Abstract: A channel state measurement method and an apparatus are provided. In embodiments of the present invention, a terminal receives CSI reporting mode indication information. The CSI reporting mode indication information is used to instruct the terminal to perform joint CSI measurement and feedback based on N pieces of associated CSI measurement configuration information. Therefore, the terminal may perform CSI measurement and feedback according to the CSI reporting mode indication information, so as to implement CSI measurement and feedback in a scenario in which a plurality of coordinated transmission points perform coordinated transmission.

Abstract: An uplink sounding signal triggering method, system, and apparatus are provided to support a sounding reference signal (SRS) group scheduling or SRS switching function. The method includes: sending, by a base station, a downlink control information (DCI) using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), with the DCI including a sounding reference signal SRS control information intended for each UE of Y number of UEs, with Y comprising a positive integer greater than 1.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting control information. The method includes: determining enhanced resource element group numbers in resource blocks, and determining, according to the resource element group numbers, positions of resource elements corresponding to enhanced resource element groups; interleaving the enhanced resource element group numbers, and determining an enhanced control channel element; determining, according to the enhanced control channel element and the positions of the resource elements corresponding to the enhanced resource element groups, positions of resource elements corresponding to the enhanced control channel element; and transmitting corresponding control information on the positions of the resource elements corresponding to the control channel element. The present invention alleviates a problem that channel frequency diversity is poor, and lowers the probability of loss of information of a terminal device.

Abstract: A data transmission method, a wireless network device, and a communications system are provided. The method includes: sending, by a first wireless network device, at least two channels for common information on a same carrier, where the at least two channels for common information include a first channel for common information and a second channel for common information, the first channel for common information and the second channel for common information are on different subbands of the same carrier, and the common information includes at least one of a synchronization signal, a broadcast signal, or a system message.

Abstract: One example method includes receiving first indication information through a higher layer signaling, the first indication information indicating an available codebook subset, receiving downlink control information, determining a precoding matrix corresponding to a transmission precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) and a transmission rank obtained from the downlink control information, where the precoding matrix belongs to the available codebook subset indicated by the first indication information, precoding a signal based on the determined precoding matrix, and sending the precoded signal to a network device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method, and a related device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a reception point, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-frequency resource location of a first demodulation reference signal of first data; receiving, by the reception point, second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate a time-frequency resource location of a second demodulation reference signal; and determining, by the reception point, a time-frequency resource location of the first data based on the time-frequency resource location of the second demodulation reference signal, and demodulating the first data based on the first demodulation reference signal. Receiving performance of the reception point can be improved.

Abstract: A method for reporting a channel status and a device are disclosed. A user equipment UE uses M cells to transmit data, and the method includes: transmitting, by the base station, configuration signaling to the UE, where the configuration signaling includes a reporting period of channel state information CSI of N cells in the M cells; transmitting, by the base station, channel status request signaling to the UE, where the channel status request signaling is used to instruct the UE to report the CSI of the N cells; and receiving, by the base station, CSI of a cell that is in the N cells and that is managed by the base station, where the CSI is transmitted by the UE according to the reporting period. A corresponding base station and a corresponding user equipment are further disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a beam identifier obtaining method and apparatus, a device, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a signal corresponding to a beam identifier; sending, by the base station, the signal by using a beam corresponding to the beam identifier, so that user equipment detecting the signal obtains the beam identifier according to the signal; and when receiving the beam identifier fed back by the user equipment, communicating, by the base station, with the user equipment by using the beam corresponding to the beam identifier.

Abstract: This disclosure provides an information transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: when determining that higher layer signaling is not configured with a scrambling identifier, scrambling or descrambling, by a communications device, data by using a second initial scrambling value, where the scrambling identifier is used by the communications device to determine a first initial scrambling value used for data scrambling or descrambling, and the second initial scrambling value is related to at least one or two of a cell identifier, a radio network temporary identifier, and a reserved bit. Therefore, in the embodiments of this disclosure, when determining that the higher layer is not configured with the scrambling identifier, the communications device scrambles or descrambles the data by using the second initial scrambling value. This resolves a problem in the prior art that a terminal device cannot determine an initial scrambling value used for data scrambling.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method for transmitting a pilot signal, a method for receiving a pilot signal, a base station, and a user equipment. The method for transmitting the pilot signal includes: determining a physical resource block pair which is used for carrying a user-dedicated pilot signal, where first five orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a first time slot of the physical resource block pair include all resource elements used for carrying the user-dedicated pilot signal; and transmitting the physical resource block pair which is used for carrying the user-dedicated pilot signal. The method for transmitting the pilot signal, the method for receiving the pilot signal, the base station, and the user equipment according to embodiments of the present application can improve communication data demodulation performance of a user equipment.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining an RBG size are provided. In the method, a network device or a terminal determines an RBG size set, where the RBG size set may include one or more possible RBG sizes; and determines a first RBG size included in the RBG size set. The network device allocates a resource to the terminal by using the determined first RBG size. The terminal determines, based on the determined first RBG size, the resource allocated by the network device to the terminal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining an RBG size are provided. In the method, a network device or a terminal determines an RBG size set, where the RBG size set may include one or more possible RBG sizes; and determines a first RBG size included in the RBG size set. The network device allocates a resource to the terminal by using the determined first RBG size. The terminal determines, based on the determined first RBG size, the resource allocated by the network device to the terminal.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a network device, k channel measurement values, k channel measurement resource identifiers, and k interference measurement resource identifiers that are sent by user equipment, where k is an integer greater than or equal to 1, each channel measurement value corresponds to one channel measurement resource identifier and one interference measurement resource identifier, and the channel measurement value is calculated based on the channel measurement resource identifier and the interference measurement resource identifier that correspond to the channel measurement value.

