Multi link reconfiguration method and apparatus, and communication device
AssigneeGuangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
InventorsLiuming Lu, Lei Huang
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Abstract
A multi-link reconfiguration method includes: a first multi-link device sends a first multi-link element to a second multi-link device, and/or receives a second multi-link element sent by the second multi-link device. The first multi-link element and/or the second multi-link element are/is used for determining at least one of the following: a type of multi-link reconfiguration operation, where one type of multi-link reconfiguration is for indicating link addition or another type of multi-link reconfiguration is for indicating link deletion; link information of a first part of links; common information of multiple links; or link information of a link related with the first part of links in a second part of links.
Claims18
A multi-link reconfiguration method, comprising:
- sending, by a first Multi-Link Device (MLD), a first multi-link element to a second MLD, wherein the first multi-link element is used for determining at least one of:
- a type of multi-link reconfiguration operation, wherein the type of multi-link reconfiguration operation comprises link addition and link deletion;
- or
- link information of a first part of links, the links being between the first MLD and a second MLD;
- wherein the first part of links is a link requested to be added or a link requested to be deleted by the first MLD,
- wherein the first multi-link element comprises a first common information field for indicating the common information of the links and/or a first link information field for indicating the link information of the first part of links, and the first common information field comprises a first MLD capabilities subfield for indicating an MLD capability of the first MLD,
- wherein the first MLD capabilities subfield comprises at least one of:
- a first part of MLD capabilities subfield for indicating a first part of MLD capabilities information affected by the multi-link reconfiguration;
- or
- a second part of MLD capabilities subfield for indicating a second part of MLD capabilities information not affected by the multi-link reconfiguration.
A communication device, comprising:
- a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform a multi-link reconfiguration method, comprising:
- sending a first multi-link element to a second MLD, wherein the first multi-link element and/or the second multi-link element is used for determining at least one of:
- a type of multi-link reconfiguration operation, wherein the type of multi-link reconfiguration operation comprises link addition and link deletion;
- or
- link information of a first part of links, the links being between the first MLD and a second MLD;
- wherein the first part of links is a link requested to be added or a link requested to be deleted by the first MLD,
- wherein the first multi-link element comprises a first common information field for indicating the common information of the links and/or a first link information field for indicating the link information of the first part of links, and the first common information field comprises a first MLD capabilities subfield for indicating an MLD capability of the first MLD,
- wherein the first MLD capabilities subfield comprises at least one of:
- a first part of MLD capabilities subfield for indicating a first part of MLD capabilities information affected by the multi-link reconfiguration;
- or
- a second part of MLD capabilities subfield for indicating a second part of MLD capabilities information not affected by the multi-link reconfiguration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.