Disclosure of Invention
Based on at least one of the above technical problems, the present invention provides a new frame structure-based communication method, so that the time length of each time unit in the frame structure can be flexibly configured according to the actual communication scenario, the flexibility of resource scheduling is improved, and the service requirements in the 5G communication scenario are met.
In view of the above, according to a first aspect of the present invention, a frame structure based communication method applicable to a terminal is provided, where the frame structure includes a first downlink time unit, a guard time unit located after and adjacent to the first downlink time unit, an uplink time unit located after and adjacent to the guard time unit, and a second downlink time unit located after and adjacent to the uplink time unit, and time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are configurable, the method includes: acquiring time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit; and communicating with a base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit.
In the technical scheme, because the frame structure comprises the first downlink time unit with configurable time length, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit can be flexibly configured according to an actual communication scene (such as the type of a communication service) during communication, and then the terminal can communicate based on the flexibly configured frame structure, so that a larger uplink scheduling delay and a longer HARQ feedback delay caused by adopting a fixed frame structure are avoided, the flexibility of resource scheduling can be improved, the service requirement in a 5G communication scene is met, and the resource utilization rate is favorably improved.
The terminal may actively or passively acquire the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit from the base station side. For example, after knowing the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit, the base station may notify the terminal; or the terminal actively sends an acquisition request to the base station to request to acquire the time length configuration information of the time units.
In the foregoing technical solution, preferably, the step of communicating with the base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be 0 and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be not 0, the terminal transmits uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble on the uplink time unit.
In this embodiment, since the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit before the uplink time unit are both 0, the uplink time unit may be transmitted by the terminal in an uplink manner, including transmission of uplink data, transmission of uplink control signaling, transmission of uplink reference signal, and transmission of random access preamble. Wherein, the uplink control signaling includes HARQ feedback and CSI (Channel State Information) feedback; the uplink Reference Signal includes an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal); the random access Preamble is RandomAccess Preamble.
In this embodiment, the terminal performs, on the uplink time unit, transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on a randomly selected frequency domain resource or a frequency domain resource selected based on a previous scheduling condition.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time length of the first downlink time unit is configured to be 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection on the guard time unit and performs transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit based on the frequency domain resources selected by the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result.
Further, the terminal performs, on the uplink time unit, transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles based on the randomly selected frequency domain resources or the frequency domain resources selected based on the previous scheduling situation according to the carrier sensing result and/or the channel detection result.
In this embodiment, the terminal monitors the use of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection over the entire bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit specifically includes: under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the terminal transmits uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit; the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to send an uplink scheduling instruction and/or perform HARQ feedback, and the protection time unit is used for the conversion from downlink to uplink.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the terminal monitors the use condition of a carrier and/or detects the channel state of an unlicensed frequency band on the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit, and transmits uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit.
In this embodiment, the terminal monitors the use of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection over the entire bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit specifically includes: under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the terminal transmits uplink control signaling on the uplink time unit; the first downlink time unit is used for transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling by the base station, and the guard time unit is used for converting downlink to uplink.
The uplink control signaling is HARQ feedback and/or CSI feedback.
In any of the above embodiments, the time length of the second downlink time unit may be configured as 0 or non-0.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit are located in one subframe.
In this embodiment, further, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit form a subframe.
In another embodiment of the present invention, one or more of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are located in a different subframe from other time units.
In this embodiment, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit may form a plurality of subframes. Such as: the first downlink time unit forms a subframe, and the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit form another subframe; for another example, the first downlink time unit forms N (e.g., 1) whole subframes and one partial subframe, and the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit form another partial subframe. Wherein the two partial subframes constitute one whole subframe, and the two partial subframes may be any length less than one whole subframe and contain an integer number of symbols.
