# US 2019/0357154 A1 · Signal Transmission Control Method and Apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0357154 A1 - Document ID: US20190357154A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/338,639 - Filed: 2016-09-30 - Published: 2019-11-21 - Earliest claimed: 2016-09-30 - Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Yongbo Zeng; Yu Cai; Jian Wang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190357154A1 ## CPC - H04W 52/243: {taking into account interferences} - H04B 1/1027: {assessing signal quality or detecting noise/interference for the received signal} - H04W 52/245: {taking into account received signal strength} - H04W 52/383: {power control in peer-to-peer links} - H04W 72/542: using measured or perceived quality - H04W 72/02: Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04B: TRANSMISSION ## Abstract In the embodiments of the present invention, a first-type terminal increases signal transmit power and/or a second-type terminal decreases signal transmit power, or when selecting a resource location for signal transmission, a terminal may exclude a resource location that is close in frequency domain to and located in a same time interval as a resource location reserved by another terminal of a different type, or resource locations used by different types of terminals to transmit signals are separated by a resource location occupied by a guard band, to reduce in-band emission interference. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A signal transmission control method, comprising: obtaining, by a terminal, power control information; and adjusting, by the terminal, signal transmit power based on a type of the terminal according to an instruction of the power control information; and transmitting a signal using adjusted signal transmit power, wherein the type of the terminal is a first type or a second type, wherein the power control information is configured as at least one of first instruction information or second instruction information when a first condition is met, wherein the first instruction information instructs a first-type terminal to increase signal transmit power, wherein the second instruction information instructs a second-type terminal to decrease signal transmit power, and wherein the first condition is that the first-type terminal and the second-type terminal share a resource pool, wherein the power control information is configured as at least one of the first instruction information or the second instruction information when both the first condition and a second condition are met, and wherein the second condition is that the first-type terminal and the second-type terminal transmit signals in a same time interval through frequency resource multiplexing, and wherein the power control information is configured as the first instruction information when both the first condition and a third condition are met, and wherein the third condition is that a density of second-type terminals is greater than a first density threshold or a quantity of second-type terminals is greater than a first quantity threshold. ### Claim at position 2 -4. (canceled) ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the power control information is configured by a network side device and delivered to the terminal, and wherein the type of the terminal is based on a classification based on at least one of an actual type of the terminal, a service type of the terminal, a type of a message sent by the terminal, or a priority of a message sent by the terminal. ### Claim at position 4 -7. (canceled) ### Claim 8 A signal transmission control method, comprising: configuring, by a network side device, power control information; and delivering the power control information to a terminal to prompt the terminal to adjust signal transmit power based on a type of the terminal according to an instruction of the power control information and to transmit a signal by using adjusted signal transmit power, wherein the type of the terminal is a first type or a second type, wherein the power control information is configured as at least one of first instruction information or second instruction information when a first condition is met, wherein the first instruction information is used to instruct a first-type terminal to increase signal transmit power, wherein the second instruction information is used to instruct a second-type terminal to decrease signal transmit power, and wherein the first condition is that the first-type terminal and the second-type terminal share a resource pool. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the power control information is further configured as at least one of the first instruction information or the second instruction information when both the first condition and a second condition are met, and wherein the second condition is that the first-type terminal and the second-type terminal transmit signals in a same time interval through frequency resource multiplexing. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the power control information is further configured as the first instruction information when both the first condition and a third condition are met, wherein the third condition is that a density of second-type terminals is greater than a first density threshold or a quantity of second-type terminals is greater than a first quantity threshold, wherein the power control information is configured as the second instruction information when both the first condition and a fourth condition are met, wherein the fourth condition is that a density of first-type terminals is less than a second density threshold or a quantity of second-type terminals is less than a second quantity threshold, and wherein the type of the terminal is based on a classification based on at least one of an actual type of the terminal, a service type of the terminal, a type of a message sent by the terminal, or a priority of a message sent by the terminal. ### Claim at position 8 -13. (canceled) ### Claim 14 A signal transmission control method, comprising: receiving, by a first terminal, a first signal from a second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal from the first signal, a resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission; determining, by the first terminal, an unavailable resource range; and transmitting a second signal at a resource location beyond the unavailable resource range, wherein the unavailable resource range is located in a time interval in which the resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission is located, and wherein a type of the first terminal is a first type, and a type of the second terminal is a second type. