Abstract: Embodiments provide a channel contention method and apparatus. The channel contention apparatus belongs to a basic service set (BSS). The BSS includes an access point (AP) and at least one first station (STA). Both the AP and the at least one first STA participate in channel contention. The apparatus is the AP or any first STA. The apparatus includes a sensing module configured to sense a channel. The apparatus also includes a contention module configured to contend for the channel. The AP centrally performs control and scheduling so that all of at least one network device in the BSS can transmit data by using the channel.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes performing, by a transmit end, transmit power enhancement processing on a target field of a preamble in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, where the target field includes one or more fields, other than a non-legacy signal field, in a non-legacy field of the preamble in the WLAN system. The method also includes sending, by the transmit end, to a receive end the preamble on which transmit power enhancement processing has been performed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting information in a power communications system, and a system. The method is applied to a power communications system that uses at least two frequency bands for wireless communication, frequency band licensing statuses of the at least two frequency bands are different, and the method includes: determining a target frequency band from the at least two frequency bands based on an information type of to-be-sent information and a correspondence between the information type and a frequency band; and sending the to-be-sent information by using the target frequency band.

Abstract: An information transmission system includes a power system control center, a network device, a transmission device, and at least one system terminal. The network device belongs to a wide area network. Some or all system terminals of the at least one system terminal are configured to send at least one first report message to the transmission device, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol. The transmission device is configured to send at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol different from the first network protocol.

Abstract: The present application discloses a control signal sending method and apparatus. The method includes: when time-frequency resources are divided into m subbands and one common control channel or n dedicated control channels, selecting a subband from the m subbands, and selecting a control channel from the common control channel or the n dedicated control channels, where the m subbands respectively occupy different frequency resources, the common control channel or the n dedicated control channels respectively occupy frequency resources and/or time resources different from those occupied by the m subbands, m is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and sending service data of a terminal by using the selected subband, and sending a control signal corresponding to the service data by using the selected control channel. The apparatus includes: a processing unit and a sending unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data transmission method and a terminal. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal in an idle state, whether a logical channel of a first path includes first to-be-transmitted data, and whether a logical channel of a second path includes second to-be-transmitted data; and if it is detected that the logical channel of the first path does not include the first to-be-transmitted data and a length of the second to-be-transmitted data is less than a preset second path transmission data threshold, selecting the second path to transmit the second to-be-transmitted data, where the second to-be-transmitted data includes discontinuously transmitted application data whose length is less than a preset threshold.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a signal transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: modulating, by using a phase-shift keying PSK scheme with rotation of a first angle, at least a part of pilot information carried in at least one signaling symbol in a signaling field of a data packet, to obtain modulated pilot information; and sending, to a receive end, a data packet that carries the modulated pilot information. A modulation scheme different from a conventional modulation scheme is used in the embodiments to modulate pilot information carried in a signaling symbol in a signaling field of a data packet, so that a data packet format corresponding to the modulation scheme can be effectively detected at a receive end.

Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and system. One or more pre-setup first bearers are disposed between a first network device and a base station. One or more pre-setup second bearers are disposed between the first network device and a second network device. The transmission method includes the following steps: receiving, by the first network device by using one first bearer, data sent by the base station, where the data is sent by a terminal to the base station by using an air interface resource, and the first bearer used to receive the data is corresponding to a first service attribute of the data; and sending, by the first network device, the data to the second network device by using one second bearer, where the second bearer used to send the data is corresponding to a second service attribute of the data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method for a multi-transmission time interval TTI system, including: generating a data frame including a self-contained feedback; and transmitting the data frame on a plurality of subbands obtained by dividing one carrier, where at least two of the plurality of subbands have different TTIs; and parameters of self-contained feedbacks of the at least two of the plurality of subbands are the same, and time lengths of the self-contained feedbacks of the at least two of the plurality of subbands are the same. By configuring a self-contained feedback across subbands, a problem of excessively low resource utilization of self-contained feedbacks resulting from different TTIs and waveform parameter configurations of the subbands can be resolved. According to the embodiments of the present invention, resource utilization of the self-contained feedback can be improved.

