Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

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Kuandong Gao

Huang Huang

Mao Yan

Hua Shao

Gao Xiang

Sainan Li

Xinghua Song

Peng Guan

Lei Chen

Bo Fan

Huajiong Lin

Embodiments of this application disclose a synchronization signal block determining method and a related apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device detects a first synchronization signal block (SSB); the terminal device determines a second SSB based on the first SSB, where a frequency domain position of the first SSB and a frequency domain position of the second SSB are within a preset bandwidth, or a difference between frequency domain positions of the first SSB and the second SSB is a preset value. The second SSB may be considered as a backup SSB for the first SSB.

Synchronization signal block determining method and related apparatus

This application provides a signal transmission method and apparatus, a reflector, and a receiver. In one example method, a reflector receives W excitation signals, where W exciters may be configured to carry data and a reference signal that are reflected by the reflector; and the reflector reflects data and L reference signals to a receiver, where the L reference signals are respectively carried in L excitation signals in the W excitation signals, where W and L are both integers greater than or equal to 1, and L is less than or equal to W.

Signal transmission method and apparatus, reflector, and receiver

This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. On example method includes: a backscatter device receives an excitation signal from an exciter. The backscatter device determines a backscatter signal pattern in a backscatter signal pattern set, where the backscatter signal pattern set includes a plurality of backscatter signal patterns, and backscatter reference signals in the plurality of backscatter signal patterns do not overlap in time domain. The backscatter device modulates a backscatter reference signal and a backscatter data signal on the excitation signal based on the determined backscatter signal pattern, to obtain a backscatter signal. The backscatter device sends the backscatter signal to a receiver.

Communication method and apparatus using a backscatter signal pattern

This disclosure discloses a communication method and apparatus. In the method, a reflector is used to assist in communication between a terminal and an access network device, and in a reflector-assisted communication process, the reflector is indicated to be in a working mode when being required by the terminal or the access network device, to assist in communication, and the reflector is indicated to be in a sleep mode when being required by the terminal or the access network device, to reduce power consumption.

Communication method and apparatus

This application discloses a communications method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first message to a network device, where the first message includes a first random access preamble and first data, and a first redundancy version is used for the first data; and determining, by the terminal device, that the first data fails to be sent, and retransmitting the first data, where a second redundancy version is used for the first data. The corresponding communications apparatus is further disclosed. An incremental redundancy manner is used in a retransmission procedure of random access data.

Communications method and apparatus

This application provides a random access preamble transmission method and an apparatus. In one example method, a terminal receives indication information, and may indicate, with reference to the indication information, whether a first path loss is the same as a second path loss, and determine the first path loss based on the second path loss. Then, the terminal may set, based on a path loss for transmitting a random access preamble between the terminal and a network device, a transmit power for sending the random access preamble.

Random access preamble transmission method and apparatus

The present disclosure relates to communication methods. One example method includes within a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, starting, by a terminal device, a first timer (for example, a DRX inactivity timer (drx-InactivityTimer)) when a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicates a new transmission. When the first timer expires at or after a time position for sending an indication signal, the terminal device does not receive the indication signal, where the time position is configured by a network device for the terminal device, and the indication signal is used to indicate the terminal device to sleep.

This application provides an example paging indication information transmission method and an example communications apparatus. The method includes the terminal device receiving paging indication information, where the paging indication information includes at least one of the following bits: all or some bits of valid bits of a short message field in downlink control information (DCI), all or some bits of remaining bits of the short message field in the DCI, and all or some bits of a reserved field in the DCI. The method also includes the terminal device determining, based on the paging indication information, whether to detect a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).

Paging indication information transmission method and communications apparatus

This application provides a method and an apparatus for sending feedback information and a method and an apparatus for receiving feedback information, to reduce resource waste in a data retransmission process. The method includes: A terminal device receives association relationship indication information from a network device, where the association relationship indication information is used to indicate a plurality of transmission units having an association relationship or a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes having an association relationship; the terminal device receives, from the network device based on the association relationship indication information, data of the plurality of transmission units or the plurality of HARQ processes having an association relationship; the terminal device successfully receives one of the plurality of transmission units or data of one of the plurality of HARQ processes; and the terminal device sends a positive acknowledgement to the network device.

Method and apparatus for sending feedback information, and method and apparatus for receiving feedback information

A method includes generating a data signal based on data, scrambling the data signal with a pseudo-random signal thereby generating a scrambled data signal, generating an amplitude shift keying (ASK) signal based on the scrambled data signal, and transmitting, by a transceiver, the ASK signal.

Signal processing method and related apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a synchronization signal transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a network device, time domain positions for sending m synchronization signal blocks, where the time domain positions are {s1, s2, . . . , sm}+n×T, s1 represents a start symbol index of the first synchronization signal block in a time unit, s2 represents a start symbol index of the second synchronization signal block in the time unit, sm represents a start symbol index of an msynchronization signal block in the time unit, the time unit includes T symbols; and sending, by the network device, the synchronization signal blocks to a terminal device in the time domain positions of the synchronization signal blocks. The technical solutions provided in this application have relatively high flexibility, and can meet, to some extent, a synchronization signal block sending requirement for a high-frequency technology.

Synchronization signal transmission method, network device, and terminal device

This application provides a system information redundancy version determining method and apparatus. A communications device determines at least one time-domain resource unit Ux, and determines a redundancy version RVx for system information on the time-domain resource unit Ux according to the time-domain resource unit Ux, where x is an identifier of the time-domain resource unit, the redundancy version RVx satisfies RVx=(Int1(X1/X2*(Int2(x/M) mod K))) mod L, x is a non-negative integer, X1 and X2 are non-zero real numbers, M is a positive real number, K and L are positive integers, mod indicates a modulo operation, Int1 indicates rounding up or rounding down, and Int2 indicates rounding up or rounding down.

System information redundancy version determining method and apparatus

This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: determining a system frame number of a radio system frame in which a to-be-sent first broadcast channel PBCH is located, to obtain a first transport block, where the first processing manner is used to indicate some bits of the system frame number of the radio system frame in which the first PBCH is located, and the first MIB includes remaining bits, other than the some bits, of the system frame number of the radio system frame in which the first PBCH is located; and sending, by using the first PBCH, the first transport block in the radio system frame.

Communication method and communications apparatus

A random access method includes determining, by a network device, configuration information and sending the configuration information to a terminal. The configuration information indicates at least a quantity of random access preambles transmitted on one random access resource, a quantity of contention-based random access preambles transmitted on the one random access resource, a quantity of contention-free random access preambles transmitted on the one random access resource, the quantity of random access preambles associated with one downlink signal, the quantity of contention-free random access preambles associated with the one downlink signal, the quantity of contention-based random access preambles associated with the one downlink signal, or a quantity of transmitted downlink signals associated with the one random access resource.

Random access method, network device, and terminal

An information sending and receiving method and an apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment an information sending apparatus includes a processor configured to determine, based on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) period or a synchronization signal block burst set (SS block burst set) period, a period in which remaining minimum system information (RMSI) is to be sent and a sender configured to send the RMSI to a terminal device by using X as the period, wherein X is a multiple of the PBCH period, or X and the PBCH period are in a one-to-one correspondence or a one-to-many relationship, and wherein a network device is configured to send at least one piece of RMSI by using at least one beam or antenna port.

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