CN111865542B - Communication method and communication device - Google Patents

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CN111865542B
CN111865542B CN201910945789.0A CN201910945789A CN111865542B CN 111865542 B CN111865542 B CN 111865542B CN 201910945789 A CN201910945789 A CN 201910945789A CN 111865542 B CN111865542 B CN 111865542B
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Abstract

The application provides a communication method and a communication device. In the technical scheme provided by the application, a terminal receives first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating that a transmission beam of a first signal resource is configured to be a first transmission beam; determining, according to the first indication information, a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which a first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam; transmitting a signal using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam. According to the technical scheme, a plurality of signal resources are configured through the indication information for configuring one signal resource, so that the communication delay can be reduced, and the signaling overhead can be saved.

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Communication method and communication device
The present application claims priority from chinese patent application filed on 30/04/2019, having application number 201910361020.4 and entitled "communication method and communication apparatus", the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of communications, and more particularly, to a communication method and a communication apparatus.
Background
In order to overcome the high frequency path loss, the communication between the base station and the terminal needs to be aided by the antenna gain brought by the analog beam. Generally, analog beams are directional, and an analog beam shape (beam pattern) can be described by a main lobe direction and a beam width, and the narrower the beam width, the larger the antenna gain.
The base station and the terminal may transmit and receive beams toward a specific direction. For example, in the following communication, the base station transmits a beam in a specific direction, and the terminal receives a beam in a specific direction, and normal communication can be achieved only when the direction of the base station transmitting the beam and the direction of the terminal receiving the beam are aligned.
The selection of the reception beam and the transmission beam of the terminal needs to depend on the beam indication information provided by the base station. If the relative position between the base station and the terminal changes, the base station needs to indicate a new beam direction for the terminal.
An uplink Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) is transmitted by a terminal and received by a base station. SRS is typically used to estimate channel information for scheduling or beamforming.
The time frequency resource, the transmission beam, the transmission power and the like used by the terminal for transmitting the SRS are all allocated to the terminal by the base station. The time-frequency resource, the transmission beam, the transmission power and other related parameters used by the terminal to transmit the SRS are called SRS resource.
The base station may configure one or more SRS resource sets (SRS resource sets) for the terminal, where each SRS resource set has one or more SRS resources therein. Different sets of SRS resources assume different functions. The current communication protocol can support four functional sets of SRS resources: beam Management (beam Management), Codebook (Codebook), non-Codebook (non Codebook), and switched antenna (antenna Switching).
The base station configures each SRS resource set through signaling, and reconfigures through the signaling when the base station needs to inform the terminal to change the transmission beam in the non-periodic SRS resource.
For example, when the base station needs to notify the terminal to change the transmission beam in the aperiodic SRS resource, the base station sends a signaling to the terminal, where the signaling includes an SRS resource identifier and beam indication information. And after receiving the signaling, the terminal updates the transmission beam in the SRS resource.
As network demand continues to increase, the demands on latency and overhead in the network continue to increase. Therefore, how to reduce the update of the transmission beam in the aperiodic SRS resource to reduce the update delay and the signaling overhead is a technical problem to be solved.
Disclosure of Invention
The application provides a communication method, a communication device and a communication system, which can reduce communication delay and save signaling overhead.
In a first aspect, a communication method is provided, and the communication method includes: receiving first indication information for indicating that a transmission beam of a first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam; determining a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first set of signal resources as the first transmission beam according to the first indication information, the first set of signal resources including the first signal resource, the plurality of signal resources including the first signal resource; transmitting a signal using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
In the communication method, the transmission beams of the plurality of signal resources including the first signal resource in the first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are all determined as the first transmission beam according to the first indication information, and compared with the prior art in which only one transmission beam of one signal resource is configured according to one beam configuration indication information, the time delay and signaling overhead for configuring the transmission beams of other signal resources in the plurality of signal resources can be saved.
Optionally, in a case that the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink reference signal, the communication method may further include: calculating downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam; and calculating the sending power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
Compared with the prior art that the base station configures the reference signal for the terminal, the terminal calculates the downlink path loss according to the reference signal and calculates the sending power according to the downlink path loss, the implementation mode can save the time delay and signaling overhead of the base station for configuring the reference signal.
Optionally, the communication method further includes: determining a transmit power of the plurality of signal resources as the transmit power of the first signal resource.
The implementation mode can save time delay and signaling overhead for configuring the sending power of the signal resources except the first signal resource in the plurality of signal resources, thereby saving the time delay and the signaling overhead of communication.
Optionally, the first indication information may be carried in MAC-CE signaling.
In a second aspect, a communication method is provided, which includes: transmitting first indication information for indicating that a transmission beam of the first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam; and sending second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the sending beams of the plurality of signal resources in the first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are configured according to the first indication information.
Accordingly, in the first aspect, before determining, according to the first indication information, a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in the first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam, the method may further include: and receiving second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the transmission beams of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are configured according to the first indication information.
That is to say, the executor of the communication method determines the transmission beams of the plurality of signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the first transmission beams according to the first indication information only under the indication of the second indication information of the network device, so that the transmission beams of the signal resources can be configured according to the requirement, and the flexibility of communication can be improved.
In a third aspect, a communication method is provided, where the communication method includes: receiving first indication information for indicating that a transmission beam of a first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam; calculating downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam, wherein the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink reference signal; and calculating the sending power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
Compared with the prior art that the base station configures the reference signal for the terminal, the terminal calculates the downlink path loss according to the reference signal and calculates the sending power according to the downlink path loss, the implementation mode can save the time delay and signaling overhead of the base station for configuring the reference signal.
Optionally, the communication method may further include: determining a transmit power of a plurality of signal resources in a first set of signal resources to which a first signal resource belongs as the transmit power of the first signal resource.
The implementation mode can save time delay and signaling overhead for configuring the sending power of the signal resources except the first signal resource in the plurality of signal resources, thereby saving the time delay and the signaling overhead of communication.
The plurality of signal resources may be all signal resources in the first set of signal resources, or may be part of the first set of signal resources including the first signal resource.
In the first aspect or the second aspect or the third aspect, optionally, the function of the first set of signal resources comprises switching antennas, or the function of the first set of signal resources comprises beam scanning.
The method includes determining, according to the first indication information, transmission beams of a plurality of signal resources in a signal resource set corresponding to a switched antenna function as a same transmission beam, that is, a first transmission beam, and ensuring that antenna switching can be normally achieved when the plurality of signal resources are used for transmitting signals.
In the first aspect, the second aspect or the third aspect, optionally, the first signal resource may be an aperiodic SRS resource, and accordingly, the first signal resource set includes a plurality of aperiodic SRS resources.
In the first aspect, the second aspect or the third aspect, optionally, the first indication information may include identification information of the first signal resource and beam indication information of the first transmission beam.
In a fourth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, which may be a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the first aspect described above, as well as various possible implementations. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules or units corresponding to the above functions.
In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing unit may be a processor. In this design, the apparatus may be a terminal device.
Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage unit, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory unit is used to store instructions. The processing unit is connected to the storage unit, and the processing unit can execute the instructions stored in the storage unit or instructions derived from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to perform the communication method of the first aspect and various possible implementations. The memory unit may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, or the like.
In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, etc. The processing unit may be, for example, a processor. The processing unit may execute instructions to cause the chip within the terminal to perform the above-described first aspect, and any possible implemented communication method.
Alternatively, the processing unit may execute instructions in a memory unit, which may be an on-chip memory unit, such as a register, a cache, etc. The memory unit may also be located inside the terminal device but outside the chip, such as a ROM or other type of static memory device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, etc.
The processor mentioned in any of the above may be a CPU, a microprocessor, an ASIC, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of the program of the communication method in the first aspect.
In a fifth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the apparatus may be a network device or a chip within the network device. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the second aspect described above, as well as various possible implementations. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions.
In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing unit may be a processor. In this design, the apparatus may be a network device.
Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage unit, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory unit is used to store instructions. The processing unit is connected with the storage unit, and the processing unit can execute the instructions stored in the storage unit or other instructions from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to execute the communication method of the second aspect and various possible implementation manners. The memory unit may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, or the like.
In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, etc. The processing unit may be, for example, a processor. The processing unit may execute instructions to cause the chip within the network device to perform the second aspect described above, as well as any possible implemented communication method.
Alternatively, the processing unit may execute instructions in a memory unit, which may be an on-chip memory unit, such as a register, a cache, etc. The memory unit may also be located inside the terminal device but outside the chip, such as a ROM or other type of static memory device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, etc.
The processor mentioned in any of the above may be a CPU, a microprocessor, an ASIC, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of the program of the communication method in the above second aspect.
In a sixth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, which may be a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the third aspect described above, and various possible implementations. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules or units corresponding to the above functions.
In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing unit may be a processor. In this design, the apparatus may be a terminal device.
Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage unit, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory unit is used to store instructions. The processing unit is connected to the storage unit, and the processing unit can execute the instructions stored in the storage unit or instructions derived from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to execute the communication method of the third aspect and various possible implementations. The memory unit may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, or the like.
In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, etc. The processing unit may be, for example, a processor. The processing unit may execute instructions to cause the chip within the terminal to perform the third aspect described above, and the communication method of any possible implementation.
Alternatively, the processing unit may execute instructions in a memory unit, which may be an on-chip memory unit, such as a register, a cache, etc. The memory unit may also be located inside the terminal device but outside the chip, such as a ROM or other type of static memory device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, etc.
The processor mentioned in any above may be a CPU, a microprocessor, an ASIC, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of the program of the communication method in the third aspect.
In a seventh aspect, the present application provides a communication method, including: receiving first indication information, wherein the first indication information comprises function indication information, signal resource identification information and transmission beam identification information, the function indication information indicates a switching antenna function, the signal resource identification information indicates a signal resource, and the transmission beam identification information indicates a transmission beam; and determining the transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a signal resource set which belongs to the signal resource and has the function of switching the antenna function as the one transmission beam according to the first indication information.
In an eighth aspect, the present application provides a communication method, including: determining first indication information, wherein the first indication information comprises function indication information, signal resource identification information and transmission beam identification information, the function indication information indicates a switching antenna function, the signal resource identification information indicates one signal resource, the transmission beam identification information indicates one transmission beam, and the first indication information is used for indicating a terminal to determine a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a signal resource set which belongs to the signal resource and has a function of switching antenna function as the transmission beam; and sending the first indication information.
