Processing method, communication device, and storage medium

Abstract

Disclosed in the present application are a processing method, a communication device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal device determining the size of a precoding resource block group (PRG) on the basis of first information. By means of the technical solution in the present application, the size of a PRG under dynamic scheduling can be determined, such that the PRG is available under dynamic scheduling when being set to wideband precoding.

Description

Processing methods, communication equipment and storage media Technical Field

[0001] This application relates to the field of communication technology, specifically to a processing method, communication device, and storage medium. Background Technology

[0002] In existing protocols, wideband precoding can be configured semi-statically or dynamically. For dynamic indication, where the higher-layer parameter `prb-BundlingType` is set to "dynamicBundling", the network device configures two sets of PRG (Precoding Resource Block Group) values. The first set is configured with one or both values ​​from {2, 4, wideband}, and the second set is configured with one value from {2, 4, wideband}. The choice of which PRG set to use is determined by the value of the Physical Resource Block (PRB) bundling size indicator in the DCI (Downlink Control Information). When the PRB bundling size indicator in the DCI indicates "1" and the first set is configured with either "n4-wideband" or "n2-wideband", the condition for determining whether the PRG is set to wideband or narrowband precoding depends on whether the number of scheduled PRBs is half the size of the BWP (Bandwidth Part).

[0003] In the process of conceiving and implementing this application, the inventors discovered at least the following problems:

[0004] When a terminal device is scheduled to use PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) in one of the downlink subbands (DL subband), the number of PRBs scheduled in that downlink subband may always be less than half the size of the BWP. For example, when the bandwidth of one downlink subband in SBFD (Subband Full-Duplex) is less than half the size of the downlink BWP, the number of PRBs scheduled in that downlink subband will always be less than half the size of the BWP. This will cause the PRG to be unavailable under dynamic scheduling when set as wideband precoding.

[0005] The preceding description is intended to provide general background information and does not necessarily constitute prior art. Technical solutions

[0006] The main objective of this application is to provide a processing method, communication device, and storage medium, which aims to determine the size of the PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0007] This application provides a processing method applicable to terminal devices (such as mobile phones), comprising the following steps:

[0008] S2: Determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0009] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0010] The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling;

[0011] The first information includes at least one of the following:

[0012] Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled;

[0013] Physical resource block bundle size indicator;

[0014] Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

[0015] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0016] The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups;

[0017] The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0018] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0019] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0020] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0021] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0022] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0023] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located;

[0024] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0025] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device;

[0026] The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0027] The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0028] The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0029] The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0030] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0031] The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0032] The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0033] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0034] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0035] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0036] The first parameter is the ratio value;

[0037] The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous;

[0038] The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information;

[0039] The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel;

[0040] The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain;

[0041] The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0042] The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

[0043] This application also provides a processing method applicable to network devices (such as base stations), comprising the following steps:

[0044] S1: Send first information to enable the terminal device to determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0045] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0046] The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling;

[0047] The first information includes at least one of the following:

[0048] Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled;

[0049] Physical resource block bundle size indicator;

[0050] Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

[0051] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0052] The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups;

[0053] The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0054] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0055] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0056] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0057] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0058] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0059] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located;

[0060] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0061] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device;

[0062] The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0063] The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0064] The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0065] The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0066] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0067] The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0068] The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0069] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0070] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0071] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following:

[0072] The first parameter is the ratio value;

[0073] The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous;

[0074] The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information;

[0075] The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel;

[0076] The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain;

[0077] The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0078] The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

[0079] This application also provides a processing apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

[0080] The determination module is used to determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0081] This application also provides a processing apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

[0082] The sending module is used to send first information so that the terminal device can determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0083] This application also provides a communication device, including: a memory, a processor, and a processing program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the processing program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of any of the processing methods described above.

[0084] The communication equipment mentioned in this application may be a terminal device (such as a mobile phone) or a network device (such as a base station). The specific meaning needs to be clarified in the context.

[0085] This application also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a processing program, which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of any of the processing methods described above.

[0086] In the technical solution of this application, the terminal device determines the size of the precoding resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoding resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling. Attached Figure Description

[0087] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and form part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with this application and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of this application. To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of this application, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings based on these drawings without any creative effort.

[0088] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of this application;

[0089] Figure 2 is a communication network system architecture diagram provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0090] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a controller 140 provided in this application;

[0091] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a network node 150 provided in this application;

[0092] Figure 5 is a flowchart illustrating the processing method of the first embodiment of this application;

[0093] Figure 6 is a schematic diagram showing the distribution of the uplink subband, downlink subband, and broadband portion of the processing method illustrated in the third embodiment of this application;

[0094] Figure 7 is a schematic diagram showing the distribution of the uplink subband, downlink subband, and broadband portion of the processing method illustrated in the fourth embodiment of this application;

[0095] Figure 8 is a flowchart illustrating the processing method of the fifth embodiment of this application;

[0096] Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of the interaction process between the network device and the terminal device in the processing method shown in the sixth embodiment of this application;

[0097] Figure 10 is a schematic diagram of the processing device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0098] Figure 11 is a second schematic diagram of the processing device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0099] Figure 12 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the communication device provided in the embodiment of this application.

[0100] The realization of the objectives, functional features, and advantages of this application will be further explained in conjunction with the embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings have illustrated specific embodiments of this application, which will be described in more detail below. These drawings and textual descriptions are not intended to limit the scope of the concept in any way, but rather to illustrate the concepts of this application to those skilled in the art through reference to specific embodiments.

[0101] Implementation methods of this application

[0102] Exemplary embodiments will now be described in detail, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description relates to the drawings, unless otherwise indicated, the same numbers in different drawings denote the same or similar elements. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with this application. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatuses and methods consistent with some aspects of this application as detailed in the appended claims.

[0103] It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprising," "including," or any other variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent to such a process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one..." does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that includes that element, and / or, components, features, and elements with the same names in different embodiments of this application may have the same meaning or different meanings, the specific meaning of which must be determined by its interpretation in that specific embodiment or further in conjunction with the context of that specific embodiment.

