Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence, and an apparatus. A method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence includes: generating, by a base station, notification signaling, where the notification signaling instructs user equipment (UE) to generate a random access ZC sequence by using a second restricted set in a random access set; and sending, by the base station, the notification signaling to the UE, so that the UE generates the random access ZC sequence by using the second restricted set, where the random access set includes an unrestricted set, a first restricted set, and the second restricted set; and the second restricted set is a random access set that the UE needs to use when a Doppler frequency shift of the UE is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate determining method and device, and relates to the field of wireless communications. The method includes: determining a PDCCH resource set p in a subframe k, where the PDCCH resource set p includes NECCE,p,k=q×r control channel elements (CCEs), a PDCCH candidate of an EPDCCH with an aggregation level being L corresponds to L CCEs having consecutive reference numerals, and the PDCCH candidate is capable of carrying a PDCCH; and determining the number of PDCCH candidates at the aggregation level L of a carrier corresponding to an index Cellindex and an CCE corresponding to each PDCCH candidate, where the CCE corresponding to each PDCCH candidate at the aggregation level L is related to the index Cellindex.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement and feedback method, a network device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, pilot port configuration information sent by a second network device, where the pilot port configuration information is used to describe at least two pilot ports; measuring, by using the at least two pilot ports, a pilot signal sent by the second network device, and determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of second information of the first network device or third information of a third network device when it is assumed that the first network device and the third network device communicate with the second network device by performing spatial multiplexing on a same time frequency resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement and feedback method, a network device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, pilot port configuration information sent by a second network device, where the pilot port configuration information is used to describe at least two pilot ports; measuring, by using the at least two pilot ports, a pilot signal sent by the second network device, and determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of second information of the first network device or third information of a third network device when it is assumed that the first network device and the third network device communicate with the second network device by performing spatial multiplexing on a same time frequency resource.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, a device and a system for transmitting an enhanced downlink control channel, which belong to the communications field. The method for sending an enhanced downlink control channel includes: presetting a multiplexing unit, where the multiplexing unit includes at least one resource block pair, and the at least one resource block pair includes E-PDCCH resources and DM RS resources, and the E-PDCCH resources include multiple control channel elements; sending at least one E-PDCCH corresponding to at least one UE in at least one control channel element of the multiplexing unit, and sending the DM RS corresponding to the at least one UE. The present invention reduces the granularity of an enhanced downlink control channel, saves resources and enhances the downlink control channel, thereby providing more control channels for the UE to use.

Abstract: The present invention provides a signal sending apparatus, a signal detection apparatus, a signal sending and detection system, a signal sending method, and a signal detection method. The apparatus determines a time unit that is in each time window and that is used to transmit a synchronization signal, and transmits the synchronization signal in the determined time unit in each time window. Therefore, a synchronization signal is always located in a time unit that has a fixed location in each time window, so that a device at a receive end needs to perform detection only in a fixed time unit in each time window, thereby reducing complexity of designing and detecting the synchronization signal.

Abstract: This application provides an enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: in a physical resource block set, separately arranging first resource groups in each physical resource block pair PRB pair, where the first resource groups are enhanced resource element groups eREGs or REGs, and the physical resource block set includes at least one of the physical resource block pairs; numbering second resource groups according to a correspondence between the first resource groups and the second resource groups in the physical resource block set, where the second resource groups are control channel element eCCE groups or control channel candidates; determining numbers of the second resource groups for transmitting an E-PDCCH; and mapping, according to the determined numbers, the E-PDCCH to the corresponding first resource groups for transmission. The technical solution of this application resolves an E-PDCCH transmission problem.

Abstract: A base station, user equipment, and communication signal transmitting and receiving methods. A communication signal transmitting apparatus includes a transmitter; a processor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for execution by the processor, the program including instructions to determine at least two different resource element groups to use to transmit a synchronization signal, each different resource element group of the at least two different resource element groups used to separately transmit the synchronization signal, and transmit the synchronization signal to user equipment on each of the resource element groups, where, for each resource element group, the synchronization signal transmitted on the respective resource element group carries at least one piece of same information, the same information is cell specific information, and the synchronization signals transmitted on the at least two resource element groups using different beams.

