Beam instruction method, apparatus, network side device, and terminal

Abstract

To provide a beam direction method and network side equipment that can solve a problem in the prior art in which the signaling overhead is relatively large.SOLUTION: A beam indication method executed by a network side equipment, includes transmitting first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE to indicate at least one common beam information, and the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] (CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS) This application is a divisional application of Japanese Patent Application No. 2023-519859, entitled "Beam instruction method, apparatus, network side equipment and terminal," filed in Japan on March 30, 2023.

[0002] The present application relates to the field of communications technology, and in particular to a beam instruction method, an apparatus, a network side device, and a terminal. [Background technology]

[0003] Analog beamforming is launched in the full bandwidth, and each polarization array element on each radio frequency antenna array panel can transmit an analog beam only in a time division multiplexing manner. The analog beamforming weight value is realized by adjusting the parameters of the equipment such as the radio frequency front-end phase shifter.

[0004] At present, analog beamforming vector training is generally performed in a polling manner, that is, the array elements in each polarization direction of each antenna panel transmit training signals (i.e. candidate beamforming vectors) in sequence at a set time in a time division multiplexing manner, the terminal feeds back a beam report after measurement, and the network side uses the training signal to realize analog beam emission at the next traffic transmission time. The contents of the beam report generally include several optimal emission beam identifiers and the measured received power of each emission beam.

[0005] After the beam measurement and the beam report, the network can perform beam direction on the channels or reference signals of the downlink and uplink links to establish a beam link between the network and the terminal and realize the transmission of the channels or reference signals. However, in the conventional technology, the beam direction mechanisms of various channels and reference signals are different and require a relatively large signaling overhead. Summary of the Invention

[0006] The objective of the embodiments of the present application is to provide a beam pointing method, apparatus, network side equipment and terminal that can solve the problem in the prior art that the signaling overhead is relatively large due to different beam pointing mechanisms for various channels and reference signals.

[0007] According to a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a beam direction method for use in a network side device, the method comprising: transmitting a first downlink control information (DCI) or a first media access control layer control unit (MAC CE) for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0008] According to a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a beam pointing method for use in a terminal, the method comprising: receiving first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0009] According to a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a beam directing device for use in a network side device, the device comprising: A transmitting module for transmitting a first downlink control information (DCI) or a first media access control layer control unit (MAC CE) for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0010] According to a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a beam directing device for use in a terminal, the device comprising: A receiving module for receiving a first downlink control information (DCI) or a first media access control layer control unit (MAC CE) for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0011] According to a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a network side device, the network side device including a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable to run on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, realizing steps of the method according to the first aspect.

[0012] According to a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, the terminal comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable to run on the processor, the program or instructions being operable when executed by the processor to implement steps of the method according to the second aspect.

[0013] According to a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a readable storage medium having a program or instructions stored thereon, the program or instructions, when executed by a processor, performing steps of the method according to the first aspect or performing steps of the method according to the second aspect.

[0014] According to an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor running a program or instruction to implement the method according to the first aspect or to be used for implementing the method according to the second aspect.

[0015] According to a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product, the computer program product being stored in a readable storage medium, the computer program product being executed by at least one processor to implement the method according to the first aspect or to implement the method according to the second aspect.

[0016] According to a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a beam directing device, which is used for performing the method according to the first aspect or the method according to the second aspect.

[0017] In an embodiment of the present application, common beam information of a channel and / or reference signal is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0018] [Figure 1] 1 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application can be applied. [Diagram 2] 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of steps of a beam pointing method according to an embodiment of the present application; [Diagram 3] 2 illustrates a second schematic diagram of steps of a beam pointing method according to an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 4] 1 illustrates one structural schematic diagram of a beam directing device according to an embodiment of the present application; [Diagram 5]FIG. 2 illustrates a second structural schematic diagram of a beam directing device according to an embodiment of the present application. [Figure 6] 1 illustrates a structural schematic diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 7] 1 illustrates a structural schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application; [Figure 8] 1 illustrates a structural schematic diagram of a network side device according to an embodiment of the present application; DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0019] The following clearly and completely describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art on the basis of the embodiments of the present application without any creative efforts are within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0020] The terms "first," "second," etc. in the specification and claims of the present application are intended to distinguish between similar objects and are not intended to describe a particular order or sequence. It is to be understood that data so used are interchangeable where appropriate, such that the embodiments of the present application may be performed in an order other than that shown or described herein, and that the objects distinguished by "first," "second," etc. are generally of the same type and are not limited in number, e.g., the first object may be one or more. Note that "and / or" in the specification and claims refers to at least one of the objects connected, and the character " / " generally refers to an "or" relationship between the related objects.

[0021] It should be noted that the techniques described in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, but can also be applied to other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are always used interchangeably, and the techniques described may be used in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, or in other systems and radio technologies. However, although the following description describes New Radio (NR) systems for illustrative purposes and uses NR terminology in most of the following description, these technologies may also be used in applications other than NR system applications, such as sixth generation (6G) systems. th This may be applied to a 6G (6th Generation) communication system.

[0022] FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiment of the present application can be applied. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12. Here, the terminal 11 may be called a terminal device or a user terminal (User Equipment, UE), and the terminal 11 may be a terminal side device such as a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer (or called a notebook computer), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a palmtop computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile Internet device (MID), a wearable device (Wearable Device) or a vehicle-mounted device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), etc., and the wearable device includes a bracelet, an earphone, glasses, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 in the embodiment of the present application is not limited. The network side equipment 12 may be a base station or a core network, where the base station may be called a Node B, an evolved Node B, an access point, a base transceiver station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), a B node, an evolved B node (eNB), a home B node, a home evolved B node, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, a transmitting receiving point (TRP), or any other suitable term in the art, and as long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical term, and it should be explained that in the embodiments of this application, only a base station in an NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0023] It should be clarified that the "beam information" referred to in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as spatial relation information, spatial domain transmission filter information, spatial filter information, transmission configuration indicator state (TCI state) information, Quasi Co-Location (QCL) information or QCL parameters, and is not specifically limited herein.

[0024] Hereinafter, the beam instruction method, apparatus, network side equipment and terminal according to the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail with reference to specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof in conjunction with the drawings.

[0025] As shown in FIG. 2 , an embodiment of the present application provides a beam direction method for use in a network side device, the method comprising: The method includes the step of transmitting 201 a first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information (which may be referred to as common beam information); Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0026] For example, the channel includes at least one of a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), and the reference signal includes at least one of a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) and a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS).

[0027] It should be noted that when the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicates one common beam information, the common beam information applies to all channels and reference signals of the corresponding terminal; when the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicates at least two common beam information, each common beam information corresponds to one type of channel or reference signal, where the classification of the channel or reference signal may be classified according to its function or transmission direction, for example, the data channel is one type, the control channel is another type, and the reference signal is another type; further, for example, the uplink channel and the uplink reference signal are one type, and the downlink channel and the downlink reference signal are one type, which is not specifically limited here.

[0028] In one optional embodiment of the present application, the first DCI may be a dedicated DCI format for indicating common beam information, or the first DCI may multiplex conventional DCI formats, such as DCI format1_1, DCI format1_0, DCI format0_1, DCI format0_0, etc.

[0029] As one optional embodiment of the present application, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is: A first class of control resource set; The control resource set may be applied to any one of a first type of control resource set and a channel or a reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set.

