Data transmission method and apparatus

1. A data transmission method, comprising:

determining a contention transmission unit (CTU) to be used by to-be-sent uplink data, wherein the CTU is a transmission resource comprising at least a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource, and a code domain resource;

encoding the to-be-sent uplink data by using N different code element groups in the code domain resource corresponding to the determined CTU, to obtain N groups of encoded data, wherein each group of the N groups of encoded data comprises a control word and a data portion, wherein the control word is used to instruct a receive end whether to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion in the encoded data, and wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and

sending the N groups of encoded data by using the time domain and frequency domain resources that are corresponding to the determined CTU.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein control words comprised in P groups of the N groups of encoded data are used to instruct the receive end to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion in the encoded data, wherein channel encoding bit rates of data portions in the P groups of encoded data are the same, and P is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to N.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a bit rate for performing channel encoding on the control word is less than a bit rate for performing channel encoding on the data portion in the to-be-sent uplink data.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a code element in the code domain resource is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) code, a sparse code multiple access (SCMA) codebook, or a low-density signature LDS sequence.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the SCMA codebook comprises two or more code words, the code word is a multi-dimensional complex number vector, and is used to represent a mapping relationship between data and at least two modulation symbols, and the at least two modulation symbols comprise at least one zero modulation symbol and at least one non-zero modulation symbol.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission resource further comprises a pilot resource, wherein the code element of the code domain resource and the pilot resource constitute a code element-pilot combination, pilots in different code element-pilot combinations are mutually orthogonal, and code elements in code element groups in different code element-pilot combinations are different.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises:

sending, by using the time domain and frequency domain resources that are corresponding to the determined CTU, a pilot sequence in a code element-pilot combination corresponding to the N groups of encoded data.

8. A data transmission method, comprising:

determining a contention transmission unit (CTU) to be used by to-be-sent uplink data, wherein the CTU is a transmission resource comprising at least a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource, a code domain resource, and a pilot resource, a code element of the code domain resource and the pilot resource constitute a code element-pilot combination, and pilots in different code element-pilot combinations are mutually orthogonal;

encoding the to-be-sent uplink data by using code elements in N different code element-pilot combinations in the transmission resource corresponding to the determined CTU, to obtain N groups of encoded data, wherein each group of the N groups of encoded data comprises a control word and a data portion, wherein the control word is used to instruct a receive end whether to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion in the encoded data, and wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and

sending, by using the time domain and frequency domain resources that are corresponding to the determined CTU, the N groups of encoded data and pilots in the N code element-pilot combinations.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the code element-pilot combination comprises at least one code element and one pilot.

10. A data transmission apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to: determine a contention transmission unit (CTU) to be used by to-be-sent uplink data, wherein the CTU is a transmission resource comprising at least a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource, a code domain resource, and a pilot resource, a code element of the code domain resource and the pilot resource constitute a code element-pilot combination, and pilots in different code element-pilot combinations are mutually orthogonal; and encode the to-be-sent uplink data by using code elements in N different code element-pilot combinations in the transmission resource corresponding to the determined CTU, to obtain N groups of encoded data, wherein each group of the N groups of encoded data comprises a control word, wherein the control word is used to instruct a receive end whether to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion in the encoded data, and wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and

a transmitter configured to send, by using the time domain and frequency domain resources that are corresponding to the CTU determined by the processor, the N groups of encoded data and pilots in the N code element-pilot combinations.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein control words comprised in P groups of the N groups of encoded data are used to instruct the receive end to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion in the encoded data, wherein channel encoding bit rates of data portions in the P groups of encoded data are the same.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein a bit rate for performing channel encoding on the control word is less than a bit rate for performing channel encoding on the data portion in the to-be-sent uplink data.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the code element is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) code, a sparse code multiple access (SCMA) codebook, or a low-density signature LDS sequence.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the SCMA codebook comprises two or more code words, the code word is a multi-dimensional complex number vector, and is used to represent a mapping relationship between data and at least two modulation symbols, and the at least two modulation symbols comprise at least one zero modulation symbol and at least one non-zero modulation symbol.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein code elements in all or some code element-pilot combinations comprised in the CTU are the same.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the code element-pilot combination comprises at least one code element and one pilot.

17. A data transmission apparatus, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, on time domain and frequency domain resources of a contention transmission unit (CTU), a control word in uplink data, wherein the CTU is a transmission resource comprising at least the time domain resource, the frequency domain resource, and a code domain resource, and instruction information is used to instruct whether to perform combined decoding on a corresponding data portion; and

a processor configured to decode the control word by using a code element of the code domain resource of the CTU, to obtain the instruction information, and to perform combined decoding on data portions of uplink data that is sent by a same terminal device and in which the instruction information instructs to perform combined decoding on the corresponding data portions of the uplink data.