Patent Description:
With the development of wireless communication technology, a mobile communication network is gradually evolving to a 5th Generation (<NUM>) New Radio (NR) network. The <NUM> NR network mainly includes three types of services, i.e., enhanced Mobile Broad Band (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC). Some services may follow a transmission scheme for the traditional network. For example, application of mMTC services in Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to be solved by following the transmission schemes for enhanced Machine Type Communication (eMTC) and Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB IoT) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. Therefore, it is needed to provide a transmission scheme that can embed traditional transmission resources in <NUM> NR transmission resources, so as to meet the transmission needs that the <NUM> NR network can integrate traditional services.

The features of the preamble of the independent claims are known from (<NUM>) <CIT>, (<NUM>) <NPL>, and (<NUM>) <NPL>.

<CIT> proposes a method for connecting to a base station. The method may be performed by user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving information on a UE-specific bandwidth of a first cell. Here, the UE-specific bandwidth of the first cell is variable based on a bandwidth of a second cell using long term evaluation (LTE) radio access technology (RAT). The information on the UE-specific bandwidth may indicate a bandwidth between a bandwidth between a minimum bandwidth and a maximum bandwidth. R1-<NUM> discloses in general how to construct a generic framework for NR to allow for future extensions of NR with the use of reserved resources, and R1-<NUM> discusses how to reserve resources within NR to be able for NR coexistence with LTE MTC and NB-IoT.

In order to overcome the problems in related technologies, the invention provides a method for transmitting information and a base station, which may flexibly converge the transmission of a variety of services, which are based on a traditional network communication protocol, in the <NUM> NR system.

The features of the method and base station according to the invention are defined in the independent claims, and the preferable features according to the present invention are defined in the dependent claims.

The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure may have the following beneficial effects.

In the method for transmitting information provided by the present disclosure, the <NUM> NR base station can configure the BWP blank transmission unit when configuring the transmission resource, so as to reserve a time-frequency resource position for the transmission of the target service data based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol. When there is the target service data to be transmitted, the first transmission resource can be scheduled, at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit, for the transmission of the target service data. Thus, by means of the method for transmitting information provided by the present disclosure, in the process of the base station allocating <NUM> NR service transmission resources for the second UE, the flexible scheduling of the first transmission resource is realized by configuring the BWP blank transmission unit. The convergent transmission of a variety of services is realized to enhance the transmission service type of the <NUM> NR network, which improves the user experience of the <NUM> NR network.

It should be understood that the above general descriptions and detailed descriptions below are only exemplary and explanatory.

The execution subjects involved in the present disclosure include base stations and UE. The base stations may include <NUM> NR base stations and sub-base stations which are equipped with large-scale antenna arrays, and may further include traditional base stations, such as LTE base stations, <NUM> base stations, <NUM> base stations, etc. The UE may be user terminals, user nodes, mobile terminals or tablet computers, etc. In the present disclosure, the UE may include first UE and second UE. The first UE may transmit target service data based on a traditional network communication protocol, and the second UE may transmit <NUM> NR service data based on a <NUM> NR communication protocol. It should be noted that if UE may transmit both the target service data and the <NUM> NR service data, the first UE and the second UE may be the same UE. In a specific implementation process, the base station and the UE are independent, and connected to each other at the same time, so as to jointly implement the technical solutions provided by the present disclosure.

An application scenario of the present disclosure may be that: in the process of transmitting a <NUM> NR service, target UE needs to interleave the transmission of preset target service data, such as the service data of the traditional <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> LTE systems; or in the process of configuring a <NUM> NR transmission resource for the second UE, the base station needs to interleave for the first UE the configuration of a traditional network transmission resource, i.e., a first transmission resource.

For the transmission of the <NUM> NR service, the <NUM> NR base station uses a BWP as a basic scheduling unit to schedule. For the first transmission resource carrying the transmission of the target service data, the basic scheduling unit is no longer the BWP. For example, for eMTC and NB IoT services following an LTE transmission mechanism, the base station needs to use a frame with a duration of <NUM> as the basic scheduling unit to schedule. In the present disclosure, the base station scheduling the first resource may be the traditional non-<NUM> NR base station. If the base station synchronously supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, the first transmission resource may also be scheduled.

Based on the above application scenario, the present disclosure provides a method for transmitting information, which is applied to the base station. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of the method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the method may include the following steps.

In block <NUM>, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system is determined, the configuration information at least including the time-frequency resource range of the BWP blank transmission unit.

In the present disclosure, when the <NUM> NR base station allocates the transmission resources for the UE, considering the need to transmit the non-<NUM> NR service data on certain frequency bands, the <NUM> NR base station may configure some BWP blank transmission units when allocating the resources, so that the <NUM> NR base station or the traditional base station may schedule, at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit, the UE based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol to transmit the target service data.

