Communication method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024049224-A1
Application number	US-202318492063-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 23, 2023
Priority date	Apr 30, 2021
Publication date	Feb 8, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A first access node determines scheduling information, where the scheduling information indicates resource information to be used by a second access node to receive data or send data; and the first access node sends the scheduling information to the second access node.

First claim

1 . A communication method, comprising:
determining, by a first access node, scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information indicates resource information to be used by a second access node to receive data or send data; and sending, by the first access node, the scheduling information to the second access node.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the scheduling information is dynamic scheduling information or semi-persistent scheduling information.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the scheduling information comprises one or more downlink control information (DCI) elements, and the one or more DCI elements are used to generate DCI, or the scheduling information comprises DCI.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving, by the first access node, the DCI from the second access node; and sending, by the first access node, the DCI to a terminal device.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the scheduling information comprises uplink scheduling information.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the uplink scheduling information comprises one or more of: scheduling information of a random access channel, scheduling information of a scheduling request, scheduling information of a buffer status report, or scheduling information of a channel state.

7 . The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
receiving, by the first access node, uplink information, wherein the uplink information comprises one or more of: random access channel information, the scheduling request, the buffer status report, or channel state information.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the first access node, data information to the second access node, wherein the data information is downlink data information.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the data information is one of: user data, a radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) obtained by the first access node processing user data, a medium access control (MAC) sub-protocol data unit (SubPDU) obtained by the first access node processing user data, a MAC PDU obtained by the first access node processing user data, or redundancy version (RV) version data obtained by the first access node processing user data.

10 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein before sending the data information, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the first access node, second request information, wherein the second request information is for requesting the data information.

11 . The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
sending, by the first access node, logical channel information to the second access node, wherein the logical channel information is related to a logical channel of a user to which the user data belongs.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the first access node, data information from the second access node, wherein the data information is downlink data information; and sending, by the first access node, the data information to the terminal device.

13 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein the scheduling information comprises indication information used for retransmission; and
the method further comprises: when the data information is one of: user data, an RLC PDU obtained by the second access node processing user data, a MAC SubPDU obtained by the second access node processing user data, or a MAC PDU obtained by the second access node processing user data, sending, by the first access node, retransmission scheduling information to the second access node; or when the data information is RV version data obtained by the second access node processing user data, receiving, by the first access node, new RV version data from the second access node, and sending the new RV version data to the terminal device.

14 . The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving, by the first access node from the second access node, feedback information for the data information, wherein the feedback information is used to feed back a data information sending success or failure.

15 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the scheduling information comprises:
sending, by the first access node, first request information to the second access node, wherein the first request information is for requesting the scheduling information, and the first request information comprises a scheduling result; and receiving, by the first access node, the scheduling information from the second access node.

16 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a MAC entity of the first access node is connected to a MAC entity of the second access node; or
a MAC entity of the first access node is separately connected to a PHY entity of the first access node and a PHY entity of the second access node.

17 . A communication method, comprising:
receiving, by a second access node, scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information indicates resource information to be used by the second access node to receive data or send data; and determining, by the second access node, the resource information for receiving data or sending data.

18 . The method according to claim 17 , wherein the scheduling information is dynamic scheduling information or semi-persistent scheduling information.

19 . The method according to claim 17 , wherein the scheduling information comprises one or more downlink control information (DCI) elements, and the one or more DCI elements are used to generate DCI, or the scheduling information comprises DCI.

20 . A communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus comprises a processor, wherein
the processor is configured to read a computer program or instructions stored in a memory, and execute the computer program or the instructions, to enable the communication apparatus to perform a method comprising: determining, by a first access node, scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information indicates resource information to be used by a second access node to receive data or send data; and sending, by the first access node, the scheduling information to the second access node.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Jun
• Lyu Yongxia
• Wang Ting
• Zhang Liqing
• Ma Jianglei

Classifications

• H04W74/002

  Transmission of channel access control information · CPC title

• H04W72/1268 Primary

  of uplink data flows · CPC title

• H04W72/232

  the control data signalling from the physical layer, e.g. DCI signalling · CPC title

• H04L5/0053 Primary

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L5/0055

  Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861) · CPC title