Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and device. The method includes: A first device determines first control information, where the first control information includes first indication information and second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a state of preconfigured-resource transmission, and the state includes successful transmission, unsuccessful transmission, scheduling retransmission, or preconfigured-resource retransmission; and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the first device transmits first information, and the first information includes higher layer data and/or preconfigured uplink resource reconfiguration information. The first device sends the first control information to a second device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data sending method, a data receiving method, a transmit-end device, and a receive-end device. The data sending method provided in the embodiments of this application may include: performing scrambling code initialization to generate a scrambling code; scrambling a data block based on the scrambling code; repeatedly sending the scrambled data block; performing scrambling code initialization to generate a new scrambling code when an interval after previous scrambling code initialization of the data block is greater than or equal to a preset scrambling code initialization parameter threshold; scrambling the data block again based on the generated new scrambling code; and repeatedly sending the data block scrambled again. The embodiments of this application can improve efficiency of data transmission between a transmit-end device and a receive-end device.

Abstract: This application discloses an uplink control information transmission method. A terminal may determine, based on received first DCI, whether UCI triggered by the DCI is highly reliable UCI, and if the UCI is highly reliable UCI, design a special transmission policy for the UCI, to protect the UCI and ensure reliability of a URLLC service. In this application, the special transmission policy may be superior to a common UCI transmission policy in at least one of the following aspects: a transmission resource, a coding scheme, a sending sequence, and the like.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method, a control information sending method, and a device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: determining, by the communications device, a first resource used for receiving or sending data; receiving control information, where the control information includes first indication information that can be used to indicate that a resource is punctured or postponed, and where the first indication information is used to indicate that a second resource is punctured or postponed; and determining, by the communications device, a third resource based on the first indication information and the first resource, and receiving or sending the data by using the third resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for sending downlink control information, a terminal device, and a network device, and relate to the communications field, to resolve problems of low flexibility and low reliability of a system DCI configuration. The method includes: receiving DCI for scheduling downlink data to be transmitted as one codeword, wherein the DCI comprises a value of a set of values each indicating a corresponding quantity of layers of the one codeword and one or more antenna ports used for sending the one codeword, and wherein the set of values comprises: a first value indicating that the quantity of layers of the one codeword is 2, and a first antenna port and a second antenna port are used for sending the one codeword, and a second value indicating that the quantity of layers of the one codeword is 2 and a third antenna port and a fourth antenna port are used for sending the one codeword.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for determining a frequency resource, and an apparatus. The method includes: first determining, by user equipment (UE), a power headroom report; and subsequently sending, by the UE, the power headroom report (PHR) to a base station in a random access process, where the power headroom report may be carried by a related information segment of message 3 (Message 3) sent by the UE to the base station. According to the solutions provided in the present disclosure, a base station can obtain, in a timely manner, a basis for performing scheduling configuration when UE performs current uplink data transmission, and can more accurately configure power control and scheduling information for the UE. This avoids allocating the UE a channel that exceeds an uplink transmission capability of the UE, and thereby avoids an uplink bandwidth waste.

Abstract: This application discloses an uplink control information transmission method. A terminal may determine, based on received first DCI, whether UCI triggered by the DCI is highly reliable UCI, and if the UCI is highly reliable UCI, design a special transmission policy for the UCI, to protect the UCI and ensure reliability of a URLLC service. In this application, the special transmission policy may be superior to a common UCI transmission policy in at least one of the following aspects: a transmission resource, a coding scheme, a sending sequence, and the like.

Abstract: A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving uplink resource configuration information including information about at least two uplink reference points, and one uplink reference point corresponds to one uplink carrier; and determining, based on the uplink resource configuration information, an uplink carrier on which an uplink transmission resource is located.

Abstract: A data transmission method in the present application includes: determining, by first UE, a frame structure in a time unit, where the frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, according to the data transmission method and the user equipment in embodiments of the present application, a frame structure in a time unit is determined. The frame structure indicates that N type-1 OFDM symbols and a GP are included in the time unit, and a subcarrier spacing of each type-1 OFDM symbol is ?f1. Therefore, when an NB-IOT system is deployed in an LTE system in an embedded manner, and when NB-IOT UE is sending data, a channel resource of the legacy LTE system can be adequately utilized, and a conflict with a legacy LTE SRS can be avoided.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data sending method, a data receiving method, a transmit-end device, and a receive-end device. The data sending method provided in the embodiments of this application may include: performing scrambling code initialization to generate a scrambling code; scrambling a data block based on the scrambling code; repeatedly sending the scrambled data block; performing scrambling code initialization to generate a new scrambling code when an interval after previous scrambling code initialization of the data block is greater than or equal to a preset scrambling code initialization parameter threshold; scrambling the data block again based on the generated new scrambling code; and repeatedly sending the data block scrambled again. The embodiments of this application can improve efficiency of data transmission between a transmit-end device and a receive-end device.