[0104] It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc., may be used herein to describe various information, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish information of the same type from one another. For example, without departing from the scope of this document, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information. Depending on the context, the word "if," as used herein, may be interpreted as "when," "when," or "in response to determination." Furthermore, as used herein, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to also include the plural forms unless the context indicates otherwise. It should be further understood that the terms "comprising," "including," indicate the presence of the stated feature, step, operation, element, component, item, kind, and / or group, but do not exclude the presence, occurrence, or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, elements, components, items, kinds, and / or groups. The terms "or," "and / or," "including at least one of the following," etc., as used in this application, may be interpreted as inclusive, or mean any one or any combination thereof. For example, "including at least one of the following: A, B, C" means "any one of the following: A; B; C; A and B; A and C; B and C; A and B and C." Similarly, "A, B, or C" or "A, B, and / or C" means "any one of the following: A; B; C; A and B; A and C; B and C; A and B and C." Exceptions to this definition only occur when the combination of elements, functions, steps, or operations is inherently mutually exclusive in some way.

[0105] It should be understood that although the steps in the flowcharts of this application's embodiments are shown sequentially according to the arrows, these steps are not necessarily executed in the order indicated by the arrows. Unless explicitly stated herein, there is no strict order restriction on the execution of these steps, and they can be executed in other orders. Moreover, at least some of the steps in the figures may include multiple sub-steps or multiple stages. These sub-steps or stages are not necessarily completed at the same time, but can be executed at different times, and their execution order is not necessarily sequential, but can be performed alternately or in turn with other steps or at least a portion of the sub-steps or stages of other steps.

[0106] Depending on the context, the words “if” or “suppose” as used here can be interpreted as “when” or “in response to determination” or “in response to detection.” Similarly, depending on the context, the phrases “if determination” or “if detection (of the stated condition or event)” can be interpreted as “when determination” or “in response to determination” or “when detection (of the stated condition or event)” or “in response to detection (of the stated condition or event).”

[0107] It should be noted that step designations such as S1 and S2 are used in this document for the purpose of more clearly and concisely describing the corresponding content, and do not constitute a substantial limitation on the order. In specific implementation, those skilled in the art may execute S2 first and then S1, etc., but these should all be within the protection scope of this application.

[0108] It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of this application and are not intended to limit this application.

[0109] In the following description, the use of suffixes such as "module," "part," or "unit" to denote elements is solely for the purpose of illustrative purposes and has no specific meaning in itself. Therefore, "module," "part," or "unit" may be used interchangeably.

[0110] The communication equipment mentioned in this application may be a terminal device (such as a mobile phone) or a network device (such as a base station). The specific meaning needs to be clarified according to the context.

[0111] Terminal devices can be implemented in various forms. For example, the terminal devices described in this application may include smart terminal devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, handheld computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable media players (PMPs), navigation devices, wearable devices, smart bracelets, pedometers, etc., as well as fixed terminal devices such as digital TVs and desktop computers.

[0112] The following description will use a mobile terminal as an example. Those skilled in the art will understand that, apart from elements specifically designed for mobile purposes, the construction according to the embodiments of this application can also be applied to fixed-type terminal devices.

[0113] Please refer to Figure 1, which is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of this application. The mobile terminal 100 may include: an RF (Radio Frequency) unit 101, a WiFi module 102, an audio output unit 103, an A / V (Audio / Video) input unit 104, a sensor 105, a display unit 106, a user input unit 107, an interface unit 108, a memory 109, a processor 110, and a power supply 111, etc. Those skilled in the art will understand that the mobile terminal structure shown in Figure 1 does not constitute a limitation on the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or combine certain components, or have different component arrangements.

[0114] The following section, with reference to Figure 1, provides a detailed description of each component of the mobile terminal:

[0115] The radio frequency unit 101 can be used for receiving and transmitting signals during information transmission or calls. Specifically, it receives downlink information from the base station and processes it with the processor 110; additionally, it transmits uplink data to the base station. Typically, the radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low-noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc. And / or, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate wirelessly with networks and other devices. The aforementioned wireless communications may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (Global System of Mobile communication), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access 2000), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division Duplexing-Long Term Evolution), TDD-LTE (Time Division Duplexing-Long Term Evolution), 5G, and 6G.

[0116] WiFi is a short-range wireless transmission technology. Mobile terminals using WiFi module 102 can help users send and receive emails, browse web pages, and access streaming media, providing wireless broadband internet access. Although Figure 1 shows WiFi module 102, it is understood that it is not an essential component of the mobile terminal and can be omitted as needed without altering the essence of the invention.

[0117] The audio output unit 103 can convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into audio signals and output them as sound when the mobile terminal 100 is in call signal receiving mode, call mode, recording mode, voice recognition mode, broadcast receiving mode, or other modes. Furthermore, the audio output unit 103 can also provide audio output related to specific functions performed by the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., call signal receiving sound, message receiving sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 may include a speaker, a buzzer, etc.

[0118] The A / V input unit 104 is used to receive audio or video signals. The A / V input unit 104 may include a graphics processing unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042. The GPU 1041 processes image data of still images or videos acquired by an image capture device (such as a camera) in video capture mode or image capture mode. The processed image frames can be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the GPU 1041 can be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102. The microphone 1042 can receive sound (audio data) in operating modes such as telephone call mode, recording mode, and voice recognition mode, and can process such sound into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data can be converted into a format that can be transmitted to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in telephone call mode. The microphone 1042 can implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to eliminate (or suppress) noise or interference generated during the reception and transmission of audio signals.

[0119] The mobile terminal 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Optionally, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor. Optionally, the ambient light sensor can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the ambient light level, and the proximity sensor can turn off the display panel 1061 and / or backlight when the mobile terminal 100 is moved to the ear. As a type of motion sensor, an accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in various directions (generally three axes), and can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary. It can be used for applications that recognize the phone's posture (such as landscape / portrait switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), etc. Other sensors that may be configured in the phone, such as fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, and infrared sensors, will not be described in detail here.