In the present disclosure, according to whether the current base station has a BWP configuration function, the implementation in block <NUM> may include the following situations.

First situation, the current base station supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, and has the capability of allocating BWP resources.

For the first situation, the current base station has the capability of allocating the BWP resources, and accordingly has the capability of allocating the BWP blank transmission units. The current base station may be either the <NUM> NR base station supporting the <NUM> NR communication protocol, or the base station synchronously supporting the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the traditional communication protocol such as an LTE communication protocol.

Assuming that the current base station is the <NUM> NR base station mentioned above, the base station may determine the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in at least two following manners.

First manner, according to a preset resource configuration rule, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit is determined within a preset frequency range of the 5GNR system.

Exemplarily, assuming that the <NUM> NR system may transmit both the service data based on the LTE communication protocol, such as the eMTC or NB IoT service data, and the <NUM> NR service data on a preset frequency band, for example, <NUM>, the base station may follow the preset resource configuration rule of the <NUM> NR system, for example, when the transmission resources are configured on the frequency band of <NUM>, the BWP blank transmission unit is configured periodically according to a preset period interval length. For example, a preset number of BWP blank transmission units are configured every <NUM> interval. The configuration information of the BWP blank transmission units may include: the period interval length of the BWP blank transmission unit, time-frequency range information of each BWP blank transmission unit, the number of the BWP blank transmission units set in a configuration period, and so on.

In such a manner, no matter whether there is currently target service data to be transmitted, the base station reserves the BWP blank transmission unit, so that the base station may allocate the first transmission resource for the target service data to be transmitted according to the preset non-<NUM> NR communication protocol within the time-frequency range corresponding to the BWP blank transmission unit.

The target service data refers to the service data which are transmitted based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, such as the service data in the <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> LTE network systems, as well as the service data of eMTC and NB IoT, following an LTE network transmission mechanism, in the <NUM> NR network.

Second manner, the current base station may determine the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in real time and dynamically according to the information of the target service to be transmitted.

In such a manner, the base station may acquire the information of the target service to be transmitted such as target service volume to be transmitted, and may determine the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol applicable to the target service to be transmitted. Thus, how many blank resources are reserved for the target service data to be transmitted may be determined, and then the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit is determined.

The implementation of the second manner may also include two situations.

First situation, the current base station does not support the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol. The base station receives the information of the target service to be transmitted, such as the service volume to be transmitted and the duration of the basic scheduling unit, sent by the non-<NUM> NR base station through a interface between the base stations, so as to determine the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit according to the information of the target service to be transmitted.

Second situation, the current base station has the capability of allocating the BWP resources according to the <NUM> NR communication protocol and allocating the first transmission resource for the target service data to be transmitted according to the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol.

For the second situation, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the current base station may first determine first resource configuration information according to the information of the target service to be transmitted, and then adaptively determine the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit based on the first resource configuration information.

Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of a method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment. In the invention, block <NUM> includes the following step.

In block <NUM>, the first resource configuration information for the target service data to be transmitted is determined, the first resource configuration information being configuration information for allocating, by the base station, the transmission resources for the first UE based on the non-<NUM> NR network communication protocol.

In the present disclosure, the base station may detect in real time whether the target service data to be transmitted exists. If the target service data to be transmitted exists, the base station may determine, based on the information of the target service to be transmitted, how to allocate the transmission resources for the UE.

Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of another method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment. In the invention, block <NUM> includes the following step.

In block <NUM>, the information of the target service to be transmitted is determined, the information of the target service to be transmitted at least including the type of the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol applicable to the target service data to be transmitted.

In the present disclosure, the <NUM> NR base station has the capability of identifying network communication mechanisms needed by different services. That is, the base station may determine, according to the detected type of the service to be transmitted, the network communication protocol applicable to the current service to be transmitted.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a preset list may be stored in the <NUM> NR base station. The preset list includes a corresponding relationship between service types and network communication protocols, exemplarily as shown in Table <NUM>.

As shown in Table <NUM>, the base station may determine the network communication protocol according to the type of the service to be transmitted.

The base station may determine the information of the target service to be transmitted, for example, the type of a target network communication protocol applicable to the target service data to be transmitted, when it determines that it is needed to converge the transmission of the target service data during transmitting the <NUM> NR service data. The information of the target service to be transmitted may further include: the data volume of the target service data to be transmitted, the time to transmit the target service, etc..

In block <NUM>, first resource configuration information is determined according to the information of the service to be transmitted, the first resource configuration information being configuration information configured by the base station for the first transmission resource carrying the target service data.

After the base station determines the information of the target service to be transmitted, allocation information of the transmission resources on a time domain and a frequency domain may be determined according to the target network communication protocol. In the present disclosure, the first resource configuration information may include: information such as a frequency range, a time domain range, a basic scheduling unit of the first transmission resource.

