Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Zte Corporation

Jing Qiu

Fengwei Liu

Lei Chen

Shitong Yuan

Jianglei Ma

Ming Jia

Liqing Zhang

Kelvin Kar Kin Au

Xiaoyong Tang

Yunfu Dou

Huaiyun Zhu

Yalin Liu

Jun Chen

Yong Xie

You Li

Xiaona Wang

Kin Nang Lau

Tingjian Tian

Qiqi Mao

Guangbo Yu

A resource indication method and a communication apparatus, where the method includes: The second node receives first indication information from the first node, where the first indication information includes first resource information, and the first resource information is associated with a first reference signal. The second node determines the first resource information based on the first indication information, where the first resource information is for limiting sending of a to-be-sent signal on a first resource indicated by the first resource information.

Resource indication method and communication apparatus

A communication method and a communication apparatus are disclosed. The communication method includes: An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node receives first configuration information from a source donor base station, where the first configuration information includes N pieces of configuration information of a mobile terminal (MT) and N pieces of configuration information of a distributed unit (DU) that are configured by N target donor base stations for the IAB node; and the DU of the IAB node uses one piece of configuration information in the N pieces of configuration information of the DU when the MT of the IAB node satisfies a specific condition, where N is greater than or equal to 1, the MT is configured to communicate with a parent node of the IAB node, the source donor base station, or the target donor base station, and the DU is configured to communicate with a child node of the IAB node or a terminal.

Communication method and communication apparatus

This application provides a timing synchronization method and an apparatus, to improve precision of a downlink transmit timing of a relay node. The method includes: The first node receives first indication information from a donor node, where the first indication information is used to indicate information about a plurality of second nodes, and the second node is a parent node of the first node. The first node receives a plurality of pieces of timing information from the plurality of second nodes. The first node determines a first downlink transmit timing of the first node based on the plurality of pieces of timing information.

Timing synchronization method and apparatus

A resource indication method and apparatus are provided, to implement resource indication in a case in which a distributed unit (DU) has a plurality of cells. The method includes: a first node receives indication information from a second node, where the indication information is used to indicate availability of a dynamic resource in first resources corresponding to P cells, the first resource is a transmission resource used by the first node to communicate with a third node, the second node is an upper-level node of the first node, and the third node is a lower-level node of the first node. The first node determines the availability of the dynamic resource in the first resources of the P cells based on the indication information, where 1≤P≤N.

Resource indication method and apparatus

This application provides a transmission resource configuration method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first node, a transmission resource configuration from a second node, where the transmission resource configuration includes a first configuration and a second configuration, the first configuration indicates that a start time resource is uplink and/or an end time resource is downlink in a configuration period, and the second configuration indicates that a start time resource is downlink and/or an end time resource is uplink in a configuration period; and switching, by the first node based on first signaling, a transmission direction of a first time resource in the first configuration by using the first configuration; or using, by the first node, the first configuration or the second configuration based on second signaling.

Transmission resource configuration method and apparatus

This application provides a resource configuration method and a communication apparatus. In the technical solutions of this application, a donor node may configure different DU resource configurations for an IAB node and two parent nodes of the IAB, so that the IAB node can determine MT resources for different parent nodes based on the different DU resource configurations, to implement resource configuration of the IAB node in a dual connectivity scenario.

Resource configuration method and apparatus for IAB nodes

A resource multiplexing method and apparatus are provided, to determine a set of available symbols in an NR IAB system. A first node determines a time domain position of a DU resource of a communications device, and determines a time domain position of an MT resource of the communications device based on the time domain position and a type of the DU resource and guard interval information. Alternatively, a first node determines a time domain position of an MT resource of a communications device, and determines a time domain position of a DU resource of the communications device based on the time domain position and a type of the MT resource and guard interval information.

Resource multiplexing method and apparatus

This application provides example resource configuration methods, example apparatuses, and example computer-readable storage medium. One example method includes obtaining, by a distributed unit (DU) side of a first node, a first resource configuration and at least one second resource configuration, where the first resource configuration indicates the DU side of the first node to communicate with at least one of a terminal device or a second node by using the first resource configuration, the second resource configuration indicates the DU side of the first node to communicate with the second node by using the second resource configuration, the first node is a relay node, and the second node is a child node of the first node. The DU side of the first node can then communicate with the at least one of the terminal device or the second node.

Resource configuration method and apparatus

This present disclosure discloses example random access resource configuration methods, mediums, and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first network device, configuration information of a first physical random access channel (PRACH) resource. Location adjustment information is received by the first network device, where the location adjustment information is used to indicate to adjust a location of at least a part of the first PRACH resource. A second PRACH resource is determined by the first network device based on the configuration information of the first PRACH resource and the location adjustment information. A random access request is sent by the first network device to a second network device on the second PRACH resource.

Random access resource configuration method and apparatus

This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, to improve resource utilization. The method includes: A first node obtains reference information, where the reference information includes information about a first subcarrier spacing and information about a first backhaul resource. The first node transmits data on a second backhaul resource by using a second subcarrier spacing, where the second backhaul resource includes one or more sub-resources, each of the one or more sub-resources includes M resource units, M is an integer greater than 1, M is determined based on the first subcarrier spacing and the second subcarrier spacing, the second subcarrier spacing is greater than the first subcarrier spacing, and the second backhaul resource is a subset of the first backhaul resource.

Data transmission method and apparatus

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose example network device, terminal device, and method for notifying information about a power difference. One example network device includes one or more processors performing operations that include determining first information and sending, by a transceiver of the network device, the first information to a terminal device. The first information indicates a first power difference that is associated with a first waveform. The first power difference is an offset between a power of a reference signal and a power of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on which the first waveform is used.

Method, device, and system for notifying information about power difference

This application provides a method and apparatus for determining a resource in a relay system. By receiving resource indication information transmitted by an upper-level node, a first node determines the availability of a symbol in a first resource set located between a first hard resource set and a second hard resource set, and communicates with the upper-level node on the symbol based on the resource indication information to maximally improve resource utilization.

Method and apparatus for determining transmission resource

In a transmission parameter configuration method, a first node receives a transmission configuration message, where the transmission configuration message includes transmission configuration index information and a transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information, and the transmission configuration index information is used to identify different transmission modes. The first node obtains a transmission indication message, where the transmission indication message includes the transmission configuration index information, and the transmission indication message is used to indicate to the first node to apply the transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information. The first node performs, based on the transmission configuration index information, data transmission by using the transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information. The method can meet requirements of more application scenarios, support more transmission modes, and reduce overheads caused by transmission parameters.

Transmission parameter configuration method and apparatus

Example embodiments of this application provide a slot format configuration method. The method includes: a second node sends first configuration information to a first node, where the second node is a parent node of the first node; the first node determines a slot format of each slot in a first set of slots based on the first configuration information, where the first set of slots includes slots that are used for communication between the first node and a third node in one or more periods, and the third node is a child IAB node of the first node or a terminal device served by the first node; and the first node modifies slot formats of some slots in the first set of slots to obtain modified slot formats of these slots.

Slot format configuration method and communications apparatus

This application discloses example power control methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first node, first information sent by a second node, where the first information is used to determine a first transmit power, where the first transmit power is a power used when the first node sends downlink information to the second node through a first link, where the first link is a link between the first node and the second node, and where the first node is an upper-level device of the second node. The first node can then determine the first transmit power based on the first information.

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