System information transmission method, and related device and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11856560-B2
Application number	US-202117172432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2021
Priority date	Aug 10, 2018
Publication date	Dec 26, 2023
Grant date	Dec 26, 2023

Abstract

This application provides a system information transmission method, and a related device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, a system information request sent by one or more terminals; transmitting, by the network device, system information SI, where SI transmitted for one terminal has a quasi-co-location QCL with a portion of downlink signal blocks, and the portion of downlink signal blocks are a subset of all downlink signal blocks transmitted by the network device; and sending, by the network device, first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a mapping between a downlink signal block and SI, and the downlink signal block has a QCL with the SI corresponding to the downlink signal block. The foregoing solution can reduce system overheads and improve resource utilization.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A network device, comprising a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a transmitter, and a receiver, wherein
the receiver is configured to receive a system information request sent by one or more terminals;
the transmitter is configured to transmit system information (SI), wherein SI is transmitted for one terminal has a quasi co-location (QCL) with a portion of downlink signal blocks, and the portion of downlink signal blocks are a subset of all downlink signal blocks transmitted by the network device; and
the transmitter is further configured to send first indication information, wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between a downlink signal block and SI, and the downlink signal block has a QCL with the SI corresponding to the downlink signal block.

2. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein the first indication information comprises H groups of bits, each group comprises M bits, one bit corresponds to one piece of SI, and a j th bit in an i th group indicates whether a j th piece of SI corresponding to an i th downlink signal block has been sent, wherein H is a positive integer, M is a positive integer, i∈(1, H), j∈(1, M), i is a positive integer, and j is a positive integer.

3. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between one of a plurality of downlink signal blocks and SI, and the plurality of downlink signal blocks have a QCL.

4. The network device according to claim 3 , wherein the transmitter is further configured to send second indication information, wherein the second indication information indicates the downlink signal blocks having the QCL, and SI corresponding to the downlink signal blocks having the QCL is the same.

5. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between one or more downlink signal blocks and one of a plurality of pieces of SI, downlink signal blocks corresponding to the plurality of pieces of SI are the same, and the plurality of pieces of SI need to be sent together.

6. The network device according to claim 5 , wherein the transmitter is further configured to send third indication information, wherein the third indication information indicates that the downlink signal blocks corresponding to the plurality of pieces of SI are the same, and the plurality of pieces of SI need to be sent together.

7. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein for a specific terminal, the transmitter is configured to:
perform listen before talk (LBT) on an antenna port having a QCL with the portion of downlink signal blocks; and
if the LBT passes, transmit the SI having the QCL with the portion of downlink signal blocks.

8. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein a time location of the SI having the QCL with the downlink signal block is a preset time location that corresponds to the downlink signal block in a first time window and that is used to send SI; and
if a blank symbol exists between preset time locations, in the first time window, corresponding to downlink signal blocks corresponding to SI transmitted by the network device, the blank symbol is filled by a downlink signal block, wherein the blank symbol is a symbol that is not occupied by the SI.

9. The network device according to claim 1 , wherein time locations of SI transmitted by the network device are continuous and adjacent; and the transmitter is configured to transmit fourth indication information, wherein the fourth indication information indicates a time location of the SI transmitted by the network device.

10. A terminal, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive first indication information sent by a network device, wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between a downlink signal block and system information (SI), and the downlink signal block has a quasi co-location (QCL) with the SI corresponding to the downlink signal block;
at least one processor; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to:
determine whether SI that has a QCL with a downlink signal block received by the terminal and that is required by the terminal has been sent based on the first indication information; and
if the SI has been sent, the receiver is configured to detect the SI at a time location that corresponds to the downlink signal block received by the terminal and that is used to receive SI.

11. The terminal according to claim 10 , further comprising a transmitter, wherein the transmitter is configured to: if the SI having the QCL with the downlink signal block received by the receiver has not been sent, send a system information request to the network device; and
the receiver is further configured to receive SI transmitted by the network device, wherein the SI transmitted by the network device for the terminal has a QCL with a portion of downlink signal blocks, and the portion of downlink signal blocks are a subset of all downlink signal blocks transmitted by the network device.

12. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the first indication information comprises H groups of bits, each group of bits comprises M bits, one bit corresponds to one piece of SI, and a j th bit in an i th group of bits indicates whether a j th piece of SI corresponding to an i th downlink signal block has been sent, wherein H is a positive integer, M is a positive integer, i∈(1, H), j∈(1, M), i is a positive integer, and j is a positive integer.

13. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between one of a plurality of downlink signal blocks and SI corresponding to the one downlink signal block, and the plurality of downlink signal blocks have a QCL.

14. The terminal according to claim 13 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive second indication information, wherein the second indication information indicates the downlink signal blocks having the QCL, and SI corresponding to the downlink signal blocks having the QCL is the same.

15. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the first indication information indicates a mapping between one or more downlink signal blocks and one of a plurality of pieces of SI, downlink signal blocks corresponding to the plurality of pieces of SI are the same, and the plurality of pieces of SI need to be sent together.

16. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein a time location of the SI having the QCL with the downlink signal block is a preset time location that corresponds to the downlink signal block in a first time window and that is used to send SI; and
when a blank symbol exists between preset time locations, in the first time window, corresponding to downlink signal blocks corresponding to SI transmitted by the network device, the blank symbol is filled by a first downlink signal, wherein the blank symbol is a symbol that is not occupied by the SI.

17. The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the receiver is further configured to
receive the SI at a preset time location corresponding to the portion of downlink signal blocks in the first time window.

18. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein time locations of SI transmitted by the network device are continuous and adjacent; and the receiver is configured to receive fourth indication information, wherein the fourth indication information indicates a time location of the SI transmitted by the network devic

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Ji
• Zhu Jun
• Jia Qiong

Classifications

• H04W72/0446 Primary

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04W72/23 Primary

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

• H04W74/0808

  using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] · CPC title

• H04B7/0617 Primary

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04W72/046

  the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams · CPC title