For example, if the base station detects that the target service to be transmitted for target first UE is an eMTC service, the base station may determine that the transmission resource is allocated for the first UE based on an LTE network communication protocol. That is, the base station needs to use a frame defined in an LTE system as the basic scheduling unit, to allocate the transmission resource, i.e., the first transmission resource, for the target first UE.

When the first resource configuration information is determined, the base station may determine the frequency range of the first transmission resource according to a radio frequency support capability of the target first UE bearing the eMTC service, and determine information such as the time domain range of the first transmission resource according to the data volume of the target service data to be transmitted.

In block <NUM>, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system is determined according to the first resource configuration information, the configuration information at least including the time-frequency resource range of the BWP blank transmission unit.

According to related knowledge, in the <NUM> NR system, the base station uses the BWP transmission unit as the basic scheduling unit for resource configuration. As for BWP, in the <NUM> NR system, the bandwidth of a single band will be close to <NUM>, and the bandwidth level of a single carrier is between <NUM> and <NUM>. For the sake of energy saving of the UE and other considerations, a single carrier is divided into a plurality of BWPs, for example, the bandwidth of one BWP may be <NUM>, so that the base station schedules the transmission resources in units of the BWP.

The above description mainly involves the frequency range of the BWP transmission unit. In the time domain, the duration of one BWP transmission unit may be a subframe, a slot, a mini-slot, a symbol, etc. A symbol takes the shortest time. The mini-slot may include several symbols, for example, five symbols. The slot includes slightly more symbols than the mini-slot, for example, a slot consists of seven symbols.

In the present disclosure, when the base station detects the target service data to be transmitted, the BWP transmission unit planned to be scheduled may be set as a blank data transmission unit. That is, a data transmission resource of the BWP transmission unit is set as empty, and the second UE is not instructed to carry out the transmission of any <NUM> NR service data. A blank time-frequency position is reserved so that the base station may schedule the first transmission resource for the first UE at the blank position.

In the present disclosure, in the non-<NUM> NR network communication protocol, the bandwidth of the basic scheduling unit is fixed and generally does not exceed the bandwidth range of the BWP. Thus, when the base station sets the BWP blank transmission unit for the preset target service, it only needs to ensure, in the frequency domain, that a working frequency range of the target first UE falls into the frequency range of the BWP blank transmission unit.

When determining the time domain range of the BWP blank transmission unit, it is necessary to consider the duration range of the basic scheduling unit which is specified by the non-<NUM> NR network communication protocol. For example, according to the LTE network communication protocol, the frame is the basic scheduling unit, and <NUM> frame is equal to <NUM>. Assuming that the required resource for the target service to be transmitted is <NUM> frame, the total duration of the BWP blank transmission unit set by the base station is no less than <NUM>.

Therefore, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit determined by the base station may include the frequency range and the time domain range of the BWP blank transmission unit. Information of the time domain range may be expressed as a unit duration of a basic BWP blank transmission unit and the number of the basic BWP blank transmission units. As the examples above, assuming that the unit duration of a basic BWP blank transmission unit is a time slot, i.e., <NUM>, the base station needs to set <NUM> BWP blank transmission units for the preset target service data.

Second situation, the current base station is a non-<NUM> NR base station, which does not support the <NUM> NR communication protocol, and does not have the capability of allocating the BWP resources.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the non-<NUM> NR base station may determine the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in at least two following manners.

First manner, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit transmitted by the <NUM> NR base station is acquired.

Assuming that the non-<NUM> NR base station is an LTE base station, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the LTE base station may actively request the <NUM> NR base station to transmit the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit through the interface between the base stations. Or the LTE base station may passively receive the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit transmitted by the <NUM> NR base station through the interface between the base stations according to a preset rule.

Second manner, corresponding to the first manner in the first situation, that is, the situation where the <NUM> NR base station periodically configures, according to the preset resource configuration rule, the BWP blank transmission unit for the preset frequency range of the <NUM> NR system, the non-<NUM> NR base station may detect the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit according to reference signal configuration information of the <NUM> NR system.

It is still assumed that the non-<NUM> NR base station is the LTE base station, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the LTE base station may acquire the reference signal configuration information in the <NUM> NR system in advance. Then the LTE base station may detect, according to the reference signal configuration information in the <NUM> NR system, a reference signal of the <NUM> NR system in a preset frequency band, for example, <NUM>. If the reference signal of the <NUM> NR system is not detected in a target time-frequency range, it may be determined that the target time-frequency range corresponds to the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system. According to the distribution of the BWP blank transmission units detected within a period of time, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system may be determined indirectly.

In block <NUM>, the resource configuration information is transmitted to the UE based on the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit.

