Abstract: This application provides a communication method, an apparatus, and a system, and the communication method, the apparatus, and the system are applicable to the IoT field, so that transmission efficiency and communication quality can be improved. The method includes: A terminal device sends first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information indicates information about a quantity of receive antennas of a first receiver of the terminal device; and the terminal device receives, through the first receiver, a wake-up signal sent by the network device.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatuses are described. In one example method, a network device determines a first signal, determines a length of a modulation symbol of a second signal based on the first signal, and sends the first signal and the second signal to a terminal device. The terminal device determines the length of the modulation symbol of the second signal based on the first signal, and demodulates the second signal based on the length of the modulation symbol of the second signal. A length of a modulation symbol of the first signal is one of a plurality of lengths of modulation symbols. The first signal is a preamble signal or a signal used by the terminal device for synchronization. The second signal is a data signal after the first signal.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A network device indicates a first terminal to send, to a second terminal, a first signal used to provide a carrier or energy for the second terminal. The first terminal may be an active terminal, and the second terminal may be a passive terminal. After receiving an indication of the network device, the first terminal sends the first signal to the second terminal. After receiving the first signal, the second terminal may use the first signal as a carrier for uplink sending, or store energy based on the first signal. Based on this solution, the network device controls the first terminal to send the first signal to the second terminal, so that the second terminal can obtain the first signal with a high power.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: performing windowing processing on a frequency-domain signal of a first signal by using a window signal, to obtain a first frequency-domain signal, where the first signal is an OFDM signal that carries M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols, and M is a positive integer, a second frequency-domain signal is a frequency-domain signal to which the first frequency-domain signal is mapped on a first frequency-domain resource, the first frequency-domain resource is an upper half or a lower half of a frequency-domain resource occupied by the first frequency-domain signal, a second signal is a time-domain signal of the second frequency-domain signal, and the second signal is an OFDM signal that carries the M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols; and sending the second signal.

Abstract: This application provides a channel coding method and apparatus, including: A terminal device generates a first bit sequence, and determines a second bit sequence based on the first bit sequence, where the second bit sequence includes M bits, any bit in the last N bits in the second bit sequence has a same value as a bit that is in the first N bits in the first bit sequence and that is in one-to-one correspondence with the bit, M and N are positive integers, and M is greater than N; performs convolutional coding on the second bit sequence based on a convolutional encoder, to obtain a third bit sequence, where an initial value of a shift register of the convolutional encoder is equal to values of the last N bits in the second bit sequence, and the convolutional encoder includes N shift registers; and sends the third bit sequence.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. In the method, M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols included in a first signal sent by a signal sending device are the same as M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols included in a second signal. In addition, bandwidth occupied by a first frequency domain signal of the first signal in frequency domain is half of that occupied by a second frequency domain signal of the second signal in frequency domain. In addition, the first signal is one OFDM symbol in time domain, and duration of the M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols carried by the first signal is the same as that of the M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols carried by the second signal.

Abstract: The technology of this application relates to a method and an apparatus, and may be applied to the communication field. The method includes a network device may modulate first information by using a first modulation scheme and modulate second information by using a second modulation scheme in a first signal, to modulate the first information and the second information onto the first signal, where the first modulation scheme may be phase shift keying modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation, and the second modulation scheme is amplitude shift keying modulation. The network device sends the first signal on a first time-frequency resource.

Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: sending first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information indicates one or more wake-up resources; receiving second indication information from a core network device, where the second indication information indicates to wake up the terminal device; determining a first wake-up resource based on the one or more wake-up resources; and sending wake-up information to the terminal device on the first wake-up resource, where the wake-up information is used to wake up the terminal device to receive a paging message or is used to wake up the terminal device to initiate random access. This can ensure that the terminal device can always monitor the wake-up information when there is wake-up signal coverage, and a problem of high-power consumption of the terminal device in a paging process is further resolved.

Abstract: An information transmission method and a communication apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: A terminal device receives a first signal sent by a first network device based on a bandwidth of the first signal, where the first signal includes N first symbols, a modulation scheme of each of the N first symbols is ASK or OOK modulation, N is a positive integer, and the first signal is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal; the terminal device determines a duration of the first symbol, where the duration of the first symbol is one of duration of at least one first symbol that is associated with the bandwidth of the first signal; and the terminal device determines, based on the duration of the first symbol, an information bit carried in the N first symbols.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A network device determines an OFDM signal, where the OFDM signal carries a first amplitude shift keying symbol, and the first amplitude shift keying symbol is an amplitude shift keying symbol ON; and generates a first signal based on the OFDM signal and N bits, where the first signal carries N second amplitude shift keying symbols in time domain, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The network device sends the first signal. According to the foregoing method, information transmission efficiency of an amplitude shift keying modulation scheme can be improved.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: a transmitting end device generates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) time domain signal, where the OFDM time domain signal includes a plurality of amplitude shift keying modulation symbols arranged in time domain; and the transmitting end device sends the OFDM time domain signal to a receiving end device. According to the communication method, an OFDM time domain signal generated by a transmitting end includes a plurality of amplitude shift keying modulation symbols, so that a data transmission rate can be improved.

