Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal. The data transmission method includes: receiving, by a network device, a first reference signal and a first physical channel that are sent by a first terminal device, where the first reference signal is at the ith symbol in a slot, i is a positive integer less than 7, the first physical channel occupies n symbols in the slot, and n is 1, 2, or 3; and demodulating, by the network device, the first physical channel according to the first reference signal. According to the present disclosure, a data transmission latency can be reduced.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a first device, a first signal to a second device, where the first signal includes a first data signal and a first pilot signal, and the first data signal is generated based on a first transmission parameter; receiving, by the first device from the second device, first information in response to the first signal; and sending, by the first device, a second signal to the second device after receiving the first information, where the second signal includes a second data signal and a second pilot signal, the second data signal is generated based on a second transmission parameter, and the first data signal and the second data signal carry a same transport block.

Abstract: In a data sending method, a terminal device receives first control information in a first time unit. The first control information indicates a first time domain resource that is used to send a first information block. The terminal device receives the first information block on at least a part of the first time domain resource based on the first control information. The terminal device further receives second control information in a second time unit. The second control information indicates a second time domain resource that is used to send the first information block. The terminal device receives the first information block on the second time domain resource based on the second control information. The first time unit is different from the second time unit, and the first time domain resource and the second time domain resource have an overlapping time domain resource.

Abstract: A data transmission method, including receiving, by a terminal device in a downlink control part, first downlink control information and a first downlink reference signal that are sent by a network device, receiving, by the terminal device in a first downlink data part according to the first downlink control information, first data sent by the network device, generating, by the terminal device, feedback information based on the first downlink reference signal and the first data, sending, by the terminal device, the feedback information to the network device in an uplink feedback part, and receiving, by the terminal device in a second downlink data part according to the first downlink control information, second data sent by the network device, where the downlink control part, the first downlink data part, the uplink feedback part, and the second downlink data part constitute a first time unit.

Abstract: A terminal receives downlink scheduling information of a downlink subframe F(i, j), where a set M of preconfigured downlink subframes in which the downlink subframe F(i, j) is located is divided into N subsets of preconfigured downlink subframes, a bit quantity of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement HARQ-ACK that needs to be fed back for each downlink subframe in one subset of preconfigured downlink subframes is a predetermined value, and bit quantities of HARQ-ACKs that need to be fed back for any downlink subframes in different subsets of preconfigured downlink subframes are different. The terminal generates a HARQ-ACK codebook according to a receiving status of downlink data. And the terminal generates uplink control information after encoding the HARQ-ACK codebook; and a sending module sends the uplink control information.

Abstract: In accordance to embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from the source base station, a beam information message comprising beam associated information. The beam associated information may indicate a plurality of beam identifiers (IDs) corresponding to a plurality of beams in the target base station and a plurality of default timing advance (TA)s. Each default TA of the plurality of TAs is associated with one beam of the plurality of beams in the target base station and additional related configurations.

Abstract: In a method for receiving downlink control information, a terminal device sends first data to a network device in a first time unit, where the first data is uplink transmission without uplink grant signaling. The terminal device further receives downlink control information in a second time unit, where the downlink control information includes resource allocation information and a first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI). The terminal device determines, based on the first RNTI, that the downlink control information is for the uplink transmission without uplink grant signaling; and retransmits a part or all of the first data on a resource corresponding to the resource allocation information, or sends second data on a resource corresponding to the resource allocation information, where the second data and the first data are data of a same HARQ process.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for a transmission of uplink control information (UCI), such as hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information. A base station sends first indication information to a user equipment (UE), to instruct the UE to dynamically determine the UCI according to the first indication information, and the base station allocates a resource to the UE to transmit the UCI. The embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to implement a feedback of the UCI information in a carrier aggregation scenario, thereby improving performance of transmitting valid UCI information.

Abstract: This application discloses a data sending method. The method includes: determining, by a transmit end, a first resource based on a first parameter n, where n represents a quantity of transmissions of a first information block, the first resource is used for a current transmission of the first information block, and n is greater than or equal to 0; and transmitting, by the transmit end, first data by using the first resource, where the first data is data that is obtained by processing the first information block and that is used for the current transmission, where the first resource is included in K preconfigured resources. According to the data sending method, data transmission reliability is improved.

Abstract: In a control information sending method, a network device sends first physical layer control information to a first terminal device, where the first physical layer control information indicates a first index to the first terminal device, and instructs the first terminal device to monitor second physical layer control information within a first time period. The network device sends the second physical layer control information to at least one terminal device within the first time period, where the second physical layer control information includes at least one control information field, the at least one control information field includes a first control information field, and the first control information field instructs the first terminal device to receive or send data, or the first control information field instructs the first terminal device to receive or send data or not to receive or send data.

