Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited

Xiang Ren

Yong Liang Liu

Xiaoyan Bi

Shibin Ge

Huangping Jin

Xiaohan Wang

Wei Han

Yong Liu

Lu Rong

Lu Wu

Bin Li

Ting Wang

Yuanjie Li

Shengyue Dou

Liuliu Ji

Haicun Hang

Hongzhe Shi

Peng Shang

Yiling Yuan

Shi Jin

Xingliang Zhang

Youyao Lin

Mingzhe Wang

The disclosure provides channel measurement methods and communications apparatuses. One example method includes a terminal device that generates first indication information, and sends the first indication information to a network device. The first indication information indicates one or more component characteristics of a complete time-varying characteristic of a channel and a weighting coefficient of each component characteristic. The complete time-varying characteristic of the channel corresponds to a local time-varying characteristic of the channel. The local time-varying characteristic may be determined by the terminal device based on reference signals received for a plurality of times, and the complete time-varying characteristic may be determined based on the local time-varying characteristic.

Channel measurement method and communications apparatus

A method and apparatus are provided for determining a transmission mode. A method embodiment includes obtaining, by a terminal device, configuration indication information, the configuration indication information comprising one or more of: DMRS indication information, repeated-transmission indication information, or transmission configuration indication information; and determining a transmission mode based on the configuration indication information, the transmission mode is one or more of: a space division multiplexing mode, a frequency division multiplexing mode, or a time division multiplexing mode.

Method for determining transmission mode and apparatus

This application discloses a DMRS indicating method, a DMRS receiving method, and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a transmit end from a plurality of groups of demodulation reference signal DMRS configuration information, DMRS configuration information corresponding to a current DMRS transmission scheme, and obtaining DMRS indication information based on the DMRS configuration information, where each group of DMRS configuration information includes a plurality of pieces of DMRS configuration information; and sending, by the transmit end, the DMRS indication information. The method and the apparatus provided in this application are implemented to match a plurality of scenarios in NR. This can satisfy a requirement for transmitting more layers of data, and can further reduce indication overheads.

Demodulation reference signal indicating and receiving methods, transmit end, and receive end

This application describes a channel information feedback method and a communication apparatus. The method includes a terminal device that receives configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a feedback mode of channel information. The terminal device may feed back current channel information to the network device when the feedback mode configured by using the configuration information is a first mode. The terminal device may alternatively feeds back predicted channel information to the network device when the feedback mode configured by using the configuration information is a second mode. System performance is therefore improved by the method described in this application because channel information feedback requirements in different scenarios can be met. In particular, a problem that data transmission performance deteriorates because channel information expires in a moving scenario can be resolved by feeding back the predicted channel information.

Channel information feedback method and communication 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

Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a precoding matrix configuration method and apparatus, to help improve performance of decoding data. The method may include: receiving first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to configure M precoding matrices, M≥2, and M is an integer; and aggregately sending a signal in N time domain units based on the first configuration information, where the signal is a signal obtained after precoding is performed by using a precoding matrix corresponding to each of the N time domain units, the precoding matrix corresponding to each time domain unit is one of the M precoding matrices, N≥2, and N is an integer.

Precoding matrix configuration method and apparatus

A channel measurement method and a communications apparatus, the method including generating, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information indicates one or more component features of a time-varying feature, and further indicates a weighting coefficient of each component feature of the one or more component features, and the one or more component features and the weighting coefficient of each component feature represent the time-varying feature of a channel, and sending, by the terminal device, the first indication information to a network device.

Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a DMRS, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method and the apparatus are applicable to an NR system. The method for transmitting a DMRS may include: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a DMRS; and then sending the DMRS by using the time-frequency resource.

Method and apparatus for transmitting DMRS

This application provides one or more resource indication methods, terminal devices, and network devices. An example method includes: receiving, by the terminal device, the first indication information, and determining time domain positions of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on the mapping type of the physical shared channel and with reference to a position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel or a quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit. The position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the first type, and the quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the second type.

Resource indication method, terminal device, and network device

Example communication methods and communications apparatus are described. One example method includes determining power of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) by a terminal device. The terminal device sends the DMRS based on the determined power. In embodiments of this application, the power of the DMRS can be flexibly determined for different communication statuses.

Communication method and communications apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a channel estimation method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to help reduce indication overheads. The method includes: generating and sending indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate M N-dimensional precoding vectors, each precoding vector is applied to one of M frequency bands, the M N-dimensional precoding vectors form a space-frequency matrix, and the space-frequency matrix is generated by performing weighted combination on a plurality of space-frequency component matrices, where the space-frequency matrix is an M&#xd7;N-dimensional space-frequency vector or an X&#xd7;Y space-frequency matrix, X and Y are one and the other of M and N, M&#x2265;1, N&#x2265;2, and both M and N are integers.

Channel estimation method and apparatus

This application provides a resource indication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by the terminal device, the first indication information, and determining time domain positions of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) based on the mapping type of the physical shared channel and with reference to a position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel or a quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit, where the position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the first type, and the quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the second type.

Resource indication method, terminal device, network device, non-transitory computer-readable medium and chip

A communication method, including performing, by a terminal device, in response to a value of a resource bundling granularity being a first-type value, determining at least one resource block bundling group in a scheduling resource corresponding to a terminal device according to the first-type value of the resource bundling granularity, wherein, the first-type value comprises 2 or 4, and receiving, using the at least one resource block bundling group, data transmitted by a network device. The method further includes performing, by the terminal device, in response to the value of the resource bundling granularity being a second-type value, determining a scheduling resource corresponding to the terminal device as a same resource block bundling group, wherein, the second-type value comprises a size of a consecutive scheduling bandwidth of the terminal device, and receiving, using the resource block bundling group, data transmitted by the network device.

Communication method, network device, and terminal device

An embodiment of this application provides an antenna port determining method. In a process of determining, based on QCL information and indication information that is used to determine an antenna port number, an antenna port on which downlink data is scheduled, antenna port group information is further introduced, so that the antenna port can be more accurately determined.

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