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Permettre des types de transmission hétérogènes

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WO2025222411A1
WO2025222411A1 PCT/CN2024/089611 CN2024089611W WO2025222411A1 WO 2025222411 A1 WO2025222411 A1 WO 2025222411A1 CN 2024089611 W CN2024089611 W CN 2024089611W WO 2025222411 A1 WO2025222411 A1 WO 2025222411A1
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Dong Li
Tao Tao
Chao Hua GONG
Yang Wang
Yan Wan
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Nokia Shanghai Bell Co Ltd
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  • Example embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to the field of communication techniques and in particular, to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for enabling heterogeneous transmission types.
  • the in-X subnetwork (hereinafter may also be referred to as subnetwork) has been proposed as a promising component to satisfy the extreme performance requirements in terms of latency, reliability and/or throughput envisioned for some short-range scenarios in 6th Generation (6G) radio access technology.
  • the subnetworks may be installed in specific entities e.g., in-vehicle, in-body, in-house, etc., to provide life-critical data service with extreme performances over the local capillary coverage.
  • a first apparatus comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first apparatus at least to: receive, from a second apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the first apparatus is in the radio access network; and perform, based on the configuration information, at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a second apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the second apparatus at least to: transmit, to a first apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the second apparatus is in the radio access network, and wherein the configuration information is used for performing at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a method comprises: receiving, from a second apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the first apparatus is in the radio access network; and performing, based on the configuration information, at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a method comprises: transmitting, to a first apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the second apparatus is in the radio access network, and wherein the configuration information is used for performing at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • the first apparatus comprises means for receiving, from a second apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the first apparatus is in the radio access network; and means for performing, based on the configuration information, at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a second apparatus comprises means for transmitting, to a first apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the second apparatus is in the radio access network, and wherein the configuration information is used for performing at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a computer readable medium comprises instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus to perform at least the method according to the third aspect.
  • a computer readable medium comprises instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus to perform at least the method according to the fourth aspect.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication environment in which example embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented
  • FIG. 2A-2D illustrate schematic diagram of typical in-X subnetwork use cases
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a signaling flow of a procedure of enabling heterogeneous transmission types in subnetworks according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a signaling chart illustrating a procedure of enabling heterogeneous transmission types in subnetworks according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 5A illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of TPP configurations according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 5B illustrates a schematic diagram of another example of TPP configurations according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a first apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a second apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 8 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a block diagram of an example computer readable medium in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • references in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
  • performing a step “in response to A” does not indicate that the step is performed immediately after “A” occurs and one or more intervening steps may be included.
  • circuitry may refer to one or more or all of the following:
  • circuitry also covers an implementation of merely a hardware circuit or processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a hardware circuit or processor and its (or their) accompanying software and/or firmware.
  • circuitry also covers, for example and if applicable to the particular claim element, a baseband integrated circuit or processor integrated circuit for a mobile device or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other computing or network device.
  • the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as New Radio (NR) , Long Term Evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) , Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) , High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) , Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and so on.
  • NR New Radio
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • LTE-A LTE-Advanced
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • HSPA High-Speed Packet Access
  • NB-IoT Narrow Band Internet of Things
  • the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) communication protocols, and/or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will of course also be future type communication technologies and systems with which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned system.
  • the term “network device” refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom.
  • the network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , an NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) , a radio header (RH) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) or non-ground network device such as a satellite network device, a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite, an aircraft network device, and so forth, depending on the applied terminology and technology
  • radio access network (RAN) split architecture comprises a Centralized Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) at an IAB donor node.
  • An IAB node comprises a Mobile Terminal (IAB-MT) part that behaves like a UE toward the parent node, and a DU part of an IAB node behaves like a base station toward the next-hop IAB node.
  • IAB-MT Mobile Terminal
  • terminal device refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communication.
  • a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, user equipment (UE) , a Subscriber Station (SS) , a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS) , or an Access Terminal (AT) .
  • UE user equipment
  • SS Subscriber Station
  • MS Mobile Station
  • AT Access Terminal
  • the terminal device may include, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) , an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device and applications (e.g., remote surgery) , an industrial device and applications (e.g., a robot and/or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and/or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and/
  • the terminal device may also correspond to a Mobile Termination (MT) part of an IAB node (e.g., a relay node) .
  • MT Mobile Termination
  • IAB node e.g., a relay node
  • the terms “terminal device” , “communication device” , “terminal” , “user equipment” and “UE” may be used interchangeably.
  • the term “resource, ” “transmission resource, ” “resource block, ” “physical resource block” (PRB) , “uplink resource, ” or “downlink resource” may refer to any resource for performing a communication, for example, a communication between a terminal device and a network device, such as a resource in time domain, a resource in frequency domain, a resource in space domain, a resource in code domain, or any other combination of the time, frequency, space and/or code domain resource enabling a communication, and the like.
