CN113890686A

CN113890686A - Polarization code processing method and device and node

Info

Publication number: CN113890686A
Application number: CN202111276262.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈泽为; 许进; 徐俊
Original assignee: ZTE Corp
Current assignee: ZTE Corp
Priority date: 2016-05-13
Filing date: 2016-06-21
Publication date: 2022-01-04
Anticipated expiration: 2036-06-21
Also published as: CN113890686B; WO2017194012A1

Abstract

The invention provides a polar code processing method, a polar code processing device and a node; wherein, the method comprises the following steps: acquiring parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, wherein the parameter information comprises at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; determining an encoding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, wherein the encoding parameter comprises at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding. The invention solves the problem that the polar code coding or decoding can not be solved in the related technology.

Description

Polarization code processing method and device and node

The application is to the application number: 201610451966.6, filing date: a divisional application of original application entitled "polarized code processing method, apparatus and node" of 2016, 21/06.21/2016.

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a polar code processing method, apparatus, and node.

Background

In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, in order to implement a downlink adaptive coding modulation technique, an uplink needs to transmit a control signaling including Channel State Information (CSI). The CSI includes a Channel Quality Indication (CQI), a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) and a Rank Indicator (RI). The CSI reflects the downlink physical channel state. And the base station performs downlink scheduling by using the CSI and performs coding modulation on data.

The CQI is an index for measuring the quality of the downlink channel. In the 36-213 protocol, CQIs are expressed by integer value indexes of 0-15, and represent different CQI levels, and the different CQIs correspond to respective Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS). The CQI level selected by a User Equipment (UE) should be such that a Block error rate of a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) Transport Block (TB) under an MCS corresponding to the CQI does not exceed 0.1, and the selected CQI is a maximum CQI index that satisfies the condition.

The base station performs scheduling by combining the CSI reported by the terminal, and determines a downlink Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) index and resource allocation information. Specifically, the LTE protocol of Rel-8 defines a Modulation and transport block size table (hereinafter also referred to as a Downlink MCS table) for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). The table has 32 levels, basically each level corresponds to one MCS index, and each MCS index essentially corresponds to one MCS. The Resource allocation information provides the Number of Physical Resource blocks (NPRB for short) that need to be occupied for downlink transmission. The LTE standard also provides a TBS table. According to the table, the Transport Block Size (TBS) can be obtained by giving the MCS index and the NPRB. With these coded modulation parameters (MCS/NPRB/TBS), the base station can perform coded modulation of downlink data and perform downlink transmission.

After receiving the downlink data, the terminal needs to obtain the MCS index and resource allocation information for downlink transmission for processing the data. The base station transmits the MCS index and the resource allocation Information through Downlink Control Information (DCI). The base station scrambles Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) bits corresponding to the downlink control information by using a specific Radio Network Temporary Identity (RNTI for short). And transmits the Downlink Control information in a specific Downlink Control information format (DCI format) through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH for short). The terminal performs blind Search in a Common Search Space (CSS) and a UE-specific Search Space (USS) to obtain downlink control information. And the terminal acquires the downlink control information, then obtains the TBS according to the TBS table and uses the TBS for demodulation and decoding.

The radio network temporary identities include a Semi-persistent Scheduling (SPS) Cell radio network temporary identity (SPS C-RNTI, for short), a Cell radio network temporary identity (Cell RNTI, C-RNTI, for short), and the like. DCI formats related to PDSCH include the following various: DCI format 1, DCI format 1A, DCI format 1B, DCI format 1C, DCI format 1D, DCI format 2A, DCI format 2B, DCI format 2C, DCI format 2D, and the like.

The adaptive coding modulation of the uplink also has a similar process. And the base station performs channel estimation and scheduling by using the pilot frequency sent by the terminal and determines the uplink coding and modulation coding scheme index and the resource allocation information. And the base station issues MCS index and resource allocation information through the DCI for the modulation coding processing of the terminal. After receiving the data of the terminal, the base station performs demodulation and decoding according to the relevant coding modulation parameters (MCS/NPRB/TBS).

In the LTE standard of Rel-13, the physical shared channel mainly adopts Turbo Code and convolutional Code, and the fifth generation wireless communication technology research introduces more new coding schemes, such as Polar Code. The polar code is a coding mode which utilizes the polarization of the channel and is proved by theory to be capable of approaching the capacity of a symmetric binary discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC). In the construction of the polar code, it is necessary to select a better polar channel for information bits using noise-related information and channel condition-related information. In a standard polar code encoder, the encoder output bit sequence length N is a power of 2. The choice of N also depends on parameters such as the number of bits that the time-frequency resource can carry and the modulation order.

The construction and coding of the polar code requires relevant coding parameters and channel-related information. However, how to solve the problem of polar code encoding or decoding has not been proposed yet.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a polar code processing method, a polar code processing device and a node, which are used for at least solving the problem that the coding or decoding of a polar code cannot be solved in the related technology.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a polarization code processing method including: acquiring parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, wherein the parameter information comprises at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; determining an encoding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, wherein the encoding parameter comprises at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Optionally, determining the coding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the second power indication information comprises at least one of: determining the length of a coding code according to the number of resources and the modulation order; determining bit position information and/or a generating matrix according to the first power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order; and determining bit position information and/or generating a matrix according to the second power indication information, the code length and the modulation order.