Abstract: The present application discloses a subband switching method, including: determining, by a network device, a target subband to which user equipment is to switch; sending, by the network device, identification information of the target subband to the user equipment; determining configuration information of the target subband according to the identification information of the target subband; and switching, by the user equipment, to the target subband according to the configuration information of the target subband. In the subband switching method provided in embodiments of the present application, switching between subbands can be implemented, so that when the UE has a subband switching requirement, the user equipment can be instructed to switch to a target subband. Therefore, service quality of the UE is improved.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for creating a Media Access Control MAC entity, including: obtaining, by a wireless communications device, an identity of a subband used to transmit to-be-transmitted data and an identity of a to-be-created MAC entity, where the wireless communications device is a network device or user equipment; creating the MAC entity according to the identity of the to-be-created MAC entity, where the MAC entity is used to schedule the to-be-transmitted data onto the subband indicated by the identity of the subband; and setting a scheduling period of the to-be-created MAC entity to be consistent with a transmission time interval TTI of the subband.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes determining, by a transmitting device, a long training sequence set, where the long training sequence set includes a plurality of long training sequences. The method also includes determining a mapping relationship between each long training sequence in the long training sequence set and first sub-identity information in identity information of each receiving device in a communications system. When data needs to be transmitted to a target receiving device, the method includes selecting a target long training sequence from the long training sequence set according to first sub-identity information of the target receiving device and the mapping relationship. The method includes performing encapsulation processing on the data according to the target long training sequence to generate a data packet, so as to carry the target long training sequence in the data packet. The method includes sending the data packet to the target receiving device.

Abstract: A sub-band scheduling method, including: sending, to a base station on a source sub-band, a first message that carries information about a data attribute requirement of to-be-transmitted data, where the information about the data attribute requirement includes at least one of the following: a transmission delay, a transmission delay type, a data bandwidth requirement, or a packet loss sensitivity; receiving, on the source sub-band, a second message that carries sub-band information of a target sub-band, where the target sub-band is a sub-band that is scheduled by the base station and that meets the data attribute requirement of the to-be-transmitted data, and the sub-band information includes at least one of the following: a sub-band number, a sub-band frequency channel number, a timing advance, an uplink resource allocated by the base station, a sub-band sending power level, or a bandwidth; and transmitting data on the target sub-band according to the sub-band information.

Abstract: An information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. A first base station may identify, according to indication information, global information and local information in uplink information sent by user equipment. If the indication information indicates that the uplink information includes the global information, the first base station uploads the global information to a core network device. If the indication information indicates that the uplink information includes the local information, the first base station directly delivers the local information to a neighboring base station to cause the neighboring base station to deliver the local information to user equipment in a cell covered by the neighboring base station.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a coding method that needs to be used for a service channel of to-be-transmitted data; and sending control signaling to a terminal device, where the control signaling includes the first indication information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the base station sends the first indication information to the terminal device by using the control signaling, so that the terminal device determines, according to the first indication information, the coding method that needs to be used for the service channel over which the to-be-transmitted data is transmitted.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an uplink data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, information used to request a grant-free transmission resource; receiving, by the terminal device, resource indication information sent by the network device, where the resource indication information is used to indicate a grant-free transmission resource that is allocated by the network device to the terminal device according to the information used to request the grant-free transmission resource; and determining, by the terminal device according to the resource indication information, the transmission resource used for performing grant-free transmission. According to the uplink data transmission method, the terminal device, and the network device in embodiments of the present invention, contention-based uplink data transmission can be implemented, and data transmission efficiency of a system can be improved.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for timing advance (TA) synchronization for uplink (UL) data transmissions are provided. A base station transmits a TA instruction to a UE. The TA instruction indicates one of at least two TA options. The first TA option indicates direct initial grant-free (GF) uplink (UL) data transmissions. The second TA option indicates indirect initial GF UL data transmissions with the UE initiating TA reference signaling for updating a TA parameter of the UE. The UE performs an initial GF UL data transmission to the base station based on the TA instruction.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for obtaining configuration information of a grant-free transmission unit. A centrally configured network element sends configuration information of a grant-free transmission unit of an access device to the access device, where the grant-free transmission unit refers to a transmission resource used for grant-free transmission, and the configuration information of the grant-free transmission unit includes at least one or more of the following information: information about the grant-free transmission unit or information about a grant-free transmission control mechanism. By using the method and the apparatus for obtaining configuration information of a grant-free transmission unit, an access device can obtain configuration information of a grant-free transmission unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a contention transmission unit CTU to be used by to-be-sent uplink data, where the CTU is a transmission resource including at least a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource, and a code domain resource; encoding the to-be-sent uplink data by using N different code element groups in the code domain resource corresponding to the determined CTU, to obtain N groups of encoded data, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and sending the N groups of encoded data by using the time domain and frequency domain resources that are corresponding to the determined CTU. According to the embodiments of the present invention, data reception reliability at a receive end can be improved.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining configuration information of a grant-free transmission unit are provided. The method includes: sending, by a first network device, configuration information of one or more grant-free transmission units of the first network device to a second network device, where the grant-free transmission unit indicates a transmission resource used for grant-free transmission, and the configuration information of the grant-free transmission unit includes at least one or more of the following information: information about the grant-free transmission unit or information about a grant-free transmission unit control mechanism; and receiving, by the second network device, the configuration information of the grant-free transmission unit of the first network device.