  • a resource in both frequency domain and time domain will be used as an example of a transmission resource for describing some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is noted that example embodiments of the present disclosure are equally applicable to other resources in other domains.
  • FIG. 1 shows an example communication environment 100 in which embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented.
  • the communication environment 100 involves a first apparatus 110, e.g., an access point (AP) (may also be referred to as a first AP hereinafter) 110, a second apparatus 120 managing a radio access network, as well as a third apparatus, e.g., another access point (AP) (may also be referred to as a second AP hereinafter) 130.
  • AP access point
  • AP access point
  • second apparatus 120 managing a radio access network
  • AP another access point
  • AP another access point
  • the first AP 110 and the second AP 130 may be implemented as terminal devices or network devices and may communicate with each other. As shown, there may be several terminal devices 101 and 102 in the communication environment 100.
  • the first AP 110 may provide a coverage 115 and communicate with the terminal device 101 in the coverage 115.
  • the second AP 130 may provide a coverage 135 and communicate with the terminal device 102 in the coverage 135.
  • the second apparatus 120 may be for example implemented as a base station (BS) , which may communicate with the first apparatus 110 and/or the third apparatus 130.
  • both the coverage 115 and the coverage 135 are within the coverage 125 of the radio access network.
  • the coverage 125 is sometimes referred to as the radio access network 125
  • the coverage 115 may be referred to as a first subnetwork 115
  • the coverage 135 may be referred to as a second subnetwork 135.
  • the first subnetwork 115 and the second subnetwork 135 may be considered as parts of the radio access network 125.
  • the above structure of the communication environment 100 are discussed for purpose of discussion, rather than suggesting any limitations.
  • more or less access points may be in the radio access network and that is, the radio access network may include more or less subnetworks.
  • the radio access network may include more or less subnetworks.
  • the number of subnetworks, network devices and terminal devices shown in FIG. 1 is given for the purpose of illustration without suggesting any limitations.
  • the communication environment 100 may include any suitable number of network devices and terminal devices.
  • Communications in the communication environment 100 may be implemented according to any proper communication protocol (s) , comprising, but not limited to, cellular communication protocols of the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) , and the like, wireless local network communication protocols such as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and/or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • s cellular communication protocols of the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) , and the like
  • wireless local network communication protocols such as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and/or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • the communication may utilize any proper wireless communication technology, comprising but not limited to: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) , Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) , Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) , Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) , Time Division Duplex (TDD) , Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) , Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple (OFDM) , Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) and/or any other technologies currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • FDD Frequency Division Duplex
  • TDD Time Division Duplex
  • MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
  • DFT-s-OFDM Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM
  • radio access technology may expect extremely high requirements in terms of latency, reliability and/or throughput and the in-X subnetwork (i.e., subnetwork) may be considered as a promising component of future network to meet these extreme performance requirements.
  • the subnetworks may be implemented with low transmit power which leads to the limited coverage.
  • a star or tree topology may be implemented with one in-X subnetwork AP and one or more in-X subnetwork UEs under the AP’s control.
  • a subnetwork may be part of a radio access network but shall continue to work also when out of network coverage.
  • Subnetworks may be seen as a potential evolution of 5G Sidelink, while many enhancements are needed. For example, from the air interface, an enhancement is needed, e.g., to allow an out-of-coverage subnetwork AP to sense the channel, get resources and allocate those resources to the subnetwork devices (somehow beyond what 5G Sidelink Mode 2 resource allocation (RA) allows) . In another example, an enhancement is needed for architectural enablers, e.g., for improved authentication or policy enforcement policies in such scenarios.
  • RA resource allocation
  • FIGS. 2A-2D illustrate schematic diagram of typical in-X subnetwork use cases.
  • typical in-X subnetwork use cases may comprise in-robot/in-production module subnetworks (as shown in FIG. 2A) and in-vehicle subnetworks (as shown in FIG. 2B) with extreme performance requirements in both reliability (up to 6 nines or more) and latency (down to the level of 100us or even below) e.g., for the high demanding periodic deterministic communication services and these use cases may be the most challenging scenarios in a communication system/network.
  • FIGS. 2C and 2D where the in-X subnetwork may be installed in specific entities e.g., in-body subnetwork (as shown in FIG. 2C) and in-house subnetwork (as shown in FIG. 2D) , respectively, to provide life-critical data service with extreme performances over the local capillary coverage.
  • in-body subnetwork as shown in FIG. 2C
  • in-house subnetwork as shown in FIG. 2D
  • the in-X subnetwork AP may serve and manage the in-X subnetwork UEs in the capillary subnetwork coverage, while on the other hand the in-X subnetwork AP may be connected to the BS of the overlay Wide Area Network (WAN) , which could to a certain extent control and coordinate different subnetworks.
  • WAN Wide Area Network
  • subnetworks for instance, the first subnetwork 115 or the second subnetwork 135, there are general two types of subnetwork transmissions, one is intra-subnetwork transmissions (between AP and device or between different devices) , the other is inter-subnetwork transmissions (particularly the inter-AP transmissions across different subnetworks) .
