WO2023122986A1

WO2023122986A1 - Repeated transmission termination method and device, storage medium, and apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2023122986A1
Application number: PCT/CN2021/142179
Authority: WO
Inventors: 延凯悦
Original assignee: 北京小米移动软件有限公司
Priority date: 2021-12-28
Filing date: 2021-12-28
Publication date: 2023-07-06
Also published as: CN116671231A

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a repeated transmission termination method and device, a storage medium, and an apparatus. The method comprises: in response to a UE satisfying an early termination condition, terminating repeated transmission of a signal in advance. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of a signal, so that unnecessary repeated transmission of the UE is prevented, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving the resource utilization rate, and reducing power consumption.

Description

Termination method and equipment/storage medium/device for repeated transmission

technical field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a repeated transmission termination method and equipment/storage medium/apparatus.

Background technique

In R18 (Release 18), in order to enhance the coverage of the PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel, random access channel) signal, the UE (User Equipment, user equipment) will be made to perform PRACH repeated transmission.

In related technologies, the number of repetitions is preset, and when repeated transmission is performed, the number of repetitions of repeated transmission is counted, and the transmission is stopped until the number of repeated transmissions reaches the preset number of repetitions.

However, in related technologies, when the UE performs repeated transmission, the UE may need to terminate the repeated transmission in advance. For example, when the channel quality is good enough, a relatively small number of repetitions may be sufficient to meet the coverage requirements without reaching the preset number of repetitions, and the repetitions may be terminated in advance; or, when the repetitions are not completed, the UE determines If the outgoing base station fails to receive the signal sent by the successful UE, it needs to terminate the repeated transmission in advance and trigger the retransmission of the signal. Therefore, how to terminate the repeated transmission of the UE in advance is an urgent problem to be solved.

Contents of the invention

The method and device/storage medium/apparatus for terminating repeated transmission proposed in the present disclosure is to propose a method suitable for UE to terminate the repeated transmission of a signal in advance.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, the repeated transmission termination method proposed by the embodiment is applied to the UE, including:

Responsive to the UE satisfying an early termination condition, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated early.

Another embodiment of the present disclosure proposes a method for terminating repeated transmission, which is applied to a base station and includes:

Instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition.

The device for terminating repeated transmission proposed in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes:

A termination module, configured to prematurely terminate repeated transmission of signals in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition.

The device for terminating repeated transmission proposed in another embodiment of the present disclosure includes:

The instructing module is configured to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition.

In yet another aspect of the present disclosure, an embodiment provides a communication device, the device includes a processor and a memory, a computer program is stored in the memory, and the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, so that the The device executes the method provided in the embodiment of the foregoing aspect.

In yet another aspect of the present disclosure, an embodiment provides a communication device, the device includes a processor and a memory, a computer program is stored in the memory, and the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, so that the The device executes the method provided in the above embodiment of another aspect.

A communication device provided by an embodiment of another aspect of the present disclosure includes: a processor and an interface circuit;

The interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor;

The processor is configured to run the code instructions to execute the method provided in one embodiment.

The processor is configured to run the code instructions to execute the method provided in another embodiment.

The computer-readable storage medium provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure is used to store instructions, and when the instructions are executed, the method provided by the first embodiment is implemented.

The computer-readable storage medium provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure is used to store instructions, and when the instructions are executed, the method provided by another embodiment is implemented.

To sum up, in the repeated transmission termination method and device/storage medium/apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE may prematurely terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in response to the UE meeting the early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption.

Additional aspects and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.

Description of drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and understandable from the following description of the embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of a repeated transmission termination method provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a repeated transmission termination device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a repeated transmission termination device provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 11 is a block diagram of a user equipment provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 12 is a block diagram of a base station provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, the same numerals in different drawings refer to the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations consistent with the embodiments of the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatuses and methods consistent with aspects of the disclosed embodiments as recited in the appended claims.

