Sensing Signal Configuration for Consistent Terminal-Base Station Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

In future mobile communication systems like B5G and 6G, inconsistent understandings between terminals and base stations regarding sensing signal formats and requirements lead to ineffective sensing signals that fail to meet specific sensing needs.

Innovation Solution

A first device communicates its sensing requirements to a second device, which determines and configures the appropriate signal parameters for a first signal, ensuring uniformity and adherence to the specific sensing needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If each device independently determines sensing signal parameters, then devices can operate autonomously, but signal format inconsistencies arise between terminals and base stations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice autonomyVSAvoidsensing signal effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The base station acts as an intermediary that receives sensing requirements from terminals, determines appropriate sensing signal parameters, and configures these parameters uniformly. This mediator role ensures that terminals and base stations have consistent understandings of signal formats while preserving terminal autonomy to express their sensing needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of terminals independently determining signal parameters (bottom-up approach), the base station determines parameters based on terminal requirements (top-down approach). This inversion of the determination direction resolves the inconsistency problem while maintaining system-wide uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Reliability

If sensing signal parameters are standardized uniformly, then signal consistency is improved, but adaptability to diverse sensing requirements decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal format consistencyVSAvoidsensing requirement fulfillment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The sensing signal parameters are made dynamic rather than fixed. The base station determines and configures parameters adaptively based on the specific sensing requirements of different terminals, allowing the system to maintain uniformity in the determination process while adapting to diverse sensing needs through flexible parameter selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters based on sensing requirements. The base station selects appropriate signal format parameters (such as time-frequency resources, waveform characteristics) according to the specific sensing needs indicated by terminals,从而实现 both consistency in determination and adaptability in fulfillment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple devices determine signal configurations independently, then device flexibility is maintained, but non-uniform signal types and parameters cause transmission issues

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice flexibilityVSAvoidsignal configuration uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The base station serves as a central coordinator that receives flexibility expressions from multiple terminals, determines unified signal configurations, and distributes these configurations to all involved devices. This ensures that while terminals maintain flexibility in expressing their needs, the actual signal configurations remain uniform across the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4351179B1Message transmission method, signal sending method and device, and communication device
Publication Date: 2026.02.04 VIVO MOBILE COMM CO LTD
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AI summary

This application discloses a message transmission method and apparatus, a signal sending method and apparatus, and a communication method, relating to the field of communication technologies. The method of embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by a second device, a first message sent by a first device, where the first message indicates at least one of the following: a sensing resolution related requirement; a sensing distance related requirement; a sensing area related requirement; a sensing object related requirement; a sensing error related requirement; a sensing signal quality related requirement; and a sensing delay related requirement.