With reference to the seventh aspect or the eighth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner, the signal resource indicated by the signal resource identification information is an aperiodic sounding reference signal, SRS, resource.
With reference to the seventh aspect, the eighth aspect, or the first possible implementation manner, in a second possible implementation manner, the first indication information is a media access control-control element MAC-CE signaling. Such as MAC-CE signaling as shown in fig. 14.
The communication method can keep consistent transmission beams of a plurality of signal resources in a signal resource set with the function of antenna switching, thereby being beneficial to improving the reliability of communication.
In a ninth aspect, the present application provides a communication method, comprising: receiving first indication information, wherein the first indication information comprises signal resource set identification information, signal resource identification information and transmission beam identification information, the signal resource set identification information indicates a first signal resource set, the function of the first signal resource set is an antenna switching function, the signal resource identification information indicates one signal resource in the first signal resource set, and the transmission beam identification information indicates one transmission beam; determining a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the one transmission beam according to the first indication information.
In a tenth aspect, the present application provides a communication method, including: determining first indication information, where the first indication information includes signal resource set identification information, signal resource identification information, and transmission beam identification information, where the signal resource set identification information indicates a first signal resource set, and a function of the first signal resource set is an antenna switching function, the signal resource identification information indicates one signal resource in the first signal resource set, the transmission beam identification information indicates one transmission beam, and the first indication information is used to indicate a terminal to determine a transmission beam of multiple signal resources in the first signal resource set as the one transmission beam; and sending the first indication information.
With reference to the ninth aspect or the tenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner, the signal resource indicated by the signal resource identification information is an aperiodic sounding reference signal, SRS, resource.
With reference to the ninth aspect, the tenth aspect, or the first possible implementation manner, in a second possible implementation manner, the first indication information is a media access control-control element MAC-CE signaling. Such as MAC-CE signaling as shown in fig. 16.
According to the communication method, the transmission beams of the plurality of signal resources in the signal resource set with the antenna switching function can be kept consistent, and therefore the communication reliability can be improved.
In an eleventh aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the apparatus may be a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the seventh aspect or the ninth aspect, or any one of its possible implementations. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules or units corresponding to the above functions.
In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing unit may be a processor. In this design, the apparatus may be a terminal device.
Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage unit, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory unit is used to store instructions. The processing unit is connected to the storage unit, and the processing unit can execute the instructions stored in the storage unit or instructions derived from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to execute the communication method of the seventh aspect or the ninth aspect, or any possible implementation manner thereof. The memory unit may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, or the like.
In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, etc. The processing unit may be, for example, a processor. The processing unit may execute instructions to make the chip in the terminal execute the communication method of the seventh aspect or the ninth aspect, or any one of the possible implementations thereof.
Alternatively, the processing unit may execute instructions in a memory unit, which may be an on-chip memory unit, such as a register, a cache, etc. The memory unit may also be located inside the terminal device but outside the chip, such as a ROM or other type of static memory device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, etc.
The processor mentioned in any of the above may be a CPU, a microprocessor, an ASIC, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of the program of the communication method in the seventh aspect, the ninth aspect, or any of the possible implementations.
In a twelfth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the apparatus may be a network device or a chip within the network device. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the above-mentioned eighth aspect or tenth aspect, or any one of its possible implementations. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions.
In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing unit may be a processor. In this design, the apparatus may be a network device.
Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage unit, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory unit is used to store instructions. The processing unit is connected to the storage unit, and the processing unit can execute the instructions stored in the storage unit or instructions derived from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to perform the communication method of the eighth aspect or the tenth aspect, or any one of the possible implementation manners. The memory unit may be a ROM or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, or the like.
In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, etc. The processing unit may be, for example, a processor. The processing unit may execute instructions to cause the chip in the network device to perform the communication method of the above-mentioned eighth aspect or tenth aspect, or any one of the possible implementations thereof.
Alternatively, the processing unit may execute instructions in a memory unit, which may be an on-chip memory unit, such as a register, a cache, etc. The memory unit may also be located inside the terminal device but outside the chip, such as a ROM or other type of static memory device that may store static information and instructions, a RAM, etc.
The processor mentioned in any of the above may be a CPU, a microprocessor, an ASIC, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of the program of the communication method in the eighth aspect or the tenth aspect or any one of the possible implementations thereof.
In a thirteenth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided. The computer readable storage medium has program code stored therein. The program code includes instructions for executing the communication method in the above-described aspects.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the first aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the second aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the third aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the seventh aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the eighth aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the ninth aspect.
For example, the computer-readable medium may have stored therein a program code including instructions for executing the communication method in the tenth aspect.
In a fourteenth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product containing instructions. The computer program product, when run on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the method in the aspects described above.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the first aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the second aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the third aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the seventh aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the eighth aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the ninth aspect.
For example, the computer program product, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the instructions of the communication method in the tenth aspect.
In a fifteenth aspect, a communication system is provided, which includes any one of the communication apparatuses described above.
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FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a communication method of one embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a communication method of another embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a communication method of one embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a communication method of another embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 11 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 12 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 13 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 14 is a schematic block diagram of MAC-CE signaling in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;
fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of MAC-CE signaling of another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of MAC-CE signaling of another embodiment of the present application.
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The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) System, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) System, a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) System, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) System, an LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) System, an LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication System, a future fifth Generation (5G) System, or a New Radio Network (NR), etc.
Terminal equipment in the embodiments of the present application may refer to user equipment, access terminals, subscriber units, subscriber stations, mobile stations, remote terminals, mobile devices, user terminals, wireless communication devices, user agents, or user devices. The terminal device may also be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device with Wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a Wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a future 5G Network or a terminal device in a future evolved Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), and the like, which are not limited in this embodiment.
The Network device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device for communicating with a terminal device, the Network device may be a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) System or a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) System, may also be a Base Station (NodeB, NB) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) System, may also be an evolved node b (eNB, or eNodeB) in an LTE System, may also be a wireless controller in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) scenario, or may be a relay Station, an Access point, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, and a Network device in a future 5G Network or a Network device in a future evolved PLMN Network, one or a set of antennas (including Multiple antenna panels) of a Base Station in a 5G System, alternatively, the network node may also be a network node that forms a gNB or a transmission point, such as a baseband unit (BBU), a Distributed Unit (DU), or the like, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.
In some deployments, the gNB may include a Centralized Unit (CU) and a DU. The gNB may also include an Active Antenna Unit (AAU). The CU implements part of the function of the gNB and the DU implements part of the function of the gNB. For example, the CU is responsible for processing non-real-time protocols and services, and implementing functions of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer. The DU is responsible for processing a physical layer protocol and a real-time service, and implements functions of a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, and a Physical (PHY) layer. The AAU implements part of the physical layer processing functions, radio frequency processing and active antenna related functions. Since the information of the RRC layer eventually becomes or is converted from the information of the PHY layer, the higher layer signaling, such as the RRC layer signaling, may also be considered to be transmitted by the DU or by the DU + AAU under this architecture. It is to be understood that the network device may be a device comprising one or more of a CU node, a DU node, an AAU node. In addition, the CU may be divided into network devices in an access network (RAN), or may be divided into network devices in a Core Network (CN), which is not limited in this application.
In the embodiment of the application, the terminal or the network device includes a hardware layer, an operating system layer running on the hardware layer, and an application layer running on the operating system layer. The hardware layer includes hardware such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Memory Management Unit (MMU), and a memory (also referred to as a main memory). The operating system may be any one or more computer operating systems that implement business processing through processes (processes), such as a Linux operating system, a Unix operating system, an Android operating system, an iOS operating system, or a windows operating system. The application layer comprises applications such as a browser, an address list, word processing software, instant messaging software and the like. Furthermore, the embodiment of the present application does not particularly limit the specific structure of the execution subject of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, as long as the execution subject can communicate with the method provided by the embodiment of the present application by running the program recorded with the code of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, for example, the execution subject of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application may be a terminal or a network device, or a functional module capable of calling the program and executing the program in the terminal or the network device.
In addition, various aspects or features of the present application may be implemented as a method, apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques. The term "article of manufacture" as used herein is intended to encompass a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media. For example, computer-readable media can include but are not limited to magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strips, etc.), optical disks (e.g., Compact Disk (CD), Digital Versatile Disk (DVD), etc.), smart cards, and flash memory devices (e.g., erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), card, stick, or key drive, etc.). In addition, various storage media described herein can represent one or more devices and/or other machine-readable media for storing information. The term "machine-readable medium" can include, without being limited to, wireless channels and various other media capable of storing, containing, and/or carrying instruction(s) and/or data
The beam in the embodiments of the present application is a communication resource. The beam may be a wide beam, or a narrow beam, or other type of beam. The technique of forming the beam may be a beamforming technique or other technical means. The beamforming technique may be embodied as a digital beamforming technique, an analog beamforming technique, a hybrid digital/analog beamforming technique. Different beams may be considered different resources. The same information or different information may be transmitted through different beams. Alternatively, a plurality of beams having the same or similar communication characteristics may be regarded as one beam. One beam may include one or more antenna ports for transmitting data channels, control channels, sounding signals, and the like, for example, a transmission beam may refer to the distribution of signal strength formed in different spatial directions after signals are transmitted through the antenna, and a reception beam may refer to the distribution of signal strength in different spatial directions of wireless signals received from the antenna. It is to be understood that the one or more antenna ports forming one beam may also be seen as one set of antenna ports. The beam may also be embodied in a spatial filter (spatial filter) within the protocol.
Beam management resources refer to resources used for beam management, which in turn may be embodied as resources used for computing and measuring beam quality. The beam quality includes layer 1reference signal received power (L1-RSRP), layer 1reference signal received quality (L1-RSRQ), and the like. Specifically, the beam management resource may include a synchronization signal, a broadcast channel, a downlink channel measurement reference signal, a tracking signal, a downlink control channel demodulation reference signal, a downlink shared channel demodulation reference signal, an uplink sounding reference signal, an uplink random access signal, and the like.