[0120] The display unit 106 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061, which may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), or the like.

[0121] User input unit 107 can be used to receive input numerical or character information, and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Optionally, user input unit 107 may include touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. Touch panel 1071, also known as touch screen, can collect touch operations on or near the user (such as operations performed by the user using a finger, stylus, or any suitable object or accessory on or near touch panel 1071), and drive corresponding connection devices according to a pre-set program. Touch panel 1071 may include two parts: touch detection device and touch controller. Optionally, touch detection device detects the user's touch position and the signal generated by the touch operation, and transmits the signal to touch controller; touch controller receives touch information from touch detection device, converts it into touch point coordinates, sends it to processor 110, and can receive and execute commands from processor 110. And / or, touch panel 1071 can be implemented using various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may also include other input devices 1072. Optionally, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control buttons, power buttons, etc.), trackball, mouse, joystick, etc., without being specifically limited here.

[0122] Optionally, the touch panel 1071 may cover the display panel 1061. When the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation on or near it, it transmits the information to the processor 110 to determine the type of touch event. Subsequently, the processor 110 provides corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of touch event. Although in FIG. 1, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are implemented as two independent components to realize the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 can be integrated to realize the input and output functions of the mobile terminal. The specific implementation is not limited here.

[0123] Interface unit 108 serves as an interface through which at least one external device can connect to mobile terminal 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device with an identification module, an audio input / output (I / O) port, a video I / O port, a headphone port, etc. Interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (e.g., data, power, etc.) from the external device and transmit the received input to one or more components within mobile terminal 100, or it may be used to transmit data between mobile terminal 100 and the external device.

[0124] The memory 109 can be used to store software programs and various data. The memory 109 may primarily include a program storage area and a data storage area. Optionally, the program storage area may store the operating system, applications required for at least one function (such as sound playback, image playback, etc.), etc.; the data storage area may store data created based on the use of the mobile phone (such as audio data, phonebook, etc.). And / or, the memory 109 may include high-speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid-state storage device.

[0125] The processor 110 is the control center of the mobile terminal. It connects various parts of the mobile terminal via various interfaces and lines. By running or executing software programs and / or modules stored in the memory 109, and by calling data stored in the memory 109, it performs various functions and processes data of the mobile terminal, thereby providing overall monitoring of the mobile terminal. The processor 110 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor. Optionally, the application processor mainly handles the operating system, user interface, and applications, while the modem processor mainly handles wireless communication. It is understood that the modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 110.

[0126] The mobile terminal 100 may also include a power supply 111 (such as a battery) that supplies power to various components. Preferably, the power supply 111 can be logically connected to the processor 110 through a power management system, thereby enabling functions such as charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system.

[0127] Although not shown in Figure 1, the mobile terminal 100 may also include a Bluetooth module, etc., which will not be described in detail here.

[0128] To facilitate understanding of the embodiments of this application, the communication network system on which the mobile terminal of this application is based is described below.

[0129] Please refer to Figure 2, which is a communication network system architecture diagram provided in an embodiment of this application. The communication network system is a New Radio (NR) system based on general mobile communication technology. The NR system includes a UE (User Equipment) 201, an E-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) 202, an EPC (Evolved Packet Core) 203, and the operator's IP services 204, which are connected in sequence.

[0130] Optionally, UE201 can be the aforementioned terminal device 100, which will not be described in detail here.

[0131] E-UTRAN202 includes eNodeB2021 and other eNodeB2022, etc. Optionally, eNodeB2021 can connect to other eNodeB2022 via backhaul (e.g., X2 interface), and eNodeB2021 connects to EPC203, providing access from UE201 to EPC203.

[0132] EPC203 may include MME (Mobility Management Entity) 2031, HSS (Home Subscriber Server) 2032, other MMEs 2033, SGW (Serving Gateway) 2034, PGW (Packet Data Network Gateway) 2035, and PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) 2036, etc. Optionally, MME2031 is the control node that handles signaling between UE201 and EPC203, providing bearer and connection management. HSS2032 is used to provide registers to manage functions such as the Home Location Register (not shown in the figure) and stores user-specific information such as service characteristics and data rates. All user data can be sent through SGW2034. PGW2035 can provide UE 201 IP address allocation and other functions. PCRF2036 is the policy and charging control decision point for service data flow and IP bearer resources. It selects and provides available policy and charging control decisions for the policy and charging enforcement function unit (not shown in the figure).

[0133] IP services 204 may include the Internet, intranet, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or other IP services.

[0134] Although the above description uses the LTE system as an example, those skilled in the art should know that this application is not only applicable to the LTE system, but also to other wireless communication systems, such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, 5G and future new network systems (such as 6G), etc., without limitation.

[0135] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a controller 140 provided in this application. The controller 140 includes a memory 1401 and a processor 1402. The memory 1401 is used to store program instructions, and the processor 1402 is used to call the program instructions in the memory 1401 to execute the steps performed by the controller in the first embodiment of the above method. The implementation principle and beneficial effects are similar, and will not be described again here.

[0136] Optionally, the controller further includes a communication interface 1403, which can be connected to the processor 1402 via a bus 1404. The processor 1402 can control the communication interface 1403 to implement the receiving and sending functions of the controller 140.

[0137] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a network node 150 provided in this application. The network node 150 includes a memory 1501 and a processor 1502. The memory 1501 is used to store program instructions, and the processor 1502 is used to call the program instructions in the memory 1501 to execute the steps performed by the first node in the above method embodiment. The implementation principle and beneficial effects are similar, and will not be described again here.

[0138] Optionally, the controller further includes a communication interface 1503, which can be connected to the processor 1502 via a bus 1504. The processor 1502 can control the communication interface 1503 to implement the receiving and sending functions of the network node 150.

[0139] The integrated modules described above, implemented as software functional modules, can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. These software functional modules, stored in a storage medium, include several instructions to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) or processor to execute some steps of the methods of the various embodiments of this application.

