US 10,764,003 B2 · Base station, user terminal, and carrier scheduling indication method

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a base station, user equipment (UE), and a carrier scheduling indication method to resolve a problem that signaling overheads are relatively large. An embodiment method includes generating, by a processing unit, a carrier assignment indication (CAI) field of a current scheduled carrier according to scheduling statuses of all configured carriers, where the CAI field is used to indicate a total quantity of scheduled carriers in all the configured carriers and an accumulative index value M of the current scheduled carrier, and M represents that the current scheduled carrier is the Mth scheduled carrier from the 1st configured carrier to the current scheduled carrier; and sending, by a sending unit, downlink control information digital control information (DCI), by carrying the CAI field generated by the processing unit to the DCI, to UE by using the current scheduled carrier.

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Dependent claims

A base station, comprising:

a processor;
and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for execution by the processor, the program including instructions to:
generate a carrier assignment indication field, wherein the carrier assignment indication field comprises a first code indicating a total quantity of scheduled carriers and a second code indicating an accumulative number M, wherein M represents an accumulative number of scheduled carriers up to a current scheduled carrier, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;
and
send, to a user equipment (UE), a downlink control information (DCI) comprising the carrier assignment indication field.

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Base station, user terminal, and carrier scheduling indication method

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Abstract

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