  • the inter-AP transmissions may follow sidelink specifications and employ relatively large maximum transmit (Tx) power (e.g., 23 dBm) due to relatively large distances between the APs, meanwhile the intra-subnetwork transmissions may follow evolved sidelink specifications (for subnetworks) and employ relatively low maximum Tx power (e.g., 0 dBm) due to the very small coverage areas of the subnetworks.
  • Tx transmit
  • 0 dBm relatively low maximum transmit power
  • sidelink is defined within a context of cellular system to enable direct communications among proximate UEs, instead of passing through the radio network node (i.e., gNB in NR) . It was designed originally in LTE system particularly for public safety use cases where the radio network coverage may not exist in some scenarios. Later, the sidelink designs were enhanced and tailored to the specific applications of V2V/V2X (Rel-14/15 for LTE sidelink and Rel-16/17 for NR sidelink) .
  • a sidelink transmission occupies one or more subchannels over a single slot that are allocated (by BS if in RA mode 1) or selected (by transmitter UE itself if in RA mode 2) within the sidelink resource pool that is preconfigured or configured by the radio network within the sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) .
  • the transmitter UE selects the resources within the resource selection window based on the sensing results obtained during the sensing window, where the sensing operations consist of Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) decoding (to acquire 1st-stage sidelink control information (SCI) in NR) and Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements (RSRP of PSCCH or Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) ) .
  • PSCCH Physical Sidelink Control Channel
  • RSRP Reference Signal Received Power
  • the transmitter UE may reserve resources for the subsequent up to two retransmissions of the same transport block (TB) and may also reserve resources for the next TB in the next period (for periodic traffic) .
  • the resource reservation is indicated by the 1st-stage SCI which is conveyed by PSCCH in the front of the selected resources (over two or three OFDM symbols) in the current period.
  • PSCCH Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel
  • the resources for Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) may be (pre) configured with period of 1, 2 or 4 logical slots in the resource pool to convey the Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) feedback for the associated PSCCH/PSSCH transmissions.
  • HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest
  • the sidelink transmissions are confined in the resource pools which are defined within the sidelink BWP.
  • the waveform (OFDM) numerologies of subcarrier spacing (SCS) and a cyclic prefix (CP) length are configured per BWP and the maximum Tx power is configured per resource pool.
  • subnetwork transmissions there are general two types of subnetwork transmissions: one is intra-subnetwork transmissions (between AP and device or between different devices) to support extreme performance services within the subnetwork, the other is inter-subnetwork transmissions (particularly the inter-AP transmissions across different subnetworks) to support message exchange between the subnetwork APs (e.g., resource reservation signalling for collision avoidance, or data relaying for processing by other subnetworks) .
  • intra-subnetwork transmissions between AP and device or between different devices
  • inter-subnetwork transmissions particularly the inter-AP transmissions across different subnetworks
  • message exchange between the subnetwork APs e.g., resource reservation signalling for collision avoidance, or data relaying for processing by other subnetworks
  • the inter-AP transmissions may employ relatively large maximum Tx power (e.g., 23 dBm) due to relatively large distances between the subnetwork APs, meanwhile the intra-subnetwork transmissions may employ relatively low maximum Tx power (e.g., 0 dBm or even below) due to the very small coverage areas of the subnetworks (below several meters) .
  • the intra-subnetwork transmissions may need to use larger subcarrier spacing (SCS, hence smaller OFDM symbol duration) than that used by the inter-AP transmission in order to support very low transmission latency for the intra-subnetwork transmissions.
  • SCS subcarrier spacing
  • the inter-AP transmissions with high Tx power may lead to severe in-band emission interference to the intra-subnetwork transmission receivers, which may even be large enough to overwhelm the intra-subnetwork received signals.
  • the subnetwork transmissions including intra-and inter-subnetwork transmissions may follow the sidelink specifications or its evolution in 6G.
  • the existing 5G sidelink specifications don’t support the coexistence of the two types of subnetwork transmissions in a sidelink BWP.
  • example embodiments of the present disclosure propose novel designs and mechanisms with multiple time partition patterns (TPPs) in a BWP (or a carrier) to support the coexistence of heterogenous types of transmissions (with quite different Tx powers and/or waveform numerologies) , e.g., intra-subnetwork communications in one TPP, and/or inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP communications in another TPP, and/or communications over Uu interface between subnetwork AP and WAN BS in another TPP.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • AP-to-AP communications may comply with 3GPP sidelink specifications and employ relatively large maximum Tx power and specific OFDM numerology
  • the AP-to-BS communications may comply with Uu interface employing relatively large maximum Tx power
  • the intra-subnetwork communications may comply with evolved sidelink specifications (e.g., tailored to the subnetwork properties and to be defined in 6G) and may employ maximum Tx powers and OFDM numerologies much different from those of AP-to-AP links and AP-to-BS links.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a signaling flow 300 of a procedure of enabling heterogeneous transmission types in subnetworks in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the signaling flow 300 involves a first apparatus, e.g., the first apparatus 110 and a second apparatus, e.g., the second apparatus 120.
