Information transmission method, network side device and terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12476753-B2
Application number	US-202217587146-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 28, 2022
Priority date	Jul 31, 2019
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

An information transmission method includes: mapping a PDSCH and a positioning reference signal PRS onto different resource elements REs of a same RB; or mapping the PDSCH and the PRS onto different RBs; or mapping the PDSCH and the PRS onto different OFDM symbols; and transmitting the PDSCH and the PRS to a terminal device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information transmission method, comprising:
mapping a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a positioning reference signal (PRS) onto different orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; transmitting the PDSCH and the PRS to a terminal device; and transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, wherein the DCI is used to instruct the terminal device to perform rate matching on an OFDM symbol of the PRS.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information comprises:
DCI used to schedule the PDSCH, or group-common DCI.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
transmitting a first message to the terminal device, wherein the first message comprises configuration information of the PRS.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the configuration information comprises:
PRS-occupied time-frequency resource information, PRS identification information, PRS power information, a PRS quasi co-location (QCL) relationship, PRS position information, a serving cell configuration, and a neighboring cell configuration.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the PRS-occupied time-frequency resource information comprises:
at least one of a quantity of ports occupied by a PRS, a density occupied by a PRS, an OFDM symbol occupied by a PRS, a start RE position of a PRS in an RB, an RE offset between OFDM symbols, a bandwidth occupied by a PRS, a quantity of RBs occupied by a PRS, a set of RBs occupied by a PRS, or a start RB position of a PRS.

6 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the first message comprises:
a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), system information (SI), or downlink control information (DCI).

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein transmission content of the PDSCH comprises:
at least one of remaining minimum system information (RMSI), other system information (OSI), a paging message, a random access response (RAR), or fourth signaling (MSG4) in contention-based random access.

8 . A network side device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the network side device to perform:
mapping a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a positioning reference signal (PRS) onto different orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; transmitting the PDSCH and the PRS to a terminal device; and transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, wherein the DCI is used to instruct the terminal device to perform rate matching on an OFDM symbol of the PRS.

9 . The network side device according to claim 8 , wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the network side device to further perform:
transmitting a first message to the terminal device, wherein the first message comprises configuration information of the PRS.

10 . A terminal device, wherein the terminal device comprises: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor; and the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform:
receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a positioning reference signal (PRS) transmitted by a network side device, wherein the PDSCH and the PRS are mapped onto different orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and receiving downlink control information (DCI) transmitted by the network side device, wherein the DCI is used to instruct to perform rate matching on an OFDM symbol of the PRS.

11 . The terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein the downlink control information comprises:
DCI used to schedule the PDSCH, or group-common DCI.

12 . The terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to further perform:
receiving a first message transmitted by the network side device, wherein the first message comprises configuration information of the PRS.

13 . The terminal device according to claim 12 , wherein the configuration information comprises:
PRS-occupied time-frequency resource information, PRS identification information, PRS power information, a PRS quasi co-location (QCL) relationship, PRS position information, a serving cell configuration, and a neighboring cell configuration.

14 . The terminal device according to claim 13 , wherein the PRS-occupied time-frequency resource information comprises:
at least one of a quantity of ports occupied by a PRS, a density occupied by a PRS, an OFDM symbol occupied by a PRS, a start RE position of a PRS in an RB, an RE offset between OFDM symbols, a bandwidth occupied by a PRS, a quantity of RBs occupied by a PRS, a set of RBs occupied by a PRS, or a start RB position of a PRS.

15 . The terminal device according to claim 12 , wherein the first message comprises:
a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), system information (SI), or downlink control information (DCI).

16 . The terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein transmission content of the PDSCH comprises:
at least one of remaining minimum system information (RMSI), other system information (OSI), a paging message, a random access response (RAR), or fourth signaling (MSG4) in contention-based random access.

17 . The network side device according to claim 9 , wherein the configuration information comprises:
PRS-occupied time-frequency resource information, PRS identification information, PRS power information, a PRS quasi co-location (QCL) relationship, PRS position information, a serving cell configuration, and a neighboring cell configuration.

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Kai
• Si Ye
• Pan Xueming

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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• H04L27/2602

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