The communication method based on the frame structure provided by the invention can also be used for the transmission of the secondary link, and particularly, in one embodiment of the invention, the terminal transmits the secondary link on the uplink time unit under the condition that the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be not 0. In this embodiment, the Sidelink is sildelink, and includes D2D (Device to Device, direct terminal communication) transmission, and V2X (Vehicle to X, Vehicle to specific destination communication) communication in Vehicle communication, including V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle communication), V2P (Vehicle to individual person communication), V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure, Vehicle to roadside unit communication), and the like.
According to an embodiment of the second aspect of the present invention, there is further provided a frame structure-based communication method applicable to a base station, where the frame structure includes a first downlink time unit, a guard time unit located after and adjacent to the first downlink time unit, an uplink time unit located after and adjacent to the guard time unit, and a second downlink time unit located after and adjacent to the uplink time unit, and time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are configurable, the communication method including: acquiring time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit; and communicating with a terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit.
In the technical scheme, because the frame structure comprises the first downlink time unit with configurable time length, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit can be flexibly configured according to an actual communication scene (such as the type of a communication service) during communication, and then the base station can communicate based on the flexibly configured frame structure, so that the problems of large uplink scheduling delay and long HARQ feedback delay caused by adopting a fixed frame structure are avoided, the flexibility of resource scheduling can be improved, the service requirement in a 5G communication scene is met, and the resource utilization rate is favorably improved.
The process of the base station acquiring the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit may be that the base station autonomously performs configuration and then acquires a configuration result; it is also possible that a central control node sets the time length configuration information of these time units and then informs the base station. When the base station is the secondary serving base station, the primary serving base station may set the time length configuration information of the time units and then notify the secondary serving base station.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the base station sends an uplink scheduling instruction and/or performs HARQ feedback on the first downlink time unit; the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit, and performs channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the guard time unit and the uplink time unit.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling on the first downlink time unit; the protection time unit is used for converting downlink to uplink, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink control signaling. The uplink control signaling is HARQ feedback and/or CSI feedback.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be not 0 and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be 0, the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit and performs channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the guard time unit.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: and under the condition that the time length of the first downlink time unit is not configured to be 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be 0, the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: and when the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be not 0 and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the base station sends HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or a frame structure before the current frame structure on the second downlink time unit.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit specifically includes: and when the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be not 0 and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the base station sends random access feedback on the second downlink time unit.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit are located in one subframe.
In this embodiment, further, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit form a subframe.
In another embodiment of the present invention, one or more of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are located in a different subframe from other time units.
In this embodiment, the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit may form a plurality of subframes. Such as: the first downlink time unit forms a subframe, and the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit form another subframe; for another example, the first downlink time unit forms N (e.g., 1) whole subframes and one partial subframe, and the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit form another partial subframe. Wherein the two partial subframes constitute one whole subframe, and the two partial subframes may be any length less than one whole subframe and contain an integer number of symbols.
By the technical scheme, the time length of each time unit in the frame structure can be flexibly configured according to the actual communication scene, so that the flexibility of resource scheduling is improved, and the service requirement in the 5G communication scene is met.
Detailed Description
In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those specifically described herein, and therefore the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.
Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a frame structure in a communication system according to an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1, a frame structure in a communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first downlink time unit DL1, a guard time unit GP located after and adjacent to the first downlink time unit DL1, an uplink time unit UL located after and adjacent to the guard time unit GP, and a second downlink time unit DL2 located after and adjacent to the uplink time unit UL, wherein the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2 are configurable.
In the technical scheme, because the frame structure includes the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2, which have configurable time lengths, when communication is performed, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 can be flexibly configured according to an actual communication scenario (such as a type of a communication service), so that a large uplink scheduling delay and a long HARQ feedback delay caused by adopting a fixed frame structure can be avoided, the flexibility of resource scheduling can be improved, service requirements in a 5G communication scenario are met, and the resource utilization rate is improved.
On the basis of the frame structure shown in fig. 1, the present invention proposes the following configuration:
the first configuration mode is as follows:
the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP is configured to be 0, and the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be not 0. The uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble.
