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• the disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus of indicating alternative resource at collision of configured grants.
• the 5G or pre-5G communication system is also called a "Beyond 4G Network" or a "Post LTE System”
• the 5G communication system is considered to be implemented in higher frequency (mmWave) bands, e.g., 60GHz bands, so as to accomplish higher data rates.
• mmWave e.g., 60GHz bands
• MIMO massive multiple-input multiple-output
• FD-MIMO full dimensional MIMO
• array antenna an analog beam forming, large scale antenna techniques are discussed in 5G communication systems.
• RANs cloud radio access networks
• D2D device-to-device
• SWSC sliding window superposition coding
• ACM advanced coding modulation
• FBMC filter bank multi carrier
• NOMA non-orthogonal multiple access
• SCMA sparse code multiple access
• the Internet which is a human centered connectivity network where humans generate and consume information
• IoT Internet of things
• IoE Internet of everything
• sensing technology “wired/wireless communication and network infrastructure”, “service interface technology”, and “security technology”
• M2M machine-to-machine
• MTC machine type communication
• IoT Internet technology services
• IoT may be applied to a variety of fields including smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected cars, smart grid, health care, smart appliances and advanced medical services through convergence and combination between existing information technology (IT) and various industrial applications.
• IT information technology
• technologies such as a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication may be implemented by beamforming, MIMO, and array antennas.
• MTC machine type communication
• M2M machine-to-machine
• Application of a cloud radio access network (RAN) as the above-described big data processing technology may also be considered an example of convergence of the 5G technology with the IoT technology.
• RAN cloud radio access network
• the prior art has a problem in that when there is a conflict between grants, one of the grants must be selected and transmitted.
• an aspect of the disclosure is to provide a method and an apparatus of indicating alternative resource at collision of configured grants.
• a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes determining whether a resource associated with a first grant and a resource associated with a second grant collide, identifying an alternative resource for a lower priority grant between the first grant and the second grant, in a case of determining that there is collision, determining whether a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) corresponding to data associated with the lower priority grant is generated, flushing a buffer, in a case that the MAC PDU is not generated, and transmitting the data to a base station via the identified alternative resource.
• MAC media access control
• PDU protocol data unit
• a terminal in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal with a base station, and at least one processor configured to determine whether a resource associated with a first grant and a resource associated with a second grant collide, identify an alternative resource for a lower priority grant between the first grant and the second grant, in a case of determining that there is collision, determine whether a MAC PDU corresponding to data associated with the lower priority grant is generated, flush a buffer, in a case that the MAC PDU is not generated, and transmit the data to the base station via the identified alternative resource.
• a control signal processing method in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first control signal transmitted from a base station, processing the received first control signal, generating a second control signal based on the processing of the received first control signal, and transmitting the second control signal to the base station.
• alternative resources can be configured in the case of collision of configured grant.
• FIG. 1 is a view illustrating an operation of configuring a configured grant according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 2 is a view illustrating a plurality of configured grants being configured according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 3 is a view illustrating a plurality of configured grants overlapping according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 4 is a view illustrating an operation of configuring a configured grant according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a priority configurating method of configured grants according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 6 is a view illustrating a processing method when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• FIG. 7 is a view illustrating an operation of an alternative resource configurating method when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 8 is a view illustrating an operation of an alternative resource configuration method when the configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 9 is a view illustrating a method for indicating an alternative resource according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• FIG. 10 is a view illustrating an embodiment in which a base station configures simultaneous transmission according to an embodiment of the disclosure
• FIG. 11 is a view illustrating a structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• FIG. 12 is a view illustrating a structure of a base station according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating alternative resource transmission methods when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• FIG 14 is a flowchart illustrating alternative resource transmission methods when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
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• FIG. 1 is a view illustrating an operation of configuring a configured grant according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• each of the configured grants 110, 120, 130, and 140 is configured to have a certain period 150.
• a base station may configure each configured grant to a terminal and may configure a period, a location of a radio resource, a size, modulation, a coding rate, and the like.
• such configured grants may be activated immediately upon configuration or may be activated by a separate activation command. It may be assumed that these configured grants have fixed traffic patterns or the configured grants are used for high priority data.