[0140] In the above embodiments, implementation can be achieved, in whole or in part, through software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, it can be implemented, in whole or in part, as a computer program product. A computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the flow or function according to the embodiments of this application is generated. The computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions can be stored in a storage medium or transmitted from one storage medium to another. For example, computer instructions can be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means. The storage medium can be any available medium that a computer can access or a data storage device such as a server or data center that integrates one or more available media. The available medium can be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., solid-state disk, SSD), etc.

[0141] Based on the above-described mobile terminal hardware structure and communication network system, various embodiments of this application are proposed.

[0142] Technical terms used in this application:

[0143] PDSCH: Physical Downlink Shared Channel;

[0144] PDCCH: Physical Downlink Control Channel;

[0145] PRG: Precoding Resource Block Group;

[0146] PRB: Physical Resource Block;

[0147] SBFD: Subband Full-Duplex;

[0148] wideband precoding;

[0149] DL: Down Link;

[0150] BWP: Bandwidth Part;

[0151] DCI: Downlink Control Information;

[0152] RB: Resource Block;

[0153] DMRS: Demodulation Reference Signal;

[0154] CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check;

[0155] FDRA: Frequency Domain Resource Assignment.

[0156] First Embodiment

[0157] Referring to Figure 5, which is a flowchart illustrating the processing method of the first embodiment of this application, the processing method of this embodiment can be applied to a terminal device (such as a mobile phone) and includes the following steps:

[0158] S2: The terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0159] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0160] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0161] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0162] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0163] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0164] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0165] Optionally, the higher-level signaling includes higher-level parameters, where the higher-level parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling.

[0166] Optionally, the downlink control information includes DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3.

[0167] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundling size indicator (PRB), and configuration information of precoded resource block groups.

[0168] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0169] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0170] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0171] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0172] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0173] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0174] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0175] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0176] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0177] Optionally, the second group P BWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0178] Optionally, P BWP The value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0179] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0180] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0181] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0182] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the first set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0183] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device will use these two P values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI: BWP value.

[0184] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0185] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0186] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0187] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0188] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located.

[0189] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0190] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device.

[0191] Optionally, the first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0192] Optionally, the first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0193] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband.

[0194] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0195] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0196] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0197] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0198] Optionally, the frequency domain information of the downlink subband can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0199] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0200] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0201] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0202] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0203] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0204] Optionally, the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous.

[0205] Optionally, the bandwidth to be scheduled is indicated by downlink control information.

[0206] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0207] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0208] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0209] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0210] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0211] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0212] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the terminal device determines the size of the precoding resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoding resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0213] Second Embodiment

[0214] Based on the first embodiment of this application, a second embodiment of this application is proposed. This embodiment mainly describes a processing method that limits the first threshold by a second threshold.

[0215] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0216] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0217] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0218] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0219] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0220] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0221] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundle size indicator, and configuration information of precoded resource block group.

[0222] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0223] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0224] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0225] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0226] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0227] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0228] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0229] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0230] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0231] Optionally, the second group P BWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0232] Optionally, P BWP The value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0233] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0234] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0235] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0236] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the P value from the first set of PBWP values ​​when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP value.

[0237] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device will use these two P values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI: BWP value.

[0238] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0239] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0240] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0241] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0242] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located.

[0243] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0244] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device.

[0245] Optionally, the first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0246] Optionally, the first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0247] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband.

[0248] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0249] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0250] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0251] Optionally, the second threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0252] Optionally, the second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0253] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0254] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0255] Optionally, the first parameter is a ratio value.

[0256] Optionally, the first parameter is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0257] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0258] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0259] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0260] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0261] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0262] Optionally, higher-layer signaling configures the frequency domain information of the downlink subband, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0263] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0264] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0265] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0266] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0267] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0268] Optionally, the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous.

[0269] Optionally, the bandwidth to be scheduled is indicated by downlink control information.

[0270] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0271] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0272] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0273] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0274] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0275] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0276] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the terminal device determines the size of the precoding resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoding resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0277] Third Embodiment

[0278] Based on any of the above embodiments of this application, a third embodiment of this application is proposed. This embodiment mainly describes the processing method for determining the size of the precoded resource block group in conjunction with the scenario.

[0279] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0280] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0281] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0282] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0283] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0284] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0285] Optionally, the higher-level signaling includes higher-level parameters, where the higher-level parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling.

[0286] Optionally, the downlink control information includes DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3.

[0287] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundling size indicator (PRB), and configuration information of precoded resource block groups.

[0288] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0289] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0290] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0291] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0292] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0293] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0294] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0295] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0296] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0297] Optionally, the second group P BWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0298] Optionally, P BWPThe value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0299] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0300] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0301] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0302] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the first set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0303] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device will use these two P values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI: BWP value.

[0304] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0305] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0306] The technical solution of this embodiment will be described in detail below with reference to specific scenarios:

[0307] Optionally, when the terminal device receives a PDSCH scheduled by a PDCCH scrambled with DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3 and CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) via C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, or CS-RNTI, if the higher-layer parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling, then the higher-layer parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2 are configured with two sets of PDSCH. BWP The value is used as the value of PRG. The first group can take one or two P values ​​from {2, 4, wideband}. BWPThe value, the second group can be a P value from {2, 4, wideband}. BWP Value. Optionally, P BWP The value is one of the values ​​in {2,4,wideband}.

[0308] Optionally, if the DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3 indicates a PRB bundling size indicator, the terminal device determines the value of the PRG using the following scheme:

[0309] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "0", the terminal device should use the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0310] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "1", and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the first set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0311] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "1", and the first group P BWP The value is configured with two values, namely 'n2-wideband' (corresponding to two P values). BWP Values: 2 and wideband) or 'n4-wideband' (corresponding to two P values) BWP If the values ​​are 4 and wideband, then the terminal device uses these two values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCH scheduled by the same DCI.

[0312] Optionally, if the scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) are contiguous and the number of scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) is greater than a first threshold, then P BWP The value of P is the same as the scheduling bandwidth, that is, at this time P BWP Set to wideband.