[0030] Wherein, the channel or reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set is: A channel or reference signal scheduled by DCI on the first type of control resource set, such as PDSCH, PUSCH, CSI-RS, etc.; The first type of control resource set includes at least one of a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by DCI on the first type of control resource set, such as a PUCCH, a PUSCH, etc.

[0031] As an alternative embodiment, the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first type of control resource set, in other words, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI is applied to the first type of control resource set to which the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs.

[0032] In at least one alternative embodiment of the present application, transmitting the first downlink control information DCI in step 201 includes: transmitting a downlink control channel including the first DCI on a second type of control resource set; Here, beam information of the second type of control resource set is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI, or target beam information, which is beam information of the second type of control resource set and a channel or reference signal related to the second type of control resource set, is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI.

[0033] In other words, the first DCI is carried by a PDCCH on a second type of control resource set, and beam information (e.g., TCI status information) of this second type of control resource set is indicated by a second MAC CE or by the DCI immediately preceding the first DCI.

[0034] In an embodiment of the present application, before step 201, the method further comprises: Determining the common beam information from a plurality of beam information arranged by radio resource control (RRC) signaling (for example, a network side device selects one beam information as common beam information from a plurality of beam information arranged by RRC signaling); Or, it further includes determining the common beam information from multiple beam information activated by a third MAC CE (for example, the network side equipment selects one beam information from multiple beam information activated by the third MAC CE as the common beam information).

[0035] In one alternative embodiment, step 201 includes: The method includes transmitting a first DCI if the number of the at least one common beam information satisfies a first condition, and transmitting a first MAC CE if not.

[0036] For example, when the number of common beam information to be indicated is smaller (or equal) than a predetermined numerical value, the common beam information is indicated by the first DCI, and when the number of common beam information to be indicated is larger (or equal) than this predetermined numerical value, the common beam information is indicated by the first MAC CE.

[0037] In addition, at least one embodiment of the present application further provides a feedback mechanism for common beam information, i.e., after step 201, the method includes: The method further includes receiving first feedback information, transmitted from a terminal, for indicating whether the terminal has correctly received the first DCI or the first MAC CE. For example, the first feedback information is Hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information. Furthermore, the first feedback information is used to indicate whether the terminal has correctly received common beam information. Optionally, the first feedback information may be carried on a PUCCH or a PUSCH.

[0038] In one alternative embodiment, the method comprises: The method further includes determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on a first manner, where the first manner includes: determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information according to an uplink resource of the first feedback information indicated in a first DCI or a first MAC CE, i.e., the uplink resource of the first feedback information is directly conveyed to the first DCI or the first MAC CE; According to a correlation relationship between the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located and the uplink resource where the first feedback information is associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located, the uplink resource where the first feedback information is associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located is the uplink resource of the first feedback information, i.e., there is a pre-established correlation relationship between the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located and the uplink resource of the corresponding first feedback information; Based on the transmission time of a first DCI or a first MAC CE and a predetermined timing relationship, determining that an uplink resource whose transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE satisfies the predetermined timing relationship is the uplink resource of the first feedback information, i.e., there is a predetermined timing relationship between the transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE and the uplink resource of the first feedback information, for example, the first available uplink resource after the transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE plus a predetermined time length is the uplink resource of the first feedback information.

[0039] It should be noted that the first DCI mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be a dedicated DCI for indicating common beam information, and may multiplex a conventional DCI, such as a DCI for scheduling a PDSCH or a DCI for scheduling a PUSCH.

[0040] In one alternative embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method further comprises: receiving feedback information of the PDSCH; Wherein, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are jointly indicated in the first target feedback information, that is, in the first target feedback information, which part is the first feedback information and which part is the PDSCH feedback information is not distinguished, and it is one feedback information.For example, the first target feedback information is 1 bit, and when this 1 bit is set to 1, the first target feedback information is ACK, in such a case, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both ACK, and when this 1 bit is set to 0, the first target feedback information is NACK, and in such a case, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, but the network cannot distinguish which feedback information is NACK.

[0041] Or, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are respectively indicated in the second target feedback information, that is, in the second target feedback information, which part is the first feedback information and which part is the PDSCH feedback information, which is composed of two feedback information.For example, the second target feedback information is 2 bits, the first bit corresponds to the first feedback information, and the second bit corresponds to the PDSCH feedback information, and when these 2 bits are 10, the first feedback information is ACK, and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, and when these 2 bits are 01, the first feedback information is NACK, and the PDSCH feedback information is ACK, not listed one by one here, in this case, the network can distinguish the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information.

[0042] It should be mentioned that the first target feedback information or the second target feedback information may multiplex the feedback information of the PDSCH in the current technology or modify the feedback information of the PDSCH in the current technology.

[0043] As another optional embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), there is no feedback information in the PUSCH, so the first feedback information is feedback information for the first DCI. Accordingly, in this case, the uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located is: A PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; A PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI using the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; a first available uplink resource after a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

[0044] In such a case, the network side device may determine whether the terminal correctly receives the first DCI depending on whether the HARQ process number used for the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI is the same as the HARQ process number used for the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI. For example, if the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI uses the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI, the network side device determines that the terminal correctly receives the first DCI; otherwise, it is considered that the terminal did not correctly receive the first DCI.

[0045] Continuing with the above, in one alternative embodiment, the method further comprises: When the first feedback information is an acknowledgement (ACK), after a first predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the first feedback information, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information (which may also be referred to as the common beam information being enabled), for example, the first feedback information is after the transmission time of the ACK plus the first predetermined length of time, and the common beam information is enabled; When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information (which may also be referred to as common beam information being enabled), where the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, and the method further includes at least one of: after the transmission time of the second DCI used for a PUSCH having the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI, which is newly scheduled by the network, + the second predetermined length of time, the common beam information is enabled.

[0046] In at least one alternative embodiment of the present application, the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by a certain DCI may be before the common beam information is enabled, i.e., the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by a third DCI is before the common beam information is available, the method includes: Further comprising: transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI using first default beam information, where the first default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a channel or a transmission time of a reference signal scheduled by the third DCI; or Contains beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID.

[0047] Here, the control resource set with the smallest ID may be the control resource set with the lowest ID among all control resource sets in the current cell, the control resource set with the lowest ID among the above-mentioned first type of control resource sets and second type of control resource sets, or the control resource set with the lowest ID among a certain type of control resource sets to which the control resource set of the scheduling channel or the third DCI of the reference signal belongs.

[0048] In another optional embodiment of the present application, the transmission time of a DCI may be before the common beam information is enabled, but the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by this DCI may be after the common beam information is enabled, i.e., the transmission time of a fourth DCI may be before the common beam information is available, and the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI may be after the common beam information is available, the method may include: Further comprising: transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI using second default beam information, where the second default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a transmission time of the fourth DCI; beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID; and common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0049] It should be noted that "before the common beam information is available" may also be referred to as before the common beam information is enabled, where the enable time of the common beam information is: if the first feedback information is an acknowledgment (ACK), after a first preset time period from the transmission time of the first feedback information; or after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, when the first DCI is further used to schedule the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH.

[0050] Here, the control resource set with the smallest ID may be the control resource set with the lowest ID among all control resource sets in the current cell, the control resource set with the lowest ID among the above-mentioned first type of control resource sets and second type of control resource sets, or the control resource set with the lowest ID among a certain type of control resource sets to which the control resource set of the scheduling channel or the fourth DCI of the reference signal belongs.

