Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Xinxian Li

Hao Tang

Zhenfei Tang

Jiehua Xiao

Yi Wang

Ting Wang

Fan Wang

Zhongfeng Li

Ning Wu

Yi Qin

Hua Li

Jinlin Peng

Junchao Li

Yongzhao Cao

Liqing Zhang

Guohua Zhou

Zhang Zhang

Yu Sun

Yafei Wang

Wenwen Huang

This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives first downlink control information DCI from a network device through a first physical downlink control channel PDCCH. The first DCI includes a first time domain resource assignment TDRA indicator field, and the first TDRA indicator field is used to indicate a first time domain resource. The terminal device receives or sends data on a second time domain resource after determining the second time domain resource based on a time domain position of the first PDCCH and the first time domain resource. The first time domain resource is different from the second time domain resource. The method is applied to a time domain resource assignment process of the data scheduling.

Communication method and apparatus

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first control information, where the first control information is used to trigger a channel state information (CSI) operation corresponding to a first secondary component carrier, the first secondary component carrier is in a deactivated state, and the CSI operation includes one or more of the following: aperiodic CSI reporting, aperiodic CSI measurement, semi-persistent CSI reporting, or semi-persistent CSI measurement. The terminal performs, based on the first control information, the CSI operation corresponding to the first secondary component carrier.

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a system. The method includes: A terminal device receives first information from a network device, where the first information is used to activate a first secondary cell; and the terminal device performs channel CSI measurement by using a first CSI-RS resource in a process of activating the first secondary cell.

Device for semi-persistent channel state information reference signal use

A communication method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: A communication apparatus may send uplink capability information to a network device, where the uplink capability information includes at least one of the following: a maximum quantity of uplink carriers configured for the communication apparatus, a maximum quantity of uplink carriers supported by the communication apparatus, and a maximum quantity of channels supported by the communication apparatus. Further, the communication apparatus receives first information from the network device, where the first information indicates an uplink carrier used for uplink transmission, and performs uplink transmission with the network device on the uplink carrier. The communication apparatus may be a terminal device.

This application provides a method for deactivating a carrier and an apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first information, where the first information indicates a default bandwidth part (BWP). The terminal deactivates a secondary carrier based on the default BWP. According to the provided embodiments, the secondary carrier is deactivated by using physical layer control information for activating or deactivating a BWP.

Method for deactivating carrier or activating carrier and apparatus

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first configuration information from a network device, and determines a time unit aggregation based on the first configuration information, where the time unit aggregation includes at least one time unit. The terminal receives control information from the network device, and determines at least one first time subunit and at least one second time subunit in the time unit aggregation based on the control information. The terminal receives, in the at least one first time subunit, data corresponding to a first transport block, and receives, in the at least one second time subunit, data corresponding to a second transport block.

Communication method and apparatus for determining a first and second time subunit

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a communications system, to determine a physical resource block (PRB) grid when a center frequency of a synchronization signal (SS) is inconsistent with a center frequency of a carrier. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, an SS from a network device; determining, by the terminal, a first PRB grid based on the SS; receiving, by the terminal, first indication information from the network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a first frequency offset between the first PRB grid and a second PRB grid; and determining, by the terminal, the second PRB grid based on the first PRB grid and the first frequency offset.

Communication method, communications apparatus, and communications system

This application discloses example communication methods and example apparatuses. One example method includes receiving control information from a network device in a first cell, where the control information indicates to initiate a random access process in a second cell, and the control information includes a first identifier of the second cell. A random access process can then be initiated, based on the control information, in the second cell by using a random access parameter associated with the first identifier.

Disclosed are a communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: when a first terminal device supports sending of an uplink signal and a sidelink signal in a first time unit on a first carrier, determining, by the first terminal device based on priorities of the uplink signal and the sidelink signal, a first transmit power of the uplink signal and a second transmit power of the sidelink signal; and sending, by the first terminal device, the uplink signal based on the first transmit power, and/or sending the sidelink signal based on the second transmit power.

A communication method and an apparatus are provided. An example method includes: receiving initially transmitted first data in a first cell based on a correspondence between the first cell and a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity; receiving first indication information, wherein the first indication information indicates a correspondence between a second cell and the first HARQ entity; and receiving retransmitted first data in the second cell based on the correspondence between the second cell and the first HARQ entity.

This application provides example sidelink resource configuration methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first terminal, first configuration information of a sidelink resource, where the sidelink resource configured by using the first configuration information includes a common resource in resource pools or sidelink bandwidth part BWP resources of N terminals in a terminal group, the terminal group includes the first terminal, and N is a positive integer. The first terminal can then perform sidelink communication with a terminal in the terminal group on the sidelink resource.

Sidelink resource configuration method and apparatus

A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to configure a first bandwidth part (BWP); and sending sidelink data on a resource included in a first transmission resource pool, where a frequency range of the first transmission resource pool is included in a frequency range of the first BWP and a frequency range of a second BWP, and the second BWP is an activated uplink BWP. The communications method and apparatus in this application can implement terminal device communication on the first BWP and the second BWP, and reduce a time of switching between the first BWP and the second BWP, thereby improving efficiency of the communication on the first BWP and the second BWP.

Communications method and apparatus

This application provides a data transmission method and a related apparatus. The method includes determining, by a first node, a transmission periodicity, where the transmission periodicity includes a first time unit and a second time unit. In the transmission periodicity, data of a first service is transmitted in only the first time unit, and a physical signal is transmitted in the second time unit. The method further includes transmitting, by the first node, the data of the first service in the first time unit, and/or transmitting the physical signal in the second time unit.

Data transmission method and apparatus

This application provides a sidelink resource configuration method and apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a network device, sidelink bandwidth part (SL BWP) configuration information for a terminal device, where the SL BWP configuration information is used to indicate a common first parameter of M resource pools in the SL BWP; and configuring, by the terminal device, the M resource pools in the SL BWP based on the SL BWP configuration information in a process of configuring the resource pools in the SL BWP, where the M resource pools have at least one same parameter, and the at least one parameter is determined based on the first parameter. Therefore, communication between different terminal devices can be implemented by configuring the resource pools in the SL BWP.

A power control method includes determining priorities of uplink transmission and sidelink transmission, where the uplink transmission is used to transmit uplink information by a first terminal device to a network device, and the sidelink transmission is used to transmit sidelink information by the first terminal device to a second terminal device; determining target information that is in the sidelink information and that overlaps with the uplink information in time domain in a scheduling time unit; determining transmit powers of the uplink information and the target information based on the target information and the priorities of the uplink transmission and the sidelink transmission; and sending the uplink information based on the transmit power of the uplink information, or sending the target information based on the transmit power of the target information.

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