CN116830621A

CN116830621A - Information transmission method and device, communication equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN116830621A
Application number: CN202380009009.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 付婷
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-04-07
Filing date: 2023-04-07
Publication date: 2023-09-29

Abstract

The embodiment of the disclosure provides an information transmission method and device, communication equipment and storage medium. The information transmission method executed by the terminal includes: transmitting at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is obtained from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal. According to the embodiment of the disclosure, the network equipment can reasonably schedule the terminal, so that the communication performance is improved.

Description

Information transmission method and device, communication equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, but is not limited to the field of wireless communication technologies, and in particular, to an information transmission method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium.

Background

With the development and application of the internet of things (Internet of Things, ioT), the demand for low-cost, low-power terminals is also increasing.

An Ambient-IoT (which may be referred to as a "zero power internet of things") terminal is less complex and costly and lower maintenance cost than an NB-IoT (Narrow Band IoT) terminal. The main characteristic of the event-IoT terminal is that it has no battery, is excited and powered by the electromagnetic signal it receives, or has a battery with a small amount of electricity storage function, but the battery does not need to be manually charged, but can obtain a small amount of battery energy from external energy, for example, by acquiring external electromagnetic waves, heat energy or kinetic energy.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the disclosure provides an information transmission method and device, communication equipment and storage medium.

According to a first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an information transmission method, performed by a terminal, the method including:

transmitting at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is obtained from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal.

According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an information transmission method performed by a network device, the method comprising:

receiving at least one of first information and second information sent by a terminal; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is obtained from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal.

According to a third aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an information transmission method performed by a communication system, the method comprising:

the terminal sends at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is obtained from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal;

The network device receives at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal.

According to a fourth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a first information transmission apparatus, the apparatus including:

a transmission module configured to transmit at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is powered from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal.

According to a fifth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a second information transmission apparatus, the apparatus including:

a receiving module configured to receive at least one of first information and second information transmitted by a terminal; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is obtained from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal.

According to a sixth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication device, wherein the communication device includes:

one or more processors;

wherein the processor is configured to invoke instructions to cause the communication device to perform the information transmission method provided in the first aspect or the second aspect.

According to a seventh aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication system comprising: a terminal configured to implement the information transmission method provided in the first aspect, and a network device configured to implement the information transmission method provided in the first aspect

According to an eighth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform the information transmission method provided in the first aspect or the second aspect.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of embodiments of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a communication system, shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 3a is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 3b is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 4a is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 4b is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating a method of information transmission according to an exemplary embodiment;

fig. 6a is a schematic structural view of an information transmission apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;

fig. 6b is a schematic structural view of an information transmission apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;

fig. 7a is a schematic diagram illustrating a structure of a UE according to an exemplary embodiment;

fig. 7b is a schematic diagram of a communication device according to an exemplary embodiment.

Detailed Description

The network device knows the information of the terminal too little to perform reasonable scheduling.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an information transmission method, which is performed by a terminal, the method including:

In the above embodiment, at least one of the first information and the second information is sent to the network device by the terminal, so that the network device can learn, according to the first information, that the terminal belongs to a terminal that is enabled from the environment, and/or learn, according to the second information, the capacitation capability and/or the electric energy storage capability of the terminal, so that the network device can reasonably schedule the terminal, thereby improving the communication performance.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the sending at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device includes:

at least one of the first information and the second information is transmitted to the network device during random access.

In the above embodiment, the first information and the second information are sent to the network device by the terminal in the random access process, so that the network device can schedule the terminal as soon as possible and reasonably, thereby improving the communication performance as soon as possible.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the sending, in a random access procedure, at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device includes at least one of:

Transmitting a first random access message to the network device through a first resource; wherein the first resource is used to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information;

sending a second random access message to the network device; wherein the second random access message carries at least one of the first information and the second information.

In the above embodiment, since the terminal can implicitly send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device through the first resource in the random access process, the network device can schedule the terminal as early as possible and reasonably, and meanwhile, the signaling overhead can be reduced.

In addition, because the terminal uses the first resource to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information in the random access process, the terminal which is obtained from the environment and other types of terminals which are different from the terminal are separated on the uplink resource used in the random access process, thereby being beneficial to improving the random access success rate of the terminal and reducing the random access time delay of the terminal.

In addition, the terminal can also send a random access message of a random access process to the network device, and the information carried by the random access message can explicitly indicate at least one of the first information and the second information, so that the network device can directly determine that the terminal is a terminal which is powered from the environment and/or the power obtaining capability and/or the electric energy storage capability of the terminal, and therefore the terminal can be scheduled as soon as possible and reasonably.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource includes: a first physical random access channel (Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH) resource.

In the above embodiment, in the four-step random access process, the terminal may implicitly send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device through the first PRACH resource, so that the network device may schedule the terminal as early as possible and reasonably, and may reduce signaling overhead, and be beneficial to improving the random access success rate of the terminal and reducing the random access delay of the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

In the above embodiment, in the four-step random access process, the terminal may implicitly send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device through at least one of the frequency domain resource, the time domain resource and the code domain resource for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel, so that the network device can schedule the terminal as soon as possible and reasonably, and meanwhile, signaling overhead can be reduced, which is beneficial to improving the random access success rate of the terminal and reducing the random access delay of the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

In the above embodiment, since the first PRACH resource includes a plurality of time domain resources for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the PRACH channel, the problem of power limitation of the terminal can be solved, and uplink coverage can be ensured.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a two-step random access procedure, and the first random access message is an MsgA message.

In the above embodiment, in the two-step random access process, the terminal may implicitly send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device through the first resource, so that the network device may schedule the terminal as early as possible and reasonably, and may reduce signaling overhead, and be beneficial to improving the random access success rate of the terminal and reducing the random access delay of the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first physical uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH) resource.

In the above embodiment, in the two-step random access process, the terminal may implicitly send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device through at least one of the second PRACH resource and the first PUSCH resource, so that the network device may schedule the terminal as early as possible and reasonably, and may reduce signaling overhead, and be beneficial to improving the random access success rate of the terminal and reducing the random access delay of the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel; and/or, the first PUSCH resources include: at least one of frequency domain resources and time domain resources for the terminal to transmit a PUSCH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the second resource includes a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In the above embodiment, the terminal may send the Msg3 message of the four-step random access procedure or the MsgA message of the two-step random access procedure to the network device, and because the information carried by the Msg3 message or the MsgA message can explicitly indicate at least one of the first information and the second information, the network device may directly determine that the terminal is a terminal and/or a power obtaining capability and/or a power storing capability of the terminal obtained from the environment, so that the terminal can be scheduled as early as possible and reasonably.

With reference to some embodiments of the first aspect, in some embodiments, the sending, to the network device, a second random access message includes:

repeating transmitting the Msg3 message or the MsgA message to the network device over a plurality of time domain resources.