The beam indication information is used to indicate the beams used for transmission, including transmit beams and/or receive beams. The beam indication information includes a beam number, a beam management resource number, an uplink signal resource number, a downlink signal resource number, an absolute index of a beam, a relative index of a beam, a logical index of a beam, an index of an antenna port corresponding to a beam, an antenna port group index corresponding to a beam, an index of a downlink signal corresponding to a beam, a time index of a downlink synchronization signal block corresponding to a beam, Beam Pair Link (BPL) information, a transmission parameter (Tx parameter) corresponding to a beam, a reception parameter (Rx parameter) corresponding to a beam, a transmission weight corresponding to a beam, a weight matrix corresponding to a beam, a weight vector corresponding to a beam, a reception weight corresponding to a beam, an index of a transmission weight corresponding to a beam, an index of a weight matrix corresponding to a beam, an index of a weight vector corresponding to a beam, an index of a reception weight corresponding to a beam, and a reception weight, The downlink signal includes at least one of a synchronization signal, a broadcast channel, a broadcast signal demodulation signal, a channel state information downlink signal (CSI-RS), a cell specific reference signal (CS-RS), a terminal specific reference signal (US-RS), a downlink control channel demodulation reference signal, a downlink data channel demodulation reference signal, and a downlink phase noise tracking signal. The uplink signal comprises any one of an uplink random access sequence, an uplink sounding reference signal, an uplink control channel demodulation reference signal, an uplink data channel demodulation reference signal and an uplink phase noise tracking signal. Optionally, the network device may further allocate a QCL identifier to a beam having a QCL relationship among beams associated with the frequency resource group. The beams may also be referred to as spatial transmit filters, the transmit beams may also be referred to as spatial transmit filters, and the receive beams may also be referred to as spatial receive filters. The beam indication information may also be embodied as a Transmission Configuration Index (TCI), and the TCI may include various parameters, such as a cell number, a bandwidth part number, a reference signal identifier, a synchronization signal block identifier, a QCL type, and the like.
Quasi-co-location (QCL): the co-location relationship is used to indicate that the plurality of resources have one or more same or similar communication characteristics, and for the plurality of resources having the co-location relationship, the same or similar communication configuration may be adopted. For example, if two antenna ports have a co-located relationship, the channel large scale characteristic of one port transmitting one symbol can be inferred from the channel large scale characteristic of the other port transmitting one symbol. The large scale features may include: delay spread, average delay, doppler spread, doppler shift, average gain, reception parameters, terminal device received beam number, transmit/receive channel correlation, received angle of arrival, spatial correlation of receiver antennas, angle of main arrival (AoA), average angle of arrival, AoA spread, and the like.
Spatial quasi-parity (spatial QCL): a spatial QCL can be considered as a type of QCL. Two angles can be understood for spatial: from the transmitting end or from the receiving end. From the transmitting end, if two antenna ports are spatially quasi co-located, it means that the corresponding beam directions of the two antenna ports are spatially identical, i.e., spatial filters are the same. From the receiving end, if it is said that the two antenna ports are spatially quasi-co-located, it means that the receiving end can receive the signals transmitted by the two antenna ports in the same beam direction, i.e. with respect to the receiving parameter QCL.
Beamforming techniques (beamforming) can achieve higher antenna array gain by spatially pointing to a particular direction. Analog beamforming, which may be implemented by radio frequency. For example, a radio frequency link (RF chain) adjusts the phase through a phase shifter to control the change in the direction of the analog beam. Thus, an RF chain can only fire one analog beam at a time.
Spatial relationship (spatial relationship): also known as uplink TCI (UL TCI). The spatial relationship may be used to determine a transmit beam for the uplink signal. The spatial relationship may be determined by beam training. The reference signal used for beam training may be, for example, an uplink reference signal, such as SRS, or a downlink reference signal, such as SSB or CSI-RS.
During communication, the terminal device may determine a transmit beam based on a spatial relationship indicated by the network device, and the network device may determine a receive beam based on the same spatial relationship.
The spatial relationship indication may include a cell identifier and a reference signal identifier, where the cell identifier may refer to a physical cell and/or a serving cell, and the reference signal identifier may be an identifier of an uplink reference signal, or may be an identifier of a downlink SSB or a downlink reference signal. When the reference signal in the spatial relationship indication is the SRS, the terminal needs to transmit a target signal or a channel using a transmission beam for transmitting the SRS. When the reference signal in the spatial relationship indication is an SSB or CSI-RS, the terminal needs to transmit the target signal or channel using the transmission beam corresponding to the reception beam receiving the SSB/CSI-RS.
Optionally, a bandwidth part (BWP) identifier may also be included in one spatial relationship indication.
Alternatively, the spatial relationship of the SRS may be configured by a single resource, i.e., each SRS resource is configured by a spatial relationship separately.
The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario to which the method of the embodiment of the present application may be applied. It should be understood that the method of the embodiments of the present application may include more or less apparatuses or devices in application scenarios, or may include devices or apparatuses with similar functions.
During communication between the base station 110 and the terminal 120, the terminal 120 transmits a signal in a specific direction, and the base station 110 receives the signal in the specific direction.
The resources used by the terminal 120 to transmit signals may be referred to as signal resources. The signal resources may include time domain resources, frequency domain resources, transmission beams, transmission power, and the like. In the embodiment of the present application, a transmission beam included in a signal resource is simply referred to as a transmission beam of the signal resource, and a transmission power included in the signal resource is simply referred to as a transmission power of the signal resource.
The transmit beams used by the terminal 120 are typically configured by the base station 110. For example, the terminal 120 receives the configuration information from the base station 110, and determines the transmission beam in the signal resource as the transmission beam indicated by the configuration information, or transmits the signal corresponding to the signal resource by using the transmission beam indicated by the configuration information.
For example, the base station may configure the spatial relationship of each SRS resource through RRC. The terminal may determine a transmit beam based on the spatial relationship.
In many cases, for example, the relative position between the base station 110 and the terminal 120 changes, the base station 110 needs to indicate a new transmission beam for the terminal 120, i.e. to reconfigure or update the transmission beam in the signal resource.
Fig. 2 is an exemplary flow chart of a communication method in one embodiment of the present application. It should be understood that fig. 2 shows steps or operations of the method, but these steps or operations are only examples, and the technical solution proposed by the present application can also perform other operations or variations of the respective operations in fig. 2.
S210, the base station transmits first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of the first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam. Accordingly, the terminal receives the first indication information.
The first indication information may be carried in an RRC signaling or a Media Access Control (MAC) -Control Element (CE) signaling. Of course, the first indication information may also be carried in other signaling, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the application.
The first indication information is carried in the MAC-CE signaling, and compared with the first indication information carried in the RRC signaling, the time delay and the signaling overhead can be reduced.
The first signal resource may be a non-periodic SRS resource, a periodic SRS resource, or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource. Of course, other resources may be available, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited to this.
The first indication information may include resource identification information of the first signal resource and beam indication information of the first transmission beam.
Or, the first indication information may include resource identification information and spatial relationship indication information of the first signal resource, and the first transmission beam may be determined according to the spatial relationship indication information.
Or, the first indication information may include resource identification information of the first signal resource, beam indication information of the first transmission beam, and function indication information, where the function indication information is used to indicate a function (use) of the first set of signal resources. One example is shown in fig. 14, and another example is shown in fig. 15.
Or the first indication information may include resource identification information of the first signal resource, beam indication information of the first transmission beam, and set identification information of the first set of signal resources. An example is shown in fig. 16.
It should be understood that the configuration in this embodiment may be that the base station configures the first signal resource for the first time (i.e., initializes the first signal resource), or may be that the base station updates the first signal resource.
S220, the terminal configures, according to the first indication information, transmission beams of multiple signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as a first transmission beam.
The first set of signal resources may be aperiodic SRS resources, periodic SRS resources, or PUCCH resources.
Of course other sets of signal resources are possible.
The plurality of signal resources may be all signal resources in the first set of signal resources, or may be a part of the first set of signal resources including the first signal resource.
The plurality of signal resources may be a set of signal resources in the first set of signal resources, or the plurality of signal resources may be a set of signal resources. The division of the resource group can be configured by the base station, and can also be predefined by the protocol.
In this step, although the first indication information indicates that the transmission beam of the first signal resource is configured as the first transmission beam, the terminal may determine the transmission beams of the plurality of signal resources in the first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam. Compared with the configuration of only the first signal resource according to the first indication information, the other signal resources in the first signal resource set may not need to be reconfigured, so that signaling overhead may be saved, and the updated transmission beam may be used to transmit signals more quickly, thereby reducing transmission delay of other signals in the first signal resource set.
S230, the terminal transmits signals using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
That is, the terminal may transmit a signal using a signal resource of the plurality of signal resources, and the transmission beam used for transmitting the signal is the first transmission beam because the transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
In general, the terminal transmits signals using the plurality of signal resources, and the transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam, which may also be understood as transmitting the plurality of signal resources using the first transmission beam.
In this embodiment of the application, optionally, the first set of signal resources may be a pre-designated set of signal resources. In this case, after receiving the first indication information from the base station, the terminal may determine a signal resource set (i.e., a first signal resource set) to which the first signal resource belongs, and determine whether the first signal resource set is a pre-specified signal resource set. If so, the terminal may determine a transmission beam of all or a portion of the signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the first transmission beam.
Alternatively, the function of the first set of signal resources may be pre-specified. For example, it is possible to configure on the terminal: when the first signal resource is an SRS resource, if the function of the first signal resource set is a pre-specified function, the terminal may determine a transmission beam in all or a part of the signal resources in the first signal resource set as a first transmission beam. In this way, after the terminal receives the first indication information and determines that the set of signal resources to which the first signal resource belongs is the first set of signal resources, it may determine whether it is necessary to determine the transmission beams of the plurality of signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the first transmission beam according to "usage" of the first set of signal resources, that is, whether the terminal may transmit a signal using the first transmission beam when transmitting a signal using any signal resource in the plurality of signal resources.
For another example, the function of the first set of signal resources may be a terminal-specific (UE-specific) PUCCH or a common (common) PUCCH. For example, when the first set of signal resources functions as a UE-specific PUCCH, the first indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of one UE-specific PUCCH is configured as a first beam; and according to the first indication information, the terminal determines all the transmission beams of the UE-specific PUCCH as a first beam. For example, when the function of the first signal resource set is common PUCCH, the first indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of one common PUCCH is configured as the first beam; according to the first indication information, the terminal determines all common PUCCH transmission beams as a first beam.