  • a first apparatus e.g., the first apparatus 110
  • a second apparatus e.g., the second apparatus 120.
  • some example embodiments may be described with the first apparatus 110 operating as the first AP 110 in FIG. 1 and the second apparatus 120 operating as the BS 120 in FIG. 1.
  • the second apparatus 120 transmits (310) a configuration information to the first apparatus 110 in a radio access network.
  • the first apparatus 110 receives (320) the configuration information from the second apparatus 120.
  • the configuration information configures a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • One TPP of the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in remaining TPP (s) in the plurality of TPPs.
  • the first apparatus 110 Based on the configuration information, the first apparatus 110 performs (330) one or more communications.
  • the communication performed between the first apparatus 110 and the terminal device 101 may be referred to as the first communication.
  • the communication performed between the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120 may be referred to as the second communication.
  • the communication performed between the first apparatus 110 and the third apparatus 130 may be referred to as the third communication.
  • the first apparatus 110 may perform, for example, the first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus 110, the second communication with the second apparatus, and/or the third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network 125.
  • the first apparatus 110 may be in a first subnetwork 115 of the radio access network 125 and the third apparatus 130 is in a second subnetwork 135 of the radio access network 125.
  • the first apparatus 110 may be implemented at or as the access point in the first subnetwork 115.
  • the second apparatus 120 may be implemented at or as the network device in the radio access network 125.
  • the third apparatus 130 may implemented at or as the access point in the second subnetwork 135.
  • the frequency resource may refer to a range of frequencies, for example, a bandwidth part (BWP) or other suitable resource in the frequency domain.
  • the transmission types of the plurality of TPPs may be different from each other, e.g., each TPP corresponds to one of transmission types, including, for instance, the first communication, the second communication, or the third communication.
  • a TPP may have different Tx power and/or waveform numerology than the others. It is to be understood that the above examples are just discussed for illustration, rather than suggesting any limitations.
  • Each TPP of the plurality of TPPs may have more other different features.
  • the configuration information includes a plurality of TPP-specific parameter configurations.
  • Each TPP-specific parameter configuration may correspond to one of the plurality of TPPs.
  • a TPP-specific parameter configuration may include, for example, but not limited to, a maximum transmission power, a numerology parameter, supported traffic, and/or the like.
  • the numerology parameter may include a subcarrier spacing (SCS) , a cyclic prefix (CP) length, and/or other suitable parameter.
  • SCS subcarrier spacing
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • the configuration information may configure a plurality of idle time durations.
  • Each of the plurality of idle time durations may be positioned at a specific position of a TPP, for example, at the end of each of the plurality of TPPs. If the subnetwork works on unlicensed band (or shared spectrum) , the duration of idle time may be dependent on channel sensing duration.
  • the plurality of idle time durations may be determined in various ways.
  • the idle time durations may be determined based on for example, but not limited to, capability information of the first apparatus 110, a requirement for the first apparatus in switching processing delay between different TTPs, numerology parameters of the plurality of the TPPs, and/or other related factors.
  • the idle time durations may be determined at the second apparatus 120.
  • the second apparatus 120 may ask for the capability information of the first apparatus 110 by sending a request, and the first apparatus 110 may transmit the capability information, e.g., as a response.
  • the first apparatus 110 may report its capability information to the second apparatus 120 periodically.
  • the capability information may indicate, for instance, a switching processing delay between different TPPs using different maximum transmission powers, different numerology parameters in the frequency resource, and/or the like.
  • the second apparatus 120 may receive the capability information from the first apparatus 110 and determine the plurality of idle time durations for the plurality of TPPs based on the capability information.
  • the configuration information may include usage configuration for each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the usage configuration may configure a communication type, for instance, one of the first communication, the second communication or the third communication, to be performed on each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the proposed solutions with multiple time partition patterns in a BWP with TPP-specific parameter configurations can flexibly support the heterogenous types of transmissions in more advanced applications and deployment scenarios, e.g., the coexistence of heterogenous types of transmissions.
  • FIG. 4 shows a signaling chart illustrating a procedure 400 of enabling heterogeneous transmission types in subnetworks according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the first apparatus 110 is discussed with the example of an access point, denoted as first AP 402, in the first subnetwork in a radio access network.
  • the second apparatus 120 is discussed with the example of a base station of the radio access network, denoted as BS 401.
  • the third apparatus 130 is discussed with the example of an access point, denoted as second AP 403, in the second subnetwork in the radio access network.
  • the first AP 402 and the second AP 403 may register (410) to the core network via the BS 401, respectively.
  • the APs 402 and 403 may report, to the BS 401, subnetwork context, service type and requirement (s) for registration and authorization and acquire policy and parameter configurations.