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, further comprising: measuring, by the first terminal, signal receive power based on the first signal, wherein when a first condition is met, the unavailable resource range comprises all resource locations in the time interval, and wherein the first condition is that the signal receive power is greater than a power threshold; obtaining, by the first terminal, a geographical location of the second terminal from the first signal; and calculating a geographical location distance between the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein when a second condition is met, the unavailable resource range comprises all resource locations in the time interval, and wherein the second condition is that the geographical location distance is less than a distance threshold. ### Claim 16 (canceled) ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein when a third condition is met, the unavailable resource range comprises all resource locations in the time interval, wherein the third condition is that a quantity of second terminals that reserve a resource location in the time interval for signal transmission is greater than a quantity threshold, wherein the unavailable resource range comprises all resource locations in the time interval that are at a distance of a maximum of a frequency separation threshold in frequency domain away from the resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission, wherein the method further comprises measuring signal receive power based on the signal transmitted by the second terminal, wherein the frequency separation threshold is determined based on the signal receive power, and wherein higher signal receive power indicates a larger frequency separation threshold. ### Claim at position 13 -19. (canceled) ### Claim 20 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the type of the first terminal is based on a classification based on at least one of an actual type of the first terminal, a service type of the first terminal, a type of a message sent by the first terminal, or a priority of a message sent by the first terminal. ### Claim 21 (canceled) ### Claim 22 A signal transmission control method, comprising: receiving, by a first terminal, a first signal from a second terminal; obtaining, from the first signal, a resource location reserved for signal transmission; measuring signal receive power; adjusting, by the first terminal, signal transmit power based on a type of the first terminal according to a power control policy; and transmitting a second signal by using adjusted signal transmit power at a resource location reserved by the first terminal for signal transmission, wherein the type of the first terminal is a first type and a type of the second terminal is a second type, or wherein the type of the first terminal is a second type and a type of the second terminal is a first type, wherein the power control policy is used to instruct a first-type terminal to increase signal transmit power when both a first condition and a second condition are met, or used to instruct a second-type terminal to decrease signal transmit power when both the first condition and the second condition are met, wherein the first condition is that the resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission and the resource location reserved by the first terminal for signal transmission are located in a same time interval, and wherein the second condition is that the signal receive power is greater than a power threshold. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The method according to claim 22, wherein the power control policy instructs the first-type terminal to increase the signal transmit power when the first condition, the second condition, and a third condition are all met, or instructs the second-type terminal to decrease the signal transmit power when the first condition, the second condition, and the third condition are all met, wherein the third condition is that a distance between the resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission and the resource location reserved by the first terminal for signal transmission is less than a first frequency separation threshold in a frequency domain, wherein the power control policy is specifically used to instruct at least-one of the first-type terminal or the second-type terminal to keep the signal transmit power unchanged when a fourth condition is met, wherein the fourth condition is that a distance between the resource location reserved by the second terminal for signal transmission and the resource location reserved by the first terminal for signal transmission is greater than a second frequency separation threshold in frequency domain, and wherein the power control policy instructs the first-type terminal to increase the signal transmit power to the signal transmit power of the second-type terminal when both the first condition and the second condition are met, or instructs the second-type terminal to decrease the signal transmit power to the signal transmit power of the first-type terminal when both the first condition and the second condition are met. ### Claim at position 18 -25. (canceled) ### Claim 26 (depends on 22) The method according to claim 22, wherein the type of the first terminal is obtained through classification based on at least one of an actual type of the first terminal, a service type of the first terminal, a type of a message sent by the first terminal, or a priority of a message sent by the first terminal. ### Claim at position 20 -43. (canceled) ### Claim 44 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the power control information is configured by the terminal based on preset information, and wherein the type of the terminal is based on a classification based on at least one of an actual type of the terminal, a service type of the terminal, a type of a message sent by the terminal, or a priority of a message sent by the terminal.