In this embodiment, optionally, the function corresponding to the first signal resource set may include switching antennas. That is to say, after the terminal receives the first indication information and determines that the signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs is the first signal resource set, when determining that the first signal resource belongs to the signal resource set corresponding to the function of switching the antenna for the switching antenna according to "use" of the first signal resource set, the terminal may also determine the transmission beam of the other signal resources in the signal resource set as the first transmission beam; otherwise the terminal may determine only the transmission beam of the first signal resource as the first transmission beam. Therefore, the terminal can be ensured to correctly realize the function of antenna switching, because all signal resources in the first signal resource set corresponding to the function of antenna switching need to be configured into the same transmission beam, and all signal resources in the first signal resource set are determined as the first transmission beam according to the first indication information, which just can meet the requirement.
The first set of signal resources may also be other functions, such as a terminal transmit beam scanning function, i.e., a U3 function.
In the prior art, when the first signal resource is an SRS resource, an implementation manner of the terminal calculating the transmission power of the first signal resource includes the following steps: the terminal calculates the downlink path loss of the reference signal configured for the first signal resource by the base station through the RRC signaling, and calculates the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the following formula:
for example, when the first signal is an SRS, the transmission power may be calculated according to the following formula:
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wherein b is BWP ID, f is carrier frequency (carrier) ID, c is cell ID, i is SRS transmission opportunityIdentification (SRS Transmission localization), PCMAX,f,c(i) For maximum output power of the terminal, PO_SRS,b,f,c(qs) Is a reference power p0, qsIdentifying for SRS resource set (SRS resource set), MSRS,b,f,c(i) Is SRS Bandwidth, αSRS,b,f,c(qs) Is a path loss compensation parameter, PLb,f,c(qd) Is a path loss estimate, qdIs a RRC configured path loss estimation reference signal, hb,f,c(i, l) is the power adjustment status of the current data channel, PSRS,b,f,c(i,qsL) is the calculated transmission power, and l is the identity of the SRS power control adjustment state.
In this embodiment of the application, optionally, when the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink signal, the method may further include: the terminal calculates the downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission wave beam; and calculating the sending power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
For example, when the reference signal in the spatial relationship indication is a downlink signal, the terminal may calculate a downlink path loss according to the reference signal in the spatial relationship, and calculate the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
The terminal calculates downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam, and calculates the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss, which can refer to the prior art, but only replace the reference signal configured by the base station with the reference signal of the first transmission beam.
Or, the terminal adjusts the transmission power of the first signal resource according to a difference between the reception power of the reference signal of the first transmission beam and the reception power of the RRC-configured path loss estimation reference signal, for example, the reception power of the reference signal of the first transmission beam is 3dB higher than the reception power of the RRC-configured path loss estimation reference signal, so the transmission power of the first signal resource may be reduced by 3 dB. Optionally, the terminal may further adjust the transmission power of the first signal resource according to a difference between the transmission power of the reference signal of the first transmission beam and the transmission power of the RRC-configured path loss estimation reference signal.
This way, the signaling overhead of the reference signal configured by the base station for calculating the downlink path loss can be saved, and the time delay can be saved.
Optionally, when the reference signal of the first transmission beam is an uplink signal, the terminal transmits the first signal resource according to the transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal. The transmission power of the uplink signal may be the transmission power at which the terminal has transmitted the uplink signal last time, or may be the transmission power at which the uplink signal is initially configured.
Further, the method may further include the terminal determining the transmission power control parameters such as the reference power P0, the path loss compensation parameter alpha, and the power adjustment state according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam.
Optionally, the terminal determines the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the first transmission beam indication of the first signal resource, and further includes that the terminal adds a reference signal of the first transmission beam indicated by the MAC-CE signaling to the RRC-configured path loss estimation reference signal list.
Further, the method may further include: determining a transmit power of the plurality of signal resources in a first set of signal resources as the transmit power of a first transmit beam. That is, when the terminal transmits a signal using any of the plurality of signal resources, the terminal may transmit the signal using the transmission power of the first signal resource.
The terminal determines the transmission power of the plurality of signal resources in the first signal resource set as the transmission power of the first signal resource, so that the communication delay and the signaling overhead can be further saved.
In this embodiment of the application, optionally, before the terminal determines, according to the first indication information, beam transmission of multiple signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the first transmission beam, the method may further include: the base station transmits second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the transmission beam of the signal resource in the signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs is configured to be the transmission beam indicated by the first indication information; accordingly, the terminal receives the second indication information.
That is, the base station explicitly indicates, through the second indication information, that the terminal may configure a transmission beam in other signal resources in the first set of signal resources to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam.
The second indication information and the first indication information may be carried in the same type of instruction or different types of instructions.
In the case that the second indication information is carried in the same type of instruction as the first indication information, further, the second indication information and the first indication information may also be carried in the same instruction. For example, the second indication information and the first indication information are both carried in the same MAC-CE signaling.
Under the condition that the second indication information and the first indication information are carried in different types of instructions or carried in the same type but not the same instruction, the sequence of the base station for sending the first indication information and the second indication information is not limited, and the sequence of the terminal for receiving the first indication information and the second indication information is not limited.
In the following, taking the first indication information carried in the MAC-CE signaling, where the first signal resource is an aperiodic SRS resource, and the first signal resource set is an SRS resource set corresponding to the antenna switching function as an example, the communication method according to the embodiment of the present application is further described with reference to fig. 3.
S310, the base station configures an aperiodic SRS resource set through RRC signaling. The terminal receives the RRC signaling, interprets the RRC signaling, and configures an aperiodic SRS resource set according to the RRC signaling, wherein the function of configuring the aperiodic SRS resource set is included.
This step can refer to the related implementation in 3GPP R15, and is not described herein again.
S320, the base station sends the beam indication updating information of the aperiodic SRS resource through MAC-CE signaling. And the terminal receives and interprets the MAC-CE so as to acquire the SRS resource needing to be updated and the transmission beam. The beam indication update information is the first indication information.
The MAC-CE signaling comprises SRS resource identification and transmission beam indication information.
S330, the terminal determines the transmission beam of the SRS resource according to the function of the SRS resource set configured in S310 and the transmission beam indicated by the MAC-CE signaling in S320.
For example, the terminal searches an SRS resource set identifier through the SRS resource identifier to determine an SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs; the terminal confirms the function of the SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs through the user; if the "use" of the SRS resource set is "antenna switch", the terminal updates the transmission beams of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission beams indicated in S320; if the "use" of the SRS resource set is "beam management", "codebook", or "notcodeebook", the terminal updates the transmission beam of the SRS resource only using the transmission beam indicated in S320.
S340, the terminal determines the transmission power of the SRS resource according to the function of the SRS resource set configured in S310 and the transmission beam indicated by the MAC-CE signaling in S320.
For example, if the reference signal included in the transmission beam indication is a downlink signal, such as an SSB or a CSI-RS, the terminal may estimate the downlink path loss through the SSB or the CSI-RS, and further calculate the uplink transmission power. The method for calculating the transmission power may refer to the SRS transmission power calculation method in 3GPP R15.
In addition, if the "usage" of the SRS resource set is "antenna switch", the terminal updates the transmission power of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission power calculated in this step. If the "usage" of the SRS resource set is "beam management", "codebook", or "nocodewood", the terminal updates the transmission power of the SRS resource only with the transmission power calculated in the above step.
S350, the terminal transmits the signal using the SRS resource in the SRS resource set, the transmission beam in the SRS resource is updated to the transmission beam indicated in S320 in S330, and the transmission power in the SRS resource is updated to the transmission power calculated in S340.
That is, when transmitting signals using the SRS resources in the SRS resource set, the transmission beam used is the transmission beam indicated in S320, and the transmission power used is the transmission power calculated in S340.
It should be understood that in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, S340 may not be included, or S330 and S340 may not have a chronological order.
Fig. 4 is an exemplary flow chart of a communication method in one embodiment of the present application. It should be understood that fig. 4 shows steps or operations of the method, but these steps or operations are only examples, and the technical solution proposed by the present application can also perform other operations or variations of the respective operations in fig. 4.
S410, the base station sends first indication information, and the first indication information is used for indicating that the sending beam of the signal resource corresponding to the first identifier is configured to be a first sending beam. Accordingly, the terminal receives the first indication information.
This step may refer to S210, except that the first indication information in S210 indicates that the transmission beam of the first signal resource is configured as the first transmission beam, and the first indication information in S410 indicates that the transmission beam of the signal resource corresponding to the first identifier is configured as the first transmission beam. The first identifier may be an identifier of one signal resource, or an identifier of one signal resource set, or may be an identifier of a group of signal resources, and accordingly, a signal resource corresponding to the first identifier may be one signal resource, or all signal resources in one signal resource set, or all signal resources in a group of signal resources.
S420, the base station sends second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of a signal resource in the first signal resource set corresponding to the first identifier is configured as the first transmission beam. Accordingly, the terminal receives the second indication information.
Or, it can be said, the second indication information is used to indicate that the first identifier is a signal resource set identifier.
Optionally, the second indication information may also indicate that the transmission beam of the signal resource identified by the first identifier is configured as the first transmission beam, that is, the second indication information may indicate that the first identifier is a signal resource identifier. When the second indication information indicates that the first identifier is a signal resource identifier, the specific implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application may refer to the communication method in fig. 2.
For example, the second indication information may include 1 bit, and when the value of the bit is "1", the display indicates that the first identifier in the first indication information is the resource set identifier, and when the value of the bit is "0", the display indicates that the first identifier in the first indication information is the resource identifier.
In general, the base station may transmit a transmission beam configuration of a signal resource set level (per resource set level) when the first signal resource set is configured to a specific function. For example, when the first signal resource set is antenna switching, the base station may send the second indication information to indicate that the first identifier in the first indication information is a resource set identifier, so as to indicate the terminal to implement transmission beam configuration at the signal resource set level.
