Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a method for transmitting a reference signal, a method for determining a phase noise, and related apparatuses, to resolve the problem in the prior art that different phase noises of different antenna units or antenna ports of a transmitter cannot be accurately estimated and compensated for. The method comprises: the transmitter respectively transmitting each precoded DMRS and PTRS to a receiver via respective corresponding antenna groups having a same phase noise, and when the receiver receives the PTRS, performing channel estimation based on each received PTRS, to determine phase changes caused by phase noises corresponding to different antenna groups.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications, and in particular, to a control information sending method and receiving method, a sender and a receiver, which are used for sending DCIs corresponding to DCI types to the receiver, thereby improving simplicity of interference suppression performed by the receiver. In the embodiments of the present application, a sender flexibly and optionally sends a first class of DCIs and/or a second class of DCIs.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back channel state information, and a method and apparatus for transmitting data. The method for feeding back channel state information includes: calculating channel state information according to a first codebook, where the first codebook is a set of elements and each of the elements is a set of pre-coding matrixes; and feeding back the channel state information.

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: Disclosed in the present invention are a method and a device for transmitting channel state information, for solving the problem that due to the limitation of a codebook structure, the prior art can only provide channel state information with limited precision and it is not suitable for a base station to use a transmission scheme of an advanced preprocessing algorithm. The method comprises: a terminal determining a basis matrix according to a candidate wave beam vector set, the basis matrix being a matrix formed by N wave beam vectors from the candidate wave beam vector set, the N being a positive integer; the terminal determining a combined coefficient matrix according to the basis matrix and a channel state parameter; the terminal feeding back the identification information of the basis matrix and the combined coefficient matrix to a base station.

Abstract: A wireless transmission system included at least one user equipment and a base station. The base station is operable to form a downlink control information block, modulate the downlink control information, precode the modulated downlink control information, and transmit the precoded, modulated downlink control information on at least one demodulation reference signal antenna port to the at least one user equipment. The precoded, modulated downlink control information is mapped to a set of N1 physical resource block pairs in a subframe from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T1 to and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T2.

Abstract: A method for data transmission, a base station and a terminal are provided. The method for data transmission includes: configuring the number of bits occupied by downlink control information (DCI) used to indicate physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling on each of all carriers corresponding to a to-be-scheduled terminal to be N, where N is a maximum number of bits occupied by the DCI that is used to indicate the PDSCH scheduling on a carrier configured with an aperiodic channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS); and constructing scheduling information for indicating the PDSCH scheduling based on the configured DCI, and transmitting the scheduling information to the to-be-scheduled terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an indication method, including: determining first transmission resources related to a transmission channel for a large-scale channel parameter or a group of large-scale channel parameters, and transmitting configuration information about the first transmission resources to a terminal device via first signaling, the first transmission resources being transmission resources for K downlink reference signals, K being a positive integer; and selecting second transmission resources from the first transmission resources in accordance with a transmission parameter used by the transmission channel, and transmitting indication information about the second transmission resources to the terminal device via second signaling, the second transmission resources being transmission resources for L downlink reference signals, L being a positive integer, and K being greater than or equal to L.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission control method, a network side device and a terminal side device. The data transmission control method includes: mapping, by a network side device, a codeword to at least one data layer; mapping, by the network side device, the at least one data layer to at least one QCL group, the QCL group being an antenna port group established in accordance with a QCL relationship among antenna ports; and performing, by the network side device, data transmission in accordance with the QCL group. According to the present disclosure, it is able to perform the data transmission through multi-array antennae.

Abstract: The message decoding method in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a receiving end device, a second message associated with a first message from a transmitting end device; determining, by the receiving end device, a target receiver parameter for decoding the first message in accordance with the second message; and decoding, by the receiving end device, the first message from the transmitting end device in accordance with the target receiver parameter.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting coding indication information and determining a precoding matrix, for use in resolving the problem that the resolution of code words in a codebook generated by using a combination of a beam vector subgroup and column selection cannot be flexibly adjusted.

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 method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. 4) is disclosed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (702) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) in an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH). A pseudo-random number generator is initialized (706) for generating a pseudo-random sequence. A plurality of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) are generated with the pseudo-random sequence. The plurality of DMRS is mapped with the EPDCCH and transmitted to the UE (712).

Abstract: A CSI feedback method, a CSI acquisition method, a CSI feedback device and a CSI acquisition device are provided, so as to reduce pilot resources configured for a UE and reduce the difficulty in processing CSI progresses at a UE side, thereby to facilitate the CSI feedback and acquisition and save resources. The CSI acquisition method includes steps of: determining beamforming array information in a first dimension; beamforming a pilot signal in a second dimension in accordance with the beamforming array information in the first dimension, and transmitting the beamformed pilot signal in the second dimension to a UE through a pilot resource in the second dimension; and receiving, from the UE, CSI in the second dimension obtained by measuring the pilot signal in the second dimension.

Abstract: A method for indicating precoding information, user equipment (UE) and an access network entity are provided according to the disclosure. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a control signaling transmitted by an access network entity; determining, by the UE, a multilevel codebook index in response to the control signaling; and determining, by the UE, a target precoding matrix based on the multilevel codebook index and a multilevel codebook obtained in advance.

Abstract: A beam scanning and search tracking method and device are provided. The method includes constructing analog beams and performing digital beam-forming to the analog beams so as to form equivalent beams; transmitting reference signals to a second communication node by using the equivalent beams; receiving beam information about the equivalent beams and corresponding channel state information fed back by the second communication node according to the reference signals; performing a beam scanning operation and a search tracking operation by using the beam information and the channel state information.

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).

Abstract: Disclosed are a beam scanning method and a related device, used for solving the problem that, during the existing process of determining the optimal transceiving beam by performing traversal search on a combination of potential transceiving beams, a large amount of system overhead needs to be occupied, thus reducing the system efficiency and the adaptability to a time-varying channel. The method comprises: a first communication node determines at least one transmitted beam according to the optimal receiving beam group between a receiver of the first communication node and a transmitter of a second communication node; the first communication node sequentially sends a signal to the second communication node by means of the transmitter according to the determined at least one transmitted beam until the optimal transmitted beam is determined.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an antenna beam management method and related device, used for solving the problem in current large-scale antenna technology wherein the overhead of beam management control signaling is large. The method is: a terminal sending related information of a downlink beam of the terminal to a base station so that the base station determines a first downlink sending beam on the basis of the related information of the downlink beam; the terminal receiving notification information related to the first downlink sending beam send by the base station, the notification information comprising indication information that is used by the terminal to determine at least one first downlink receiving beam; the terminal determining the at least one first downlink receiving beam on the basis of the notification information; and the terminal receiving a downlink signal on the basis of the at least one first downlink receiving beam.

Abstract: A signal transmission method and device are provided. The method includes: determining a codebook C being a set of matrices W; determining a matrix set ?={W}?C from the codebook C; generating one or more layers of signals, beamforming the signals with matrixes in the matrix set ?, and cyclically mapping the matrixes in the matrix set ? to different locations of transmission resources; and transmitting the beamformed signals at the different locations of the transmission resources.