  • the BS 401 may acquire (420) capability information of the subnetwork APs for time partition patterns (TPP) switching delay, which refers to the switching processing delay between different TPPs using different max. Tx power and/or different OFDM numerologies in a single BWP.
  • TPP time partition patterns
  • the BS 401 may request the subnetwork APs to report the capability information on the TPP switching delay.
  • the BS may acquire the subnetwork APs capability information on TPP switching delay from WAN core network (CN) , for example, as a part of subnetwork context information which may be obtained in above embodiments.
  • CN WAN core network
  • the minimum capability requirement in TPP switching processing delay may be specified in system specifications.
  • the BS 401 may take it as the capability information of the APs.
  • the BS 401 may configure (430) at least two TPP (s) in a BWP (or carrier) to support the multiple heterogenous types of transmissions e.g., intra-subnetwork transmissions in a TPP and inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP transmissions in another TPP, and/or Uu communications between AP and BS 401 in another TPP, with configuration information.
  • the configuration information may be TPP-specific configuration information.
  • the TPP-specific configuration information may include, for example, time resource configurations for each of the at least two TPPs with time resource granularity of time unit (TU, e.g., a time slot) .
  • time resource granularity may be the time slot with slot duration corresponding to the smaller SCS.
  • the TPP-specific configuration information may include usage configuration for the TPPs, e.g., one TPP configured for intra-subnetwork transmissions (called TPP-1) , and another TPP configured for inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP communications (called TPP-2a) , and/or another TPP configured for Uu communications between AP and WAN BS (called TPP-2b) .
  • TPP-1 TPP configured for intra-subnetwork transmissions
  • TPP-2a inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP communications
  • TPP-2b another TPP configured for Uu communications between AP and WAN BS
  • the TPP-specific configuration information may include an idle time configuration for each TPP, which can be configured in unit of OFDM symbols with symbol duration corresponding to the SCS of that TPP, using the OFDM symbol (s) at the end of each TPP segment (a TPP segment is defined as the continuous time resources of this TPP between the two adjacent other TPPs) .
  • the TPP-specific configuration information may include parameter configurations for each TPP, e.g., including maximum Tx power (e.g., 23 dBm for TPP-2a/2b and 0 dBm for TPP-1) , and/or the OFDM numerologies with the subcarrier spacing (SCS, e.g., 15 kHz for TPP-2a/2b and 60 kHz for TPP-1) and/or the CP length configurations.
  • maximum Tx power e.g., 23 dBm for TPP-2a/2b and 0 dBm for TPP-1
  • SCS subcarrier spacing
  • subnetwork transmissions are performed (440) within the associated TPPs of the BWP, including the multiple heterogenous types of transmissions, e.g., the intra-subnetwork transmissions (including those between AP and devices and/or those between different devices) are constrained in the TPP-1, the inter-subnetwork (AP-to-AP) communications occur in the TPP-2a, and/or the Uu communications between AP and WAN BS occur in the TPP-2b.
  • the intra-subnetwork transmissions including those between AP and devices and/or those between different devices
  • the inter-subnetwork (AP-to-AP) communications occur in the TPP-2a
  • Uu communications between AP and WAN BS occur in the TPP-2b.
  • a node involved in the multiple heterogenous types of transmissions e.g., subnetwork AP
  • separate AGC settlings may be created and maintained, respectively, corresponding to the receiving operations in the multiple TPPs.
  • the node may switch the associated AGC parameters as well to allow appropriate receiving in the further TPP.
  • the inter-subnetwork communications may be used to facilitate the message exchange between subnetworks, e.g., resource reservation control signaling, or data traffic exchange between the different subnetworks. It is also noticeable that the TPP-2 may be configured mainly for inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP communications and devices (e.g., UEs) in a subnetwork may or may not be involved in the TPP-2 transmissions.
  • devices e.g., UEs
  • separate AGC settlings may be created and maintained at the first AP (e.g., sub-network AP) 402, corresponding to the receiving operations in the multiple TPPs, respectively.
  • the first AP 402 switches from one TPP to another TPP, it may switch the associated AGC parameters as well to allow appropriate receiving in the new TPP.
  • a received power guidance may be configured as part of TPP configuration.
  • the received power guidance may be in form of a range of power value, or a power offset associated to a reference power.
  • the first AP 402 may use the received power guidance to facilitate AGC operation.
  • FIG. 5A shows a schematic diagram an example of TPP configurations 500A according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • two TPPs (TPP-1 501 and TPP-2 502) are configured in a BWP 503 with same numerologies, but different maximum Tx power.
  • TPP-1 501 is configured with maximum Tx power 0 dBm for intra-subnetwork links
  • TPP-2 502 is configured with maximum Tx power 25 dBm for AP-to-AP links.
  • the maximum Tx power is set to 0 dBm for the TPP-1 501 to support the intra-subnetwork transmissions, meanwhile the maximum Tx power is set to 23 dBm for the TPP-2 502 to support the inter-subnetwork (AP-to-AP) communications.
