Abstract: A physical downlink control channel transmission method and an apparatus. A terminal device obtains first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a time-frequency resource position of a first system information block 1 physical downlink control channel SIB1-PDCCH and an additional SIB1-PDCCH. The terminal device detects the first SIB1-PDCCH and the additional SIB1-PDCCH at the corresponding time-frequency resource position based on an indication of the first indication information, and obtains a system information block 1 SIB1 based on the detected first SIB1-PDCCH and the additional SIB1-PDCCH. In response to coverage of a SIB1-being is insufficient (for example, a higher frequency band), the first SIB1-PDCCH and the additional SIB1-PDCCH are jointly detected to improve a coverage capability of the SIB1-PDCCH, so that the terminal device obtains a SIB1 message and completes initial access.

Abstract: This application discloses a synchronization signal transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: A network device sends a first synchronization signal block SSB at a first candidate location, and sends a second SSB at a second candidate location, where there is a correspondence between the first candidate location and the second candidate location; a terminal obtains, through detection, the first SSB at the first candidate location; the terminal determines the second candidate location based on the first candidate location, and obtains, through detection, the second SSB at the second candidate location; and the terminal performs physical broadcast channel PBCH detection or reference signal received power RSRP measurement based on the first SSB and/or the second SSB.

Abstract: This application provides a resource scheduling method and apparatus. The resource scheduling method includes: receiving, by a second node, resource configuration information sent by a first node, where the resource configuration information is used to indicate a time domain position of a backhaul resource set, and the backhaul resource set includes a fixed backhaul resource and a plurality of dynamic backhaul resources; receiving, by the second node on the fixed backhaul resource, first indication information sent by the first node, where the first indication information is used to indicate information about scheduled dynamic backhaul resources in the plurality of dynamic backhaul resources; and receiving, by the second node, a signal on the scheduled dynamic backhaul resources.

Abstract: A PTRS sending method and receiving method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device sends first information to a network device, receives first indication information from the network device, and sends a DFT-s-OFDM symbol to which a PTRS is mapped to the network device. In the method, a rule for mapping the PTRS to a plurality of layers of the DFT-s-OFDM symbol is specified, to ensure phase noise estimation performance and improve a demodulation capability.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a first node, transmission timing information sent by a second node, where the transmission timing information includes a first network timing advance; and determining, by the first node, frame timing of the first node based on the transmission timing information, where the frame timing includes a downlink frame sending time and/or an uplink frame receiving time of the first node; and the second node is an upper-level node of the first node.

Abstract: This application provides a signal transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, configuration information sent by a third device and used to indicate a quantity of times for which the third device sends a signal group, in other words, learning in advance, based on the configuration information, a quantity of receive beams that can be measured, and selecting, after receiving first signals of the quantity an optimal receive beam from receive beams that have been detected, to avoid continuously detecting more first signals for selection.

Abstract: A PTRS processing method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information and second indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-domain location at which a PTRS is to be sent by the terminal, and the second indication information is used to indicate an offset of an initial time-domain location to which the PTRS is mapped by the terminal; mapping, by the terminal, the PTRS to one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols based on the first indication information and the second indication information; and sending, by the terminal, the one or more DFT-s-OFDM symbols. In this way, the PTRS mapped to the DFT-s-OFDM symbol is offset at a DFT-s-OFDM symbol level.

Abstract: This application discloses a resource multiplexing method and apparatus. In this application, a first node receives first configuration information sent by a second node, where the first configuration information includes first guard interval information associated with a first timing mode of an MT. The first node receives second configuration information sent by the second node, where the second configuration information includes second guard interval information associated with a second timing mode of the MT. Guard interval information configured by the second node is associated with different timing modes, so that the first node can obtain the guard interval information corresponding to the different timing modes, to improve flexibility of resource multiplexing performed on an access link and a backhaul link.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a power control method and a power control apparatus, to alleviate a transmission capacity decrease caused by interference, and improve transmission performance. The method in embodiments of this application includes: A first node determines a first power control parameter. The first power control parameter is used to indicate first transmit power expected by the first node in a first transmission mode. The first node sends a first message to a second node. The first message carries the first power control parameter, and the first message is used to request the first transmit power expected by the first node in the first transmission mode. The second node is an upper-level node of the first node or a donor base station.

Abstract: This application provides a signal transmission method and apparatus. The method is applied to a communications system including at least three nodes, a second node in the at least three nodes communicates with a third node by using a first node, and the method includes: determining, by the first node, a status of a link between the first node and the second node; and sending, by the first node, first notification information to the third node when determining that the link between the first node and the second node is abnormal, where the first notification information is used to indicate that the link between the first node and the second node is abnormal.