Optionally, the parameter information includes: in the case of the first power indication information and the number of resources, before determining the encoding parameter according to the parameter information, the method further includes: and obtaining a modulation order according to the first power indication information.

Optionally, the first power indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) and noise variance; the second power indication information is used for indicating at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR, noise variance.

Optionally, the encoding code length is a bit sequence length encoded and output by the polar code encoder.

Optionally, the code length of the code has at least one of the following characteristics: when the specified condition is met, the code length is N1, otherwise, the code length is N2; the value of N1 is the minimum power of 2 greater than the preset threshold, the value of N2 is the maximum power of 2 less than the preset threshold, and the preset threshold is determined by the number of allocated resources and the modulation order.

Optionally, the specified conditions are: n0> f (N1, N2); wherein f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 and/or N2.

Optionally, f (N1, N2) comprises at least one of: f (N1, N2) ═ sqrt (N1 × N2), where sqrt denotes the root; f (N1, N2) ═ N1+ N2)/2.

Optionally, the first power indication information includes: modulation coding scheme MCS index.

Optionally, before acquiring the parameter information from the signaling sent by the first node, the method further includes sending second power indication information to the first node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to the second power information.

Optionally, the second power indication information includes: the channel quality indicates CQI.

Optionally, the first power indication information and/or the second power indication information comprises at least one of: explicit power indication information, implicit power indication information; wherein the explicit power indication information has at least one of the following characteristics: the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by M1 bits corresponds to one first power information and/or second power information; the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by the M1 bits corresponds to a first power information and/or a second power information and a power information interval; m1 is a positive integer.

Optionally, the implicit power indication information comprises at least one of: MCS index, CQI index; wherein, one value of the MCS index or the CQI index corresponds to one first power information or second power information.

Optionally, the first power information and/or the second power information has at least one of the following characteristics: when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, infinity), the first power information and/or the second power information takes a first designated value; when the power information interval belongs to the interval (0, a2) or (— ∞, a2), the first power information and/or the second power information takes on a second specified value; wherein a1 and a2 are real numbers, and a1 is not less than a 2.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided another polarization code processing method including: sending signaling to a second node, wherein the signaling carries parameter information for determining a coding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; the encoding parameters include at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Optionally, before sending the signaling to the second node, the method further includes, receiving second power indication information sent by the second node; the second power indication information corresponds to second power information, and the second power indication information is used for indicating at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR, noise variance.

Optionally, the first power indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR, noise variance.

Optionally, the first power indication information and/or the second power indication information comprises at least one of: explicit power indication information, implicit power indication information; wherein the explicit power indication information has at least one of the following characteristics: the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by M1 bits corresponds to one first power information and/or second power information; the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by the M1 bits corresponds to a first power information and/or a second power information and a power information interval; m1 is a positive integer; the implicit power indication information includes at least one of: MCS index, CQI index; wherein, one value of the MCS index or the CQI index corresponds to one first power information or second power information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a polarization code processing apparatus including: an obtaining module, configured to obtain parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, where the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; a determining module, configured to determine an encoding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, where the encoding parameter includes at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Optionally, the determining module is further configured to perform at least one of: determining a code length according to the number of the resources and the modulation order; determining the bit position information and/or a generating matrix according to the first power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order; and determining the bit position information and/or the generator matrix according to the second power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises: an obtaining module, configured to include, in the parameter information: and under the condition of the first power indication information and the resource number, acquiring the modulation order according to the first power indication information.

Optionally, the first power indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following power information: signal power value, power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR, noise variance; the second power indication information is used for indicating at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR, noise variance.

Optionally, the encoding code length is a bit sequence length of the encoding output of the encoder.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises: a sending module, configured to send second power indication information to the first node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to the second power information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided another polarization code processing apparatus including: a sending module, configured to send a signaling to a second node, where the signaling carries parameter information used for determining a coding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; the encoding parameters include at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises: a receiving module, configured to receive second power indication information sent by a second node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to a second power; the second power indication information is used for indicating at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio, SINR, noise variance.

According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a node including: the polarization code processing device.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a storage medium. The storage medium is configured to store program code for performing the steps of:

acquiring parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, wherein the parameter information comprises at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; determining an encoding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, wherein the encoding parameter comprises at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

By the invention, the coding parameter can be determined according to the parameter information acquired from the signaling sent by the first node, wherein the coding parameter is at least one of the following: the bit position information, the generator matrix and the code length for encoding or decoding the polarization code can further realize the decoding or encoding of the polarization code, so that the problem that the encoding or decoding of the polarization code cannot be solved in the related technology can be solved.

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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a first flowchart of a polar code processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart II of a polar code processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a polar code processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a block diagram of a polarization code processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The invention will be described in detail hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order.

Example 1

The embodiment of the present application may operate on the network architecture shown in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 1, the network architecture includes: the system comprises a first node and a second node, wherein the first node and the second node can interact with each other.

The first node may be a terminal or a base station, but is not limited thereto, and the second node may also be a terminal or a base station, but is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment, a polar code processing method operating in a network architecture is provided, and fig. 2 is a first flowchart of a polar code processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the flowchart includes the following steps:

step S202, obtaining parameter information from the signaling sent by the first node, wherein the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order;

step S204, determining a coding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, wherein the coding parameter includes at least one of the following: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Through the above steps, since the encoding parameter may be determined according to the parameter information obtained from the signaling sent by the first node and/or the second power indication information stored locally, the encoding parameter includes at least one of the following: the bit position information, the generator matrix and the code length for encoding or decoding the polarization code can further realize the decoding or encoding of the polarization code, so that the problem that the encoding or decoding of the polarization code cannot be solved in the related technology can be solved.