In the above embodiment, since the terminal may repeatedly transmit the Msg3 message or the MsgA message to the network device on multiple time domain resources, the problem of power limitation of the terminal can be made up, and uplink coverage is ensured.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an information transmission method, performed by a network device, the method including:

In the above embodiment, at least one of the first information and the second information is sent by the network device receiving terminal, so that the network device can learn, according to at least one of the first information and the second information, that the terminal belongs to a terminal that is enabled from the environment, and/or the terminal's ability to obtain energy and/or power storage capability, so that the network device can reasonably schedule the terminal, and is beneficial to improving the communication capability between the terminal and the network device.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the receiving terminal includes:

and in the random access process, receiving at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the receiving, in a random access procedure, at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal includes at least one of:

receiving a first random access message sent by the terminal through a first resource; wherein the first resource is used to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information;

receiving a second random access message sent by the terminal; wherein the second random access message carries at least one of the first information and the second information.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource includes: a first PRACH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a two-step random access procedure, and the first random access message is an MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first PUSCH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

the first PUSCH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources and time domain resources for the terminal to transmit a PUSCH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

With reference to some embodiments of the second aspect, in some embodiments, the receiving a second random access message sent by the terminal includes:

And receiving the Msg3 message or the MsgA message which is repeatedly transmitted by the terminal on a plurality of time domain resources.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an information transmission method, where the method is performed by a communication system, the method including:

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal sends at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device during random access.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the network device receives at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal during a random access procedure.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal sends at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device during random access, including at least one of:

the terminal sends a first random access message to the network equipment through a first resource; wherein the first resource is used to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information;

the terminal sends a second random access message to the network equipment; wherein the second random access message carries at least one of the first information and the second information.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the network device receives at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal in a random access procedure, including at least one of:

the network equipment receives a first random access message sent by the terminal through a first resource; wherein the first resource is used to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information;

The network equipment receives a second random access message sent by the terminal; wherein the second random access message carries at least one of the first information and the second information.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource includes: a first PRACH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a two-step random access procedure, and the first random access message is an MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first PUSCH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the terminal repeatedly transmits the Msg3 message or the MsgA message to the network device on a plurality of time domain resources.

With reference to some embodiments of the third aspect, in some embodiments, the network device receives the Msg3 message or the MsgA message that the terminal repeatedly transmits on a plurality of time domain resources.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a first information transmission apparatus, including:

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the sending module is configured to:

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the sending module is configured to perform at least one of:

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource includes: a first PRACH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a two-step random access procedure, and the first random access message is an MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first PUSCH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the fourth aspect, in some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a second information transmission apparatus, including:

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the receiving module is configured to:

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the receiving module is configured to perform at least one of:

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource includes: a first PRACH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first PRACH resource includes: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the random access procedure includes a two-step random access procedure, and the first random access message is an MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first PUSCH resource.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the first resource includes a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

With reference to some embodiments of the fifth aspect, in some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication device, where the communication device includes:

one or more processors;

wherein the processor is configured to invoke instructions to cause the communication device to perform the information transmission method described in the alternative implementation manner of the first aspect or the second aspect.

In a seventh aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication system, including: a terminal configured to implement the information transmission method described in the optional implementation manner of the first aspect, and a network device configured to implement the information transmission method described in the optional implementation manner of the second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform an information transmission method described in the alternative implementation manner of the first aspect or the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a program product which, when executed by a communication device, causes the communication device to perform the information transmission method described in the alternative implementation manner of the first aspect or the second aspect.

In a tenth aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the information transmission method described in the alternative implementation manner of the first aspect or the second aspect.

It will be appreciated that the first information transmission apparatus, the second information transmission apparatus, the communication device, the communication system, the storage medium, the program product, the computer program described above are all used to perform the method provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure. Therefore, the advantages achieved by the method can be referred to as the advantages of the corresponding method, and will not be described herein.

The embodiment of the disclosure provides an information transmission method and device, communication equipment and storage medium. In some embodiments, terms such as an information transmission method and an information processing method, a communication method, and the like may be replaced with each other, terms such as an information transmission device and an information processing device, a communication device, and the like may be replaced with each other, and terms such as an information processing system, a communication system, and the like may be replaced with each other.

The embodiments of the present disclosure are not intended to be exhaustive, but rather are exemplary of some embodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. In the case of no contradiction, each step in a certain embodiment may be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the steps may be arbitrarily combined, for example, a scheme in which part of the steps are removed in a certain embodiment may also be implemented as an independent embodiment, the order of the steps in a certain embodiment may be arbitrarily exchanged, and further, alternative implementations in a certain embodiment may be arbitrarily combined; furthermore, various embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, for example, some or all steps of different embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and an embodiment may be arbitrarily combined with alternative implementations of other embodiments.

In the various embodiments of the disclosure, terms and/or descriptions of the various embodiments are consistent throughout the various embodiments and may be referenced to each other in the absence of any particular explanation or logic conflict, and features from different embodiments may be combined to form new embodiments in accordance with their inherent logic relationships.

The terminology used in the embodiments of the disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure.

In the presently disclosed embodiments, elements that are referred to in the singular, such as "a," "an," "the," "said," etc., may mean "one and only one," or "one or more," "at least one," etc., unless otherwise indicated. For example, where an article (article) is used in translation, such as "a," "an," "the," etc., in english, a noun following the article may be understood as a singular expression or as a plural expression.

In the presently disclosed embodiments, "plurality" refers to two or more.

In some embodiments, terms such as "at least one of", "one or more of", "multiple of" and the like may be substituted for each other.

Description modes such as at least one of A, B, C … …, A and/or B and/or C … … include any single case of A, B, C … … and any combination case of any plurality of A, B, C … …, and each case may exist independently; for example, "at least one of A, B, C" includes the cases of a alone, B alone, C, A and B in combination, a and C in combination, B and C in combination, a and B and C in combination; for example, a and/or B includes the case of a alone, a combination of a alone B, A and B.

In some embodiments, "in a case a, in another case B", "in response to a case a", "in response to another case B", and the like, the following technical solutions may be included according to the circumstances: a is performed independently of B, i.e., a in some embodiments; b is performed independently of a, i.e., in some embodiments B; a and B are selectively performed, i.e., in some embodiments selected from a and B; both a and B are performed, i.e., a and B in some embodiments. Similar to that described above when there are more branches such as A, B, C.

The prefix words "first", "second", etc. in the embodiments of the present disclosure are only for distinguishing different description objects, and do not limit the location, order, priority, number, content, etc. of the description objects, and the statement of the description object refers to the claims or the description of the embodiment context, and should not constitute unnecessary limitations due to the use of the prefix words. For example, if the description object is a "field", the ordinal words before the "field" in the "first field" and the "second field" do not limit the position or the order between the "fields", and the "first" and the "second" do not limit whether the "fields" modified by the "first" and the "second" are in the same message or not. For another example, describing an object as "level", ordinal words preceding "level" in "first level" and "second level" do not limit priority between "levels". As another example, the number of descriptive objects is not limited by ordinal words, and may be one or more, taking "first device" as an example, where the number of "devices" may be one or more. Furthermore, objects modified by different prefix words may be the same or different, e.g., the description object is "a device", then "a first device" and "a second device" may be the same device or different devices, and the types may be the same or different; for another example, the description object is "information", and the "first information" and the "second information" may be the same information or different information, and the contents thereof may be the same or different.

In some embodiments, "comprising a", "containing a", "for indicating a", "carrying a", may be interpreted as carrying a directly, or as indicating a indirectly.

In some embodiments, terms "responsive to … …", "responsive to determination … …", "in the case of … …", "at … …", "when … …", "if … …", "if … …", and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms "greater than", "greater than or equal to", "not less than", "more than or equal to", "not less than", "above" and the like may be interchanged, and terms "less than", "less than or equal to", "not greater than", "less than or equal to", "not more than", "below", "lower than or equal to", "no higher than", "below" and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, an apparatus or the like may be interpreted as an entity, or may be interpreted as a virtual, and the names thereof are not limited to the names described in the embodiments, "apparatus," "device," "circuit," "network element," "node," "function," "unit," "section," "system," "network," "chip system," "entity," "body," and the like may be replaced with each other.

