Data exchange method, terminal device, and network device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11051315-B2
Application number	US-201916587042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2019
Priority date	Mar 30, 2017
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

Embodiments provide a data exchange method, a terminal device, and a network device. In accordance with the disclosure, a terminal device can obtain resource information for communicating with another terminal device. The resource information can indicate a time-frequency resource and an antenna port corresponding to an antenna polarization direction. The terminal device can then send scheduling information and data information to the another terminal device using the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction. Time-frequency resources and/or antenna polarization directions used by any two terminal devices to send scheduling information and data information to other terminal devices can be different. In this way, terminal devices using different transmit antenna ports can use a same time-frequency resource, and an optional dimension of resource information is increased, thereby increasing an overall system communication capacity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A data exchange method, comprising:
obtaining, by a first terminal device, first resource information usable to communicate with a third terminal device, wherein the first resource information indicates a first time-frequency resource and a first antenna port corresponding to a first antenna polarization direction;
obtaining, by a second terminal device, second resource information usable to communicate with the third terminal device, wherein the second resource information indicates a second time-frequency resource and a second antenna port corresponding to second first antenna polarization direction;
sending, by the first terminal device, first scheduling information and first data information to the third terminal device using the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction;
sending, by the second terminal device, second scheduling information and second data information to the third terminal device using the second time-frequency resource and the second antenna polarization direction; and, wherein
the first scheduling information comprises the first antenna polarization direction and the first time-frequency resource carrying the first data information, and the second scheduling information comprises the second antenna polarization direction and the second time-frequency resource carrying the second data information, wherein
the first and second time-frequency resources are different; and/or
the first and second antenna polarization directions are different; and, wherein obtaining, by the first terminal device, the first resource information usable to communicate with the third terminal device comprises:
obtaining, by the first terminal device, information about a used resource occupied by a surrounding terminal, wherein the information about the used resource indicates a time-frequency resource and an antenna polarization direction that have been occupied for communication; and
selecting, by the first terminal device based on the information about the used resource, the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction for communicating with the third terminal device, wherein at least one of the selected time-frequency resource and the selected antenna polarization direction is different from the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction occupied by the surrounding terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, by the first terminal device, the first scheduling information and the first data information to third terminal device using the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction comprises:
broadcasting, by the first terminal device, the first scheduling information and the first data information to the third terminal device using the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction; and, wherein sending, by the second terminal device, the second scheduling information and second data information to third terminal device using the second time-frequency resource and the second antenna polarization direction comprises:
broadcasting, by the second terminal device, the second scheduling information and second data information to the third terminal device using the second time-frequency resource and the second antenna polarization direction; and, wherein
the first time-frequency resource is the same as or partially the same as the second time-frequency resource, and the first antenna polarization direction is different from the second antenna polarization direction.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first antenna polarization direction is orthogonal to the second antenna polarization direction.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, by the first terminal device, the first scheduling information and the first data information to third terminal device using the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction comprises:
broadcasting, by the first terminal device, the first scheduling information and the first data information to the third terminal device using the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction; and, wherein sending, by the second terminal device, the second scheduling information and second data information to third terminal device using the second time-frequency resource and the second antenna polarization direction comprises:
broadcasting, by the second terminal device, the second scheduling information and second data information to the third terminal device using the second time-frequency resource and the second antenna polarization direction; and, wherein
the first time-frequency resource is different from the second time-frequency resource, and the first antenna polarization direction is the same as or different from the second antenna polarization direction.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining, by the first terminal device, the first resource information usable to communicate with the first terminal device comprises:
receiving, by the first terminal device, a scheduling instruction sent by a network device, wherein the scheduling instruction comprises the first time-frequency resource and the first antenna polarization direction allocated for the communicative connection between the terminal device and the third terminal device.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein before receiving, by the first terminal device, the scheduling instruction sent by the network device, the method further comprises:
sending, by first the terminal device, a terminal capability to the network device, wherein the terminal capability comprises at least an antenna polarization capability of the first terminal; and
sending, by the first terminal device to the network device, a communication request for communicating with another terminal device, so that the network device allocates the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction for the communicative connection between the first terminal device and the third terminal device based on the antenna polarization capability of the first terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining, by the first terminal device, the information about the used resource occupied by the surrounding terminal comprises:
receiving, by the first terminal device, scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal; and
obtaining, by the first terminal device based on the scheduling information, the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction occupied by the surrounding terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein obtaining, by the first terminal device based on the scheduling information, the information about the used resource occupied by the surrounding terminal comprises:
demodulating, by the first terminal device, the scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal to obtain the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction occupied by the surrounding terminal.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein demodulating, by the first terminal device, the scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal comprises:
demodulating, by the first terminal device, the scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal in a preset spatial multiplexing detection manner, to obtain the antenna polarization direction and the time-frequency resource carrying the data information in the scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal; and/or
demodulating, by the first terminal device, the scheduling information sent by the surrounding terminal in a preset non-spatial multiplexing detection manner, to obtain the antenna

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Zhe
• Liu Deping
• Zhao Zhenshan

Classifications

• H04B7/10 Primary

  Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity · CPC title

• H04W72/044

  based on the type of the allocated resource · CPC title

• H04W72/12 Primary

  Wireless traffic scheduling · CPC title

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title

• H04W74/0816

  with collision avoidance · CPC title