The bit position information may be information bit position information or frozen bit position information. The length-N bit sequence entering the polar code encoder comprises length-K information bits and N-K known bits, which are also referred to as frozen bits. The output of the polar code encoder is a sequence of coded bits of length N. For a given polar code generator matrix, it is necessary to arrange the information bits appropriately or to freeze the bit position order, i.e. to select a good channel for the information bits, in order to obtain a better code performance. Regarding the principle of encoding and decoding polarization codes, reference may be made to the paper: a Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for symmetry Binary-Input Memoryless Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.55, No.7, July 2009.

It should be noted that the allocated Resource number may be a physical Resource block number NPRB when a physical downlink shared channel PDSCH or a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH Resource is allocated, a control channel Resource allocation Unit, or a Resource Unit (Resource Unit) number NRU in a narrowband internet of things NB-IoT.

It should be noted that, the parameter information may be represented in various forms, for example, the parameter information may include the first power indication information and the number of resources, and may also include the first power indication information, the number of resource allocations, and the modulation order, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and for example, the parameter information may include the first power indication information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when the parameter information includes first power indication information, a number of resources, and a modulation order, the step S202 may represent at least one of: determining the length of a coding code according to the number of resources and the modulation order; determining bit position information and/or a generating matrix according to the first power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order; and determining bit position information and/or generating a matrix according to the second power indication information, the code length and the modulation order.

The parameter information includes: in the case of the first power indication information and the resource allocation information, before the step S202, the method may further include: and obtaining a modulation order according to the first power indication information.

The first power indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR, noise variance. The power offset value refers to an offset value of the power with respect to a power of a specific reference signal. It should be noted that, here, the signal power value, the signal power offset value, the noise power offset value, the SINR, and the noise variance are equivalent in effect, and are all used to obtain the channel state, obtain the relationship between the signal power and the noise power, and determine the position order of the information bit or the frozen bit when the polar code is encoded and decoded.

The second power indication information may also be used to indicate at least one of the following power information: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR, noise variance. For the explanation of the power information, refer to the explanation of the first power indication information, which is not described herein.

The encoding code length is the length of the bit sequence encoded and output by the polar code encoder. The code length may have at least one of the following characteristics: when the specified condition is met, the code length is N1, otherwise, the code length is N2; wherein, the value of N1 is the minimum power of 2 greater than the preset threshold value N0, the value of N2 is the maximum power of 2 less than N0, and N0 is determined by the number of allocated resources and the modulation order.

The above-mentioned specified conditions may be: n0> f (N1, N2); wherein f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 and/or N2. For example, the f (N1, N2) includes at least one of: f (N1, N2) ═ sqrt (N1 × N2), where sqrt denotes the root; f (N1, N2) is (N1+ N2)/2, but is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, with respect to the geometric mean f (N1, N2) of N1 and N2 being sqrt (N1 × N2), taking the arithmetic mean of N1 and N2 being (N1+ N2)/2 as the above specified condition, N may be more likely to be selected as N2, which is further beneficial to reduce the coding complexity. Which specific condition is adopted can be preset according to actual needs.

When the code length is N1, the output of the polar code encoder is punctured, that is, part of bits output by the polar code encoder are discarded and not transmitted; if the length of the coding code is N2, the bits output by the polar code encoder are repeatedly sent, and further a bit sequence matched with the time frequency resource can be obtained. The value of the code length is determined according to the specified condition, so that the block error rate of the polar code can be improved, and the complexity of coding or decoding can be reduced.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first power indication information may include: and modulating the MCS index of the coding scheme, and indicating power information through the MCS index to ensure that the polar code is correctly carried out without increasing new signaling overhead.

In an embodiment of the present invention, before the step S202, the method may further include: transmitting second power indication information to the first node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to the second power information.

It should be noted that the first node may also obtain power information (second power information) according to the second power indication information, which is helpful to better select a good channel corresponding to the information bit of the polar code, so as to improve the performance of the polar code.

It should be noted that the second power indication information may include a channel quality indication CQI.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first power indication information and/or the second power indication information may include at least one of: explicit power indication information, implicit power indication information; wherein the explicit power indication information has at least one of the following characteristics: the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by M1 bits corresponds to one first power information and/or second power information; the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by the M1 bits corresponds to a first power information and/or a second power information and a power information interval; m1 is a positive integer.

It should be noted that, the implicit power indication information may include at least one of the following: MCS index, CQI index; wherein, one value of the MCS index or the CQI index corresponds to one first power information or second power information. The first power indication information and/or the second power indication information correspond to one piece of first power information and/or second power information, and then the first power information and/or the second power information can be obtained through the first power indication information and/or the second power indication information.

It should be noted that the first power information and/or the second power information has at least one of the following characteristics: when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, infinity), the first power information and/or the second power information takes a first designated value; when the power information interval belongs to the interval (0, a2) or (— ∞, a2), the first power information and/or the second power information takes on a second specified value; wherein a1 and a2 are real numbers, and a1 is not less than a 2. By setting the value of the power information when the power information section belongs to the section (a1, + ∞), the section (0, a2), or (— ∞, a2), and further extending the power used by the polar code or the SNR section, it is possible to encode or decode using the polar code even in a wider SNR range.