The base station may transmit a transmit beam configuration of a signal resource level (per resource) when the first set of signal resources is configured for other specific functions. For example, when the first set of signal resources is a function other than antenna switching, the base station may transmit the second indication information indicating that the first identifier in the first indication information is a signal resource identifier to indicate that the terminal implements the transmission beam configuration at the signal resource level.
Accordingly, the terminal may expect different levels of transmission beam configuration signaling according to the function of the signal resource set. For example, when the first set of signal resources is configured for a particular function (e.g., antenna switching), the terminal device expects the network device to transmit a transmit beam configuration at the signal resource set level; when the first set of signal resources is configured to another specific function (e.g., a function other than antenna switching), the terminal device expects the network device to transmit a transmit beam configuration at the signal resource level.
The second indication information and the first indication information may be carried in the same type of instruction or different types of instructions.
In the case that the second indication information is carried in the same type of instruction as the first indication information, further, the second indication information and the first indication information may also be carried in the same instruction. For example, the second indication information and the first indication information are both carried in the same MAC-CE signaling.
Under the condition that the second indication information and the first indication information are carried in different types of instructions or carried in the same type but not the same instruction, the sequence of the base station for sending the first indication information and the second indication information is not limited, and the sequence of the terminal for receiving the first indication information and the second indication information is not limited.
S430, the terminal configures, according to the first indication information and the second indication information, transmission beams of multiple signal resources in the first signal resource set identified by the first identifier as a first transmission beam.
This step can refer to S220, which is not described herein.
S440, the terminal transmits signals using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
This step can be referred to as S230, and is not described herein.
In the communication method, the terminal may also determine a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources in the first set of signal resources as the first transmission beam, based on the first indication information and the second indication information. Compared with the configuration of only the first signal resource according to one piece of information, the other signal resources in the first signal resource set do not need to be reconfigured, so that signaling overhead can be saved, and the updated transmission beam can be used for transmitting signals more quickly, thereby reducing the transmission delay of other signals in the first signal resource set.
It should be understood that other relevant contents in fig. 2 may also be included in the present embodiment, for example, the relevant contents of the transmission power may be included, and the details are not described herein again for brevity.
Taking the first indication information carried in the MAC-CE signaling, where the first signal resource is an aperiodic SRS resource, the first signal resource set is an SRS resource set corresponding to an antenna switching function, the base station sends the second indication information to the terminal to explicitly indicate the terminal, and the first indication information and the second indication information are carried in the same signaling as an example, with reference to fig. 5, the communication method in fig. 4 is further described.
S510, the base station configures an aperiodic SRS resource set through RRC signaling. And the terminal receives the RRC signaling, interprets the RRC signaling and configures an aperiodic SRS resource set according to the RRC signaling.
This step can refer to the related implementation in 3GPP R15, and is not described herein again.
S520, the base station sends the beam indication updating information and the updating mode indication information of the aperiodic SRS through MAC-CE signaling. And the terminal receives and interprets the MAC-CE so as to acquire the SRS resource needing to be updated and the transmission beam. The beam indication update information is the first indication information.
The beam indication updating information comprises SRS resource identification and sending beam indication information. The update mode indication information is used to indicate whether the beam indication update information is used to update the signal resources or to update the set of signal resources. When the update mode indication information indicates that the beam indication update information is used to update the signal resource set, the update mode indication information is the second indication information in S420.
S530, the terminal determines the transmission beam of the SRS resource according to the function of the SRS resource set configured in S510 and the transmission beam and the updating mode indicated by the MAC-CE signaling in S520.
For example, if the terminal determines the updated signal resource set according to the update mode indication information, the terminal searches for an SRS resource set identifier through the SRS resource identifier to determine an SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs, updates the transmission beams of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission beams indicated in S520, and transmits SRS signals corresponding to all SRS resources in the SRS resource set by using the transmission beams; if the terminal determines to update the signal resource according to the update mode indication information, the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource only using the transmission beam indicated in S520.
For example, if the terminal determines to update the signal resource set according to the update mode indication information, the terminal searches for an SRS resource set identifier through the SRS resource identifier to determine an SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs, and determines a function of the SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs through "use"; if the "use" of the SRS resource set is "antenna switch", the terminal updates the transmission beams of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission beams indicated in S520, and transmits SRS signals corresponding to all SRS resources in the SRS resource set by using the transmission beams; if the "usage" of the SRS resource set is "beam management", "codebook", or "noncodeebook", the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource only by using the transmission beam indicated in S520. If the terminal determines to update the signal resource according to the update mode indication information, the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource only using the transmission beam indicated in S520.
And S540, the terminal determines the sending power of the SRS resource according to the sending beam indication information and the updating mode indication information in the MAC-CE signaling in the S520.
For example, if the reference signal included in the transmission beam indication is a downlink signal, such as an SSB or a CSI-RS, the terminal may estimate the downlink path loss through the SSB or the CSI-RS, and further calculate the uplink transmission power. The method for calculating the transmission power may refer to the SRS transmission power calculation method in 3GPP R15.
For example, if the terminal determines the updated signal resource set according to the update mode indication information, the terminal searches for an SRS resource set identifier through the SRS resource identifier to determine an SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs, updates the transmission power of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission power calculated in the step, and transmits SRS signals corresponding to all SRS resources in the SRS resource set by using the transmission power; if the terminal determines to update the signal resource according to the update mode indication information, the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource only by using the transmission power calculated in the step.
For example, if the terminal determines to update the signal resource set according to the update mode indication information, the terminal searches for an SRS resource set identifier through the SRS resource identifier to determine an SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs, and determines a function of the SRS resource set to which the SRS resource belongs through "use"; if the "use" of the SRS resource set is "antenna switch", the terminal updates the transmission power of all SRS resources in the SRS resource set to the transmission power calculated in the step, and transmits SRS signals corresponding to all SRS resources in the SRS resource set by using the transmission power; if the "usage" of the SRS resource set is "beam management", "codebook", or "nocodewood", the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource using only the transmission power calculated in this step. If the terminal determines to update the signal resource according to the update mode indication information, the terminal transmits the SRS signal corresponding to the SRS resource only by using the transmission power calculated in the step.
S550, the terminal transmits the signal using the SRS resource in the SRS resource set, the transmission beam in the SRS resource is updated to the transmission beam indicated in S520 in S530, and the transmission power in the SRS resource is updated to the transmission power calculated in S540.
That is, when transmitting a signal using the SRS resource in the SRS resource set, the transmission beam used is the transmission beam indicated in S520, and the transmission power used is the transmission power calculated in S540.
It should be understood that in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, S540 may not be included, or S530 and S540 may not have a chronological order.
The application also provides a communication method, which comprises the following steps: receiving first indication information indicating that a reception beam of the first signal resource is configured as a first beam; determining a receiving beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which a first signal resource belongs as a first receiving beam according to the first indication information; receiving signals using the plurality of signal resources, a receive beam of the plurality of signal resources being a first receive beam.
In the communication method, although the first indication information indicates that the receiving beam of the first signal resource is configured as the first receiving beam, the receiving beams of the plurality of signal resources including the first signal resource in the first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are all determined as the first receiving beam according to the first indication information, so that the time delay and the signaling overhead for configuring the receiving beams of other signal resources in the plurality of signal resources can be saved.
Wherein the first signal resource may be a CSR-RS resource. The function of the first set of signal resources may be a time frequency Tracking (TRS) function, and the function may be embodied in a protocol in a manner that the set of CSI-RS resources is configured as TRS-Info ═ true. The function of the first set of signal resources may also be a terminal beam scanning function (P3), which may be embodied in a protocol in such a way that the set of CSI-RS resources is configured to be repetition on.
Optionally, the first signal resource may also be a control channel resource set (CORESET). The first set of signal resources may function as a UE-specific core or a common core. For example, when the first set of signal resources functions as a UE-specific core, the first indication information is used to indicate that a reception beam of one UE-specific core is configured as a first beam; and according to the first indication information, the terminal determines all the receiving beams of the UE-specific CORESET as the first beam. For example, when the first set of signal resources functions as a common CORESET, the first indication information is used to indicate that a reception beam of one common CORESET is configured as the first beam; according to the first indication information, the terminal determines all common CORESET receiving beams as first beams.
The communication method may refer to the foregoing communication method, and the difference is that the foregoing communication method configures a transmission beam, the present communication method configures a reception beam, the foregoing communication method configures a transmission beam of a signal resource and then transmits a signal using the signal resource, and the present communication method configures a reception beam of the signal resource and then receives a signal using the signal resource.
All communication methods proposed by the present application can be summarized as follows: receiving first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating that a beam in the first signal resource is configured as a first beam; determining a beam in a plurality of signal resources including a first signal resource in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first beam according to the first indication information; communicating using the plurality of signal resources.
The first beam may be a transmission beam or a reception beam. For example, when the first signal resource is an aperiodic SRS resource, the first beam is a transmission beam; and when the first signal resource is CRI-RS resource, the first wave beam is receiving wave beam.
When the first beam is a transmission beam, the communicating according to the plurality of signal resources may include: transmitting a signal according to the plurality of signal resources; when the first beam is a receive beam, communicating according to the plurality of signal resources may include: signals are received based on the plurality of signal resources.
From another perspective, in the prior art, MAC-CE based spatial relationship updates are introduced for aperiodic SRS at each resource level, which results in multiple MAC-CE messages being required when updating the transmission beams in multiple SRS resources. Such a signaling scheme may be redundant in view of the different functionalities of different sets of SRS resources. For example, if the function of SRS resource set configuration is "antenna switching", the probability that resources within the same group will be configured as different transmission beams is low, otherwise the terminal may not know how to switch antennas. Therefore, at least for SRS resources that function as "antenna switching", aperiodic SRS spatial relationship updates for each resource set level based on MAC CEs should also be supported. Explicit and implicit solutions may be considered. For example, an additional explicit spatial relationship may be introduced to indicate that the MAC-CE should update the transmission beam for all SRS resources in the set of SRS resources that function as "switched antennas". Or, it can be said, if the function is "antenna switching" in order to reduce delay, aperiodic SRS spatial relationship update at the MAC CE based resource set level is supported.
Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a MAC-CE according to an embodiment of the present application. The MAC-CE signaling shown in fig. 14 sequentially includes the following fields: c, Component Carrier (CC) ID of SRS Resource (SRS Resource), BWP ID of SRS Resource, function indication information, SRS Resource ID, F, Resource ID (i.e. indicating spatial relationship), R, CC ID of Resource, BWP ID of Resource.
Wherein, C occupies 1 bit, setting 1 indicates that there are CC ID of resource and BWP ID field of resource behind, setting 0 indicates that there are no; the CC ID of the SRS resource indicates the CC where the SRS resource is located; the BWP ID of SRS resource indicates the BWP where SRS resource is located; the function indication information indicates the function of the SRS resource set where the SRS resource corresponding to the SRS resource ID is located, for example, the function indication information occupies two bits and indicates the antenna switching function when the function indication information is "11"; the SRS resource ID represents resource identification information of the first signal resource; f occupies 1 bit and represents the type of the reference resource of the SRS resource corresponding to the SRS resource ID, wherein the value of 0 represents that the subsequent resource ID indicates the ID of the SRS resource or the SSB ID, and the value of 1 represents that the subsequent resource ID indicates the ID of the CSI RS resource; resource ID represents beam indication information of the first transmission beam; r represents a reserved field; the CC ID of resource occupies 5 bits and indicates the CC where the resource ID is located; the BWP ID of resource occupies 2 bits, indicating the BWP where the resource ID is located.
In some implementations, when F is set to 1, the following meaning is also expressed: the CSI RS resource represented by resource ID behind F is configured to the first 2 of all the CSI RS resources of the terminalxOne resource or configured to last 2 of all CSI RS resources of the terminalxAnd the resource or the resource which belongs to one of the two subsequent CSI-RS resources in all the CSI RS resources configured to the terminal, wherein x is the number of bits occupied by the resource ID after F. One of the two CSI-RS resources is a CSI-RS resource for beam management, for example, the RRC parameter of the CSI-RS resource configures a repetition (repetition) field; the other of the two CSI-RS resources is the CSI-RS resource used as the tracking reference signal, for example, the RRC parameter of the CSI-RS resource configures the TRS field.
After receiving the MAC-CE, the terminal determines that the corresponding function is antenna switching according to the function indication information, and then the terminal may determine that the number of SRS resource IDs in the MAC-CE is 1 and/or the number of SRS resource IDs is 1, and determine one or more signal resource sets to which the SRS resource IDs belong according to the SRS resource IDs, and set transmission beams of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set of the one or more signal resource sets, which is functionally antenna switching, as a first transmission beam, and set BWPs of the plurality of signal resources as BWPs indicated by the BWP IDs of the resources.
It should be understood that the structure shown in fig. 14 is only an example, and the MAC-CE proposed in the embodiment of the present application may include fewer or more fields, or include fields with similar meanings, as long as the MAC-CE signaling containing the function indication information, SRS Resource ID and Resource ID fields, or fields with similar meanings falls within the scope of the MAC-CE signaling of the present application. Alternatively, the signaling provided in the embodiment of the present application may not be limited to MAR-CE signaling, as long as the signaling containing the function indication information, SRS Resource ID and Resource ID fields or fields with similar meaning falls into the scope of the present application.
Fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of MAC-CE signaling according to another embodiment of the present application. The MAC-CE signaling shown in fig. 15 includes the following fields: c, SRS resource CC ID, SRS resource BWP ID, usage, SRS resource set (set) ID, Fi, resource ID in spatial relationship of the ith SRS resource, R, ith resource CC ID, and ith resource BWP ID.
Wherein, C occupies 1 bit, setting 1 indicates that there are CC ID of resource and BWP ID field of resource behind, setting 0 indicates that there are no; the CC ID of the SRS resource indicates the CC where the SRS resource is located; the BWP ID of SRS resource indicates the BWP where SRS resource is located; the function indication information indicates the function of srsrsresource set ID, for example, when the function indication information occupies two bits and is "00", the function of U3 may be indicated; SRS resource set ID represents set identification information; fi occupies 1 bit, indicates the type of reference resource of resource ID in spatial relationship of ith SRS, and set 0 indicates that the following resource ID indicates the ID of SRS resource or SSB ID, and set 1 indicates that the following resource ID indicates the ID of CSI RS resource; resource ID in spatial relationship of the ith SRSresource represents identification information of a transmission beam of the ith signal resource in the signal resource set indicated by the set identification, the signal resources in the signal resource set indicated by the set identification information are numbered from 0, the value range of i is from 0 to M-1, and M is the number of the signal resources in the set; r represents a reserved field; the CC ID of the ith resource occupies 5 bits and represents the CC where the resource ID is located; the BWP ID of the ith resource occupies 2 bits, indicating the BWP where the resource ID is located.
After receiving the MAC-CE signaling shown in fig. 15, the terminal determines that the corresponding function is not antenna switching according to the function indication information, and then the terminal may determine that the number of SRS resource IDs in the MAC-CE is multiple and/or the number of resource IDs is multiple, determine a signal resource set according to the SRS resource set IDs, determine a resource ID corresponding to the ith sresource ID from a transmission beam of the ith signal resource in the signal resource set, determine the CC of the ith signal resource as a beam indicated by the CC ID of the ith signal resource, and determine the BWP of the ith signal resource as the BWP indicated by the BWP ID of the ith resource.
It should be understood that the structure shown in fig. 15 is only an example, and the MAC-CE proposed in the embodiment of the present application may include fewer or more fields, or include fields with similar meanings, as long as the MAC-CE signaling containing the function indication information, SRS Resource ID and Resource ID fields, or fields with similar meanings falls within the scope of the MAC-CE signaling of the present application. Alternatively, the signaling provided in the embodiment of the present application may not be limited to MAR-CE signaling, as long as the signaling containing the function indication information, SRS Resource ID and Resource ID fields or fields with similar meaning falls into the scope of the present application.
Fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of MAC-CE signaling according to another embodiment of the present application. The MAC-CE signaling shown in fig. 16 sequentially includes the following fields: r, SRS resource CC ID, SRS resource BWP ID, R, C, SRS resource set ID, Fi, resource ID in spatial relationship of ith SRS resource ID, R, ith resource CC ID, and ith resource BWP ID.
Wherein R represents a reserved field; c occupies 1 bit, setting 1 indicates that the subsequent CC ID of resource and BWP ID field of resource exist, and setting 0 indicates that the resource does not exist; the CC ID of the SRS resource indicates the CC where the SRS resource is located; the BWP ID of SRS resource indicates the BWP where SRS resource is located; the function indication information indicates the function of srsrsresource set ID, for example, when the function indication information occupies two bits and is "00", the function of U3 may be indicated; SRS resource set ID represents set identification information; fi occupies 1 bit, indicates the type of reference resource of resource ID in spatial relationship of ith SRS, and set 0 indicates that the following resource ID indicates the ID of SRS resource or SSB ID, and set 1 indicates that the following resource ID indicates the ID of CSI RS resource; the resource ID in the spatial relationship of the ith SRS resource represents the identification information of the transmission beam of the ith signal resource in the signal resource set indicated by the set identification, the signal resource in the signal resource set indicated by the set identification information is numbered from 0, the value range of i is from 0 to M-1, and M is the number of the signal resource in the set; r represents a reserved field; the CC ID of the ith resource occupies 5 bits and represents the CC where the resource ID is located; the BWP ID of the ith resource occupies 2 bits, indicating the BWP where the resource ID is located.
When the function of the signal resource set corresponding to the SRS resource set ID is antenna switching, in a possible implementation manner, there is only one Fi and SRS resource ID between the SRS resource set ID and the first subsequent R, and there is only one resource ID and one resource BWP ID after the R, where i takes any value from 0 to M-1, M is the number of signal resources in the corresponding signal resource set, and the signal resources in the signal resource set are numbered from 0. In another possible implementation, i is taken from 0 to M-1 in turn, however, the CC IDs of M resources must be the same and the BWP IDs of M resources must be the same.
After receiving the MAC-CE signaling shown in fig. 16, the terminal determines a first signal resource set according to the SRS resource set ID, and determines whether the function of the first signal resource set is antenna switching, and if the function is antenna switching, the terminal determines the transmission beams of the multiple signal resources in the first signal resource set as beams corresponding to the resource CC ID; if the function of the first signal resource set is not antenna switching, determining the ith signal resource in the first signal resource set according to the ith resource ID, determining the transmission beam of the ith signal resource as the beam indicated by the CC ID of the ith resource, and determining the BWP of the ith signal resource as the BWP indicated by the BWP ID of the ith resource.
It should be understood that the structure shown in fig. 16 is only an example, and the MAC-CE proposed in the embodiment of the present application may include fewer or more fields, or fields with similar meanings, as long as the MAC-CE signaling containing only one SRS Resource ID and Resource ID in the first set of signal resources falls within the protection scope of the MAC-CE signaling of the present application when the first set of signal resources includes the identification information, SRS Resource ID, and Resource ID fields and the function of the first set of signal resources is to switch antennas. Alternatively, MAC-CE signaling containing fields with similar meanings also falls within the scope of MAC-C signaling of the embodiments of the present application. Alternatively, the signaling provided in the embodiment of the present application may not be limited to MAR-CE signaling, as long as the signaling includes the identification information of the first signal Resource set, and when the function of the first signal Resource set is antenna switching, the signaling only includes one SRS Resource ID and one Resource ID field in the first signal Resource set, which fall within the protection scope of the present application.
In the foregoing embodiments of the present application, optionally, the function of the first set of signal resources may also be "positioning" or "mobility", for example, when the first set of signal resources is a set of SRS resources, the function of the set of SRS resources may also be "positioning" or "mobility".
Optionally, when the function of the first signal resource set is any one of the two functions, the MAC CE signaling or other signaling carrying the first indication information should include a plurality of spatial relationships.
It is to be understood that, in the above embodiments of the method, the method and the operation implemented by the terminal device may also be implemented by a component (e.g., a chip or a circuit) available for the terminal device, the method and the operation implemented by the network device (e.g., a base station), or a component (e.g., a chip or a circuit) available for the network device.
The above description mainly introduces the scheme provided by the embodiments of the present application from various interaction perspectives. It is understood that each network element, for example, the transmitting end device or the receiving end device, includes a corresponding hardware structure and/or software module for performing each function in order to implement the above functions. Those of skill in the art would appreciate that the various illustrative components and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as hardware or combinations of hardware and computer software. Whether a function is performed as hardware or computer software drives hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.