In some embodiments, "access network device (access network device, AN device)", "radio access network device (radio access network device, RAN device)", "Base Station (BS)", "radio base station (radio base station)", "fixed station (fixed station)", "node (node)", "access point (access point)", "transmit point (transmission point, TP)", "Receive Point (RP)", "transmit receive point (transmit/receive point), the terms TRP), panel, antenna array, cell, macrocell, microcell, femtocell, sector, cell group, carrier, component carrier, bandwidth part, BWP, etc. may be replaced with each other.

In some embodiments, "terminal," terminal device, "" user equipment, "" user terminal, "" mobile station, "" mobile terminal, MT) ", subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile unit (mobile unit), subscriber unit (subscriber unit), wireless unit (wireless unit), remote unit (remote unit), mobile device (mobile device), wireless device (wireless device), wireless communication device (wireless communication device), remote device (remote device), mobile subscriber station (mobile subscriber station), access terminal (access terminal), mobile terminal (mobile terminal), wireless terminal (wireless terminal), remote terminal (remote terminal), handheld device (handset), user agent (user agent), mobile client (mobile client), client (client), and the like may be substituted for each other.

In some embodiments, the access network device, core network device, or network device may be replaced with a terminal. For example, the embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to a configuration in which communication between an access network device, a core network device, or a network device and a terminal is replaced with communication between a plurality of terminals (for example, may also be referred to as device-to-device (D2D), vehicle-to-device (V2X), or the like). In this case, the terminal may have all or part of the functions of the access network device. Further, the language such as "uplink" and "downlink" may be replaced with a language (for example, "side") corresponding to the communication between terminals. For example, uplink channels, downlink channels, etc. may be replaced with side-uplink channels, uplink, downlink, etc. may be replaced with side-downlink channels.

In some embodiments, the terminal may be replaced with an access network device, a core network device, or a network device. In this case, the access network device, the core network device, or the network device may have all or part of the functions of the terminal.

In some embodiments, the names of information and the like are not limited to the names described in the embodiments, and terms such as "information", "message", "signal", "signaling", "report", "configuration", "instruction", "command", "channel", "parameter", "field", "symbol", "codebook", "code word", "code point", "bit", "data", "program", "chip", and the like may be replaced with each other.

In some embodiments, terms such as "uplink," "physical uplink," and the like may be interchanged, terms such as "downlink," "physical downlink," and the like may be interchanged, terms such as "side," "side link," "side communication," "side link," "direct link," and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms such as "downlink control information (downlink control information, DCI)", "Downlink (DL) assignment", "DL DCI", "Uplink (UL) grant", "UL DCI", and the like may be replaced with each other.

In some embodiments, terms of "physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH)", "DL data", etc. may be interchanged, and terms of "physical uplink shared channel (physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH)", "UL data", etc. may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms such as "radio," "wireless," "radio access network," "RAN," and "RAN-based," may be used interchangeably.

In some embodiments, terms such as "search space", "search space set", "search space configuration (search space configuration)", "search space set configuration (search space set configuration)", "control resource set (control resource set, CORESET)", "CORESET configuration", and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms of "synchronization signal (synchronization signal, SS)", "synchronization signal block (synchronization signal block, SSB)", "Reference Signal (RS)", "pilot signal", and the like may be replaced with each other.

In some embodiments, terms such as "time of day," "point of time," "time location," and the like may be interchanged, and terms such as "duration," "period," "time window," "time," and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms of "component carrier (component carrier, CC)", "cell", "frequency carrier (frequency carrier)", "carrier frequency (carrier frequency)", and the like may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, terms such as "Resource Block (RB)", "physical resource block (physical resource block, PRB)", "subcarrier group (SCG)", "resource element group (resource element group, REG)", "PRB pair", "RB pair", "Resource Element (RE)", and the like may be substituted for each other.

In some embodiments, the terms wireless access scheme (wireless access scheme), waveform (waveform), etc. may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, "precoding", "precoder", "weight", "precoding weight", "quasi co-location", "QCL", "transmission configuration indication (transmission configuration indication, TCI) state", "spatial relation", "spatial filter (spatial domain filter)", "transmit power (transmission power)", "phase rotation", "antenna port group (antenna port group)", "layer number (the number of layers)", "rank", "resource set", "beam width", "beam angle (beam angular degree)", "antenna port", "antenna element", and the like.

In some embodiments, terms such as "frame", "radio frame", "subframe", "slot", "sub-slot", "mini-slot", "symbol", "transmission time interval (transmission time interval, TTI)" and the like may be substituted for each other.

In some embodiments, "acquire," "obtain," "receive," "transmit," "send and/or receive" may be interchangeable, which may be construed as receiving from other principals, acquiring from protocols, processing itself, autonomous implementation, etc. in various meanings.

In some embodiments, terms such as "send," "report," "send," "transmit," "send and/or receive," and the like may be used interchangeably.

In some embodiments, "predetermined", "preset" may be interpreted as being predefined in a protocol or the like, or as a preset action by a device or the like.

In some embodiments, determining (determining) may be interpreted as determining, deciding (determining), calculating (calculating), calculating (computing), processing (processing), deriving (determining), investigating (investigating), searching, looking up (locating), retrieving (searching), querying (query), confirming (confirming), receiving (receiving), transmitting (transmitting), inputting (input), outputting (output), accessing (processing), solving (determining), selecting (selecting), selecting (calculating), establishing (determining), comparing (determining), predicting (predicting), expecting (viewing), treating (consider), notifying (communicating), communicating (communicating), forwarding (configuring), reconfiguring (distributing (mapping), assigning (mapping), etc.

In some embodiments, the determination or judgment may be performed by a value (0 or 1) expressed in 1 bit, may be performed by a true-false value (boolean) expressed in true (true) or false (false), or may be performed by a comparison of values (e.g., a comparison with a predetermined value), but is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, a "network" may be interpreted as an apparatus (e.g., access network device, core network device, etc.) contained in a network.

In some embodiments, "not expected to receive" may be interpreted as not receiving on time domain resources and/or frequency domain resources, or as not performing subsequent processing on data or the like after the data or the like is received; "not expected to transmit" may be interpreted as not transmitting, or may be interpreted as transmitting but not expecting the receiver to respond to the transmitted content.

In some embodiments, the acquisition of data, information, etc. may comply with laws and regulations of the country of locale.

In some embodiments, data, information, etc. may be obtained after user consent is obtained.

Furthermore, each element, each row, or each column in the tables of the embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented as a separate embodiment, and any combination of elements, any rows, or any columns may also be implemented as a separate embodiment.

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system shown in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 1, the communication system 100 includes a terminal (terminal) 101 and a network device 102.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 includes at least one of a mobile phone (mobile phone), a wearable device, an internet of things device, a communication enabled car, a smart car, a tablet (Pad), a wireless transceiver enabled computer, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal device in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal device in unmanned (self-driving), a wireless terminal device in teleoperation (remote medical surgery), a wireless terminal device in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal device in transportation security (transportation safety), a wireless terminal device in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal device in smart home (smart home), for example, but is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 may include at least one of an access network device and a core network device.

In some embodiments, the access network device is, for example, a node or device that accesses a terminal to a wireless network, and the access network device may include at least one of an evolved NodeB (eNB) in a 5G communication system, a next generation evolved NodeB (next generation eNB, ng-eNB), a next generation NodeB (next generation NodeB, gNB), a NodeB (node B, NB), a Home NodeB (HNB), a home NodeB (home evolved nodeB, heNB), a wireless backhaul device, a radio network controller (radio network controller, RNC), a base station controller (base station controller, BSC), a base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS), a baseband unit (BBU), a mobile switching center, a base station in a 6G communication system, an Open base station (Open RAN), a Cloud base station (Cloud RAN), a base station in other communication systems, a wireless fidelity (wireless fidelity, wiFi) system, but is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the technical solutions of the present disclosure may be applied to an Open RAN architecture, where an access network device or an interface in an access network device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may become an internal interface of the Open RAN, and flow and information interaction between these internal interfaces may be implemented by using software or a program.