Specifically, the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on the randomly selected frequency domain resource or the frequency domain resource selected based on the previous scheduling condition.
In the first configuration, as shown in fig. 2A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 2B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
As shown in fig. 2A, when the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be other than 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to transmit HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or the frame structure before the current frame structure.
When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to send the random access feedback.
The second configuration mode:
the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 is configured to be 0, and the time lengths of the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0. The uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on the frequency domain resource selected by the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result.
In this configuration, the uplink time unit is further configured to, on the basis of the carrier sensing result and/or the channel detection result, perform, by the terminal, transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on the randomly selected frequency domain resource or the frequency domain resource selected based on the previous scheduling condition.
Specifically, the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or performs channel state detection on the whole bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
When the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively, the terminal can select the resource group with smaller monitored power to perform uplink transmission.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth. The base station may notify the terminal of the frequency domain Resource range corresponding to the current service through RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling.
In the second configuration, as shown in fig. 3A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 3B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
As shown in fig. 3A, when the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be other than 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to transmit HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or the frame structure before the current frame structure.
When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to send the random access feedback.
The configuration mode is three:
the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to send an uplink scheduling instruction and/or perform HARQ feedback, the guard time unit GP is used for downlink to uplink conversion, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles, and is also used for the transmission of uplink control signaling, such as CSI.
In configuration mode three, as shown in fig. 4A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 4B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
As shown in fig. 4A, when the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be other than 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to transmit HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or the frame structure before the current frame structure.
When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to send the random access feedback.
The configuration mode is four:
the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP are used for a terminal to monitor the usage of carriers and/or perform channel state detection of an unlicensed frequency band, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or uplink control signaling and/or random access preambles.
Specifically, the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or performs channel state detection on the whole bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth. The base station may inform the terminal of the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service through RRC signaling.
In the fourth configuration, as shown in fig. 4A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 4B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
As shown in fig. 4A, when the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be other than 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to transmit HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or the frame structure before the current frame structure.
When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, if the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the second downlink time unit DL2 is used for the base station to send the random access feedback.
The configuration mode is five:
the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals, and the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are used for the base station to perform channel detection in an unlicensed frequency band.
In configuration mode five, as shown in fig. 4A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 4B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
A sixth configuration mode:
the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling, the guard time unit GP is used for the downlink-to-uplink conversion, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the uplink control signaling transmission. The uplink control signaling is HARQ feedback and/or CSI feedback.
In configuration mode six, as shown in fig. 4A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 4B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
The configuration mode is seven:
the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP are configured to be not 0, and the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals, and the guard time unit GP is used for the base station to perform channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band.
In configuration mode seven, as shown in fig. 5A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 5B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
The configuration mode is eight:
the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 is configured to be not 0, and the time lengths of the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be 0. The first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signal.
In the eighth configuration, as shown in fig. 6A, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured to be not 0; or as shown in fig. 6B, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be 0.
The configuration mode is nine:
the configuration is suitable for the transmission of the secondary link, and specifically, in a ninth configuration, the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be not 0, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the transmission of the secondary link.
If the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 and/or the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, the first downlink time unit DL1 and/or the second downlink time unit DL2 may be used for transmission of downlink control commands and/or downlink data and/or reference signals, or for performing LBT (Listen Before Talk) detection.
Based on the above frame structure proposed by the present invention, a new subframe structure proposed by the present invention is introduced as follows:
a first subframe structure:
one subframe in a communication system comprises the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL 2.
Preferably, the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 form a subframe. Wherein, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 in the subframe can be configured.
Of course, a subframe may include other time units besides the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL 2.
And a subframe structure II:
one or more of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 are located in a different subframe from the other time units in the communication system.
In the second subframe structure, the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2 may form a plurality of subframes.
Such as: the first downlink time unit DL1 constitutes one subframe, and the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 constitute another subframe.
For another example: the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL constitute one subframe, and the second downlink time unit DL2 constitutes another subframe.
