Signal transmission method, and related device and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12170975-B2
Application number	US-202017023672-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2020
Priority date	Mar 26, 2018
Publication date	Dec 17, 2024
Grant date	Dec 17, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a network device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in one or more burst set windows, where the one or more burst set windows include a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks. SS/PBCH blocks sent at positions corresponding to at least two particular indexes have a quasi co-located (QCL) relationship.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal transmission method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in a burst set window, wherein the burst set window comprises a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks; and
determining, by the terminal device, that two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at two or more positions of the plurality of candidate positions in the burst set window are quasi co-located (QCL) with each other, wherein the two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at the two or more positions in the burst set window correspond to a same SS/PBCH block, and a duration of the burst set window is 5 ms.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the terminal device, indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate an interval between two adjacent positions of the two or more positions.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the interval between the two adjacent positions is 2, 4, or 8.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the indication information is carried in at least one of a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) control resource set (CORESET), an RMSI physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a broadcast channel.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the terminal device, quantity information of the plurality of candidate positions; and
determining the two or more positions based on the quantity information.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the terminal device, QCL-related information from a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the two or more SS/PBCH blocks includes a first SS/PBCH block and a second SS/PBCH block, and the first SS/PBCH block and the second SS/PBCH block has a QCL relationship.

8. A signal transmission method, comprising:
sending, by a network device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in a burst set window, wherein the burst set window comprise a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks, and wherein two or more SS/PBCH blocks sent at two or more positions of the plurality of candidate positions in the burst set window are quasi co-located (QCL) with each other and correspond to a same SS/PBCH block, and a duration of the burst set window is 5 ms.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
sending, by the network device, indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate an interval between two adjacent positions of the two or more positions.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the interval between the two adjacent positions is 2, 4, or 8.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication information is carried in at least one of a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) control resource set (CORESET), an RMSI physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a broadcast channel.

12. A terminal device, comprising a memory, and at least one processor and a receiver that are coupled to the memory, wherein:
the receiver is configured to receive a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in a burst set window, wherein the burst set window comprise a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks; and
the memory stores programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to determine that two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at two or more positions of the plurality of candidate positions in the burst set window are quasi co-located (QCL) with each other, wherein the two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at the two or more positions in the burst set window correspond to a same SS/PBCH block, and a duration of the burst set window is 5 ms.

13. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate an interval between two adjacent positions of the two or more positions.

14. The device according to claim 13 , wherein the interval between the two adjacent positions is 2, 4, or 8.

15. The device according to claim 13 , wherein the indication information is carried in at least one of a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) control resource set (CORESET), an RMSI physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a broadcast channel.

16. The device according to claim 12 , wherein:
the receiver is further configured to receive quantity information of the plurality of candidate positions; and
the at least one processor is further configured to determine the two or more positions based on the quantity information.

17. The device according to claim 12 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to obtain QCL-related information from a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks.

18. A network device, comprising a memory, and at least one processor and a transmitter that are coupled to the memory, wherein:
the transmitter is configured to send a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in a burst set window, wherein the burst set window comprise a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks, and wherein two or more SS/PBCH blocks sent at two or more positions of the plurality of candidate positions in the burst set window are quasi co-located (QCL) with each other and correspond to a same SS/PBCH block, and a duration of the burst set window is 5 ms.

19. The device according to claim 18 , wherein the transmitter is configured to send indication information, wherein the indication information is used to indicate an interval between two adjacent positions of the two or more positions.

20. The device according to claim 19 , wherein the interval between the two adjacent positions is 2, 4, or 8.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in a burst set window, wherein the burst set window comprise a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks; and
determining that two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at two or more positions of the plurality of candidate positions in the burst set window are quasi co-located (QCL) with each other, wherein the two or more SS/PBCH blocks received at the two or more positions in the burst set window correspond to a same SS/PBCH block, and a duration of the burst set window is 5 ms.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Ji
• Zhu Jun
• Jia Qiong
• Zhang Jiayin

Classifications

• H04W72/53

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