Physical Shared Channel Patterns for Repetition Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Repetition transmission in radio communication systems, such as those used in LTE and NR, requires multiple resource occupations, leading to high performance overheads and inefficiencies, particularly in scenarios demanding high reliability like URLLC and mMTC.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a data transmission method that utilizes pre-configured physical shared channel patterns for repetition transmission, allowing for efficient data transmission and demodulation, reducing resource occupation by using K physical shared channel patterns for data transmission and demodulation, where K is an integer greater than 1.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If repetition transmission occupies multiple resources multiple times, then transmission reliability is improved, but resource occupation and performance overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission reliabilityVSAvoidresource occupation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-configures multiple physical shared channel patterns (first pattern, second pattern, etc.) before transmission. The sender and receiver agree on these patterns in advance, allowing the sender to select appropriate patterns for repetition transmission without real-time negotiation, thus reducing signaling overhead and resource occupation while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the repetition transmission process by assigning different physical shared channel patterns to different repetition instances. Instead of using the same resource pattern repeatedly, the system divides the transmission into multiple segments using distinct patterns (first pattern for initial transmission, second pattern for repetition, etc.), which improves resource utilization efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If multiple physical shared channel patterns are pre-configured, then resource occupation is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource occupationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates simplified copies of channel patterns by defining them as template structures (first physical shared channel pattern, second physical shared channel pattern) that can be reused. These pattern copies contain essential structural information that can be instantiated multiple times with different parameters, reducing the need to define complete channel configurations from scratch and lowering system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS12255697B2Data transmission method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.03.18 ZTE CORP
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AI summary

Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The data transmission method may include: acquiring K physical shared channel patterns; and performing repetition transmission on data to be transmitted according to the K physical shared channel patterns, where K is an integer greater than 1.