Communication method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023171704-A1
Application number	US-202318161224-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 30, 2023
Priority date	Jul 31, 2020
Publication date	Jun 1, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem of how to determine uplink transmit power when there is no uplink carrier corresponding to a downlink carrier. The method includes: A terminal device obtains first information, where the first information is a path loss value or a power offset value of a first uplink carrier, and the first information is used to determine first transmit power of first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier. The terminal device uses to send the first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A communication method performed by a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:
obtaining a path loss value of a first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is used to determine first transmit power of first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; and using the first transmit power to send the first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first transmit power is determined by using a target power value, the path loss value, a path loss compensation factor, a quantity of transmission resource blocks, a modulation and coding scheme, and a closed-loop power control parameter, and the path loss value is the path loss value of the first uplink carrier.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
sending second uplink transmission to the first network device on the first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is related to the second uplink transmission.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first uplink carrier is a supplementary uplink SUL carrier of a second uplink carrier.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein a serving cell in which the first uplink carrier is located and a serving cell in which the second uplink carrier is located are a same serving cell; or
the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are configured by using a system information block 1 SIB1.

6 . A communication method performed by a network device, wherein the method comprises:
determining a path loss value of a first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is used to determine transmit power of first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; and sending the path loss value.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving second uplink transmission sent by a terminal device on the first uplink carrier; and the determining, by a first network device, a path loss value comprises: determining the path loss value based on the second uplink transmission.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving transmit power information of the second uplink transmission; and the determining the path loss value based on the second uplink transmission comprises: measuring the second uplink transmission to obtain a measurement value; and determining the path loss value based on the transmit power information and the measurement value of the second uplink transmission.

9 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the first uplink carrier is a supplementary uplink SUL carrier of a second uplink carrier.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein a serving cell in which the first uplink carrier is located and a serving cell in which the second uplink carrier is located are a same serving cell; or
the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are configured by using a system information block 1 SIB1.

11 . A communication apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and a memory storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the programming instructions instructing the communication apparatus to perform operations comprising: obtaining a path loss value of a first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is used to determine first transmit power of first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; and using the first transmit power to send the first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first transmit power is determined by using a target power value, the path loss value, a path loss compensation factor, a quantity of transmission resource blocks, a modulation and coding scheme, and a closed-loop power control parameter, and the path loss value is the path loss value of the first uplink carrier.

13 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprises:
sending second uplink transmission to the first network device on the first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is related to the second uplink transmission.

14 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the first uplink carrier is a supplementary uplink SUL carrier of a second uplink carrier.

15 . The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein a serving cell in which the first uplink carrier is located and a serving cell in which the second uplink carrier is located are a same serving cell; or
the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are configured by using a system information block 1 SIB1.

16 . A communication apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and a memory storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the programming instructions instructing the communication apparatus to perform operations comprising: determining a path loss value of a first uplink carrier, wherein the path loss value is used to determine transmit power of first uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; and sending the path loss value.

17 . The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprises:
receiving second uplink transmission sent by a terminal device on the first uplink carrier; and the determining, by a first network device, a path loss value comprises: determining the path loss value based on the second uplink transmission.

18 . The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprises:
receiving transmit power information of the second uplink transmission; and the determining the path loss value based on the second uplink transmission comprises: measuring the second uplink transmission to obtain a measurement value; and determining the path loss value based on the transmit power information and the measurement value of the second uplink transmission.

19 . The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the first uplink carrier is a supplementary uplink SUL carrier of a second uplink carrier.

20 . The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein a serving cell in which the first uplink carrier is located and a serving cell in which the second uplink carrier is located are a same serving cell; or
the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are configured by using a system information block 1 SIB1.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hu Dan
• Zhang Xu
• Qu Bingyu
• Long Yi
• Wang Feng

Classifications

• H04W52/242

  taking into account path loss · CPC title

• H04W52/146 Primary

  Uplink power control · CPC title

• H04W52/08

  Closed loop power control · CPC title

• H04W52/365

  Power headroom reporting · CPC title

• H04W52/243

  taking into account interferences · CPC title