Abstract: Disclosed is a field detection device designed to be connected to at least one access point of a fieldbus network via at least one interface. The field detection device is designed to initiate or execute, for each of at least two connection protocols, an associated query in at least one fieldbus segment of the fieldbus network and to detect which field devices and fieldbus components in said at least one fieldbus segment can be accessed via the connection protocol in question. Furthermore, the field detection device is designed to provide a connection directory in which at least one connection protocol is specified for each field device and for each fieldbus component of a set of field devices and fieldbus components of the at least one fieldbus segment, by means of which connection protocol the field device in question or the fieldbus component in question can be accessed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of scheduling for a UE. The method includes dividing M UEs into N groups, wherein a distance metric between each UE in a group and the center of the group does not exceed a first predetermined threshold, where M and N are positive integers; pairing the N groups, wherein a distance metric between centers of the two paired groups is greater than a second predetermined threshold; and in a case where there is a group paired with a group to which a first UE for which scheduling is to be performed belongs, scheduling transmissions in different directions respectively for the first UE and the second UE from the paired group on the same time-frequency resource. The present disclosure also provides a signal transmission method, a base station, a UE and a computer readable medium.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes: determining, by a regional access device, a message that needs to be transmitted includes M pieces of QoS information; and after the regional access device determines that a device identifier in a first piece of QoS information is consistent with a device identifier of the regional access device, updating a QoS value of the message that needs to be transmitted with a first QoS value in the first piece of QoS information, and forwarding the updated message that needs to be transmitted. The first piece of QoS information is any one of the M pieces of QoS information.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus, and a device. An example method includes: A base station receives a first message from a first network device, where the first message is used to indicate to add a terminal device to a multicast session corresponding to a multicast service, the first message includes first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate the multicast session. The base station sends radio bearer information corresponding to the multicast session to the terminal device based on the first message, where the radio bearer information is used by the terminal device to join the multicast session.

Abstract: A prioritization method for random access, comprising receiving one or more first packet flow for transmission, wherein the one or more first packet flow is assigned a respective access category queue, initiating a random access procedure for the first packet flow, receiving a packet of a second packet flow for transmission, wherein the second packet flow is assigned an access category queue having priority over the access category queue assigned to the first packet flow, issuing an indication configured to interrupt the random access procedure for the first packet flow, and performing a random access procedure for the received packet of the second packet flow wherein idle time slots previously sensed by the random access procedure for the first packet flow are considered as sensed also for the random access procedure for the second packet flow. Corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.

Abstract: An in-vehicle network system deployed in a vehicle includes a plurality of first nodes configured to perform an operation relevant to a first function in the vehicle, a second node configured to perform an operation relevant to a second function different from the first function in the vehicle; and a relay device configured to relay communication between the first nodes and the second node. The relay device is configured to start relay of communication between the first nodes earlier than the relay of communication between the first node and the second node at a time of startup.

Abstract: Provided is a method of operating a transmitting user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a first radio resource control (RRC) configuration-related message by the transmitting UE (Tx UE), and transmitting a message to a receiving UE by the Tx UE. The first RRC configuration-related message includes sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) enable or HARQ disable configuration information.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G communication systems such as LTE systems. According to an embodiment, a method for receiving a multicast service by a UE in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from an application function (AF), a multicast service announcement message including first information related to a local multicast and broadcast service (MBS), identifying that the UE is located in a local MBS area, and transmitting, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a multicast session join request message for joining a multicast session for the local MBS, the multicast session join request message including second information corresponding to the first information.