[0051] In order to ensure robustness of the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE, in at least one embodiment of the present application, the method includes: If the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or reference signal using the common beam information; Or, The method further includes retransmitting a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when the first feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0052] Alternatively, the method may further comprise the steps of: The method further includes retransmitting the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when the network side equipment has not received feedback information of the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0053] Here, the fact that the network side device has not received the feedback information of the first DCI or the first MAC CE includes two cases: the case where the terminal transmits corresponding feedback information but the network side device does not receive it, and the case where the terminal does not transmit corresponding feedback information.

[0054] For example, when the first DCI is used only to indicate common beam information, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI → HARQ-ACK → PDSCH / PUSCH, Or, the first DCI → HARQ-ACK → second DCI → PDSCH / PUSCH.

[0055] Further, for example, when the first DCI is used to indicate common beam information and to schedule a PDSCH, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI → PDSCH → HARQ-ACK, where the network side device transmits the PDSCH using common beam information indicated in the first DCI.

[0056] In addition, for example, when the first DCI is used to indicate common beam information and to schedule the PUSCH, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI→first PUSCH→second DCI→newly scheduled second PUSCH having the same HARQ process number as the first PUSCH.

[0057] Optionally, in at least one embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are indicated to be coordinated in the first target feedback information, If the first target feedback information is a positive response, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are both positive responses; Or, If the first target feedback information is a negative acknowledgement, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0058] In the embodiment of the present application, in the first target feedback information, it does not distinguish which part is the first feedback information and which part is the PDSCH feedback information, and it is one feedback information.For example, the first target feedback information is 1 bit, and when this 1 bit is set to 1, the first target feedback information is ACK, in this case, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both ACK, and when this 1 bit is set to 0, the first target feedback information is NACK, and in this case, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, but the network cannot distinguish which feedback information is NACK.

[0059] Optionally, in at least one embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are respectively indicated in the second target feedback information, The second target feedback information further includes first indication information for indicating that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or PDSCH feedback information, for example, it is explicitly indicated in the HARQ-ACK information that it is the first feedback information or PDSCH feedback information, and optionally, the indication information is carried only when feeding back a NACK, and further, for example, the second target feedback information includes information related to M1 bit feedback, and 1 bit (i.e., second indication information) is added before the information related to the M1 bit feedback, and this bit is set to 1, the M1 bit after the identifier is the first feedback information, and this bit is set to 0, the M bits after the identifier are PDSCH feedback information; Or, The second target feedback information further includes second indication information for indicating an arrangement order or position information of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information in the second target feedback information, for example, the second target feedback information includes information related to M2-bit feedback, and one bit (i.e., second indication information) is added before the information related to the M2-bit feedback, and this bit is set to 1; the first N1 bits of the M2 bits after the identifier are the first feedback information and the last N2 bits are the PDSCH feedback information, and this bit is set to 0; the first N1 bits of the M2 bits after the identifier are the PDSCH feedback information and the last N2 bits are the first feedback information; Or, At least one of the uplink resource, timing information, scrambling scheme, time-frequency domain offset and code division scheme respectively used by the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information indicates that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information, the feedback information on the uplink resource 1 is the first feedback information, and the feedback information on the uplink resource 2 is the PDSCH feedback information; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are coded independently and arranged according to a preset rule, and the network side device may determine that the corresponding feedback information is the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information according to the arrangement order, for example, the first feedback information occupies the first M3 bits and the PDSCH feedback information occupies the last M4 bits; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are jointly coded, where the decoding result of the joint coding can indicate the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information contained in the second target feedback information. For example, the second target feedback information is M5 bits, and M5 is equal to 2. According to a preset coding rule, the decoding result is “01” indicates that the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both ACK, and the decoding result is “10” indicates that the first feedback information is ACK and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, and is not listed one by one here.

[0060] In one optional embodiment, receiving first feedback information transmitted from the terminal includes: receiving first feedback information transmitted by the terminal using current beam information (which may also be referred to as original beam information, or beam information used for channel or reference signal transmission between the network device and the terminal before transmitting the first DCI) until the common beam information becomes available; Or, The method includes receiving first feedback information transmitted by a terminal using the common beam information.

[0061] It should be noted that "the common beam information becomes available" may also be referred to as the common beam information being enabled, where the enablement time of the common beam information is: if the first feedback information is an acknowledgment (ACK), after a first preset time period from the transmission time of the first feedback information; or after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, when the first DCI is further used to schedule the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH.

[0062] As another optional embodiment, when the first DCI is further used for scheduling a PDSCH, the method further comprises: retransmitting a first DCI indicating at least one common beam information when a network side device does not receive feedback information of the first DCI or receives feedback information of a negative acknowledgement of the first DCI; Or, When the network side device does not receive the feedback information of the first DCI or receives the feedback information of the negative acknowledgement of the first DCI, the network side device further includes retransmitting the PDSCH and retransmitting the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information until the feedback information of the PDSCH is not received or the number of times the feedback information of the negative acknowledgement of the PDSCH is received reaches a first preset number. It should be noted that such a manner is generally used in a scenario where the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are jointly indicated in the first target feedback information, that is, the network cannot distinguish whether the received negative acknowledgement is for the first DCI or for the PDSCH.

[0063] For example, when the first DCI is lost and the network still transmits a PDSCH using common beam information indicated by the first DCI, and the terminal does not receive the first DCI and PDSCH and does not feed back a HARQ-ACK, the network retransmits the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information.

[0064] Further, for example, when an error occurs in the first DCI decoding and the network still transmits a PDSCH using common beam information indicated by the first DCI, the terminal does not receive the PDSCH, and the terminal feeds back or does not feed back a NACK, the network retransmits the first DCI, or the network retransmits the first DCI after the retransmission of the PDSCH reaches a certain number of times.

[0065] Also, for example, when the first DCI is correctly received by the terminal, the network transmits a PDSCH using the indicated common beam information, the terminal receives the PDSCH, and if the terminal feeds back an ACK or NACK but the network does not receive it, the network retransmits the first DCI, or retransmits the first DCI after all of the PDSCH retransmissions are NACK or no feedback is received before a specific number of retransmissions of the PDSCH are reached, and when the terminal feeds back a NACK and the network receives it, the network retransmits the PDSCH, or the network retransmits the first DCI, or the network retransmits the first DCI after all of the PDSCH retransmissions are NACK or no feedback is received before a preset number of retransmissions of the PDSCH are reached.

[0066] As a further alternative embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PUSCH, the method further comprises: The method further includes retransmitting the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information when a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI is not received, or the first feedback information is not received in the uplink resource where the first feedback information is located, or a negative acknowledgement first feedback information is received.

[0067] For example, if the first DCI is lost or an error occurs in decoding the first DCI, the terminal does not transmit a PUSCH, and the network retransmits the first DCI.

[0068] Further, for example, if the first DCI decoding is correct, the terminal transmits a PUSCH, if the network does not receive the PUSCH correctly, the network retransmits the first DCI, if the network receives the PUSCH correctly, the network may perform a subsequent DCI to reschedule the PUSCH, and the terminal determines the activation time of the common beam information indicated by the first DCI based on the HARQ process number. Before the common beam information is activated, the terminal uses the original beam information (i.e., the beam information used for channel or reference signal transmission between the network device and the terminal before transmitting the first DCI).

