Patents by Inventor Fang-Chen Cheng

Fang-Chen Cheng has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200275419
    Abstract: A method for determining and configuring a resource used for transmitting downlink data, a terminal and a base station: the base station configures, for each terminal, resource collections or resource collection subgroups used for receiving downlink data, and then the base station notifies the terminal, by means of an explicit signaling, whether all of the resource collections or each resource collection of the configured resource collections are available, or whether all of resource collection subgroups or each resource collection subgroup of the resource collection subgroups are available, thus allowing the terminal to determine, according to the notification, the time-frequency resource position of a resource used to receive downlink data, so that the terminal may carry out rate matching on the determined resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG, Xuejuan GAO
  • Publication number: 20200275491
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining an RA-RNTI. In the present application, a base station receives a random access preamble sent by a terminal; the base station determines an RA-RNTI according to a time-frequency resource occupied by the random access preamble, wherein the time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol level; and the base station sends a random access response message, wherein the random access response message comprises downlink control information allocated, by the base station, for the terminal, and the downlink control information is scrambled using the RA-RNTI. By means of the present application, an RA-RNTI can be determined during a random access process of an NR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Bin REN, Zheng ZHAO, Ren DA, Tie Li, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200235847
    Abstract: A polarized coding method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method comprises: determining fragmentation policies corresponding to sequences to be coded according to the lengths of the sequences to be coded and transmission rates; and performing corresponding processing on the sequences to be coded according to the segmentation policies, and performing polarized coding on the processed sequences to be coded. In embodiments of the present invention, fragmentation policies corresponding to sequences to be coded are determined according to the lengths of the sequences to be coded and transmission rates; and corresponding segmentation polices are determined according to the to-be-coded sequences having different lengths and different transmission rates, thereby ensuring performance of an uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jiaqing WANG, Di ZHANG, Fang-Chen CHENG, Shaohui SUN
  • Publication number: 20200187172
    Abstract: Disclosed are downlink control information transmission and reception methods and devices, for solving the technical problem of excessive high power consumption caused by high workload of terminal monitoring in the case of higher frequency. The method comprises: a base station determines at least one beam direction for transmitting downlink control information of a terminal, and generates first downlink control channel configuration information according to at least one determined beam direction, the first downlink control channel configuration information being used for indicating the beam direction of the downlink control information transmitted by the base station to the terminal; after transmitting the first downlink control channel configuration information to the terminal, the base station transmits the downlink control information to the terminal in the at least one beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200187169
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a data transmission method and a device, comprising: dividing a time unit into DL areas, a time unit including at least two DL areas; notifying a terminal of the divided DL areas by means of configuration signaling. The terminal receiving the configuration signaling; according to said configuration signaling, determining DL areas into which a time unit is divided. Using the present application, defining at least two DL detection areas in a time unit, a terminal detects a downlink transmission in each detection area, and, when one is detected, performs ACK/NACK feedback in an uplink area corresponding to said downlink area. In the present invention, each downlink area has a defined feedback and scheduling relationship, respectively, by means of dividing a time unit into multiple downlink areas, thereby increasing scheduling flexibility and system resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200177310
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and particularly relates to a channel encoding method and device, for use to solve the problem that at present, there is no physical broadcast channel polar encoding method in a 5G scene. Embodiments of the present application relate to determining a polar mother code length according to transmission resources of a channel; performing polar encoding, according to the polar mother code length, on data needing to be transmitted over the channel to obtain target encoding data; processing the target encoding data according to the length of an actual bearer of the transmission resources; and determining, according to the processed target encoding data, encoding data needing to be transmitted over the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Jiaqing WANG, Fang-Chen CHENG, Di ZHANG, Shaohui SUN
  • Publication number: 20200178187
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a radio link monitoring method and apparatus, the method comprising: when a UE performs radio link monitoring, the UE monitors a downlink signal of a primary serving cell to obtain monitoring results; and the UE compares the monitoring results with an required synchronization threshold to determine whether the UE is in a synchronized state; the synchronization threshold is determined on the basis of preset parameters. The present invention solves the problems in the prior art of the complexity of defining RLM performance requirements, and being unable to provide the needed flexibility for supporting different specific systems by means of adjusting thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Ren Da, Bin Ren, Fang-Chen Cheng, Zheng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200170033
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present application provides a transmission method, a terminal device, and a base station, used to solve the technical problem in the related art that there is no method supporting CBG-based retransmission and ACK/NACK feedback. The transmission method comprises: receiving by the terminal device a downlink control channel; and acquiring by the terminal device a first indication field from the downlink control channel, the first indication field being used to indicate whether each code block group (CBG) in the corresponding CBGs in an initial transmission of TB needs to be retransmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200170018
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal, and a base station. Determined is that a TB needs to be divided into M CBG; grouping, according to a preset grouping scheme, multiple CB produced when the one TB is code block segmented, thus diving the one TB into the M CBG; and transmitting data according to the M CBG, where M is a positive integer. The technical solution of the present invention solves the technical problem of low data transmission efficiency and low resource utilization rate in an LTE system found in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200146036
    Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for determining whether data is damaged, the method comprising: a terminal receiving a downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission; according to the downlink control channel, the terminal determining whether damaged data is present during N previous transmissions of a retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1; hence, the terminal receives the downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission, and determines, according to the downlink control channel, whether damaged data is present during the N previous transmissions of the retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, thereby improving transmission performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200120712
