Abstract: A method and a device for accessing a system information area or a network area are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, at least one initial access signal (IAS) transmitted from the system information area or the network area; and obtaining, by the terminal, one or more of a subframe boundary, a system bandwidth, a starting frequency and an ending frequency of the system information area or the network area based on the received IAS.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides in some embodiments pilot signal configuration methods and pilot signal configuration devices. The pilot signal configuration method includes steps of: determining configuration information about a pilot signal to be transmitted within a special downlink subframe for a UE; and transmitting the configuration information to the UE. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, it is able to achieve the configuration of the pilot signal to be transmitted within the special downlink subframe.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a CSI feedback method, a CSI feedback device and a CSI feedback system. The CSI feedback method includes steps of: configuring, by a network side device, a first downlink channel measurement pilot for a UE; and receiving, by the network side device, first PMI information fed back by the UE. The first PMI information is acquired by the UE based on measurement of the first downlink channel measurement pilot and second PMI information. A dimension represented by the first PMI information is different from a dimension represented by the second PMI information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pilot mapping method, a pilot signal transmission method and apparatus, a base station and a terminal. In each PRB of one PRB group, the positions at which a pilot of each antenna port is mapped to resource elements (RE) in the PRB is determined according to an antenna port index and an index of the PRB in the PRB group or the whole system bandwidth, so that support is provided for implementation of power borrowing, so as to make full use of transmit power of a base station end, improve the coverage range of the pilot signal and channel estimation quality of a reception end.

Abstract: The present application provides a method and a device for transmitting feedback information. The method includes: determining, by a transmitting terminal, a first code book in accordance with a channel measurement result, precoding matrices included in the first code book being obtained through transformation of a same construction matrix; calculating, by the transmitting terminal, to obtain a first CQI in accordance with all or part of the precoding matrices in the first code book; and transmitting, by the transmitting terminal, first indication information for indicating the first code book and second indication information for indicating the first CQI to a receiving terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reference signal mapping method and a reference signal mapping device. An N-port reference signal pattern is acquired in accordance with a 4-port or 8-port reference signal pattern, and N is an integer greater than 16. The N-port reference signal pattern includes an 18-port, 20-port, 24-port, 28-port or 32-port reference signal pattern. In the case of mapping a reference signal, RE positions to which a CSI-RS is mapped are determined in accordance with the N-port reference signal pattern, and resource mapping is performed on the CSI-RS in accordance with the RE positions, so as to map more-than-16-port CSI-RS, thereby to transmit the more-than-16-port CSI-RS.

Abstract: A precoding matrix determination method and a precoding matrix determination device are provided. The precoding matrix determination method includes: dividing each of the groups of vertical-dimension beams into a plurality of subgroups of vertical-dimension beams, and dividing each of the groups of horizontal-dimension beams into a plurality of subgroups of horizontal-dimension beams; determining a first stage codebook in accordance with a Kronecker product of each subgroup of vertical-dimension beams acquired by dividing each of the groups of vertical-dimension beams and each subgroup of horizontal-dimension beams acquired by dividing each of the groups of horizontal-dimension beams; and selecting a plurality of columns of beams from the determined first stage codebook using a second stage codebook, and performing phase adjustment to determine a precoding matrix.

Abstract: A channel state information receiving method, a channel state information feedback method, a device, a base station and a terminal are provided. It is related to telecommunication field. The receiving method includes: obtaining group identifiers of groups into which multiple terminals having accessed to a base station are classified; transmitting a triggering signaling to one group of terminals having an identical group identifier; and receiving, on a pre-configured resource block, pieces of channel state information respectively fed back by the group of terminals having the identical group identifier in response to the triggering signaling. With the above technical solution, consumption of downlink signalings of the base station can be reduced and feedback efficiency of channel state information can be improved.

Abstract: A method and a device for determining a CSI-RS transmission resource are provided. The method includes: acquiring, by a UE, uplink/downlink subframe configuration information for determining a position of a CSI-RS resource; determining, by the UE, a type of a subframe within which the CSI-RS is to be transmitted in accordance with the uplink/downlink subframe configuration information; and determining, by the UE, the position of the CSI-RS resource within the subframe within which the CSI-RS is to be transmitted in accordance with the determined type of the subframe.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method and a device for transmitting CSI. The method for transmitting the CSI includes steps of: determining, by a UE, a first number of bits used for a joint encoding operation on a BI and a RI, the BI being configured to indicate an index of a resource for transmitting a reference signal corresponding to the RI measured by the UE, an identical first number of bits being used for the joint encoding operation on RI(s) and the BI corresponding to all resources for transmitting the reference signal; and performing, by the UE, the joint encoding operation on the RI and the BI in accordance with the first number of bits to acquire encoding information, and transmitting the encoding information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and provides an information feedback method, an information feedback device and a UE. The information feedback method includes steps of: acquiring PMIs of multiple-level component precoding matrices of a precoding matrix for downlink data transmission; and feeding back the PMI of each of the multiple-level component precoding matrices of the precoding matrix to a base station individually, or feeding back the jointly encoded PMIs, each of which is the PMI of each of the multiple-level component precoding matrices of the precoding matrix, to the base station.