[0069] To summarize, in the embodiments of the present application, common beam information of channels and / or reference signals is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance.

[0070] As shown in FIG. 3 , an embodiment of the present application further provides a beam directing method for use in a terminal, the method comprising: The method includes receiving 301 a first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information, Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0071] For example, the channel includes at least one of a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), and the reference signal includes at least one of a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) and a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS).

[0072] It should be noted that when the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicates one common beam information, the common beam information applies to all channels and reference signals of the corresponding terminal; when the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicates at least two common beam information, each common beam information corresponds to one type of channel or reference signal, where the classification of the channel or reference signal may be classified according to its function or transmission direction, for example, the data channel is one type, the control channel is another type, and the reference signal is another type; further, for example, the uplink channel and the uplink reference signal are one type, and the downlink channel and the downlink reference signal are one type, which is not specifically limited here.

[0073] In one optional embodiment of the present application, the first DCI may be a dedicated DCI format for indicating common beam information, or the first DCI may multiplex conventional DCI formats, such as DCI format1_1, DCI format1_0, DCI format0_1, DCI format0_0, etc.

[0074] As one optional embodiment of the present application, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is: A first class of control resource set; The control resource set may be applied to any one of a first type of control resource set and a channel or a reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set.

[0075] Wherein, the channel or reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set is: A channel or reference signal scheduled by DCI on the first type of control resource set, such as PDSCH, PUSCH, CSI-RS, etc.; The first type of control resource set includes at least one of a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by DCI on the first type of control resource set, such as a PUCCH, a PUSCH, etc.

[0076] As an alternative embodiment, the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first type of control resource set, in other words, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI is applied to the first type of control resource set to which the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs.

[0077] In at least one alternative embodiment of the present application, receiving the first downlink control information DCI in step 301 includes: According to an indication of a second MAC CE or a DCI preceding the first DCI, determine beam information of a second type of control resource set, or determine target beam information, which is beam information of a second type of control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the second type of control resource set; and receiving a downlink control channel including the first DCI on the second type of control resource set.

[0078] In other words, the first DCI is carried by a PDCCH on a second type of control resource set, and beam information (e.g., TCI status information) of this second type of control resource set is indicated by a second MAC CE or by the DCI immediately preceding the first DCI.

[0079] In addition, at least one embodiment of the present application further provides a feedback mechanism for common beam information, i.e., after step 301, the method includes: The method further includes sending first feedback information to a network side device for indicating whether the terminal has correctly received the first DCI or the first MAC CE. For example, the first feedback information is Hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information. Furthermore, the first feedback information is used to indicate whether the terminal has correctly received common beam information. Optionally, the first feedback information may be carried on a PUCCH or a PUSCH.

[0080] In one alternative embodiment, the method comprises: The method further includes determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on a first manner, where the first manner includes: determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information according to an uplink resource of the first feedback information indicated in a first DCI or a first MAC CE, i.e., the uplink resource of the first feedback information is directly conveyed to the first DCI or the first MAC CE; According to a correlation relationship between the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located and the uplink resource where the first feedback information is associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located, the uplink resource where the first feedback information is associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located is the uplink resource of the first feedback information, i.e., there is a pre-established correlation relationship between the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located and the uplink resource of the corresponding first feedback information; Based on the transmission time of a first DCI or a first MAC CE and a predetermined timing relationship, determining that an uplink resource whose transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE satisfies the predetermined timing relationship is the uplink resource of the first feedback information, i.e., there is a predetermined timing relationship between the transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE and the uplink resource of the first feedback information, for example, the first available uplink resource after the transmission time of the first DCI or first MAC CE plus a predetermined time length is the uplink resource of the first feedback information.

[0081] It should be noted that the first DCI mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may be a dedicated DCI for indicating common beam information, and may multiplex a conventional DCI, such as a DCI for scheduling a PDSCH or a DCI for scheduling a PUSCH.

[0082] In one alternative embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method further comprises: and transmitting feedback information of the PDSCH. Here, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information (e.g., feedback information of a multiplexed PDSCH) are jointly indicated, or the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are each independently indicated (e.g., the first feedback information is used only to indicate whether the terminal has correctly received the common beam information, and the PDSCH feedback information is used only to indicate whether the terminal has correctly received the PDSCH).

[0083] As another optional embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), there is no feedback information in the PUSCH, so the first feedback information is feedback information for the first DCI. Accordingly, in this case, the uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located is: A PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; A PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI using the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; a first available uplink resource after a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

[0084] In such a case, the network side device may determine whether the terminal correctly receives the first DCI depending on whether the HARQ process number used for the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI is the same as the HARQ process number used for the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI. For example, if the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI uses the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI, the network side device determines that the terminal correctly receives the first DCI; otherwise, it is considered that the terminal did not correctly receive the first DCI.

[0085] Continuing with the above, in one alternative embodiment, the method further comprises: When the first feedback information is an acknowledgement (ACK), after a first predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the first feedback information, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information (which may also be referred to as the common beam information being enabled), for example, the first feedback information is after the transmission time of the ACK plus the first predetermined length of time, and the common beam information is enabled; When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information (which may also be referred to as common beam information being enabled), where the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, and the method further includes at least one of: after the transmission time of the second DCI used for a PUSCH having the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI, which is newly scheduled by the network, + the second predetermined length of time, the common beam information is enabled.

[0086] In at least one alternative embodiment of the present application, the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by a certain DCI may be before the common beam information is enabled, i.e., the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by a third DCI is before the common beam information is available, the method includes: Further comprising: transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI using first default beam information, where the first default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a channel or a transmission time of a reference signal scheduled by the third DCI; or Contains beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID.

[0087] Here, the control resource set with the smallest ID may be the control resource set with the lowest ID among all control resource sets in the current cell, the control resource set with the lowest ID among the above-mentioned first type of control resource sets and second type of control resource sets, or the control resource set with the lowest ID among a certain type of control resource sets to which the control resource set of the scheduling channel or the third DCI of the reference signal belongs.

[0088] In another optional embodiment of the present application, the transmission time of a DCI may be before the common beam information is enabled, but the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by this DCI may be after the common beam information is enabled, i.e., the transmission time of a fourth DCI may be before the common beam information is available, and the transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI may be after the common beam information is available, the method may include: Further comprising: transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI using second default beam information, where the second default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a transmission time of the fourth DCI; beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID; and common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0089] It should be noted that "before the common beam information is available" may also be referred to as before the common beam information is enabled, where the enable time of the common beam information is: if the first feedback information is an acknowledgment (ACK), after a first preset time period from the transmission time of the first feedback information; or after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, when the first DCI is further used to schedule the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH.

[0090] Here, the control resource set with the smallest ID may be the control resource set with the lowest ID among all control resource sets in the current cell, the control resource set with the lowest ID among the above-mentioned first type of control resource sets and second type of control resource sets, or the control resource set with the lowest ID among a certain type of control resource sets to which the control resource set of the scheduling channel or the fourth DCI of the reference signal belongs.