[0313] Optionally, if the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous and the number of scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) is less than or equal to a first threshold, then P BWP The values ​​are set to either the remaining configuration value of 2 or 4 (depending on the first group of P parameters configured in the higher-level parameters). BWP (The value in).

[0314] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the DCI, and the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled PDSCH.

[0315] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is indicated by the DCI, and the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled PDSCH in the frequency domain.

[0316] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0317] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0318] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0319] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0320] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0321] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0322] Optionally, the first threshold is N. DL subband / 2.

[0323] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling PDSCH is located.

[0324] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the available subband in the downlink.

[0325] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by network equipment (such as a base station).

[0326] Optionally, N DL subband It is the maximum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink BWP.

[0327] Optionally, N DL subband It is the minimum bandwidth among at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink BWP.

[0328] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by a network device (such as a base station), and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0329] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0330] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0331] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0332] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0333] Optionally, the frequency domain information of the downlink subband can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0334] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0335] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0336] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, such as the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0337] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0338] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0339] Optionally, the bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks, with a unit of one physical resource block.

[0340] In this embodiment, the distribution of the uplink subband, downlink subband, and broadband portion can be as shown in Figure 6.

[0341] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the terminal device determines the size of the precoding resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoding resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0342] Fourth embodiment

[0343] Based on any of the above embodiments of this application, a fourth embodiment of this application is proposed. This embodiment mainly describes the processing method for determining the size of the precoded resource block group in conjunction with the scenario.

[0344] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0345] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0346] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0347] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0348] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0349] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0350] Optionally, the higher-level signaling includes higher-level parameters, where the higher-level parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling.

[0351] Optionally, the downlink control information includes DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3.

[0352] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundling size indicator (PRB), and configuration information of precoded resource block groups.

[0353] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0354] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0355] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0356] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0357] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0358] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0359] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0360] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0361] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0362] Optionally, the second group P BWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0363] Optionally, P BWP The value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0364] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0365] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0366] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0367] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the first set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0368] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device should use these two P values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI: BWP value.

[0369] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0370] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0371] The technical solution of this embodiment will be described in detail below with reference to specific scenarios:

[0372] Optionally, when the terminal device receives a PDSCH scheduled by a PDCCH with DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3 and CRC scrambled by C-RNTI, MCS-C-RNTI, or CS-RNTI, if the higher-layer parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling, then the higher-layer parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2 are configured with two sets of PDSCH. BWP The first group can take one or two P values ​​from {2, 4, wideband}. BWP The value, the second group can be a P value from {2, 4, wideband}. BWP Value. Optionally, P BWP The value is one of the values ​​in {2,4,wideband}.

[0373] Optionally, if the DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3 indicates a PRB bundling size indicator, the terminal device determines the value of the PRG using the following scheme:

[0374] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "0", the terminal device should use the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0375] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "1", and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device should use the first set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0376] Optionally, if the value of the PRB bundling size indicator is set to "1", and the first group P BWP The value is configured with two values, namely 'n2-wideband' (corresponding to two P values). BWP Values: 2 and wideband) or 'n4-wideband' (corresponding to two P values) BWP If the values ​​are 4 and wideband, then the terminal device should use these two values ​​as follows when receiving PDSCH scheduled by the same DCI.

[0377] Optionally, if the scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) are contiguous and the number of scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) is greater than a first threshold, then P BWP The value of P is the same as the scheduling bandwidth, that is, at this time P BWP Set to wideband.

[0378] Optionally, if the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous and the number of scheduled physical resource blocks (PRBs) is less than or equal to a first threshold, then the two P... BWP The values ​​are set to either the remaining configuration value of 2 or 4 (depending on the first group of P parameters configured in the higher-level parameters). BWP (The value in).

[0379] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the DCI, and the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled PDSCH.

[0380] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is indicated by the DCI, and the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled PDSCH in the frequency domain.

[0381] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0382] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0383] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0384] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0385] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0386] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0387] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the PDSCH is scheduled is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is N. BWP / 2, where N BWP This refers to the bandwidth of the downlink BWP.

[0388] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the PDSCH is scheduled is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is N. DL subband / 2.

[0389] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling PDSCH is located.

[0390] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the available subband in the downlink.

[0391] Optionally, N DL subband It is the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device.

[0392] Optionally, N DL subband It is the maximum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink BWP.

[0393] Optionally, N DL subband It is the minimum bandwidth among at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink BWP.

[0394] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband.

[0395] Optionally, the bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks, with a unit of one physical resource block.

[0396] Optionally, the second threshold is half of the downlink BWP bandwidth.

[0397] Optionally, the second threshold is indicated by the network device.

[0398] Optionally, the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink BWP bandwidth.

[0399] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0400] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0401] Optionally, the first parameter is a ratio value.

[0402] Optionally, the first parameter is indicated by the network device.

[0403] Optionally, the first parameter is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0404] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0405] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0406] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0407] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0408] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0409] Optionally, the frequency domain information of the downlink subband can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0410] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0411] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0412] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0413] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0414] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0415] In this embodiment, the distribution of the uplink subband, downlink subband, and broadband portion can be as shown in Figure 7.

[0416] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the terminal device determines the size of the precoding resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoding resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0417] Fifth Embodiment

[0418] Referring to Figure 8, which is a flowchart illustrating the processing method of the fifth embodiment of this application, the processing method of this embodiment can be applied to network devices (such as base stations) and includes the following steps:

[0419] S1: The network device sends first information so that the terminal device can determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0420] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0421] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0422] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0423] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0424] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0425] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0426] Optionally, the higher-level signaling includes higher-level parameters, where the higher-level parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling.

[0427] Optionally, the downlink control information includes DCI format 1_1 and / or DCI format 1_2 and / or DCI format 1_3.

[0428] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundling size indicator (PRB), and configuration information of precoded resource block groups.

