Abstract: A candidate control channel resource determining method and apparatus are provided. Under the method, a first and a second aggregation level can be determined by a terminal. The aggregation level is a quantity of control channel resource elements in a candidate control channel. The first aggregation level is less than the second aggregation level. Control channel resource elements in a candidate control channel set corresponding to the second aggregation level form a first quantity of candidate control channel sets corresponding to the first aggregation level. One of the first quantity of candidate control channel sets corresponding to the first aggregation level can be determined as a target set based on an identifier of the terminal. A control channel resource element occupied by each candidate control channel in the target set can be determined. A candidate control channel in the target set can be detected for a received signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide control information sending methods, control information receiving methods, and devices. The sending method may include determining, by an access network device, a control channel candidate set corresponding to a terminal device, where the control channel candidate set includes at least one control channel candidate, the at least one control channel candidate includes at least one control channel element, the control channel candidate set is contained in at least one control channel element set, a quantity of control channel elements contained in the control channel element set is greater than or equal to a quantity of control channel elements corresponding to a maximum aggregation level supported by the terminal device. The sending method may further includes sending, by the access network device, control information to the terminal device by using at least one control channel candidate in the control channel candidate set.

Abstract: A resource indication method, a resource acquisition method, and a related apparatus, the method including generating, by a network device, downlink control signaling, where the downlink control signaling includes indication information and resource allocation information, the resource allocation information is used for explicit indication or implicit indication of an uplink control channel resource, and the indication information is used to indicate whether an indication manner of the resource allocation information is explicit indication or implicit indication; and sending, by the network device, the downlink control signaling.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signal receiving method, a signal transmission method, and a device, and relate to the communications field, so as to resolve a problem that a supported quantity of UEs that perform orthogonal code division multiplexing through cyclic shifts is relatively small when a frequency deviation between a center frequency for receiving a signal by UE and a center frequency for transmitting a signal by a base station is greater than a subcarrier spacing used for communication between the base station and the UE. The embodiments of the present invention are used in a signal transmission process.

Abstract: A sequence-based signal processing method and apparatus are provided. A sequence meeting a requirement for sending a signal by using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined, where the sequence is a sequence {fn} consisting of N elements, fn is an element in the sequence {fn}, and the determined sequence {fn} is a sequence meeting a preset condition; then, the N elements in the sequence {fn} are respectively mapped to N subcarriers to generate a first signal; and the first signal is sent. By using the determined sequence, when a signal is sent by using a PUCCH, a low sequence correlation can be maintained, and a relatively small peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) value and cubic metric (CM) value can also be maintained, thereby meeting a requirement of a communication application environment in which a signal is sent by using a PUCCH.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment transmission method and an apparatus. The hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment transmission method includes: receiving, by user equipment, on a first serving cell in a subframe n-k, a PDSCH or a downlink control channel indicating downlink SPS release; and sending, by the user equipment in a subframe n, an HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH or the downlink control channel that is of the first serving cell and that is in the subframe n-k, where an HARQ-ACK timing includes a first HARQ-ACK timing or a second HARQ-ACK timing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to information feedback methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving signaling from a base station, where the signaling is used to instruct to feed back transmit diversity-based channel state information and sending feedback information to the base station, where the feedback information includes precoding matrix indicator (PMI), the PMI is used to indicate a precoding matrix in a precoding matrix set, and a structure of the precoding matrix is one of two specific structures.

Abstract: A slot type indication method and an apparatus and a slot type determining method and an apparatus are provided. Under the slot type indication method, a first indication information can be generated by a network device. The first indication information indicates a slot type of a first slot. When the slot type of the first slot is a predefined type, the first indication information further indicates whether a second slot is an uplink-only slot, and the first slot is a slot that includes a downlink control channel. The first indication information can be sent, by the network device, by using the downlink control channel of the first slot.

Abstract: A signal sending method and apparatus, and a signal receiving method and apparatus are provided, to ensure a low peak-to-average power ratio and a frequency domain diversity gain when a signal is sent on two different subcarrier groups in a same time cell. The method includes: mapping, by a transmit end, a first sequence {pia0, pia1, . . . , piap?1} whose length is P into an ith subcarrier group in M subcarrier groups in a same time cell, where the ith subcarrier group includes K consecutive subcarriers that are evenly distributed, M, P, and K are all greater than or equal to 2, P?K, there is at least one pair of two inconsecutive subcarrier groups in the M subcarrier groups, and a second sequence {pi} corresponding to the M subcarrier groups meets the following requirement: A sequence {xi} is a Barker sequence, where {xi}={xi|x1=ps+1, x2=ps+2, . . . , xM?s=pM,xM?s+1=p1,xM?s+2=p2, . . .

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: transmitting, by a base station, signals to a terminal device by using n port groups, where each of the n port groups includes at least two ports; and receiving, by the base station, s first linear combination coefficient groups transmitted by the terminal device, where each first linear combination coefficient group includes first linear combination coefficients of one of s port groups, at least one first linear combination coefficient group includes at least two non-zero coefficients, the s first linear combination coefficient groups are used to determine a first precoding matrix, the s port groups are included in the n port groups. This can improve channel feedback precision of the terminal device, and further help improve performance of transmission between the base station and the terminal device.