Terms used in the embodiments of the present disclosure are for the purpose of describing specific embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present disclosure. As used in the examples of this disclosure and the appended claims, the singular forms "a" and "the" are also intended to include the plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and includes any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It should be understood that although the embodiments of the present disclosure may use the terms first, second, third, etc. to describe various information, the information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish information of the same type from one another. For example, without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, first information may also be called second information, and similarly, second information may also be called first information. Depending on the context, the words "if" and "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at" or "when" or "in response to a determination."

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals designate like or similar elements throughout. The embodiments described below by referring to the figures are exemplary and are intended to explain the present disclosure and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

The repeated transmission termination method and equipment/storage medium/apparatus provided by the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a UE. As shown in FIG. 1 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 101 , in response to the UE meeting the early termination condition, prematurely terminate the repeated transmission of the signal.

It should be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, a UE may be a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user. Terminal equipment can communicate with one or more core networks via RAN (Radio Access Network, wireless access network), and UE can be an IoT terminal, such as a sensor device, a mobile phone (or called a "cellular" phone) and a The computer of the networked terminal, for example, may be a fixed, portable, pocket, hand-held, built-in computer or vehicle-mounted device. For example, station (Station, STA), subscriber unit (subscriber unit), subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile station (mobile station), mobile station (mobile), remote station (remote station), access point, remote terminal ( remote terminal), access terminal, user terminal, or user agent. Alternatively, the UE may also be a device of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Alternatively, the UE may also be a vehicle-mounted device, for example, it may be a trip computer with a wireless communication function, or a wireless terminal connected externally to the trip computer. Alternatively, the UE may also be a roadside device, for example, it may be a street lamp, a signal lamp, or other roadside devices with a wireless communication function.

Wherein, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the above-mentioned signal may be a PRACH signal.

And, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, the UE is a UE that supports early termination of repeated transmission.

Further, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the UE may determine whether the UE meets the early termination condition based on the instruction or response message sent by the base station. And, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the UE can autonomously determine whether it satisfies the early termination condition. Wherein, this part of content will be introduced in detail in subsequent embodiments.

To sum up, in the method for terminating repeated transmission provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE may terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the UE meeting the early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption.

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a UE. As shown in FIG. 2 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 201, in response to the UE receiving an early termination instruction sent by the base station, prematurely terminate repeated transmission of a signal (that is, a PRACH signal).

Wherein, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, when the base station determines that the early termination condition is met, it will send an early termination instruction to the UE to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method for the base station to determine that the early termination condition is satisfied may include: before the repeated transmission times of the UE do not reach the number of repeated transmissions (that is, the preset number of repeated transmissions to be completed), if the base station has correctly After receiving and demodulating the PRACH signal sent by the UE, it is considered that the PRACH signal has been successfully transmitted before the repeated transmission is completed. Therefore, there is no need to repeat the PRACH signal in the future. At this time, the base station can send to the UE The early termination instruction is used to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in advance.

And, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the method for the base station to determine that the early termination condition is met may include: when the base station determines that the PRACH reception quality meets the preset condition, then it is considered that the current channel quality is good enough, and the smaller number of repetitions is The coverage requirement can be met without reaching the preset number of repeated transmissions. At this time, an early termination instruction can be sent to the UE to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

Wherein, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the aforementioned preset conditions may include at least one of the following:

The RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power) corresponding to the base station meets the first threshold;

The SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) corresponding to the base station meets the second threshold;

The BLER (Block Error Ratio, bit error rate) corresponding to the base station meets the third threshold.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first threshold, the second threshold, and the third threshold may be the same. In another embodiment of the present disclosure, the first threshold, the second threshold and the third threshold may be different from each other.

FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a UE. As shown in FIG. 3 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 301, in response to receiving a random access response message sent by the base station before the number of repeated transmissions reaches the number of repeated transmissions, terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

It should be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the above random access response message is: after the base station successfully receives and demodulates the PRACH signal, the base station will feed back the random access response message to the UE based on the PRACH signal .

