Method for sharing channel occupancy time and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12200760-B2
Application number	US-202117483926-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2021
Priority date	Mar 25, 2019
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a method for sharing a channel occupancy time and a device. The method includes: determining uplink control information UCI, where the UCI includes first indication information, the first indication information is used to enable a network device to determine related information about downlink transmission in a target time period, a terminal device shares a target channel occupancy time COT in the target time period with the network device, and the target COT is obtained by the terminal device based on listen before talk LBT; and transmitting the UCI.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for sharing a channel occupancy time, performed by a terminal device and comprising:
determining uplink control information (UCI), wherein the UCI is used to indicate information enabling a network device to determine related information about downlink transmission in a target time period, the network device shares a target channel occupancy time (COT) in the target time period, and the target COT is obtained by the terminal device based on listen before talk (LBT); and
transmitting the UCI;
wherein the UCI is further used to indicate a start time and duration of the target time period, wherein the start time of the target time period is indicated by using a value of an offset relative to the transmission end time of the PUSCH carrying the UCI.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the related information comprises a type of downlink transmission information, and the UCI is used to indicate the type of downlink transmission information.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
determining the type of downlink transmission information based on a channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the determining the type of downlink transmission information according to a channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT comprises:
if the channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT is a target channel access priority class, determining that the type of downlink transmission information comprises control information and data information; or
if the channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT belongs to other channel access priority classes than the target channel access priority class, determining that the type of downlink transmission information comprises control information, wherein
the target channel access priority class is higher than any one of the other channel access priority classes.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the related information comprises a channel access priority class of downlink transmission data information, and the UCI is used to indicate a channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the UCI is further used to indicate whether the network device schedules uplink transmission of the terminal device in a remaining time period of the target COT, and the remaining time period is a time period between an end time of the target time period and an end time of the target COT.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the UCI is carried on a target physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, the UCI indicates that the network device schedules the uplink transmission of the terminal device in the remaining time period of the target COT, the UCI is further used to enable the network device to determine the end time of the target COT.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the UCI is used to indicate duration between a transmission end time of the target PUSCH and the end time of the target COT; or
the UCI is used to indicate the end time of the target COT.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the computer-readable medium stores a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method for sharing a channel occupancy time according to claim 1 are implemented.

10. A method for sharing a channel occupancy time, performed by a network device and comprising:
receiving uplink control information (UCI), wherein the UCI is used to indicate information enabling the network device to determine related information about downlink transmission in a target time period, the network device shares a target channel occupancy time (COT) in the target time period, and the target COT is obtained by the terminal device based on listen before talk (LBT); and
determining the related information based on the UCI;
wherein the UCI is further used to indicate a start time and duration of the target time period, wherein the start time of the target time period is indicated by using a value of an offset relative to the transmission end time of the PUSCH carrying the UCI.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the related information comprises a type of downlink transmission information, and the UCI is used to indicate the type of downlink transmission information; and
the determining the related information based on the UCI comprises:
determining that the type of downlink transmission information is the type indicated by the UCI.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the related information comprises a channel access priority class of downlink transmission data information, and the UCI is used to indicate a channel access priority class used when the terminal device obtains the target COT based on LBT; and
the determining the related information based on the UCI comprises:
determining that the channel access priority class satisfied by the downlink transmission data information is the channel access priority class indicated by the UCI.

13. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the UCI is further used to indicate whether the network device schedules uplink transmission of the terminal device in a remaining time period of the target COT, and the method further comprises:
if the UCI indicates that the network device schedules the uplink transmission of the terminal device in the remaining time period of the target COT, scheduling the uplink transmission of the terminal device in the remaining time period, wherein the remaining time period is a time period between an end time of the target time period and an end time of the target COT.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the UCI is carried on a target physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, the UCI indicates that the network device schedules the uplink transmission of the terminal device in the remaining time period of the target COT, the UCI is further used to enable the network device to determine the end time of the target COT; and the method further comprises:
determining the remaining time period based on the UCI and the target time period.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the UCI is used to indicate duration between a transmission end time of the target PUSCH and the end time of the target COT; or
the UCI is used to indicate the end time of the target COT.

16. A network device, comprising: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, the steps of the method for sharing a channel occupancy time according to claim 10 are implemented.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the computer-readable medium stores a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method for sharing a channel occupancy time according to claim 10 are implemented.

18. A terminal device, comprising: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to implement:
determining uplink control information (UCI), wherein the UCI is used to indicate information enabling a network device to determine related information about downlink transmission in a t

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Can
• Shen Xiaodong
• Jiang Lei

Classifications

• H04W16/14

  Spectrum sharing arrangements {between different networks} · CPC title

• H04W74/0875

  with assigned priorities based access · CPC title

• H04W74/0808 Primary

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

• H04W72/0446

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

• H04W72/21 Primary

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