Method for sending and receiving control information, apparatus, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12389388-B2
Application number	US-202217678776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2022
Priority date	Aug 23, 2019
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

This application provides a method for sending and receiving control information, an apparatus, and a system. A transmit end sends control information on a data channel, so that a receive end does not need to monitor a control channel through blind detection within a period of time that is after the receive end receives the control information. This can reduce power consumption of the receive end, and also reduce detection complexity caused by blind detection. In addition, attribute information of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a start position of a time domain resource and/or a frequency domain resource occupied by the data channel, or a parameter in semi-persistent transmission (SPS) information is used to indicate whether the control information is carried on the data channel. In this way, the receive end can correctly receive the control information, and signaling overheads can be effectively reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication method, comprising:
obtaining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), wherein attribute information of the DMRS is used to indicate that control information is carried on a data channel, wherein the attribute information of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: port information of the DMRS, sequence information of the DMRS, or a resource mapping manner of the DMRS; and
receiving the control information on the data channel;
wherein the control information is carried on a first time-frequency resource, the first time-frequency resource is related to a first position and the size of the control information, and the first position is a start position of the first time-frequency resource or an end position of the first time-frequency resource; and
wherein the first position corresponds to a second time-frequency resource, the second time-frequency resource is used to carry indication information, and the indication information is used to indicate the size of the control information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the attribute information of the DMRS is further used to indicate one or more of the following: a size of the control information, a function of the control information, or an encoding scheme of the control information.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the resource mapping manner of the DMRS includes one or more of a comb frequency division manner, a time-domain code division manner, or a frequency-domain code division manner.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sequence information of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: a cyclic shift of a sequence, a type of a sequence, or an initialization parameter of a sequence.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the resource mapping manner of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: a comb frequency division manner, a time-domain code division manner, or a frequency-domain code division manner.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information is used to configure the attribute information of the DMRS to indicate that the control information is carried on the data channel.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the data channel is a data channel configured through semi-persistent scheduling or higher layer signaling.

8. A communication method, comprising:
sending a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), wherein attribute information of the DMRS is used to indicate that control information is carried on a data channel, wherein the attribute information of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: port information of the DMRS, sequence information of the DMRS, or a resource mapping manner of the DMRS; and
sending the control information on the data channel;
wherein the control information is carried on a first time-frequency resource, the first time-frequency resource is related to a first position and the size of the control information, and the first position is a start position of the first time-frequency resource or an end position of the first time-frequency resource; and
wherein the first position corresponds to a second time-frequency resource, the second time-frequency resource is used to carry indication information, and the indication information is used to indicate the size of the control information.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the attribute information of the DMRS is further used to indicate one or more of the following: a size of the control information, a function of the control information, or an encoding scheme of the control information.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the resource mapping manner of the DMRS includes one or more of a comb frequency division manner, a time-domain code division manner, or a frequency-domain code division manner.

11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the sequence information of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: a cyclic shift of a sequence, a type of a sequence, or an initialization parameter of a sequence.

12. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the resource mapping manner of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: a comb frequency division manner, a time-domain code division manner, or a frequency-domain code division manner.

13. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:
sending configuration information, wherein the configuration information is used to configure the attribute information of the DMRS to indicate that the control information is carried on the data channel.

14. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the data channel is a data channel configured through semi-persistent scheduling or higher layer signaling.

15. An apparatus, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is coupled to a memory; the memory is configured to store a program or instructions; and when the program or the instructions is/are executed by the processor, the apparatus is enabled to perform the method, comprising:
obtaining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), wherein attribute information of the DMRS is used to indicate that control information is carried on a data channel, wherein the attribute information of the DMRS comprises one or more of the following: port information of the DMRS, sequence information of the DMRS, or a resource mapping manner of the DMRS; and
receiving the control information on the data channel;
wherein the control information is carried on a first time-frequency resource, the first time-frequency resource is related to a first position and the size of the control information, and the first position is a start position of the first time-frequency resource or an end position of the first time-frequency resource; and
wherein the first position corresponds to a second time-frequency resource, the second time-frequency resource is used to carry indication information, and the indication information is used to indicate the size of the control information.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Yunhao
• Xu Xiuqiang
• Chen Yan

Classifications

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

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

• H04L5/0051

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04L1/0038

  Blind format detection (for detection of modulation format H04L27/0012) · CPC title