In this embodiment, a polar code processing method operating in a network architecture is further provided, and fig. 3 is a second flowchart of the polar code processing method according to the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the flowchart includes the following steps:

step S302, receiving second power indication information sent by a second node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to a second power;

step S304, signaling is sent to the second node, wherein the signaling carries parameter information for determining the encoding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; the encoding parameters include at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

Through the above steps, since the parameter information carrying the determined encoding parameter may be sent to the second node, where the encoding parameter includes at least one of: the bit position information, the generator matrix and the code length for encoding or decoding the polarization code can further realize the decoding or encoding of the polarization code, so that the problem that the encoding or decoding of the polarization code cannot be solved in the related technology can be solved.

It should be noted that the step S304 may be the same as the step S302, for example, the step S302 may not be executed before the step S304, and the above technical problem may be solved, but is not limited thereto.

The second power indication information may be used as the first variance indication information.

It should be noted that, the first power indication information may include, but is not limited to: modulation coding scheme MCS index. The second power indication information may include, but is not limited to: the channel quality indicates CQI. The second power indication information corresponds to the second power, and the first power indication information corresponds to the first power.

It should be noted that the second power indication information may also be used to obtain the second power, which is helpful to better select a good channel corresponding to the information bit of the polar code, and improve the performance of the polar code.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first power indication information and/or the second power indication information includes at least one of: explicit power indication information, implicit power indication information; wherein the explicit power indication information has at least one of the following characteristics: the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by M1 bits corresponds to one first power information and/or second power information; the explicit power indication information is represented by M1 bits, and one value represented by the M1 bits corresponds to a first power information and/or a second power information and a power information interval; m1 is a positive integer; the implicit power indication information includes at least one of: MCS index, CQI index; wherein, one value of the MCS index or the CQI index corresponds to one first power information or second power information.

The first power information and/or the second power information has at least one of the following characteristics: when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, infinity), the first power information and/or the second power information takes a first designated value; when the power information interval belongs to the interval (0, a2) or (— ∞, a2), the first power information and/or the second power information takes on a second specified value; wherein a1 and a2 are real numbers, and a1 is not less than a 2. By setting the value of the power information when the power information section belongs to the section (a1, + ∞), the section (0, a2), or (- ∞, a2), and further expanding the power information or SNR section used by the polar code, it is possible to encode or decode using the polar code even in a wider SNR range.

The invention is further explained below with reference to preferred examples in order to better understand the invention.

Preferred embodiment 1

In the preferred embodiment, the base station performs coding processing by using a polarization code and transmits data to the terminal. The terminal receives downlink control signaling DCI transmitted by the base station, and reads a coding modulation scheme index IMCS (corresponding to the MCS index in the above-described embodiment) and resource allocation information from the DCI. And searching the MCS table according to the IMCS to obtain the modulation order M and the transmission block size index ITBS.

In the preferred embodiment, the terminal obtains first power indication information according to the DCI signaling sent by the base station, where the first power indication information indicates the first noise variance. The first power indication information is IMCS, which is implicit power indication information. The terminal can also obtain the equivalent noise variance a by looking up the MCS table according to the IMCS. An example of the MCS table is shown in table 1. In table 1, each IMCS level corresponds to a combination of coding modulation schemes, and the combination of coding modulation schemes corresponds to an equivalent SNR interval or an equivalent noise variance interval a. Within the equivalent noise variance interval a, the coded modulation scheme has a maximum spectral efficiency such that BLER is not greater than 0.1. In table 1, each IMCS corresponds to a noise variance a. This noise variance a is used for the code construction in the case of polar code coding.

TABLE 1

In the preferred embodiment, the terminal obtains the size NPRB of the physical resource block allocated by the base station according to the resource allocation information. And the terminal determines the bit sequence length N of the coded output of the polar code coder according to the NPRB and the modulation order.

Specifically, let N0 be the number of bits carried on the time-frequency resource, and N0 ═ NPRB × properb × M. Here, the properb is the number of resource elements re (resource element) of one physical resource block PRB. N is taken to be a power of 2 and possible values for N are { N1, N2 }. N1 is a power of 2 minimum greater than N0, and N2 is a power of 2 maximum less than N0. If N0 is equal to or greater than sqrt (N1N 2), then N is N1, otherwise N is N2. Wherein sqrt represents the root number. If N is N1, then the polar code encoder output will be punctured, i.e. part of the bits are discarded and not sent; if N is N2, the bits output by the polar code encoder will be sent repeatedly. Thereby obtaining a bit sequence matched with the time frequency resource. Two possibilities are provided for the value of N, and one of the two possibilities is selected according to the condition, so that the polar code block error rate performance is improved, and the coding complexity is reduced. For example, when N0 is close to N1, puncturing the code length N1 by using a puncturing method is more excellent; when N0 is close to N2, N2 is selected as the code length and is repeatedly transmitted, complexity is lower, and performance is better.

In the preferred embodiment, N0 is equal to or greater than sqrt (N1N 2), so N1. In this embodiment, the terminal further searches the transport block size table according to the ITBS and NPRB to obtain the transport block size TBS.

