Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Rfs Technologies, Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (shanghai) Corporation

Tongji University

Amlogic (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Business Objects S.a.

Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd.

Zte Corporation

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Jing Liu

Mingzeng Dai

Yuanping Zhu

Qinghai Zeng

Zhenzhen Cao

Wenjie Peng

Yulong Shi

Yan Peng

Hongzhuo Zhang

Jun Wang

Haiyan Luo

Bo Lin

Ting Wang

He Huang

Yi Guo

Jian Zhang

Ningjuan Chang

Qufang Huang

Liangliang Zhang

Yongxia Lyu

Hongping Zhang

Yin Gao

Lifeng Han

Yuanjie Li

Zhenfei Tang

Wei Wang

Hao Tang

Dongmei Zhang

Zhe Liu

Tingting Geng

Xiao Xiao

Yu Chen

Min Huang

Yada Huang

Shengyue Dou

Xiaojuan Shi

Xiaoli Shi

Shaoguang Feng

Guohua Zhou

Yang Liu

Yibin Zhuo

Tingting Wang

Shitong Yuan

Ke Wang

You Li

Aiqin Zhang

Jiankai Xu

Zhou Xu

Jiren Han

Ke Chen

Chunhua Zhou

Yinghao Guo

Xiangyu Li

Bing Tang

Mengjie Zhang

Wei Jia Yu

Yedan Wu

Xiaoyu Bi

Huan Chen

Jihong Sun

Chi Liu

Ta Lee Yu

Wuzhen Xiong

Zhenmin Liu

Bing Shu

Xuemei Zhai

Yu Xiao

Weixian Zhang

Siqi Wang

Qingwei Meng

Cunqing Hua

Jinping Wang

Airong Liu

Nuo Liu

Yangming Li

Xiaolu Dai

Han Yang

Jingkai Jiao

Yuanrong Zheng

Junwei Teng

This application provides a communication method. In the method, a first node receives a first radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message from a first donor node through a second node. After the first node receives the first RRC reconfiguration message from the second node, the first node receives first indication information from the second node. When the first node determines, based on the first indication information, that the first RRC reconfiguration message becomes effective, the first node establishes an RRC connection to a second donor node based on the first RRC reconfiguration message. In the method, the first node and the second node are nodes in a group that performs group handover, the group handover is a cross-donor node group handover, the second node is a head node or the second node is connected to a head node, and the second node is a parent node of the first node.

Communication method applied to integrated access and backhaul IAB system and communication apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a node handover method, in which a source donor node sends a handover request message to a target donor node, where the handover request message includes context information of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node and context information of at least one terminal device. The source donor node receives a handover response message sent by the target donor node, where the handover response message includes an identifier of an accepted terminal device in the at least one terminal device and/or an identifier of a rejected terminal device in the at least one terminal device.

Node handover method and related device

A method includes: a first IAB node sets up a first RRC connection to a target IAB donor by performing RLF recovery. The first IAB node sends a first message to a second node by using an SRB 1 or an SRB 2 or the first IAB node sends a BH RLF indication to the second node. The first IAB node sets up an RRC connection to a target IAB donor by performing RLF recovery and the second node is connected to a source IAB donor through the first IAB node. The second node may be triggered to set up an second RRC connection to the target IAB donor based on the first message or the BH RLF indication.

RLF recovery method and apparatus for IAB network, and related device

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a radiation element is provided, comprising: a basic radiation element and one or more bandwidth extension structures; wherein the one or more bandwidth extension structures are mounted on the basic radiation element to extend the operating bandwidth of the basic radiation element. The present disclosure has the following advantages: the radiation element according to the present disclosure has one or more bandwidth extension structures to extend the operating bandwidth of the basic radiation element, such that by combining the plurality of bandwidth extension structures and the basic radiation element, the radiation element may work well at bands beyond its original operating band, which eliminates the need of using a plurality of basic radiation elements due to different operating bandwidths as required, thereby saving costs.

Radiation element and bandwidth extension structure

A first node sends, after determining that all data packets from a migrating IAB node are received, first indication information to a source IAB donor CU. The first node is an upstream IAB node of a source parent node of the migrating IAB node or is a source IAB donor DU, the source IAB donor CU is an IAB donor CU connected to the migrating IAB node before migration, and the source IAB donor DU is an IAB donor DU connected to the migrating IAB node before the migration. The first node receives second indication information from the source IAB donor CU. The first node updates or releases, based on the second indication information, backhaul configuration information that corresponds to the migrating IAB node and that is on a backhaul link between the first node and a child node of the first node.

Method for updating or releasing backhaul configuration information and related product

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for controlling wireless backhaul link. In one example method, a first device determines to manage a first radio link control (RLC) bearer on a wireless backhaul link between a first backhaul node and a second device, where the second device is a parent node of the first backhaul node, the first device is a centralized unit (CU) of a donor base station, and the second device is a distributed unit (DU) of the donor base station; the second device is a second backhaul node, and the first device is a donor base station; or the first device is a CU of a donor base station, and the second device is a second backhaul node. The first device sends a backhaul type indicator and management information of the first RLC bearer to the first backhaul node.