Abstract: The present application provides a method and an apparatus for allocating control channel candidates, which relate to the communications field, and can allocate control channel candidates at different aggregation levels to K ePDCCH sets and reduce complexity of blind detection performed by a UE. The method includes: determining K sets for transmitting a control channel, where each set in the K sets includes at least one physical resource block pair; and allocating control channel candidates at each aggregation level to at least one set in the K sets according to at least one of aggregation levels supported by the control channel to be transmitted, the number of control channel candidates corresponding to each aggregation level, the K sets for transmitting the control channel, and types of the sets.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining a pilot is disclosed. The method includes: generating a first initial value of a first demodulation pilot sequence based on a first parameter set, and generating a second initial value of a second demodulation pilot sequence according to a second parameter set, wherein the first parameter set is determined based on a first resource set corresponding to a first downlink control information (DCI) format set, and the second parameter set is determined based on a second resource set corresponding to a second DCI format set; and obtaining the first demodulation pilot sequence based on the first initial value, and obtaining the second demodulation pilot sequence based on the second initial value. The method can be performed by a UE (user equipment) or a base station.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of three matrices being W1, Z, and W2, that is, W=W1ZW2, where both W1 and Z are block diagonal matrices, W1=a formula (I), Z=a formula (II), each of W1 and Z includes at least one block matrix, that is, NB?1, and each column of each block matrix Zi in the matrix Z has the following structure formula (III); and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, and is used by the base station to obtain the selected precoding matrix W according to the PMI.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods and apparatuses for receiving and sending a control channel, and are applicable to the field of communications technologies. In the embodiments of the present invention, a base station carries scheduling information of a user equipment of an R11 system in both the PDCCH region and the E-PDCCH region of a downlink subframe. In this way, the user equipment needs to detect the control channel within the PDCCH region and the E-PDCCH region, so that resources of the two regions are available to the user equipment of the R11 system. Moreover, the user equipment detects only the control channel of the first type in the PDCCH region, and detects control channels of the other type in the E-PDCCH region. The method in the embodiments of the present invention does not increase the number of control channel detections.

Abstract: In a system and method of control channel transmission in the communications field, REs, except those used for transmitting a DMRS, are grouped in each physical resource block pair of L physical resource block pairs. The L physical resource block pairs are determined to be used to transmit a control channel into N eREGs. The number of valid REs are calculated except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs. Each of the eCCEs are mapped onto M eREGs according to the number of valid REs included in each eREG of the N eREGs of each physical resource block pair. The eCCE is sent in the REs included in the eREG.

Abstract: A reference signal measurement method, a reference signal sending method, a user equipment, and a base station are provided. According to the embodiments of the present application, a user equipment determines reference signal resource configuration, which includes reference signal port configuration, reference signal subframe configuration, and reference signal configuration, and a quantity of ports configured in the reference signal port configuration is N; receives a reference signal according to the reference signal resource configuration; and performs measurement based on the received reference signal to obtain channel state information and/or signal quality information. In the embodiments of the present invention, a quantity of ports configured in the reference signal port configuration is N; and a quantity of supported ports may vary with different values of N.

Abstract: A signal transmission method, system and device are described. When measuring a reference signal and determining channel quality, a user equipment (UE) obtains a difference between codeword-to-CSI-RS mapping relationships by using a channel quality measurement model. The UE, using a measurement, calculates an optimized mapping relationship. The UE determines at least one mapping relationship from the mapping relationships, to adjust a codeword-to-CSI-RS mapping relationship of a channel.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a base station, user equipment, and communication signal transmitting and receiving methods. The base station includes: a processing unit, configured to determine a resource configuration of a communication signal, where the resource configuration includes at least two different resource element groups; and a transmitting unit, configured to transmit the communication signal on each resource element group included in the resource configuration to user equipment, where the communication signal transmitted on each resource element group carries at least one piece of same information, and the same information is cell specific or user equipment group specific information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of three matrices being W1, Z, and W2, that is, W=W1ZW2, where both W1 and Z are block diagonal matrices, W1=a formula (I), Z=a formula (II), each of W1 and Z includes at least one block matrix, that is, NB?1, and each column of each block matrix Zi in the matrix Z has the following structure formula (III); and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, and is used by the base station to obtain the selected precoding matrix W according to the PMI.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for enhanced transmission of control information, user equipment, a base station, and a communications system. The method includes: determining a first parameter for enhanced transmission of control information. Between a base station and UE, a kth subframe after a last subframe in enhanced transmission of control information may be preset as a start subframe in enhanced transmission of a PDSCH, a jth subframe after the last subframe in enhanced transmission of the control information may be preset as a start subframe in enhanced transmission of a PUSCH, and a start subframe in enhanced transmission of the control information is preset, where the subframes may also be radio frames. Therefore, the user equipment can accurately determine the last subframe and/or radio frame occupied by the control information, thereby ensuring performance of the PDSCH or PUSCH.