# US 11,122,595 B2 · Information sending method and apparatus, terminal and storage medium

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- Number: US 11,122,595 B2
- Document ID: US11122595B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/497,180
- Filed: 2018-03-23
- Published: 2020-03-26
- Granted: 2021-09-14
- Earliest claimed: 2017-03-24
- Assignees: Xi'an Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Zte Corporation
- Inventors: Huiying Fang; Bo Dai; Kun Liu; Weiwei Yang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11122595B2

## CPC

- H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH}
- H04W 72/1263: Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows
- H04J 13/0048: {Walsh}
- H04J 13/0062: {Zadoff-Chu}
- H04L 5/0005: {Time-frequency}
- H04L 5/0007: {the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT}
- H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)}
- H04L 5/0091: {Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information}
- H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated}
- H04L 27/18: Phase-modulated carrier systems, i.e. using phase-shift keying (H04L27/32 takes precedence)
- H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
- H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
- H04W 72/53: based on regulatory allocation policies
- H04W 80/08: Upper layer protocols {(network arrangements or communication protocols for networked applications H04L67/00)}
- H04W 74/0833: Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- H04J: MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (transmission in general H04B; peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N7/08; in exchanges H04Q11/00; stereophonic systems H04S)

## Abstract

Provided are an information transmission method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a transmission resource for a physical signal/a physical channel corresponding to a scheduling request; and transmitting the physical signal/the physical channel on the transmission resource, where the scheduling request is used for requesting resource allocation for data transmission.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An information transmission method, comprising:
determining a transmission resource for a physical signal or a physical channel corresponding to a scheduling request; and
transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource, wherein the scheduling request is used for requesting a resource allocation for data transmission;
wherein, the determining the transmission resource for the physical signal or the physical channel corresponding to the scheduling request comprises:
in response to a collision between a transmission resource of an ACK/NACK and a configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel, determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal; and
wherein the transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource comprises:
in response to the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel being the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, simultaneously carrying the ACK/NACK signal and the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal; and modulating the ACK/NACK signal and the physical signal or the physical channel needed to be transmitted by using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) orHΠ/4-QPSK.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the physical signal or the physical channel satisfies at least one of following characteristics:
occupying one subcarrier in frequency domain; or
an occupied time domain length being equal to a product of a minimum time domain length and a repetition factor N, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the minimum time domain length satisfies one of following conditions:
for a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz, the minimum time domain length occupied by the physical signal or the physical channel is 1ms or 2 ms;
for a subcarrier spacing of 3.75 kHz, the minimum time domain length occupied by the physical signal or the physical channel is 2 ms, 4 ms, 6 ms or 8 ms; and
for the subcarrier spacing of 3.75 kHz, the minimum time domain length occupied by the physical signal is a length of at least one narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) symbol group; wherein a length of the NPRACH symbol group is equal to a sum of a length of a cyclic prefix and a length of five orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel corresponding to the scheduling request comprises:
determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel in a manner of high-layer signaling configuration.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel corresponding to the scheduling request in the manner of the high-layer signaling configuration comprises:
configuring the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel by a configuration parameter carried on a radio resource control (RRC) signaling;
wherein the configuration parameter comprises at least one of:
a time domain transmission period of the physical signal or the physical channel;
a time domain offset in the transmission period of the physical signal or the physical channel;
a frequency domain subcarrier position of the physical signal or the physical channel; or
a repetition factor N of the physical signal or the physical channel, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein in case of configuring the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel by the configuration parameter, if the configuration parameter does not comprise the frequency domain subcarrier position of the physical signal or the physical channel, the frequency domain subcarrier position is determined to be a fixed or pre-defined default value.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein in case of configuring the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel by the configuration parameter, the frequency domain subcarrier position of the physical signal or the physical channel is determined by using subcarrier offset information of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 bits.

### Claim 8 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein in case of configuring the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel by the configuration parameter, if a subcarrier spacing is 3.75 kHz, the frequency domain subcarrier position If of the physical signal or the physical channel is determined to be one of the following:
If=37−a subcarrier offset;If=45−the subcarrier offset;If=46−the subcarrier offset; and If=the subcarrier offset; or
in case of configuring the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel by the configuration parameter, if the subcarrier spacing is 15 kHz, the frequency domain subcarrier position If of the physical signal or the physical channel is determined to be one of the following:
If=4+the subcarrier offset;If=the subcarrier offset; and If=11−the subcarrier offset.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein a sequence of the physical signal is one of:
a Zadoff Chu (ZC) sequence; a Walsh sequence + the ZC sequence; the Walsh sequence + an orthogonal cover code (OCC) sequence; an NPRACH sequence; a sequence transmitting an ACK/NACK signal in a NarrowBand-Cellular Internet of Things (NB-IoT).