  • the time resource configurations for the TPPs are based on time unit (TU) 505 of time slot.
  • Time resources of the TPP-1 501 may be indicated with a bitmap signaling ‘11111000’ , which means that every 8 available time slots (i.e., with repetitions of 8 time slots) , whereby the first 5 time slots are allocated to the TPP-1 501 and the last 3 time slots are allocated to the TPP-2 502.
  • the idle time 504 may be positioned between TTP-1 and TPP-2.
  • the idle time 504 may be at the end of the TTP-1 or other suitable position.
  • FIG. 5B shows a schematic diagram of an example of TPP configurations 500B according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • two TPPs (TPP-1 511 and TPP-2 512) are configured in a BWP 513 with different numerologies and maximum Tx power.
  • the TPP-1 511 is configured with numerology of SCS 60 kHz and the maximum Tx power of 0 dBm and it may be used to support the intra-subnetwork transmissions.
  • the idle time 515 may be configured with a duration of two OFDM symbols (note each symbol duration corresponds to the SCS 60 kHz) .
  • the numerology of SCS 15 kHz and the maximum Tx power of 23 dBm are configured and it may be used to support the inter-subnetwork AP-to-AP communications.
  • the idle time 515 may be configured with a duration of one OFDM symbol (corresponding to SCS 15 kHz) .
  • the bandwidth of one physical resource block (PRB) of TPP-1 516 may be four times of that of one PRB for TPP-2 517.
  • the TU (e.g., slot) duration of TPP-1 518 is one fourth of that of TU duration of TPP-2 519.
  • the time resource configuration for the TPPs is based on the TU of smaller SCS (i.e., with the larger TU value) where the TPP-1 511 may be configured with time resources using bitmap of ‘111100’ , which means that every duration of 6 TUs (TU length for TPP-2 512) , four TUs (or say, 16 TUs of TPP-1 511) are allocated to TPP-1 511 and two TUs are allocated to TPP-2 512.
  • the configured multiple time partition patterns may be applied to the whole frequency range of a BWP.
  • the nodes involved in both the heterogeneous types of transmissions e.g., the AP in subnetwork applications where on the one hand, AP communicates with its intra-subnetwork devices and on the other hand, the AP makes the AP-to-AP communications with other subnetworks, they need to switch between the TPPs as per the TPP configurations to make the associated type of subnetwork transmissions.
  • the TPP switching has several properties. For example, as the TPPs apply to the whole frequency domain of a BWP (or a carrier) , the RF bandwidth and center frequency remain unchanged before and after the TPP switching. Moreover, some parameters may change over the different TPPs, e.g., the maximum Tx power, and/or the waveform numerologies like SCS/CP length.
  • the switching delay between the TPPs may be affected by several aspects.
  • possible TX/RX switching for the different TPPs may impact the switching delay between the TPPs.
  • the AP may transmit data to devices in one TPP, but after switching to the other TPP, the AP may try to receive transmissions from other APs. It is noted that this switching has already been supported by the specific sidelink slot structure where the last OFDM symbol is reserved as guard time.
  • the Tx power switching delay is generally tens or hundreds of ns and smaller than 1 ⁇ s.
  • switching of the OFDM numerologies in different TPPs may impact the switching delay between the TPPs.
  • the SCS in one TPP is 15 kHz and it switches to 60 kHz in the next TPP to support lower transmission latency with shorter symbol durations.
  • This switching belongs to the scope of baseband reconfiguration implemented by software. This switching delay is generally very short, e.g., in order of 10 ⁇ 20 ns depending on the clock rate.
  • FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of an example method 600 implemented at a first apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 600 will be described from the perspective of the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
  • the first apparatus 110 receives, from a second apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs.
  • the first apparatus is in the radio access network.
  • the first apparatus 110 performs, based on the configuration information, at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • the configuration information comprises a plurality of TPP-specific parameter configurations, each TPP-specific parameter configuration corresponding to one of the plurality of TPPs and comprising at least one of:a maximum transmission power, a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or supported traffic.
  • a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or supported traffic.
  • the configuration information configures a plurality of idle time durations, each of the plurality of idle time durations being positioned at an end of each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the plurality of idle time durations are based on at least one of: capability information of the first apparatus, a requirement for the first apparatus in switching processing delay between different TTPs, or numerology parameters of the plurality of the TPPs.
  • the configuration information comprises usage configuration for each of the plurality of TPPs, the usage configuration configuring a communication type to be performed on each of the plurality of TPPs, the communication type being one of the first communication, the second communication or the third communication.
  • the first apparatus 110 may transmit, to the second apparatus, capability information indicating: a switching processing delay between different TPPs with different maximum transmission powers, or different numerology parameters in the frequency resource.
  • the frequency resource may comprise a bandwidth part (BWP) .