Further, the terminal determines information bit position information according to the modulation order M, the noise variance a and the code length N. Specifically, the terminal obtains information bit positions with a length of TBS according to a polarization code construction method, and the positions correspond to good polarization channels of the TBS. The acquisition of the good channel may employ a gaussian approximation. Equivalently, the terminal can also determine the polar code generation matrix according to the modulation order M and the noise variance a, as well as the code length N.

Further, the terminal decodes the polarization code according to the N, the information bit position information (or the generated matrix), the noise variance a and the modulation order M to obtain decoded data.

In the preferred implementation, the IMCS indicates the noise variance, so that the decoding of the polar code can be ensured to be correctly carried out. Nor does it add new signaling overhead.

Preferred embodiment 2

The difference between the preferred embodiment and preferred embodiment 1 is that the terminal obtains the first power indication information according to the DCI signaling sent by the base station. The first power indication information is not IMCS but explicit power indication information Iad. The first power indication information indicates a first noise variance.

Iad are represented by M1-5 bits with 32 levels. The value of 5 bits is 0-31. Each value corresponds to a first noise variance value a and a noise variance interval a. An example of the correspondence between the Iad values and a/a is shown in table 2. The terminal looks up table 2 according to Iad, i.e. the corresponding a can be obtained. The noise variance a is used for the code structure when the polar code is encoded, and is also a parameter that is needed to be known for terminal decoding.

In addition, on the base station side, when the base station performs the polar code coding, a is obtained according to the interval A where the actual noise variance exists and the table 2, and the coding is performed according to a.

In Table 2, when A is (1.4380, + ∞) and [0,0.0011), a takes on values of 1.7982 and 0.0011, respectively. This extends the noise variance or SNR interval for the polar code, so that the polar code can be used to encode and decode in a larger SNR range.

In this embodiment, the first power indication information may further indicate one of the following: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, equivalent SINR. Correspondingly, each value of the noise variance indicator Iad in table 2 corresponds to one power value/power offset value/SINR and one power/power offset value/SINR interval. The value of the corresponding power value/power offset value/SINR may range from negative infinity to positive infinity according to different definitions of power value/power offset value/SINR. It should be noted that the power value or the offset value, SINR, may be used to obtain information bit or position information of the frozen bit during the polar code encoding and decoding.

TABLE 2

Preferred embodiment 3

In the preferred embodiment, the base station performs coding processing by using a polarization code. Before the polar code coding is carried out, the base station needs to obtain the downlink equivalent second power indication information, and the power information can be used for code construction in the polar code coding.

The terminal transmits second power indication information, which is explicit power indication information Iad, to the base station. For indicating the second noise variance. The Iad is represented by 32 levels of M1-5 bits. The value of 5 bits is 0-31. Each value corresponds to a noise variance value a and a noise variance interval a. An example of the correspondence between the Iad values and a/a is shown in table 2 above.

And the terminal performs channel estimation to obtain a second noise variance of the actual link, obtains a corresponding interval A according to the obtained noise variance, and obtains Iad according to the table 2.

The base station looks up table 2 according to Iad to obtain a corresponding a and a second noise variance a.

The base station acquires the noise variance through the second power indication information sent by the terminal, which is beneficial to better selecting a good channel corresponding to the information bit of the polarization code and improving the performance of the code. In fact, the base station may also use the second power indication information transmitted by the terminal as the first power indication information.

In this embodiment, the second power indication information may further indicate one of the following: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, equivalent SINR. Correspondingly, each value of the noise variance indicator Iad in table 2 corresponds to one power value/power offset value/SINR and one power/power offset value/SINR interval. It should be noted that the power value or the offset value, SINR, may be used to obtain information bit or position information of the frozen bit during the polar code encoding and decoding.

Preferred embodiment 4

The present preferred embodiment is different from the preferred embodiment 4 in that the second power indication information obtained by the base station is implicit power indication information, indicates a second noise variance, and is a channel quality indication CQI. An example of the correspondence table of CQI and second noise variance a is shown in table 3. The base station can obtain the corresponding a according to the CQI lookup table 3.

TABLE 3

In this embodiment, the CQI may further indicate one of the following: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value, equivalent SINR. Correspondingly, each value of the noise variance indication information CQI in table 3 corresponds to one power value/power offset value/SINR and one power/power offset value/SINR interval. It should be noted that the power value or the offset value, SINR, may be used to obtain information bit or position information of the frozen bit during the polar code encoding and decoding.

Preferred embodiment 5

The present preferred embodiment is different from the preferred embodiment 5 in that when the terminal determines the bit sequence length N of the output encoded by the polar code encoder according to NPRB and modulation order, if N0 ≧ (N1+ N2)/2, N is N1, otherwise N is N2. Taking the arithmetic mean of N1 and N2 as the discrimination condition with respect to the geometric mean of N1 and N2, N may be more preferentially selected as N2, thereby advantageously reducing the coding complexity.

Preferred embodiment 6

The present preferred embodiment differs from preferred embodiment 1 in the determination of N0. In the preferred embodiment, the bits after the polar code coding are modulated by an M-QAM modulation scheme, where M is an even number. And there are M/2 polar code encoders in total, and the output of each encoder corresponds to two of M bits of M-QAM constellation points. Thus N0 satisfies N0 NPRB reperb M/(M/2) 2 NPRB reperb. Here, the properb is the number of resource elements re (resource element) of one physical resource block PRB.