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for determining a preamble sequence of a physical random access channel. The method comprises: includes in a previous stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in a detection window; in a current stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the detection window; and determining preamble sub-sequences belonging to a same preamble sequence according to the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the current stage, and the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the previous stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin REN, Ren DA, Fang-Chen CHENG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200036586
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a data transmission method and device, solving the problem of using a dynamic uplink-downlink resource division manner for data transmission in a new wireless communication system. The method comprises: a terminal determining the start position of a time unit of the terminal, and determining the division of an uplink region and a downlink region in the time unit; the terminal detecting a downlink control channel in the downlink region of the time unit; and according to the detection result, the terminal performing an uplink transmission in the uplink region corresponding to the downlink region. As a terminal uses a time unit specific to the terminal for transmission, time units of different terminals may have different start positions, and the number and lengths of the uplink regions and/or downlink regions included in the time units of different terminals may also be different. Thus, the invention can support flexible and variable resource division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Patent number: 10512040
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for on-demand access. An example network on-demand access method implementable by a device may comprise receiving a wakeup signal by an antenna of the device, deriving power from the received wakeup signal, determining, using the derived power, if the received wakeup signal corresponds to the device, and in response to the determination that the received wakeup signal corresponds to the device, setting the device to an active power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Patent number: 10492188
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method of and apparatus for a pre-coded physical downlink control channel reference signal and blind decoding. In a design of the reference signal, the demodulation reference signal is used for demodulating physical downlink control channel signaling, wherein the physical downlink control channel signaling is embedded in a physical downlink shared channel, an the demodulation reference signal is included in a control channel element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Xiaobo Zhang, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190357203
    Abstract: The present application discloses an uplink data retransmission method and terminal. The method comprises: a terminal determining whether to spontaneously retransmit first uplink data; and if the terminal determines to spontaneously retransmit the first uplink data, the terminal retransmitting the first uplink data on a physical resource that is pre-configured on a network side. The application adopts the above technical solution to resolve the technical problem in which, for a URLLC service, if a retransmission mechanism is based on a conventional HARQ mechanism, a certain time interval is required between two adjacent transmissions of uplink data, which may result in retransmission being unsupported for a certain time delay requirement and configuration, and as a result a reliability requirement for the URLLC service cannot be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanping XING, Fang-Chen CHENG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20190356459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and specifically relates to a method and device for determining the initial positions of a downlink data channel. The present invention solves the problem of determining the initial positions in the time domain of a downlink data channel when the resources occupied by a downlink control channel in the time domain are variable. The method comprises: a base station transmits to a terminal a generated indication signaling, and the terminal determines, on the basis of the received indication signaling, the time domain initial positions of the downlink data channel in L downlink TTIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Patent number: 10390244
    Abstract: A method of measuring radio link quality in a D2D user equipment in a wireless communication system including an eNB and at least two D2D user equipments, UEs: a first D2D UE receives a discovery packet from a second D2D UE; and the first D2D UE measures the radio link quality based on the reception of the discovery packet and generates a wireless link quality indication, which indicates sidelink quality between the first D2D UE and the second D2D UE; wherein the at least two D2D user equipments include an alternative UE-to-network relay D2D UE and a remote D2D UE; and the first D2D UE is the remote D2D UE, and the second D2D UE is the alternative UE-to-network relay D2D UE; or the first D2D UE is the alternative UE-to-network relay D2D UE, and the second D2D UE is the remote D2D UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Fang-Chen Cheng, Dong Li, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 10341961
    Abstract: A method for determining a Physical Uplink Share Channel (PUSCH) transmission power may comprise measuring reference signal received power, calculating downlink path loss by comparing the reference signal received power to a downlink transmit power from a next generation node B (gNB), obtaining parameters from the gNB, and determining the PUSCH transmission power based on a configured user equipment (UE) transmission power, bandwidth of PUSCH resource assignment, a target power including the sum of a cell specific nominal component and a UE specific component, a scaling factor, a downlink (DL) path loss, a UE specific parameter for different types of traffic, and a PUSCH power control adjustment state. The method may further comprise calculating a numerology adjustment factor based on a configured subcarrier spacing and a default subcarrier spacing, and utilizing the numerology adjustment factor to determine the PUSCH transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventor: Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190173721
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a method and device for transmitting and detecting a synchronous signal, which is used to solve the problem that there is currently no clear solution as to how should a terminal detect a synchronous signal when multiple types of base-band numerology are defined in a new wireless communication system. The method comprises: a terminal determining a base-band numerology used to detect a synchronous signal; the terminal detecting the synchronous signal according to the determined base-band numerology. The terminal first determines a base-band numerology used to detect a synchronous signal before detecting said synchronous signal, and then detects the synchronous signal according to the determined base-band numerology, so as to identify the base-band numerology used in the synchronous signal transmission in future communication systems which support multiple types of base-band numerology, thereby correctly detecting the synchronous signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Fang-Chen CHENG, Xueming PAN, Qiubin GAO
  • Patent number: 10306533
    Abstract: A method of facilitating dormant small cell discovery in a wireless communications network including at least a small cell and a second cell includes changing, at the small cell, an operating state of the small cell from an active state to a dormant state, the dormant state being a state in which the small cell transmits discovery signals and does not transmit DL broadcast or DL control channels, the discovery signals being signals through which user equipments (UE)s discover the dormant small cell; sending, from the dormant small cell, a notification, the notification identifying, for at least the second cell, a duty cycle with which the first small cell will periodically transmit the discovery signals; and transmitting, from the dormant small, the discovery signals using a periodic transmission pattern that includes active portions and non-active portions defined by the duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Fang-chen Cheng, Said Tatesh