Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus. In the method, a transmit end obtains to-be-encoded information, where the to-be-encoded information includes k bits, and k is a positive integer; the transmit end determines that a quantity of code blocks is C, and C is a positive integer; the transmit end performs polar encoding on the to-be-encoded information based on C, to obtain C encoded code blocks; and the transmit end sends the C encoded code blocks. In some implementations, the transmit end determines, based on k and a target bit rate, that the quantity of code blocks is C. In some implementations, the transmit end obtains the C encoded code blocks in a code block coupling manner.

Abstract: An encoding method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus, and a device are provided. The encoding method includes: obtaining K to-be-encoded bits (S301), where K is a positive integer; determining a first generator matrix, where the first generator matrix includes at least two sub-blocks distributed based on a preset position relationship, and the sub-block includes a plurality of first generator matrix cores (S302); generating a second generator matrix based on the first generator matrix, where the second generator matrix includes T sub-blocks, and a position relationship between two adjacent sub-blocks of the T sub-blocks is determined based on the preset position relationship (S303), where T is a positive integer; and polar encoding the K to-be-encoded bits based on the second generator matrix (S304), to obtain encoded bits. This can reduce encoding/decoding complexity.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus, to reduce complexity of a polar code construction process. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-encoded bit sequence, where the to-be-encoded bit sequence includes K information bits, and K is an integer greater than 0; determining a first sequence, where positions of the K information bits in the first sequence are determined based on a second sequence corresponding to a target code rate and a value of K, the second sequence is used to represent selection priorities of N0 bit positions, and N0 is an integer greater than K; performing polar code encoding on the first sequence to obtain a third sequence; and sending the third sequence. The second sequence is designed for a constant code rate, and a same sequence may be used to construct a series of polar codes having a same code rate and different lengths.

Abstract: A method for determining an auxiliary bit of a polar code and an apparatus. At least K sub-channels are determined based on reliability of a first sub-channel set, where the K sub-channels carry information bits. S sub-channel subsets are determined based on the first sub-channel set, an ith sub-channel subset in the S sub-channel subsets includes Ji sub-channels carrying auxiliary bits and Ki sub-channels in the K sub-channels. Sequence numbers of the Ji sub-channels carrying the auxiliary bits are after sequence numbers of the Ki sub-channels. The auxiliary bits are known redundancy check RC bits. Polar encoding is performed on the information bits and the auxiliary bits, to output polar-encoded data.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for collaborative link adaptation between an access point and stations of a wireless network. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the problem of optimizing network links may be distributed from the access point to the stations, which may each determine whether they should locally solve the problem of optimizing their respective link to the access point or should return the optimization problem to the access point. The access point may optimize the links to stations that do not solve the optimization problem themselves. Embodiments may evaluate the transmission performance and computational costs of each station and of the network in determining where optimization should be done.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method and an apparatus. The transmit end sends a first coded bit sequence based on a to-be-transmitted coded bit sequence. The receive end receives and decodes a first to-be-decoded sequence, and sends first indication information if the decoding fails, where the first indication information includes information about a location, in the to-be-transmitted coded bit sequence, of at least one sent coded bit in the to-be-transmitted coded bit sequence. The transmit end receives the first indication information, and sends a second coded bit sequence based on the first indication information, where the second coded bit sequence includes the at least one sent coded bit in the to-be-transmitted coded bit sequence and/or at least one unsent coded bit in the to-be-transmitted coded bit sequence.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses an encoding method, a decoding method, and an apparatus. The method includes: performing polar encoding on an information bit sequence based on a target code length E, to determine an encoded bit sequence, where the polar encoding includes N first bit positions and N second bit positions that correspond to a polarization transformation matrix; the N second bit positions include a system bit position set A and a non-system bit position set MA, and the N first bit positions include a frozen bit position set B and a non-frozen bit position set MB.

Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: a first device first checks a first bit sequence based on a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code, to obtain a second bit sequence; then divides the second bit sequence into P bit sequences; and generates Q codewords based on the P bit sequences, and sends the Q codewords to a second device through P transport layers. P represents a quantity of transport layers of the first device, P is greater than or equal to 2, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The first device first checks the first bit sequence based on the CRC code, and then divides the second bit sequence into the P bit sequences, that is, performs code rate allocation.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses an encoding method, a decoding method, and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an information bit sequence; and encoding the information bit sequence based on a systematic polar code, to determine an encoded bit sequence, where the systematic polar code includes N first bit positions and N second bit positions that correspond to a polarization transformation matrix, the N second bit positions include a systematic bit position set A and a non-systematic bit position set MA, the N first bit positions include a frozen bit position set B and a non-frozen bit position set MB, and A is determined based on the information bit sequence.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an encoding and decoding method and apparatus, to reduce encoding/decoding complexity and improve encoding/decoding performance. In the method, a transmit device may obtain N to-be-encoded vectors. The transmit device may encode the N to-be-encoded vectors based on a polar code kernel matrix, to obtain N temporary code blocks. The transmit device may respectively perform a mask operation on target bit sequences in an (n+1)th temporary code block to an (n+M)th temporary code block and a source bit sequence segment of an nth temporary code block, to obtain M mask bit sequences. The transmit device may respectively encode the M mask bit sequences based on the polar kernel matrix, to obtain M encoded mask bit sequences. The transmit device may sum the M encoded mask bit sequences and M temporary code blocks, to obtain M first code blocks.

Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and an apparatus. In the method, a sending device sends a first bit sequence to a receiving device. Optionally, the first bit sequence is an information bit sequence, or the first bit sequence is an information bit sequence obtained through first encoding. The sending device receives a second bit sequence from the receiving device. The sending device sends a first code block to the receiving device, where the first code block is obtained based on a first error pattern and a first check matrix. The first error pattern is determined based on the second bit sequence and the first bit sequence.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for methods and systems for improved channel information gathering mechanism. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method. The method includes sending, to one or more stations (STAs), a request for channel information. The channel information being related to one or more channels between an access point (AP) and the one or more STAs. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more (STA), one or more physical layer (PHY) protocol data units (PPDUs). The PPDUs includes channel feature information (CFI) associated with the one or more channels. In some embodiments, the request includes a beamforming report poll (BFRP) trigger frame having a user information field. The user information subfield indicating one or more thresholds associated with one or more parameters of the channel feature information.

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 a polar encoding method and apparatus. The method can include obtaining a basic sequence, where the basic sequence includes N0 subchannel numbers. The method can also include sequentially reading first subchannel numbers from the basic sequence, and sequentially reading 2m second subchannel numbers from the basic sequence starting from an Mth subchannel number based on the first subchannel number read each time; and adding q*N0 to each of the 2m second subchannel numbers to obtain 2m third subchannel numbers. Furthermore, the method can include constructing a polar code by using subchannels corresponding to the 2m third subchannel numbers as information bits. A polar code with another code length is constructed based on a sequence with a length of N0. A length of a polar code that needs to be stored is therefore reduced, which reduces complexity and is also easy to implement.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for methods, systems and apparatus related to Variable High Throughput (HT) Control Field. An aspect of the disclosure provides for a method performed by a station (STA). The method includes sending, to a second STA, a message including a frame, the frame including a variable high throughput (HT) control field. The variable HT further includes a first subfield indicating an N number of control IDs, wherein N is equal to or more than one. The variable HT further includes N additional subfields. Each of the N additional subfield includes: a control identifier (ID) field and a control information field associated with the Control ID field. The method further includes receiving, from the second STA, a response.

Abstract: A sending device may obtain a first to-be-encoded vector. The sending device may perform first encoding on the first to-be-encoded vector, to obtain a second to-be-encoded vector. The sending device may encode the second to-be-encoded vector based on a first generator matrix, to obtain an encoded codeword. The first generator matrix may include at least N+1 submatrices a, and N of the submatrices a may be located on a main diagonal of the first generator matrix. The first generator matrix may be a block upper triangular matrix, or the first generator matrix may be a block lower triangular matrix. The submatrix a is a polar kernel matrix with a size of 2m*2m, m is a natural number, and N is a natural number. The sending device may send the encoded codeword.

Abstract: An encoding method includes obtaining to-be-encoded information and a mother code length N. The to-be-encoded information includes K information bits. The method also includes determining, based on K and N, a set I corresponding to subchannels of the information bits and a set F corresponding to subchannels of frozen bits. Information bits corresponding to subchannel sequence numbers in the set I are distributed in X outer component codes, a code length of each outer component code is B, and the X outer component codes includes a first-type outer component code and a second-type outer component code or the X outer component codes include a first-type outer component code, a second-type outer component code, and one third-type outer component code. Different types of component codes have different code rates. The method additionally includes performing polarization encoding based on the set I and the set F.

Abstract: An encoding method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus, and a device are provided. The encoding method includes obtaining K to-be-encoded bits (S301), where K is a positive integer; determining a first generator matrix, where the first generator matrix includes at least two sub-blocks distributed based on a preset position relationship, and the sub-block includes a plurality of first generator matrix cores (S302); generating a second generator matrix based on the first generator matrix, where the second generator matrix includes T sub-blocks, and a position relationship between two adjacent sub-blocks of the T sub-blocks is determined based on the preset position relationship (S303), where T is a positive integer; and polar encoding the K to-be-encoded bits based on the second generator matrix (S304), to obtain encoded bits. This reduces encoding/decoding complexity.

Abstract: An encoding method and apparatus are provided, to propose a construction and encoding scheme of a BCH code. A code length and a code rate of an obtained BCH code are flexible, to satisfy a requirement of flexible channel encoding in wireless communication. The method includes determining a first encoding parameter based on a first BCH code, where the first BCH code is a to-be-coded BCH code, the first encoding parameter is a first code or a generator matrix of a first code, the first code has a code length of n and an information bit length of k, n is greater than 0, and k is greater than 0, and performing BCH encoding based on the first encoding parameter.

Abstract: This application provides a rate matching method, including: A transmitter obtains a to-be-coded bit sequence; the transmitter performs polar coding on the to-be-coded bit sequence, to obtain a first bit sequence, where a length of the first bit sequence is N; the transmitter performs first rate matching on the first bit sequence, to obtain a second bit sequence, where a length of the second bit sequence is E1; the transmitter sends the second bit sequence; the transmitter performs polar coding based on the to-be-coded bit sequence, to obtain a third bit sequence, where a length of the third bit sequence is 2*N; the transmitter performs second rate matching on the third bit sequence, to obtain a fourth bit sequence, and the transmitter sends the fourth bit sequence, where N, E1 are positive integers.