Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ji Wu

Qiong Jia

Jun Zhu

Jiayin Zhang

Yingpei Lin

Jianqin Liu

Kwang-Cheng Chen

Jun Luo

Jin Liu

Jian Li

Hongjia Su

Lei Huang

Yan Long

Li Yan

Kaili Xu

Kaijun Cheng

Embodiments provide a method for transmitting indication information. The method includes: a first device generates first indication information, where the first indication information includes information about a format of a channel occupancy time of the first device, the channel occupancy time of the first device includes one or more sub-periods, the one or more sub-periods are used for uplink transmission, downlink transmission, flexible transmission, or transmission interruption, and a sub-period for transmission interruption can be used for transmission by another device other than the first device; and the first device sends the first indication information. In an indication manner described in the embodiments, a device may obtain a format in a COT in advance, thereby reducing blind detection overheads, or may sleep in advance, to reducing energy consumption.

Method and apparatus for transmitting indication information

This application discloses a wireless communication method, including: receiving, by a network device, uplink transmission of a first terminal in first duration of channel occupancy duration of the first terminal, where the channel occupancy duration of the first terminal further includes second duration, and the second duration is later than the first duration; and performing, by the network device, downlink transmission in the second duration, where a sum of the first duration and the second duration is less than or equal to the channel occupancy duration of the first terminal. This application further discloses a network device and a terminal that correspond to the wireless communication method. By applying the method and devices, a resource obtained through contention by a terminal applied to an unlicensed frequency band can be properly used, to improve operating efficiency of the unlicensed frequency band.

Method and device for managing channel occupancy duration of unlicensed frequency band

The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a network device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in one or more burst set windows, where the one or more burst set windows include a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks. SS/PBCH blocks sent at positions corresponding to at least two particular indexes have a quasi co-located (QCL) relationship.

Signal transmission method, and related device and system

Embodiments of this application disclose a resource allocation method, a base station, and a terminal. The method includes: A base station sends a configuration message to a terminal, where the configuration message is used to configure, for the terminal, a random access channel RACH resource used in a channel occupancy time COT. The base station receives a random access request that is sent by the terminal based on the RACH resource allocated by using the configuration message. According to embodiments of this application, a random access latency of the terminal can be reduced.

Resource allocation method, base station, and terminal

A signal transmission method and apparatus are described. A network device indicates an uplink transmission resource to a terminal by using first indication information, and the terminal transmits a PUCCH and a first signal on the uplink transmission resource indicated by the first indication information. The uplink transmission resource is within an unlicensed frequency band, and the first signal includes one or more of a PUSCH, an SRS, and a PRACH. Thus, if resources required for PUCCH transmission are fewer than resources included in one interlace in the unlicensed frequency band, a remaining resource in the interlace may be used to transmit the first signal.

Signal transmission method and apparatus for indicating uplink transmission resource

A guard band indication method on an unlicensed spectrum is described that includes: a network device generating one or any combination of the following four types of information on the unlicensed spectrum: an indication of bandwidth configuration information, an indication of available bandwidth information, an indication of unavailable bandwidth information, or an indication of guard band information; and the network device sends the one or any combination of the foregoing four types of generated information. The one or any combination of the four types of information is used to determine a guard band that is based on a listen before talk (LBT) result.

Guard band indication method and apparatus

An initial signal detection method includes performing, by a user equipment, detection on one or more sub-channels on an unlicensed spectrum, and determining, based on a combination of a group common-demodulation reference signal and a group common-physical downlink control channel that is detected by the user equipment a first time, that downlink transmission has started or that a channel occupancy time has started.

Initial signal detection method and apparatus

This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: determining configuration information of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks located at different frequency domain positions on one carrier, where the configuration information indicates configuration parameters of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks, the configuration parameter comprises configuration pattern indication information, and the configuration pattern indication information indicates synchronization signal blocks actually sent; and sending the configuration information to a terminal device.

Communication method and communications device

A method for radio link monitoring on an unlicensed spectrum and a communications apparatus is provided. The method includes: A terminal device determines one or more channel occupancy times (COTs). The terminal device detects one or more downlink reference signals within the one or more COTs. The terminal device determines, based on the downlink reference signal detected within the one or more COTs, whether a channel needs to be reconnected. According to the method for radio link monitoring on an unlicensed spectrum that is provided in this application, accuracy of radio link monitoring performed on an unlicensed spectrum can be ensured, precision of a result of the radio link monitoring can be improved, and a more accurate result of the radio link monitoring can be obtained, thereby improving communication efficiency and communication quality.

Method for radio link monitoring on unlicensed spectrum and communications apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a control information transmission method. The method includes: User equipment UE sends report information to a base station, where the report information includes a detection result of one or more downlink reference signals of the UE or a status of a timer/counter corresponding to the one or more downlink reference signals; the UE receives feedback information from the base station, where the feedback information includes sending status information of the one or more downlink reference signals.

Control information transmission method and apparatus

This application provides a random access method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: A terminal device scrambles first identification information of the terminal device by using an OCC, and sends a first message to a network device. After receiving the first message sent by the terminal device, the network device sends a second message to the terminal device based on the first message, where the second message includes identification information of one or more terminal devices that succeed in random access, so that the terminal device can determine, based on the identification information of the one or more terminal devices the one or more terminal devices include the first identification information of this terminal device, whether this terminal device succeeds or fails in random access.

Random access method, apparatus, device, and storage device

This application provides a system information transmission method, and a related device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, a system information request sent by one or more terminals; transmitting, by the network device, system information SI, where SI transmitted for one terminal has a quasi-co-location QCL with a portion of downlink signal blocks, and the portion of downlink signal blocks are a subset of all downlink signal blocks transmitted by the network device; and sending, by the network device, first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a mapping between a downlink signal block and SI, and the downlink signal block has a QCL with the SI corresponding to the downlink signal block. The foregoing solution can reduce system overheads and improve resource utilization.

System information transmission method, and related device and system

This application discloses a beam training method, a communication device, a chip system, and a storage medium. The method includes: performing, by a transmit device, clear channel assessment on sectors corresponding to an antenna of the transmit device; and sending, by the transmit device in a sector whose result of clear channel assessment is idle, a training signal to a receive device, where the training signal is used to perform beamforming training on the antenna. With this solution, beamforming training efficiency can be improved and resource utilization can be increased.

Beam training method, communication device, chip system, and storage medium

A resource assignment method, a related device, and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal from a network device, a resource assignment indication used to indicate frequency domain resource assignment, where the resource assignment indication is used to indicate a plurality of first resource units assigned to the terminal and that the plurality of first resource units are categorized into one or more groups, where a quantity of first resource units in each group is a product of powers of 2, 3, and 5; and performing, by the terminal, discrete Fourier transform based on the plurality of first resource units. According to the resource assignment method, flexible resource assignment can be performed, and spectrum utilization can be improved.

Resource assignment method, related device, and apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a contention window management method applied to an unlicensed band. The method includes sending, by a sending device, one or more data packets to one or more receiving devices in one reference time unit or a plurality of reference time units, where the one or more data packets occupy a first bandwidth. The method further includes receiving, by the sending device from the one or more receiving devices, a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ or HARQs for the one or more data packets. The sending device determines a contention window (CW) size of a second bandwidth with reference to the HARQ or HARQs. The CW update based on HARQ feedback improves communication efficiency.

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