Also for example: the first downlink time unit DL1 constitutes N (e.g., 1) whole subframes and one partial subframe, and the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL2 constitute another partial subframe. Wherein the two partial subframes constitute one whole subframe, and the two partial subframes may be any length less than one whole subframe and contain an integer number of symbols.
Based on the above frame structure, the communication method proposed by the present invention is as follows:
fig. 7 shows a schematic flow chart of a frame structure based communication method applicable to a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 7, the frame structure-based communication method for a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes:
step S70, obtaining the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL.
Step S72, communicating with a base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL.
Specifically, because the frame structure includes the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2, which have configurable time lengths, when performing communication, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2 can be flexibly configured according to an actual communication scenario (such as a type of communication service), and then the terminal can perform communication based on the flexibly configured frame structure, thereby avoiding a large uplink scheduling delay and a long HARQ feedback delay caused by adopting a fixed frame structure, and improving flexibility of resource scheduling, meeting service requirements in a 5G communication scenario, and facilitating improvement of resource utilization.
The terminal may actively or passively acquire the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL from the base station side. For example, after knowing the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL, the base station may notify the terminal; or the terminal actively sends an acquisition request to the base station to request to acquire the time length configuration information of the time units.
The following describes in detail a specific implementation process of step S72 under different frame structure configurations:
1. when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP are configured to be 0, and the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be other than 0, the step S72 specifically includes: and the terminal transmits uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit UL.
In this embodiment, since the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP before the uplink time unit UL are both 0, the uplink time unit UL may be transmitted by the terminal in uplink, including transmission of uplink data, transmission of uplink control signaling, transmission of uplink reference signals, and transmission of random access preambles. The uplink control signaling comprises HARQ feedback and CSI feedback; the uplink reference signal comprises an SRS; the random access Preamble is RandomAccess Preamble.
In this embodiment, the terminal performs transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble on the uplink time unit UL based on the randomly selected frequency domain resource or the frequency domain resource selected based on the previous scheduling condition.
2. When the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 is configured to be 0, and the time lengths of the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be other than 0, step S72 specifically includes: and the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier and/or detects the channel state on the protection time unit GP, and transmits uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit UL based on the frequency domain resources selected by the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result.
Further, the terminal performs, on the uplink time unit UL, transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles based on the randomly selected frequency domain resources or the frequency domain resources selected based on the previous scheduling situation according to the carrier sensing result and/or the channel detection result.
In this embodiment, the terminal monitors the use of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection over the entire bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth.
3. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S72 specifically includes: the terminal transmits uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preamble on the uplink time unit UL; the first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to send an uplink scheduling instruction and/or perform HARQ feedback, and the guard time unit GP is used for downlink-to-uplink conversion.
4. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S72 specifically includes: the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP, and performs transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble on the uplink time unit UL.
In this embodiment, the terminal monitors the use of the carrier and/or performs channel state detection over the entire bandwidth; or the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and monitors the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups respectively and/or detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups respectively.
Wherein the frequency domain resources in any one of the plurality of resource groups are contiguous or non-contiguous in bandwidth.
5. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S72 specifically includes: the terminal transmits uplink control signaling on the uplink time unit UL; the first downlink time unit DL1 is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling, and the guard time unit GP is used for the downlink-to-uplink conversion. The uplink control signaling is HARQ feedback and/or CSI feedback.
In any of the above embodiments, the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 may be configured as 0 or non-0.
In addition, the communication method based on the frame structure proposed by the present invention may also be used for transmission of a secondary link, and specifically, in an embodiment of the present invention, in a case that the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be other than 0, the terminal performs transmission of a secondary link on the uplink time unit UL. In this embodiment, the Sidelink is sildelink, and includes D2D transmission, and V2X communication in vehicle communication, including V2V, V2P, V2I, and the like.
Fig. 8 shows a schematic flow chart of a frame structure based communication method applicable to a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 8, the frame structure-based communication method applied to a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention includes:
step S80, obtaining the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL 2.