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • the first apparatus is in a first subnetwork of the radio access network and the third apparatus is in a second subnetwork of the radio access network.
  • the first apparatus comprises an access point in the first subnetwork
  • the second apparatus comprises a network device in the radio access network
  • the third apparatus comprises an access point in the second subnetwork.
  • FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of an example method 700 implemented at a second apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 700 will be described from the perspective of the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
  • the second apparatus 120 transmits, to a first apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the second apparatus is in the radio access network, and the configuration information is used for performing at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • the configuration information comprises a plurality of TPP-specific parameter configurations, each TPP-specific parameter configuration corresponding to one of the plurality of TPPs and comprising at least one of: a maximum transmission power, a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or supported traffic.
  • a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or supported traffic.
  • the configuration information configures a plurality of idle time durations, each of the plurality of idle time durations being positioned at an end of each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the plurality of idle time durations are based on at least one of: capability information of the first apparatus, a requirement for the first apparatus in switching processing delay between different TTPs, or numerology parameters of the plurality of the TPPs.
  • the configuration information comprises usage configuration for each of the plurality of TPPs, the usage configuration configuring a communication type to be performed on each of the plurality of TPPs, the communication type being one of the first communication, the second communication or the third communication.
  • the second apparatus 120 may receive, from the first apparatus, capability information indicating: a switching processing delay between different TPPs using different maximum transmission powers, or different numerology parameters in the frequency resource; and determine a plurality of idle time durations for the plurality of TPPs based on the capability information.
  • frequency resource comprises a bandwidth part (BWP) .
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • the first apparatus is in a first subnetwork of the radio access network and the third apparatus is in a second subnetwork of the radio access network.
  • the first apparatus comprises an access point in the first subnetwork
  • the second apparatus comprises a network device in the radio access network
  • the third apparatus comprises an access point in the second subnetwork.
  • a first apparatus capable of performing any of the method 600 may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 600.
  • the means may be implemented in any suitable form.
  • the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
  • the first apparatus may be implemented as or included in the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
  • the first apparatus comprises means for receiving, from a second apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the first apparatus is in the radio access network; and means for performing, based on the configuration information, at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • the configuration information comprises a plurality of TPP-specific parameter configurations, each TPP-specific parameter configuration corresponding to one of the plurality of TPPs and comprising at least one of: a maximum transmission power, a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or means for supported traffic.
  • a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or means for supported traffic.
  • the configuration information configures a plurality of idle time durations, each of the plurality of idle time durations being positioned at an end of each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the plurality of idle time durations are based on at least one of: means for capability information of the first apparatus, a requirement for the first apparatus in switching processing delay between different TTPs, or means for numerology parameters of the plurality of the TPPs.
  • the configuration information comprises usage configuration for each of the plurality of TPPs, the usage configuration configuring a communication type to be performed on each of the plurality of TPPs, the communication type being one of the first communication, the second communication or the third communication.
  • the first apparatus further comprises: means for transmitting, to the second apparatus, capability information indicating: a switching processing delay between different TPPs with different maximum transmission powers, or different numerology parameters in the frequency resource.
  • frequency resource comprises a bandwidth part (BWP) .
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • the first apparatus is in a first subnetwork of the radio access network and the third apparatus is in a second subnetwork of the radio access network.
  • the first apparatus comprises an access point in the first subnetwork
  • the second apparatus comprises a network device in the radio access network
  • the third apparatus comprises an access point in the second subnetwork.
  • the first apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 600 or the first apparatus 110.
  • the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the first apparatus.
  • a second apparatus capable of performing any of the method 700 may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 700.
  • the means may be implemented in any suitable form.
  • the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
  • the second apparatus may be implemented as or included in the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
  • the second apparatus comprises means for transmitting, to a first apparatus in a radio access network, configuration information configuring a plurality of time partition patterns (TPPs) on a frequency resource, wherein a first TPP in the plurality of TPPs comprises a first set of time units which are non-overlapping with time units comprised in one or more remaining TPPs in the plurality of TPPs, and wherein the second apparatus is in the radio access network, and wherein the configuration information is used for performing at least one of: first communication in a coverage of the first apparatus, second communication with the second apparatus, or third communication with a third apparatus in the radio access network.
  • TPPs time partition patterns
  • the configuration information comprises a plurality of TPP-specific parameter configurations, each TPP-specific parameter configuration corresponding to one of the plurality of TPPs and comprising at least one of: a maximum transmission power, a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or means for supported traffic.
  • a numerology parameter comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a cyclic prefix (CP) length, or means for supported traffic.
  • the configuration information configures a plurality of idle time durations, each of the plurality of idle time durations being positioned at an end of each of the plurality of TPPs.
  • the plurality of idle time durations are based on at least one of: means for capability information of the first apparatus, a requirement for the first apparatus in switching processing delay between different TTPs, or means for numerology parameters of the plurality of the TPPs.
