Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. In technical solutions of this application, a target time interval in which a physical downlink control channel is not monitored or DCI is not sent is determined based on a value relationship between a quantity of TBs scheduled by the DCI and a first value, and a solution of sending and monitoring a physical downlink control channel in a scenario in which one piece of DCI schedules a plurality of TBs is specified, so that the physical downlink control channel can be effectively sent and monitored.

Abstract: This application provides a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device on a first carrier, a narrowband primary synchronization signal (NPSS) sent by a network device according to a first period and a narrowband secondary synchronization signal (NSSS) sent by the network device according to a second period; receiving, by the terminal device on a second carrier, a narrowband physical broadcast channel (NPBCH) sent by the network device according to a third period and a system information block 1-narrowband (SIB1-NB) sent by the network device according to a fourth period; and completing, by the terminal device, downlink synchronization and obtaining system information based on the NPSS, the NSSS, the NPBCH, and the SIB1-NB.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a channel quality reporting method, an apparatus, and a system. A terminal device determines a first index corresponding to the channel quality, and sends the first index and indication information to a network device, where the first index occupies a first field, the first index is an index in an index set corresponding to a case in which a repetition number of a physical downlink control channel and/or a physical downlink data channel is a first repetition number, and the indication information indicates that the first field is occupied by an index corresponding to the first repetition number.

Abstract: An indication signal configuration method and device are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: sending, by a network device, first configuration information and second configuration information; sending a first indication signal on a first carrier; and sending a second indication signal on a second carrier, where the first configuration information is used to indicate duration of the first indication signal corresponding to the first carrier, the second configuration information is used to indicate duration of the second indication signal corresponding to the second carrier, the first terminal device is a terminal device that needs to receive the first indication signal, and the second terminal device is a terminal device that needs to receive the second indication signal.

Abstract: An information sending method, including obtaining, by a network device, first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a magnitude relationship between a transmit power of a first signal received by a terminal device and a transmit power of a reference signal received by the terminal device, and the first signal is a synchronization signal, and sending the first indication information from the network device to the terminal device.

Abstract: This application provides a system message transmission method, an apparatus, and a system. A first communications device configures a MIB message, and the MIB message may carry various different information used to transmit a SIB1, for example, any one or more of scheduling information, first information, and an operation mode of a carrier, so that a second communications device receives the SIB1 based on the MIB message. The first communications device may flexibly configure information used to transmit the SIB1. In addition, when configuring the MIB message, the first communications device may consider ensuring, through configuration or implicit indication, that resource locations for transmitting SIB1s of different cells in one period are different. This type of interference isolation mechanism can avoid mutual interference between transmission of SIB1s of different cells, so that transmission reliability of the SIB1s can be improved.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided, where the method includes: determining, by a first device according to a first preset rule, a first resource in at least two preset resources corresponding to a same gap before a first paging occasion PO; and monitoring, by the first device, at least one wake-up signal sequence on the first resource. According to the foregoing method, the first resource used by the first device for monitoring the wake-up signal sequence is determined according to the first preset rule.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example communication methods and an example communication device. One example communication method includes receiving, by a communication device and from a first network device in a first communication system, a first access parameter used to access the first communication system and a second access parameter used to access a second communication system, where a system bandwidth of the first communication system is different from a system bandwidth of the second communication system. The first communication system is switched by the communication device to the second communication system based on the second access parameter when a switching condition of switching from the first communication system to the second communication system is satisfied.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a random access preamble transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a scrambling code sequence, scrambling a random access preamble by using the scrambling code sequence, and sending a scrambled random access preamble to a network device. In this technical solution, the terminal device scrambles the random access preamble, and sends the scrambled random access preamble over a channel, to effectively eliminate inter-cell interference and resolve a possible target cell false alarm problem.

Abstract: This application provides a signal transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a first transmit power based on an access status of the terminal device at a current coverage level and/or a first power control parameter; and transmitting a signal at the first transmit power.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a reference signal receiving and sending method. The solution is used in a plurality of cycles including a first cycle and a second cycle which each includes M first durations, and the first duration includes N paging occasions. The solution includes: determining a first target paging occasion that is in an mth first duration of the first cycle, where a relative location of the first target paging occasion in the first cycle is different from a relative location of a second target paging occasion in the second cycle, and the second target paging occasion is a target paging occasion in an mth first duration of the second cycle; determining, based on the first target paging occasion, a time domain resource that is in the mth first duration of the first cycle; and receiving or sending the reference signal on the time-frequency resource.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a terminal device and a network device each determine a quantity M of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes supported by the terminal device. The network device sends downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device. The DCI includes a first field that indicates a quantity N of transport blocks (TBs) scheduled by the DCI, where N is a positive integer greater than 1. If M=1, the terminal device receives or sends, in the HARQ process, an initially transmitted TB and/or a retransmitted TB in the N TBs scheduled by the DCI. If M is greater than 1, and N is less than or equal to M, the terminal device receives or sends, in N HARQ processes in the M HARQ processes, the N TBs scheduled by the DCI, where each of the N HARQ processes corresponds to one TB in the N TBs.