• the configured grant may be dedicated to data with a short delay requirement.
• the base station may configure whether a specific configured grant can be used for each specific local channel via the radio resource control (RRC) configuration message.
• RRC radio resource control
• a plurality of configured grants may be configured for one terminal, and at this time, a period for each configured grant, a location, a size, modulation, coding rate, and the like of a radio resource may be differently configured.
• FIG. 2 is a view illustrating a plurality of configured grants being configured according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• first configured grants namely first configured grants (CG1s) 201, 202, 203, and 204 and second configured grants (CG2s) 211, 212, 213, and 214
• three or more configured grants may be configured.
• different configured grants are configured to mean that the period of the configured grant (e.g., periods 205, 206, and 207 of the first configured grants and periods 214 and 215 of the second configured grants), the location, the size, the modulation, the coding rate and the like of the radio resource are separately configured, and that each configured grant is configured to the configuration of each configured grant.
• the location of the radio resource may be configured to be divided into a time axis 210 and a frequency axis 220. In this way, a plurality of configured grants may be configured so that each configured grant can process data having different requirements, and at this time, the base station may configure a logical channel that can be transmitted using each configured grant.
• FIG. 3 is a view illustrating a plurality of configured grants overlapping according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• two configured grants, first configured grants (CG1s) 301, 302, 303, and 304 and second configured grants (CG2s) 311, 312, 313, and 314, are configured, three or more configured grants may be configured.
• different configured grants are configured to mean that the period of the configured grant, the location, the size, the modulation, the coding rate and the like of the radio resource are separately configured, and that each configured grant is configured to the configuration of each configured grant.
• the location of the radio resource may be configured to be divided into the time axis 310 and the frequency axis 320.
• a plurality of configured grants may be configured so that each configured grant can process data having different requirements, and at this time, the base station may configure a logical channel that can be transmitted using each configured grant.
• the first configured grants and the second configured grants may overlap (330). In this case, how the terminal should handle the overlapped portions may be a problem.
• the terminal may need to perform transmission by selecting one of the configured grants. This is inevitably necessary to select one configured grant in the case of a terminal having a capability of transmitting only one radio resource.
• the transmission corresponding to the first configured grant 304 may be performed and the transmission corresponding to the second configured grant 313 may not be performed according to a predetermined condition.
• the resource corresponding to the first configured grant 340 may perform only on a portion 330 where the resource overlap by a predetermined condition, and the transmission corresponding to the second configured grant may normally perform on a portion of the second configured grant 330.
• Which configured grant to be chosen may be determined by deriving a relative priority configuration in advance for each configured grant, or may be determined according to the type or amount of data the terminal has.
• FIG. 4 is a view illustrating an operation of configuring a configured grant according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• a terminal 410 may receive a configured grant from a base station 420.
• the configuration may be made by an RRC configuration message 430 sent from the base station to the terminal.
• the RRC configuration message may include a configured grant configuration information element (IE), and for each configured grant configuration IE, a period of a configured grant, a location, a size, modulation, a coding rate of a radio resource, and whether to use a separate activation message, and the like may be configured.
• the terminal when receiving a plurality of configured grants configuration IEs, the terminal may have a plurality of configured grants. Accordingly, the configured grant transmission operation described in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 may be performed. If the terminal successfully receives the RRC configuration 420 message and completes the configuration, the terminal may transmit an RRC configuration completion message 440 to the base station to transmit that the configuration of the terminal is completed.
• FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a priority configurating method of configured grants according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• a terminal receives configured grant configuration IEs 510 and 520 from a base station, the configuration may be configured.
• the configured grant may be allocated its own priority at the time of configuration.
• the configured grant corresponding to the first configured grant configuration 510 is assigned a priority value a
• the configured grant corresponding to the second configuration grant configuration 520 is assigned a priority value 2.
• a lower priority value may be interpreted as having a higher priority, but in an embodiment of the disclosure, a higher priority value may be interpreted as having a higher priority.
• the priority of the configured grant may be used when the configured grant resource described in FIG. 3 overlaps 330.
