Control Signaling for Punctured TB Repetition Resources

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Solution Overview

Problem

In communications systems like LTE, when a UE with higher priority requests resources during long-term TB repetition, ensuring the higher priority UE's service and correct data reception for the current UE is challenging due to pre-allocated resources.

Innovation Solution

A base station determines and sends control information to puncture or postpone resources for existing UEs, allowing allocation to higher priority UEs while ensuring correct data reception for both.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If one piece of DCI is used to schedule repeated transmission of one or more TBs for a long period, then resource pre-allocation efficiency is improved, but the ability to allocate resources to higher priority UEs deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource pre-allocation efficiencyVSAvoidscheduling flexibility for higher priority UEs
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic resource allocation by introducing a second DCI that can override or modify the resource allocation made by the first DCI. This allows the system to transition from a static pre-allocated resource model to a dynamic one where resources can be re-assigned based on changing priority conditions, resolving the contradiction between pre-allocation efficiency and scheduling flexibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses preliminary resource allocation through the first DCI to establish initial resource reservations, then introduces a mechanism for preliminary intervention by the second DCI when higher priority UEs need resources. This two-stage approach maintains the benefits of pre-allocation while providing a pathway for priority-based re-allocation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If resources are re-allocated to higher priority UEs, then service quality for higher priority UEs is improved, but data reception correctness for current UEs deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice quality for higher priority UEsVSAvoiddata reception correctness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces control information (second DCI) as an intermediary mechanism that coordinates resource re-allocation between higher priority UEs and current UEs. This intermediary ensures that resource changes are communicated properly and that data reception correctness is maintained through appropriate control signaling, preventing data corruption during re-allocation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the base station monitors resource usage and priority conditions, then sends appropriate control information to adjust resource allocation. This closed-loop feedback system ensures that re-allocation decisions are made with full information about system state, maintaining both service quality and data correctness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3843488B1Method for transmitting data, and method and device for sending control information
Publication Date: 2026.01.21 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method, a control information sending method, and a device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. If UE with a higher priority exists in TB repeated transmission of current UE, not only a service of the UE with a higher priority can be ensured, but also it is ensured that the current UE can correctly receive or send data, and data receiving performance of a base station can be correspondingly ensured. The method may include: determining, by the communications device, a first resource used for receiving or sending data; receiving control information, where the control information includes first indication information that can be used to indicate that a resource is punctured or postponed, and the first indication information is used to indicate that a second resource is punctured or postponed; and determining, by the communications device, a third resource based on the first indication information and the first resource, and receiving or sending the data by using the third resource.