A method for transmitting physical resource blocks, comprising: scheduling, by a base station, M contiguous physical resource blocks, PRBs, for a user equipment and configuring reference signal patterns of all sub-carriers in the M PRBs, wherein a method for configuring the reference signal patterns includes: allocating (X-1)M+1 demodulation reference signal subcarriers for the M PRBs in a frequency domain, and based on a boundary of every two PRBs, configuring only one demodulation reference signal subcarrier within a range of (-N, N] subcarriers in the boundary of every two PRBs, wherein a centre of the range of (-N, N] is the boundary of every two PRBs, and wherein locations of the remaining (X-2)M+2 demodulation reference signal subcarriers in each of the M contiguous PRBs are the same as locations of first demodulation reference signal patterns in a frequency domain; where X indicates the number of demodulation reference signal subcarriers included in a reference signal pattern of all sub-carriers in a given orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol in a single PRB when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; M is a positive integer greater than 1; N is a positive integer greater than 1 and smaller than or equal to 12/(X+1); the demodulation reference signal subcarrier refers to a subcarrier carrying the demodulation reference signals; the first demodulation reference signal pattern refers to a demodulation reference signal pattern used when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; and transmitting the configured M PRBs to the user equipment, so that the user equipment performs joint channel estimation according to the configured M PRBs. scheduling, by a base station, M contiguous physical resource blocks, PRBs, for a user equipment and configuring reference signal patterns of all sub-carriers in the M PRBs, wherein a method for configuring the reference signal patterns includes: allocating (X-1)M+1 demodulation reference signal subcarriers for the M PRBs in a frequency domain, and based on a boundary of every two PRBs, configuring only one demodulation reference signal subcarrier within a range of (-N, N] subcarriers in the boundary of every two PRBs, wherein a centre of the range of (-N, N] is the boundary of every two PRBs, and wherein locations of the remaining (X-2)M+2 demodulation reference signal subcarriers in each of the M contiguous PRBs are the same as locations of first demodulation reference signal patterns in a frequency domain; where X indicates the number of demodulation reference signal subcarriers included in a reference signal pattern of all sub-carriers in a given orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol in a single PRB when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; M is a positive integer greater than 1; N is a positive integer greater than 1 and smaller than or equal to 12/(X+1); the demodulation reference signal subcarrier refers to a subcarrier carrying the demodulation reference signals; the first demodulation reference signal pattern refers to a demodulation reference signal pattern used when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; and transmitting the configured M PRBs to the user equipment, so that the user equipment performs joint channel estimation according to the configured M PRBs. allocating (X-1)M+1 demodulation reference signal subcarriers for the M PRBs in a frequency domain, and based on a boundary of every two PRBs, configuring only one demodulation reference signal subcarrier within a range of (-N, N] subcarriers in the boundary of every two PRBs, wherein a centre of the range of (-N, N] is the boundary of every two PRBs, and wherein locations of the remaining (X-2)M+2 demodulation reference signal subcarriers in each of the M contiguous PRBs are the same as locations of first demodulation reference signal patterns in a frequency domain; where X indicates the number of demodulation reference signal subcarriers included in a reference signal pattern of all sub-carriers in a given orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol in a single PRB when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; M is a positive integer greater than 1; N is a positive integer greater than 1 and smaller than or equal to 12/(X+1); the demodulation reference signal subcarrier refers to a subcarrier carrying the demodulation reference signals; the first demodulation reference signal pattern refers to a demodulation reference signal pattern used when the base station allocates the single PRB to the user equipment for channel estimation; and transmitting the configured M PRBs to the user equipment, so that the user equipment performs joint channel estimation according to the configured M PRBs.