  • the configuration information comprises usage configuration for each of the plurality of TPPs, the usage configuration configuring a communication type to be performed on each of the plurality of TPPs, the communication type being one of the first communication, the second communication or the third communication.
  • the second apparatus further comprises: means for receiving, from the first apparatus, capability information indicating: a switching processing delay between different TPPs using different maximum transmission powers, or different numerology parameters in the frequency resource; and means for determining a plurality of idle time durations for the plurality of TPPs based on the capability information.
  • the frequency resource comprises a bandwidth part (BWP) .
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • the first apparatus is in a first subnetwork of the radio access network and the third apparatus is in a second subnetwork of the radio access network.
  • the first apparatus comprises an access point in the first subnetwork
  • the second apparatus comprises a network device in the radio access network
  • the third apparatus comprises an access point in the second subnetwork.
  • the second apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 700 or the second apparatus 120.
  • the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the second apparatus.
  • FIG. 8 is a simplified block diagram of a device 800 that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the device 800 may be provided to implement a communication device, for example, the first apparatus 110 or the second apparatus 120 as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the device 800 includes one or more processors 810, one or more memories 820 coupled to the processor 810, and one or more communication modules 840 coupled to the processor 810.
  • the communication module 840 is for bidirectional communications.
  • the communication module 840 has one or more communication interfaces to facilitate communication with one or more other modules or devices.
  • the communication interfaces may represent any interface that is necessary for communication with other network elements.
  • the communication module 840 may include at least one antenna.
  • the processor 810 may be of any type suitable to the local technical network and may include one or more of the following: general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples.
  • the device 800 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
  • the memory 820 may include one or more non-volatile memories and one or more volatile memories.
  • the non-volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 824, an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, a compact disc (CD) , a digital video disk (DVD) , an optical disk, a laser disk, and other magnetic storage and/or optical storage.
  • ROM Read Only Memory
  • EPROM electrically programmable read only memory
  • flash memory a hard disk
  • CD compact disc
  • DVD digital video disk
  • optical disk a laser disk
  • RAM random access memory
  • a computer program 830 includes computer executable instructions that are executed by the associated processor 810.
  • the instructions of the program 830 may include instructions for performing operations/acts of some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the program 830 may be stored in the memory, e.g., the ROM 824.
  • the processor 810 may perform any suitable actions and processing by loading the program 830 into the RAM 822.
  • the example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of the program 830 so that the device 800 may perform any process of the disclosure as discussed with reference to FIG. 3 to FIG. 7.
  • the example embodiments of the present disclosure may also be implemented by hardware or by a combination of software and hardware.
  • the program 830 may be tangibly contained in a computer readable medium which may be included in the device 800 (such as in the memory 820) or other storage devices that are accessible by the device 800.
  • the device 800 may load the program 830 from the computer readable medium to the RAM 822 for execution.
  • the computer readable medium may include any types of non-transitory storage medium, such as ROM, EPROM, a flash memory, a hard disk, CD, DVD, and the like.
  • the term “non-transitory, ” as used herein, is a limitation of the medium itself (i.e., tangible, not a signal) as opposed to a limitation on data storage persistency (e.g., RAM vs. ROM) .
  • FIG. 9 shows an example of the computer readable medium 900 which may be in form of CD, DVD or other optical storage disk.
  • the computer readable medium 900 has the program 830 stored thereon.
  • various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, and other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. Although various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representations, it is to be understood that the block, apparatus, system, technique or method described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
  • Some example embodiments of the present disclosure also provide at least one computer program product tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, such as a non-transitory computer readable medium.
  • the computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target physical or virtual processor, to carry out any of the methods as described above.
  • program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.
  • the functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in various embodiments.
  • Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
  • Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages.
  • the program code may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program code, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions/operations specified in the flowcharts and/or block diagrams to be implemented.
  • the program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
  • the computer program code or related data may be carried by any suitable carrier to enable the device, apparatus or processor to perform various processes and operations as described above.
  • Examples of the carrier include a signal, computer readable medium, and the like.
  • the computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium.
  • a computer readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory) , an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

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Les exemples de réalisation de la présente invention concernent des procédés, des dispositifs, des appareils et des supports de stockage lisibles par ordinateur permettant des types de transmission hétérogènes. Dans un procédé, un premier appareil reçoit, d'un deuxième appareil dans un réseau d'accès radio, des informations de configuration configurant une pluralité de modèles de partition temporelle (TPP) sur une ressource de fréquence. Un premier TPP parmi la pluralité de TPP comprend un premier ensemble d'unités de temps qui ne chevauchent pas les unités de temps comprises dans un ou plusieurs TPP restants parmi la pluralité de TPP, et le premier appareil se trouve dans le réseau d'accès radio. Le premier appareil met en œuvre, sur la base des informations de configuration, le ou les opérations suivantes : une première communication dans une zone de couverture du premier appareil, une deuxième communication avec le deuxième appareil, ou une troisième communication avec un troisième appareil dans le réseau d'accès radio.
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