Based on this, it can be seen that in one embodiment of the present disclosure, if the UE receives the random access response message sent by the base station before the repeated transmission reaches the number of repeated transmissions, the UE can determine that: before the repeated transmission is completed, the The PRACH signal has been successfully transmitted, that is, there is no need for repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in the future, so the UE can terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

And, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the random access response message may include any of the following:

msg 2;

msg B.

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a UE. As shown in FIG. 4 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 401, in response to the UE not receiving a random access response message in an RA (Random Access, random access) response window, prematurely terminate the repeated transmission of the signal.

Wherein, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, after the UE sends the PRACH signal to the base station, if the UE does not receive a random access response message within the RA response window, the UE considers that the base station has not successfully received the signal sent by the UE. At this time, the UE can autonomously determine to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early, and trigger the retransmission of the signal, so as to perform random access through reconnection.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a UE. As shown in FIG. 5 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 501, in response to the UE failing to verify the random access response message within the RA response window, prematurely terminate the repeated transmission of the signal.

Wherein, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, after the UE sends the PRACH signal to the base station, if the UE fails to verify the random access response message in the RA response window, the UE considers that the signal has not been transmitted successfully. At this time, the UE can autonomously determine to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early, and trigger the retransmission of the signal, so as to perform random access through reconnection.

To sum up, in the method for terminating repeated transmission provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE may terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the UE meeting the early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a base station. As shown in FIG. 6 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 601 , in response to the base station meeting the early termination condition, instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

And, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, the base station determines whether it satisfies the early termination condition mainly based on the reception quality of the current channel or based on whether the base station successfully receives and demodulates the signal sent by the UE. Wherein, this part of content will be introduced in detail in subsequent embodiments.

Further, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the above-mentioned method for the base station to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early may include at least one of the following:

sending an early termination instruction to the UE;

Send a random access response message to the UE before repeated transmission does not reach the number of repetitions.

msg 2;

msg B.

To sum up, in the method for terminating repeated transmission provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the base station may instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station meeting the early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption.

FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of another repeated transmission termination method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a base station. As shown in FIG. 7, the repeated transmission termination method may include the following steps:

Step 701: In response to the base station correctly receiving and demodulating the PRACH signal sent by the UE before the number of repeated transmissions reaches the number of repetitions, instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in advance.

Wherein, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, if the base station has correctly received and demodulated the PRACH signal sent by the UE before the repeated transmission has not reached the number of repetitions, it means that the PRACH signal has been successfully transmitted before the repeated transmission is completed. Therefore, there is no need to perform repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in the future; at this time, the base station may instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in advance to avoid unnecessary repeated transmission.

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of another method for terminating repeated transmission provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a base station. As shown in FIG. 8 , the method for terminating repeated transmission may include the following steps:

Step 801: In response to the base station determining that the reception quality of the PRACH satisfies a preset condition, instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

Wherein, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the preset conditions may include at least one of the following:

The RSRP corresponding to the base station meets the first threshold;

The SINR corresponding to the base station meets the second threshold;

The BLER corresponding to the base station satisfies the third threshold.

And, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, when the base station determines that the PRACH receiving quality meets the preset condition, it considers that the current channel quality is good enough, and a small number of repetitions can meet the coverage requirement without reaching the preset repetition The number of transmissions. At this time, the base station instructs the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance, so as to avoid unnecessary repeated transmission.

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a repeated transmission termination device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 9 , the device 900 may include:

The termination module 901 is configured to prematurely terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in response to the UE meeting the early termination condition.

To sum up, in the apparatus for terminating repeated transmission provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE may prematurely terminate repeated transmission of a signal in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the termination module 901 is further configured to:

In response to the UE receiving the early termination instruction sent by the base station, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated in advance.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the above termination module 901 is also used to:

In response to receiving a random access response message sent by the base station before the repeated transmission reaches the number of repeated transmissions, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated in advance.

In response to the UE not receiving the random access response message within the RA response window, the repeated transmission of the signal is prematurely terminated.