[0429] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0430] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0431] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0432] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0433] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0434] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0435] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0436] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0437] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0438] Optionally, the second group PBWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0439] Optionally, P BWP The value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0440] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0441] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0442] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0443] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device uses the P value from the first set of PBWP values ​​in the following manner when receiving PDSCH scheduled by the same DCI. BWP value.

[0444] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device should use both P values ​​when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP value.

[0445] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0446] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0447] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0448] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0449] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located.

[0450] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0451] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device.

[0452] Optionally, the first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0453] Optionally, the first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0454] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband.

[0455] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0456] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0457] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0458] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0459] Optionally, the frequency domain information of the downlink subband can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0460] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0461] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0462] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0463] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0464] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0465] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0466] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0467] Optionally, the second threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0468] Optionally, the second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0469] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0470] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0471] Optionally, the first parameter is a ratio value.

[0472] Optionally, the first parameter is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0473] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0474] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0475] Optionally, the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous.

[0476] Optionally, the bandwidth to be scheduled is indicated by downlink control information.

[0477] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0478] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0479] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0480] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0481] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0482] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0483] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the network device sends first information so that the terminal device can determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoded resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0484] Sixth Embodiment

[0485] Referring to Figure 9, which is a schematic diagram of the interaction flow between a network device and a terminal device in the processing method shown in the sixth embodiment of this application, the sixth embodiment of this application proposes a processing method including the following steps:

[0486] S1: The network device sends first information to enable the terminal device to determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information;

[0487] S2: The terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0488] The technical solution of this embodiment can determine the size of PRG (Precoded Resource Group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG being set as wideband precoding and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0489] Optionally, the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0490] Optionally, the first information is sent from the network device to the terminal device.

[0491] Alternatively, network equipment may be base stations, etc.

[0492] Optionally, the network device sends the first information, the terminal device receives the first information, and determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0493] Optionally, the first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling.

[0494] Optionally, the higher-level signaling includes higher-level parameters, where the higher-level parameter prb-BundlingType is set to dynamicBundling.

[0495] Optionally, the downlink control information includes DCI format 1_1.

[0496] Optionally, the first information includes at least one of the following: frequency domain scheduling information, physical resource block bundling size indicator (PRB), and configuration information of precoded resource block groups.

[0497] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the size of the scheduled physical resource blocks.

[0498] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information includes frequency domain resource allocation information (FDRA).

[0499] Optionally, the frequency domain scheduling information includes the scheduled bandwidth.

[0500] Optionally, frequency domain scheduling information is indicated by downlink control information.

[0501] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0502] Optionally, the configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups.

[0503] Optionally, two sets of P can be configured through high-level parameters bundleSizeSet1 and bundleSizeSet2. BWP The value is used as the value of the precoded resource block group.

[0504] Optionally, two sets of P BWP Values ​​include: the first group P BWP Value and the second group P BWP value.

[0505] Optionally, the first group P BWP The value includes one or both of the values ​​in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0506] Optionally, the second group P BWP The value includes one of P in {2, 4, wideband precoding}. BWP value.

[0507] Optionally, P BWP The value can be one of the following: {2, 4, wideband precoding}.

[0508] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator is indicated by downlink control information.

[0509] Optionally, the physical resource block bundle size indicator can be a first value or a second value. Optionally, the first value is 0, and optional, the second value is 1.

[0510] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator is set to the first value, the terminal device uses the second set of P when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP P in the value BWP value.

[0511] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If a value is configured, the terminal device uses the P value from the first set of PBWP values ​​in the following manner when receiving PDSCH scheduled by the same DCI. BWP value.

[0512] Optionally, if the physical resource block bundle size indicator takes the second value, and the first group P BWP If two values ​​are configured, the terminal device should use both P values ​​when receiving PDSCHs scheduled by the same DCI. BWP value.

[0513] Optionally, the configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0514] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0515] Optionally, when the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0516] Optionally, the first configuration value is 2, and optionally, the second configuration value is 4.

[0517] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located.

[0518] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0519] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device.

[0520] Optionally, the first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0521] Optionally, the first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion.

[0522] Optionally, the first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband.

[0523] Optionally, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0524] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0525] Optionally, when the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0526] Optionally, the second threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0527] Optionally, the second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0528] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0529] Optionally, the second threshold can be determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0530] Optionally, the first parameter is a ratio value.

[0531] Optionally, the first parameter is provided by higher-level signaling.

[0532] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0533] Optionally, the second threshold is the product of the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0534] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0535] Optionally, the downlink available subband is the downlink subband.

[0536] Optionally, the downlink subband is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0537] Optionally, higher-layer signaling configures the frequency domain information of the downlink subband, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink subband and / or the bandwidth of the downlink subband.

[0538] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates the frequency domain information of the downlink subband through the Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0539] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is configured by higher-layer signaling.

[0540] Optionally, frequency domain information of the downlink bandwidth portion can be configured via higher-layer signaling, for example, configuring the start resource block of the downlink bandwidth portion and / or the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0541] Optionally, higher-layer signaling indicates frequency domain information for the downlink bandwidth portion via a Resource Indicator Value (RIV).

[0542] Optionally, the downlink bandwidth portion is the active downlink bandwidth portion.

[0543] Optionally, the scheduled physical resource blocks are contiguous.

[0544] Optionally, the bandwidth to be scheduled is indicated by downlink control information.

[0545] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is indicated by the frequency domain allocation information in the downlink control information.

[0546] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is determined jointly by downlink control information and downlink available subband.

[0547] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0548] Optionally, the scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain.

[0549] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks within the downlink available subband of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel.

[0550] Optionally, the scheduled bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain within the downlink available subband.

[0551] Through the technical solution of this embodiment, the network device sends first information, and the terminal device determines the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information, thereby determining the size of the PRG (precoded resource block group) under dynamic scheduling, so as to support the PRG to be set as broadband precoded and available under dynamic scheduling.