Step S82, communicating with the terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL and the second downlink time unit DL 2.
Specifically, because the frame structure includes the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2, which have configurable time lengths, when performing communication, the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, the uplink time unit UL, and the second downlink time unit DL2 can be flexibly configured according to an actual communication scenario (such as a type of communication service), and then the base station can perform communication based on the flexibly configured frame structure, thereby avoiding a large uplink scheduling delay and a long HARQ feedback delay caused by adopting a fixed frame structure, and improving flexibility of resource scheduling, meeting service requirements in a 5G communication scenario, and facilitating improvement of resource utilization.
The process of the base station acquiring the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL may be that the base station autonomously performs configuration and then acquires a configuration result; it is also possible that a central control node sets the time length configuration information of these time units and then informs the base station. When the base station is the secondary serving base station, the primary serving base station may set the time length configuration information of the time units and then notify the secondary serving base station.
The following describes in detail a specific implementation process of step S82 under different frame structure configurations:
1. when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S82 specifically includes: the base station sends an uplink scheduling instruction and/or performs HARQ feedback on the first downlink time unit DL 1; the guard time unit GP is used for converting downlink to uplink, and the uplink time unit UL is used for transmitting uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles by the terminal.
2. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S82 specifically includes: the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit DL1, and performs channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL.
3. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1, the guard time unit GP, and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be not 0, step S82 specifically includes: the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling on the first downlink time unit DL 1; the guard time unit GP is used for converting downlink to uplink, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink control signaling. The uplink control signaling is HARQ feedback and/or CSI feedback.
4. When the time lengths of the first downlink time unit DL1 and the guard time unit GP are configured to be not 0, and the time length of the uplink time unit UL is configured to be 0, the step S82 specifically includes: the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit DL1, and performs channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the guard time unit GP.
5. When the time length of the first downlink time unit DL1 is configured to be not 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit GP and the uplink time unit UL are configured to be 0, the step S82 specifically includes: and the base station transmits downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit DL 1.
6. When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the step S82 specifically includes: the base station sends HARQ feedback for uplink data received in the current frame structure or a frame structure preceding the current frame structure on the second downlink time unit DL 2.
7. When the time length of the second downlink time unit DL2 is configured to be not 0, and the uplink time unit UL is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the step S82 specifically includes: the base station sends random access feedback on said second downlink time unit DL 2.
Fig. 9 shows a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used to implement the implementation method shown in fig. 7, and for convenience of description, only the portions related to the embodiments of the present invention are shown, and specific technical details are not disclosed. Among them, the terminal shown in fig. 9 may include:
a processor 1, an input device 3 connected to the processor 1 via an interface 2, and a memory 5 connected to the processor 1 via a bus 4. Wherein the memory 5 is used for storing a set of program codes, and the processor 1 is used for calling the program codes stored in the memory 5 and executing the following operations:
acquiring time length configuration information of a first downlink time unit, a protection time unit and an uplink time unit in a frame structure through an input device 3;
and communicating with a base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit.
Fig. 10 shows a schematic structural diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. The base station provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used to implement the implementation method shown in fig. 8, and for convenience of description, only the parts related to the embodiments of the present invention are shown, and specific technical details are not disclosed. The base station shown in fig. 10 may include:
a processor 1 ' and input means 3 ' connected to the processor 1 ' via an interface 2 ', and a memory 5 ' connected to the processor 1 ' via a bus 4 '. Wherein the memory 5 ' is used for storing a set of program codes, and the processor 1 ' is used for calling the program codes stored in the memory 5 ' and executing the following operations:
acquiring time length configuration information of a first downlink time unit, a protection time unit, an uplink time unit and a second downlink time unit in a frame structure through an input device 3';
and communicating with a terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps in the methods of the embodiments described above may be implemented by instructions associated with a program, which may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, where the storage medium includes Read-Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), One-time Programmable Read-Only Memory (OTPROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), compact disc-Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM), or other Memory, magnetic disk, magnetic tape, or magnetic tape, Or any other medium which can be used to carry or store data and which can be read by a computer.