In some embodiments, the access network device may be composed of a Central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU), where the CU may also be referred to as a control unit (control unit), and the structure of the CU-DU may be used to split the protocol layers of the access network device, where functions of part of the protocol layers are centrally controlled by the CU, and functions of the rest of all the protocol layers are distributed in the DU, and the DU is centrally controlled by the CU, but is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the core network device may be a device, including one or more network elements, or may be a plurality of devices or a device group, including all or part of one or more network elements. The network element may be virtual or physical. The core network comprises, for example, at least one of an evolved packet core (Evolved Packet Core, EPC), a 5G core network (5G Core Network,5GCN), a next generation core (Next Generation Core, NGC).

It may be understood that, the communication system described in the embodiments of the present disclosure is for more clearly describing the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and is not limited to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and those skilled in the art may know that, with the evolution of the system architecture and the appearance of new service scenarios, the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to similar technical problems.

The embodiments of the present disclosure described below may be applied to the communication system 100 shown in fig. 1, or a part of the main body, but are not limited thereto. The respective bodies shown in fig. 1 are examples, and the communication system may include all or part of the bodies in fig. 1, or may include other bodies than fig. 1, and the number and form of the respective bodies are arbitrary, and the connection relationship between the respective bodies is examples, and the respective bodies may be not connected or may be connected, and the connection may be arbitrary, direct connection or indirect connection, or wired connection or wireless connection.

The embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-a), LTE-Beyond (LTE-B), upper 3G, IMT-Advanced, fourth generation mobile communication system (4th generation mobile communication system,4G)), fifth generation mobile communication system (5th generation mobile communication system,5G), 5G New air (New Radio, NR), future wireless access (Future Radio Access, FRA), new wireless access technology (New-Radio Access Technology, RAT), new wireless (New Radio, NR), new wireless access (New Radio access, NX), future generation wireless access (Future generation Radio access, FX), global System for Mobile communications (GSM (registered trademark)), CDMA2000, ultra mobile broadband (Ultra Mobile Broadband, UMB), IEEE 802.11 (registered trademark), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.20, ultra WideBand (Ultra-wide bandwidth, UWB), bluetooth (Bluetooth) mobile communication network (Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN, device-D-Device, device-M, device-M, internet of things system, internet of things (internet of things), machine-2, device-M, device-M, internet of things (internet of things), system (internet of things), internet of things 2, device (internet of things), machine (internet of things), etc. In addition, a plurality of system combinations (e.g., LTE or a combination of LTE-a and 5G, etc.) may be applied.

The Ambient IoT is one type of internet of things. The complexity and cost of the mobile-IoT terminal are lower than those of the NB-IoT terminal, and the maintenance cost is also lower, mainly characterized by the fact that it has no battery, is excited and powered by the electromagnetic signals it receives, or has a battery with a small amount of electrical storage function, but the battery does not need to be charged manually, but can obtain a small amount of battery energy from external energy, for example by obtaining external electromagnetic waves, thermal energy, kinetic energy, etc.

In some embodiments, the ability of different terminals to draw power and store power may also vary for terminals that are environmentally powered. For example, some terminals are capable of acquiring power in a relatively short period of time (where power acquisition is understood to mean taking energy from the environment and charging the battery level to a predetermined amount), and the battery storage capacity is relatively low; some terminals can obtain energy in a short time, and the battery has high storage capacity; some terminals have longer time for obtaining energy and lower battery storage capacity; some terminals require longer time to get power and have higher battery capacity.

In some embodiments, terminals that are powered from the environment access the network through a random access procedure. For example, the random access procedure may be a four-step random access procedure or a two-step random access procedure.

For a four-step random access procedure, the terminal transmits a PRACH channel (also referred to as Msg1, or message 1), and the base station replies with a RAR (Random Access Response ) after receiving it. The RAR may also be referred to herein as Msg2 or message 2, which may include a TA (Timing Advance) indication, a TC-RNTI (Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier, temporary Cell radio network temporary identity), an uplink time-frequency resource indication for Msg3 (which may also be referred to as message 3), and so on. The UE sends Msg3 according to the uplink time-frequency resource indication sent by the base station, where Msg3 may include a terminal Identifier (ID) and possibly a Non-Access-Stratum NAS (NAS) message, and the base station replies with a contention resolution message after receiving Msg3 successfully.

For the two-step random access procedure, the terminal sends an MsgA to the base station, and the base station replies with a contention resolution message MsgB after correctly receiving the MsgA. The MsgA corresponds to msg1+msg3 described above, and may include PRACH and PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel ). Wherein, the PUSCH configuration and the PRACH configuration may have a correspondence relationship.

Fig. 2 is an interactive schematic diagram illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an information transmission method for a communication system 100, the method including:

Step S2101: the network device 102 transmits the third information to the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, terminal 101 receives the third information sent by network device 102.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may be a first type of terminal or a terminal different from the first type of terminal.

In some embodiments, the first type of terminal may be a terminal that is powered from the environment.

Here, a terminal that obtains energy from the environment is a terminal that needs to collect energy to drive itself to operate. For example, a terminal powered from the environment performs energy harvesting by receiving a wireless power signal.

In some embodiments, the first type of terminal may be a terminal capable of autonomously generating energy.

In some embodiments, the power consumption of the first type of terminal is lower than the power consumption of the second type of terminal, which may be, for example, a Redcap (Reduced Capability ) terminal.

As one example, the first type of terminal is an event-IoT terminal.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 may be an access network device or a core network device. The access network device may be, for example, a base station, which may be a gNB or an eNB.

In some embodiments, the third information may be, for example, resource configuration information.

In some embodiments, the third information is used to indicate uplink resources configured by the network side for the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, when the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the third information indicates that an uplink resource of the terminal 101 is the first resource. For example, the first resource may be a particular uplink resource.

In some embodiments, when the uplink resource indicated by the third information is the first resource, the first resource may be used to indicate at least one of the first information and the second information.

In some embodiments, the first information indicates that the type of terminal 101 is a first type of terminal.

In some embodiments, the second information indicates at least one of a power availability capability and an electrical energy storage capability of the terminal 101. For example, the second information indicates at least one of a power availability capability and an electrical energy storage capability of the first type of terminal.

In some embodiments, the first resource indicates the type of terminal 101 as a first type of terminal and the capacitation capability of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the first resource indicates the type of terminal 101 as a first type of terminal and the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the first resource indicates the type of terminal 101 as a first type of terminal, the capacitation capability of terminal 101, and the electrical energy storage capability of terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the capacitations of terminals 101 for different first resource indications are different.

For example, the first resources include a first PRACH resource and a second PRACH resource, and the capacitation capability of the terminal 101 indicated by the first PRACH resource is higher than the capacitation capability of the terminal 101 indicated by the second PRACH resource.

In some embodiments, the terminals 101 of different first resource indications have different power storage capabilities.

For example, the first resources include a third PRACH resource and a fourth PRACH resource, and the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal 101 indicated by the third PRACH resource is higher than the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal 101 indicated by the fourth PRACH resource.

In some embodiments, the uplink resource may be a resource for random access by the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the uplink resources may include: at least one of PRACH resources and PUSCH resources for the four-step random access procedure of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the PRACH resources include: a plurality of time domain resources for the terminal 101 to transmit the PRACH channel. Illustratively, multiple time domain resources are available for the terminal 101 to repeatedly transmit the PRACH channel.