Preferred embodiment 7

In the preferred embodiment, the terminal performs coding processing by using a polarization code and sends data to the base station.

In the preferred embodiment, the terminal receives DCI transmitted by the base station. Reading the coded modulation scheme index IMCS and the resource allocation information from the DCI. And searching the MCS table according to the IMCS to obtain the modulation order M and the transmission block size index ITBS.

In the preferred embodiment, the terminal obtains the first power indication information according to the DCI signaling sent by the base station. The first power indication information is IMCS, and is implicit power indication information indicating a first noise variance. The terminal can also obtain the equivalent noise variance a by looking up the MCS table according to the IMCS. An example of the MCS table is shown in table 1. In table 1, each IMCS level corresponds to a combination of coding modulation schemes, and the combination of coding modulation schemes corresponds to an equivalent SNR interval and also corresponds to an equivalent noise variance interval a. Within the equivalent noise variance interval a, the coded modulation scheme has a maximum spectral efficiency such that BLER is not greater than 0.1. In table 1, each IMCS corresponds to a noise variance a. This noise variance a is used for the code construction in the case of polar code coding.

Specifically, let N0 be the number of bits carried on the time-frequency resource, and N0 ═ NPRB × properb × M. Here, the properb is the number of resource elements re (resource element) of one physical resource block PRB. N is taken to be a power of 2 and possible values for N are { N1, N2 }. N1 is a power of minimum 2N 1 greater than N0, and N2 is a power of maximum 2 less than N0. If N0 is equal to or greater than sqrt (N1N 2), then N is N1, otherwise N is N2. Wherein sqrt represents the root number. If N is N1, then the polar code encoder output will be punctured, i.e. part of the bits are discarded and not sent; if N is N2, the bits output by the polar code encoder will be sent repeatedly. Thereby obtaining a bit sequence matched with the time frequency resource. Two possibilities are provided for the value of N, and one of the two possibilities is selected according to the condition, so that the polar code block error rate performance is improved, and the coding complexity is reduced. For example, when N0 is close to N1, puncturing the code length N1 by using a puncturing method is better; when N0 and the code length is close to N2, N2 is selected as the code length and is repeatedly transmitted, the complexity is lower, and the performance is not greatly reduced.

Further, the terminal performs coding of the polarization code according to N, information bit position information (or a generator matrix), noise variance a, and modulation order M.

In the preferred implementation, the noise variance is indicated by the IMCS, which can ensure that the polar code coding is performed correctly. Nor does it add new signaling overhead.

Preferred embodiment 8

The present preferred embodiment is different from preferred embodiment 1 in that the method of obtaining the bit sequence length N of the encoded output of the polar code encoder is different.

And the terminal obtains the size NPRB of the physical resource block allocated by the base station according to the resource allocation information. And the terminal determines the bit sequence length N of the coded output of the polar code coder according to the NPRB and the modulation order. Specifically, the terminal consults a mapping table of NPRB/M to N to obtain N according to the NPRB and the modulation order M. An example of the mapping table is shown in table 4. Of course, table 4 may be only a portion of the table.

TABLE 4

In table 4, M-1/2/3/4 corresponds to QPSK/16QAM/64QAM/256QAM modulation schemes, respectively.

Preferred embodiment 9

The present preferred embodiment differs from preferred embodiment 8 in the difference of the mapping table. And the terminal obtains the size NPRB of the physical resource block allocated by the base station according to the resource allocation information. And the terminal determines the bit sequence length N of the coded output of the polar code coder according to the NPRB and the modulation order. Specifically, the terminal consults a mapping table from NPRB/IMCS to N to obtain N according to NPRB and IMCS. An example of the mapping table is shown in table 5. Of course, table 5 may be only a portion of the table.

TABLE 5

In the preferred embodiment, the modulation order M is implied by IMCS. One interval of the IMCS corresponds to one M.

In another preferred embodiment, the IMCS of table 5 may also be replaced by the ITBS, which also implies M.

Preferred embodiment 10

The present preferred embodiment differs from preferred embodiment 8 in the difference of the mapping table. And the terminal obtains the number of resources, namely the size NPRB of the physical resource block allocated by the base station according to the resource allocation information. And the terminal determines the bit sequence length N of the coded output of the polar code coder according to the NPRB and the modulation order.

Specifically, the terminal obtains a product M × NPRB according to NPRB and M, and then refers to a mapping table from NPRB × M to N to obtain N. An example of the mapping table is shown in table 6. Here, table 6 lists only a limited number of grades.

TABLE 6

M*NPRB	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20
											N	256	512	1024	1024	2048	2048	2048	2048	4096	4096

In table 6, M-1/2/3/4 corresponds to QPSK/16QAM/64QAM/256QAM modulation schemes, respectively.

Preferred embodiment 11

The difference between this preferred embodiment and embodiment 1 is that the terminal obtains first power indication information according to the DCI signaling sent by the base station, where the first power indication information is used to indicate the equivalent signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio SINR. The first power indication information is IMCS, which is implicit first power indication information. The terminal can obtain the equivalent signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio by looking up the MCS table according to the IMCS. An example of the MCS table refers to table 7. Similar to table 1, each IMCS corresponds to an equivalent SINR in table 7. The SINR is used to obtain information bit or position information of the frozen bits when the polar code is encoded and decoded.