In response to the UE failing to verify the random access response message within the RA response window, the repeated transmission of the signal is prematurely terminated.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the above-mentioned device is also used for:

Trigger the retransmission of the signal.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the signal includes a PRACH signal.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the UE is a UE that supports early termination of repeated transmission.

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a repeated transmission termination device provided by another embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Fig. 12, the device 1000 may include:

The instructing module 1001 is configured to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition.

To sum up, in the apparatus for terminating repeated transmission provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the base station may instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station meeting the early termination condition. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for early termination of repeated transmission of signals, so that UE avoids unnecessary repeated transmission, thereby shortening transmission delay, improving resource utilization, and saving power consumption.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the above indication module 1001 is also used for:

In response to the fact that the base station correctly receives and demodulates the PRACH signal sent by the UE before the repeated transmission does not reach the number of repeated transmissions, it instructs the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in advance.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the above indication module 1001 is also used for:

In response to the base station determining that the reception quality of the PRACH satisfies a preset condition, instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the preset conditions include at least one of the following:

The RSRP corresponding to the base station meets the first threshold;

The SINR corresponding to the base station meets the second threshold;

The BLER corresponding to the base station satisfies the third threshold.

Further, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the method for instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early includes at least one of the following:

Send an early termination instruction to the UE;

Fig. 11 is a block diagram of a user equipment UE 1100 provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. For example, the UE 1100 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast terminal device, a messaging device, a game console, a tablet device, a medical device, a fitness device, a personal digital assistant, and the like.

11, UE1100 may include at least one of the following components: a processing component 1102, a memory 1104, a power supply component 1106, a multimedia component 1108, an audio component 1110, an input/output (I/O) interface 1112, a sensor component 1113, and a communication component 1116.

Processing component 1102 generally controls the overall operations of UE 1100, such as those associated with display, phone calls, data communications, camera operations, and recording operations. The processing component 1102 may include at least one processor 1120 to execute instructions to complete all or part of the steps of the above-mentioned method. Additionally, processing component 1102 can include at least one module to facilitate interaction between processing component 1102 and other components. For example, processing component 1102 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between multimedia component 1108 and processing component 1102 .

The memory 1104 is configured to store various types of data to support operations at the UE 1100 . Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on UE 1100, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, etc. The memory 1104 can be implemented by any type of volatile or non-volatile memory device or their combination, such as static random access memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Magnetic Memory, Flash Memory, Magnetic or Optical Disk.

The power supply component 1106 provides power to various components of the UE 1100. Power component 1106 may include a power management system, at least one power supply, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for UE 1100 .

The multimedia component 1108 includes a screen providing an output interface between the UE 1100 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive input signals from a user. The touch panel includes at least one touch sensor to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense a boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect a wake-up time and pressure related to the touch or slide operation. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 1108 includes a front camera and/or a rear camera. When the UE1100 is in an operation mode, such as a shooting mode or a video mode, the front camera and/or the rear camera can receive external multimedia data. Each front camera and rear camera can be a fixed optical lens system or have focal length and optical zoom capability.

The audio component 1110 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 1110 includes a microphone (MIC), which is configured to receive an external audio signal when the UE 1100 is in an operation mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. Received audio signals may be further stored in memory 1104 or sent via communication component 1116 . In some embodiments, the audio component 1110 also includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The I/O interface 1112 provides an interface between the processing component 1102 and a peripheral interface module, which may be a keyboard, a click wheel, a button, and the like. These buttons may include, but are not limited to: a home button, volume buttons, start button, and lock button.

The sensor component 1113 includes at least one sensor, and is used to provide various aspects of state assessment for the UE 1100 . For example, the sensor component 1113 can detect the open/closed state of the device 1100, the relative positioning of components, such as the display and the keypad of the UE1100, the sensor component 1113 can also detect the position change of the UE1100 or a component of the UE1100, and the user and Presence or absence of UE1100 contact, UE1100 orientation or acceleration/deceleration and temperature change of UE1100. The sensor assembly 1113 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of nearby objects in the absence of any physical contact. The sensor assembly 1113 may also include an optical sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor component 1113 may also include an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor or a temperature sensor.