In some embodiments, PUSCH resources include: a plurality of time domain resources for the terminal 101 to transmit the PUSCH channel. Illustratively, multiple time domain resources are available for the terminal 101 to repeatedly transmit the PUSCH channel.

In some embodiments, the uplink resources are used for transmission of MsgA messages by the terminal 101 for a two-step random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the uplink resources include: at least one of PRACH resources and PUSCH resources for a two-step random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the uplink resources include a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

In some embodiments, the PRACH resources for a two-step random access procedure comprise: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

In some embodiments, the PUSCH resources for a two-step random access procedure include: at least one of frequency domain resources and time domain resources for a terminal to transmit a PUSCH channel.

In some embodiments, the third information is used to indicate that the first type of terminal is allowed to use the first resource for uplink transmission, and prohibit the terminal different from the first type of terminal from using the first resource for uplink transmission. For example, uplink transmission is used for random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the uplink resource indicated by the third information is used for the terminal 101 to send the random access message. For example, the uplink resource is used for the first type of terminal to transmit a random access message. In this example, the uplink resource may be a resource that is different from the first resource.

In some embodiments, the random access message sent by the terminal 101 carries at least one of a type of the terminal 101 and capability information of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 sends the third information through dedicated signaling; alternatively, the network device 102 may also send the third information in a broadcast or multicast manner. Optionally, the terminal 101 receives the third information sent by the network device 102 through dedicated signaling or broadcast or multicast.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 broadcasts a system message block (System Information Block, SIB) 1, wherein SIB1 carries the third information. The manner in which the network device 102 transmits the third information is not particularly limited by the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Step S2102: the terminal 101 transmits fourth information to the network device 102.

In some embodiments, network device 102 receives fourth information sent by terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the power consumption of the first type of terminal is lower than the power consumption of the second type of terminal, which may be, for example, a Redcap terminal.

As one example, the first type of terminal is an event-IoT terminal.

In some embodiments, the fourth information may include at least one of the first information and the second information.

In some embodiments, the first information indicates a type of the terminal 101; the second information indicates the capabilities of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the first information indicating that the type of terminal 101 is a first type of terminal.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal and the second information indicates at least one of a power obtaining capability and a power storing capability of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the fourth information is used by the network device 102 to schedule the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, when the terminal 101 is a terminal other than the first type of terminal, the terminal 101 does not send the fourth information.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 sends the fourth information to the network device 102 during random access.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 sends the fourth information to the network device 102 using the uplink resource indicated by the third information in the random access procedure.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message to the network device 102 through a first resource; wherein the first resource is used to indicate the fourth information.

For example, the first resource is configured based on third information sent by the network device 102 to the terminal 101.

Illustratively, the first random access message is a PRACH channel or Msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure, or the first random access message is an MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the first resource comprises a first PRACH resource. The first PRACH resource may be, for example, a specific PRACH resource.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message in a four-step random access procedure, and a first PRACH resource used by the first random access message is used to indicate the fourth information.

In some embodiments, the first PRACH resource is: frequency domain resources, time domain resources or code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

In some embodiments, the first PRACH resource comprises: the combination of different resources among frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

As one example, the frequency domain resources include: at least one of frequency domain position, frequency domain offset, frequency hopping parameter.

As an example, the time domain resources include: at least one of a start symbol position, a number of symbols, and a repetition factor.

As an example, the code domain resources include: at least one of root sequence configuration information of the preamble and zero correlation field offset.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message in a four-step random access procedure; the first resource used by the first random access message comprises a plurality of time domain resources; multiple time domain resources are used for repeated transmission of the PRACH channel.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message in a four-step random access procedure, and a second PUSCH resource used by the first random access message is used to indicate the fourth information. The second PUSCH resource may be a specific PUSCH resource, for example.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message in a two-step random access procedure, and a first resource used by the first random access message indicates the fourth information.

In some embodiments, the first resource used by the first random access message is used for transmission of an MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 transmits the first random access message using the second PRACH resource and/or the first PUSCH resource in a two step random access procedure.

The second PRACH resource may be the same as or different from the first PRACH resource. The second PRACH resource may be, for example, a specific PRACH resource.

The first PUSCH resource may be a specific PUSCH resource, for example.

As an example, in a two-step random access procedure, the second PRACH resource or the first PUSCH resource is used to indicate that the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal.

As an example, in a two-step random access procedure, the second PRACH resource and the first PUSCH resource are used to indicate that the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal.

As an example, in a two-step random access procedure, the second PRACH resource or the first PUSCH resource is used to indicate the capacitation capability or the electric energy storage capability of the terminal 101.

As an example, in a two-step random access procedure, the second PRACH resource and the first PUSCH resource are used to indicate the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the second PRACH resources include at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel, and/or the first PUSCH resources include: at least one of frequency domain resources and time domain resources for a terminal to transmit a PUSCH channel.

In some embodiments, when the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, the terminal 101 sends a first random access message in a two-step random access procedure, and a first resource used by the first random access message includes a plurality of time domain resources; multiple time domain resources are used for repeated transmission of the MsgA message.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 sends a second random access message to the network device 102; wherein the second random access message carries fourth information.

In some embodiments, the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 repeatedly transmits the Msg3 message to the network device 102 over multiple time domain resources.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 repeatedly transmits the MsgA message to the network device 102 over multiple time domain resources.

In some embodiments, the fourth information carried by the second random access message may indicate the type of terminal 101 using 1 bit, e.g., "1" indicates that the type of terminal 101 is a first type of terminal.

In some embodiments, the fourth information carried by the second random access message may use 2 bits to indicate the type and/or capacitation capability of the terminal 101, e.g., "00" indicates that the type of terminal 101 is a first type of terminal. "01" indicates a first capabilityof the terminal 101, "10" indicates a second capabilityof the terminal 101, and so on. The first capacitation capability is lower than the second capacitation capability.

In some embodiments, the fourth information carried by the second random access message may use 2 bits to indicate the type of terminal 101 and/or the power storage capability, e.g. "00" indicates that the type of terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, "10" indicates the first power storage capability of terminal 101, "11" indicates the second power storage capability of terminal 101, etc. The first electrical energy storage capacity is lower than the second electrical energy storage capacity.

In some embodiments, the fourth information carried by the second random access message may use 3 bits to indicate the power storage capability and the power storage capability of the terminal 101, e.g., "000" indicates that the type of the terminal 101 is a first type of terminal, "001" indicates the first capacitation capability of the terminal 101, "010" indicates the second capacitation capability of the terminal 101, "011" indicates the first power storage capability of the terminal 101, "100" indicates the second power storage capability of the terminal 101, and so on.

In some embodiments, the terminal's capacitation capability and/or electrical energy storage capability may be set by a protocol.

In some embodiments, the terminal's capacitation capability is used to indicate how long it takes for the terminal to collect the set amount of energy.

The length of time required for the terminal to collect a set amount of energy can be used to characterize the communication recovery capabilities of the terminal.

In some embodiments, the capacitation capability of the terminal may be divided into a first capacitation capability, a second capacitation capability, and so on according to the length required for the terminal to collect a set amount of energy, wherein the first capacitation capability is lower than the second capacitation capability.

In some embodiments, the set amount is related to an electrical energy storage capability of the terminal.

For example, the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal is the first electrical energy storage capability, and when the communication recovery capability of the terminal corresponds to the first duration, it indicates that the terminal can collect enough energy for the terminal to perform single reception or single transmission (or other terminal operation) in the first duration.

