Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Zte Corporation

Man Wang

Mingzeng Dai

Jian Zhang

Hongzhuo Zhang

Wenjie Peng

Haiyan Luo

Tianle Deng

Xingxing Hu

Henrik Olofsson

Jun Hu

Xudong Yang

Kaijie Zhou

Liwei Qiu

Zhiqiang Zou

Haipeng Wang

Xiaocheng Xing

Wancheng Ge

Renzhou Gui

This application provides a communication method, applied to beam sweeping. The method includes: obtaining system load of a cell at a current moment; configuring a quantity of sweeping beams in a sweeping periodicity based on the system load at the current moment; and configuring a quantity of shutdown symbols based on the quantity of sweeping beams. This application further provides a communication apparatus, a communication device, and a computer-readable storage medium, to resolve a technical problem in a conventional technology that a plurality of symbols are always in a power consumption state and energy overheads are high because a fixed quantity of beams are used for sweeping to enhance coverage, so that a base station saves more energy.

Method and device for configuring a quantity of sweeping beams

This application provides a network management method and apparatus, to implement a service level specification SLS goal of a network slice and/or a network slice subnet. The method includes: A first network management producer entity receives first management policy information, and performs a first management policy in the first management policy information which is corresponding to a first closed-loop management process. The first closed-loop management process has an association relationship with at least one second closed-loop management process which is corresponding to second management policy information, wherein the first management policy information and at least one piece of second management policy information are for implementing assurance goals of the first closed-loop management process and the at least one second closed-loop management process. The first closed-loop management process and the second closed-loop management process are respectively for implementing SLS goals of the first managed object and a second managed object.

Network management method and apparatus

Battery

The present disclosure relates to information transmission methods and network devices. One example method includes a second network node sends a first paging message to a first network node, where the first paging message comprises first configuration information corresponding to a terminal device, and the first configuration information comprises identification information of the terminal device and a paging cycle of the terminal device. The first network node determines paging occasion based on the first configuration information and configuration information of a cell served by the first network node. The first network node sends a third paging message based on the first paging message and the first paging configuration parameter, where the third paging message is used for paging the terminal device.

Information transmission method and network device

The present disclosure relates to handover methods. In one example method, a first network node determines that a terminal device needs handover. The handover is from a second network node to a third network node. The first network node sends a user equipment context setup request message to the third network node. The user equipment context setup request message is used to instruct the third network node to establish a radio link for the terminal device. The first network node sends a handover command to the terminal device. The handover command is used to instruct the terminal device to perform the handover.

Handover method, terminal device, and network device

Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes that a first communications apparatus sends quality of service (QoS) flow information to a second communications apparatus, where a QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow information corresponds to at least one bearer type. The first communications apparatus receives a QoS flow list sent by the second communications apparatus based on the QoS flow information, where each QoS flow list is mapped to a radio bearer. The first communications apparatus sends a radio bearer identifier of the QoS flow list to the second communications apparatus. In the embodiments of this application, a base station itself determines a radio bearer or a DRB used to transmit the QoS flow.

Communication method and communications device

A second access network node sends endpoint information of a second transmission path on the second access network node side to the first access network node. The second transmission path is a transmission path that is between the second access network node and a third access network node. The third access network node sends endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the first access network node. The first access network node sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the second access network node, and sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the second access network node side to the third access network node.

Communications method and apparatus, and radio access network

A transmission method is implemented by a communications device including a first functional entity and a second functional entity. A first carrier is configured for the first functional entity, and a second carrier is configured for the second functional entity. The second functional entity obtains first information, where the first information is first control information of the first functional entity, or is the first control information and second control information of the second functional entity, the first control information includes a first identifier, and the first identifier is used to indicate the first carrier; and the second functional entity sends the first information by using the second carrier.

Method and apparatus for transmitting control information

An inter-base-station synchronization method and a device are provided. The method includes: sending, by a source base station, a request for time synchronization to a target base station, request for time synchronization; receiving, by the source base station, an acknowledgment message from the target base station; sending, by the source base station, a particular sequence to a target user terminal located in a particular area, so that the target user terminal sends the particular sequence; and detecting, by the source base station, the particular sequence, and performing time synchronization between the source base station and the target base station. According to the present disclosure, the user terminal located in the particular area forwards the particular sequence, so that to-be-synchronized base stations detect the particular sequence to implement inter-base-station time synchronization.

Inter-base-station synchronization method and device

A method is provided. The method includes: receiving a handover request, from a source base station, for requesting to perform time synchronization with a target base station; and sending handover request acknowledgement information to the source base station, where the handover request acknowledgement information includes information used to indicate whether the source base station performs time synchronization with the target base station. The source base station may determine, according to the handover request acknowledgement information sent by the target base station, whether the source base station needs to perform time synchronization with the target base station.

Time synchronization method, device, and system

According to a synchronization method and apparatus provided in this application, a source station sends location information of the source station; and after obtaining a signal propagation delay that is calculated according to the location information of the source station and location information of a to-be-synchronized station, the to-be-synchronized station performs synchronization with the source station according to a synchronization reference time obtained by subtracting the propagation delay from a receiving time of a first network reference signal received from the source station. It can be learned that, in a process in which the to-be-synchronized station performs synchronization with the source station, the signal propagation delay between the to-be-synchronized station and the source station is used to compensate for the receiving time of the first network reference signal. Therefore, the consumed propagation delay can be subtracted from the synchronization reference time, so that synchronization accuracy is improved.

Synchronization method and apparatus

A method for inter-station synchronization includes listening, by a first synchronization station, a first reference signal sent by a source station; sending a second reference signal to the source station; obtaining a time difference &#x394;tbetween the first synchronization station and the source station, where the time difference &#x394;tis obtained according to a first time parameter of the first reference signal and a second time parameter of the second reference signal, the first time parameter includes a transmit time point tand a receive time point tof the first reference signal, and the second time parameter includes a transmit time point tand a receive time point tof the second reference signal; and adjusting current time of the first synchronization station according to the time difference &#x394;t.

Inter-station synchronization method, base station, and control network element

Disclosed are a method, device, and a computer storage medium for component carrier allocation. The method includes that when it is determined that a component carrier which has a frequency exceeding a preset threshold exists in component carriers which are available to be allocated currently in a cell, a FDM of UE in the cell is updated according to the coverage of the component carrier which has a frequency exceeding the preset threshold; and frequency domain priority is determined according to the updated FDM, and the component carrier which has a frequency exceeding the preset threshold is allocated for the UE in the cell according to the frequency domain priority.

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Shanghai, China

Man Wang