Communication component 1116 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communications between UE 1100 and other devices. UE1100 can access wireless networks based on communication standards, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1116 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1116 also includes a near field communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Infrared Data Association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology and other technologies.

In an exemplary embodiment, UE 1100 may be powered by at least one Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Digital Signal Processing Device (DSPD), Programmable Logic Device (PLD), Field Programmable Gate Array ( FPGA), controller, microcontroller, microprocessor or other electronic components for implementing the above method.

Fig. 12 is a block diagram of a base station 1200 provided by an embodiment of the present application. For example, base station 1200 may be provided as a base station. Referring to FIG. 12 , the base station 1200 includes a processing component 1211 , which further includes at least one processor, and a memory resource represented by a memory 1232 for storing instructions executable by the processing component 1222 , such as application programs. The application program stored in memory 1232 may include one or more modules each corresponding to a set of instructions. In addition, the processing component 1212 is configured to execute instructions, so as to execute any of the aforementioned methods applied to the base station, for example, the method shown in FIG. 1 .

Base station 1200 may also include a power component 1212 configured to perform power management of base station 1200, a wired or wireless network interface 1250 configured to connect base station 1200 to a network, and an input-output (I/O) interface 1258. The base station 1200 can operate based on an operating system stored in the memory 1232, such as Windows Server™, Mac OS X™, Unix™, Linux™, Free BSD™ or similar.

In the above embodiments provided in the present disclosure, the methods provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are introduced from the perspectives of the base station, UE, and RIS array respectively. In order to realize the various functions in the methods provided by the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure, the base station and the UE may include hardware structures and software modules, and implement the above functions in the form of hardware structures, software modules, or hardware structures plus software modules. A certain function among the above-mentioned functions may be implemented in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module.

In the above embodiments provided in the present disclosure, the methods provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are introduced from the perspectives of the base station, UE, and RIS array respectively. In order to implement the various functions in the method provided by the above embodiments of the present disclosure, the network side device and the UE may include a hardware structure and a software module, and implement the above functions in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module. A certain function among the above-mentioned functions may be implemented in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module.

A communication device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication device may include a transceiver module and a processing module. The transceiver module may include a sending module and/or a receiving module, the sending module is used to realize the sending function, the receiving module is used to realize the receiving function, and the sending and receiving module can realize the sending function and/or the receiving function.

The communication device may be a terminal device (such as the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiments), or a device in the terminal device, or a device that can be matched with the terminal device. Alternatively, the communication device may be a network device, or a device in the network device, or a device that can be matched with the network device.

Another communication device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication device may be a network device, or a terminal device (such as the terminal device in the above method embodiment), or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the network device to implement the above method, or it may be a terminal device that supports A chip, a chip system, or a processor for realizing the above method. The device can be used to implement the methods described in the above method embodiments, and for details, refer to the descriptions in the above method embodiments.

A communications device may include one or more processors. The processor may be a general purpose processor or a special purpose processor or the like. For example, it can be a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor can be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor can be used to control communication devices (such as network side equipment, baseband chips, terminal equipment, terminal equipment chips, DU or CU, etc.) A computer program that processes data for a computer program.

Optionally, the communication device may further include one or more memories, on which computer programs may be stored, and the processor executes the computer programs, so that the communication device executes the methods described in the foregoing method embodiments. Optionally, data may also be stored in the memory. The communication device and the memory can be set separately or integrated together.

Optionally, the communication device may further include a transceiver and an antenna. The transceiver may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, or a transceiver circuit, etc., and is used to implement a transceiver function. The transceiver may include a receiver and a transmitter, and the receiver may be called a receiver or a receiving circuit for realizing a receiving function; the transmitter may be called a transmitter or a sending circuit for realizing a sending function.

Optionally, the communication device may further include one or more interface circuits. The interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor. The processor executes the code instructions to enable the communication device to execute the methods described in the foregoing method embodiments.

