Information indication method, network device, and terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11147076-B2
Application number	US-201916504260-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2019
Priority date	Jan 6, 2017
Publication date	Oct 12, 2021
Grant date	Oct 12, 2021

Abstract

This application discloses an information sending method. The method includes: generating, by a network device, control information, where the control information includes first indication information, second indication information, and third indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-reference signal CSI-RS resources, the second indication information is used to indicate at least one piece of the following information: beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is sent by the network device, beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is received by a terminal device, or beam pair information corresponding to the network device and the terminal, and the third indication information is used to indicate a measurement method of the plurality of CSI-RS resources; and sending, by the network device, the control information to the terminal device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information sending method, comprising:
generating, by a network device, control information, wherein the control information comprises first indication information, second indication information, and third indication information, wherein
the first indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources,
the second indication information is used to indicate at least one piece of the following information:
beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources sent by the network device, beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources received by a terminal device, or beam pair information corresponding to the network device and the terminal, and

the third indication information is used to indicate a measurement method of the plurality of CSI-RS resources;

adding, by the network device, the control information to a channel state information measurement setting; and
sending, by the network device, the control information to the terminal device by sending the control information measurement setting to the terminal device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the control information further comprises fourth indication information, and the fourth indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the network device adds the first indication information, the second indication information, and the third indication information to the channel state information measurement setting.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the third indication information is a first value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and feed back measurement information corresponding to all the CSI-RS resources.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the third indication information is a second value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and feed back measurement information corresponding to one CSI-RS resource or first several CSI-RS resources with best channel quality.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the third indication information is a third value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and combine channel matrices obtained after estimation is performed on the plurality of CSI-RS resources.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each CSI-RS resource comprises quasi co-location (QCL) indication information, and the QCL indication information is used to indicate whether antenna ports in each CSI-RS resource have a similar channel large-scale property.

8. An information receiving method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, control information sent by a network device, wherein the control information is received by way of a channel state information management setting, and the control information comprises first indication information, second indication information, and third indication information, wherein
the first indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources,
the second indication information is used to indicate at least one piece of the following information:
beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is sent by the network device, beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is received by the terminal device, or beam pair information corresponding to the network device and the terminal, and

the third indication information is used to indicate a measurement method of the plurality of CSI-RS resources; and

performing, by the terminal device, channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources based on the control information.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the control information further comprises fourth indication information, and the fourth indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the terminal device receives the first indication information, the second indication information, and the third indication information by way of the channel state information measurement setting.

11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein when the third indication information is a first value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and feed back measurement information corresponding to all the CSI-RS resources.

12. The method according to claim 8 , wherein when the third indication information is a second value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and feed back measurement information corresponding to one CSI-RS resource with best channel quality.

13. The method according to claim 8 , wherein when the third indication information is a third value, the third indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to separately perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources and combine channel matrices obtained after estimation is performed on the plurality of CSI-RS resources.

14. The method according to claim 8 , wherein each CSI-RS resource comprises quasi co-location (QCL) indication information, and the QCL indication information is used to indicate whether antenna ports in each CSI-RS resource have a similar channel large-scale property.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein each CSI-RS resource further comprises QCL mapping port information, and the QCL mapping port information is used to indicate antenna ports that have a similar channel large-scale property.

16. A terminal device, comprising:
a transceiver, configured to receive control information sent by a network device, wherein the control information is received by way of a channel state information management setting, and the control information comprises first indication information, second indication information, and third indication information, wherein
the first indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources,
the second indication information is used to indicate at least one piece of the information:
beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is sent by the network device, beam index information of the plurality of CSI-RS resources that is received by the terminal device, or beam pair information corresponding to the network device and the terminal, and

the third indication information is used to indicate a measurement method of the plurality of CSI-RS resources; and
a processor, configured to perform channel measurement on the plurality of CSI-RS resources based on the control information.

17. The terminal device according to claim 16 , wherein the control information further comprises fourth indication information, and the fourth indication information is used to indicate a plurality of channel state information-interference measurement CSI-IM resources.

18. The terminal device accordi

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tang Xiaoyong
• Wang Xiaona

Classifications

• H04W72/51

  based on terminal or device properties · CPC title

• H04W72/21

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

• H04W72/541 Primary

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04L5/0057

  Physical resource allocation for CQI · CPC title

• H04B7/0632

  Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI] · CPC title