Abstract: An information sending method and an apparatus are provided. In the method, after sending a first message including uplink data to a network device, a terminal device receives first DCI from the network device, where the first DCI may include first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate that the network device has successfully demodulated the first message or used to indicate the terminal device to flush a HARQ buffer corresponding to the first message; and the terminal device may obtain the first indication information from the first DCI, and after obtaining the first indication information, the terminal device determines not to monitor a PDCCH search space within first duration after the first DCI. After sending the uplink data and receiving the first indication information from the network device, the terminal device may not monitor the PDCCH search space within specific duration.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a solution for network and terminal devices that have inconsistent understandings of retransmission scheduled by using downlink control information (DCI). The solution includes: A network device sends first DCI to a terminal device, and the terminal device receives the first DCI from the network device, where the first DCI includes a first field and a second field, the first field indicates that a retransmitted transport block (TB) exists in a TB scheduled by using the first DCI, and the second field indicates an index of a retransmitted first TB in the TB scheduled by using the first DCI; and the terminal device receives the retransmitted first TB from the network device based on the first field and the second field; or the terminal device sends the retransmitted first TB to the network device based on the first field and the second field.

Abstract: A monitoring method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes transmitting, by a terminal device, first information based on a first repetition number, where the first repetition number is less than or equal to a second repetition number, and the second repetition number is a maximum repeat transmission number of the first information. The method also includes determining, by the terminal device, a scheduling end moment of the first information based on the second repetition number, where the scheduling end moment of the first information is a transmission end moment of the first information when the first information is transmitted based on the second repetition number. The method further includes starting or restarting, by the terminal device, a timer at the scheduling end moment of the first information, and monitoring a PDCCH search space before the timer expires or stops.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for receiving and sending a reference signal, an apparatus, and a system, so that a network device can correctly demodulate uplink data of different terminal devices of a same cell. This solution is applicable to a wireless communications system including a first cell. The first cell includes a plurality of terminal devices that can transmit uplink data on a same time-frequency resource. A first terminal device in the plurality of terminal devices determines an index of a first sequence based on a first parameter value, and generates a first reference signal based on the first sequence indicated by the index of the first sequence. Then, the first terminal device sends the first reference signal to the network device. The first parameter value is different from a parameter value corresponding to another terminal device in the plurality of terminal devices.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data scheduling methods, apparatus, and systems. In one example method, a network device sends, to a terminal device, downlink control information (DCI) used to schedule N transport blocks (TBs). After determining that a downlink channel that carries first M TBs in the N TBs is transmitted in consecutive first downlink time units, the network device sends the downlink channel to the terminal device. The terminal device receives the downlink channel. After determining that ACKs/NACKs corresponding to the M TBs are transmitted in consecutive first uplink time units, the terminal device sends the ACKs/NACKs corresponding to the M TBs to the network device. N is a positive integer greater than 1, and M is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to N.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first cell includes a plurality of terminal devices that can transmit uplink data on a same uplink time-frequency resource. A first terminal device in the plurality of terminal devices determines a reference time domain location based on a preconfigured uplink time-frequency resource, where the reference time domain location is the same as a reference time domain location determined by another terminal device in the plurality of terminal devices. The first terminal device determines a time domain location that is (first duration×N H+second duration×(N?1)) away from the reference time domain location as a start time domain location of X gaps. The first terminal device further determines a time domain location that is (first duration×(M?1)+second duration x (M?1)) away from the reference time domain location as a start time domain location of Y first durations, where Y=X or Y=X+1.

Abstract: A communication method, an apparatus, and a system for determining, by a first terminal device, a reference time domain position based on a preconfigured uplink time-frequency resource, where the reference time domain position is the same as a reference time domain position determined by another terminal device in a plurality of terminal devices, and the reference time domain position is used to initialize a first sequence; generating, by the first terminal device, a first reference signal based on the first sequence and a time interval, where the time interval is an interval between the reference time domain position and a start time domain position of transmission of the first reference signal; and sending, by the first terminal device, the first reference signal to a network device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a signal transmission method and a related device, to transmit a signal between a network device and a terminal device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: sending a first synchronization signal/broadcast channel block SSB to a first terminal device, where the first SSB includes a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel PBCH, the synchronization signal and the PBCH use a frequency division multiplexing FDM manner in resource occupation, a quantity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbols occupied by the synchronization signal is greater than 2, and a quantity of OFDM symbols occupied by the PBCH is greater than 3.