In the present disclosure, the UE includes: the first UE for transmitting the target service data based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, and the second UE for transmitting the <NUM> NR service data based on the <NUM> NR communication protocol.

Correspondingly, the operation that the resource configuration information is transmitted to the UE in block <NUM> may include that: the first resource configuration information is transmitted to the first UE. The first resource configuration information being the configuration information for allocating, by the base station, the first transmission resource for the first UE based on the <NUM> NR communication protocol. The basic scheduling unit of the first transmission resource may be a basic transmission unit in the LTE system, i.e., the frame with a duration of <NUM>.

Block <NUM> may further include that: the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit is transmitted to the second UE by the <NUM> NR base station.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, if the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit determined by the base station belongs to the situation where the <NUM> NR base station periodically configures the BWP blank transmission unit in the preset frequency range, for example, the first manner in the first situation, or the second situation, that is, the situation where the base station first acquires periodic configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit, and then configures the first transmission resource according to the information of the target service to be transmitted.

The operation that the first resource configuration information is transmitted to the first UE based on the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit may refer to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of another method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment. Block <NUM> may include the following steps.

In S121, the first resource configuration information is determined according to the information of the target service data to be transmitted and the periodic configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the base station may determine, according to the periodic configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit, within what time-frequency range the first transmission resource may be allocated for the target service data to be transmitted, and how to allocate the first transmission resource.

If the total duration of a preset number of BWP blank transmission units that are continuously configured by the <NUM> NR base station in a configuration period is no less than the duration (for example, <NUM> frame) of a basic scheduling unit in the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, the non-<NUM> NR base station or the base station supporting the allocation for the transmission resource based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol may determine the first resource configuration information according to the information of the target service to be transmitted and the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit.

Exemplarily, assuming that the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit indicates that the unit duration of a basic BWP blank transmission unit is a time slot, i.e., <NUM>, the base station configures <NUM> BWP blank transmission units in a configuration period.

Assuming that the first transmission resource is configured by the non-<NUM> NR base station, the non-<NUM> NR base station may use the time-frequency position of the <NUM> blank BWP transmission units to configure a basic information transmission unit with a duration of <NUM>, i.e., <NUM> frame, for the first UE, and determine frequency resource information corresponding to the frame. Then, the number of frames to be configured within a BWP frequency range is determined based on the data volume of the target service data to be transmitted. In the case of a large amount of target service data to be transmitted, the first transmission resource may be configured in the configuration period of a plurality of BWP blank transmission units. The first resource configuration information is determined according to the above information.

In block <NUM>, the first resource configuration information is transmitted to the first UE for transmitting the target service data.

In the present disclosure, after determining the first resource configuration information, the non-<NUM> NR base station or the base station that synchronously supports the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol and the <NUM> NR communication protocol may transmit the first resource configuration information to the first UE based on system broadcast signaling, upper signaling and physical layer signaling.

In the disclosure, the base station may configure two kinds of BWP blank transmission units, which are respectively a BWP quasi blank transmission unit configured with control information transmission resource and a BWP true blank transmission unit not configured with the control information transmission resource. In the disclosure, the control information transmission resource is the resource for transmitting system control information, and includes at least one of the followings: a CORESET, a reference signal resource, a synchronous signal resource, a broadcast signal resource, etc. If one or more of the above control information transmission resources are configured in the BWP blank transmission unit, the BWP blank transmission unit is called the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

Exemplarily, corresponding to the second embodiment in the first situation, assuming that the base station plans to schedule two BWP blank transmission units for the target service data to be transmitted, a configuration diagram of the BWP blank transmission unit may be illustrated in <FIG>.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in <FIG>, the base station may configure two BWP blank transmission units for the target service data to be transmitted. That is, the base station does not transmit any information with the second UE in the time-frequency range which corresponds to the two BWP blank transmission units.

In another embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in the configuration diagram in <FIG>, the base station may also configure two BWP quasi blank transmission units for the target service data to be transmitted. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the CORESET is set in each BWP quasi blank transmission unit. The base station may send Downlink Control Information (DCI) to the second UE through the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, but does not transmit the <NUM> NR service data with the second UE.

In another embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in <FIG>, the base station may also configure a BWP quasi blank transmission unit set with the CORESET and a BWP true blank transmission unit for the target service data to be transmitted. The base station may send the DCI to the UE supporting the <NUM> NR network communication protocol through the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, but does not transmit the <NUM> NR service data with the second UE.

It can be seen that if the base station configures the BWP quasi blank transmission unit for the service data to be transmitted, the base station may use the control information transmission resource of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit to send the DCI to the UE. The UE includes the second UE and/or the first UE. Correspondingly, the DCI may include: the DCI for the second UE, such as scheduling control information of a normal BWP transmission unit planned to be scheduled subsequently, and/or control information such as the first resource configuration information for the first UE.