Abstract: This application discloses example power control methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first node, first information sent by a second node, where the first information is used to determine a first transmit power, where the first transmit power is a power used when the first node sends downlink information to the second node through a first link, where the first link is a link between the first node and the second node, and where the first node is an upper-level device of the second node. The first node can then determine the first transmit power based on the first information.

Abstract: This application provides a power control method including: receiving, by a second node, radio resource control (RRC) from a first node, where the RRC includes a power control parameter set configured for the second node, the power control parameter set includes a power control index, and the power control index is determined based on a transmission mode or a transmission capability of the second node; receiving downlink control information (DCI) including power control index indication information used to: when the first node schedules the second node, indicate a value of a power control index that is for uplink transmission and that is for the second node; determining a transmit power based on the power control index indication information and the power control parameter set; and sending a signal at the determined transmit power.

Abstract: A first node device includes a transmitter, a receiver, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor. The program includes instructions to cause the transmitter to send, to a second node device, an offset of a first uplink sending timing of the second node device and a first amount of timing adjustment of the second node device, cause the transmitter to send indication information to the second node device, where the indication information indicates whether the second node device sends uplink data by using the first uplink sending timing of the second node device, and receive, through the receiver, data sent by the second node device, where the first node device is a parent node device of the second node device.

Abstract: This application provides a resource indication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: The second node receives first indication information from the first node, where the first indication information includes first resource information, and the first resource information is associated with a first reference signal. The second node determines the first resource information based on the first indication information, where the first resource information is for limiting sending of a to-be-sent signal on a first resource indicated by the first resource information. In this way, the sending of the to-be-sent signal by the second node on the first resource is limited, so that interference of the second node to the third node can be reduced, and network performance and spectrum efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: This application discloses example resource configuration methods and integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes. One example method includes sending, by a first node, first information and second information to a second node, where the first information indicates a resource multiplexing capability supported by one or more carriers of a mobile termination (MT) of the first node and one or more cells of a distributed unit (DU) of the first node, and the second information indicates a condition that needs to be met for the resource multiplexing capability supported by the one or more carriers of the MT. The resource multiplexing capability includes a capability 1, a capability 2, a capability 3, and a capability 4, where the capability 1, the capability 2, the capability 3, and the capability 4 indicate respectively whether the MT and the DU can send or receive signals simultaneously.

Abstract: This application provides a resource configuration method and a communication apparatus. In the technical solutions of this application, a donor node may configure different DU resource configurations for an IAB node and two parent nodes of the IAB, so that the IAB node can determine MT resources for different parent nodes based on the different DU resource configurations, to implement resource configuration of the IAB node in a dual connectivity scenario.

Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: An IAB node receives first configuration information from a source donor base station, where the first configuration information includes N pieces of configuration information of an MT and N pieces of configuration information of a DU that are configured by N target donor base stations for the IAB node; and the DU of the IAB node uses one piece of configuration information in the N pieces of configuration information of the DU when the MT of the IAB node satisfies a specific condition, where N is greater than or equal to 1, the MT is configured to communicate with a parent node of the IAB node, the source donor base station, or the target donor base station, and the DU is configured to communicate with a child node of the IAB node or a terminal.

Abstract: This application provides a signal transmission method and apparatus. The method is applied to a communications system including at least three nodes, a second node in the at least three nodes communicates with a third node by using a first node, and the method includes: determining, by the first node, a status of a link between the first node and the second node; and sending, by the first node, first notification information to the third node when determining that the link between the first node and the second node is abnormal, where the first notification information is used to indicate that the link between the first node and the second node is abnormal.

Abstract: This application discloses a reference signal determining method and an apparatus. The method includes a first device determines a first reference signal sequence in a reference signal sequence set. The first device maps the first reference signal sequence to a first symbol sequence, and sends a first reference signal corresponding to the first reference signal sequence to a second device based on the first symbol sequence. The first reference signal sequence is used by the second device to estimate impact of phase noise on a received signal, and the impact of the phase noise on the received signal includes at least one of inter-subcarrier interference, a common phase error, and the phase noise. The reference signal sequence set includes at least a first-type reference signal sequence. A time-domain amplitude variance and a frequency-domain amplitude variance of the first-type reference signal sequence each meet a preset threshold.

Abstract: This application discloses example power control methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first node, first information sent by a second node, where the first information is used to determine a first transmit power, where the first transmit power is a power used when the first node sends downlink information to the second node through a first link, where the first link is a link between the first node and the second node, and where the first node is an upper-level device of the second node. The first node can then determine the first transmit power based on the first information.