Signal transmission method, information sending method, and communication node

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12537620-B2
Application number	US-202217939919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2022
Priority date	Mar 9, 2020
Publication date	Jan 27, 2026
Grant date	Jan 27, 2026

Abstract

A signal transmission method, an information sending method, and a communication node are provided. The signal transmission method includes: obtaining first information. The first information is used for indicating a transmission mode of a first node or a second node. The signal transmission method further includes transmitting a signal related to the second node according to the transmission mode corresponding to the first information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A signal transmission method, performed by a first node, comprising:
obtaining first information, wherein the first information is used for indicating a transmission mode of the first node or a transmission mode of a second node, wherein:
in response to the first information indicating the transmission mode of the first node, the first node directly uses the transmission mode of the first node; and
in response to the first information indicating the transmission mode of the second node, the first node determines the transmission mode of the first node according to the transmission mode of the second node based on a mapping relationship between the transmission mode of the second node and the transmission mode of the first node, wherein the mapping relationship is pre-configured or predefined in a protocol; and
transmitting a signal related to the second node according to the transmission mode of the first node, wherein:
the first node is a Large Intelligent Surface (LIS) node or a hypersurface node or an intelligent emitting surface node,
the second node is an upper-level first node or a base station, and
the signal related to the second node comprises a signal sent by the second node or a signal to be sent to the second node, wherein:
when the signal related to the second node includes a signal sent by the second node, the transmitting the signal related to the second node comprises: sending the signal to the terminal; or
when the signal related to the second node includes a signal to be sent to the second node, the transmitting the signal related to the second node comprises: sending the signal to the second node.

2 . The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission mode comprises a periodic transmission mode or an aperiodic transmission mode, wherein:
the periodic transmission mode is used for indicating at least one of at least one transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode in one period; or the aperiodic transmission mode is used for indicating a transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode.

3 . The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission mode is associated with a beam, or the transmission mode is associated with a transmission configuration indicator state.

4 . The signal transmission method according to claim 2 , wherein the first information is further used for indicating time information of at least a part of the transmission mode, or the first information is further used for indicating time information of the inoperative transmission mode;
wherein:
the first information comprises N groups of bits,
the one period comprises N time units,
each group of bits is used for indicating a transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode in a corresponding time unit,
each group of bits comprises one or more bits, and
N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

5 . The signal transmission method according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one transmission mode comprises a transmission mode of at least one downlink time resource, and further comprises a transmission mode of an uplink time resource corresponding to the at least one downlink time resource, wherein the transmission mode of the uplink time resource is a transmission mode in the transmission mode of the at least one downlink time resource.

6 . The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein before the obtaining first information, the method further comprises:
sending second information, wherein the second information is used for indicating a transmission mode expected by the first node.

7 . The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
adjusting the transmission mode of the first node to the transmission mode corresponding to the first information according to the first information.

8 . The signal transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein an adjusted time is a time notified by the second node, or an offset between the adjusted time and a receiving time of the first information is equal to a target time.

9 . An information sending method, performed by a second node, comprising:
sending first information, wherein the first information is used for indicating a transmission mode of a first node or a transmission mode of the second node, wherein:
in response to the first information indicating the transmission mode of the first node, the first node directly uses the transmission mode of the first node; and
in response to the first information indicating the transmission mode of the second node, the first node determines the transmission mode of the first node according to the transmission mode of the second node based on a mapping relationship between the transmission mode of the second node and the transmission mode of the first node, wherein the mapping relationship is pre-configured or predefined in a protocol; and
the first node is a Large Intelligent Surface (LIS) node or a hypersurface node or an intelligent emitting surface node, and the second node is an upper-level first node or a base station, wherein the method further comprises:
sending a signal to the first node, so that the first node forwards the signal to a terminal according to the transmission mode of the first node; or
receiving a signal sent by the first node according to the transmission mode corresponding to the first information.

10 . The information sending method according to claim 9 , wherein the transmission mode comprises a periodic transmission mode or an aperiodic transmission mode, wherein:
the periodic transmission mode is used for indicating at least one of at least one transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode in one period; or the aperiodic transmission mode is used for indicating a transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode.

11 . The information sending method according to claim 9 , wherein the transmission mode is associated with a beam, or the transmission mode is associated with a transmission configuration indicator state.

12 . The information sending method according to claim 10 , wherein the first information is further used for indicating time information of at least a part of the transmission mode, or the first information is further used for indicating time information of the inoperative transmission mode;
wherein:
the first information comprises N groups of bits,
the one period comprises N time units,
each group of bits is used for indicating a transmission mode or an inoperative transmission mode in a corresponding time unit,
each group of bits comprises one or more bits, and
N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

13 . The information sending method according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one transmission mode comprises a transmission mode of at least one downlink time resource, and further comprises a transmission mode of an uplink time resource corresponding to the at least one downlink time resource, wherein the transmission mode of the uplink time resource is a transmission mode in the transmission mode of the at least one downlink time resource.

14 . The information sending method according to claim 9 , wherein before the sending first information, the method further comprises:
receiving second information, wherein the second information is used for indicating a transmission mode expected by the first node.

15 . The information sending method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
adjusting the transmission mode of the second node according to the first information.

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jiang Dajie
• Yang Kun
• Pan Xueming

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