Abstract: A user equipment includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program. The program includes instructions to determine a frame structure of a serving cell. Each frame based on the frame structure comprises 2k subframes having at least: (N?1) downlink subframes, (N?1) uplink subframes, and one special subframe which is a first or second special subframe. N and k are each positive integers greater than or equal to 1. The program has instructions to send and receive information in frames based on the frame structure. Each frame has N downlink subframes, N uplink subframes, and (2k?2N) special subframes, where N is less than k, or N downlink subframes, (N?1) uplink subframes, and one second special subframe, where N is equal to k, or (N?1) downlink subframes, N uplink subframes, and one first special subframe, where N is equal to k.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a control channel resource indication method, user equipment, and a network device. The method includes: sending, by user equipment, a preamble signal sequence; receiving, by the user equipment, higher layer signaling corresponding to the preamble signal sequence, where the higher layer signaling is indicated by downlink control information carried in common search space, and a time-frequency resource detected by the user equipment when determining a control channel includes the common search space and user equipment-dedicated search space; and determining, by the user equipment, frequency domain resource location information of the user equipment-dedicated search space based on the higher layer signaling, where the frequency domain resource location information includes a quantity of frequency domain resource units occupied by the user equipment-dedicated search space in frequency domain and a location of the frequency domain resource unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide, among other implementations, sequence determining methods. One example method provides a sequence group, and one sequence group number is corresponding to at least two sequences, where one sequence is used for mapping to consecutive subcarriers, and at least one other sequence is used for mapping to equally-spaced subcarriers. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as high as possible cross-correlation between a sending signal obtained after equally-spaced mapping is performed on a sequence in a sequence group can be determined, and a sending signal obtained after continuous mapping is performed on another sequence in the group.

Abstract: A terminal device and a power allocation method are disclosed, relates to the field of communications network technologies. In embodiments of the present disclosure, at least one uplink channel of a first target subframe numbered i is determined; according to uplink channel information of a second target subframe numbered x, a reserved power that is reserved for a base station or a cell group in which the second target subframe numbered x is located is determined, where the reserved power is determined when uplink channel information of the second target subframe numbered x includes a PRACH or includes only an SRS channel or includes no channel. According to the reserved power, a transmit power of each uplink channel in the at least one uplink channel of the first target subframe numbered i is determined. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to power allocation.

Abstract: A resource configuration method and apparatus are provided. In an example implementation, the method includes: receiving, by a terminal, indication information, where the indication information indicates a subcarrier width used for a first control channel, a maximum quantity of symbols occupied by the first control channel is determined based on the subcarrier width, and the different subcarrier widths correspond to different maximum symbol quantities; and determining, by the terminal based on the indication information, a quantity of symbols occupied by the first control channel, where the quantity of symbols occupied by the first control channel is less than or equal to the maximum quantity of symbols.

Abstract: Measurements and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback are configured using communications between a network and user equipment (UE). The communications includes a first signaling from a network component to the UE indicating one or more reference signal (RS) resource configurations, a second signaling indicating one or more interference measurement (IM) resource configurations, and a third signaling indicating a CSI report configuration, wherein the CSI report configuration indicates a subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and a subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE establishes a RS based measurement according to the subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and an IM according to the subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE then generates and sends to the network a CSI report in accordance with the CSI report configuration and using the RS based measurement and the IM.

Abstract: This application discloses a synchronization signal sending method and a related device. The method includes: generating a first synchronization signal sequence and a second synchronization signal sequence, where the first synchronization signal sequence is a sequence obtained based on a first m-sequence, the second synchronization signal sequence is a sequence obtained based on a Gold sequence, the Gold sequence is generated based on a second m-sequence and a third m-sequence, and a generator polynomial of the first m-sequence is the same as a generator polynomial of the second m-sequence; mapping the first synchronization signal sequence onto M subcarriers in a first time unit to obtain a first synchronization signal, and mapping the second synchronization signal sequence onto M subcarriers in a second time unit to obtain a second synchronization signal, where M and N are positive integers greater than 1.

Abstract: The present invention describes a channel measurement method, including: sending, by a base station, first control information to user equipment UE, where the first control information is used to indicate a measurement reference signal of the UE on a carrier, and the first control information includes at least one first measurement configuration set, and is used to instruct the UE to measure the measurement reference signal based on the at least one first measurement configuration set; sending, by the base station, the measurement reference signal to the UE.

Abstract: This application relates to a method, includes: determining, by a terminal, a first initial transmit power and a second initial transmit power; receiving minimum guaranteed power information that is of channels carried by the first carrier and that is sent by an access network device; and obtaining an available transmit power for channels that are transmitted in N first subframes and that are carried by the first carrier and an available transmit power of a channel that is transmitted in a second subframe and that is carried by a second carrier.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating and processing sequences in a communication system is disclosed. The method includes: dividing sequences in a sequence group into multiple sub-groups, each sub-group corresponding to its own mode of occupying time frequency resources; selecting sequences from a candidate sequence collection corresponding to each sub-group to form the sequences in the sub-group by: the sequences in a sub-group i in a sequence group k being composed of n sequences in the candidate sequence collection, the n sequences making a |ri/Ni?ck/Np1| or |(ri/Ni?ck/Np1) modu mk,i| function value the smallest, second smallest, till the nth smallest respectively; allocating the sequence group to cells, users or channels. It prevents the sequences highly correlated with the sequences of a specific length from appearing in other sequence groups, thus reducing interference, avoiding the trouble of storing the lists of massive sequence groups.