In the present disclosure, the base station may deliver the configuration information to the target UE through the broadcast signaling, the upper signaling or a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling of a physical layer. The upper signaling may be Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling and Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling. The configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit is transmitted in a manner similar to related technologies, which will not be described here.

In another embodiment of the present disclosure, if the current base station belongs to the base station that synchronously supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, the current base station may be called a common mode base station in the present disclosure. Regarding the transmission of the first resource configuration information, if the common mode base station does not use the system broadcast signaling to transmit the first resource configuration information to the first UE, the common mode base station may transmit the first resource configuration information to the first UE in at least one of the following manners.

First manner, if the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, the base station may send the first resource configuration information to the first UE through the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of another method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the operation that the first resource configuration information is transmitted to the first UE may include the following steps.

In block <NUM>, it is determined whether the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol.

In the present disclosure, the common mode base station may determine whether the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol according to device information of the first UE, for example, the radio frequency support capability reported by the UE.

In block <NUM>, if the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, the first resource configuration information is loaded into the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, and the CORESET is transmitted to the first UE.

In the present disclosure, if the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, and the common mode base station may determine that the first UE may detect the DCI configured in the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, the common mode base station may load the first resource configuration information into the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, and transmit the CORESET to the first UE through <NUM> NR system resources, which saves the overhead of control information transmission resource of the first transmission resource.

The first resource configuration information may include: the system control information and the scheduling control information. The system control information is used for informing the first UE of information such as the time-frequency range, the reference signal configuration of the first transmission resource to be scheduled. The scheduling control information is used for informing the first UE of how the base station will schedule the first transmission resource, and may include: the allocation of uplink and downlink transmission resources, such as a ratio of uplink and downlink sub-frames, a modulation and demodulation mode and other control information. Based on this, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, the common mode base station may transmit the system control information and the scheduling control information, which are included in the first resource configuration information, to the first UE respectively.

For example, the common mode base station may deliver the system control information in the first resource configuration information to the first UE through the broadcast signaling of the <NUM> NR system, and transmit the scheduling control information for the first transmission resource to the first UE through the CORESET in the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

In another embodiment of the present disclosure, the common mode base station may also transmit the system control information included in the first resource configuration information to the first UE through the CORESET in the BWP quasi blank transmission unit. When the common mode base station schedules the first transmission resource, the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource is delivered to the first UE through the control information transmission resource in the first transmission resource. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a schematic diagram of another scenario of transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, and corresponding to the configuration of the BWP blank transmission unit illustrated in <FIG>, the common mode base station may load the system control information S <NUM> of the first transmission resource into the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, and transmit the CORESET to the first UE in advance. When scheduling the first transmission resource, the common mode base station loads the scheduling control information into the control information transmission resource Dc of the first transmission resource, and transmit the Dc to the first UE, which may also save control signaling overhead of the first transmission resource.

Second manner, no matter whether the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, when scheduling the first transmission resource at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit, the common mode base station can send, based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol such as the LTE communication protocol, the first resource configuration information to the first UE through the control information transmission resource configured in the first transmission resource, which is similar to related technologies. A detailed description will be given in combination with the scheduling of the first transmission resource in block <NUM>.

In block <NUM>, the first transmission resource is scheduled at the time-frequency position of the BWP blank transmission unit, so as to use the first transmission resource to transmit the target service data.

In the present disclosure, the base station performing the operation in block <NUM> may be either the non-<NUM> NR base station or the common mode base station. The base station may schedule the first transmission resource at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit based on the first resource configuration information.

The base station may schedule the first transmission resource at the time-frequency position of the BWP blank transmission unit when subsequently performs resource scheduling. Taking that the target service data is the eMTC service as an example, since the transmission of the eMTC service data uses the LTE communication protocol, the base station takes the frame as the basic scheduling unit to schedule the first transmission resource.

<FIG> respectively illustrate a schematic diagram that the base station schedules the first transmission resource, which correspond to <FIG>. The base station may schedule the first transmission resource at a blank position of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit and the whole BWP true blank transmission unit. The first transmission resources may include the control information transmission resource Dc and data information transmission resource.

According to related knowledge, when scheduling the first transmission resource, the base station may load the first resource configuration information into the control information transmission resource Dc of the first transmission resource and send the Dc to the first UE.

In the present disclosure, the target service data may be the eMTC and NB IoT services that perform data transmission based on the LTE communication protocol.