Abstract: A channel quality indicator feedback method and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a response message of data and a channel state, where the response message includes an acknowledgement message and/or a negative acknowledgement message; determining, by the terminal device, first channel state information based on the response message of the data and the channel state; and sending, by the terminal device, the response message and the first channel state information to the network side device. According to the method and apparatus provided, reliability of downlink data from a base station can be improved.

Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for receiving a first indication and a second indication, the first indication associated with a first set of transmission parameter information for a first repetition of data received in a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and the second indication associated with a second set of transmission parameter information for a second repetition of data received in the PDSCH. Each set of transmission parameter information corresponds to a Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) information for the respective repetition of data. In addition, the method involves receiving a first PDSCH repetition and a second PDSCH repetition. A channel estimate can then be performed for the first PDSCH repetition based on the QCL information for the first PDSCH repetition and a channel estimate for the second PDSCH repetition based on the QCL information for the second PDSCH repetition.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes coding, by a terminal device, a first transport block to obtain a first coded transport block, where the first transport block includes first data; coding, by the terminal device, indication information to obtain coded indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal device sends a first buffer status report BSR when the terminal device sends the first data, and the first BSR indicates a data amount of to-be-transmitted data currently buffered in a buffer of the terminal device; and sending, by the terminal device, the first coded transport block and the coded indication information to a network device. According to the data transmission method and apparatus provided in embodiments of this application, the network device can directly learn whether the terminal device sends a BSR, so as to reduce a communication delay.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to handling latency-sensitive traffic, in Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) for example, during measurement gaps. Latency-sensitive traffic is detected at a user equipment (UE), and transmission or reception associated with the latency-sensitive traffic is performed at the UE during a time period in which a measurement gap has been configured for the UE to perform measurement of received signal strength. The transmission or reception may be performed instead of or in addition to the measurement. Other embodiments that involve shortening measuring times and shortening or avoiding switching times associated with communication resource switching, for example, are also disclosed.

Abstract: An embodiment method includes method includes receiving, by a user equipment, a plurality of pieces of first downlink control information sent by a base station, wherein pieces of the plurality of pieces of first downlink control information carry downlink assignment indexes, and wherein at least one piece of the plurality of pieces of first downlink control information further carries a total downlink assignment indexes. The method also includes generating, by the user equipment, a hybrid automatic repeat request response message according to the total downlink assignment indexes, according to the downlink assignment indexes of the pieces of the plurality of pieces of first downlink control information, and according to a physical downlink shared channel corresponding to the pieces of the plurality of pieces of first downlink control information. Additionally, the method includes ending, by the user equipment, the hybrid automatic repeat request response message to the base station.

Abstract: A power control method and apparatus for an uplink control channel are provided. The method includes: determining, by user equipment, to send first uplink control information on a first PUCCH and in a subframe i; determining transmit power for sending the first uplink control information on the first PUCCH and in the subframe i. In the embodiments of the present invention, the transmit power is determined by using a sum of a base power adjustment value and any one of a first power adjustment value determined according to a quantity of bits of the first uplink control information. Therefore, a method for determining the transmit power is provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to uplink control information sending methods, uplink control information receiving methods, apparatus, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal device, channel indication information from an access network device on a physical control channel, determining a channel resource set of N channel resource sets that matches a size of uplink control information (UCI) as a first channel resource set, determining a first channel resource from the first channel resource set according to the channel indication information, and sending the UCI to the access network device on the first channel resource.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information sending method and a device. In examples of the present disclosure, a terminal may send feedback information for a downlink subframe to a network device in a first feedback manner, that is, a first codebook of the feedback information is determined according to an instantly scheduled downlink subframe set.

Abstract: A channel quality reporting apparatus includes: a processing module and a sending module. The processing module performs channel state measurement on a first frequency resource of a first carrier to obtain first CSI, and performs channel state measurement on a second frequency resource of the first carrier to obtain second CSI, where the first frequency resource and the second frequency resource do not overlap, resource blocks in the first frequency resource are consecutive, resource blocks in the second frequency resource are consecutive, and the second frequency resource includes an edge resource block of the first carrier. The sending module reports the first CSI to a second communications device, and report the second CSI to the second communications device.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. A terminal device sends first data to a network device in the nth time unit, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 0. The terminal device send second data to the network device when the terminal device does not receive the response message corresponding to the first data before the (n+k)th time unit, wherein the second data is new data which is different from the first data, where k is a positive integer. According to the data transmission method provided in some embodiments of this application, the terminal device may flexibly determine the transmission mode of the second data based on an actual situation, so as to reduce a transmission delay of uplink data and improve transmission reliability of the uplink data.