In the embodiment of the present application, the functional modules may be divided according to the above method example for the transmitting end device or the receiving end device, for example, each functional module may be divided corresponding to each function, or two or more functions may be integrated into one processing module. The integrated module can be realized in a form of hardware or a form of a software functional module. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the module is schematic, and is only one logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation. The following description will be given by taking an example in which each functional module is divided by using a corresponding function.
It should be understood that the specific examples in the embodiments of the present application are for the purpose of promoting a better understanding of the embodiments of the present application and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.
It should also be understood that the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by the function and the inherent logic thereof, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.
It should also be understood that "first", "second", "third", and "fourth" in the communication method of the present application are only for better distinguishing network elements or information, and should not limit the technical solution of the present application.
It should also be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, "preset" or "predefined" may be implemented by saving a corresponding code, table, or other means that can be used to indicate related information in advance in a device (for example, including a terminal device and a network device), and the present application is not limited to a specific implementation manner thereof.
It is also to be understood that the terminology and/or the description of the various embodiments herein is consistent and mutually inconsistent if no specific statement or logic conflicts exists, and that the technical features of the various embodiments may be combined to form new embodiments based on their inherent logical relationships.
The method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 2 to 5. Hereinafter, the apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail with reference to fig. 6 to 13. It should be understood that the description of the apparatus embodiments corresponds to the description of the method embodiments, and therefore, for brevity, details are not repeated here, since the details that are not described in detail may be referred to the above method embodiments.
Fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 600 according to an embodiment of the present application. It is to be understood that the communication device 600 may correspond to the terminal in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and may have any function of the terminal in the method. The communication device 600 includes: a communication unit 610 and a processing unit 620.
It should be noted that the communication unit in the embodiment of the present application may also be referred to as a transceiver unit (module), and the processing unit may be referred to as a processing module.
A communication unit 610, configured to receive first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of the first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam.
A processing unit 620, configured to determine, according to the first indication information, a transmission beam of multiple signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam.
The communication unit 610 is further configured to transmit signals using the plurality of signal resources, where a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
Optionally, the function of the first set of signal resources comprises switching antennas.
Optionally, the communication unit is further configured to: receiving second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are configured according to the first indication information.
Optionally, the first signal resource is an aperiodic sounding reference signal, SRS, resource, and the first set of signal resources includes a plurality of aperiodic SRS resources.
Optionally, the first indication information is carried in a MAC-CE signaling of a MAC-control element.
Optionally, the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink reference signal. Wherein the processing unit is further to: calculating downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam; and calculating the sending power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
Optionally, the processing unit is further configured to: determining a transmit power of the plurality of signal resources as the transmit power of the first signal resource.
Fig. 7 illustrates a communication apparatus 700 provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 700 may be the terminal illustrated in fig. 2. The apparatus may include a processor 710 and a transceiver 730.
Fig. 7 illustrates a communication apparatus 700 provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 700 may be the terminal illustrated in fig. 2. The apparatus may include a processor 710 and a transceiver 730. The transceiver may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. Optionally, the apparatus may further comprise a memory 720, the processor 710, the transceiver 730 and the memory 720 communicating with each other through an internal connection path. The related functions implemented by the processing unit 620 in fig. 6 may be implemented by the processor 710, and the related functions implemented by the communication unit 610 may be implemented by the processor 710 controlling the transceiver 730.
Alternatively, the processor 710 may be a general processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a special-purpose processor, or one or more integrated circuits for performing the embodiments of the present application. Alternatively, a processor may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores for processing data (e.g., computer program instructions). For example, a baseband processor, or a central processor. The baseband processor may be configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be configured to control a device (e.g., a base station, a terminal, or a chip) for recovering from a beam failure, execute a software program, and process data of the software program.
Optionally, the processor 710 may include one or more processors, for example, one or more CPUs, and in the case that the processor is one CPU, the CPU may be a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU.
The transceiver 730 is used for transmitting and receiving data and/or signals, as well as receiving data and/or signals. The transceiver may include a transmitter for transmitting data and/or signals and a receiver for receiving data and/or signals.
The memory 720 includes, but is not limited to, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), and a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), and the memory 840 is used for storing relevant instructions and data.
The memory 720 is used for storing program codes and data of the terminal, and may be a separate device or integrated in the processor 710.
Specifically, the processor 710 is configured to control the transceiver to perform information transmission with the terminal. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the method embodiment, which is not repeated herein.
In particular implementations, apparatus 700 may also include an output device and an input device, as one embodiment. An output device is in communication with processor 710 and may display information in a variety of ways. For example, the output device may be a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display device, a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display device, a projector (projector), or the like. An input device is in communication with the processor 710 and may receive user input in a variety of ways. For example, the input device may be a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen device, or a sensing device, among others.
It will be appreciated that fig. 7 only shows a simplified design of the communication device. In practical applications, the apparatus may also include other necessary elements respectively, including but not limited to any number of transceivers, processors, controllers, memories, etc., and all terminals capable of implementing the present application are within the protection scope of the present application.
In one possible design, the apparatus 700 may be a chip, such as a communication chip that may be used in a terminal to implement the relevant functions of the processor 710 in the terminal. The chip can be a field programmable gate array, a special integrated chip, a system chip, a central processing unit, a network processor, a digital signal processing circuit and a microcontroller which realize related functions, and can also adopt a programmable controller or other integrated chips. The chip may optionally include one or more memories for storing program code that, when executed, causes the processor to implement corresponding functions.
The embodiment of the application also provides a device which can be a terminal or a circuit. The apparatus may be configured to perform the actions performed by the terminal in the above-described method embodiments.
Optionally, when the apparatus in this embodiment is a terminal, fig. 8 illustrates a simplified structural diagram of the terminal. For easy understanding and convenience of illustration, in fig. 8, the terminal is exemplified by a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 8, the terminal includes a processor, a memory, a radio frequency circuit, an antenna, and an input-output device. The processor is mainly used for processing communication protocols and communication data, controlling the terminal, executing software programs, processing data of the software programs and the like. The memory is used primarily for storing software programs and data. The radio frequency circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing the radio frequency signals. The antenna is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, keyboards, etc., are used primarily for receiving data input by a user and for outputting data to the user. It should be noted that some kinds of terminals may not have input/output devices.
When data needs to be sent, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent and outputs baseband signals to the radio frequency circuit, and the radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signals and sends the radio frequency signals to the outside in the form of electromagnetic waves through the antenna. When data is sent to the terminal, the radio frequency circuit receives radio frequency signals through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signals into baseband signals and outputs the baseband signals to the processor, and the processor converts the baseband signals into the data and processes the data. For ease of illustration, only one memory and processor are shown in FIG. 8. In an actual end product, there may be one or more processors and one or more memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, etc. The memory may be provided independently of the processor, or may be integrated with the processor, which is not limited in this embodiment.
In the embodiment of the present application, the antenna and the radio frequency circuit having the transceiving function may be regarded as a transceiving unit of the terminal, and the processor having the processing function may be regarded as a processing unit of the terminal. As shown in fig. 8, the terminal includes a transceiving unit 810 and a processing unit 820. A transceiver unit may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiving device, etc. A processing unit may also be referred to as a processor, a processing board, a processing module, a processing device, or the like. Optionally, a device used for implementing the receiving function in the transceiver 810 may be regarded as a receiving unit, and a device used for implementing the transmitting function in the transceiver 810 may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiver 810 includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. A transceiver unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transceiver, transceiving circuitry, or the like. A receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, a receiving circuit, or the like. A transmitting unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.
It should be understood that the transceiver 810 is configured to perform the transmitting operation and the receiving operation on the terminal side in the above-described method embodiments, and the processing unit 820 is configured to perform other operations on the terminal in addition to the transceiving operation in the above-described method embodiments.
For example, in one implementation, the processing unit 820 is configured to perform the terminal-side processing step S220. The transceiving unit 810 is configured to perform transceiving operations in S210 and S230, and/or the transceiving unit 810 is further configured to perform other transceiving steps at the terminal side in the embodiment shown in fig. 2.
When the communication device is a chip, the chip includes a transceiver unit and a processing unit. The transceiver unit can be an input/output circuit and a communication interface; the processing unit is a processor or a microprocessor or an integrated circuit integrated on the chip.
Optionally, when the apparatus is a terminal, reference may also be made to the device shown in fig. 9. As an example, the device may perform functions similar to processor 810 in FIG. 8. In fig. 9, the apparatus includes a processor 901, a transmit data processor 903, and a receive data processor 905. The processing module in the above embodiment may be the processor 901 in fig. 9, and performs the corresponding functions. The receiving module in the above embodiments may be the received data processor 905 in fig. 9, and the sending module may be the sent data processor 903 in fig. 9. Although fig. 9 shows a channel encoder and a channel decoder, it is understood that these blocks are not limitative and only illustrative to the present embodiment.
Fig. 10 shows another form of the present embodiment. The processing device 1000 includes modules such as a modulation subsystem, a central processing subsystem, and peripheral subsystems. The communication device in this embodiment may act as a modulation subsystem therein. Specifically, the modulation subsystem may include a processor 1003 and an interface 1004. The processor 1003 performs the functions of the processing module, and the interface 1004 performs the functions of the receiving module or the sending module. As another variation, the modulation subsystem includes a memory 1006, a processor 1003, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and the processor executes the program to implement the method according to one of the first to fifth embodiments. It should be noted that the memory 1006 may be non-volatile or volatile, and may be located inside the modulation subsystem or in the processing device 1000, as long as the memory 1006 can be connected to the processor 1003.
It should be understood that the communication devices in fig. 6 to fig. 10 may also correspond to the terminal in the embodiment shown in fig. 4, and each unit or module in the communication device may have any function of the terminal in the method shown in fig. 4, which is not described herein again.
Fig. 11 shows a schematic block diagram of a communication device 1100 of an embodiment of the present application.
It is understood that the apparatus 1100 may correspond to the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and may have any function of the base station in the method. The apparatus 1100 includes a communication unit 1110 and a processing unit 1120. The communication unit may be referred to as a communication module or a transceiver module, which may include a transmitting module and/or a receiving module. The processing unit may be referred to as a processing module.