To sum up, when there is other target service data transmitted based on the non-<NUM> NR transmission protocol in the <NUM> NR system, the BWP blank transmission unit may be set for the target service data to be transmitted, to reserve the location for the base station to schedule the first transmission resource for transmitting the target service data, so that when scheduling the transmission resource, the base station may schedule the first transmission resource at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit according to the first resource configuration information. After delivering the first resource configuration information to the first UE transmitting the target service data and delivering the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit to the second UE transmitting the <NUM> NR service, the base station may flexibly schedule the first transmission resource for the first UE during scheduling the transmission resource of the <NUM> NR service for the second UE, which realizes converged transmission of a variety of services, enables the <NUM> NR base station to schedule the transmission resource for the UE that does not support the <NUM> NR network communication protocol, enhances the service types supported by the <NUM> NR system, and improves the user experience of the <NUM> NR network.

Correspondingly, the present disclosure also provides a method for transmitting information, which is applied to the first UE. As mentioned above, the first UE may transmit the target service data based on the non-<NUM> NR network communication protocol at present. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of a method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the method may include the following steps.

In block <NUM>, the first resource configuration information transmitted by the base station is acquired, the first resource configuration information being configured to inform the first UE of the allocation information for the first transmission resource.

Corresponding to the operation that how the base station transmits the first resource configuration information to the first UE in block <NUM>, in the present disclosure, the first UE may acquire the first resource configuration information in at least two following manners.

First manner, if the first UE supports the <NUM> NR network communication protocol, the first UE may acquire the first resource configuration information based on the <NUM> NR network communication protocol.

Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of another method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, block <NUM> may include the following steps.

In block <NUM>, preset system configuration information delivered by the base station is acquired, the preset system configuration information being configured to indicate set position information of the first resource configuration information in the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

In an embodiment, the preset system configuration information may include: the time-frequency resource range of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, the time-frequency resource range of the CORESET, and the set position of the first resource configuration information in the CORESET.

In another embodiment of the present disclosure, if the position of the CORESET in each BWP transmission unit is appointed in the <NUM> NR network communication protocol, the first system control information may not include the time-frequency resource range of the CORESET.

In the present disclosure, the first resource configuration information may include the system control information and the scheduling control information. The system control information is used for informing information such as the first UE of the time-frequency range, the reference signal configuration of the first transmission resource to be scheduled. The scheduling control information is used for informing the first UE of how the base station will schedule the first transmission resource, and may include: the allocation of uplink and downlink transmission resources, such as the ratio of uplink and downlink sub-frames, the modulation and demodulation mode and other control information. Based on this, the set position of the first resource configuration information in the CORESET may include the following three situations:.

In S212, when the base station schedules the BMP quasi blank transmission unit, the first resource configuration information is acquired from the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit according to the set position information.

After acquiring and parsing the preset system configuration information through the <NUM> NR network communication protocol, when the base station schedules the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, the first UE may parse, according to the set position information, the first resource configuration information belonging to the first UE from the preset resource position of the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

Corresponding to the first situation, the first UE may search and parse all the first resource configuration information from the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit according to the preset position information.

Corresponding to the second situation, the first UE may acquire the system control information of the first transmission resource, i.e., a part of the first resource configuration information, from the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit according to the preset position information. The system control information of the first transmission resource may include: the time-frequency range of the first transmission resource, the location, in the first transmission resource, of the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource, etc. When the base station schedules the first transmission resource later, the first UE may acquire the scheduling control information from the first transmission resource according to information such as the position of the scheduling control information in the first transmission resource.

Corresponding to the third situation, the first UE may acquire the system control information of the first transmission resource from the preset system configuration information. Then, when scheduling the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, the base station acquires the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource from the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit according to the set position information, in the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, of the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource.

<FIG> illustrates a schematic diagram of another scenario of transmitting information. For the first UE, the resources corresponding to a time interval T1 in the BWP belongs to effective resources. After acquiring the first resource configuration information from the control information transmission resource in the effective resources, the first UE may use, according to the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource, the first transmission resource to transmit the preset target service data, such as the eMTC and NB IoT service data. The control information transmission resource in the effective resources includes the control information transmission resource Dc in the first transmission resource and the CORESET of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

Second manner, the first UE does not support the <NUM> NR network communication protocol. Similar to related technologies, when detecting the first transmission resource scheduled by the base station, the first UE acquires the first resource configuration from the preset control information transmission resource of the first transmission resource according to the traditional network communication protocol. The first resource configuration information may include: DCI such as the time-frequency range, the reference signal configuration, the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource.

<FIG> illustrates a schematic diagram of another scenario of transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment. Corresponding to <FIG>, <FIG> illustrates the scheduling of the first transmission resource monitored by the first UE.

In block <NUM>, according to the first resource configuration information, the target service data is transmitted through the first transmission resource which is scheduled by the base station at the position of the BWP blank transmission unit.

Corresponding to the first situation and the third situation, after acquiring the first resource configuration information and completing transmission configuration, the first UE may use the first transmission resource scheduled by the base station to transmit the target service data.