[0091] In order to ensure robustness of the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE, in at least one embodiment of the present application, the method includes: When the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or reference signal using the common beam information, or re-receiving a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information, for example, when the first feedback information is an ACK and the network side device receives the ACK, the common beam information is enabled, or when the first feedback information is an ACK but not received by the network side device, re-receiving the first DCI or the first MAC CE; Or, The method further includes re-receiving a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information if the first feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0092] Here, the fact that the network side device has not received the feedback information of the first DCI or the first MAC CE includes two cases: the case where the terminal transmits corresponding feedback information but the network side device does not receive it, and the case where the terminal does not transmit corresponding feedback information.

[0093] For example, when the first DCI is used only to indicate common beam information, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI → HARQ-ACK → PDSCH / PUSCH, Or, the first DCI → HARQ-ACK → second DCI → PDSCH / PUSCH.

[0094] Further, for example, when the first DCI is used to indicate common beam information and to schedule a PDSCH, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI → PDSCH → HARQ-ACK, where the network side device transmits the PDSCH using common beam information indicated in the first DCI.

[0095] In addition, for example, when the first DCI is used to indicate common beam information and to schedule the PUSCH, the transmission timing between the network side device and the terminal is First DCI→first PUSCH→second DCI→newly scheduled second PUSCH having the same HARQ process number as the first PUSCH.

[0096] Optionally, in at least one embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are indicated to be coordinated in the first target feedback information, If the first target feedback information is a positive response, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are both positive responses; Or, If the first target feedback information is a negative acknowledgement, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0097] In the embodiment of the present application, in the first target feedback information, it does not distinguish which part is the first feedback information and which part is the PDSCH feedback information, and it is one feedback information.For example, the first target feedback information is 1 bit, and when this 1 bit is set to 1, the first target feedback information is ACK, in this case, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both ACK, and when this 1 bit is set to 0, the first target feedback information is NACK, and in this case, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, but the network cannot distinguish which feedback information is NACK.

[0098] Optionally, in at least one embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are respectively indicated in the second target feedback information, The second target feedback information further includes first indication information for indicating that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or PDSCH feedback information, for example, it is explicitly indicated in the HARQ-ACK information that it is the first feedback information or PDSCH feedback information, and optionally, the indication information is carried only when feeding back a NACK, and further, for example, the second target feedback information includes information related to M1 bit feedback, and 1 bit (i.e., second indication information) is added before the information related to the M1 bit feedback, and this bit is set to 1, and the M1 bit after the identifier is the first feedback information, and this bit is set to 0, and the M1 bit after the identifier is PDSCH feedback information; Or, The second target feedback information further includes second indication information for indicating an arrangement order or position information of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information in the second target feedback information, for example, the second target feedback information includes information related to M2-bit feedback, and one bit (i.e., second indication information) is added before the information related to the M2-bit feedback, and this bit is set to 1; the first N1 bits of the M2 bits after the identifier are the first feedback information and the last N2 bits are the PDSCH feedback information, and this bit is set to 0; the first N1 bits of the M2 bits after the identifier are the PDSCH feedback information and the last N2 bits are the first feedback information; Or, At least one of the uplink resource, timing information, scrambling scheme, time-frequency domain offset and code division scheme respectively used by the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information indicates that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information, the feedback information on the uplink resource 1 is the first feedback information, and the feedback information on the uplink resource 2 is the PDSCH feedback information; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are coded independently and arranged according to a preset rule, and the network side device may determine that the corresponding feedback information is the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information according to the arrangement order, for example, the first feedback information occupies the first M3 bits and the PDSCH feedback information occupies the last M4 bits; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are jointly coded, where the decoding result of the joint coding can indicate the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information contained in the second target feedback information. For example, the second target feedback information is M5 bits, and M5 is equal to 2. According to a preset coding rule, the decoding result is “01” indicates that the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both ACK, and the decoding result is “10” indicates that the first feedback information is ACK and the PDSCH feedback information is NACK, and is not listed one by one here.

[0099] In one optional embodiment, the sending of first feedback information to the network side device includes: Transmitting the first feedback information using current beam information (which may also be referred to as original beam information, or beam information used for channel or reference signal transmission between the network device and the terminal before transmitting the first DCI) until the common beam information is available; Or, the method includes transmitting the first feedback information using the common beam information.

[0100] It should be noted that "the common beam information becomes available" may also be referred to as the common beam information being enabled, where the enablement time of the common beam information is: if the first feedback information is an acknowledgment (ACK), after a first preset time period from the transmission time of the first feedback information; or after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, when the first DCI is further used to schedule the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH.

[0101] As another optional embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PDSCH, if the terminal does not transmit feedback information, or the terminal transmits negative acknowledgement feedback information, or the terminal transmits feedback information (ACK or NACK) but the network side device does not receive it, the method includes: re-receiving a first DCI indicating at least one common beam information; Or, The method further includes re-receiving the PDSCH and the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information until the feedback information of the PDSCH is not transmitted or the number of times that the feedback information of the negative acknowledgement of the PDSCH is transmitted reaches a first preset number. That is, the PDSCH is re-received and the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information is re-received until the feedback information of the PDSCH is not transmitted or the number of times that the feedback information of the negative acknowledgement of the PDSCH is transmitted reaches a first preset number. It should be noted that this method is generally used in a scenario where the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are jointly indicated in the first target feedback information, that is, the network cannot distinguish whether the received negative acknowledgement is for the first DCI or for the PDSCH, so the feedback information transmitted from the terminal at this time is the first target feedback information.

[0102] For example, when the first DCI is lost and the network still transmits a PDSCH using common beam information indicated by the first DCI, and the terminal does not receive the first DCI and the PDSCH and does not feed back a HARQ-ACK, the terminal receives the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information retransmitted by the network.

[0103] Further, for example, when an error occurs in the first DCI decoding and the network still transmits a PDSCH using common beam information indicated by the first DCI, the terminal does not receive the PDSCH, and the terminal feeds back or does not feed back a NACK, the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network, or the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network after the retransmission of the PDSCH reaches a certain number of times.

[0104] Also, for example, when the first DCI is correctly received by the terminal, the network transmits a PDSCH using the indicated common beam information, the terminal receives the PDSCH, and if the terminal feeds back an ACK or NACK but the network does not receive it, the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network, or the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted after the retransmission of the PDSCH by the network reaches a specific number of times and either is a NACK or no feedback is received, and if the terminal feeds back a NACK and the network receives it, the terminal receives the PDSCH retransmitted by the network, or the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network, or the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network, or the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted after the retransmission of the PDSCH by the network reaches a preset number of times and either is a NACK or no feedback is received.

[0105] As a further alternative embodiment, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PUSCH, the method further comprises: The method further includes re-receiving the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information when the terminal does not correctly receive the first DCI, or when the terminal does not transmit the first feedback information in the uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located, or when the terminal transmits the first feedback information in a negative acknowledgement.

[0106] For example, if the first DCI is lost or an error occurs in decoding the first DCI, the terminal does not transmit a PUSCH, and the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network.

[0107] Further, for example, when the first DCI decoding is correct, the terminal transmits a PUSCH, and when the network does not receive the PUSCH correctly, the terminal receives the first DCI retransmitted by the network, and when the network receives the PUSCH correctly, the terminal may perform a subsequent DCI to reschedule the PUSCH, and the terminal determines the activation time of the common beam information indicated by the first DCI based on the HARQ process number. Before the common beam information is activated, the terminal uses the original beam information (i.e., the beam information used for channel or reference signal transmission between the network device and the terminal before transmitting the first DCI).

