Abstract: This application discloses a data transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: A base station sends configuration information to UE. The UE receives the configuration information, where the configuration information includes an association relationship between a first SRS configuration and one or more PUSCH configurations, and a first BWP in which the first SRS configuration is located is different from a BWP in which each PUSCH configuration is located. The UE sends a first SRS on the first BWP based on the first SRS configuration, and sends a first PUSCH based on a first PUSCH configuration, where the first PUSCH configuration is one of the one or more PUSCH configurations. Correspondingly, the base station receives the first SRS based on the first SRS configuration, and receives the first PUSCH based on the first PUSCH configuration.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem of high multicast transmission control signaling overheads. The method includes: receiving first multicast data using a multicast based semi-persistent scheduling SPS transmission; receiving first downlink control information DCI, where the first DCI is scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier CS-RNTI; and receiving first data based on the first DCI, where the first data is retransmitted data of the first multicast data.

Abstract: This application provides an uplink control information transmission method and an apparatus. In the method, a terminal device obtains first physical uplink control channel PUCCH configuration information corresponding to multicast data and second PUCCH configuration information corresponding to unicast data. When first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment HARQ-ACK information corresponding to received multicast data and second HARQ-ACK information corresponding to received unicast data have a same priority and are to be fed back in a same time unit, the terminal device may determine a PUCCH resource based on the first PUCCH configuration information or the second PUCCH configuration information, and then send uplink control information on the PUCCH resource. The uplink control information includes the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and apparatus, to improve positioning accuracy and positioning performance. The method includes: A terminal device receives positioning reference signal configuration information. When the positioning reference signal configuration information includes a physical cell identifier and/or a cell global identifier, if a first condition is met, the terminal device determines that a positioning reference signal corresponding to the positioning reference signal configuration information is from a serving cell.

Abstract: Example methods and apparatuses are described. An example method includes: receiving first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration information corresponding to a first service and second PUCCH configuration information corresponding a second service, and respectively indicate a granularity of a first time unit and a granularity of a second time unit; determining first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information and second HARQ information, where a priority of the first HARQ information is the same as a priority of the second HARQ information; and in response to determining that the granularity of the first time unit is different from the granularity of the second time unit, feeding back the first HARQ information in the first time unit and the second HARQ information in the second time unit, wherein the first time unit and the second time unit do not overlap in time domain.

Abstract: This application provides an uplink acknowledgement information transmission method, the method includes: A terminal device may obtain a plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks, where each of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks includes HARQ-ACK information of at least one downlink data channel, each first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to one first radio network temporary identifier RNTI, and first RNTIs corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebooks are different. Then, the terminal device may send a physical uplink channel to a network device, where the physical uplink channel carries a second HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook includes at least one of the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks that are concatenated in a preset order, and the preset order is determined based on a plurality of first RNTIs corresponding to the plurality of first HARQ-ACK codebooks.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission (including receiving and sending) method. The method includes: A terminal device receives downlink control information DCI, where cyclic redundancy check CRC of the DCI is scrambled by using a first RNTI, the DCI is used to schedule a first downlink data channel, and the first downlink data channel is scrambled by using a second RNTI; and the terminal device receives the first downlink data channel based on the DCI. The DCI includes a DAI domain and/or an FDRA domain. The DAI domain indicates a count of first HARQ-ACK information in a first HARQ-ACK codebook, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to the first RNTI. The FDRA domain indicates, within a frequency domain range of a public frequency resource, a scheduled frequency domain resource on the first downlink data channel.

Abstract: A method includes determining a first subframe on which to transmit a first downlink control information (DCI) message and determining a second subframe on which to transmit a first information. The method also includes determining a delay between the first subframe and the second subframe and transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), the second subframe in accordance with the delay.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for monitoring a downlink control channel, a terminal device, and a computer readable storage medium. The monitoring method includes determining, by a terminal device, priority information, where the priority information includes at least one of a control resource set priority, a search space priority, a downlink control information priority, or a downlink control information size priority, monitoring, by the terminal device, a downlink control channel based on the priority information, and obtaining, by the terminal device, downlink control information from the downlink control channel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data communication methods, apparatus, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a sending apparatus, a first group of one or more control resource sets to a receiving apparatus, and sending, by the sending apparatus, first signaling to the receiving apparatus, where the first signaling is used to instruct the receiving apparatus to receive data on a time-frequency resource for data transmission.

