Abstract: Various embodiments provide a random access method and apparatus. In those embodiments, available random access resources can be grouped, by a network device, into a plurality of random access resource groups. The network device can send information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device, and receives a random access request sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups. The network device can determine a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs. The network device can determine an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a transmit device, and a receive device. The method includes: sending important data of a media data frame to a receive device in a HARQ transmission mode; and after the important data of the media data frame is successfully sent, sending unimportant data of the media data frame to the receive device in a non-HARQ transmission mode. Based on this solution, data of the media data frame is classified into the important data and the unimportant data, and the unimportant data is sent after the important data is successfully sent. In this way, on one hand, the important data is preferentially sent, and successful sending of the important data can be ensured in the HARQ transmission mode.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: obtaining downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information is used to schedule downlink data, and the downlink control information carries time information indicating a time at which uplink information is sent; obtaining, through a system message or radio resource control signaling or a resource of a physical random access channel, information indicating a duration for sending the uplink information; receiving the downlink data; and sending the uplink information according to the time information and the information indicating the duration, wherein the uplink information is used to indicates whether the downlink data is correctly received.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: obtaining downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information is used to schedule downlink data, and the downlink control information carries time information indicating a time at which uplink information is sent; obtaining, through a system message or radio resource control signaling or a resource of a physical random access channel, information indicating a duration for sending the uplink information; receiving the downlink data; and sending the uplink information according to the time information and the information indicating the duration, wherein the uplink information is used to indicates whether the downlink data is correctly received.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a random access method and apparatus. In those embodiments, available random access resources can be grouped, by a network device, into a plurality of random access resource groups. The network device can send information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device, and receives a random access request sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups. The network device can determine a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs. The network device can determine an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

Abstract: An uplink information sending method and apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining, by user equipment, downlink control information DCI and downlink data, the DCI carries a portion of uplink scheduling information of the user equipment, the uplink information is used to indicate whether the user equipment receives the downlink data correctly, the portion of the uplink scheduling information is specifically indication information excluding a specific parameter of the user equipment, and the specific parameter includes at least one of an uplink modulation and coding scheme MCS or information used to indicate duration for sending the uplink information. The method also includes sending, by the user equipment, the uplink information according to the portion of the uplink scheduling information and the specific parameter, where the specific parameter is a parameter preset in the user equipment or a parameter received by the user equipment from a system message.

Abstract: A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Abstract: A patch generator for generating a patch that expresses a series of updates to a source image that will transform the source image into a target image. The patch generator compares sections of the target image, in turn, with respective versions of the source image. The patch generator generates the series of updates for the patch in dependence on the comparisons between the sections of the target image and the respective versions of the source image. Comparing each section of the target image with versions of the source image that are expected to be stored by the device during the process of implementing the patch allows the possibility that the device could change the source image in its memory while it implements the patch.

Abstract: The present application discloses a random access method and apparatus. The method includes: grouping, by a network device, available random access resources into a plurality of random access resource groups; sending, by the network device, information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device; receiving, by the network device, a random access request that is sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups; determining, by the network device, a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs; and determining, by the network device, an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

Abstract: A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.

Abstract: A patch generator for generating a patch that expresses a series of updates to a source image that will transform the source image into a target image. The patch generator compares sections of the target image, in turn, with respective versions of the source image. The patch generator generates the series of updates for the patch in dependence on the comparisons between the sections of the target image and the respective versions of the source image. Comparing each section of the target image with versions of the source image that are expected to be stored by the device during the process of implementing the patch allows the possibility that the device could change the source image in its memory while it implements the patch.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application propose a feedback method for an uplink channel, and an apparatus. In the solution, instead of always sending a first common message or a first scheduling command in any case, a base station determines, only after determining whether a data packet to be sent by a terminal is the last data packet of the terminal, whether a to-be-sent message including an indication bit that is used to indicate whether the base station correctly receives the data packet sent by the terminal is the first scheduling command or the first common message. Alternatively, when the base station determines that the terminal needs to send a next data packet or needs to retransmit the data packet, an indication bit for the terminal in at least two indication bits is used to indicate uplink control information. Therefore, this avoids a waste of resources.

Abstract: A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Abstract: The present application discloses a random access method and apparatus. The method includes: grouping, by a network device, available random access resources into a plurality of random access resource groups; sending, by the network device, information about the plurality of random access resource groups to a terminal device; receiving, by the network device, a random access request that is sent by the terminal device based on the information about the plurality of random access resources groups; determining, by the network device, a target random access resource group to which a random access resource used for the random access request belongs; and determining, by the network device, an uplink transmission capability of the terminal device based on the target random access resource group.

Abstract: An uplink information sending method and apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining, by user equipment, downlink control information DCI and downlink data, the DCI carries a portion of uplink scheduling information of the user equipment, the uplink information is used to indicate whether the user equipment receives the downlink data correctly, the portion of the uplink scheduling information is specifically indication information excluding a specific parameter of the user equipment, and the specific parameter includes at least one of an uplink modulation and coding scheme MCS or information used to indicate duration for sending the uplink information. The method also includes sending, by the user equipment, the uplink information according to the portion of the uplink scheduling information and the specific parameter, where the specific parameter is a parameter preset in the user equipment or a parameter received by the user equipment from a system message.

Abstract: Receiver and method in a receiver, for iterative channel estimation and data decoding of signals received from a radio network node, located in a wireless communication network. The method comprises detecting a signal of the radio network node, performing channel estimation of the detected signal, based on iterative application of a Space Alternating Generalized Expectation and maximization, SAGE, algorithm, determining a channel/link quality, based on the performed channel estimation and the estimated channel parameters, selecting Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output, MIMO, detector, based on the determined channel quality, determining to enable and/or disable, respectively, soft-Iterative Channel Estimation, soft-ICE, based on the determined channel quality, and iterating the performed channel estimation for a predetermined number of times.