Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Xiaolu Wang

Jun Wang

Rong Li

Jianwei Zhou

Jian Wang

Bin Wang

Hejia Luo

Chenlei Xu

Ying Chen

Yunfei Qiao

Yu Wang

Jing Wen Wang

Liang Jie Xu

Zhibin Wang

This application provides a gateway handover method and an apparatus, to ensure the reliability of a gateway handover of a terminal device and reduce hardware overheads in a gateway handover process. The terminal device receives a synchronization signal/PBCH (physical broadcast channel) block (SSB) from a network device through a service link. The SSB includes an SSB of a source gateway and an SSB of at least one candidate target gateway. The terminal device obtains a measurement value of channel quality corresponding to the SSB of the at least one candidate target gateway, and sends a measurement result to the network device. The network device forwards the measurement result to the source gateway, which determines, based on the measurement result, whether to hand over the terminal device from the source gateway to one of the at least one candidate target gateway.

Gateway handover method and apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide communication methods and apparatuses. One method includes: receiving first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first part of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process identifier scheduled by the network device, obtaining a second part of the HARQ process identifier, and determining the HARQ process identifier based on the first part of the HARQ process identifier and the second part of the HARQ process identifier.

Communication method and apparatus

This disclosure provides satellite communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a terminal device determines a first time offset of a first random access response window based on a distance information between a satellite base station and the ground. Based on the first time offset and the first random access response window, the terminal device receives a random access response sent by the satellite base station.

Satellite communication method and apparatus

A timing offset parameter update method, a device, and a system are provided, which relate to the field of communication technologies, to help reduce signaling overhead generated when a network device updates a value of a timing offset parameter. The method includes: a terminal device obtains first information that includes a first reference value and first indication information, wherein the first indication information indicates an update rule of a timing offset parameter, and the first reference value is an initial value of the timing offset parameter. The terminal device updates a value of the timing offset parameter based on the first information and a timing offset variation, to obtain an updated value of the timing offset parameter, wherein an absolute value of the timing offset variation is equal to an absolute value of a difference between any two consecutively updated values of the timing offset parameter.

Timing offset parameter update method, device, and system

A method and a communication apparatus for determining a timing advance. A downlink signal is received from a network device. A first reference moment of a signal period of the downlink signal is determined, where the first reference moment includes a start receiving moment of the signal period. A first time interval between the start receiving moment and a start moment of a first period in which the terminal is located is determined. Based on the first time interval, determining whether a start sending moment of the signal period is within the first period, and determining the start sending moment, where a period is a duration distributed at an equal interval on a time axis. A timing advance is determined based on the start receiving moment and the start sending moment, and an uplink signal is sent based on the timing advance.

Method for determining timing advance and communication apparatus

This application provides example network resource configuration methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information includes information of a first threshold corresponding to at least one candidate cell, and the first threshold includes at least one of a Doppler frequency shift threshold, a timing advance TA rate threshold, or a Doppler frequency shift change rate threshold. A target cell is determined from the at least one candidate cell based on the configuration information. A handover to the target cell is initiated.

Network resource configuration method and apparatus

This application discloses a random access preamble configuration method applicable to a satellite network and a communication apparatus. In the method, a random access preamble location offset and duration of a PRACH occasion can be flexibly configured based on features of a satellite system. The method includes: A receiving apparatus receives first indication information, where the first indication information includes indication information used to identify the random access preamble location offset at the physical random access channel PRACH occasion. The receiving apparatus transmits a random preamble based on the first indication information, where the random preamble includes a sequence part and a guard time. Because a communication distance is relatively long and a transmission delay difference between users is relatively large in a satellite communication system, time domain resources occupied by the PRACH occasion can be minimized by using this method.

Random access preamble configuration method applicable to satellite network, and apparatus

This application discloses example signal sending methods and apparatuses, and example signal processing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes generating, by a terminal device, a channel sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal device can then send the SRS to a target base station, where the target base station detects, by using the SRS, that a change range of an uplink timing location of the terminal device is not less than a length of one SRS symbol.

Signal sending and processing method and apparatus

The present disclosure relates to access methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on whether a first frequency offset parameter is in a frequency offset parameter range, whether to access a first cell. If the first frequency offset parameter is in the frequency offset parameter range, a current location of the terminal device is not at an edge of the cell. Otherwise, the current location of the terminal device may be at the edge of the cell.

Access method and apparatus

This disclosure provides data processing methods. One example including a network device obtains target information that includes a transmission delay difference corresponding to a target beam or a target cell; determines a first preamble format based on the transmission delay difference, and then determines first configuration information used to indicate the first preamble format and a first set of random access occasions included in a random access period, where an interval between random access times included in the first set of random access occasions is greater than or equal to a preamble length corresponding to the first preamble format; and generates a corresponding first configuration index based on the first configuration information. The preamble formats required for different beams or cells can be determined based on transmission delay differences corresponding to the different beams or cells, and then configuration information of a random access occasion is further determined.

Data processing method and apparatus, and storage medium

The present disclosure relates to random access preamble transmission methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on a target sub-coverage area to which the terminal device belongs in a preset coverage area of a network device, target random access preamble format information corresponding to the target sub-coverage area. Then, the terminal device sends, to the network device on a target time-frequency resource indicated by target random access preamble time-frequency resource information corresponding to the target random access preamble format information, a random access preamble corresponding to the target random access preamble format information.

Random access preamble transmission method, apparatus, and storage medium

The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a terminal device receives first information from an access device, and determines a first bandwidth part (BWP) of an access beam of the terminal device based on the received first information and a second BWP configured for the access beam of the terminal device. Then, the terminal device communicates with the access device in the determined first BWP by using the access beam. The first information indicates a relationship between the first BWP and the second BWP. The second BWP is a dedicated BWP configured for the access beam of the terminal device.

Communication method and apparatus for configuring a bandwidth part

The present disclosure relates to network switching methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a beam that currently provides a service for a terminal device is a first beam. The first beam is generated by a first network device. The first network device obtains user information of the terminal device, and obtains switching information based on the user information. After the first network device sends the switching information to the terminal device, the terminal device can perform beam switching based on the switching information.

Network switching method and apparatus

A method includes: A transmit end obtains P QAM symbols; the transmit end performs IDWT or DWT on the P QAM symbols, to obtain a first signal matrix with N rows and M columns, and transposes the first signal matrix, to obtain a transposed first transpose matrix, where P, N, and M are all positive integers; and the transmit end outputs the transposed first transpose matrix. Correspondingly, a receive end obtains a second signal matrix with M rows and N columns; the receive end transposes the second signal matrix, to obtain a transposed second transpose matrix; and performs DWT or IDWT on the second transpose matrix, to obtain P QAM symbols.

Signal processing method and related apparatus

Embodiments of this application provide a timing advance determining method and a communication apparatus, to improve precision of calculating a timing advance (TA) by a terminal, and reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI). The method includes: A first network device determines a first parameter based on a first delay compensation value, where the first delay compensation value is a delay compensation made by the first network device for receiving a signal sent by a terminal, the first parameter indicates a difference between a round-trip delay of a feeder link in a non-terrestrial network NTN and the first delay compensation value, and the difference is used to determine a TA used by the terminal for signal sending; and the first network device sends the first parameter.

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