Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Wenping Bi

Xinqian Xie

Zhiheng Guo

Zheng Yu

Yongqiang Fei

Xingqing Cheng

Yubo Yang

Yue Zhao

Yi Long

Hong Wang

Zukang Shen

Xiang Mi

Xinghua Song

Lei Wan

Yang Zhao

David Jean-Marie Mazzarese

Qian Wu

Ming Zhang

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus. A terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates an available frequency domain resource, in a bandwidth, which can be used by the terminal device to communicate with the network device. The bandwidth is one carrier bandwidth or one carrier bandwidth part. The available frequency domain resource includes a plurality of non-contiguous frequency domain resource groups, and each frequency domain resource group includes one or more contiguous frequency domain resource blocks. The terminal device determines the available frequency domain resource in the bandwidth based on the first indication information.

Communication method and communications apparatus using frequency domain resource groups

Embodiments of this application provide a resource indication method and a communication device. The resource indication method includes: A first communication device receives first information sent by a second communication device, where the first information is used to indicate a first resource pattern and indicate a reserved resource determined by using the first resource pattern, the first resource pattern is used to determine a position corresponding to each of N resource sets, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1. The first communication device determines reserved resource based on the positions corresponding to the N resource sets and indicated by the first resource pattern, where the reserved resource is a resource unavailable to the first communication device. The first communication device determines not to transmit a signal by using the reserved resource.

Resource indication method and communication device

This application provides an information processing method and a communications device. An information processing method includes: a first communications device receives first information from a second communications device. The first communications device determines, based on the first information, that a start location of a first time window is a K1time unit after a start location of a first resource or the start location of the first time window is a K2time unit after an end location of the first resource. The first resource is a resource used by the first communications device to transmit data, and K1 and K2 are positive integers. The first communications device monitors, based on the determined start location of the first time window, control information sent by the second communications device.

Information processing method and communications device

An information processing method includes receiving downlink control information from a network device, wherein the downlink control information is capable of scheduling a maximum of N transport blocks (TBs). When the downlink control information includes a first field, the first field includes (N+2) bits. A quantity L of TBs is determined based on the first field. When L is greater than 1, the L TBs can include both a newly transmitted TB and a retransmitted TB. In j consecutive bits in the first field, a bit state of only one bit is 1, bit states of j−1 bits are all 0, and j=N+1−L. k=0, a bit state of a bbit in the first field is 1, and L consecutive bits in the first field, carry NDI of the L TBs; or k=L+1, a bit state of a bbit in the first field is 1, and L consecutive bits in the first field, carry NDI information of the L TBs.

Information processing method, terminal device, and network device

In a data transmission method, a first communications device receives flag information. When the flag information indicates that one piece of control information can be used for scheduling of a plurality of transport blocks, the first communications device obtains transport block allocation information that indicates the number of transport blocks scheduled by the control information and a bit state corresponding to each transport block. Alternatively, when the flag information indicates that one piece of control information can be used for scheduling of only one transport block, the first communications device obtains hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number information, where the HARQ process number information indicates an HARQ process number corresponding to the transport block scheduled by the control information. The first communications device sends data or receives data based on the information.

Data transmission method and device

An information processing method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. In one method, a first bit in downlink control information includes two bits, a bit status of the first bit may belong to a first state set or may be a second state, and a terminal device may perform multi-TB scheduling or single-TB scheduling based on the first bit. When the bit status of the first bit belongs to the first state set, the first state set is {01, 10, 11}, N=4, and the downlink control information includes a first field, the bit status of the first bit can be used to determine a quantity L of TBs scheduled by the downlink control information, and a bit status of five bits of the first field can be used to determine HARQ process numbers of the L TBs and NDI information of the L TBs.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and device. The method includes: A first device determines first control information, where the first control information includes first indication information and second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a state of preconfigured-resource transmission, and the state includes successful transmission, unsuccessful transmission, scheduling retransmission, or preconfigured-resource retransmission; and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the first device transmits first information, and the first information includes higher layer data and/or preconfigured uplink resource reconfiguration information. The first device sends the first control information to a second device. According to the method and device provided in the embodiments of this application, a network coverage capability can be improved, and the method and device may be applied to the internet of things, for example, MTC, IoT, LTE-M, or M2M.