The battery storage capacity of the terminal is the second electric energy storage capacity, and when the communication recovery capacity of the terminal corresponds to the second duration, the terminal can collect the energy which is enough for the terminal to perform single receiving and transmitting (or other terminal operations) in the second duration.

And when the battery storage capacity of the terminal is the third electric energy storage capacity and the communication recovery capacity of the terminal corresponds to the third time period, the terminal can collect the energy which is enough for the terminal to perform the communication process for a plurality of times in the preset time period in the third time period.

In some embodiments, the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal may be divided into a plurality of different capability levels.

As one example, the capability level of the electrical energy storage capability may include: a first capability level, a second capability level, and a third capability level. The first capacity level corresponds to a lower electrical energy storage capacity than the second capacity level corresponds to a lower electrical energy storage capacity than the third capacity level.

For example, the first capability level indicates that the power capability of the terminal is sufficient for a single reception or a single transmission (or other terminal operation). The second capability level indicates that the terminal's power capability is sufficient for a single reception and transmission (or other terminal operation). The second capability level indicates that the terminal's electrical energy capability is sufficient for multiple communication procedures within a predetermined length of time.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may send the fourth information to the network device 102 based on a periodic trigger or an event trigger.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may send the fourth information to the network device 102 with the terminal 101 in an RRC (Radio Resource Control ) connected state.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may send fourth information to the network device 102 in case of a primary secondary cell change or cell switch.

In some embodiments, at least one of steps S2101 to S2102 may be performed. For example, step S2101 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, step S2102 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, and steps S2101 through S2102 may be implemented as a separate embodiment.

In some embodiments, step S2101 is optional, and one or more of these steps may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

Fig. 3a is a flow chart illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 3a, an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an information transmission method, performed by a terminal 101, the method comprising:

step S3101: third information is acquired.

Alternative implementations of step S3101 may refer to alternative implementations of step S2101 in fig. 2, and other relevant parts in the embodiment related to fig. 2, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, terminal 101 receives the third information from network device 102, but may also receive the third information from other principals.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 obtains third information specified by the protocol.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 acquires the third information from the upper layer(s).

In some embodiments, terminal 101 processes to obtain the third information.

In some embodiments, step S3101 is omitted, and terminal 101 autonomously implements the function indicated by the third information, or the above-described function is default or default.

Step S3102: and transmitting fourth information.

Alternative implementations of step S3102 may refer to alternative implementations of step S2102 in fig. 2, and other relevant parts in the embodiment related to fig. 2, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, terminal 101 sends fourth information to network device 102. But may also send the fourth information to other subjects.

Alternatively, the above fourth information is used for the network device 102 to perform scheduling for the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, steps S3101, S3102 may be performed in exchange for one another or simultaneously.

In some embodiments, at least one of steps S3101 to S3102 may be performed. For example, step S3101 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, step S3102 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, and steps S3101 through S3102 may be implemented as a separate embodiment.

In some embodiments, step S3101 is optional, and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

In some embodiments, step S3102 is optional, and may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

Fig. 3b is a flow chart illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 3b, an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an information transmission method, performed by a terminal 101, the method comprising:

step S3201: at least one of the first information and the second information is transmitted to the network device.

In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate that the type of terminal is a terminal that is powered from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal.

In some embodiments, step S3201 includes the steps of:

step S3201a: at least one of the first information and the second information is transmitted to the network device 102 during the random access procedure.

In some embodiments, the first information may be, for example, a type of the terminal 101, and the second information may be, for example, capability information of the terminal 101.

Alternative implementations of step S3201a may refer to step S2102 of fig. 2, alternative implementations of step S3102 of fig. 3a, and other relevant parts in the embodiments related to fig. 2 and 3a, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, step S3201a may comprise at least one of:

In some embodiments, the random access procedure comprises a four-step random access procedure, and the first resource comprises: a first physical random access channel, PRACH, resource.

In some embodiments, the first PRACH resource comprises: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

In some embodiments, the first PRACH resource comprises: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

In some embodiments, the random access procedure comprises a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message being an MsgA message.

In some embodiments, the first resource comprises: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource.

In some embodiments, the second PRACH resource comprises: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel; and/or, the first PUSCH resources include: at least one of frequency domain resources and time domain resources for the terminal to transmit a PUSCH channel.

In some embodiments, the first resource comprises a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

In some embodiments, the sending the second random access message to the network device includes:

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device 102 based on a periodic trigger or an event trigger.

In some embodiments, the terminal 101 may transmit at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device 102 in a case where the terminal 101 is in an RRC (Radio Resource Control ) connected state.

In some embodiments, in case of a primary secondary cell change or a cell handover, the terminal 101 may send at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device 102.

In some embodiments, step S3201 may be implemented as a stand-alone embodiment.

In the disclosed embodiment, step S3201 may be implemented in combination with step S3101 of fig. 3a as a stand-alone embodiment.

Fig. 4a is a flow chart illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 4a, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an information transmission method performed by a network device 102, the method comprising:

step S4101: and transmitting third information.

Alternative implementations of step S4101 may refer to alternative implementations of step S2101 in fig. 2, and other relevant parts in the embodiment related to fig. 2, which are not described here again.

Optionally, the third information is used to indicate uplink resources configured by the network side for the terminal 101. Alternative implementations of these may be referred to as alternative implementations of steps S2101 and S2102 in fig. 2, and other relevant parts in the embodiment related to fig. 2, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 sends the third information to the terminal 101, but may also send the third information to other bodies.

Step S4102: fourth information is acquired.

Alternative implementations of step S4102 may refer to alternative implementations of step S2102 in fig. 2, and other relevant parts in the embodiment related to fig. 2, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 receives the fourth information from the terminal 101, but may also receive the fourth information from other bodies.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 obtains fourth information specified by the protocol.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 obtains fourth information from an upper layer(s).

In some embodiments, the network device 102 processes to obtain fourth information.

In some embodiments, step S4102 is omitted, and network device 102 autonomously implements the functionality indicated by the fourth information, or the functionality described above is default or defaults.

In some embodiments, steps S4102, S4102 may be performed in exchange order or simultaneously.

In some embodiments, at least one of steps S4101 to S4102 may be performed. For example, step S4101 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, step S4102 may be implemented as a separate embodiment, and steps S4101 to S4102 may be implemented as separate embodiments.

In some embodiments, step S4101 is optional, and this step may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

In some embodiments, step S4102 is optional, and this step may be omitted or replaced in different embodiments.

Fig. 4b is a flow chart illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 4b, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an information transmission method performed by a network device 102, the method comprising:

step S4201: at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal is received.

In some embodiments, step S4201 includes the steps of:

step S4201a: in the random access procedure, at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal 101 is received.

Alternative implementations of step S4201a may refer to step S2102 of fig. 2, step S3102 of fig. 3a, alternative implementations of step S3201 of fig. 3b, and other relevant parts of the embodiments related to fig. 2, 3a, and 3b, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, step S4201a may include at least one of:

In some embodiments, the first resource comprises: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first PUSCH resource.

In some embodiments, the receiving the second random access message sent by the terminal includes:

In some embodiments, the network device 102 may receive at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal 101 based on a periodic trigger or an event trigger.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 may receive at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal 101 in a case where the terminal 101 is in an RRC (Radio Resource Control ) connected state.

In some embodiments, the network device 102 may receive at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal 101 in case of a primary-secondary cell change or a cell handover.

In some embodiments, step S4201 may be implemented as a standalone embodiment.

