Abstract: In the field of wireless communication technologies, method and apparatus for determining a transport block size (TBS) of a data channel are provided. In a communication network, a terminal device receives control information from a network device. The control information includes modulation indication information and resource information of the data channel. The terminal device determines a modulation order and a code rate according to the modulation indication information, and determines number of time-frequency resources according to the resource indication information of the data channel. The terminal device determines the TBS according to the modulation order, the code rate, and the number of time-frequency resources. Based on the determined TBS, the terminal device decodes the data channel carried on the time-frequency resources or sends the data channel on the time-frequency resources.

Abstract: A system and method for multiplexing traffic. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a first signal over first resources assigned to carry a first downlink transmission from a base station, and receive a first downlink control indication (DCI) message from the base station. The first DCI message may include a pre-emption region (PR) indication and a PR bitmap, and the PR indication may indicate a location of a time-frequency region. The PR bitmap may include bits associated with different portions of the time-frequency region, and each of the bits in the PR bitmap may indicate whether a preemptive downlink transmission is present in the corresponding portion of the time-frequency region.

Abstract: A carrier indication method, user equipment, and a base station are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first information sent by a base station; if the user equipment is capable of transmitting uplink data and downlink data on a carrier, determining, by the user equipment according to the first information, a carrier used for transmitting first-type information; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the first-type information on the determined carrier, where the first-type information includes at least one of the following: uplink data, downlink data, and scheduling information. In this application, user equipment determines, according to first information sent by a base station, a carrier used for transmitting information, and therefore, can normally transmit information.

Abstract: A control information feedback method (CIFM), a user equipment (UE) using the CIFM and a base station using the CIFM are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes determining an uplink association index k? according to an uplink reference configuration an uplink grant (UL Grant) in a subframe n?k?, wherein the UL Grant is used to indicate physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a subframe n, n being an integer and k? being the uplink association index, determining a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information according to a downlink reference configuration, wherein the downlink reference configuration is used to determine a downlink association set {k0, k1, . . . kMc?1} and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information by a PUSCH in the subframe n, wherein the terminal device is configured with a TDD uplink-downlink configuration, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is different from the downlink reference configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides an uplink data sending method. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, scheduling signaling in at least one downlink time interval in a downlink time interval set, where the scheduling signaling is used to schedule uplink data, and any downlink time interval in the downlink time interval set belongs to a downlink subframe n; determining, by the terminal device, an uplink time interval corresponding to the at least one downlink time interval, where the any downlink time interval in the downlink time interval set is corresponding to the determined uplink time interval, the determined uplink time interval belongs to an uplink subframe n+k, and k is equal to 0, 1, 2, or 3; and sending, by the terminal device, the uplink data in the determined uplink time interval. In the foregoing solution, a latency from receiving scheduling information to sending uplink data can be reduced.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide methods and systems for transmitting information about a transmission mode, a network device, and a terminal device. One example method includes: determining information about at least two downlink transmission modes, where the at least two downlink transmission modes includes a first downlink transmission mode and a second downlink transmission mode, the first downlink transmission mode is used in downlink data transmission in a time unit of a first transmission time interval TTI, the second downlink transmission mode is used in downlink data transmission in a time unit of a second TTI, and a length of the first TTI is different from a length of the second TTI; and sending the information about the at least two downlink transmission modes to a terminal device.

Abstract: This application discloses a method for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback of downlink data. A terminal receives downlink data of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and downlink data of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from a base station. Then the terminal sends a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook to the base station. A size of the HARQ feedback codebook is based on a state of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH transmission and a total downlink assignment indicator in the downlink data of the PDCCH or the EPDCCH, and the HARQ feedback codebook comprises a HARQ bit for the SPS PDSCH transmission.

Abstract: The method includes: determining, by user equipment, first uplink control information and second uplink control information, where a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information is less than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information; and when the time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information, transmitting, by the user equipment, third uplink control information on the overlapping time domain resource, where the third uplink control information includes at least one of fourth uplink control information and fifth uplink control information, the fourth uplink control information includes some or all of the first uplink control information, and the fifth uplink control information includes some or all of the second uplink control information.

