Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

Gengshi Wu

Meng Hua

Xiaolei Tie

Jing Yang

Shurong Jiao

Chunling Zhang

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Feng Li

Jun Li

Nian Peng

Han Zhou

Fredrik Rusek

Shashi Kant

Zhiqun Chen

Sha Hu

Yi Yang

Yang Liu

Yiling Wu

Jianjun Chen

Xiuqin Peng

Chao Ma

Fengyu Sun

Shuojun Yu

Zheng Yi

Shufan Huang

Yu Liu

Xiaoxiao Zheng

Carmela Cozzo

Zongjie Wang

Qiang Zhang

Yubo Yang

Jing Wang

Shuju Fan

Wenquan Hu

Jin Wang

Haitao Zhang

Bin Xiong

Bing Tang

Dan Zhao

Yan Yang

Huan Zhou

Dongsheng Liu

Jiajing Zhou

Zhan Guo

Jieke Shi

Tingzhao Li

Congli Mao

Wenkang Guan

Kai Zong

Yukuang Hu

Christopher Kevan Lowe

Fanni Ma

Shaoquan Wu

Various embodiments provide a random access method and apparatus. In those embodiments, available random access resources can be grouped, by a network device, into a plurality of random access resource groups. The network device can send information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device, and receives a random access request sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups. The network device can determine a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs. The network device can determine an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

Random access procedure for determining uplink transmission capability

This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Messageon the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

Communication method and device

This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

A method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: obtaining downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information is used to schedule downlink data, and the downlink control information carries time information indicating a time at which uplink information is sent; obtaining, through a system message or radio resource control signaling or a resource of a physical random access channel, information indicating a duration for sending the uplink information; receiving the downlink data; and sending the uplink information according to the time information and the information indicating the duration, wherein the uplink information is used to indicates whether the downlink data is correctly received.

Uplink information sending method and apparatus, downlink information sending method and apparatus, downlink information receiving method and apparatus and system scheduling method and apparatus

An uplink information sending method and apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining, by user equipment, downlink control information DCI and downlink data, the DCI carries a portion of uplink scheduling information of the user equipment, the uplink information is used to indicate whether the user equipment receives the downlink data correctly, the portion of the uplink scheduling information is specifically indication information excluding a specific parameter of the user equipment, and the specific parameter includes at least one of an uplink modulation and coding scheme MCS or information used to indicate duration for sending the uplink information. The method also includes sending, by the user equipment, the uplink information according to the portion of the uplink scheduling information and the specific parameter, where the specific parameter is a parameter preset in the user equipment or a parameter received by the user equipment from a system message.

A patch generator for generating a patch that expresses a series of updates to a source image that will transform the source image into a target image. The patch generator compares sections of the target image, in turn, with respective versions of the source image. The patch generator generates the series of updates for the patch in dependence on the comparisons between the sections of the target image and the respective versions of the source image. Comparing each section of the target image with versions of the source image that are expected to be stored by the device during the process of implementing the patch allows the possibility that the device could change the source image in its memory while it implements the patch.

Binary image differential patching

The present application discloses a random access method and apparatus. The method includes: grouping, by a network device, available random access resources into a plurality of random access resource groups; sending, by the network device, information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device; receiving, by the network device, a random access request that is sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups; determining, by the network device, a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs; and determining, by the network device, an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is &#x394;f. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is &#x394;f. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Data transmission method and user equipment

Receiver and method in a receiver, for iterative channel estimation and data decoding of signals received from a radio network node, located in a wireless communication network. The method comprises detecting a signal of the radio network node, performing channel estimation of the detected signal, based on iterative application of a Space Alternating Generalized Expectation and maximization, SAGE, algorithm, determining a channel/link quality, based on the performed channel estimation and the estimated channel parameters, selecting Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output, MIMO, detector, based on the determined channel quality, determining to enable and/or disable, respectively, soft-Iterative Channel Estimation, soft-ICE, based on the determined channel quality, and iterating the performed channel estimation for a predetermined number of times.