In the disclosed embodiment, step S4201 may be implemented in combination with step S4101 of fig. 4a as a stand-alone embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating an information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 5a, an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an information transmission method for a communication system 100, the method comprising:

step S5101: the terminal 101 transmits at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device 102;

in some embodiments, the network device 102 receives at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal 101.

In some embodiments, the first information is used to indicate that the type of terminal 101 is a terminal that is powered from the environment; the second information is used to indicate at least one of a power availability capability and an electrical energy storage capability of the terminal 101.

Alternative implementations of step S5101 may refer to step S2102 of fig. 2, step S3102 of fig. 3a, alternative implementations of step S3201 of fig. 3b, and other relevant parts in the embodiments related to fig. 2, 3a, and 3b, which are not described herein.

The optional implementation manner of the step of the network device 102 receiving at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the terminal 101 may refer to the step S2102 of fig. 2, the step S4102 of fig. 4a, the optional implementation manner of the step S4201 of fig. 4b, and other relevant parts in the embodiments related to fig. 2, fig. 4a, and fig. 4b, which are not described herein again.

In some embodiments, the method may include the method described in the embodiments of the communication system side, the terminal side, the access network device side, the core network device side, and the like, which are not described herein.

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a flow diagram of an information transmission method. The embodiment of the disclosure relates to an information sending method, which comprises the following steps:

and the terminal sends the type and/or the terminal capability of the terminal to the base station in the random access process, and the terminal type identifies whether the terminal is the terminal type obtained from the environment. The terminal capability identifies the capacitation capability and/or the electrical energy storage capability of the terminal.

In some embodiments, the terminal is identified as a terminal that is powered from the environment by a particular PRACH resource.

As an example, the specific PRACH resources include frequency domain resources and/or time domain resources and/or code domain resources (which may be understood as different preamble sequences) of the specific PRACH. When the terminal initiates random access, if the specific PRACH resource is selected to initiate random access, the terminal is indicated to be the terminal which is obtained from the environment.

As an example, the particular PRACH resource includes a plurality of time domain symbols on a time domain resource for repeated transmission of the PRACH channel. The purpose of repeated transmission is to compensate for the problem of limited power and ensure uplink coverage.

In some embodiments, the terminal is identified as the terminal type that is enabled from the environment by the resources of a particular Msg a.

As an example, the specific Msg a resources include specific PRACH resources and/or specific PUSCH resources in Msg a transmission resources. The specific PRACH resources include frequency domain resources and/or time domain resources and/or code domain resources of the specific PRACH. The specific PUSCH resources include specific PUSCH frequency domain resources and/or time domain resources.

As an example, the terminal type may be identified by a specific PUSCH resource, or may be identified by a specific PRACH resource and a specific PUSCH resource.

As one example, the resources of the particular Msg a include a plurality of time domain symbols on time domain resources for repeated transmission of Msg a.

In some embodiments, the terminal type is identified by information carried in either Msg3 or Msg a. For example, the terminal type flag information is directly carried in Msg3 or Msg a, indicating that the terminal is a terminal type that is enabled from the environment.

As an example, the Msg3 or Msg a may also perform repeated transmissions in the time domain to promote coverage.

In some embodiments, information of terminal capacitation capability and/or electric energy storage capability is carried in either Msg3 or Msg a.

In some embodiments, the terminal capabilityand battery storage capability may be defined in a protocol.

For example, battery energy storage capability may define different capability levels. An example of a capability definition, capability 1: battery power storage is sufficient for single reception or single transmission (or other UE operation), capability 2: battery power storage is sufficient for single receive and transmit (or other UE operation), capability 3: the battery stores energy sufficient for multiple communication sessions over a period of time T. As another example, the battery storage capacity may be divided directly by the absolute value of the battery storage.

For example, the terminal may collect a set amount of energy within how long the terminal is capable of the terminal's capacitation. The set amount is related to the battery capacity. For example, when the battery capacity of the terminal is the capacity 1 and the communication restoration capacity of the terminal is the duration T1, it indicates that the terminal can collect enough energy for the terminal to perform single reception or single transmission (or other terminal operation) in the duration T1. The battery storage capability of the terminal is capability 2, and when the communication restoration capability of the terminal is duration T2, the terminal can collect the energy which is enough for the terminal to perform single receiving and transmitting (or other terminal operations) in duration T2. And when the battery storage capacity of the terminal is capacity 3 and the communication restoration capacity of the terminal is duration T3, the terminal can collect the energy which is enough for the terminal to perform the communication process for a plurality of times in duration T3.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, some or all of the steps and alternative implementations thereof may be arbitrarily combined with some or all of the steps in other embodiments, and may also be arbitrarily combined with alternative implementations of other embodiments.

The embodiment of the present disclosure also provides an apparatus for implementing any one of the above information transmission methods, for example, an information transmission apparatus is provided, where the information transmission apparatus includes a unit or a module for implementing each step performed by a terminal in any one of the above information transmission methods. For another example, another information transmission apparatus is provided, which includes a unit or a module configured to implement each step performed by a network device (e.g., an access network device, a core network function node, a core network device, etc.) in any one of the above information transmission methods.

It should be understood that the division of each unit or module in the above apparatus is merely a division of a logic function, and may be fully or partially integrated into one physical entity or may be physically separated when actually implemented. Furthermore, units or modules in the apparatus may be implemented in the form of processor-invoked software: the device comprises, for example, a processor, which is connected to a memory, in which instructions are stored, the processor calling the instructions stored in the memory to implement any of the above methods or to implement the functions of the units or modules of the device, wherein the processor is, for example, a general-purpose processor, such as a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU) or microprocessor, and the memory is a memory within the device or a memory external to the device. Alternatively, the units or modules in the apparatus may be implemented in the form of hardware circuits, and part or all of the functions of the units or modules may be implemented by designing hardware circuits, which may be understood as one or more processors; for example, in one implementation, the hardware circuit is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and the functions of some or all of the units or modules are implemented by designing the logic relationships of elements in the circuit; for another example, in another implementation, the above hardware circuit may be implemented by a programmable logic device (programmable logic device, PLD), for example, a field programmable gate array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA), which may include a large number of logic gates, and the connection relationship between the logic gates is configured by a configuration file, so as to implement the functions of some or all of the above units or modules. All units or modules of the above device may be realized in the form of invoking software by a processor, or in the form of hardware circuits, or in part in the form of invoking software by a processor, and in the rest in the form of hardware circuits.

In the disclosed embodiment, the processor is a circuit with signal processing capability, and in one implementation, the processor may be a circuit with instruction reading and running capability, such as a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), microprocessor, graphics processor (graphics processing unit, GPU) (which may be understood as a microprocessor), or digital signal processor (digital signal processor, DSP), etc.; in another implementation, the processor may implement a function through a logical relationship of hardware circuits that are fixed or reconfigurable, e.g., a hardware circuit implemented as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a programmable logic device (programmable logic device, PLD), such as an FPGA. In the reconfigurable hardware circuit, the processor loads the configuration document, and the process of implementing the configuration of the hardware circuit may be understood as a process of loading instructions by the processor to implement the functions of some or all of the above units or modules. Furthermore, a hardware circuit designed for artificial intelligence may be used, which may be understood as an ASIC, such as a neural network processing unit (Neural Network Processing Unit, NPU), tensor processing unit (Tensor Processing Unit, TPU), deep learning processing unit (Deep learning Processing Unit, DPU), etc.

