Abstract: A rules optimizer for optimizing one or more operations at a facility, the rules optimizer configured to: receive an event update associated with an upcoming operation scheduled at the facility; generate a set of potential scheduling decisions associated with the upcoming operation, wherein generating the set of potential scheduling decisions is based at least in part on historical data stored at the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and wherein generating the set of potential scheduling decisions is based at least in part on the received event update; select a scheduling decision from the set of potential scheduling decisions; and update a schedule associated with the facility in view of the selected scheduling decision; and transmit a notification to a vehicle providing information associated with the updated schedule, the vehicle adjusting an action in response to the updated schedule.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a timing advance determining method and a communication apparatus, to improve precision of calculating a timing advance (TA) by a terminal, and reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI). The method includes: A first network device determines a first parameter based on a first delay compensation value, where the first delay compensation value is a delay compensation made by the first network device for receiving a signal sent by a terminal, the first parameter indicates a difference between a round-trip delay of a feeder link in a non-terrestrial network NTN and the first delay compensation value, and the difference is used to determine a TA used by the terminal for signal sending; and the first network device sends the first parameter.

Abstract: This application provides a data processing method and a related apparatus. The method includes: obtaining K-dimensional data, and inputting the K-dimensional data into a first machine learning model, to obtain a solution to a to-be-solved problem. The first machine learning model includes a first processing module and a second processing module. The second processing module is determined based on a constraint condition of the to-be-solved problem. The second processing module is configured to perform dimensional generalization on the K-dimensional data. The first processing module is obtained through training based on m-dimensional data. A value of m is irrelevant to a value of K, and K and m are positive integers.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a related apparatus. In this method, a first neural network model may be determined from one or more pre-trained neural network models, the first neural network model is adjusted based on communication resource information and/or channel state information for communication between a first device and a second device, and an adjusted first neural network model is sent, or a submodel in an adjusted first neural network model is sent, where the adjusted first neural network model is used for the communication between the first device and the second device. It can be learned that the neural network model used for the communication between the first device and the second device is obtained through adjustment based on the pre-trained neural network model that has been trained.

Abstract: A method comprises forming a first fin including alternating first channel layers and first sacrificial layers and a second fin including alternating second channel layers and second sacrificial layers, forming a capping layer over the first and the second fin, forming a dummy gate stack over the capping layer, forming source/drain (S/D) features in the first and the second fin, removing the dummy gate stack to form a gate trench, removing the first sacrificial layers and the capping layer over the first fin to form first gaps, removing the capping layer over the second fin and portions of the second sacrificial layers to from second gaps, where remaining portions of the second sacrificial layers and the capping layers form a threshold voltage (Vt) modulation layer, and forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench, the first gaps, and the second gaps.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of wireless communication technologies, and provide a signal processing method and an apparatus, to improve signal processing performance. In this method, a communication apparatus inputs N1 signal vectors to an input layer of a neural network for dimension increase processing, to obtain N2 high-dimensional signal vectors. The communication apparatus inputs the N2 high-dimensional signal vectors to an interaction layer of the neural network, to obtain a feature between the N2 high-dimensional signal vectors and a feature of each high-dimensional signal vector. The communication apparatus inputs the feature between the N2 high-dimensional signal vectors and the feature of each high-dimensional signal vector to an output layer of the neural network for an operation, to obtain an output signal vector.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus obtains a to-be-modulated bit(s) and modulation condition information MCI; and obtains a first modulated signal based on the to-be-modulated bit(s), the MCI, and a first neural network, and outputs the first modulated signal. Correspondingly, a receiving apparatus obtains the first modulated signal, and demodulates the first modulated signal. The to-be-modulated bit(s) includes N×M bits, M is a modulation order, N is a quantity of first modulation symbols included in the first modulated signal, and both N and M are positive integers.

Abstract: User equipment receives at least one TAC that is broadcast by a network device, where the TAC includes geographical location information, and the geographical location information is used to indicate a geographical location of a preset location point in a TA corresponding to the TAC. The user equipment determines, based on the TAC and a tracking area list (TAL), whether the TAL needs to be updated. If it is determined that the TAL needs to be updated, the user equipment sends a tracking area update request to the network device. The user equipment receives a response message, of the tracking area update request, returned by the network device.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes generating a first signal and sending a first signal, where the first signal includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a first-type cyclic prefix (CP), and a second-type CP. CP resources of the first-type CP include two types of CP resources: a first CP resource and a second CP resource. CP resources of the second-type CP include one type of CP resource, that is, the second CP resource. The first CP resource may be used to carry data that is different from data carried on the OFDM symbol. The second CP resource may be used to carry data that is the same as the data carried on the OFDM symbol.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a polar code encoding method, a polar code decoding method, and apparatuses thereof, to reduce encoding and decoding complexity. The method in embodiments of this application includes: generating an input vector, where the input vector includes T subblocks, a first information bit of a first subblock is obtained by replicating a second information bit of a second subblock, the first subblock and the second subblock are subblocks of the T subblocks, a sequence number of the first subblock is after a sequence number of the second subblock, and T is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and performing polar encoding on the input vector to obtain an encoded bit.