[0552] Seventh Embodiment

[0553] Please refer to Figure 10, which is a schematic diagram of the processing device provided in an embodiment of this application. This device can be mounted on or is the terminal device in the above method embodiment. As shown in Figure 10, the device 160 includes:

[0554] The determination module 1601 is used to determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0555] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0556] The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling;

[0557] The first information includes at least one of the following:

[0558] Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled;

[0559] Physical resource block bundle size indicator;

[0560] Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

[0561] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0562] The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups;

[0563] The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0564] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0565] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0566] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0567] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0568] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0569] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located;

[0570] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0571] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device;

[0572] The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0573] The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0574] The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0575] The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0576] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0577] The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0578] The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0579] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0580] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0581] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0582] The first parameter is the ratio value;

[0583] The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous;

[0584] The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information;

[0585] The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel;

[0586] The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain;

[0587] The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0588] The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

[0589] The processing device provided in this application embodiment is similar in implementation principle and beneficial effect to the technical solution shown in the corresponding method embodiment above, and will not be described again here.

[0590] Eighth embodiment

[0591] Please refer to Figure 11, which is a second structural schematic diagram of the processing device provided in an embodiment of this application. This device can be mounted on or is the network device in the above method embodiment. As shown in Figure 11, the device 170 includes:

[0592] The sending module 1701 is used to send first information so that the terminal device can determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0593] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0594] The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling;

[0595] The first information includes at least one of the following:

[0596] Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled;

[0597] Physical resource block bundle size indicator;

[0598] Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

[0599] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0600] The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups;

[0601] The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding.

[0602] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block.

[0603] When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

[0604] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0605] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0606] When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband.

[0607] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located;

[0608] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0609] The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device;

[0610] The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0611] The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion;

[0612] The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband;

[0613] The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0614] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0615] The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0616] The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0617] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth.

[0618] The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

[0619] Optionally, the device further includes at least one of the following:

[0620] The first parameter is the ratio value;

[0621] The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous;

[0622] The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information;

[0623] The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel;

[0624] The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain;

[0625] The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion;

[0626] The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

[0627] The processing device provided in this application embodiment is similar in implementation principle and beneficial effect to the technical solution shown in the corresponding method embodiment above, and will not be described again here.

[0628] Referring to Figure 12, which is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device provided in an embodiment of this application, the communication device 180 described in this embodiment may be a terminal device (or a component that can be used in a terminal device) or a network device (or a component that can be used in a network device) mentioned in the foregoing method embodiments. The communication device 180 can be used to implement the methods corresponding to the terminal device or network device described in the above method embodiments, as detailed in the descriptions in the above method embodiments.

[0629] The communication device 180 may include one or more processors 1801, which may also be referred to as processing units, and can perform certain control or processing functions. The processor 1801 may be a general-purpose processor or a dedicated processor, such as a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor can be used to process communication protocols and communication data, while the central processing unit can be used to control the communication device, execute software programs, and process data from the software programs.

[0630] Optionally, the processor 1801 may also store instructions 1803 or data (e.g., intermediate data). Optionally, instructions 1803 may be executed by the processor 1801, causing the communication device 180 to perform the methods described in the above method embodiments corresponding to the terminal device or network device.

[0631] Optionally, the communication device 180 may include a circuit that can perform the functions of sending, receiving, or communicating in the foregoing method embodiments.

[0632] Optionally, the communication device 180 may include one or more memories 1802, which may store instructions 1804 that can be executed on the processor 1801 to cause the communication device 180 to perform the methods described in the above method embodiments.

[0633] Alternatively, the memory 1802 may also store data. The processor 1801 and the memory 1802 can be configured separately or integrated together.

[0634] Optionally, the communication device 180 may further include a transceiver 1805 and / or an antenna 1806. The processor 1801, which may be referred to as a processing unit, controls the communication device 180 (terminal device, core network device, or wireless access network device). The transceiver 1805, which may be referred to as a transceiver unit, transceiver, transceiver circuit, or transceiver, is used to implement the transceiver functions of the communication device 180.

[0635] Optionally, if the communication device 180 is used to implement the operation corresponding to the terminal device in the above embodiments, for example, the transceiver 1805 may receive the first information; and the processor 1801 may determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

[0636] Optionally, the specific implementation process of the processor 1801 and transceiver 1805 can be found in the relevant descriptions of the above embodiments, and will not be repeated here.

[0637] Optionally, if the communication device 180 is used to implement the operation of the network device corresponding to the above embodiments, for example, the transceiver 1805 can send the first information.

[0638] Optionally, the specific implementation process of the processor 1801 and transceiver 1805 can be found in the relevant descriptions of the above embodiments, and will not be repeated here.

[0639] The processor 1801 and transceiver 1805 described in this application can be implemented on ICs (Integrated Circuits), analog integrated circuits, RFICs (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits), mixed-signal integrated circuits, ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards), electronic devices, etc. The processor 1801 and transceiver 1805 can also be manufactured using various integrated circuit process technologies, such as CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), NMOS (N-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor), PMOS (Positive channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor), BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor), Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc.

[0640] In this application, the communication device can be a terminal device (such as a mobile phone) or a network device (such as a base station), depending on the context. Furthermore, the terminal device can be implemented in various forms. For example, the terminal devices described in this application can include mobile terminals such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, handheld computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable media players (PMPs), navigation devices, wearable devices, smart bracelets, pedometers, etc., as well as fixed terminal devices such as digital TVs and desktop computers.

[0641] Although the communication device described in the above embodiments is exemplified by a terminal device or a network device, the scope of the communication device described in this application is not limited to the aforementioned terminal device or network device, and the structure of the communication device is not limited to FIG12. The communication device may be a standalone device or may be part of a larger device.

[0642] This application also provides a communication system, including: a terminal device as described in any of the above embodiments; and a network device as described in any of the above embodiments.

[0643] This application also provides a communication device, including a memory and a processor. The memory stores a processing program, and when the processing program is executed by the processor, it implements the steps of the processing method in any of the above embodiments.

[0644] The communication equipment mentioned in this application may be a terminal device (such as a mobile phone) or a network device (such as a base station). The specific meaning needs to be clarified according to the context.

