Abstract: This specification provides a method of performing a bandwidth part (BWP) operation in a wireless communication system. Specifically, The method performed by a terminal includes receiving a first message including information related to at least one initial BWP configuration from a network, receiving a second message including configuration information for an additional BWP from the network, receiving downlink control information (DCI) related to BWP switching for at least one configured BWP from the network, and transmitting and receiving signals to and from the network in an activated BWP based on the received DCI.

Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: decode a downlink (DL) communication from a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB), the DL communication including DL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) assignments for respective DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB, the DL communication further including a SPS Configuration (SPS-Config) parameter, the SPS-Config parameter including information on a symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB; determining the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the SPS-Config parameter; and decoding the DL SPS transmissions based on a determination of the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS assignments.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives and/or detects a multicast transmission of downlink data on a configured downlink multicast resource, wherein the multicast transmission is associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process. The UE starts a multicast HARQ Round Trip Time (RTT) timer associated with the HARQ process. The UE determines whether to start a unicast HARQ RTT timer associated with the HARQ process based on whether the UE is configured with a Configured Scheduling Radio Network Temporary Identifier (CS-RNTI).

Abstract: Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: determining one or more logical channels of interest from among a plurality of logical channels; based on sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled for at least one logical channel among the one or more logical channels of interest, allocating N SL processes, from among a plurality of SL processes for transmitting a plurality of medium access control protocol data units (MAC PDUs), to a SL resource in which a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource is configured; and performing HARQ feedback-based SL communication based on the N SL processes, wherein N is a positive integer.

Abstract: Provided are a method for a first device to perform wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method may include: receiving, from a second device, a first sidelink control information (SCI) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH); receiving, from the second device, a second SCI through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH; determining a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource, based on an index of a slot and an index of a subchannel related to the PSSCH; and determining whether or not to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information for the PSSCH to the second device on the PSFCH resource, wherein a format of the second SCI is a first format which does not include location information of the second device or a second format which includes location information of the second device.

Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate transmitting, to a receiving UE, a sidelink control information (SCI) that schedules multiple transport blocks (TBs) of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and transmitting, to the receiving UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Other aspects relate to receiving, from a transmitting UE, a SCI that schedules multiple TBs of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and receiving, from the transmitting UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Additional aspects relate to configuring the UEs in this regard.

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. Disclosed are a method and a device for a terminal to indicate whether LBT has failed or not and declare a detected LBT failure, in report mechanisms such as RLF, SCG failure, establishment failure, and MDT.

Abstract: A network device sends a first physical channel to user equipment on resources of one or more candidate physical channels. Correspondingly, the user equipment monitors one or more candidate physical channels in a candidate physical channel set, to receive the first physical channel on the resources of the one or more candidate physical channels. A payload of the first physical channel includes control information and a transport block, the control information includes first information, the first information is used to indicate an acknowledgment resource to the user equipment, and the acknowledgment resource is a resource used by the user equipment to send acknowledgment information to the network device. After receiving the first physical channel, the user equipment sends the acknowledgment information to the network device on the acknowledgment resource; and correspondingly, the network device receives the acknowledgment information on the acknowledgment resource.

Abstract: A method for a first device to perform wireless communication and a device supporting same. The method may include: receiving, from the base station through a second PDCCH, a second DCI including information related to a second SL resource and information related to a second PUCCH resource; transmitting a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) based on the first SL resource; and transmitting, to the base station through the second PUCCH resource, first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information related to the first PSSCH and second HARQ feedback information related to the second PSSCH, based on a slot including the first PUCCH resource being same as a slot including the second PUCCH resource, wherein the second DCI is a last DCI among a plurality of DCIs including information related to the slot for PUCCH transmission.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving HARQ responses in a communication system are provided. An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system includes receiving configuration information including a first information element indicating a type of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook from a base station and generating the HARQ-ACK codebook including a downlink (DL) HARQ information bit for downlink communication between the base station and the first terminal and a sidelink (SL) HARQ information bit for sidelink communication between the first terminal and a second terminal. The HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted to the base station using an uplink channel.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake-up frame indication. A device may determine a wake up receiver (WUR) wake-up frame to be sent to a first station device of one or more station devices. The device may determine one or more indications associated with the first station device, wherein the one or more indications indicate to the first station device, one or more actions to be taken by the first station device after waking up a primary connectivity radio (PCR) of the first station device. The device may cause a medium access control (MAC) layer to encode the WUR wake-up frame with the one or more indications associated with the first station device. The device may cause to send the WUR wake-up frame to the first station device using a physical layer (PHY).