Communication method and device

The present disclosure relates to information transmission methods and communications devices. In one example method, a first communications device receives control information sent by a second communications device, where the control information is used to schedule a plurality of transport blocks (TBs). The first communications device determines a first value, where the first value is associated with one or more of a frequency hopping configuration parameter, a redundancy version (RV) change parameter, an interleaving gap parameter, and a quantity of transport blocks. The first communications device determines a first start time unit during transmission of a first TB, where the first TB is at least one of the plurality of TBs scheduled by the control information, and an index of the first start time unit is an integer multiple of the first value. The first communications device transmits the first TB based on the determined first start time unit.

Information transmission method and communications device

A communication method includes determining, by a network device, a first signal. The first signal includes a primary synchronization signal PSS, a secondary synchronization signal SSS, and a first physical broadcast channel PBCH. A frequency domain bandwidth occupied by the PSS, the SSS, and the first PBCH is less than 240 subcarriers. The PSS, the SSS, and the first PBCH are mapped to different time-domain symbols. The method also includes sending, by the network device, the first signal.

Communication method and apparatus

A communication method includes: a first device determines first control information, where the first control information carries first information, and the first information is used to indicate emergency information; and the first control information is format-3 control information, format-3A control information, format-6-0A control information, format-6-0B control information, format-6-1A control information, or format-6-1B control information; the first device sends the first control information to a second device; and the first device sends the emergency information to the second device. The method expands coverage of a network, and may be applied to an internet of things (IoT), for example, machine type communication (MTC), a long term evolution-machine (LTE-M), or machine-to-machine (M2M).

Example transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving control information by a first communications device, where the control information schedules a plurality of transport blocks (TBs), and the control information includes redundancy version (RV) indication information. The first communications device determines a first parameter through pre-specifying, determines the first parameter by receiving physical layer signaling sent by the second communications device, or determines the first parameter by receiving higher layer signaling sent by the second communications device, where the first parameter is a parameter related to a first RV corresponding to a first TB. The first communications device determines the first RV based on the first parameter, and determines, for the first TB based on the first RV and a predetermined RV updating sequence, an RV used in a time unit other than the k time units in the time resource used for transmission of the first TB.

Embodiments of this application disclose a communications method and apparatus. The method may include: determining, by a terminal device, a first signal to be sent on a first uplink carrier in a first time period, and determining a second signal to be sent on a second uplink carrier in a second time period, where when a first reference signal configuration manner is used for the second signal, a priority of the second signal is higher than a priority of the first signal, and the terminal device determines that a first symbol in the first signal is to be discarded; and the terminal device sends another symbol in the first signal other than the first symbol and the second signal to a network device, where the first time period and the second time period are adjacent in terms of time, and the second signal is a PUSCH.

Communications method and apparatus for ensuring correct transmission of a PUSCH

This application relates to a communication method and a communications device. The communication method includes: determining, a first signal to be sent on a first uplink carrier; determining a second signal to be sent on a second uplink carrier, where the first uplink carrier corresponds to a first radio access technology, and the second uplink carrier corresponds to a second radio access technology; and when a first transmission timing corresponding to the first signal is different from a second transmission timing corresponding to the second signal, and if the first signal and the second signal overlap in time domain, sending, a third signal, where the third signal is the second signal, or is the second signal or a part of the first signal, where the part of the first signal is carried on a symbol that does not overlap with a symbol corresponding the second signal.

Communication method and communications device

Communication method and communications apparatus to determine available frequency domain resource

This application provides a reference signal sending method, a reference signal receiving method, an apparatus, and a device, to provide a reference signal sending or receiving mechanism. A first network device determines at least one frequency reference point. The first network device generates a reference signal based on the at least one frequency reference point, and sends the reference signal in the first frequency band. A frequency reference point is determined based on a frequency band. In this case, both the first network device that sends the reference signal and a second network device that receives the reference signal may determine the frequency reference point based on the frequency band, and the two network devices may determine a same reference signal at a same frequency domain location, so that the reference signal sent by the first network device can be correctly detected by the second network device.

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