[0645] This application also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a processing program, which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the processing method in any of the above embodiments.

[0646] In the embodiments of the communication device and storage medium provided in this application, all the technical features of any of the above-described processing method embodiments may be included. The extended and explained contents of the specification are basically the same as the embodiments of the above methods, and will not be repeated here.

[0647] This application also provides a computer program product, which includes computer program code. When the computer program code is run on a computer, it causes the computer to perform the methods described in the various possible implementations above.

[0648] This application also provides a chip, including a memory and a processor. The memory is used to store a computer program, and the processor is used to call and run the computer program from the memory, so that a device with the chip installed performs the methods described in the various possible implementations above.

[0649] It is understood that the above scenarios are merely examples and do not constitute a limitation on the application scenarios of the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of this application. The technical solutions of this application can also be applied to other scenarios. For example, as those skilled in the art will know, with the evolution of system architecture and the emergence of new business scenarios, the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of this application are also applicable to similar technical problems.

[0650] The sequence numbers of the embodiments in this application are for descriptive purposes only and do not represent the superiority or inferiority of the embodiments.

[0651] The steps in the method of this application embodiment can be adjusted, combined, or deleted according to actual needs.

[0652] The units in the device of this application embodiment can be merged, divided, and deleted according to actual needs.

[0653] In this application, the same or similar terms, concepts, technical solutions and / or application scenario descriptions are generally described in detail only when they appear for the first time. When they appear again, they are generally not repeated for the sake of brevity. When understanding the technical solutions and other contents of this application, the same or similar terms, concepts, technical solutions and / or application scenario descriptions that are not described in detail later can be referred to their previous relevant detailed descriptions.

[0654] In this application, the descriptions of the various embodiments have different focuses. For parts that are not described in detail or recorded in a certain embodiment, please refer to the relevant descriptions of other embodiments.

[0655] The technical features of the present application can be combined in any way. For the sake of brevity, not all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are described. However, as long as there is no contradiction in the combination of these technical features, they should be considered to be within the scope of the present application.

[0656] Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus necessary general-purpose hardware platforms. Of course, they can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases the former is a better implementation method. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of this application, in essence, or the part that contributes to the prior art, can be embodied in the form of a software product. This computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) as described above, and includes several instructions to cause a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, computer, server, controlled terminal device, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods of each embodiment of this application.

[0657] In the above embodiments, implementation can be achieved, in whole or in part, through software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented using software, it can be implemented, in whole or in part, as a computer program product. A computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the flow or function according to the embodiments of this application is generated. The computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions can be stored in a storage medium or transmitted from one storage medium to another. For example, computer instructions can be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means. The storage medium can be any available medium that a computer can access or a data storage device such as a server or data center that integrates one or more available media. The available medium can be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, storage disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a solid-state disk (SSD)).

[0658] The above are merely preferred embodiments of this application and do not limit the patent scope of this application. Any equivalent structural or procedural transformations made using the content of this application's specification and drawings, or direct or indirect applications in other related technical fields, are similarly included within the patent protection scope of this application.

Claims

1. A processing method, wherein, Applied to terminal devices, including the following steps: S2: Determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling; The first information includes at least one of the following: Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled; Physical resource block bundle size indicator; Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups; The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding. When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block. When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion; When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband; the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the scheduling physical downlink shared channel is located. The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband; The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device; The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion; The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion; The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband; The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The first parameter is the ratio value; The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous; The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information; The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel; The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain; The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion; The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

7. A processing method, wherein, Applied to network devices, including the following steps: S1: Send first information to enable the terminal device to determine the size of the precoded resource block group based on the first information.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The first information is indicated by downlink control information and / or higher-level signaling; The first information includes at least one of the following: Frequency domain scheduling information, which includes the size of the physical resource blocks to be scheduled; Physical resource block bundle size indicator; Configuration information for precoded resource block groups.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The configuration information for the precoded resource block group includes the values ​​of the two precoded resource block groups; The configuration information of the precoded resource block group includes at least one of a first configuration value, a second configuration value, and wideband precoding. When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is greater than the first threshold, the precoding resource block group is set to wideband precoding, and the size of the precoding resource block group is the same as the size of the scheduled physical resource block. When the size of the scheduled physical resource block is less than or equal to the first threshold, the precoded resource block group size is set to the first configuration value or the second configuration value.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is greater than the second threshold, the first threshold is half of the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion; When the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located is less than or equal to the second threshold, the first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband. The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband where the physical downlink shared channel is located; The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the available downlink subband; The first threshold is half the bandwidth of the downlink available subband specified by the network device; The first threshold is half of the largest bandwidth in at least one of the downlink available subband bandwidths in a configured downlink bandwidth portion; The first threshold is half the minimum bandwidth of at least one available downlink subband bandwidth in a configured downlink bandwidth portion; The first threshold is indicated by the network device, and the first threshold is less than the bandwidth of the available downlink subband; The first threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The second threshold is half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is indicated by the network device, and the second threshold is greater than or equal to half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and half of the downlink bandwidth. The second threshold is determined based on the first parameter and the bandwidth of the downlink bandwidth portion.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein, It also includes at least one of the following: The first parameter is the ratio value; The physical resource blocks to be scheduled are contiguous; The bandwidth for scheduling is indicated by downlink control information; The scheduled bandwidth is the number of physical resource blocks included in the scheduled physical downlink shared channel; The scheduling bandwidth is the width of the scheduled physical downlink shared channel in the frequency domain; The available downlink subband is the intersection of the downlink subband and the downlink bandwidth portion; The available downlink subband is the downlink subband.

13. A communication device, wherein, include: A memory and a processor, wherein the memory stores a processing program, and the processing program, when executed by the processor, implements the processing method as described in claim 1 or 7.

14. A computer-readable storage medium, wherein, The computer-readable storage medium stores a processing program that, when executed by a processor, implements the processing method as described in claim 1 or 7.

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