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity, a message that is associated with an uplink grant. The UE may select, based at least in part on the message, either a cell-specific offset or an updated offset that is indicated after initial access, as a timing offset that accounts for a propagation delay between a base station of the NTN and the UE. The UE may transmit, to the NTN entity, an uplink communication using the timing offset. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A method for providing backhaul dynamic link distance for backhaul is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes propagating, by a network owner, a configured link distance parameter as part of beacon; using, by a mesh node joining the network, the configured link distance parameter for backhaul to set slot-time and Acknowledgement (ACK)/Clear To Send (CTS) timeout values before joining the network; wherein the configured link distance parameter for backhaul is part of a backhaul network profile.

Abstract: A method of operating the first apparatus 100 in a wireless communication system is proposed. The method may include: performing resource selection for at least one period, wherein each of the at least one period includes at least one transmission resource; increasing a value related to a consecutive unused transmission opportunity by 1, based on that transmission is not performed on all transmission resources within a first period included in the at least one period; and triggering resource reselection based on that the value related to a consecutive unused transmission opportunity reaches a threshold value related to a consecutive unused transmission opportunity.

Abstract: A first device performing wireless communication receives, from a base station, information related to physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and information related to M sidelink (SL) slots; performs N physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmissions based on N SL slots from among the M SL slots; determines one physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) slot related to the PSSCH transmissions; and in response to the N PSSCH transmissions, receives information on K pieces of SL hybrid automatic repeat request feedback on the one PSFCH slot. The first device transmits information on L pieces of HARQ feedback to the base station based on the PUCCH resources, wherein the one PSFCH slot is associated with L SL slots, M, N, K and L are positive integers, L is greater than or equal to M, M is greater than or equal to N, and N is greater than or equal to K.

Abstract: 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) is provided. The communication method includes 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. This disclosure provides a grant-free-based data transmission method and apparatus.

Abstract: A method for performing fast retransmission in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, is performed by a terminal, and comprises the steps of: receiving downlink data or transmitting uplink data; and performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation including retransmission, in which transmission and reception of a HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the downlink data or the uplink data are not present or retransmission scheduling is not present, for the downlink data and the uplink data.

Abstract: Systems and methods of adjusting contention window size (CWS) in a LBT procedure for both UL and DL unlicensed spectrum transmissions are described. The UE makes a HARQ-ACK determination for at least one code block group (CBG) of a transport block (TB) in a reference burst from a base station, determines whether the HARQ-ACK determination for the CBG meets a predetermined number of NACKs, transmits to the base station a single bit HARQ-ACK feedback for the TB that is dependent on whether the predetermined number of NACKs has been met, and receives or determines the adjusted CWS and uses the adjusted CWS for communication with the base station.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating sidelink processes for sidelink feedback. A second user equipment (UE) may request hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) responses from a first UE for a particular set of sidelink processes over a physical sidelink feedback channel. To indicate multiple sidelink processes, the second UE may indicate, in sidelink control information, a window of sidelink processes. The window may be a sliding window that starts with a starting sidelink process and extends through other sidelink processes. The second UE may transmit data for the sidelink processes in the sliding window and receive feedback for the indicated sidelink processes. In some aspects, the first UE may select, in coordination with the second UE, the sidelink processes for which feedback is to be provided.

Abstract: A wireless device may receive a first TB associated with a first HARQ process number. The wireless device may determine to defer a first HARQ feedback, associated with the first TB, from a first timing to a second timing. The wireless device may receive, in a third timing, a second TB associated with the first HARQ process number. The wireless device may transmit the first HARQ feedback in the second timing or may drop the first HARQ feedback based on the second timing and the third timing.