• the terminal may determine which configured grant is to be used, based on the priority of the configured grant. Specifically, if the priority of the first configured grant is higher than the priority of the second configured grant, the first configured grant may be used. In the embodiment of FIG. 5, since the priority value of the first configured grant is low, the priority may be interpreted as high and the first configured grant may be used.
• FIG. 6 is a view illustrating a processing method when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the base station may designate an alternative resource to be used when configured grants overlap with another configured grant on the time axis or time and frequency axes. This can configure to move resources when the resources overlap by configuring RRC, and may configure the size, modulation, coding rate, and rules when the resource moves - for example, information how far from the overlapping resources are on the time and frequency axes when a resource that cannot be used overlaps occurs-, and the like.
• the configuration may be transferred by the configured grant configurations 510 and 520 and the like. in the RRC configuration message 430.
• these alternative resources may be designated by predetermined rules.
• the rule of the alternative resources may be what resources are used and which resources are not used when the configured grant resources overlap, and where the alternative resources for the configured grant are not used.
• FIG. 7 is a view illustrating an operation of an alternative resource configurating method when configured grants overlap according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• a total of two configured grants, a first configured grant 710 and a second configured grant 720, are configured, but the disclosure is also applicable to a case where three or more configured grants are configured. If different configured grants overlap on the time axis or on the time and frequency axes (730), a terminal having a capability of transmitting only one radio resource should select and transmit one resource of the two configured grants.
• all the resources to be transmitted to the configured grants are important, if one selected configured grant is selected and transmitted, data that needs to be transmitted to the configured grant that cannot be transmitted because it is not selected will inevitably degrade transmission performance. Therefore, if the data to be transmitted to the configured grant is important, it is possible to reduce the degradation of transmission performance by providing an alternative resource 740 of the resource to be transmitted to the configured grant that cannot be transmitted because it is not selected.
• the location of the alternative resource to move, based on the unused resource (720).
• a first configured grant 710 has a priority
• the second configured grant 720 which is disabled, uses an alternative resource.
• which configured grant has a priority may be determined in advance, and the configured grant that can be used by the high priority logical channel may take precedence, based on the priority of the logical channels that can use each configured grant.
• the priority of the logical channel may be applied regardless of whether the logical channel actually has data to transmit.
• an alternative resource 740 has been configured for the resource 720 of the second configured grant, which may be possible by configuring a shift value on the time axis (time shift) 750 and a shift value on the frequency axis (frequency shift) 760 from the position 720 of the previously configured resource.
• the unit of the shift value 750 on the time axis may be an absolute time, a symbol, a slot, a subframe, and the like.
• the unit of the shift value 760 on the frequency axis may be Hertz (Hz), the number of subcarriers, resource block, and the like.
• the alternative resource may be the same bandwidth part (BWP) as the existing resource or another bandwidth part (BWP).
• BWP ID bandwidth part identification
• ID cell identification
• SCell secondary cell index
• FIG. 8 is a view illustrating an operation of an alternative resource configuration method when the configured grant overlaps according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• a total of two configured grants, a first configured grant 810 and a second configured grant 820, are configured, but the disclosure is also applicable to a case where three or more configured grants are configured. If different configured grants overlap on the time axis or on the time and frequency axes (830), a terminal having a capability of transmitting only one radio resource should select and transmit one resource of the two configured grants.
• all the resources to be transmitted to the configured grants are important, if one selected configured grant is selected and transmitted, data that needs to be transmitted to the configured grant that cannot be transmitted because it is not selected will inevitably degrade transmission performance. Therefore, if the data to be transmitted to the configured grant is important, it is possible to reduce the degradation of transmission performance by providing an alternative resource 840 of the resource to be transmitted to the configured grant that cannot be transmitted because it is not selected.
• a first configured grant 810 has a priority and the second configured grant 820, which is disabled, uses an alternative resource.
• which configured grant has a priority may be determined in advance, and the configured grant that can be used by the high priority logical channel may take precedence, based on the priority of the logical channel that can use each configured grant.
• the priority of the logical channel may be applied regardless of whether the logical channel actually has data to transmit.