Abstract: A cell access method and a cell access apparatus are provided. The cell access method includes steps of: measuring pilot signals for each of multiple cells that have been searched out, the pilot signals transmitted on a pilot resource for each cell being beam-formed using a set of beam-forming vectors configured for the cell; and selecting a cell corresponding to an optimum pilot signal measurement result from the multiple cells that have been searched and accessing the selected cell.

Abstract: A precoding matrix determination method and a precoding matrix determination device are provided. The precoding matrix determination method includes: dividing each of the groups of vertical-dimension beams into a plurality of subgroups of vertical-dimension beams, and dividing each of the groups of horizontal-dimension beams into a plurality of subgroups of horizontal-dimension beams; determining a first stage codebook in accordance with a Kronecker product of each subgroup of vertical-dimension beams acquired by dividing each of the groups of vertical-dimension beams and each subgroup of horizontal-dimension beams acquired by dividing each of the groups of horizontal-dimension beams; and selecting a plurality of columns of beams from the determined first stage codebook using a second stage codebook, and performing phase adjustment to determine a precoding matrix.

Abstract: A reference signal mapping method and a reference signal mapping device are provided. The reference signal mapping method includes steps of: determining a position of a RE to which a CSI-RS has been mapped in accordance with an N-port reference signal pattern, N being equal to 12 or 16; and performing a resource mapping operation on the CSI-RS in accordance with the determined position of the RE. The position of the RE to which the CSI-RS has been mapped in the N-port reference signal pattern being determined in accordance with a position of the RE to which the CSI-RS has been mapped in one or more of a 2-port reference signal pattern, a 4-port reference signal pattern and an 8-port reference signal pattern. As a result, it is able to achieve the 12-port or 16-port CSI-RS mapping, thereby to achieve the 12-port or 16-port CSI-RS transmission.

Abstract: Measuring a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) according to configuration information of the CSI-RS, to acquire a downlink channel transport matrix. Determining a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) of a frequency domain reporting unit, according to a number of CSI-RS ports and the corresponding transmission scheme of a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) used when determining the CQI, and the downlink channel transport matrix being acquired by a measurement, Reporting the determined CQI to a network side.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for constraining a codebook subset. The method includes steps of: determining codebook subset constraint parameters for all or parts of matrix sets for constructing a codebook respectively, each codebook subset constraint parameter indicating an available matrix in a corresponding matrix set; and transmitting the determined codebook subset constraint parameters to a UE. The number of the matrices in each matrix set for constructing the codebook is far less than the number of precoding matrices in the codebook.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a CSI acquisition method. A network side device indicates a CSI feedback configuration group for aperiodic CSI feedback to a UE, and transmits DCI to the UE, the DCI configured to indicate the UE to perform the aperiodic feedback in accordance with an optimum CSI feedback configuration in the CSI feedback configuration group.

Abstract: A method and a device for reporting channel quality information are provided by the present invention, the method comprising that: measuring, by a user equipment (UE), Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) according to the configuration information of the CSI-RS, to acquire a downlink channel transport matrix (101); determining, by the UE, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) of a frequency domain reporting unit according to the number of CSI-RS ports and the corresponding transmission scheme of the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) used when determining the CQI, and the downlink channel transport matrix acquired by measurement (102); reporting, by the UE, the determined CQI to network side (103). The present invention can realize measurement and reporting of CSI-RS-based channel quality information on the basis of non-Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) feedback transmissions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for reporting channel quality information and a device thereof, the method comprising: according to configuration information of a CSI-RS, a user equipment measuring the CSI-RS to acquire a downlink channel transmission matrix; according to a PDSCH transmission scheme used as a basis when determining a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), and according to the measured downlink channel transmission matrix, the user equipment determining the CQI of a frequency domain reporting unit; and the user equipment reporting the determined CQI to a network side. Through the present invention, the measurement and reporting of the channel quality information based on the CSI-RS is implemented based on transmission of non-PMI feedback.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cell measurement method and a terminal. The cell measurement method includes steps of: measuring a pilot signal from a to-be-measured cell, so as to acquire an channel estimation of N pilot signal transmission ports of the to-be-measured cell, N?1; determining an equivalent received power corresponding to each precoding matrix in accordance with each precoding matrix in a set of precoding matrices and the channel estimation of the N pilot signal transmission ports of the to-be-measured cell; and determining an equivalent received power of the to-be-measured cell in accordance with the equivalent received power corresponding to each precoding matrix.