TABLE 7

In this preferred embodiment, the first power indication information may further indicate one of the following: signal power value, signal power offset value (power offset), noise power value, noise power offset value. It should be noted that the power value or the offset value can be used to obtain information bit or position information of the frozen bit when the polar code is encoded and decoded.

By the coding or decoding processing scheme provided by the preferred embodiment, the channel condition parameters required by the polar code coding and decoding are determined through signaling, the length of the polar code coding output bit sequence is flexibly determined, the performance and the coding and decoding complexity of the code are considered, the coding and decoding of the polar code are realized at the cost of lower signaling overhead even under the condition of not increasing the signaling overhead. The method is beneficial to improving the frequency spectrum efficiency and the system throughput, and meets the requirements of new generation wireless communication.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but the former is a better implementation mode in many cases. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (e.g., a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

Example 2

In this embodiment, a polarization code processing apparatus is further provided, and the apparatus is used to implement the foregoing embodiments and preferred embodiments, and the description already made is omitted. As used below, the term "module" may be a combination of software and/or hardware that implements a predetermined function. Although the means described in the embodiments below are preferably implemented in software, an implementation in hardware, or a combination of software and hardware is also possible and contemplated.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram of a polar code processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the apparatus includes:

an obtaining module 42, configured to obtain parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, where the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order;

a determining module 44, connected to the obtaining module 42, configured to determine an encoding parameter according to the parameter information and/or the locally stored second power indication information, where the encoding parameter includes at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

By the above apparatus, since the determining module 44 may determine the encoding parameter according to the parameter information obtained by the obtaining module 42 from the signaling sent by the first node and/or the locally stored second power indication information, where the encoding parameter includes at least one of: the bit position information, the generator matrix and the code length for encoding or decoding the polarization code can further realize the decoding or encoding of the polarization code, so that the problem that the encoding or decoding of the polarization code cannot be solved in the related technology can be solved.

It should be noted that, the parameter information may be represented in various forms, for example, the parameter information may include the first power indication information and the number of resources, and may also include the first power indication information, the number of resources, and the modulation order, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and for example, the parameter information may include the first power indication information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the determining module 44 is further configured to perform at least one of the following: determining a code length according to the number of the resources and the modulation order; determining the bit position information and/or a generating matrix according to the first power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order; and determining the bit position information and/or the generator matrix according to the second power indication information, the coding code length and the modulation order. .

In an embodiment of the present invention, the parameter information includes: in the case of the first power indication information and the number of resources, the apparatus may further include: an obtaining module, connected to the determining module 44, configured to include, in the parameter information: and under the condition of the first power indication information and the resource number, acquiring the modulation order according to the first power indication information.

The code length may have at least one of the following characteristics: when the specified condition is met, the code length is N1, otherwise, the code length is N2; wherein, N1 takes on a minimum power of 2 greater than a predetermined threshold N0, N2 takes on a maximum power of 2 less than N0, and N0 is determined by the number of allocated resources and the modulation order.

It should be noted that, with respect to the geometric mean f (N1, N2) ═ sqrt (N1 × N2) of N1 and N2, using the arithmetic mean f (N1, N2) ═ N1+ N2)/2 of N1 and N2 as the above specified condition, N may be more prone to be selected as N2, which is further beneficial to reducing the coding complexity. Which specific condition is adopted can be preset according to actual needs.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first power indication information may include: modulation coding scheme MCS index. The power information is indicated through the MCS index, so that the polarization code can be ensured to be correctly carried out, and new signaling overhead is not increased.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus may further include: a sending module, connected to the acquiring module 42, configured to send second power indication information to the first node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to the second power information.

It should be noted that the first power information and/or the second power information has at least one of the following characteristics: when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, infinity), the first power information and/or the second power information takes a first designated value; when the power information interval belongs to the interval (0, a2) or (— ∞, a2), the first power information and/or the second power information takes on a second specified value; wherein a1 and a2 are real numbers, and a1 is not less than a 2. By setting the value of the power information when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, + ∞) or the interval (0, a2) or (- ∞, a2), the SINR interval used by the polar code is extended, and thus the polar code can be used for encoding or decoding even in a wider SNR range.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, another polar code processing apparatus is provided, and fig. 5 is a block diagram of a structure of a polar code processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the apparatus includes:

a receiving module 52, configured to receive second power indication information sent by the second node; wherein the second power indication information corresponds to the second power information.

A sending module 54, connected to the receiving module 52, configured to send a signaling to the second node, where the signaling carries parameter information used for determining a coding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the first power indication information, the number of resources allocated by the first node and the modulation order; the encoding parameters include at least one of: bit position information, generator matrix, and code length for performing polar code encoding or polar code decoding.

With the above apparatus, the sending module 54 may send parameter information carrying a determined encoding parameter to the second node, where the encoding parameter includes at least one of: the bit position information, the generator matrix and the code length for encoding or decoding the polarization code can further realize the decoding or encoding of the polarization code, so that the problem that the encoding or decoding of the polarization code cannot be solved in the related technology can be solved.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned apparatus may only include the sending module 54, and may also include the sending module 54 and the receiving module 52, but is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, the first power indication information may include, but is not limited to: modulation coding scheme MCS index. The second power indication information may include, but is not limited to: the channel quality indicates CQI.

