Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Peng Shang

Huangping Jin

Wei Han

Xiaoyan Bi

Peng Jiang

Shibin Ge

Lu Wu

Xiaohan Wang

Jin Liu

Hui Wang

Xiang Ren

Dageng Chen

Haifan Yin

Yiling Yuan

Embodiments of this application provide an update method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating space domain vector update information, where the space domain vector update information is for updating a first group of space domain vectors to obtain a second group of space domain vectors, the space domain vector update information includes a plurality of groups of space domain vector coefficients, and each group of space domain vector coefficients is for performing weighted combination on the first group of space domain vectors, to obtain one space domain vector in the second group of space domain vectors; and sending the space domain vector update information.

Update method and communications apparatus

This application provides example channel measurement methods and example communication apparatuses. One example method includes determining L weighting coefficients for determining channels of K moments based on channels of M moments, where L, M, and K are all positive integers. Information about the L weighting coefficients can then be sent.

Channel measurement method and communication apparatus

This application provides methods and apparatuses for precoding vector indication and determination. One method includes: generating, by a first communications device, first indication information that indicates one or more port selection vectors, one or more frequency domain vectors, and one or more linear combination coefficients, wherein each of the one or more linear combination coefficients corresponds to a port selection vector and a frequency domain vector, each of the one or more port selection vectors indicates a port of a precoded reference signal, and each of the one or more frequency domain vectors indicates a variation pattern of a channel in a frequency domain; and sending the first indication information to a second communications device.

Precoding vector indication method, precoding vector determining method, and communications apparatus

This application describes a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method may include determining, by a terminal device, a reporting type of channel state information (CSI), where the reporting type is used to indicate a relationship between CSI of a beam that is currently reported by the terminal device and CSI of a beam that is previously reported by the terminal device in a current reporting period. The method may also include sending, by the terminal device, CSI of N beams to a network device based on a reporting type and a codebook parameter, where the codebook parameter is used to indicate a quantity N of the currently reported beams, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. According to the data transmission method, the terminal device, and the network device described in the embodiments of this application, CSI reporting flexibility can be improved, thereby improving system performance.

Data transmission method, terminal device, and network device

A method includes generating, by a processor, first indication information based on N reference signals, where N is an integer and N&#x2265;2. The first indication information indicates a plurality of component vectors for constructing a precoding matrix and a superposition coefficient of each component vector of each of M precoding vectors for constructing the precoding matrix upon which a precoding of M reference signals is based, where M is an integer and 1&#x2264;M&#x3c;N. The method also includes transmitting the first indication information by way of an antenna.

Precoding matrix indication method, precoding matrix determining method, and device

Embodiments of the present invention provide a precoding vector indicating method, a precoding vector determining method, a receive end device, and a transmit end device. The precoding vector indicating method includes: determining a plurality of component vectors of an ideal precoding vector and a weight of each component vector based on at least one basic codebook, where each component vector is a column vector of one of the at least one basic codebook; and sending a precoding vector indicator, where the precoding vector indicator is used to indicate the plurality of component vectors and the weight of each component vector. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a precoding vector determining method, a receive end device, and a transmit end device. In the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, a basic codebook is constructed based on a plurality of parameters, so that the basic codebook can be used to more accurately describe a channel environment. In this way, a precoding vector determined based on the basic codebook provided in the embodiments of the present invention can more accurately match a channel, thereby improving a precoding effect.

Precoding vector indicating method, precoding vector determining method, receive end device, and transmit end device

A channel state information feedback method includes: generating, by a transmit-end device, codebook indication information of K transport layers, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and for each of at least one of the K transport layers, the codebook indication information includes narrowband superposition coefficients of N sub-bands of the layer, where a quantity of the narrowband superposition coefficients of the N sub-bands is less than R(L&#x2212;1)*N, N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, R is a quantity of polarization directions and R is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and L is a quantity of pieces of beam information used by the K transport layers and L is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and sending, by the transmit-end device, the codebook indication information.