Method for controlling wireless backhaul link and apparatus

One example method includes sending, by a first terminal device, a first request message to a network device, where the first request message is used to request to establish a sidelink radio bearer (SL RB) between the first terminal device and a second terminal device, where the first request message includes at least one of a parameter index or at least one parameter. The first terminal device can then receive a first response message from the network device, where the first response message includes one or more of admission control indication information, the at least one parameter, the parameter index, or first SL RB radio resource configuration information, where the admission control indication information indicates that the network device allows establishment of the SL RB, and where the first SL RB radio resource configuration information includes at least one of an SL RB identifier or protocol layer configuration information.

Methods and apparatus for establishing a sidelink radio bearer

A communication method includes a first IAB node receives a first message from a CU of an IAB donor, where the first message indicates the first IAB node to be handed over from a first parent node to a second parent node, and the first message includes a first IP address of the first IAB node. The first IAB node determines first transport network layer association information between the first IAB node and the CU of the IAB donor based on the first IP address. The first IAB node updates control plane context information of an F1 interface by using the first transport network layer association information, where the F1 interface is an interface between the first IAB node and CU of the IAB donor. An IAB node communicates with a CU of an IAB donor by using a first IP address as soon as possible after handover is completed.

Communication method and apparatus

The disclosure provides routing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a first node receives a data packet. The first node determines a Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) header in the data packet, where the BAP header includes a BAP address of a destination node of the data packet and first information. The first information is used to determine whether the BAP header includes a routing path identifier of the data packet. The first node sends the data packet including the BAP header to the destination node based on the BAP header.

Routing method and apparatus

One example method includes receiving, by a first IAB node, N data packets from a donor base station to a terminal device. The first IAB node can determine a PDCP PDU SN of a first data packet in PDCP PDU SNs of the N data packets, where the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet is a largest PDCP PDU SN in the PDCP PDU SNs of the N data packets, or the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet is a largest PDCP PDU SN in consecutive PDCP PDU SNs starting from a smallest PDCP PDU SN in the PDCP PDU SNs that are of the N data packets and that are arranged in ascending order. The first IAB node can send first information to the donor base station, where the first information includes a value of the PDCP PDU SN of the first data packet.

Data transmission method and apparatus

An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node switching method, including: receiving, by a third IAB node, a node switching command from a source donor node, where the node switching command is used to indicate a parent node of the third IAB node to switch to a second node, the source donor node is a control node of the third IAB node, the first node is a source parent node of the third IAB node, the first node is a donor node or another IAB node, and the second node is a donor node or another IAB node; and switching, by the third IAB node, to the second node, and sending, by the third IAB node, first indication information to a child node of the third IAB node, where the first indication information indicates the child node to interrupt transmission with the third IAB node.

IAB node switching method and apparatus

A time domain resource format configuration method is provided. In addition to configuring time domain resources for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node based on a downlink-flexible-uplink time domain resource format, an IAB donor may further configure time domain resources for the IAB node based on an uplink-flexible-downlink time domain resource format, so that the time domain resources can be flexibly configured for the IAB node, to improve utilization and a throughput of the time domain resources in an IAB network.

Time domain resource format configuration method, communication apparatus, and communication system

A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: An IAB donor gNodeB determines first indication information, and then sends a first message to an eNB, where the first message includes a first control plane message and the first indication message; and the eNB may determine a first radio bearer based on the first indication information in the received first message, and then sends a second message including the first control plane message to an IAB node by using the first radio bearer. The first radio bearer corresponds to a type of a downlink F1AP message, so that the eNB selects different radio bearers for different types of downlink F1AP messages, thereby providing an effective QoS guarantee for a service of a terminal.

Communication method of transmitting a control plane message for an interface between a radio backhaul device and a radio access device through another radio access device

A data packet transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: An IAB donor determines first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a first backhaul link BH RLC channel, and the first BH RLC channel is used to transmit a control protocol data unit PDU at a backhaul adaptation protocol BAP layer. The IAB donor sends the first configuration information to an IAB node. According to the foregoing procedure, the IAB donor indicates, by using the first configuration information, the IAB node to send the control PDU at the BAP layer through the first BH RLC channel, to implement bearer mapping when the IAB node needs to send the control PDU at the BAP layer.

Data packet transmission method and apparatus

A group handover method is disclosed. The method includes: A first terminal device receives first information from a first network device, where the first information indicates a first resource for carrying fourth information, the fourth information is cell handover information of a plurality of terminal devices, and the first terminal device is one of the plurality of terminal devices; and the first terminal device receives the fourth information on the first resource. This can reduce signaling overheads caused by cell handover of a plurality of users and improve resource utilization.

Group handover method and apparatus

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