Methods and nodes in a wireless communication network

A pilot signal transmission method, a channel estimation method, and an apparatus are provided, and the method for a pilot signal transmission includes: transmitting a pilot signal 1 CPICH1 over a first antenna, and transmitting a pilot signal 2 CPICH2 over a second antenna; transmitting a pilot signal CPICHk1 over a k1antenna; and when it is determined that a terminal of a first category in the MIMO system is scheduled, transmitting a pilot signal CPICHover the k1antenna. Interference caused by a pilot signal to a traditional terminal is better reduced, performance of the traditional terminal is ensured while the terminal of the first category properly works in the MIMO system, and power consumption for transmitting a pilot signal is effectively reduced.

Pilot signal transmission method, channel estimation method, and apparatus and system

A method and an apparatus for selecting a transport format are provided. The method includes: receiving a transport format parameter of a user equipment sent by a base station, where the transport format parameter of the user equipment includes a primary stream grant value and an association between the primary stream and the secondary stream; determining a maximum transport block length of the primary stream according to a preset value of the maximum transmit power of the user equipment and the association between the primary stream and the secondary stream; determining an actual transport block length of the primary stream according to a size relationship between a theoretical transport block length of the primary stream and the maximum transport block length; and determining a transport block length of the secondary stream.

Method and apparatus for selecting transport format

The present invention relates to an equalizing method in a receiver node of a cellular wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving at least one radio signal comprising a plurality of resource elements; obtaining interference information associated with the plurality of resource elements; extracting resource elements from the plurality of resource elements carrying data into a first set based on the interference information; dividing the resource elements in the first set into one or more sub-sets each comprising T number of resource elements; filtering the resource elements in said one or more sub-sets by applying a balanced whitening and energy focusing filter W so as to obtain filtered resource elements y; and equalizing the filtered resource elements y. The invention also relates to a receive device, a computer program, and a computer program product.

Equalizing method in a receiver node of a wireless communication system

A method for transmitting data streams in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is provided, where each data stream is mapped to multiple layers in an MIMO channel space for transmission, and the method includes: performing inter-layer interleaving for N data streams to obtain N interleaved data streams; mapping the N interleaved data streams respectively to N layers in the MIMO channel space, and transmitting the N interleaved data streams that are mapped to the N layers. By using the method of the present invention, a combined CQI can be used in a better way to improve MIMO transmission performance. Further, an impact of inter-layer interference is canceled by using an interference cancellation technology (for example, an SIC technology) based on the inter-layer interleaving.

Method and apparatus for transmitting data streams in MIMO system

In the field of communications technologies, embodiments of the present invention provide a method for detection using a YI algorithm and a YI detector, so as to solve the technical problem of poor detection performance caused by signal environment variation in the prior art. In the embodiment of the present invention, parameters are obtained according to a received signal; a level threshold at each level starting from a level corresponding to a Tailbits value is obtained according to the parameters, and validity of at least one node at the level is determined according to the level threshold, where the level is the same as a level of the level threshold; and a detection identifier is output according to the validity. The embodiment of the present invention is mainly applied to a scenario of detection using thresholds.

Method for detection using a YI algorithm, and YI detector

The present disclosure relates to an iterative method for estimating covariance matrices of communication signals comprising a) computing a reference symbol covariance matrix estimate(k,l); b) inputting said reference symbol covariance matrix estimate(k,l) to a detector or a decoder in a first iteration, and thereafter inputting the covariance matrix estimate output from e) to the detector or the decoder in subsequent iterations to obtain an updated demodulated or decoded communication signal for each iteration; c) inputting the demodulated or decoded communication signal to a symbol generator; d) computing an updated data covariance matrix estimate(k,l) for each iteration based on data symbols of said regenerated communication signal; e) combining said reference symbol covariance matrix estimate(k,l) and said updated data covariance matrix estimate(k,l); and f) forwarding said covariance matrix estimate output to the detector or decoder in b) to obtain the updated demodulated or decoded communication signal for each iteration.

Method for estimating covariance matrices and use thereof

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