US 12,068,855 B2
Repetition transmission method and apparatus, network device, and computer readable storage medium
Min Ren, Shenzhen (CN); Peng Hao, Shenzhen (CN); Shuqiang Xia, Shenzhen (CN); Jing Shi, Shenzhen (CN); Xianghui Han, Shenzhen (CN); Chunli Liang, Shenzhen (CN); and Wei Lin, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by ZTE CORPORATION, Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/886,563.
Application 17/886,563 is a continuation of application No. 17/114,734, filed on Dec. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,451,336.
Application 17/114,734 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/100179, filed on Aug. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810910225.9 (CN), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0385402 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 1/08 (2013.01) [H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
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1. A method of repeated transmission, comprising:
receiving a first indication that a symbol is indicated as downlink;
receiving a second indication that a first number of symbols indicated as flexible is to serve as a guard period;
receiving a third indication that a second number of symbols after the first number of symbols is indicated as flexible; and
repeatedly transmitting an uplink transport block on a plurality of symbols of the second number of symbols, wherein repeatedly transmitting the uplink transport block on the plurality of symbols of the second number of symbols comprises:
transmitting the uplink transport block to be repeatedly transmitted from an earliest transmission occasion (TO) in a time domain that is within the second number of symbols.