• an alternative resource 840 has been configured for the resource 820 of the second configured grant, which may be possible by configuring a shift value on the time axis (time shift) 850 and a shift value on the frequency axis (frequency shift) 860 from the position 820 of the previously configured resource.
• the unit of the shift value 850 on the time axis may be an absolute time, a symbol, a slot, a subframe, and the like.
• the unit of the shift value 860 on the frequency axis may be Hertz (Hz), the number of subcarriers, resource block, and the like.
• the alternative resource may be the same bandwidth part (BWP) as the existing resource or another BWP.
• BWP bandwidth part
• the location of the corresponding resource may be informed including a BWP ID, a cell ID, and an SCell index, and the like.
• FIG. 9 is a view illustrating a method for indicating an alternative resource according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• a base station 910 may send a message indicating an alternative resource to a terminal 920 (930).
• the message may include which resource to provide an alternative resource for, or which of the overlapping configured grants to use.
• the configured grant that requires the use of the alternative resource it may also indicate the location of the alternative resource.
• the location of the alternative resource may indicate the location away from the time axis and the frequency axis relative to the specific configured grant described in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, and may also indicate the absolute location as a system frame number (SFN), slot number or a symbol number in the transmission resource. It may also include the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the alternative resource, the logical channel ID from which the alternative resource is available, and the physical layer priority of the alternative resource.
• MCS modulation and coding scheme
• NDI new data indicator
• the alternative resource indication message may be informed in the form of DCI using physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).
• the terminal receiving the alternative resource indication message 930 may perform transmission by changing the location of the configured grant that cannot be used to change the location of the existing resource 940 to the location 950 of the alternative resource (960).
• FIG. 10 is a view illustrating an embodiment in which a base station configures simultaneous transmission according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the terminal may have more radio frequency (RF) chains that can be actually used than the number of RF chains actually configured.
• the terminal 1010 should inform the base station 1020 that simultaneous transmission of physical resources overlapping in the terminal is possible. This message may be included in the terminal capability message 1030 and transmitted. Accordingly, the base station can identify a scenario capable of transmission to the terminal.
• RF radio frequency
• the base station may indicate the terminal to transmit the overlapped configured grant.
• a message may be indicated by being included in the RRC configuration message 1040.
• the base station may designate a specific cell or a specific BWP to which the terminal simultaneously transmits overlapping configured grant resources. Accordingly, the terminal can determine whether to apply simultaneous transmission for overlapping configured grant resources, transmit using alternative resources described in FIGS. 6, 7, 8 and 9, or use only one of the overlapping resources.
• the base station may configure a condition for simultaneous transmission. For example, if there is data to be sent by a logical channel that is higher than a certain priority, simultaneous transmission may be performed even if the configured grant resources overlap. For example, simultaneous transmission may be allowed for logical channels higher than priority 4 regardless of overlapping configured grant resources. In this case, if the priority of a logical channel that should use the first configured grant is 2, and the priority of a logical channel that should use the second configured grant is 1, all of them are higher than the priority 4, so even if the two configured grants overlap, all data transmission can be performed.
• FIG. 11 is a view illustrating a structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the terminal may include a transceiver 1110, a controller 1120, and a storage 1130.
• the controller may be defined as a circuit or application specific integrated circuit or at least one processor.
• the transceiver 1110 may transmit and receive a signal with another network entity.
• the transceiver 1110 may receive system information from, for example, a base station and may receive a synchronization signal or a reference signal.
• the controller 1120 may control the overall operation of the terminal according to the embodiment proposed by the disclosure.
• the controller 1120 may control a signal flow between blocks to perform an operation according to the flowchart described above.
• the storage 1130 may store at least one of information transmitted and received through the transceiver 1110 and information generated through the controller 1120.
• FIG. 12 is a view illustrating a structure of a base station according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the base station may include a transceiver 1210, a controller 1220, and a storage 1230.
• the controller 1220 may be defined as a circuit or application specific integrated circuit or at least one processor.
• the transceiver 1210 may transmit and receive a signal with another network entity.
• the transceiver 1210 may transmit system information to, for example, a terminal and may transmit a synchronization signal or a reference signal.