Abstract: Embodiments provide an information processing method and a terminal device, so that a network device can indicate a reserved resource, and the terminal device can process the reserved resource. In these embodiments, configuration information of a reserved resource sent by a network device can be received by a terminal device. The terminal device can determine, based on the configuration information of the reserved resource, that a resource type of the reserved resource is a first-type reserved resource or a second-type reserved resource. The terminal device can determine a radio frequency processing manner on the reserved resource based on the resource type.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method, an access network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: monitoring, by a terminal after completing initial transmission of first uplink data in a first-type transmission mode, a first downlink control channel sent by an access network device, where the first downlink control channel carries first downlink control information, the first-type transmission mode includes performing grant-free uplink data transmission based on radio resource control configuration signaling or based on radio resource control reconfiguration signaling and not based on layer 1 signaling, and the first downlink control information includes HARQ feedback information for the first uplink data, retransmission scheduling information for the first uplink data, or scheduling information for second uplink data; and detecting, by the terminal, the first downlink control information on the first downlink control channel.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: implicitly indicating a quantity of time units for transmitting a data channel and a quantity of times of retransmission of the data channel by using a size of a resource for transmitting a control channel.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide example data transmission methods, One example method includes: receiving, by a receiving device, first data on a first time-frequency resource, and receiving second data on a second time-frequency resource. When the first time-frequency resource and the second time-frequency resource have an overlapped target frequency domain resource in frequency domain, the receiving device can then use a first DMRS mapped to a target frequency domain resource of the first time-frequency resource to demodulate the second data mapped to a target frequency domain resource of the second time-frequency resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for sending downlink control information, a terminal device, and a network device, and relate to the communications field, to resolve problems of low flexibility and low reliability of a system DCI configuration. The method includes: receiving DCI for scheduling downlink data to be transmitted as one codeword, wherein the DCI comprises a value of a set of values each indicating a corresponding quantity of layers of the one codeword and one or more antenna ports used for sending the one codeword, and wherein the set of values comprises: a first value indicating that the quantity of layers of the one codeword is 2, and a first antenna port and a second antenna port are used for sending the one codeword, and a second value indicating that the quantity of layers of the one codeword is 2 and a third antenna port and a fourth antenna port are used for sending the one codeword.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a network device, first information, second information, and third information from a terminal using a first component carrier, where the first information includes a power headroom of the first component carrier, the second information indicates whether transmit power of the terminal is equal to maximum available transmit power of the terminal, the third information indicates a difference between the maximum available transmit power and transmit power of a second component carrier, and a subcarrier spacing of the first component carrier is greater than a subcarrier spacing of the second component carrier; and scheduling, by the network device, uplink transmission of the terminal based on the first information, the second information, and the third information, where uplink transmit power of the first component carrier does not exceed the difference.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for obtaining an uplink-downlink carrier frequency spacing. The method for obtaining an uplink-downlink carrier frequency spacing may include initiating, by user equipment (UE), a request in a first cell to access an NB-IoT, and receiving an indication message sent by a base station. The method may also include determining, by the UE according to the indication information, an uplink-downlink carrier frequency spacing corresponding to the first cell. Therefore, the base station can notify the UE of the uplink-downlink carrier frequency spacing corresponding to the first cell, so that the terminal obtains a correct uplink carrier frequency.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data sending method, a data receiving method, a transmit-end device, and a receive-end device. The data sending method provided in the embodiments of this application may include: performing scrambling code initialization to generate a scrambling code; scrambling a data block based on the scrambling code; repeatedly sending the scrambled data block; performing scrambling code initialization to generate a new scrambling code when an interval after previous scrambling code initialization of the data block is greater than or equal to a preset scrambling code initialization parameter threshold; scrambling the data block again based on the generated new scrambling code; and repeatedly sending the data block scrambled again. The embodiments of this application can improve efficiency of data transmission between a transmit-end device and a receive-end device.

Abstract: A transmission mode switching method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving, by a terminal, transmission mode configuration information sent by a base station, where the transmission mode configuration information includes a configuration parameter of a target transmission mode, and setting, by the terminal, a current uplink transmission mode to the target transmission mode if the terminal detects, through listening, trigger signaling in preset space. When uplink data transmission supports multiple transmission modes, switching between the multiple transmission modes can be implemented.