Fig. 6a is a schematic structural diagram of a first information transmission device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 6a, the first information transmission apparatus 6100 includes: a transmitting module 6101 configured to transmit at least one of the first information and the second information to a network device; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is powered from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal. Optionally, the sending module 6101 is configured to perform steps related to sending at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device, which are performed by the terminal 101 in any one of the above information transmission methods, and are not described herein. Optionally, the first information transmission apparatus 6100 further includes a receiving module, where the receiving module is configured to perform the steps related to receiving performed by the terminal 101 in any of the above methods, which are not described herein.

Fig. 6b is a schematic structural diagram of a second information transmission device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 6b, the second information transmission apparatus 6200 includes: a receiving module 6201 configured to receive at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal; the first information is used for indicating the type of the terminal to be a terminal which is powered from the environment; the second information is used for indicating at least one of the capacitation capability and the electric energy storage capability of the terminal. Optionally, the receiving module 6201 is configured to perform a step related to at least one of the first information and the second information sent by the receiving terminal, which is performed by the network device 102 in any one of the above information transmission methods, which is not described herein. Optionally, the second information transmission apparatus 7200 further includes a sending module, where the sending module is configured to perform the steps related to sending performed by the network device 102 in any one of the above methods, which is not described herein.

Fig. 7a is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device 7100 provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication device 7100 may be a network device (e.g., an access network device, a core network device, etc.), a terminal (e.g., a user device, etc.), a chip system, a processor, etc. that supports the network device to implement any of the above methods, or a chip, a chip system, a processor, etc. that supports the terminal to implement any of the above information transmission methods. The communication device 7100 may be used to implement the methods described in the above method embodiments, and may be referred to in particular in the description of the above method embodiments.

As shown in fig. 7a, the communication device 7100 includes one or more processors 7101. The processor 7101 may be a general-purpose processor or a special-purpose processor, etc., and may be, for example, a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be used to control communication devices (e.g., base stations, baseband chips, terminal devices, terminal device chips, DUs or CUs, etc.), execute programs, and process data for the programs. The processor 7101 is operable to invoke instructions to cause the communication device 7100 to perform any of the above methods.

In some embodiments, the communication device 7100 also includes one or more memories 7102 for storing instructions. Alternatively, all or part of the memory 7102 may be external to the communication device 7100.

In some embodiments, the communication device 7100 also includes one or more transceivers 7103. When the communication device 7100 includes one or more transceivers 7103, communication steps such as transmission and reception in the above method are performed by the transceivers 7103, and other steps are performed by the processor 7101.

In some embodiments, the transceiver may include a receiver and a transmitter, which may be separate or integrated. Alternatively, terms such as transceiver, transceiver unit, transceiver circuit, etc. may be replaced with each other, terms such as transmitter, transmitter circuit, etc. may be replaced with each other, and terms such as receiver, receiving unit, receiver, receiving circuit, etc. may be replaced with each other.

Optionally, the communication device 7100 further comprises one or more interface circuits 7104, the interface circuits 7104 being connected to the memory 7102, the interface circuits 7104 being operable to receive signals from the memory 7102 or other means, and being operable to transmit signals to the memory 7102 or other means. For example, the interface circuit 7104 may read an instruction stored in the memory 7102 and send the instruction to the processor 7101.

The communication device 7100 in the above embodiment description may be a network device or a terminal, but the scope of the communication device 7100 described in the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device 7100 may not be limited by fig. 7 a. The communication device may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. For example, the communication device may be: 1) A stand-alone integrated circuit IC, or chip, or a system-on-a-chip or subsystem; (2) A set of one or more ICs, optionally including storage means for storing data, programs; (3) an ASIC, such as a Modem (Modem); (4) modules that may be embedded within other devices; (5) A receiver, a terminal device, an intelligent terminal device, a cellular phone, a wireless device, a handset, a mobile unit, a vehicle-mounted device, a network device, a cloud device, an artificial intelligent device, and the like; (6) others, and so on.

Fig. 7b is a schematic structural diagram of a chip 7200 provided by an embodiment of the disclosure. For the case where the communication device 7100 may be a chip or a chip system, reference may be made to the schematic structural diagram of the chip 7200 shown in fig. 7b, but is not limited thereto.

The chip 7200 includes one or more processors 7201, the processors 7201 for invoking instructions to cause the chip 7200 to perform any of the above methods.

In some embodiments, the chip 7200 further includes one or more interface circuits 7202, the interface circuits 7202 being coupled to the memory 7203, the interface circuits 7202 being operable to receive signals from the memory 7203 or other devices, the interface circuits 7202 being operable to transmit signals to the memory 7203 or other devices. For example, the interface circuit 7202 may read instructions stored in the memory 7203 and send the instructions to the processor 7201. Alternatively, the terms interface circuit, interface, transceiver pin, transceiver, etc. may be interchanged.

In some embodiments, the chip 7200 further includes one or more memories 7203 for storing instructions. Alternatively, all or a portion of memory 7203 may be external to chip 7200.

The present disclosure also provides a storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed on a communication device 7100, cause the communication device 7100 to perform any of the methods described above. Optionally, the storage medium is an electronic storage medium. The storage medium described above is optionally a computer-readable storage medium, but may be a storage medium readable by other apparatuses. Alternatively, the storage medium may be a non-transitory (non-transitory) storage medium, but may also be a transitory storage medium.

The present disclosure also provides a program product which, when executed by a communication device 7100, causes the communication device 7100 to perform any of the above methods. Optionally, the above-described program product is a computer program product.

The present disclosure also provides a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform any of the above methods.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, which have been described above, and that various modifications and changes may be effected without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the invention is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An information transmission method, wherein the method is performed by a terminal, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device comprises:

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the transmitting at least one of the first information and the second information to the network device during random access comprises at least one of:

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the random access procedure comprises a four-step random access procedure, the first resource comprising: a first physical random access channel, PRACH, resource.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first PRACH resource comprises: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

6. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the first PRACH resource comprises: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

7. A method according to claim 3, wherein the random access procedure comprises a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message being an MsgA message.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first resource comprises: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein,

the second PRACH resource includes: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the first resource comprises a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

11. A method according to claim 3, wherein the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the sending the second random access message to the network device comprises:

13. An information transmission method, wherein the method is performed by a network device, the method comprising:

14. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the receiving terminal comprises:

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the receiving at least one of the first information and the second information transmitted by the terminal during random access comprises at least one of:

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the random access procedure comprises a four-step random access procedure, the first resource comprising: a first physical random access channel, PRACH, resource.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first PRACH resource comprises: at least one of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, and code domain resources for the terminal to transmit the PRACH channel.

18. The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein the first PRACH resource comprises: and repeatedly transmitting a plurality of time domain resources of the PRACH channel by the terminal.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the random access procedure comprises a two-step random access procedure, the first random access message being an MsgA message.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first resource comprises: at least one of a second PRACH resource and a first physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, resource.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein,

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the first resource comprises a plurality of time domain resources; the plurality of time domain resources are used for the terminal to repeatedly transmit the MsgA message.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the second random access message is: msg3 message of a four-step random access procedure or MsgA message of a two-step random access procedure.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the receiving the second random access message sent by the terminal comprises:

25. An information transmission method, wherein the method is performed by a communication system, the method comprising:

26. A first information transmission apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:

27. A second information transmission apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:

28. A communication device, wherein the communication device comprises:

one or more processors;

wherein the processor is configured to invoke instructions to cause the communication device to perform the information transmission method of any of claims 1 to 12, 13 to 24.

29. A communication system, wherein the communication system comprises: a terminal configured to implement the information transmission method of any one of claims 1 to 12, a network device configured to implement the information transmission method of any one of claims 13 to 24.

30. A storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a communication device, cause the communication device to perform the information transmission method of any one of claims 1 to 12, 13 to 24.