The communication device is a terminal device (such as the terminal device in the above method embodiment): the processor is configured to execute any of the methods shown in FIGS. 1-5 .

The communication device is a network device: the transceiver is used to execute any of the methods shown in FIG. 6-FIG. 8 .

In one implementation, the processor may include a transceiver for implementing receiving and transmitting functions. For example, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit, or an interface, or an interface circuit. The transceiver circuits, interfaces or interface circuits for realizing the functions of receiving and sending can be separated or integrated together. The above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface or interface circuit may be used for reading and writing code/data, or the above-mentioned transceiver circuit, interface or interface circuit may be used for signal transmission or transmission.

In an implementation manner, the processor may store a computer program, and the computer program runs on the processor to enable the communication device to execute the methods described in the foregoing method embodiments. A computer program may be embedded in a processor, in which case the processor may be implemented by hardware.

In an implementation manner, the communication device may include a circuit, and the circuit may implement the function of sending or receiving or communicating in the foregoing method embodiments. The processors and transceivers described in this disclosure can be implemented on integrated circuits (integrated circuits, ICs), analog ICs, radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), mixed signal ICs, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), printed circuit boards ( printed circuit board, PCB), electronic equipment, etc. The processor and transceiver can also be fabricated using various IC process technologies such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), nMetal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS), P-type Metal oxide semiconductor (positive channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (bipolar junction transistor, BJT), bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (Gas), etc.

The communication device described in the above embodiments may be a network device or a terminal device (such as the terminal device in the above method embodiments), but the scope of the communication device described in this disclosure is not limited thereto, and the structure of the communication device may not be affected by limits. A communication device may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. For example the communication device may be:

(1) Stand-alone integrated circuits ICs, or chips, or chip systems or subsystems;

(2) A set of one or more ICs, optionally, the set of ICs may also include storage components for storing data and computer programs;

(3) ASIC, such as modem (Modem);

(4) Modules that can be embedded in other devices;

(5) Receivers, terminal equipment, intelligent terminal equipment, cellular phones, wireless equipment, handsets, mobile units, vehicle equipment, network equipment, cloud equipment, artificial intelligence equipment, etc.;

(6) Others and so on.

For the case where the communications device may be a chip or system-on-a-chip, the chip includes a processor and an interface. Wherein, the number of processors may be one or more, and the number of interfaces may be more than one.

Optionally, the chip also includes a memory, which is used to store necessary computer programs and data.

Those skilled in the art can also understand that various illustrative logical blocks and steps listed in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented by electronic hardware, computer software, or a combination of both. Whether such functions are implemented by hardware or software depends on the specific application and overall system design requirements. Those skilled in the art may use various methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be understood as exceeding the protection scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

An embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a system for determining the duration of a side link, the system includes a communication device as a terminal device (such as the first terminal device in the method embodiment above) in the above embodiment and a communication device as a network device, Alternatively, the system includes a communication device serving as a terminal device in the above embodiment (such as the first terminal device in the above method embodiment) and a communication device serving as a network device.

The present disclosure also provides a readable storage medium on which instructions are stored, and when the instructions are executed by a computer, the functions of any one of the above method embodiments are realized.

The present disclosure also provides a computer program product, which implements the functions of any one of the above method embodiments when executed by a computer.

In the above embodiments, all or part of them may be implemented by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented using software, it may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer programs. When the computer program is loaded and executed on the computer, all or part of the processes or functions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure will be generated. The computer can be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable devices. The computer program can be stored in or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer program can be downloaded from a website, computer, server or data center Transmission to another website site, computer, server or data center by wired (such as coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (DSL)) or wireless (such as infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer, or a data storage device such as a server or a data center integrated with one or more available media. The available medium may be a magnetic medium (for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (for example, a high-density digital video disc (digital video disc, DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (for example, a solid state disk (solid state disk, SSD)) etc.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that the first, second, and other numbers involved in the present disclosure are only for convenience of description, and are not used to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and also indicate the sequence.

