Abstract: Techniques for determining a location of a mobile device are provided. An example of a method according to the disclosure includes determining, on the mobile device, beam identification information for one or more radio beams, transmitting, with the mobile device, the beam identification information to a network node, receiving, at the mobile device, positioning reference signal beam information for one or more positioning reference signals, generating, with the mobile device, one or more receive beams based on the positioning reference signal beam information, obtaining, with the mobile device, at least one measurement from at least one of the one or more positioning reference signals, and facilitating location determination of the mobile device at a location-capable device based at least in part on the at least one measurement.

Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to one or more in-coverage communications devices forming with the communications device a group, one of the in-coverage communications devices acting as an active relay node for the communications device, so that the in-coverage communications device can transmit signals representing the data to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the in-coverage communications device acting as the active relay node. The signals transmitted to the in-coverage communications device are received according to a device-to-device communications protocol, wherein the signals transmitted by the communications device or received by the communications device include an identifier which identifies the signals to the in-coverage communications device. One of the other in-coverage communications device can be selected by the infrastructure equipment to act as the active relay node.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting an indication of a PHR when the UE's assigned of UL resources is insufficient to transmit both UL data and a PHR. Additionally, aspects described herein introduce a negative PHR used to indicate the UE requires additional UL resources.

Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for configuring a Reference Signal (RS) resource set corresponding to a combination of a plurality of Access Link (AL) RSs and a plurality of Sidelink (SL) RSs; transmitting, jointly by the relay node and a network entity, the RS resource set to trigger a network to configure one or more Quasi-co-location (QCL) parameters for an AL and a relay SL; and communicating, by the relay node and the network entity, a downlink or uplink channel using the configured one or more QCL parameters for the AL and the relay SL.

Abstract: In New Radio, NR, when a SR PUCCH resource to which a triggered SR is mapped overlaps with a PUCCH carrying UCI, such as HARQ-ACK and/or CSI, an indication of the corresponding schedulingRequestID, which determines the logical channel ID with new data, is directly encoded in the UCI. That is, rather than directly transmit the relevant SR PUCCH resource(s), which indirectly identifies the SR ID, an indication of the SR ID is directly transmitted on the PUCCH transmission. The encoding of an indication of SR ID may comprise adding bits to UCI to be transmitted, for PUCCH formats 2, 3, or 4. For PUCCH format 0, encoding the indication of SR ID comprises adding an initial cyclic offset indicating the triggered SR.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus relating to a long uplink burst channel design. In certain aspects, the method includes determining, based on a hopping pattern, a first set of frequency resources available for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) within a first portion of a transmission time interval (TTI) and a second set of frequency resources available for transmitting UCI within a second portion of the TTI. The method also includes transmitting the UCI using the determined first set of frequency resources and the second set of frequency resources.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to wireless communications in a system are provided. A user equipment (UE) may receive from a base station (BS), a subband precoding configuration including a first number of bits and an indication of a common size for each subband of a set of subbands. The UE may select a plurality of precoders from a precoder candidate set based on the first number and the common size. The precoder candidate set may be based on an order of a spatial direction. Additionally, the UE may transmit to the BS, a communication signal in the plurality of subbands using the plurality of precoders.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A communication device, such as, a base station and a UE may support transmitting and receiving information bits according to one or more index modulation schemes. For example, the communication device may support conveying information bits using a reference signal index modulation scheme, which uses reference signals transmissions using particular resources or reference signal sequences, or both, to convey the information bits. The communication device may improve reference signal resource usage by supporting a multi-mode reference signal index modulation scheme, which utilizes all reference signal resources to convey the information bits. By using the multi-mode reference signal index modulation scheme, the communication device may, as a result, include features for improvements to conveying information bits, among other benefits.

Abstract: Application Function (AF) influenced routing for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications is provided. Core network elements correlate PDU sessions and optimize the UP path for peer-to-peer traffic. UP selection, reselection, configuration or reconfiguration can be performed in support of P2P traffic routing. P2P traffic between a pair of UEs is routed or rerouted through a bridge. The bridge may be established between the first UP and the second UP, and/or between associated RAN nodes. One or more application functions can be included along the bridge path. A policy control function (PCF) directs underlying resources to route P2P traffic via the bridge, for example in response to a trigger from the AF. A session management function (SMF) directs underlying resources to configure or reconfigure user plane data paths to route P2P traffic via the bridge. First and second SMFs of the first and second UPs can cooperate to establish the desired traffic routing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for switching resource pools by a device arranged to transmit according to a first resource pool is provided. The method includes sensing a second resource pool, determining whether the second resource pool has been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection, and selecting resources from an exceptional pool by using random resource selection, if the second resource pool has not been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection.

Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when a sequence-based uplink control channel is used, uplink control information is reported appropriately. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a control section that determines to use one or both of a short uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a short period, and a long uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a longer period than the short uplink control channel, based on certain information, and a transmission section that transmits the uplink control information using the determined uplink control channel.

