Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Shenzhen Winpsheng Creative Greeting Card Company Limited

Jingyuan Sun

Yongxing Zhou

Xiaotao Ren

Liang Xia

Lixia Xue

David Jean-Marie Mazzarese

Lei Guan

Mingyu Zhou

David Mazzarese

Yan Cheng

Qiang Li

Yi Zhang

Yuantao Zhang

Zhuyan Zhao

Lei Wan

Deshan Miao

Hongchao Li

Sha Ma

Yuan Xia

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Xiangnian Zeng

Jian Wang

Bo Lin

Yajun Zhao

Klaus Ingemann Pedersen

Shujun Dang

Yanji Zhang

Chengyu Wang

Wei Jiang

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe

Di Zhu

Jianguo Wang

Jiayin Zhang

Mihai Enescu

Li Chai

Dongyang Du

Jiafeng Shao

Hong Zhou

Tao Guo

Mingyu Zou

Embodiments of the present invention provide a bandwidth allocation method and apparatus, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, virtual bandwidth configuration information, where the virtual bandwidth configuration information is used for indicating a configuration of a virtual bandwidth; and performing, by the user equipment, signal reception and/or signal processing according to the virtual bandwidth indicated by the virtual bandwidth configuration information, where each virtual bandwidth is a part or all of a downlink maximum available bandwidth or a downlink transmission bandwidth, and the downlink maximum available bandwidth is a maximum bandwidth available for downlink transmission. In the embodiments of the present invention, reduction of overheads and reduction of complexity of signal reception and signal processing are implemented, and overheads and complexity of signal reception and processing feedback can be flexibly controlled.

Bandwidth allocation method and apparatus, user equipment, and base station

The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a common signal and an apparatus thereof. The method includes: determining, by a first base station, a first configuration used to send a common signal; and sending, by the first base station, the common signal according to the first configuration. According to the method for transmitting a common signal and the apparatus thereof in embodiments of the present invention, a base station sends a common signal in a triggering mode, so that the common signal is sent more flexibly, thereby reducing an overhead during sending of the common signal, reducing a possibility of interference caused by the sending of the common signal to a neighboring cell, and improving user experience.

Method for transmitting common signal and apparatus thereof

A method includes: transmitting a first common control channel on a first resource, wherein the first resource is one candidate resource of a first candidate resource set within downlink resources of a cell, wherein the first common control channel carries a common search space indication information, wherein the common search space indication information indicates an actual resource of a common search space in a second candidate resource set of the cell, wherein the second candidate resource set is a subset of a common search space candidate resource set, wherein the common search space candidate resource set comprises at least two subsets, and wherein each subset of the at least two subsets corresponds to a candidate resource of the first candidate resource set; and transmitting a physical downlink control channel in the actual resource of the common search space.

Detecting method, transmitting method and apparatus for common control channel

A cell configuration method includes: determining, by a first base station corresponding to a first cell, system information of a second cell; and notifying, by the first base station, a second base station corresponding to the second cell of the system information, so that the second base station sends and receives signals according to the system information. According to solutions provided in embodiments of the present application, system information of a cell may be dynamically or semi-statically adjusted according to user equipment distribution and service distribution.

Cell configuration method, synchronization method, user equipment, and base station

A common information transmission method and an apparatus relate to the communications field, and to reduce repeated sending of common information from a base station to a plurality of user equipments (UEs) during sending of the common information, and improve utilization of resources between the base station and the UEs. The method includes obtaining, by UE, frequency domain location information of a first transmission bandwidth, determining, by the UE, a size and a location of the first transmission bandwidth in a bandwidth of the UE according to the frequency domain location information, where the bandwidth of the UE is one of system bandwidths, and receiving, by the UE over the first transmission bandwidth according to the size and the location of the first transmission bandwidth, common information sent by a base station.

Common information transmission method and apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention provide a detecting method, a transmitting method and an apparatus for a common control channel. The detecting method includes: determining a candidate resource set within virtual downlink resources of a current cell. The candidate resource set can include at least one candidate resource carrying a common control channel of the current cell. A detection is performed on at least one candidate resource in the candidate resource set, so as to acquire the common control channel of the current cell. In the embodiments of the present invention, a selection range of resources for transmitting a common control channel is extended, so that inter-cell interference of the common control channel can be coordinated, and a detection performance of the common control channel can be improved.

An apparatus is provided which comprises at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, and the at least one processor, with the at least one memory and the computer program code, being arranged to cause the apparatus to at least perform generating a code block including information bits and parity bits, the parity bits being generated by performing a cyclic redundancy check on the information bits, determining the number of parity bits used in generating the code block based on an applied linear error correcting code base graph and/or based on the number of the information bits, and encoding the code block by using the applied linear error correcting code base graph.

Use of LDPC base graphs for NR

Embodiments of the present application provide a method for acquiring information of access resources, a terminal device, and a base station. A terminal device detects a synchronization signal of a cell to be accessed by the terminal device. The terminal device further receives a broadcast channel of the cell on a broadcast channel resource. The terminal device then determines a resource on which the cell is located according to resource indication information carried in the broadcast channel. The broadcast channel resource corresponds to an actual access resource, and the synchronization signal is detected on the actual access resource. The actual access resource is one of a plurality of candidate access resources of the cell. The resource indication information indicates a location relationship between the actual access resource and the resource on which the cell is located.

Information transmission method, user equipment, and base station

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for uplink transmission without an uplink grant. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a terminal device in a communication system is presented. According to this method, the terminal device determines a redundancy version (RV) pattern for a plurality of uplink transmissions. The RV pattern indicates a plurality of RV indices. At least one RV index in the respective plurality of RV indices is periodic in the RV pattern. The terminal device determines coded bits to be transmitted in the plurality of uplink transmissions based at least in part on the RV pattern. The terminal device transmits the coded bits to the network device in at least one transmission of the plurality of uplink transmissions without an uplink grant. By utilizing this periodic structure of the RV pattern, the network device may have more chance to receive the predefined or configured RV index with self-decodable transmissions for example, leading to a higher reliability and better decoding performance for the grant-free communication systems.

Method and apparatus for uplink transmission

Various communication systems may benefit from improved transmissions. For example, a network transmission may benefit from improved throughput and efficiency in non-schedule multiple access communications. A method includes selecting at a user equipment operating in a non-scheduled access scheme at least one of a first codeword or a second codeword based on an amount of data. The data in the non-scheduled access scheme can be spread according to a spreading sequence. The method also includes determining a transport block size for at least one of the first codeword or the second codeword. In addition, the method includes transmitting the data from the user equipment to a network node using at least one of the first codeword or the second codeword.

Codeword adaptation for non-orthogonal coded access

A method and apparatus may include receiving configuration signaling from a network node to use a resource pool. The apparatus transmits using contention-based transmission. The method also includes selecting a preamble zone combination from the resource pool. The method may also include transmitting a preamble to the network node using the selected preamble zone combination. A preamble sequence index is used to identify the user equipment.

Method and apparatus for implementing preamble zone selection

Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource mapping method and an apparatus, and relate the communications field, so as to flexibly implement resource mapping of a channel or a signal. First information is obtained. The first information is used to indicate a cyclic shift start resource block location or a cyclic shift end resource block location for resource mapping of a first channel or a first signal in a resource block cyclic shift manner in a bandwidth used by user equipment. A resource mapping location of the first channel or the first signal in the bandwidth used by the user equipment is determined according to the resource block cyclic shift manner and the first information. The first channel or the first signal is received or sent at the resource mapping location. The resource mapping method and the apparatus are used to map a resource.

Resource mapping for a user equipment in a communication system

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