Abstract: This application provides example communication methods and a related apparatuses. An example communication method may be used for a first processing entity of a first communication device. The example method includes the first processing entity sending a first registration request to a second entity, where the first registration request includes a first identifier which indicates one or more of the following information of the first processing entity: model information or data information. A model parameter of the second entity can be adjusted based on a real-time environment parameter. The first processing entity receives a first registration response sent by the second entity, where the first registration response indicates an input parameter of the second entity. The first processing entity sends a first response acknowledgment, where the first response acknowledgment indicates whether an output parameter of the first processing entity matches the input parameter of the second entity.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a feedforward neural network model, where input information of an 1th layer in the feedforward neural network model includes category distribution information of training data and a first data feature, output information of the 1th layer includes a second data feature, the first data feature is an output of an (1-1)th layer, both the first data feature and the second data feature are classification or clustering information representing the training data, and 1 is a positive integer greater than 1; obtaining to-be-processed data of unknown classification or clustering information; and inputting the to-be-processed data into the feedforward neural network model to determine a data feature of the to-be-processed data, where the data feature of the to-be-processed data is the classification or clustering information representing the to-be-processed data.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a beam information indication method and an apparatus. The terminal device obtains reference domain information of a plurality of beams and a first offset corresponding to each moment, to update beam domain information, where the first offset indicates an offset of domain information of the plurality of beams relative to the reference domain information of the plurality of beams. In technical solutions provided in this disclosure, domain information of the plurality of beams can be updated with low signaling overheads. The technical solutions may be applied to a satellite communication system, to implement interference management of satellite beams.

Abstract: A timing advance determining method includes obtaining, by a first communication apparatus, first information about a reference time signal, determining, based on the first information, a reference time at which the reference time signal is generated, and determining a timing advance based on the reference time and a first time at which the first communication apparatus receives a downlink signal. The reference time signal is a periodic signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: a central node obtains N indication parameters that are in a one-to-one correspondence with N distributed nodes, where a first indication parameter in the N indication parameters indicates a communication capability and a computing capability of a first distributed node, and the first distributed node is any node in the N distributed nodes, and determines M network parameters based on the N indication parameters, where the M network parameters are in a one-to-one correspondence with M distributed nodes in the N distributed nodes, and a first network parameter in the M network parameters indicates at least one of a communication configuration or a neural network architecture configuration of the first distributed node. The central node sends the M network parameters, where N and M are positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communication technologies, and provide a split inference method and an apparatus, to reduce communication overheads and also reduce a risk of leaking original data to a central server. The method includes: A first communication apparatus receives, from a second communication apparatus, first indication information indicating a previous-hop communication apparatus and a next-hop communication apparatus of the first communication apparatus, where the previous-hop communication apparatus and the next-hop communication apparatus each include at least one terminal device. The first communication apparatus receives data from the previous-hop communication apparatus, performs inference on the data based on a submodel corresponding to the first communication apparatus, to obtain an inference result, and sends the inference result to the next-hop communication apparatus.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose methods, apparatuses, and storage media for transmitting and responding to assistance request information. The method includes receiving an assistance request instruction; transmitting an assistance request message to an instant messaging client of at least one request-receiving user based on the assistance request instruction, the assistance request message being displayed on a session page of the instant messaging client, the session page being used by the at least one request-receiving user to conduct a message session; and acquiring assistance request content of an assistance requesting user in real time and displaying the assistance request content to the session page.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a color film substrate. The color film substrate includes multiple color resist units. The privacy film includes multiple privacy units disposed corresponding to the multiple color resist units. Each privacy unit has a transparent film and multiple charged particles. When the privacy film is in a first state, the multiple charged particles are attached to one end of the transparent film close to the corresponding color resist unit and exceed a surface of the corresponding color resist unit by a first height. When the privacy film is in a second state, the multiple charged particles are attached to one end of the transparent film close to the corresponding color resist unit and exceed the surface of the corresponding color resist unit by a second height, and the second height is greater than the first height.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communication apparatuses. In one example method, a first communication apparatus receives first configuration information, where the first configuration information includes first identification update information and information about a first update moment of a first cell of a second communication apparatus, and the first identification update information is used to determine first identification information used by the first cell at the first update moment or after the first update moment. The first communication apparatus communicates based on the first configuration information by using the first identification information at the first update moment or after the first update moment, where the first communication apparatus is in a coverage range of the first cell.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, first channel layers vertically stacked over the substrate in a first region, and second channel layers vertically stacked over the substrate in a second region. The first and second regions have opposite conductivity types. The semiconductor structure also includes a threshold voltage (Vt) modulation layer wrapping around each of the second channel layers in the second region. The first region is free of the Vt modulation layer. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate dielectric layer wrapping around each of the first channel layers and the second channel layers over the Vt modulation layer, and a work function metal layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping around each of the first channel layers and the second channel layers.