Communication method and communication apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12568533-B2
Application number	US-202217887182-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 12, 2022
Priority date	Feb 15, 2020
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, and relate to the communication field. The method includes: A first network device receives a first report from a terminal device, where the first report includes first information, and the first information indicates that the terminal device passively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access, or actively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access. The first network device performs processing based on the first report.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A first apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is coupled to a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing a computer program, that when executed by the at least one processor, causes the first apparatus to perform operations including: receiving, from a terminal device, a first report, wherein the first report comprises information indicating a maximum quantity of times that msgA is transmitted in 2-step random access by the terminal device, wherein the first report including the information indicating the maximum quantity is received by the first apparatus in one of a user equipment (UE) information response message, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration response message, or an RRC connection reconfiguration response message, and wherein the first report further comprises second information, and the second information comprises at least one of: information about a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) configured for the terminal device for the 2-step random access or random access configuration information for the 2-step random access; and performing processing based on the first report, the performing comprising: optimizing the random access configuration information for the 2-step random access based on the first report.

2 . The first apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first report further comprises third information, and the third information indicates a quality threshold used in determining whether to perform the 2-step random access.

3 . The first apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first report further comprises fourth information, and the fourth information indicates time information when the terminal device falls back to 4-step random access from the 2-step random access.

4 . The first apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the performing the processing based on the first report comprises:
sending a part or all of information comprised in the first report to a second apparatus.

5 . The first apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the first apparatus is a centralized unit (CU), and the second apparatus is a distributed unit (DU); or the first apparatus and the second apparatus are base stations.

6 . A method applied for a terminal device, comprising:
generating a first report, wherein the first report comprises information indicating a maximum quantity of times that msgA is transmitted in 2-step random access by the terminal device; and sending, to a first network device, the first report for the first network device to optimize random access configuration information for the 2-step random access, wherein the first report including the information indicating the maximum quantity is received by the first network device in one of a user equipment (UE) information response message, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration response message, or an RRC connection reconfiguration response message, and wherein the first report further comprises second information, and the second information comprises at least one of: information about a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) configured for the terminal device for the 2-step random access or the random access configuration information for the 2-step random access.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first report further comprises third information, and the third information indicates a quality threshold used by the terminal device in determining whether to perform the 2-step random access.

8 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first report further comprises fourth information, and the fourth information indicates time information when the terminal device falls back to 4-step random access from the 2-step random access.

9 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first report further comprises fifth information, and the fifth information indicates cell information for the terminal device to perform the 2-step random access.

10 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first report further comprises sixth information, and the sixth information indicates at least one of: a network type of a first cell, a frequency type of the first cell, a service type of the first cell, or a type of the first cell, and wherein
the first cell is a cell in which the terminal device performs the 2-step random access.

11 . An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is coupled to a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing a computer program, that when executed by the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to perform operations including: generating a first report, wherein the first report comprises information indicating a maximum quantity of times that msgA is transmitted in 2-step random access by the apparatus; and sending, to a first network device, the first report for the first network device to optimize random access configuration information for the 2-step random access, wherein the first report including the information indicating the maximum quantity is received by the first network device in one of a user equipment (UE) information response message, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration response message, or an RRC connection reconfiguration response message, and wherein the first report further comprises second information, and the second information comprises at least one of: information about a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) configured for the apparatus for the 2-step random access or the random access configuration information for the 2-step random access.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first report further comprises third information, and the third information indicates a quality threshold used by the apparatus in determining whether to perform the 2-step random access.

13 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first report further comprises fourth information, and the fourth information indicates time information when the apparatus falls back to 4-step random access from the 2-step random access.

14 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first report further comprises fifth information, and the fifth information indicates cell information for the apparatus to perform the 2-step random access.

15 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first report further comprises sixth information, and the sixth information indicates at least one of: a network type of a first cell, a frequency type of the first cell, a service type of the first cell, or a type of the first cell, and wherein
the first cell is a cell in which the apparatus performs the 2-step random access.

16 . The first apparatus according to claim 1 , the performing comprising:
adjusting the maximum quantity of times to generate an updated maximum quantity of times that msgA is transmitted in the 2-step random access.

17 . The first apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the random access configuration information for the 2-step random access comprises a time-frequency resource for sending a random access preamble, and wherein the second information further comprises a correspondence between the random access configuration information and the PUSCH.

18 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the random access configuration information for the 2-step random access comprises a time-frequency resource for sending a random access preamble, and wherein the second information further comprises a correspondence betw

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Geng Tingting
• Lou Chong
• Yan Le

Classifications

• H04W74/0836

  with 2-step access · CPC title

• H04W74/0838

  using contention-free random access [CFRA] · CPC title

• H04W74/0833

  Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access · CPC title

• H04W74/0866

  using a dedicated channel for access · CPC title

• H04W24/10 Primary

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title