Corresponding to the second situation, after acquiring the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource from the first transmission resource scheduled by the base station, the first UE may perform related transmission configuration. After completing the transmission configuration, the first UE uses a data transmission resource in the first transmission resource scheduled by the base station to transmit the target service data.

Correspondingly, the present disclosure also provides a method for transmitting information which is applied to the second UE. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a flowchart of a method for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the method is applied to the second UE for transmitting the <NUM> NR data service, the <NUM> NR data service being the data service transmitted based on the <NUM> NR communication protocol. The method may include the following steps.

In block <NUM>, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit is acquired, the configuration information including the time-frequency resource range of the BWP blank transmission unit.

In block <NUM>, according to the configuration information, the <NUM> NR service data is not transmitted when the base station schedules the BWP blank transmission unit.

In block <NUM>, the <NUM> NR service data is transmitted by utilizing the transmission resource that is scheduled by the base station and outside of the BWP blank transmission unit.

For the second UE, the situation where the base station schedules the transmission resource which is detected by the second UE may be illustrated in <FIG>. When the base station schedules the BWP blank transmission unit, the second UE does not transmit any service data in the time-frequency range of the BWP blank transmission unit. However, in the schematic diagrams illustrated in <FIG>, if the base station loads the DCI for the second UE in the control information transmission resource of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit, the second UE may acquire the DCI belonging to the second UE from the control information transmission resource of the BWP quasi blank transmission unit.

For simple description, each of the above method embodiments is expressed as a combination of a series of operations, but those skilled in the art should know that the present disclosure is not limited to the described operation sequence because some steps may be executed in other sequences or at the same time according to the present disclosure.

Secondly, those skilled in the art should also know that the embodiments described in the specification are optional embodiments, and the operations and modules involved are not necessarily necessary for the present disclosure.

Corresponding to the embodiments of an application function realization method, the present disclosure also provides embodiments of an application function realization device and a corresponding terminal.

Correspondingly, the present disclosure provides a device for transmitting information, which may be configured in the base station. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of a device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the device may include:.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, the base station may include the <NUM> NR base station. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>, the configuration information determining module <NUM> may include:.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, if the base station belongs to the common mode base station that synchronously supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>, the second configuring submodule <NUM> may include:.

In another device embodiment for transmitting information of the present disclosure, the transmitting module <NUM> may include:
a blank configuration transmitting submodule, configured to transmit, by the <NUM> NR base station, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit to the second UE used for transmitting <NUM> NR service data.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, if the base station belongs to the non-<NUM> NR base station, referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>, the configuration information determining module <NUM> may include:.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, if the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit determined by the configuration information determining module <NUM> is the periodic configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit, referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>,
the transmitting module <NUM> may include:.

In the device for transmitting information provided by the present disclosure, the BWP blank transmission unit may include: the BWP quasi blank transmission unit which is configured with the control information transmission resource, or the BWP true blank transmission unit which is not configured with the control information transmission resource.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, if the base station synchronously supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, and the BWP blank transmission unit configured by the base station includes the BWP quasi blank transmission unit which is configured with the CORESET, referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the transmitting module <NUM> may include:.

In another device embodiment of the present disclosure, the first resource configuration information may include: the scheduling control information of the first transmission resource and the system control information. Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>, the first transmitting submodule <NUM> may include any one of the following loading units:.

In any device embodiment provided by the present disclosure, the target service data may include: the eMTC and NB IoT services that perform data transmission based on the communication protocol of the LTE system.

Correspondingly, the present disclosure also provides a device for transmitting information, which is configured in the first UE for transmitting the target service data, the target service data being the service data transmitted based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol.

Referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of a device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, the device may include:.

If the first UE supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol, referring to <FIG> that illustrates a block diagram of another device for transmitting information according to an exemplary embodiment, based on the device embodiment illustrated in <FIG>, the information acquiring module may include:.

Corresponding to the method for transmitting information at the second UE, the present disclosure also provides a device for transmitting information, which is configured in the second UE for transmitting the <NUM> NR service data, the <NUM> NR service data being the service data transmitted based on the <NUM> NR communication protocol.

The device embodiments substantially correspond to the method embodiments, and thus related parts refer to part of descriptions of the method embodiments. The device embodiments described above are only schematic, units described as separate parts therein may or may not be physically separated, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, and namely may be located in the same place or may also be distributed to multiple network units. Part or all of the modules therein may be selected according to a practical requirement to achieve the purpose of the solutions of the present disclosure. Those of ordinary skill in the art may understand and implement without creative work.