[0108] To summarize, in the embodiments of the present application, common beam information of channels and / or reference signals is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance.

[0109] It should be mentioned that in the beam directing method according to the embodiment of the present application, the execution body may be a beam directing device or a control module for executing the beam directing method in the beam directing device. In the embodiment of the present application, the beam directing device according to the embodiment of the present application is taken as an example to execute the beam directing method.

[0110] As shown in FIG. 4, an embodiment of the present application further provides a beam directing device 400 for use in a network side device, the device comprising: The transmitting module 401 is for transmitting a first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0111] As one optional embodiment of the present application, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is: A first class of control resource set; The control resource set may be applied to any one of a first type of control resource set and a channel or a reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set.

[0112] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the channel or reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set is: A channel or reference signal scheduled by the DCI on a first type of control resource set; and a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by the DCI on the first type of control resource set.

[0113] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first type of control resource set.

[0114] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the transmitting module comprises: a first transmitting submodule for transmitting a downlink control channel including the first DCI on a second type of control resource set; Here, the beam information of the second type of control resource set is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI, or the target beam information, which is beam information of a second type of control resource set and a channel or reference signal related to the second type of control resource set, is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI.

[0115] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: determining the common beam information from a plurality of beam information configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling; Or, the third MAC CE further includes an information determining module for determining the common beam information from a plurality of beam information activated by the third MAC CE.

[0116] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the transmitting module comprises: A second transmitting submodule for transmitting a first DCI if the number of the at least one common beam information satisfies a first condition, and otherwise transmitting a first MAC CE.

[0117] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: The terminal further includes a first feedback receiving module for receiving first feedback information transmitted from the terminal for indicating whether the terminal has correctly received the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0118] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: Further comprising a first resource determining module for determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on a first manner, where the first manner includes: determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on an uplink resource of the first feedback information indicated in a first DCI or a first MAC CE; According to an association relationship between a downlink resource where a first DCI or a first MAC CE is located and an uplink resource where a first DCI or a first MAC CE is located, determining that an uplink resource associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located is an uplink resource of the first feedback information; and determining, based on a transmission time of a first DCI or a first MAC CE and a predetermined timing relationship, that an uplink resource in which the transmission time of the first DCI or the first MAC CE satisfies the predetermined timing relationship is the uplink resource of the first feedback information.

[0119] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the device: Further comprising a second feedback receiving module for receiving feedback information of the PDSCH; Here, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are jointly indicated in first target feedback information, or the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are respectively indicated in second target feedback information.

[0120] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), The uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located is: A PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; A PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI using the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; a first available uplink resource after a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

[0121] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: a first processing module for using the common beam information when the first feedback information is an acknowledgment, after a first preset time length from the transmission time of the first feedback information, a channel or a reference signal corresponding to the common beam information; When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, after a second predetermined time length from the transmission time of the second DCI, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information further includes at least one of a second processing module for using the common beam information, and the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number.

[0122] As one optional embodiment of the present application, when a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI is before the common beam information is available, the device: The third DCI further includes a first transmission module for transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the third DCI using first default beam information, where the first default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a channel or a transmission time of a reference signal scheduled by the third DCI; or Contains beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID.

[0123] As one optional embodiment of the present application, when a transmission time of a fourth DCI is before the common beam information becomes available, and a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI is after the common beam information becomes available, the device: Further comprising a second transmission module for transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI using second default beam information, where the second default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a transmission time of the fourth DCI; beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID; and common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0124] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: If the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or a reference signal using the common beam information; Or, the device further includes a third transmission module for retransmitting a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when the first feedback information is a negative response.

[0125] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: The network side equipment further includes a fourth transmission module for retransmitting the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when the network side equipment has not received feedback information of the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0126] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are indicated to cooperate with each other in the first target feedback information, If the first target feedback information is a positive response, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are both positive responses; Or, If the first target feedback information is a negative acknowledgement, at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0127] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are respectively indicated in the second target feedback information, The second target feedback information further includes first indication information for indicating that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information; Or, The second target feedback information further includes second indication information for indicating an arrangement order or position information of the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH in the second target feedback information; Or, At least one of uplink resources, timing information, scrambling scheme, time-frequency domain offset, and code division scheme used by the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information respectively indicates that the second target feedback information is included in the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are independently coded and arranged according to a predetermined rule; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are jointly coded, and a decoding result of the joint coding can indicate the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information included in the second target feedback information.

[0128] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the first feedback receiving module comprises: receiving first feedback information transmitted by a terminal using current beam information until the common beam information is available; Or, it includes a first feedback receiving submodule for receiving first feedback information transmitted by the terminal using the common beam information.

[0129] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PDSCH, the device comprises: retransmitting a first DCI indicating at least one common beam information; Or, the present invention further includes a fifth transmission module for retransmitting the PDSCH and retransmitting the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information until the PDSCH feedback information is no longer received or the number of times that the PDSCH negative acknowledgement feedback information is received reaches a first preset number.

[0130] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PUSCH, the device comprises: The wireless communication device further includes a sixth transmission module for retransmitting the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information when a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI is not received, or the first feedback information is not received in the uplink resource where the first feedback information is located, or a negative acknowledgement first feedback information is received.

[0131] In an embodiment of the present application, common beam information of a channel and / or reference signal is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance.

[0132] It should be clarified that when a beam directing device according to an embodiment of the present application is a device capable of performing the above beam directing method, all the embodiments of the above beam directing method can be applied to this device, and all can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

[0133] As shown in FIG. 5 , an embodiment of the present application further provides a beam directing device 500 for use in a terminal, The receiving module 501 is for receiving a first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0134] As one optional embodiment of the present application, the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is: A first class of control resource set; The control resource set may be applied to any one of a first type of control resource set and a channel or a reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set.

[0135] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the channel or reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set is: A channel or reference signal scheduled by the DCI on a first type of control resource set; and a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by the DCI on the first type of control resource set.

[0136] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first type of control resource set.

[0137] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the receiving module comprises: According to an indication of a second MAC CE or a DCI preceding the first DCI, determine beam information of a second type of control resource set, or determine target beam information, which is beam information of a second type of control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the second type of control resource set; and receiving a downlink control channel including the first DCI on the second type of control resource set.

[0138] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: The terminal further includes a first feedback sending module for sending first feedback information to a network side device for indicating whether the terminal has correctly received the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0139] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: Further comprising: a second resource determining module for determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on a first manner, where the first manner includes: determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on an uplink resource of the first feedback information indicated in a first DCI or a first MAC CE; According to an association relationship between a downlink resource where a first DCI or a first MAC CE is located and an uplink resource where a first DCI or a first MAC CE is located, determining that an uplink resource associated with the downlink resource where the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located is an uplink resource of the first feedback information; and determining, based on a transmission time of a first DCI or a first MAC CE and a predetermined timing relationship, that an uplink resource in which the transmission time of the first DCI or the first MAC CE satisfies the predetermined timing relationship is the uplink resource of the first feedback information.

[0140] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the device: Further comprising a second feedback transmitting module for transmitting feedback information of the PDSCH; Here, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are jointly indicated in first target feedback information, or the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are respectively indicated in second target feedback information.