The invention is also defined by the following clauses, notwithstanding the claims appended hereto:
1. a communication device based on a frame structure, which is suitable for a terminal, wherein the frame structure includes a first downlink time unit, a guard time unit located after and adjacent to the first downlink time unit, an uplink time unit located after and adjacent to the guard time unit, and a second downlink time unit located after and adjacent to the uplink time unit, and the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are configurable, the communication device comprising:
an obtaining unit, configured to obtain time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit;
and the communication unit is used for communicating with a base station according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit and the uplink time unit.
2. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be 0, and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be other than 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit.
3. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 2, wherein the communication unit is further configured to: and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit based on the randomly selected frequency domain resources or the frequency domain resources selected based on the previous scheduling situation.
4. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein when the time length of the first downlink time unit is configured to be 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be other than 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and monitoring the use condition of the carrier and/or detecting the channel state on the protection time unit, and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit based on the frequency domain resources selected by the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result.
5. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 4, wherein the communication unit is further configured to: and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit according to the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result based on the randomly selected frequency domain resource or the frequency domain resource selected based on the previous scheduling condition.
6. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to: transmitting uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit;
the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to send an uplink scheduling instruction and/or perform HARQ feedback, and the protection time unit is used for the conversion from downlink to uplink.
7. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and monitoring the use condition of carriers and/or detecting the channel state of an unauthorized frequency band on the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit, and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles on the uplink time unit.
8. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to: transmitting an uplink control signaling on the uplink time unit;
the first downlink time unit is used for transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling by the base station, and the guard time unit is used for converting downlink to uplink.
9. The frame structure based communication device according to clause 4 or 7, wherein the communication unit is further configured to:
monitoring the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detecting the channel state on the whole bandwidth; or
Monitoring the use condition of a carrier wave and/or detecting the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or
Dividing the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and respectively monitoring the use conditions of the plurality of resource groups and/or respectively carrying out channel state detection aiming at the plurality of resource groups.
10. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 1, wherein, when the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be other than 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to: and transmitting the secondary link on the uplink time unit.
11. A communication device based on a frame structure, which is applicable to a base station, wherein the frame structure comprises a first downlink time unit, a guard time unit located after and adjacent to the first downlink time unit, an uplink time unit located after and adjacent to the guard time unit, and a second downlink time unit located after and adjacent to the uplink time unit, and the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit are configurable, the communication device comprising:
an obtaining unit, configured to obtain time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit, and the second downlink time unit;
and the communication unit is used for communicating with a terminal according to the time length configuration information of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit.
12. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to: sending an uplink scheduling instruction and/or performing HARQ feedback on the first downlink time unit;
the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles.
13. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit, and performing channel detection of an unlicensed frequency band on the guard time unit and the uplink time unit.
14. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to: transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling on the first downlink time unit;
the protection time unit is used for converting downlink to uplink, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink control signaling.
15. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be different from 0 and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit, and detecting a channel of an unauthorized frequency band on the protection time unit.
16. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time length of the first downlink time unit is configured to be not 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be 0, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and transmitting downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals on the first downlink time unit.
17. The frame structure-based communication device according to clause 11, wherein when the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be different from 0, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the communication unit is specifically configured to:
and sending HARQ feedback aiming at the uplink data received in the current frame structure or the frame structure before the current frame structure on the second downlink time unit.
18. The frame structure-based communication apparatus according to clause 11, wherein when the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be different from 0, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the communication unit is specifically configured to: and sending random access feedback on the second downlink time unit.