The first power information and/or the second power information has at least one of the following characteristics: when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, infinity), the first power information and/or the second power information takes a first designated value; when the power information interval belongs to the interval (0, a2) or (— ∞, a2), the first power information and/or the second power information takes on a second specified value; wherein a1 and a2 are real numbers, and a1 is not less than a 2. By setting the value of the power information when the power information interval belongs to the interval (a1, + ∞) or the interval (0, a2) or (- ∞, a2), the SINR interval used by the polar code is extended, and thus the polar code can be used for encoding or decoding even in a wider SNR range.

It should be noted that, the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware, and for the latter, the following may be implemented, but not limited to: the modules are all positioned in the same processor; alternatively, the modules are respectively located in different processors in any combination.

Example 3

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a node including: the polarization code processing apparatus shown in fig. 4. For the explanation of the polarization code processing apparatus shown in fig. 4, reference may be made to the explanation of embodiment 2, which is not repeated herein.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided another node including: the polarization code processing apparatus shown in fig. 5. For the explanation of the polarization code processing apparatus shown in fig. 5, reference may be made to the explanation of embodiment 2, which is not repeated herein.

Example 4

The embodiment of the invention also provides a storage medium. Alternatively, in the present embodiment, the above-mentioned storage medium may be configured to store program codes for executing the steps of the method in embodiment 1.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the storage medium may include, but is not limited to: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

Optionally, the specific examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the above embodiments and optional implementation manners, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the modules or steps of the present invention described above may be implemented by a general purpose computing device, they may be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices, and alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by a computing device, such that they may be stored in a storage device and executed by a computing device, and in some cases, the steps shown or described may be performed in an order different than that described herein, or they may be separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or multiple ones of them may be fabricated into a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for processing a polar code, comprising:

acquiring parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, wherein the parameter information comprises at least one of the following: the number of resources and the modulation order distributed by the first node;

determining a coding parameter according to the parameter information, wherein the coding parameter is a coding code length N;

the encoding code length N is the length of a bit sequence output by a polarization code encoder, the value of N is a power of 2, the possible value of N is { N1, N2}, the value of N1 is the minimum power of 2 greater than a preset threshold N0, and the value of N2 is the maximum power of 2 less than N0; when the code length is N1, puncturing the bits output by the polar code encoder, so as to discard part of the bits output by the polar code encoder without sending; and when the code length is N2, repeatedly transmitting the bits output by the polar code encoder.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining encoding parameters according to the parameter information comprises:

and determining the code length N according to the resource number and the modulation order.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the code length is characterized by:

and taking the code length N as N1 when a specified condition is met, otherwise, taking the code length N as N2.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said preset threshold N0 is determined by said number of resources and said modulation order.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the specified condition is: n0> f (N1, N2); where f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 or N2.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein f (N1, N2) comprises at least one of:

f (N1, N2) ═ sqrt (N1 × N2), where sqrt denotes the root;

f(N1,N2)＝(N1+N2)/2。

7. the method of claim 1, wherein when N0 approaches N1, N1 is selected as the code length and transmitted in a punctured manner; when N0 approaches N2, N2 is selected as the code length and the transmission is repeated.

8. A method for processing a polar code, comprising:

sending signaling to a second node, wherein the signaling carries parameter information for determining a coding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the number of resources and the modulation order distributed by the first node; the coding parameter is a coding code length N;

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the code length is characterized by: and taking the code length N as N1 when a specified condition is met, otherwise, taking the code length N as N2.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein said preset threshold N0 is determined by said number of resources and said modulation order.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the specified condition is: n0> f (N1, N2); where f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 or N2.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein when N0 approaches N1, N1 is selected as the code length and transmitted in a punctured manner; when N0 approaches N2, N2 is selected as the code length and the transmission is repeated.

13. A polarization code processing apparatus, comprising:

an obtaining module, configured to obtain parameter information from a signaling sent by a first node, where the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the number of resources and the modulation order distributed by the first node;

a determining module, configured to determine a coding parameter according to the parameter information, where the coding parameter is a coding code length N;

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the determining module is further configured to determine a code length N according to the number of resources and the modulation order.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the code length is characterized by:

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein said preset threshold N0 is determined by said number of resources and said modulation order.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the specified condition is: n0> f (N1, N2); where f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 or N2.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein if N0 is close to N1, N1 is selected as the code length and is transmitted in a punctured manner; when N0 is close to N2, N2 is selected as the code length and the transmission is repeated.

19. A polarization code processing apparatus, comprising:

a sending module, configured to send a signaling to a second node, where the signaling carries parameter information used for determining a coding parameter, and the parameter information includes at least one of the following: the number of resources and the modulation order distributed by the first node; the coding parameter is a coding code length N;

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the code length is characterized by: and taking the code length N as N1 when a specified condition is met, otherwise, taking the code length N as N2.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the preset threshold N0 is determined by the number of resources and the modulation order.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the specified condition is: n0> f (N1, N2); where f (N1, N2) is a function of N1 or N2.

23. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein if N0 is close to N1, N1 is selected as the code length and transmitted in a punctured manner; when N0 is close to N2, N2 is selected as the code length and the transmission is repeated.

24. A node, comprising: the device of any one of claims 13 to 18.

25. A node, comprising: the device of any one of claims 19 to 23.