[0141] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), The uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located is: A PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; A PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI using the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; a first available uplink resource after a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

[0142] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: a third processing module for using the common beam information when the first feedback information is an acknowledgment, after a first preset time length from the transmission time of the first feedback information, a channel or a reference signal corresponding to the common beam information; When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), after a second predetermined time length from the transmission time of the second DCI, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information further includes at least one of a fourth processing module for using the common beam information, and the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number.

[0143] As one optional embodiment of the present application, when a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI is before the common beam information is available, the device: Further comprising a tenth transmission module for transmitting a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI using first default beam information, where the first default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a channel or a transmission time of a reference signal scheduled by the third DCI; or Contains beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID.

[0144] As one optional embodiment of the present application, when a transmission time of a fourth DCI is before the common beam information becomes available, and a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI is after the common beam information becomes available, the device: An eleventh transmission module is configured to transmit a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI using second default beam information, where the second default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a transmission time of the fourth DCI; beam information of the control resource set with the smallest ID; and common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

[0145] In one alternative embodiment of the present application, the device comprises: When the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or reference signal using the common beam information, or re-receiving a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information; Or, the device further includes a twelfth transmitting module for re-receiving a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when the first feedback information is a negative response.

[0146] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are indicated to cooperate with each other in the first target feedback information, If the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are both positive acknowledgements, the first target feedback information is a positive acknowledgement; Or, If at least one of the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information is a negative acknowledgement, the first target feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

[0147] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are respectively indicated in the second target feedback information, The second target feedback information further includes first indication information for indicating that the second target feedback information includes the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information; Or, The second target feedback information further includes second indication information for indicating an arrangement order or position information of the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH in the second target feedback information; Or, At least one of uplink resources, timing information, scrambling scheme, time-frequency domain offset, and code division scheme used by the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information respectively indicates that the second target feedback information is included in the first feedback information or the PDSCH feedback information; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are independently coded and arranged according to a predetermined rule; Or, In the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information are jointly coded, and a decoding result of the joint coding can indicate the first feedback information and the PDSCH feedback information included in the second target feedback information.

[0148] As an optional embodiment of the present application, the first feedback sending module comprises: transmitting the first feedback information using current beam information until the common beam information is available; Or, it includes a first feedback transmitting sub-module for transmitting the first feedback information using the common beam information.

[0149] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PDSCH, the device comprises: re-receiving a first DCI indicating at least one common beam information; Or, the wireless communication device further includes a fourteenth transmission module for re-receiving the PDSCH and the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information until the PDSCH feedback information is no longer transmitted or the number of times the PDSCH negative acknowledgement feedback information has been transmitted reaches a first preset number.

[0150] As an optional embodiment of the present application, when the first DCI is further used to schedule a PUSCH, the device comprises: The terminal further includes a fifteenth transmission module for re-receiving the first DCI indicating at least one common beam information when the terminal does not correctly receive the first DCI, or when the terminal does not transmit the first feedback information in the uplink resource where the first feedback information is located, or when the terminal transmits the first feedback information in a negative acknowledgement.

[0151] In an embodiment of the present application, common beam information of a channel and / or reference signal is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance.

[0152] It should be clarified that when a beam directing device according to an embodiment of the present application is a device capable of performing the above beam directing method, all the embodiments of the above beam directing method can be applied to this device, and all can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

[0153] The beam directing device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, integrated circuit, or chip in a terminal. The device may be a mobile electronic device or a non-mobile electronic device. For example, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, an in-vehicle electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook, or a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a network attached storage (NAS), a personal computer (PC), a television (TV), a deposit machine, or a self-service machine, and the embodiment of the present application is not specifically limited.

[0154] The beam directing device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system, which may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiment of the present application is not specifically limited.

[0155] The beam directing device according to the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the embodiment of the method of FIG. 2 or FIG. 3, and will not be further described here to avoid repetition.

[0156] Optionally, as shown in Fig. 6, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 600, including a processor 601, a memory 602, and a program or instruction stored in the memory 602 and operable on the processor 601, for example, when the communication device 600 is a terminal, the program or instruction is executed by the processor 601 to realize each process of the embodiment of the beam pointing method, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 600 is a network side device, the program or instruction is executed by the processor 601 to realize each process of the embodiment of the beam pointing method, and the same technical effect can be achieved. In order to avoid repetition, no further description will be given here.

[0157] FIG. 7 is a hardware structural schematic diagram of a terminal implementing an embodiment of the present application.

[0158] The terminal 700 includes components such as, but not limited to, a radio frequency unit 701, a network module 702, an audio output unit 703, an input unit 704, a sensor 705, a display unit 706, a user input unit 707, an interface unit 708, a memory 709, and a processor 710.

[0159] As can be understood by those skilled in the art, the terminal 700 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering each component, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 710 by a power management system, so that the power management system can realize functions such as charge / discharge management and power consumption management. The terminal structure shown in Figure 7 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal, and the terminal may include more or less components than the number of components shown, or a combination of some components, or a different arrangement of components, and will not be further described here.

[0160] It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 704 may include a graphics processor (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 7041 and a microphone 7042, and the graphics processor 7041 processes image data of still or video images obtained by an image capture device (e.g., a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 706 may include a display panel 7061, and the display panel 7061 may be arranged in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 707 includes a touch panel 7071 and other input devices 7072. The touch panel 7071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 7071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 7072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a control lever, which will not be described further herein.

[0161] In the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 701 receives downlink data from the network side device, and then has the processor 710 process the data, and transmits uplink data to the network side device. In general, the radio frequency unit 701 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0162] The memory 709 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 709 may mainly include a program or instruction storage area and a data storage area, where the program or instruction storage area can store an operating system, an application program or instruction required for at least one function (e.g., a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.), etc. The memory 709 may include a high-speed random access memory or a non-volatile memory, where the non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or a flash memory. For example, the memory 709 may be at least one magnetic disk memory device, a flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid-state memory device.

[0163] The processor 710 may include one or more processing units. Optionally, the processor 710 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, where the application processor mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, and application programs or instructions, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication, such as a baseband processor. As can be understood, the modem processor does not have to be integrated into the processor 710.

[0164] Wherein, the radio frequency unit 701 is used for receiving first downlink control information DCI or a first media access control layer control unit MAC CE for indicating at least one common beam information; Here, the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal.

[0165] In an embodiment of the present application, common beam information of a channel and / or reference signal is indicated by DCI or MAC CE, thereby reducing the signaling overhead of beam indication, and providing a feedback mechanism and activation time scheme for the common beam information, thereby ensuring the robustness of the beam indication method and the consistency of the understanding of beam activation between the network and the terminal, thereby improving system performance.

[0166] It should be noted that when a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application is a terminal capable of executing the above beam pointing method, all embodiments of the above beam pointing method can be applied to this terminal, and all can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

[0167] Specifically, an embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device. As shown in Fig. 8, the network side device 800 includes an antenna 81, a radio frequency device 82, and a baseband device 83. The antenna 81 and the radio frequency device 82 are connected. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 82 receives information through the antenna 81, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 83 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 83 processes the information to be transmitted and transmits it to the radio frequency device 82, and the radio frequency device 82 processes the received information and then sends it out through the antenna 81.

[0168] The above frequency band processing device may be located in a baseband device 83, and the method performed by the network side equipment in the above embodiments may be implemented in the baseband device 83, which includes a processor 84 and a memory 85.