At least one in the present disclosure can also be described as one or more, and a plurality can be two, three, four or more, and the present disclosure is not limited. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, for a technical feature, the technical feature is distinguished by "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D", etc. The technical features described in the "first", "second", "third", "A", "B", "C" and "D" have no sequence or order of magnitude among the technical features described.

Other embodiments of the invention will be readily 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 modification, use or adaptation of the present invention, these modifications, uses or adaptations follow the general principles of the present invention and include common knowledge or conventional technical means in the technical field not disclosed in this disclosure . The specification and examples are to be considered exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

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

Claims

A method for terminating repeated transmission, characterized in that it is applied to user equipment UE, including:

Responsive to the UE satisfying an early termination condition, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated early.
The method according to claim 1, wherein, in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition, terminating the repeated transmission of the signal early comprises:

In response to the UE receiving the early termination instruction sent by the base station, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated early.
The method according to claim 1, wherein, in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition, terminating the repeated transmission of the signal early comprises:

In response to receiving a random access response message sent by the base station before the repeated transmission reaches the number of repeated transmissions, the repeated transmission of the signal is terminated in advance.
The method according to claim 1, wherein, in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition, terminating the repeated transmission of the signal early comprises:

In response to the UE not receiving the random access response message within the random access RA response window, the repeated transmission of the signal is prematurely terminated.
The method according to claim 1, wherein, in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition, terminating the repeated transmission of the signal early comprises:

In response to the UE failing to verify the random access response message within the RA response window, the repeated transmission of the signal is prematurely terminated.
The method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein after the repeated transmission of the early termination signal, the method further comprises:

Trigger a retransmission of the signal.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the signal comprises a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the UE is a UE supporting early termination of repeated transmission.
A method for terminating repeated transmission, characterized in that it is applied to a base station, comprising:

Instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition.
The method according to claim 9, wherein instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition comprises:

In response to the base station correctly receiving and demodulating the PRACH signal sent by the UE before the repeated transmission does not reach the number of repeated transmissions, instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the PRACH signal in advance.
The method according to claim 9, wherein instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition comprises:

In response to the base station determining that the reception quality of the PRACH satisfies a preset condition, instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance.
The method according to claim 11, wherein the preset conditions include at least one of the following:

The reference signal received power RSRP corresponding to the base station satisfies a first threshold;

The SINR corresponding to the base station satisfies a second threshold;

The bit error rate BLER corresponding to the base station satisfies the third threshold.
The method according to claim 9, wherein the method for instructing the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal early comprises at least one of the following:

sending an early termination instruction to the UE;

Sending a random access response message to the UE before repeated transmission does not reach the number of repetitions.
The method of claim 9, wherein the signal comprises a PRACH signal.
A termination device for repeated transmission, characterized in that it includes:

A termination module, configured to prematurely terminate repeated transmission of signals in response to the UE meeting an early termination condition.
A termination device for repeated transmission, characterized in that it includes:

The instructing module is configured to instruct the UE to terminate the repeated transmission of the signal in advance in response to the base station satisfying the early termination condition.
A communication device, characterized in that the device includes a processor and a memory, and a computer program is stored in the memory, and the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, so that the device performs the The method described in any one of 1 to 8.
A communication device, characterized in that the device includes a processor and a memory, and a computer program is stored in the memory, and the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory, so that the device performs the The method described in any one of 9 to 14.
A communication device, characterized by comprising: a processor and an interface circuit;

The interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor;

The processor is configured to run the code instructions to execute the method according to any one of claims 1-8.
A communication device, characterized by comprising: a processor and an interface circuit;

The interface circuit is used to receive code instructions and transmit them to the processor;

The processor is configured to run the code instructions to execute the method according to any one of claims 9-14.
A computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions, which, when executed, cause the method according to any one of claims 1 to 8 to be implemented.
A computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions, which, when executed, cause the method according to any one of claims 9 to 14 to be implemented.