• the controller 1220 may control the overall operation of the terminal according to the embodiment proposed by the disclosure.
• the controller 1220 may control a signal flow between blocks to perform an operation according to the flowchart described above.
• the storage 1230 may store at least one of information transmitted and received through the transceiver 1210 and information generated through the controller 1220.
• FIG. 13 illustrates an operation process for alternative resource transmission when the configured grant overlaps according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the terminal when two or more configured grant resources overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to an alternative resource for a radio resource having a low priority.
• the terminal even when the configured grant resource and the dynamic grant resource overlap or two or more dynamic grant resources overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to the alternative resource.
• the configured grant or the dynamic grant has a low priority when control information, such as a scheduling request and the configured grant or dynamic grant resource overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to the alternative resource even at this time.
• these alternative resources may be transferred in advance by an RRC configuration or reconfiguration message, or may be transferred in the form of DCI using the PDCCH.
• these alternative resources may be retransmission resources of the same hybrid ARQ (HARQ) process for a configured grant or dynamic grant having a lower priority.
• resources allocated by configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier RNTI CS-RNTI
• CS-RNTI configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier RNTI
• the terminal may assume that a configured grant has a lower priority than other resources due to a collision of radio resources in operation 1310.
• the terminal may identify whether the media access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) which is scheduled to be transmitted to the configured grant having a low priority has already been generated or has already been transmitted to the lower physical layer.
• MAC PDU media access control protocol data unit
• the terminal may transmit or retransmit the MAC PDU already generated in the alternative resource to the configured grant of the lower priority in operation 1330.
• the MAC PDU already generated may mean a MAC PDU stored in an HARQ buffer corresponding to the HARQ process.
• the terminal does not need to generate the corresponding MAC PDU.
• the terminal may empty the HARQ buffer of the same HARQ process without generating the MAC PDU in operation 1340. In this way, the terminal may then identify that the HARQ buffer is empty at the time of transmission of the alternative resource and generate a new MAC PDU to be transmitted. If so, the terminal may transmit the MAC PDU newly generated in the corresponding alternative resource in operation 1350.
• FIG. 14 illustrates an operation process for alternative resource transmission when the configured grant overlaps according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the terminal when two or more configured grant resources overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to an alternative resource for a radio resource having a low priority.
• the terminal even when the configured grant resource and the dynamic grant resource overlap or two or more dynamic grant resources overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to the alternative resource.
• the configured grant or the dynamic grant has a low priority when control information, such as a scheduling request and the configured grant or dynamic grant resource overlap, the terminal may be indicated to transmit to the alternative resource even at this time.
• these alternative resources may be transferred in advance by an RRC configuration or reconfiguration message, or may be informed in the form of DCI using the PDCCH.
• these alternative resources may be retransmission resources of the same HARQ process for a configured grant or dynamic grant having a lower priority.
• the terminal may assume that a configured grant has a lower priority than other resources (configured grant, dynamic grant, control information, such as scheduling request) due to a collision of radio resources in operation 1410.
• the terminal may identify whether the MAC PDU which is scheduled to be transmitted to the configured grant having a low priority has already been generated or has already been transmitted to the lower physical layer. If the MAC PDU that was scheduled to be transmitted to the configured grant with a lower priority has already been generated in operation 1420, the terminal may transmit or retransmit the MAC PDU already generated in the alternative resource to the configured grant of the lower priority in operation 1430.
• the already generated MAC PDU may mean a MAC PDU stored in an HARQ buffer corresponding to the HARQ process.
• the terminal does not need to generate the corresponding MAC PDU.
• the terminal since the MAC PDU previously transmitted may remain in the HARQ buffer of the corresponding HARQ process and the MAC PDU is not the MAC PDU to be transmitted by the terminal at this time, the remaining MAC PDU should be removed. Accordingly, the terminal may empty the HARQ buffer of the same HARQ process without generating the MAC PDU in operation 1440.
• the terminal may then identify that the HARQ buffer is empty at the time of transmission of the alternative resource and generate a new MAC PDU to be transmitted. If so, the terminal may transmit the MAC PDU newly generated in the corresponding alternative resource in operation 1450.

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