[0169] The baseband device 83 may, for example, include at least one baseband board, on which multiple chips are installed, and as shown in FIG. 8, one of the chips is, for example, a processor 84, which is connected to a memory 85, and calls the program in the memory 85 to perform the network equipment operations shown in the above method embodiments.

[0170] The baseband device 83 may further include a network interface 86, which is used to exchange information with the radio frequency device 82, and which is, for example, a common public radio interface (abbreviated as CPRI).

[0171] Specifically, the network side equipment of the embodiment of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored in memory 85 and capable of running on processor 84, and processor 84 can call the instructions or programs in memory 85 to execute the method performed by each module shown in FIG. 8 and achieve the same technical effect, which will not be described further here in order to avoid repetition of description.

[0172] The embodiments of the present application further provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instruction is stored, and when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, each process of the above-mentioned beam directing method embodiment can be realized and the same technical effect can be achieved. In order to avoid repetition, no further description will be given here.

[0173] Here, the processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

[0174] The embodiments of the present application further provide a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run a program or instruction, so as to realize each process of the above beam pointing method embodiments and achieve the same technical effect. In order to avoid repetition, no further description will be given here.

[0175] It should be understood that the chips referred to in the embodiments of the present application may be referred to as system level chips, system chips, chip systems, or systems on chips.

[0176] It should be explained that in this specification, the terms "comprise", "include", or any other variants thereof are intended to cover the non-exclusive "comprise", whereby a process, method, article, or apparatus that includes a set of elements includes not only those elements, but also other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. In the absence of further limitations, an element limited by the phrase "comprises a" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that includes this element. It should be pointed out that the scope of the method and apparatus in the embodiments of this application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but may include performing functions in an essentially simultaneous manner or in reverse order based on the functions involved, for example, the described method can be performed in a different order than described, and various steps can be added, omitted, or combined. Also, features described with reference to some examples can be combined in other examples.

[0177] From the above description of the embodiments, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the methods of the above embodiments can be realized in the form of software and a necessary general-purpose hardware platform. Of course, they can also be realized in hardware, but in many cases the former is a more preferred embodiment. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be substantially or in part embodied in the form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes some instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0178] It should be understood that the division of each module of the above device is merely a division of logical functions, and when actually realized, all or part of them may be integrated into one physical entity or physically separated. These modules may all be realized in a form in which software is called by a processing element, or all may be realized in a form of hardware, or some modules may be realized in a form in which a processing element calls software, and some modules may be realized in a form of hardware. For example, the receiving module may be a processing element provided separately, or may be integrated into a chip of the above device, or may be stored in the memory of the above device in the form of program code and called by a processing element of the above device to perform the functions of the above receiving module. The implementation of other modules is similar. It should be noted that all or part of these modules may be integrated or independently implemented. The processing element described herein may be an integrated circuit having a signal processing capability. In the implementation process, each step of the above method or each of the above modules may be completed by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in a processor element or by instructions in the form of software.

[0179] For example, each module, unit, sub-unit, or sub-module may be configured as one or more integrated circuits implementing the above method, such as one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), one or more microprocessors (DSPs), or one or more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). For example, when a certain module is implemented in a form in which a processing element schedules a program code, the processing element may be a general-purpose processor, such as a central processing unit (CPU) or other processor capable of calling a program code. For example, these modules may be integrated and implemented in the form of a system-on-a-chip (SOC).

[0180] The above describes the embodiments of the present application in conjunction with the drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments. The above specific embodiments are merely illustrative and not limiting. Those skilled in the art can take the suggestions of this application and make many forms without departing from the spirit and scope of protection of the claims, all of which belong to the protection scope of this application.

[0181] As mentioned above, the above are merely specific embodiments of the present application, and the scope of protection of the present application is not limited thereto, and any changes or replacements that can be easily conceived by any person skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in the present application should be included in the scope of protection of the present application, and therefore the scope of protection of the present application should be equivalent to the scope of protection of the claims.

Claims

1. A beam instruction method executed by a network side device, comprising: transmitting a first downlink control information (DCI) or a first media access control layer control unit (MAC CE) for indicating at least one common beam information; A beam directing method, wherein the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels.

2. The common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is A first class of control resource set; The method of claim 1 , applied to one of a first class of control resource sets and a channel or a reference signal associated with the first class of control resource sets.

3. The channel or reference signal associated with the first type of control resource set is: A channel or reference signal scheduled by the DCI on a first type of control resource set; a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by the DCI on a first type of control resource set; Or, The method of claim 2 , wherein the control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first class of control resource sets.

4. The transmitting of the first downlink control information DCI includes: transmitting a downlink control channel including the first DCI on a second type of control resource set; The method of claim 1, wherein the beam information of the second type of control resource set is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI, or the target beam information, which is the beam information of the second type of control resource set and a channel or reference signal related to the second type of control resource set, is indicated by a second MAC CE or one DCI before the first DCI.

5. Before transmitting the first downlink control information DCI or the first media access control layer control unit MAC CE, the method further comprises: determining the common beam information from a plurality of beam information configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling; Or, The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining the common beam information from a plurality of beam information activated by a third MAC CE.

6. Transmitting the first downlink control information DCI or the first media access control layer control unit MAC CE comprises:

2. The method of claim 1, comprising: transmitting a first DCI if the number of the at least one common beam information satisfies a first condition; and transmitting a first MAC CE otherwise.

7. After transmitting the first downlink control information DCI or the first media access control layer control unit MAC CE, the method includes:

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving first feedback information, sent from a terminal, to indicate whether the terminal successfully received the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

8. The method further includes determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on a first manner, where the first manner includes: The method of claim 7, comprising: determining an uplink resource of the first feedback information based on an uplink resource of the first feedback information indicated in a first DCI or a first MAC CE.

9. When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method further comprises: receiving feedback information on a PDSCH; Here, the first feedback information and the feedback information of the PDSCH are indicated to be coordinated in first target feedback information; Or, When the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), The uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located is: A PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; A PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI using the same HARQ process number as the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after a PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; and a first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

10. When the first feedback information is an acknowledgment, after a first preset time length from the transmission time of the first feedback information, a channel or a reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information; The method of claim 7, further comprising at least one of: when the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), after a second predetermined length of time from the transmission time of the second DCI, a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information uses the common beam information, and the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number.

11. When a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI is before the common beam information is available, the method includes: The method further includes using first default beam information to transmit a channel or a reference signal scheduled by a third DCI, where the first default beam information is: Including beam information of a control resource set having a smallest ID, Or, In a case where a transmission time of a fourth DCI is before the common beam information becomes available, and a transmission time of a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI is after the common beam information becomes available, the method includes: The method further includes using second default beam information to transmit a channel or a reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI, where the second default beam information is: Beam information corresponding to a transmission time of the fourth DCI; and Beam information of a control resource set having a smallest ID; and common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

12. If the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or reference signal using the common beam information; Or, 8. The method of claim 7, further comprising: retransmitting a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information if the first feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

13. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: retransmitting a first DCI or a first MAC CE indicating at least one common beam information when a network side device has not received feedback information of the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

14. The receiving of the first feedback information transmitted from the terminal includes: receiving first feedback information transmitted by a terminal using current beam information until the common beam information is available; Or, The method of claim 7 , comprising receiving first feedback information transmitted by a terminal using the common beam information.

15. A network side equipment comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, the program or instructions implementing the steps of the beam pointing method according to any one of claims 1 to 14 when executed by the processor.

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