Abstract: A signal sending method and an apparatus. The method includes: a first device sends a first signal to a second device on N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, where the N OFDM symbols include N1 first symbols, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and N1<N. The first device sends a second signal to a third device on at least one of the N1 first symbols. According to the signal sending method and the apparatus, a technology similar to radio frequency identification (RFID) and wake-up radio (WUR) can be introduced to a communication system, and network resource overheads can be reduced.

Abstract: A communication method and system, and a related apparatus. The communication method is applied to the communication system including a first device and a second device. In the communication method, the first device may indicate the second device to reserve a channel resource, and the second device does not perform data transmission on the reserved channel resource. This prevents the second device from occupying channel resources for long time, to release channel resources for a cellular communication system. The first device may schedule a terminal device other than the second device by using the released channel resources. This improves data transmission efficiency.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device determines a quantity of resource blocks (RBs), occupied by a first control resource set in frequency domain within a first bandwidth and a frequency domain start position of the first control resource set, and a quantity of RBs occupied by a second control resource set in frequency domain within a second bandwidth and a frequency domain start position of the second control resource set, and the quantity of RBs of the first control resource set in frequency domain is less than a minimum quantity of RBs of the second control resource set in frequency domain; and receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the first control resource set, wherein the PDCCH is for scheduling a system information block 1, which can improve transmission performance of the PDCCH.

Abstract: This application discloses a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A network device determines a first SSB and a second SSB, sends the first SSB in a first BWP, and sends the second SSB in a second BWP. Transmit power of the first SSB is different from transmit power of the second SSB. The first BWP may be considered as a BWP of a first-type terminal device, and the second BWP may be considered as a BWP of a second-type terminal device. The network device may send the first SSB in the first BWP, and send the second SSB in the second BWP. The second-type terminal device obtains an SSB from the network device without switching from the second BWP to the first BWP, to reduce a quantity of BWP switching times, so as to reduce power consumption.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. A terminal device determines a first physical resource, and receives a first PBCH and a first PBCH DMRS on the first physical resource. Correspondingly, a network device maps the first PBCH to the first physical resource, and sends the first PBCH, where the first physical resource is a physical resource occupied by the first PBCH and the first PBCH DMRS in a first SSB, and the first SSB occupies four symbols in time domain and occupies X subcarriers in frequency domain, where X is a positive integer greater than 127 and less than 240.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to resolve a problem of receiving and sending an SSB in a bandwidth-limited network such as a dedicated network. The method includes: generating a sequence corresponding to a first synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB), and determining a first SSB frequency location; and sending, based on the determined first SSB frequency location, the sequence corresponding to the first SSB. The first SSB frequency location is associated with bandwidth of a network in which the first SSB is located, or the first SSB frequency location is related to at least one of a lowest frequency of a network or a highest frequency of the network.

Abstract: This application relates to a configuration method and a communication apparatus. The configuration method includes: receiving first configuration information from a network device, where the first configuration information is used to configure a plurality of first channel bandwidths; and receiving second configuration information from the network device, where the second configuration information is used to configure a plurality of first bandwidth parts BWPs, the plurality of first BWPs include at least two second BWPs with a same SCS, and the SCS of the second BWP is the same as the SCS corresponding to the second channel bandwidth. According to the configuration method of this application, a terminal device may determine a plurality of associated BWPs (namely, BWPs with a same SCS) in a channel bandwidth configured by the network device, to reduce a switching delay of the terminal device switching between two associated BWPs.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: sending first configuration information to a plurality of terminal devices, where the first configuration information is used to configure the plurality of terminal devices to detect paging early indication information on a first bandwidth unit, and the paging early indication information indicates to detect or not to detect paging indication information; and sending a reference signal on the first bandwidth unit, where the reference signal is used by the plurality of terminal devices to perform time synchronization and/or frequency synchronization with a network device, to reduce power consumption of a terminal device.

Abstract: This application provides a paging method, a communication apparatus, and a system. In the method, a terminal device sends first information to a first network device, where the first information includes a signal coverage level of the terminal device and whether the terminal device has a capability of receiving a first signal. The terminal device receives second information from the first network device, where the second information indicates the terminal device to receive the first signal or a second signal, the first signal is used to page or wake up the terminal device. Based on a specific application scenario, the terminal device may receive a signal with lower power consumption during demodulation from a network device, to reduce power consumption of the terminal device.