Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) that includes a downlink and/or uplink beam activation command or a reference signal activation command. The UE may apply the downlink and/or uplink beam activation command or the reference signal activation command included in the DCI according to an action time that is based at least in part on a quantity of symbols after an event related to reception of the DCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: There is provided a signalling method for use in an advanced wireless communication network (100) that supports a first duplex mode, a second duplex mode different to the first duplex mode, and carrier aggregation of the first second duplex modes. This method includes configuring a UE (104-106) for data communication with the network (100) through a first access node (101) as a PCell, on the first duplex mode and with a first transmission mode (TM) including one or more transport blocks (TBs). This method also includes configuring the UE (104-106) for data communication with the network (100) through a second access node (103) as a SCell, on the second duplex mode and with a second TM including one or more TBs. The second TM associated with the second access node (103) is configured independently of the first TM associated with the first access node (101).

Abstract: A method comprises listening (151) for transmission of a preamble by a transmitting device to a recipient and receiving (153) data in a second time interval upon receiving the preamble in a first time interval. The second time interval succeeds the first time interval. The method further comprises listening (155) for transmission by the recipient of a message, e.g. a NACK, indicating that data transmitted in the second time interval was not successfully received by the recipient and retransmitting (157) the data in a fourth time interval upon receiving the message in a third time interval.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a first beam set of a group of beam sets, where each beam set includes a beam from a first set of beams with a first polarization and a beam from a second set of beams with a second polarization. The UE may receive a set of reference signals corresponding to a set of transmit beams of the base station, where the UE receives at least one reference signal for each beam of the first and second sets of beams. The UE may select a second beam set from the group of beam sets based on one or more parameters associated with the second beam set and based on receiving the set of reference signals, and may communicate with the base station using the selected beam set.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical-layer control signal indicating to activate or deactivate a set of secondary cells (SCells); and activate or deactivate the set of SCells in accordance with the physical-layer control signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) in RRC_IDLE/INACTIVE state. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first configuration for periodic CSI-RS/tracking reference signal (TRS) reception occasions for idle/inactive UEs. A periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasion includes one or more CSI-RS resources, and each of the one or more CSI-RS resources is associated with a spatial reception parameter. The method further includes receiving a second configuration for a paging occasion (PO). The PO includes a number of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception occasions The method further includes receiving an availability indication for one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions from the periodic CSI-RS reception occasions, receiving the one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions in time before the PO; and determining a time or frequency offset based on the one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communications technologies and IoT-related technologies.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a frequency resource for a multicast/broadcast service (MBS) for the UE to monitor for one or more group-common downlink control channels. The base station may transmit an indication, such as an explicit indication, of a monitoring condition for the group-common downlink control channels within the frequency resource. The UE may apply the monitoring condition by enabling or disabling the group-common downlink control channel monitoring within the frequency resource. The UE may monitor one or more downlink control channels for scheduling information from the base station according to the monitoring condition.

Abstract: Some aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving signaling of a spatial preemption indication (PI), identifying, based on the spatial PI, at least one beam that the UE is preempted from using for at least one of transmitting or receiving at least one target signal, and refraining from using the identified beam for transmitting or receiving the target signal, for at least a time period.

Abstract: A DCI transmission method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method includes: receiving DCI, wherein when there is simultaneously in a network a paging message for an idle-state terminal and a change of system information, the DCI carries PDSCH scheduling information for the paging message and a short message; otherwise, the DCI carries the scheduling information or the short message, where the short message is used to indicate the change of system information; and obtaining at least one of the scheduling information or the short message from the DCI.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, techniques for an enhanced paging procedure. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting, during a paging occasion (PO), at least one downlink control information (DCI) that indicates a paging message and additional downlink signals and using the additional downlink signals to enhance processing of the paging message.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for dynamically updating transmission configuration information (TCI) state and spatial relation information. For example, downlink control information (DCI) or media access control control element (MAC-CE) is used to update a large number of TCI states. As such, high efficiency, such as in terms of low overhead or usage of memory, is achieved with an increase of the upper limit of configured trigger state numbers. The DCI or MAC-CE is used to dynamically update the content in the large number of TCI states.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for improving the performance and range of wireless communication systems. In various embodiments, a wireless and wireline architecture is implemented to allow a channel to more efficiently span physical barriers within the channel. The wireline portion of the channel may leverage pre-existing copper deployed within a building by interfacing copper with north and south transceiver nodes that allow the signal to propagate through a physical structure on the wire itself resulting in significantly less signal degradation compared to the signal having to traverse the physical structure wirelessly.

Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the UE for multi-transmission reception point (TRP) reception, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling. The RRC signaling includes configuration information configuring a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. A media access control (MAC) control element (CE) is decoded, where the MAC CE indicates multiple active TCI states of the configured plurality of TCI states. Multiple received beams are determined using the multiple active TCI states. Downlink information is decoded, where the downlink information originates from multiple TRPs and is received via the determined multiple receive beams associated with the multiple active TCI states.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) communication from a base station (BS). The UE may identify, based at least in part on a determination that the PBCH communication indicates a reference signal that is to be transmitted prior to transmission of a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication, one or more radio resources in which the reference signal is to be transmitted. The UE may monitor for the reference signal, from the BS, in the one or more radio resources prior to reception of the RMSI PDCCH communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving a signal or a channel. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) to receive the signal or the channel includes receiving a configuration for spatial filters, determining first and second spatial filters from the spatial filters, and determining first and second numbers of repetitions. The spatial filters correspond to spatial relations with reference signals (RSs), respectively. The first and second spatial filters are different. The first and second numbers of repetitions are different. The method further includes transmitting the signal or the channel using the first spatial filter for the first number of repetitions and using the second spatial filter for the second number of repetitions. The second number of repetitions is transmitted after the first number of repetitions.

Abstract: A communication method of performing Bandwidth Part (BWP) switching between a non-dormant BWP and a dormant BWP is provided. The communication method is performed by a UE configured by a Base Station (BS) with a serving cell and a dormancy group to which the serving cell belongs. The communication method includes activating the non-dormant BWP as an activated BWP for the serving cell; initializing a first Random Access (RA) procedure on the serving cell; receiving, from the BS, one of a first indication for BWP switching for the serving cell and a second indication for BWP switching for the dormancy group while the first RA procedure is ongoing; switching the activated BWP for the serving cell, based on one of the first indication and the second indication, from the non-dormant BWP to the dormant BWP; and stopping the first RA procedure after receiving one of the first indication and the second indication.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining shared resources associated with one or more user equipments (UEs) for sidelink communications, including control resources and data resources. A first UE may determine a first set of control resources in a first frequency band corresponding to a first group of UEs including the first UE. The first UE may transmit a sidelink request to reserve a subset of data resources to a second UE in the first group of UEs. The first UE may monitor for one or more sidelink responses indicating a positive sidelink response to the sidelink request, a negative sidelink response to the sidelink request, or both. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring for the one or more sidelink responses, whether to transmit a sidelink confirmation indicating a reservation of the data resources to the second UE.

Abstract: A processing method, user equipment, and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: when there is no explicitly configured beam failure detection reference signal or radio link monitoring reference signal, and there is a first reference signal on a first bandwidth part, determining a determination criterion for beam failure detection actions or radio link monitoring actions of UE; and determining a beam failure detection action or a radio link monitoring action of the UE based on the determination criterion; where, the first reference signal is a reference signal whose QCL type is a specified type in a reference signal set, the reference signal set is indicated by a transmission configuration indication state of a physical downlink control channel on a control resource set on a second bandwidth part, and the second bandwidth part is in an active state.