Abstract: A communication method, a base station, user equipment, and a system are provided. The method includes: receiving uplink data that is sent by the user equipment in a specified multiple-access manner on a time-frequency resource corresponding to the specified multiple-access manner; and sending downlink data to the user equipment in a corresponding multiple-access manner on a time-frequency resource corresponding to the corresponding multiple-access manner, where the corresponding multiple-access manner is a multiple-access manner that is obtained by searching a at least two multiple-access manners according to a prestored correspondence and that is associated with the specified multiple-access manner. In this way, a problem that because one multiple-access manner is used in a same communications system, requirements of different user equipments cannot be met at the same time is resolved.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information sending method and apparatus and an information receiving method and apparatus. The sending method includes: determining a length of a cyclic redundancy check CRC code based on a length of first information, where the first information is control information, and if the length of the first information is less than or equal to a first threshold, and greater than a second threshold, it is determined that the length of the CRC code is a first length; generating the CRC code based on a generator polynomial corresponding to the length of the CRC code and the first information; generating second information; and sending the second information. The present invention improves reliability of information transmission.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a power allocation method and a communications device. The power allocation method includes: determining, by a first communications device, a first power control parameter group, where the first power control parameter group includes information used to indicate a transmit power of the first communications device in a first-type subframe, and sending, by the first communications device, a signal only on a downlink frequency resource in the first-type subframe; and determining, by the first communications device, a second power control parameter group, where the second power control parameter group includes information used to indicate a transmit power of the first communications device in a second-type subframe, and sending, by the first communications device, signals on both a downlink frequency resource and an uplink frequency resource in the second-type subframe.

Abstract: A random access method and a related apparatus are disclosed. A user equipment receives first signaling from a base station through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and receives second signaling from the base station through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH), where the first signaling includes a first time division duplexing TDD uplink-downlink configuration, and the second signaling includes a second TDD uplink-downlink configuration; the user equipment determines, according to the first TDD uplink-downlink configuration, an uplink subframe for sending a random access message; and the user equipment sends the random access message to the base station in the determined uplink subframe.

Abstract: A data transmission method, including: receiving, by a terminal device on a first time domain resource, at least one piece of downlink data sent by a network device; and sending receiving status information to the network device on a second time domain resource. A transmission time interval of any piece of downlink data is less than a transmission time interval of the receiving status information, and the transmission time interval of the any piece of downlink data is less than 1 ms. According to the data transmission method, a transmission time interval of downlink data and a time interval between a sending time of the receiving status information and a receiving time of the at least one piece of downlink data are shortened, thereby reducing a latency.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses a random access method and apparatus, a base station, and UE, to resolve a problem of long time required by random access. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a base station receives a random access preamble sent by user equipment UE, where the random access preamble is used to indicate that the UE has a first transmission capability; the base station sends DCI to the UE by using a PDCCH; the base station sends an RAR for the random access preamble to the UE by using a DL-SCH transport block indicated by the DCI; and the base station receives a UL-SCH transport block sent by the UE according to uplink scheduling information carried by the RAR. Solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to a process in which UE accesses a network.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an uplink information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: user equipment determining uplink data information and uplink control information, where a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the uplink data information is not equal to a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the uplink control information; and when the time domain resource corresponding to the uplink data information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the uplink control information, transmitting first information on an overlapping time domain resource, where the first information includes at least one of second information and third information. According to the present disclosure, a problem of transmitting uplink control information or uplink data information that correspond to time domain resources of different lengths and a conflict occurs between their corresponding time domain resources can be resolved.

Abstract: This application discloses a carrier indication method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first information sent by a base station; if the user equipment is capable of transmitting uplink data and downlink data on a carrier, determining, by the user equipment according to the first information, a carrier used for transmitting first-type information; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the first-type information on the determined carrier, where the first-type information includes at least one of the following: uplink data, downlink data, and scheduling information. In this application, user equipment determines, according to first information sent by a base station, a carrier used for transmitting information, and therefore, can normally transmit information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a information processing method at a terminal or a base station. The method at the terminal includes: receiving scheduling information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) carrying system information, the scheduling information of the PDSCH carried in a master information block (MIB) or downlink control information on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) sent from the base station, wherein the scheduling information of the PDSCH is used for determining at least one kind of transmission information of the PDSCH; determining the transmission information of the PDSCH according to the scheduling information of the PDSCH. In this way, an extra overhead of a control instruction when a PDCCH is used to schedule a SIB in the prior art is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a superposition coding method, apparatus, and system, The method of the present invention includes: generating a superposition coding signal according to bit data to be separately sent to the at least two user equipments (UEs); sending notification signaling to at least one UE in the at least two UEs, where the notification signaling carries data selection information, and the data selection information is used for instructing the UE to acquire, from bit data demodulated from the superposition coding signal, at least one bit of data that is of a specific quantity and at a specific location as received data; and sending the superposition coding signal to the at least two UEs. The present invention is mainly applied in a demodulation process of a superposition coding signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure grant-free transmission resources are provided. At least two configuration options can co-exist for configuring the grant-free transmission resources. The base station may explicitly or implicitly notify a user equipment which option is selected for grant-free transmission by that user equipment.

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.