19. A terminal, comprising: the frame structure based communication device of any of clauses 1 to 10.
20. A base station, comprising: the frame structure based communication device of any of clauses 11 to 18.
21. A frame structure in a communication system, comprising:
the time length of the first downlink time unit, the protection time unit which is positioned behind the first downlink time unit and is adjacent to the first downlink time unit, the uplink time unit which is positioned behind the protection time unit and is adjacent to the protection time unit, and the second downlink time unit which is positioned behind the uplink time unit and is adjacent to the uplink time unit are configurable.
22. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be 0 and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be other than 0, the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble.
23. According to the frame structure in the communication system described in clause 22, the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on the randomly selected frequency domain resource or the frequency domain resource selected based on the previous scheduling condition.
24. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time length of the first downlink time unit is configured to be 0, and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the guard time unit is configured to monitor the usage of the carrier and/or perform channel status detection for the terminal, and the uplink time unit is configured to transmit uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble for the terminal based on the frequency domain resource selected by the carrier monitoring result and/or the channel detection result.
25. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 24, the uplink time unit is configured to transmit, by the terminal, uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble based on the frequency domain resource selected at random or based on the previous scheduling condition on the basis of the carrier sensing result and/or the channel detection result.
26. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to send an uplink scheduling instruction and/or perform HARQ feedback, the guard time unit is used for downlink-to-uplink conversion, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to perform transmission of uplink data and/or uplink reference signals and/or random access preambles.
27. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are used for the terminal to monitor the use condition of the carrier and/or perform channel state detection of the unlicensed frequency band, and the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to perform transmission of uplink data and/or uplink control signaling and/or uplink reference signal and/or random access preamble.
28. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be not 0, the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals, and the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are used for the base station to perform channel detection in an unlicensed frequency band.
29. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, and the uplink time unit are configured to be different from 0, the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling, the guard time unit is used for downlink-to-uplink conversion, and the uplink time unit is used for uplink control signaling transmission.
30. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time lengths of the first downlink time unit and the guard time unit are configured to be different from 0 and the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be 0, the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signals, and the guard time unit is used for the base station to perform channel detection in an unlicensed frequency band.
31. According to the frame structure in the communication system in clause 21, when the time length of the first downlink time unit is configured to be not 0 and the time lengths of the guard time unit and the uplink time unit are configured to be 0, the first downlink time unit is used for the base station to transmit downlink data and/or control signaling and/or downlink reference signal.
32. The frame structure in a communication system according to clause 24 or 27, characterized in that:
the terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state on the whole bandwidth; or
The terminal monitors the use condition of the carrier wave and/or detects the channel state in the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service informed by the base station; or
And the terminal divides the frequency domain resource range corresponding to the current service notified by the base station into a plurality of resource groups, and respectively monitors the service conditions of the plurality of resource groups and/or respectively detects the channel state aiming at the plurality of resource groups.
33. The frame structure in the communication system according to clause 21, wherein the uplink time unit is used for transmission of the secondary link when the time length of the uplink time unit is configured to be other than 0.
34. In the frame structure in the communication system according to any of clauses 22 to 27, when the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be other than 0, if the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit uplink data, the second downlink time unit is used for the base station to send HARQ feedback for the uplink data received in the current frame structure or a frame structure before the current frame structure.
35. According to the frame structure in the communication system in any one of clauses 22 to 27, in a case that the time length of the second downlink time unit is configured to be different from 0, if the uplink time unit is used for the terminal to transmit the random access preamble, the second downlink time unit is used for the base station to transmit the random access feedback.
36. The frame structure in a communication system according to any of clauses 21 to 31, wherein a subframe in the communication system comprises the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit.
37. The frame structure in a communication system according to any of clauses 21 to 31, wherein one or more of the first downlink time unit, the guard time unit, the uplink time unit and the second downlink time unit are located in a different subframe in the communication system than other time units.
The technical scheme of the invention is described in detail in the above with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the invention provides a new frame structure-based communication method, so that the time length of each time unit in the frame structure can be flexibly configured according to the actual communication scene, the flexibility of resource scheduling is improved, and the service requirement in the 5G communication scene is met.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.