<FIG> illustrates a structural schematic diagram of a base station <NUM> according to an exemplary embodiment. The base station may be the <NUM> NR base station, the base station that synchronously supports the <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, or the non-<NUM> NR base station. Referring to <FIG>, the base station <NUM> includes a processing component <NUM>, a wireless transmitting/receiving component <NUM>, an antenna component <NUM>, and a special signal processing part of a wireless interface. The processing component <NUM> may further include one or more processors.

One of the processors in the processing component <NUM> may be configured to:.

In an exemplary embodiment, there is further provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions, on which computer instructions are stored. The computer instructions may be executed by the processing component <NUM> of the base station <NUM> to complete the method for transmitting information as illustrated in any one of <FIG>. For example, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM), a magnetic tape, a floppy disc, an optical data storage device and the like.

<FIG> illustrates a structural schematic diagram of UE <NUM> according to an exemplary embodiment. For example, the UE <NUM> may be either the first UE for transmitting the target service data or the second UE for transmitting the <NUM> NR service data. Specifically, the UE <NUM> may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a messaging device, a gaming console, a tablet, a medical device, exercise equipment, a personal digital assistant, and wearable devices such as a smart watch, intelligent glasses, a smart bracelet, and smart running shoes.

The processing component <NUM> may include one or more processors <NUM> to execute instructions to perform all or part of the steps in the above method. Moreover, the processing component <NUM> may include one or more modules which facilitate interaction between the processing component <NUM> and the other components. For instance, the processing component <NUM> may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component <NUM> and the processing component <NUM>.

Examples of such data include instructions for any application programs or methods operated on the device <NUM>, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, video, etc. The memory <NUM> may be implemented by any type of volatile or nonvolatile memory devices, or a combination thereof, such as a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), a Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, and a magnetic or optical disk.

The multimedia component <NUM> includes a screen which provides an output interface between the device <NUM> and a user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes the TP, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from the user. The TP includes one or more touch sensors to sense touches, swipes and gestures on the TP. The touch sensor may not only sense a boundary of a touch or swipe action but also detect a length and pressure associated with the touch or swipe action. The front camera and/or the rear camera may receive external multimedia data when the device <NUM> is in an operation mode, such as a photographing mode or a video mode. Each of the front camera and the rear camera may be a fixed optical lens system or have focusing and optical zooming capabilities.

The audio component <NUM> is configured to output and/or input an audio signal. For example, the audio component <NUM> includes a Microphone (MIC), and the MIC is configured to receive an external audio signal when the device <NUM> is in the operation mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may further be stored in the memory <NUM> or sent through the communication component <NUM>. In some embodiments, the audio component <NUM> further includes a speaker configured to output the audio signal.

The I/O interface <NUM> provides an interface between the processing component <NUM> and a peripheral interface module. The peripheral interface module may be a keyboard, a click wheel, a button, etc. The button may include, but not limited to: a home button, a volume button, a starting button and a locking button.

The sensor component <NUM> includes one or more sensors which are configured to provide status assessment in various aspects for the device <NUM>.

The communication component <NUM> is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the device <NUM> and another device. The device <NUM> may access a communication-standard-based wireless network, such as a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network, a 2nd-Generation (<NUM>) or 3rd-Generation (<NUM>) network or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component <NUM> receives a broadcast signal or broadcast associated information from an external broadcast management system through a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component <NUM> further includes an NFC module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) technology, an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology, a Bluetooth (BT) technology and another technology.

In an exemplary embodiment, the device <NUM> may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors or other electronic components, and is configured to execute the above method.

Claim 1:
A method for transmitting information, applied in a base station, comprising:
determining (<NUM>) configuration information of a Bandwidth Part, BWP, blank transmission unit in a 5th Generation, <NUM>, New Radio, NR, system, the configuration information at least comprising a time-frequency resource range of the BWP blank transmission unit;
transmitting (<NUM>) resource configuration information to User Equipment, UE, based on the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit; and
scheduling (<NUM>) a first transmission resource at a time-frequency position of the BWP blank transmission unit, so as to utilize the first transmission resource to transmit target service data, wherein the first transmission resource is a resource scheduled based on a non-<NUM> NR communication protocol;
wherein the base station comprises a <NUM> NR base station, and determining (<NUM>) the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system comprises:
determining, according to information of a target service to be transmitted, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit, wherein the information of the target service to be transmitted at least comprises the type of the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol applicable to target service data to be transmitted;
wherein when the base station synchronously supports a <NUM> NR communication protocol and the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, determining, according to the information of the target service to be transmitted, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit comprises:
determining (<NUM>) first resource configuration information for the target service data to be transmitted, the first resource configuration information being configuration information for allocating a transmission resource to first UE based on the non-<NUM> NR communication protocol, and the first UE being UE for transmitting the target service data; and
determining (<NUM>), according to the first resource configuration information, the configuration information of the BWP blank transmission unit in the <NUM> NR system.