Patent ID: 11962534
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A communication method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, reference signal configuration information from a network device, wherein the reference signal configuration information comprises at least one of: a first beam sweeping type and a first reference signal beam indication;
receiving, by the terminal device, a reference signal from the network device; and
performing one of the following:
when the first beam sweeping type is sweeping a transmit beam or not sweeping a receive beam, determining, by the terminal device, that data can be mapped onto another resource element that is located on the same orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol as the reference signal;
when the first reference signal beam indication is the same as a beam indication of data, determining, by the terminal device, that the data can be mapped onto another resource element that is located on the same OFDM symbol as the reference signal; or
when the first beam sweeping type is sweeping a transmit beam or not sweeping a receive beam, and the first reference signal beam indication is the same as a beam indication of data, determining, by the terminal device, that the data can be mapped onto another resource element that is located on the same OFDM symbol as the reference signal.