Abstract: Techniques are described to feedback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook. For example, a base station can send HARQ-ACK codebook information to a user equipment, schedule retransmission, and transmit a downlink feedback information (DFI) if the user equipment transmits a code block group (CBG) based autonomous transmission. Techniques are also described for a user equipment to improve the feedback HARQ-ACK efficiency for downlink physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a transmit-receive point (TRP), a set of power metrics for multiple UEs including a served UE and one or more helped UEs, wherein each power metric is estimated from multiple channel quality and performance indicators of one of the multiple UEs. The method also includes calculating a performance metric as a function of at least one of the multiple channel quality and performance indicators of the served UE. The method also includes calculating an interference metric as a function of the set of power metrics. The method also includes determining whether to perform coordinated beamforming based on the performance metric and the interference metric. The method also includes determining one or more precoders based on the determination of whether to perform the coordinated beamforming.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a full-duplex self-interference cancellation method and apparatus. The full-duplex self-interference cancellation method may be applied to the field of radio frequency self-interference cancellation in a full-duplex scenario. The full-duplex self-interference cancellation method is implemented by a full-duplex self-interference cancellation apparatus with self-interference reconstruction modules of two levels, and the full-duplex self-interference cancellation apparatus is implemented by a terminal. This greatly reduces hardware implementation complexity and costs of the second self-interference reconstruction module, and improves a full-duplex self-interference cancellation capability.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate client device band steering based upon deep packet inspection information. An access point may be configured to steer one or more client devices from a low frequency band to a high frequency band, and vice versa, based on the status of the low frequency band and/or high frequency band and the client devices associated with the bands. The access point may perform a deep packet inspection of data packet traffic associated with each associated client device, and may classify each client device as either a device associated with a media session or a device that is not associated with a media session based upon information retrieved from the deep packet inspection. The access point may choose one or more client devices to disassociate from a frequency band based upon the media session classification of the client devices.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receives, over an unlicensed frequency spectrum, a first signal transmitted by a network device, wherein the first signal is used for indicating that the network device obtains the channel resource of the unlicensed frequency spectrum; based on the first signal, the terminal device determines the first time-domain resource position of a second signal, wherein the second signal is used for indicating information needed to be obtained by the network device that communicates with the terminal device by using the channel resource of the unlicensed frequency spectrum, or the second signal is a downlink reference signal; and based on the first time-domain resource position, the terminal device receives, over the unlicensed frequency spectrum, the second signal transmitted by the network device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning voice communication channels used by a crew of employees using communication devices are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store information, wherein the information represents associations of individual voice communication channels with one or more communication groups; receive user input that identifies employees, automatically determine sets of communication channel assignments per communication device, between communication channels and subsets of communication groups; configure communication devices according to the determined assignments; and facilitate packet-based communication, using the communication channels, between the communication devices.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to e.g. a method performed by a first communication device for controlling transmission of one or more data packets in a wireless communication network. The first communication device transmits an indication, to a second communication device, indicating one or more of the following: a maximum number of duplicates allowed to be transmitted for each data packet; type of duplication; a data radio bearer, DRB, for which duplication is configured; a radio link control, RLC, entity that is allowed to transmit a duplicate; an order of RLC entities in which the second communication device should transmit a first data packet and following duplicates; whether duplication is activated or deactivated for a DRB.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for performing a sidelink operation in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal. The method comprises: selecting a preferred resource pool from among a plurality of resource pools, wherein the preferred resource pool is one of a first resource pool including a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second resource pool without the PSFCH resource; and, on the basis of a re-selection condition, performing the sidelink operation on the first resource pool or the second resource pool.

Abstract: Method and system for providing time-critical services via a flow control environment, wherein at least one respective server component is provided for each service, wherein the server component is formed by a flow control component that is loadable into the flow control environment and executed there, where a configuration unit for at least one gateway component of a subnetwork forming the flow control environment ascertains globally valid access information associated with respective addressing information of the server components that is valid within the subnetwork, based on a mode of operation predefined via the configuration unit, one or more gateway components connected in parallel and/or in series are used, and where the at least one gateway component forwards service access requests to the server components in accordance with the forwarding and/or filter rules and the mode of operation.

Abstract: A mobile device being a member of a communication group and configured to communicate with one or more other members of the communication group and to exchange control information with the one or more other members, wherein the mobile device is configured to create an identification information and to transmit the identification information on a physical layer of the control information, wherein the identification information assigns the communication group.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a set of transmission time intervals (TTIs) including at least one TTI to be used for full-duplex communications. The UE may receive control signaling that indicates a frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) for a physical uplink channel transmission in a first TTI. The UE may determine whether a second TTI is available for transmitting one or more repetitions of the physical uplink channel transmission based on comparing the FDRA to resources allocated to the second TTI. For example, the second TTI may be available if one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the FDRA are non-overlapping in a frequency domain with downlink resources allocated to the second TTI. The UE may transmit the one or more repetitions in the second TTI based on the second TTI being available.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device, in a scenario where CA and DC are combined, one PDCP entity may use more than two RLC entities to transmit a duplication, thus avoiding using all RLC entities to transmit the duplication during the activation, reducing a waste of resources in the duplication transmission scenario, improving system resource utilization, and ensuring the transmission performance of services such as a URLLC service while ensuring the overall transmission performance of the system. The wireless communication method is applied to a scenario where CA and DC are combined, and includes: in a case where a first condition is met, determining, by a terminal device, whether to perform a duplication transmission, and/or, determining, by the terminal device, whether to trigger a duplication transmission.