
Grant date	Feb 2, 2021

Abstract

A data transmission method, a device, and a communications system are described. The method includes generating, by a terminal device, first indication information. The first indication information is used to indicate logical channel groups having to-be-sent data and amount of to-be-sent data on part of the logical channel groups having to-be-sent data. The method includes sending, by the terminal device, the first indication information. According to the data transmission method, the device, and the communications system provided in the described embodiments, when a current quantity idle bits in a MAC PDU is insufficient, the terminal device may indicate, to a network device by using the first indication information, the LCGs having to-be-sent data on the terminal device. In this way, uplink transmission resource allocation improved efficiency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A data transmission method, comprising:
generating a first indication information, wherein the first indication information is a buffer status report (BSR), wherein the BSR comprises:
a first octet wherein:
each bit of the first octet corresponds to one logical channel group (LCG) of a set of LCGs and indicates whether the corresponding LCG has to-be-sent data, and
M bits, in the first octet, having a first value, indicate M LCGs having to-be-sent data; and

N subsequent octets, which follow the first octet in the BSR, that indicate amount of to-be-sent data on N LCGs of the M LCGs, wherein each octet of the N subsequent octets indicates an amount of to-be-sent data on one LCG of the N LCGs, and wherein M≤8, 1≤N<M; and

sending the first indication information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprises: one or more logic channels, and
wherein each of the one or more logic channels corresponds to one priority.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein priority of each LCG in the M LCGs is priority of a highest-priority logic channel in the each LCG.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein priority of each of the N LCGs is higher than priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprise L first LCGs; and
when L is less than N, the N LCGs comprise the L first LCGs, and a priority of a LCG other than the L first LCGs in the N LCGs is higher than a priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs; or
when L is equal to N, the L first LCGs is used as the N LCGs; or
when L is greater than N, part of the L first LCGs are used as the N LCGs, and priority of each first LCG in the N LCGs is higher than a priority of a first LCG other than the N LCGs in the L first LCGs.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first indication information comprises a truncated BSR.

7. A data transmission method, comprising:
receiving a first indication information, wherein the first indication information is a buffer status report (BSR), and wherein the BSR comprises:
a first octet wherein:
each bit of the first octet corresponds to one logical channel group (LCG) of a set of LCGs and indicates whether the corresponding LCG has to-be-sent data, and
M bits, in the first octet, having a first value, indicate M LCGs having to-be-sent data; and

N subsequent octets, which follow the first octet in the BSR, that indicate amount of to-be-sent data on N LCGs of the M LCGs, wherein each octet of the N subsequent octets indicates an amount of to-be-sent data on one LCG of the N LCGs, and wherein M≤8, 1≤N<M; and

determining, based on the first indication information, the M LCGs having to-be-sent data and amount of to-be-sent data on the N LCGs.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein each of the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprises: one or more logic channels, wherein each of the one or more logic channels corresponds to one priority.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein priority of each LCG in the M LCGs is priority of a highest-priority logic channels in the each LCG.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein priority of each of the N LCGs is higher than priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the first indication information comprises a truncated BSR.

12. A device, comprising:
a processor and a memory storing program instructions for execution by the processor;
wherein, by executing the program instructions, the program instructions cause the device to:
generate a first indication information, wherein the first indication information is a buffer status report (BSR), wherein the BSR comprises:
a first octet wherein:
each bit of the first octet corresponds to one logical channel group (LCG) of a set of LCGs and indicates whether the corresponding LCG has to-be-sent data, and
M bits, in the first octet, having a first value, indicate M LCGs having to-be-sent data; and

N subsequent octets, which follow the first octet in the BSR, that indicate amount of to-be-sent data on N LCGs of the M LCGs, wherein each octet of the N subsequent octets indicates an amount of to-be-sent data on one LCG of the N LCGs, and wherein M≤8, 1≤N<M; and

send the first indication information.

13. The device according to claim 12 , wherein each of the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprises: one or more logic channels, wherein each of the one or more logic channels corresponds to one priority.

14. The method according to claim 13 , priority of each LCG in the M LCGs is priority of a highest-priority logic channel in the each LCG.

15. The device according to claim 14 , wherein priority of each of the N LCGs is higher than priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs.

16. The device according to claim 14 , wherein the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprise L first LCGs; and
when L is less than N, the N LCGs comprise the L first LCGs, and a priority of a LCG other than the L first LCGs in the N LCGs is higher than a priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs; or
when L is equal to N, the L first LCGs is used as the N LCGs; or
when L is greater than N, part of the L first LCGs are used as the N LCGs, and priority of each first LCG in the N LCGs is higher than a priority of a first LCG other than the N LCGs in the L first LCGs.

17. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the first indication information comprises a truncated BSR.

18. A device, comprising:
a processor and a memory storing program instructions for execution by the processor;
wherein, by executing the program instructions, the program instructions cause the device to:
receive a first indication information, wherein the first indication information is a buffer status report (BSR), and wherein the BSR comprises:
a first octet wherein:
each bit of the first octet corresponds to one logical channel group (LCG) of a set of LCGs and indicates whether the corresponding LCG has to-be-sent data, and
M bits, in the first octet, having a first value, indicate M LCGs having to-be-sent data; and

N subsequent octets, which follow the first octet in the BSR, that indicate amount of to-be-sent data on N LCGs of the M LCGs, wherein each octet of the N subsequent octets indicates an amount of to-be-sent data on one LCG of the N LCGs, and wherein M≤8, 1≤N<M;

determine, based on the first indication information, the M LCGs having to-be-sent data and amount of to-be-sent data on the N LCGs.

19. The device according to claim 18 , wherein each of the M LCGs having to-be-sent data comprises: one or more logic channels, wherein each of the one or more logic channels corresponds to one priority.

20. The device according to claim 19 , priority of each LCG in the M LCGs is priority of highest-priority logic channels in the each LCG.

21. The device according to claim 20 , wherein priority of each of the N LCGs is higher than priority of a LCG other than the N LCGs in the M LCGs.

22. The device according to claim 18 , wherein the first indication information comprises a truncated BSR.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Xing
• Huang Qufang

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04L1/0028

  Formatting · CPC title

• H04L1/0007

  by modifying the frame length · CPC title

• H04W28/0278 Primary

  using buffer status reports (dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition H04W72/12) · CPC title

• H04W72/569

  of the traffic information · CPC title