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the ZC sequence of the physical signal is a sequence with a computer search length of 28, or a sequence with a length of 28 shortened from a ZC sequence with a length of 29, or a sequence obtained by repeating a ZC sequence with a length of 7 for 4 times, or a sequence obtained by repeating a sequence with a length of 14 for two times, wherein the sequence with the length of 14 is constituted by adding one element to a ZC sequence with a length of 13 in a manner of cyclic shift.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein in the Walsh sequence + the ZC sequence of the physical signal, a length of the Walsh sequence is 16, a length of the ZC sequence is 12; and wherein when transmitting the physical signal, the Walsh sequence and the ZC sequence are multiplexed in the transmission resource of the physical signal in a time-division manner.

### Claim 12 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein in the Walsh sequence + the OCC sequence of the physical signal, a length of the Walsh sequence is 4, the OCC sequence is a 3rd order OCC sequence; and the Walsh sequence + the OCC sequence of the physical signal is a sequence generated by repeating a combination sequence for four times, wherein the combination sequence is combined by a 4th order Walsh sequence and the 3rd order OCC sequence in a time-division manner.

### Claim 13 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein in a case that the sequence of the physical signal is the ZC sequence, interference randomization between cells is performed by using a root sequence group when transmitting the physical signal.

### Claim 14 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the sequence of the physical signal is one of: the Walsh sequence + the ZC sequence, the Walsh sequence + the OCC sequence, the NPRACH sequence, and the sequence transmitting the ACK/NACK signal in the NB-IoT; and when transmitting the physical signal, a scrambling process is performed on the physical signal by using a pseudo noise (PN) sequence or a Gold sequence.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein each slot for transmitting the physical channel is constituted by six data symbols and one pilot symbol.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein in response to a collision between a transmission resource of an ACK/NACK and a configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel, the determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal comprises:
in a case where a size of the configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel is same as that of the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, a time domain position of the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel of the request is aligned with a time domain position of the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, and downlink data is received, determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal corresponding the downlink data; and
in a case where the size of the configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel is same as that of the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, the time domain position of the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel of the request is aligned with the time domain position of the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, and downlink data fails to be received, determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the configured transmission resource; and
wherein the transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource comprises:
in response to the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel being the configured transmission resource, transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the configured transmission resource.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, further comprising:
in a case where the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel is not configured and the scheduling request is needed, starting a timer, and transmitting the scheduling request by triggering a random access process if no ACK/NACK signal is transmitted before the timer expires.

### Claim 18

A terminal, comprising:
a processor, which is configured to determine a transmission resource for a physical signal or a physical channel corresponding to a scheduling request; and
a communication interface, which is configured to transmit the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource; wherein the scheduling request is used for requesting a resource allocation for data transmission;
wherein, the processor is further configured to: in response to a collision between a transmission resource of an ACK/NACK and a configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel, determine the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal;
wherein the communication interface is further configured to: in response to the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel being the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK, simultaneously carry the ACK/NACK signal and the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal, and modulate the ACK/NACK signal and the physical signal or the physical channel needed to be transmitted by using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) or Π/4-QPSK.

### Claim 19

An information transmission method, comprising:
determining a transmission resource for a physical signal or a physical channel corresponding to a scheduling request; and
transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource, wherein the scheduling request is used for requesting a resource allocation for data transmission;
wherein the determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel corresponding to the scheduling request comprises:
in response to a collision between a transmission resource of an ACK/NACK and a configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel, determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel;
wherein the determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel comprises:
in a case where the configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel is partially overlapped with the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal in time domain, and downlink data is received, determining to transmit the ACK/NACK signal on the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal corresponding to the downlink data and discard the physical signal or the physical channel; or
in a case where the configured transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel is partially overlapped with the transmission resource of the ACK/NACK signal in time domain, and downlink data fails to be received, determining the transmission resource of the physical signal or the physical channel to be the configured transmission resource; and
wherein the transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the transmission resource comprises:
transmitting the physical signal or the physical channel on the configured transmission resource.