Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Xiaoyan Bi

Xiaohan Wang

Huangping Jin

Shibin Ge

Liuliu Ji

Haicun Hang

Hongzhe Shi

Xiang Ren

Yiling Yuan

Zhimeng Zhong

Hui Wang

Wei Han

Yong Liu

Ye Wu

Min Zhang

Li Fan

Haifan Yin

Yong Liang Liu

Huang Huang

Han Zhou

Xiang Gao

Yongping Zhang

Thorsten Schier

Fei Gao

Bengt Lindoff

Yuanzhou Hu

Peng Shang

Jie Wang

Qi Feng

Wenquan Hu

Mingzhe Wang

This application provides a quasi co-location (QCL) indication method and a related device, and may be applied to coordinated multistation transmission. In the method, a terminal receives QCL indication information, where the QCL indication information indicates that time-frequency spread information of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is associated with time-frequency spread information of N tracking reference signals (TRSs) (or a TRS corresponding to the DMRS) and that delay-frequency offset information of the DMRS is associated with delay-frequency offset information of M TRSs.

QCL indication method and related device

A power control method and apparatus are disclosed. The method is applied to a terminal that has a capability of supporting a configuration with a plurality of control resource set pool indexes and/or that is configured with the plurality of control resource set pool indexes. The method includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) sent by a network device, where the first PDCCH carries a power offset corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The method further includes determining a transmit power based on a power control process corresponding to the network device, where the power control process is used for accumulating power offsets indicated by the network device, and determining the transmit power for the PUSCH based on an accumulation result. The method further includes sending the PDCCH to the network device at the transmit power.

Power control method and apparatus

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 relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus, to improve demodulation performance. A first subcarrier spacing, a second subcarrier spacing, a cyclic prefix (CP) length of a first symbol, and a CP length of a second symbol are determined, where the first subcarrier spacing is K times the second subcarrier spacing, K is an integer greater than 1, and the CP length of the first symbol is greater than or equal to the CP length of the second symbol.

Communication method and apparatus

A method for indicating channel state information CSI measurement and a communication apparatus. A network device indicates, to a terminal device by using first indication information, one or more frequency domain units in a downlink reference signal resource that are used by the terminal device to obtain CSI. The terminal device determines, based on the first indication information, which frequency domain units in the downlink reference signal resource are used to obtain the CSI, and perform measurement in the frequency domain unit to obtain the CSI. The network device flexibly configures CSI measurement based on a system status, to control obtaining of the CSI. This helps the terminal device obtain the CSI more pertinently based on the indication in different cases.

Method for indicating channel state information CSI measurement and communication apparatus

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

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, applied to uplink communication, includes generating first configuration information to configure M precoding matrices, where M is an integer that is equal to or bigger than 2. The method further includes transmitting, to a terminal device, the first configuration information. In response to the uplink transmission is non-codebook-based uplink transmission, the first configuration information comprises first indication information indicating M sounding reference signal resource indicators (SRIs), and where the M SRIs are used to configure the M precoding matrices. In response to the uplink transmission is codebook-based uplink transmission, the first configuration information comprises second indication information indicating M transmit precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs), and where the M TPMIs are used to configure the M precoding matrices.

Precoding matrix configuration method and apparatus

This application provides a CSI measurement method and an apparatus. In the method, a terminal determines N (N is an integer greater than 1) RS groups, and sends the N RS groups to a network device. The network device receives the N RS groups sent by the terminal, and measures CSI based on at least one RS group in the N RS groups. The N RS groups each include a first RS used to measure the CSI and a second RS used to measure the CSI. Each of the first RS and the second RS in each RS group occupies one time-frequency resource segment. The time-frequency resource segment includes one time-domain resource segment and one frequency-domain resource segment. Frequency-domain resource segments occupied by different RS groups do not overlap. Time-domain resource segments occupied by different RS groups do not overlap.

CSI measurement method and 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

Embodiments of this application disclose a channel estimation method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to help reduce indication overheads. The method may include: 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×N-dimensional space-frequency vector or an X×Y space-frequency matrix, X and Y are one and the other of M and N, M≥1, N24 2, and both M and N are integers.

Channel estimation method and apparatus

This application provides a multi-downlink control information (DCI)-based transmission method. In the method, a terminal reports information about a capability of the terminal to support multi-DCI transmission, or a network device sends indication information of the types or the quantity of multi-DCI-based transmissions to a terminal. The network device performs resource scheduling on the terminal on this basis, thereby helping improve resource scheduling efficiency and reduce processing complexity of the terminal. In addition, this application also provides a corresponding solution for a scenario in which a carrier aggregation/dual connectivity (CA/DC) DCI-based transmission scenario coexists with multi-DCI (DCI)-based transmission, thereby helping the terminal share a multi-DCI DCI-based transmission capability and a CA/DC (DCI)-based transmission capability to improve a processing capability of the terminal.

Multi-downlink control information based transmission method, device, system, and storage medium

This disclosure provides communications methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a terminal device performs operations comprising: receiving first configuration information from a network device, wherein the first configuration information indicates a configured quantity of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate locations in a time unit corresponding to a first control resource set (CORESET) group of a plurality of CORESET groups in a target cell, and determining, based on the configured quantity and a first quantity, a quantity of PDCCH candidate locations for PDCCH detection in the time unit corresponding to the first CORESET group, wherein the first quantity is a preset quantity of PDCCH candidate locations in a time unit corresponding to a CORESET group in the target cell.

Communication method and communications apparatus

The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communications apparatus. One example method includes determining a plurality of frequency domain units on which reporting of a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) is based in reporting bandwidth. The plurality of frequency domain units include one or more first frequency domain units and third frequency domain units obtained by dividing one or more second frequency domain units. A granularity of the first frequency domain unit is less than a preconfigured first granularity, a granularity of the second frequency domain unit is a first granularity, and a granularity of the third frequency domain unit is a predetermined second granularity. The first granularity is a granularity preconfigured for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI), a second granularity is a granularity predetermined for reporting the PMI, and the second granularity is less than the first granularity.

This application provides a parameter configuration method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, an indication of a first mapping relationship from a network device, where the first mapping relationship is a mapping relationship in a preconfigured first mapping relationship group, and the first mapping relationship group includes at least one mapping relationship, to indicate at least one correspondence between a reporting quantity of spatial domain vectors and a reporting quantity of frequency domain vectors; and determining, by the terminal device, the reporting quantity of spatial domain vectors and the reporting quantity of frequency domain vectors based on the first mapping relationship.

Parameter configuration method and communications apparatus

A channel state information feedback method includes: a terminal receives first indication information from a network device, and the terminal sends channel state information to the network device. The first indication information is used to indicate a type of a right multiplication matrix in a first codebook, and the first codebook satisfies a formula (I). W is the first codebook, Wis a port selection matrix, (II) is a linear superposition coefficient matrix, Wis the right multiplication matrix, and (III) is a conjugate transpose of W, and is used by the terminal to determine the channel state information based on the first codebook. According to the method, when there are a plurality of codebooks, the codebook used by the terminal to obtain the CSI can be clearly indicated.

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