The communication unit 1110 is configured to implement the receiving operation and the transmitting operation performed by the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and the processing unit 1120 is configured to implement the processing operation performed by the base station in the implementation shown in fig. 2. And will not be described in detail herein.
Fig. 12 illustrates a communication apparatus 1200 provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1200 may be a base station as described in fig. 2. The apparatus may include a processor 1210 and a transceiver 1230. The transceiver may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. Optionally, the apparatus may further comprise a memory 1220, the processor 1210, the transceiver 1230 and the memory 1220 being in communication with each other via an internal connection path. The related functions implemented by the processing module 1120 in fig. 11 may be implemented by the processor 1210, and the related functions implemented by the transceiver module 1110 may be implemented by the processor 1210 controlling the transceiver 1230.
Alternatively, the processor 1210 may be a CPU, microprocessor, ASIC, dedicated processor, or one or more integrated circuits configured to perform the embodiments of the present application. Alternatively, a processor may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores for processing data (e.g., computer program instructions). For example, a baseband processor, or a central processor. The baseband processor may be configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be configured to control a device (e.g., a base station, a terminal, or a chip) for recovering from a beam failure, execute a software program, and process data of the software program.
Optionally, the processor 1210 may include one or more processors, for example, one or more CPUs, and in the case that the processor is one CPU, the CPU may be a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU.
The transceiver 1230 is used for transmitting and receiving data and/or signals, and receiving data and/or signals. The transceiver may include a transmitter for transmitting data and/or signals and a receiver for receiving data and/or signals.
The memory 1220 includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EPROM, CD-ROM, and the memory 1220 is used for storing relevant instructions and data.
The memory 1220 is used for storing program codes and data of the base station, and may be a separate device or integrated in the processor 1210.
Specifically, the processor 1210 is configured to control the transceiver to perform information transmission with the terminal. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the method embodiment, which is not repeated herein.
In particular implementations, apparatus 1200 may also include an output device and an input device, as one embodiment. An output device, which is in communication with the processor 1210, may display information in a variety of ways. For example, the output device may be an LCD, LED display device, CRT display device, or projector, etc. The input device, which is in communication with the processor 1210, may receive user input in a variety of ways. For example, the input device may be a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen device, or a sensing device, among others.
It will be appreciated that fig. 12 only shows a simplified design of the communication device. In practical applications, the apparatus may also include other necessary elements respectively, including but not limited to any number of transceivers, processors, controllers, memories, etc., and all network devices that can implement the present application are within the protection scope of the present application.
In one possible design, the apparatus 1200 may be a chip, such as a communication chip that may be used in a network device (e.g., a base station) to implement the relevant functions of the processor 1210 in the network device. The chip can be a field programmable gate array, a special integrated chip, a system chip, a central processing unit, a network processor, a digital signal processing circuit and a microcontroller which realize related functions, and can also adopt a programmable controller or other integrated chips. The chip may optionally include one or more memories for storing program code that, when executed, causes the processor to implement corresponding functions.
The embodiment of the present application further provides an apparatus, which may be a network device (e.g., a base station) or a circuit. The apparatus may be configured to perform the actions performed by the base station in the above-described method embodiments.
When the apparatus in this embodiment is an access network device, the access network device may be as shown in fig. 13, and the apparatus 1300 includes one or more radio frequency units, such as an RRU 1310 and one or more BBUs 1320. The RRU 1310 may be referred to as a transceiver module, which corresponds to the receiving module and the transmitting module, and optionally may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiver circuit, or a transceiver, etc., which may include at least one antenna 1311 and a radio frequency unit 1312. The RRU 1310 is mainly used for transceiving radio frequency signals and converting the radio frequency signals into baseband signals, for example, for sending indication information to a terminal device. The BBU 1310 part is mainly used for performing baseband processing, controlling a base station, and the like. The RRU 1310 and the BBU 1320 may be physically located together or physically located separately, i.e. distributed base stations.
The BBU 1320 is a control center of a base station, and may also be referred to as a processing module, and may correspond to the processing module 1120 in fig. 11, and is mainly used for completing baseband processing functions, such as channel coding, multiplexing, modulation, spreading, and the like. For example, the BBU (processing module) may be configured to control the base station to perform an operation procedure related to the access network device in the foregoing method embodiment, for example, to generate the foregoing indication information.
In an example, the BBU 1320 may be formed by one or more boards, and the boards may support a radio access network of a single access system (e.g., an LTE network) together, or may support radio access networks of different access systems (e.g., an LTE network, a 5G network, or other networks) respectively. The BBU 1320 also includes a memory 1321 and a processor 1322. The memory 1321 is used to store the necessary instructions and data. The processor 1322 is configured to control the base station to perform necessary actions, for example, to control the base station to perform the operation procedure related to the access network device in the above-described method embodiment. The memory 1321 and processor 1322 may serve one or more boards. That is, the memory and processor may be provided separately on each board. Multiple boards may share the same memory and processor. In addition, each single board can be provided with necessary circuits.
The access network device is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and may be in another embodiment: for example: the antenna comprises a BBU (baseband unit) and an Adaptive Radio Unit (ARU), or the BBU and an Active Antenna Unit (AAU); the CPE may be a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) or another type, and the present application is not limited thereto.
It should be understood that the communication apparatus in fig. 11 to fig. 13 may also correspond to the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 4, and each unit or module in the communication apparatus may have any function of the base station in the method shown in fig. 4, and is not described herein again.
The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable medium, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program, when executed by a computer, implements the communication method in any of the above method embodiments.
The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product, and when executed by a computer, the computer program product implements the communication method in any of the above method embodiments.
In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a Digital Video Disk (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.
It should be understood that the processor may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.
It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct bus RAM (DR RAM).
In the present application, "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone, wherein A and B can be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. "at least one of the following" or similar expressions refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of the singular or plural items. For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c, may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or multiple.
It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present application. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.
As used in this specification, the terms "component," "module," "system," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between 2 or more computers. In addition, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from two components interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the internet with other systems by way of the signal).
It should also be understood that the reference herein to first, second, and various numerical designations is merely a convenient division to describe and is not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.
It should be understood that the term "and/or" herein is merely one type of association relationship that describes an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. Wherein A or B is present alone, and the number of A or B is not limited. Taking the case of a being present alone, it is understood to have one or more a.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.
It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.
In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.
The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

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1. A method of communication, comprising:
receiving first indication information for indicating that a transmission beam of a first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam;
determining, according to the first indication information, a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam;
transmitting a signal using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
2. The communications method of claim 1, wherein the function of the first set of signal resources comprises switching antennas.
3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein before determining a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first set of signal resources to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam according to the first indication information, the method further comprises:
receiving second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are configured according to the first indication information.
4. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first signal resource is an aperiodic sounding reference signal, SRS, resource, and the first set of signal resources comprises a plurality of aperiodic SRS resources; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the first signal resource is a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource, and the first signal resource set comprises a plurality of PUCCH resources.
5. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first indication information comprises identification information of the first signal resource, identification information of the first transmission beam, and function indication information of the first signal resource set.
6. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first indication information comprises identification information of the first set of signal resources, identification information of the first signal resources, and identification information of the first transmission beam.
7. The communication method according to claim 5, wherein when the function of the first set of signal resources is antenna switching, the first indication information only includes identification information of one of the first transmission beams and identification information of one of the first set of signal resources, and the identification information of the one signal resource is the identification information of the first signal resource.
8. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first indication information is carried in a medium access control-control element, MAC-CE, signaling.
9. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink reference signal;
wherein the method further comprises:
determining downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam;
and determining the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
10. The communication method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:
determining a transmit power of the plurality of signal resources as the transmit power of the first signal resource.
11. The communication method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein all signal resources in the first set of signal resources are configured to the same transmission beam.
12. A communications apparatus, comprising:
a communication unit, configured to receive first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a transmission beam of a first signal resource is configured as a first transmission beam;
a processing unit, configured to determine, according to the first indication information, a transmission beam of a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs as the first transmission beam;
the communication unit is further configured to transmit a signal using the plurality of signal resources, wherein a transmission beam of the plurality of signal resources is the first transmission beam.
13. The communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the functionality of the first set of signal resources comprises switching antennas.
14. The communication device according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the communication unit is further configured to:
receiving second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that a plurality of signal resources in a first signal resource set to which the first signal resource belongs are configured according to the first indication information.
15. The communication apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the first signal resource is an aperiodic sounding reference signal, SRS, resource, and the first set of signal resources comprises a plurality of aperiodic SRS resources; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the first signal resource is a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource, and the first signal resource set comprises a plurality of PUCCH resources.
16. A communications device according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the first indication information comprises identification information of the first signal resource, identification information of the first transmission beam and function indication information of the first set of signal resources.
17. The communications apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the first indication information comprises identification information of the first set of signal resources, identification information of the first signal resources and identification information of the first transmission beam.
18. The communications apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein when the function of the first set of signal resources is antenna switching, the first indication information only includes identification information of one of the first transmission beams and identification information of one of the first set of signal resources, and the identification information of the one signal resource is the identification information of the first signal resource.
19. The communication apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the first indication information is carried in a medium access control-control element, MAC-CE, signaling.
20. The communications apparatus as claimed in claim 12 or 13, wherein the reference signal of the first transmission beam is a downlink reference signal; wherein the processing unit is further to:
determining downlink path loss according to the reference signal of the first transmission beam;
and determining the transmission power of the first signal resource according to the downlink path loss.
21. The communications apparatus of claim 20, wherein the processing unit is further configured to:
determining a transmit power of the plurality of signal resources as the transmit power of the first signal resource.
22. The communications apparatus of claim 12 or 13, wherein all signal resources in the first set of signal resources are configured to a same transmission beam.
23. A terminal device, characterized in that it comprises a communication apparatus according to any one of claims 12 to 22.
24. A computer-readable medium, characterized by comprising a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the communication method according to any one of claims 1 to 11.
25. A communication device, comprising: a processor coupled with a memory for storing a program or instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform the communication method of any of claims 1 to 11.
26. A communication device, comprising: a processor for performing the communication method of any one of claims 1-11.
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