Abstract: A method includes determining a first subframe on which to transmit a first downlink control information (DCI) message and determining a second subframe on which to transmit a first information. The method also includes determining a delay between the first subframe and the second subframe and transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), the second subframe in accordance with the delay.

Abstract: A network device sends multicast configuration information to a terminal device, where the multicast configuration information corresponds to a first multicast service, the multicast configuration information includes first indication information, and the first indication information indicates that the terminal device sends first feedback information for the first multicast service. The terminal device receives the first multicast service based on the first multicast configuration information, and then sends the first feedback information corresponding to the first multicast service to the network device based on the first indication information in the first multicast configuration information. The feedback mechanism applies to a multicast transmission technology and improves transmission reliability of a multicast service.

Abstract: This application provides an uplink information sending method, including: determining, based on a transmission direction of a transmission resource and a preset grant-free transmission resource, a grant-free transmission resource used for uplink transmission, where the transmission resource includes the grant-free transmission resource; and sending uplink information on the grant-free transmission resource used for uplink transmission. According to the method, the grant-free transmission resource used for uplink transmission may be a subset of the preset grant-free transmission resource or may be a resource determined based on a location of the preset grant-free transmission resource. In either case, the grant-free transmission resource used for uplink transmission belongs to the transmission resource whose transmission direction is uplink transmission direction.

Abstract: A network device determines downlink bandwidth configuration information corresponding to a terminal device; the network device sends a first physical broadcast channel to the terminal device in a plurality of cell acquisition subframes based on the downlink bandwidth configuration information, where a time interval between every two adjacent cell acquisition subframes in the plurality of cell acquisition subframes is greater than or equal to 30 ms. When a bandwidth configuration value corresponding to the downlink bandwidth configuration information is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the plurality of cell acquisition subframes in which the first physical broadcast channel is sent include at least one first cell acquisition subframe. At least five symbols of the first physical broadcast channel are transmitted in the first cell acquisition subframe.

Abstract: Embodiments disclose an information acquiring method. The method includes sending indicating information, where the indicating information indicates a resource set used for sending initial information, and the initial information comprises a master information block (MIB); and determining, according to the resource set used for sending initial information, a resource used for sending non-initial information, wherein the non-initial information comprises information carried over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and the resource used for sending the non-initial information does not overlap with the resource set used for sending initial information.

Abstract: This application provides a transmission resource allocation method and apparatus, and a data sending method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a network device, at least one basic resource element, where each of the at least one basic resource element corresponds to at least one pilot, a first basic resource element in the at least one basic resource element corresponds to at least two pilots, and the at least two pilots are different; and indicating, by the network device to a terminal device, at least one pilot corresponding to one or more of the at least one basic resource element.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a scheduling method, a data transmission method, and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to resolve a problem that an existing LTE system does not support a new type of terminal. The scheduling method includes: sending, by a base station, downlink control information DCI to a first-type terminal, where the DCI includes scheduling information used to instruct the first-type terminal to send uplink data by using a first-mode frame format; the first-mode frame format includes at least one uplink subframe, and each uplink subframe includes at least one first-mode frame format symbol; and duration of the first-mode frame format symbol is at least four times of duration of a second-mode frame format symbol, and the second-mode frame format symbol is a single carrier frequency division multiple access SC-FDMA symbol in an LTE system.

Abstract: The present application discloses a control information sending method that includes: determining, by the user equipment, a first pattern from a preset set of patterns, wherein the pattern corresponds to an aggregation level for control information in each subframe of multiple subframes, and/or a resource indicator for a resource that is used for the control information in each subframe of the multiple subframes; and acquiring, by the user equipment, the control information mapped on the resource in each subframe of the multiple subframes according to the first pattern.

Abstract: This application provides a reference signal sending method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transport block size (TBS) determining methods and apparatus. One example TBS determining method includes determining a second intermediate variable based on a determined TBS index, a frequency domain resource occupied by a first broadcast channel, and a second table, and determining a TBS based on the second intermediate variable and a scale factor, where the scale factor is greater than 1.