Channel state information feedback and receiving method, transmit-end device, and receive-end device

The present disclosure relates to channel state information (CSI) receiving methods and apparatus. One example method includes transmitting a pilot, and receiving feedback of Wand Wfor each transport layer which are determined based on the pilot, where Wand Ware used to form a combined vector W for each transport layer, W=W&#xd7;W, W=[bb. . . b], bis a vector to be combined, W=[XX. . . X], Xis a weighting coefficient corresponding to b, K is a quantity of vectors in W, K is a positive integer which is greater than 1, i is an integer, 1&#x2264;i&#x2264;K, and quantities of bits for feeding back at least two elements in Ware different from each other.

Information feedback method, user equipment, and network device

The present invention discloses an inter-base station beam configuration and management method, a base station, user equipment, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, a beam signal sent by a base station; determining, by the user equipment, a receive beam based on the sent beam signal; receiving, by the base station, a beam signal sent by a terminal device; determining, by the base station, a receive beam based on the sent beam signal; performing dynamic selection and fast beam switching between base stations in combination with a coordinated multi-point technology; and performing fast beam alignment between the base station end with the user equipment end. This application can effectively implement fast beam switching and alignment between base stations and support dynamic base station selection, thereby improving link reliability.

Coordinated multi-point-based beam configuration and management method

This application disclose a method for indicating and determining a precoding vector related to precoding technologies to increase an overall system performance gain. The method may include: generating indication information, and sending the indication information. The indication information is used to indicate a plurality of component vectors of a precoding vector and a combination coefficient of each component vector. The combination coefficient of the component vector includes at least one of the following types: a wideband amplitude coefficient, a narrowband amplitude coefficient, and a narrowband phase coefficient.

Method for indicating precoding vector, and device

The present invention belongs to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a channel state information CSI feedback method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining a codebook of at each transport layer CSI of user equipment UE, where the codebook of the CSI at each transport layer of the UE is: W=W&#xd7;W, an element Xin Wis a weighting coefficient corresponding to each codeword in W, and i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to K; determining a quantity Nof bits occupied by a quantized value of an ielement in W, where quantized values of at least two elements in Woccupy different quantities of bits; and feeding back the quantized value of the ielement to a network device based on N.

Embodiments can provide a precoding matrix indicating method, a precoding matrix determining method, a receive end device, and a transmit end device. In the precoding matrix indicating method, component matrices of an ideal precoding matrix and a weight of each component matrix can be determined based on at least one basic codebook. A dimension of each component matrix is the same as a dimension of the ideal precoding matrix, and a column vector of each component matrix is selected from column vectors of one of the at least one basic codebook. A precoding matrix indicator can be sent. The precoding matrix indicator can indicate the component matrices and the weight of each component matrix. With this, an ideal precoding matrix is approximately represented in a form of a weighted sum of a plurality of component matrices so that feedback overheads caused by feeding back a precoding matrix can be reduced.

Precoding matrix indicating method, precoding matrix determining method, receive end device, and transmit end device

The present disclosure discloses a channel state information feedback method, a base station, a terminal device, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a reference signal sent by a base station; determining, by the terminal device, channel state information based on the reference signal; and sending, by the terminal device, the channel state information to the base station, so that the base station determines a precoding matrix F. The precoding matrix F=CCW, where Cis a first-level precoding matrix, Cis a second-level precoding matrix, and W is a third-level precoding matrix. Channel state information corresponding to Cincludes beam information, channel state information corresponding to Cincludes long-term wideband channel information, and channel state information corresponding to W includes instantaneous channel information. This patent application can reduce total pilot and CSI feedback overheads, thereby improving a system throughput.

Channel state information feedback method, base station, terminal device, and system

A radio access node (RAN) and method of operation of the RAN are provided. The RAN includes a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array. The RAN includes a processing hardware configured to carry out a communication method that includes receiving a digital data stream for transmission on a time-frequency resource. The RAN precodes the digital data stream using a digital beamforming stage to render a precoded digital downlink data stream for downlink data stream signal transmission to a user equipment. The digital beamforming stage includes a first precoding stage configured according to a long-term matrix, and a second precoding stage configured according to a short-term matrix. The RAN is further configured to generate a downlink data stream transmission signal to the user equipment in accordance with the precoded digital downlink data stream.

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Peng Shang