Abstract: Disclosed are a communications method and device. The method includes: sending, by a network device, configuration information to a terminal device; determining, by the terminal device, channel state information CSI measurement behavior and/or CSI feedback related information, where the channel state information CSI measurement behavior and/or the CSI feedback related information are/is related to the configuration information; and performing, by the terminal device, CSI measurement based on the configuration information and the CSI measurement behavior and/or the CSI feedback related information, to obtain at least one piece of CSI, and sending all or some of the at least one piece of CSI to the network device. It can be learned that, in a scenario in which a plurality of transmission modes are supported, according to the foregoing method, the terminal device can measure CSI, and feed back the measured CSI to the network device.

Abstract: A power configuration method and a device, the power configuration method including sending, by a first network device, M power configuration parameters to a second network device, where the M power configuration parameters are corresponding to M antenna port sets, wherein at least one of the M antenna port sets belongs to the first network device, where each power configuration parameter is used to calculate power of a downlink data channel between a corresponding antenna port set and the second network device, and where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a downlink synchronization method, an apparatus, and a system, and relate to the communications field, so as to reduce downlink synchronization complexity and improve downlink synchronization efficiency. According to the downlink synchronization method, abase station sends downlink synchronization reference information to UE by using dedicated signaling or a system message, where the downlink synchronization reference information is used to instruct the UE to perform downlink synchronization in a second cell by referring to a downlink synchronization channel of a first cell; and the base station sends, in the second cell according to location information of the UE, a beam including a downlink synchronization channel to the UE, where the first cell and the second cell include an overlapped coverage area. The embodiments of the present disclosure are applied to synchronization channel sending.

Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving downlink control information DCI, where the DCI includes indication information, the indication information indicates at least one demodulation reference signal DMRS antenna port group and layer information of downlink data, the at least one DMRS antenna port group is one or more of a plurality of DMRS antenna port groups, and DMRS antenna ports in a same DMRS antenna port group satisfy a quasi co-location QCL relationship; and determining, based on the indication information, a DMRS antenna port occupied by the downlink data. According to embodiments of this application, a DMRS antenna port can be indicated when DMRS antenna ports are grouped.

Abstract: A data symbol transmission method and a wireless network device are provided. The device includes: an information determining unit, configured to determine a location at which hardware switching needs to be performed in a current subframe and switching time of the hardware switching; a configuration unit, configured to configure, according to the switching time, a first guard period for a first data symbol corresponding to the location, where a length of the first guard period is greater than or equal to that of the switching time; where the configuration unit is further configured to: use, as a second data symbol, a data symbol in the subframe other than the first data symbol, and configure a second guard period for the second data symbol; and a sending unit, configured to send the subframe to another wireless network device. Resource utilization can be improved, and a system capacity can be increased.

Abstract: A CSI-RS measurement feedback method and device are provided to optimize analog and digital precoding. A network device sends S CSI-RSs to a terminal device. Each CSI-RS corresponds to one antenna port number. The terminal device sends M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs and sends a PMI that corresponds to a channel matrix H or the quantization result of a channel matrix H to the network device. The terminal device selects the M antenna port numbers that correspond to the M CSI-RSs from the S antenna port numbers that correspond to the S CSI-RSs, and feeds back the M antenna port numbers to the network device.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, the application discloses a communication method that includes the operations: generating downlink control information DCI; and sending the DCI to a terminal device. The DCI includes indication information used to indicate a single codeword scheduled by using the DCI, or a correspondence between a single codeword scheduled by using the DCI and a first resource. Alternatively, the DCI includes a first number of a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process corresponding to a single codeword scheduled by using the DCI, where a quantity of values of the first number is greater than a quantity of values of a second number of an HARQ process used by either one codeword of DCI used to schedule two codewords. In embodiments of the application, a utilization rate of an HARQ buffer can be improved.