Beam training method and apparatus, terminal device, and network device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12494829-B2
Application number	US-202318163334-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2023
Priority date	Aug 3, 2020
Publication date	Dec 9, 2025
Grant date	Dec 9, 2025

Abstract

This application discloses a beam training method and apparatus, a terminal device, and a network device. The beam training method in this application includes: measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes to obtain measurement information, where the measurement information is used for indicating an optimal forwarding mode of the auxiliary device, and a forwarding mode of the auxiliary device is determined by using a beam direction of a forwarded signal of the auxiliary device and a beam phase of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device; and reporting the measurement information to a network device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A beam training method, performed by a terminal device, and the method comprising:
measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes to obtain measurement information, wherein the reference signals are sent by a network device to the auxiliary device and forwarded by the auxiliary device to the terminal device, the measurement information is used for indicating an optimal forwarding mode of the auxiliary device, and a forwarding mode of the auxiliary device is determined by using a beam direction of a forwarded signal of the auxiliary device and a beam phase of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device; and reporting the measurement information to the network device.

2 . The beam training method according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal comprises a first reference signal and a second reference signal;
the first reference signal is a reference signal transmitted by the network device and used for determining a beam direction of the auxiliary device; and the second reference signal is a reference signal transmitted by the network device and used for determining a beam phase of the auxiliary device.

3 . The beam training method according to claim 2 , wherein before the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes, the method further comprises:
receiving first indication information and second indication information transmitted by the network device, wherein the first indication information is time-frequency resource configuration information of the first reference signal, the first indication information corresponds to at least N transmission occasions, and N is less than or equal to a quantity of beam directions of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device; and the second indication information is time-frequency resource configuration information of the second reference signal, the second indication information corresponds to at least M transmission occasions, and M is less than or equal to a quantity of beam phases of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device.

4 . The beam training method according to claim 2 , wherein a bandwidth of the first reference signal is greater than or equal to a preset bandwidth threshold.

5 . The beam training method according to claim 2 , wherein a first frequency range corresponding to the second reference signal is greater than or equal to a second frequency range, and the second frequency range is a frequency range corresponding to data transmission between the terminal device and the network device.

6 . The beam training method according to claim 2 , wherein the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes to obtain measurement information comprises:
measuring the first reference signal to obtain first measurement information, wherein the first measurement information is used for indicating an optimal beam direction of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device in a bandwidth of the first reference signal; and measuring the second reference signal to obtain second measurement information, wherein the second measurement information is used for indicating an optimal beam phase corresponding to the optimal beam direction of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device in a bandwidth of the second reference signal.

7 . The beam training method according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal is a third reference signal;
the third reference signal is a reference signal transmitted by the network device and used for determining a beam direction and a beam phase of the auxiliary device, and a quantity of transmission occasions of the third reference signal is M*N, wherein N is a quantity of beam directions of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device and configured by the network device, and M is a quantity of beam phases of each forwarding beam and configured by the network device, each transmission occasion of the third reference signal corresponds to one beam direction and one beam phase of the auxiliary device, and different beam training signals correspond to different forwarding beams and/or beam phases.

8 . The beam training method according to claim 7 , wherein before the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes, the method further comprises:
receiving third indication information transmitted by the network device, wherein the third indication information is time-frequency resource configuration information of the third reference signal, the third indication information corresponds to at least M*N transmission occasions, N is less than or equal to a quantity of beam directions of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device, and M is less than or equal to a quantity of beam phases of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device.

9 . The beam training method according to claim 7 , wherein the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes comprises:
measuring the third reference signal to obtain third measurement information, wherein the third measurement information is information used for indicating an optimal combination of a beam direction and a beam phase of a forwarded signal of the auxiliary device and a sub-band in a bandwidth of the third reference signal; and/or measuring the third reference signal to obtain fourth measurement information, wherein the fourth measurement information is information used for indicating optimal sub-bands corresponding to M beam phases corresponding to an optimal beam direction of the forwarded signal of the auxiliary device in a bandwidth of the third reference signal.

10 . The beam training method according to claim 2 , wherein the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes comprises:
for a semi-persistent scheduling service, measuring the reference signal according to a beam training periodicity or after receiving a beam training indication to obtain measurement information, wherein the reference signal comprises a first reference signal and a second reference signal, or the reference signal comprises a second reference signal; the measurement information comprises first measurement information and second measurement information in a case that the reference signal comprises the first reference signal and the second reference signal; and the measurement information comprises the second measurement information in a case that the reference signal comprises the second reference signal.

11 . The beam training method according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring at least two reference signals used for beam training and forwarded by an auxiliary device in at least two forwarding modes comprises:
for a dynamic scheduling service, measuring the reference signal according to a beam training periodicity or after receiving a beam training indication to obtain measurement information, wherein the reference signal comprises a first reference signal and a second reference signal, or the reference signal comprises a third reference signal; the measurement information comprises first measurement information and second measurement information in a case that the reference signal comprises the first reference signal and the second reference signal; and the measurement information comprises third measurement information and/or fou

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Kun
• Jiang Dajie
• Liu Hao
• Tamrakar Rakesh

Classifications

• H04B7/0682

  using phase diversity (e.g. phase sweeping) · CPC title

• H04B7/0626

  Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI] · CPC title

• H04L5/0012

  Hopping in multicarrier systems · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

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

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title