Abstract: A communication device for handling a power headroom report (PHR) for multiple transmission time intervals (TTIs) comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise determining a single PHR for a first TTI of at least one first serving cell according to at least one PH level of the at least one serving cell, wherein the communication device is configured with at least one second serving cell of at least one second TTI; and transmitting the PHR to a network via one of the at least one serving cell; wherein a length of the first TTI is different from each length of the at least one second TTI.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating the mitigation of interference in the uplink of a small cell caused by macrocell user equipment in the case where the macrocell cannot identify the interfering macrocell user equipment because the user equipment cannot detect and report the small cell's downlink due to the small cell's uplink/downlink coverage imbalance. In an embodiment, the small cell provides the macrocell with a notification of the interference, the configuration information about its Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), and a plurality of unique preambles and transmission times for non-contention-based transmissions on the small cell's PRACH. The macrocell orders each of one or a plurality of macrocell user equipment to transmit one of the unique preambles on the small cell's PRACH. The small cell reports to the macrocell the detected preamble transmissions, which allows the macrocell to identify interfering user equipment and perform corrective actions.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for finite field parity for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook. A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes indicating, to a user equipment (UE), a codebook for uplink transmission of HARQ feedback, the codebook based on: (i) a number (M) of candidate downlink transmission occasions for a time period, and (ii) a maximum number (k) of downlink transmissions the UE can receive during the time period. The method also includes selecting an action to perform based on a set of codepoints of the codebook, the set of codepoints comprising: (i) a first combination of codepoints, and (ii) a second combination of codepoints different from the first combination, wherein HARQ feedback calculated from the first combination is equal to HARQ feedback calculated from the second combination.

Abstract: An electronic device that selectively provides a trigger frame is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive a frame from a recipient electronic device, where the frame includes information that specifies a maximum uplink multi-user transmit duration of the recipient electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may selectively provide the trigger frame to the recipient electronic device that specifies an uplink OFDMA frame or an uplink MIMO frame associated with the recipient electronic device. The trigger frame may be selectively provided when a transmit time corresponding to the uplink OFDMA frame or the uplink MIMO frame is less than or equal to the maximum uplink multi-user transmit duration.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing method, a communication device and a storage medium. The information processing method which is applied to a first communication device includes: sending X sets of parameter values jointly encoding M types of transmission parameters, where the M types of transmission parameters include a beam indication and/or a quasi-co-location indication parameter, where the beam indication is used for indicating a beam, the quasi-co-location indication parameter is used for indicating a parameter of the beam, and M>1; selecting Y sets of parameter values from the X sets of parameter values, where X>=Y>=1; and sending a selection indication based on the Y sets of parameter values, where the selection indication is used for selecting the Y sets of parameter values from the X sets of parameter values for a data transmission.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a UE capability message, the UE capability message indicating a supported transmit antenna switching (TxAS) capability for each port of the UE. The UE may receive a configuration message indicating an uplink multiple-input/multiple-output (UL MIMO) configuration for the UE, the UL MIMO configuration being based at least in part on the UE capability message. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the configuration message, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration to use for transmitting SRSs in conjunction with the UL MIMO communications, the SRS configuration comprising a configuration for transmission by the UE of SRSs using at least one of the two or more ports of the UE, the SRSs transmitted on one or more antennas of the UE selected according to a TxAS configuration for the respective port.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide improved methods and systems for managing spectrum by intelligently allocating specific channels from a pool of available spectrum channels used to serve content. For example, one or more sources may send “content service requests” over a network to request the delivery of content, which may be any type or amount of data. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, a spectrum management service (SMS) receives a content service request for delivery of a content over a wireless access network, and it allocates spectrum for serving the requested content in the wireless access network based on at least one radio-frequency criterion and at least one criterion relating to the content. Further to the disclosed embodiments, the SMS issues a message to a transmission center in the wireless access network indicating the allocated spectrum that may be used to serve the content in the wireless access network.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device in nodes for wireless communication. A first node receives first information; and receives a first signaling. The first information is used for determining K resource blocks; the K resource blocks respectively correspond to K reference-signal resource groups; any reference-signal resource in the K reference-signal resource groups corresponds to one of M first-type indexes; the first signaling is used for activating a first index in the M first-type indexes; a first resource block is any of the K resource blocks, a first reference-signal resource is used for determining a spatial relation of the first resource block, and the first reference-signal resource is one reference-signal resource corresponding to the first index in a reference-signal resource group corresponding to the first resource block. The above method employs information selected by TRP/panel, thus reducing a signaling overhead and delay of beam management.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications. For example, scheduling information is received at a terminal device from a network device, the scheduling information at least indicates physical resource blocks shared by a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of the terminal device and a further DMRS of at least one further terminal device, and different sub-carriers allocated to the DMRS and the further DMRS in each of physical resource blocks, and the number of physical resource blocks is indivisible by a total number of the terminal device and the at least one further terminal device. The DMRS is generated, and a length of the DMRS is determined based on the number of physical resource blocks and the number of at least one further terminal device. The DMRS is transmitted to the network device on the sub-carriers allocated to the DMRS in the physical resource blocks.