Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify multiple channel state information (CSI) reports scheduled to be transmitted in a slot on respective physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. For example, the multiple CSI reports may include one or more CSI reports associated with a first service type and one or more CSI reports associated with a second service type. The UE may select, from the multiple CSI reports, one or more CSI reports to be transmitted in the slot based at least in part on a first priority associated with the first service type and a second priority associated with the second service type. Accordingly, the UE may transmit, in the slot, one or more PUCCH transmissions that include the one or more selected CSI reports. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to COT aware autonomous sidelink sensing are provided. A first user equipment (UE) selects at least a first resource from available resources in a sidelink resource pool within a shared radio frequency band. The selecting the first resource may be based on a channel-access gap preceding each resource of the available resources. The first UE further transmits, to a second UE using the selected first resource, one or more data blocks for a sidelink transmission.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique of fusing a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology and a system thereof. The system may be used for an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for inserting an index into a code block as a unit in which a channel code is executed and transmitting the same.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication to transmit tone reservation signaling, configured to reduce a peak-to-average-power-ratio for one or more of the UE or the base station, on one or more subcarriers outside of an allocated bandwidth that is allocated for an uplink communication scheduled for the UE. The UE may transmit, to the base station, signaling that includes the uplink communication within the allocated bandwidth and the tone reservation signaling on the one or more subcarriers. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed in the disclosure is a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink channel in a wireless communication system, and a device for same. Specifically, a method by which user equipment (UE) performs uplink transmission in a wireless communication system may include: a step for receiving two or more pieces of downlink control information (DCI) from a base station; a step for determining whether the two or more pieces of DCI are used for scheduling a multi-panel uplink transmission; and a step for performing the multi-panel uplink transmission to the base station on the basis of the two or more pieces of DCI.

Abstract: This application provides a reference signal transmission method and transmission apparatus. The transmission method includes: obtaining, by a network device, reference information of a terminal device, where the reference information includes at least one of an identifier of the terminal device and scheduling information of the terminal device; determining, by the network device, a transmission parameter of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) of the terminal device based on the reference information, where the transmission parameter includes at least one of a sequence of the PTRS and a frequency domain position of the PTRS; and transmitting, by the network device, the PTRS with the terminal device based on the transmission parameter. According to the reference signal transmission method and transmission apparatus provided in embodiments of this application, interference to the PTRS can be randomized.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a network slice service area identifier from a serving access network device corresponding to a serving cell in which the terminal device is located, where the network slice service area identifier is used to indicate an area served by a network slice; determining, by the terminal device, a target cell based on network slice configuration information and the network slice service area identifier, where the network slice configuration information includes a correspondence among a network slice, an area, and a service; and accessing, by the terminal device, the target cell.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting information about capabilities of a user equipment (UE) device operating on a radio communication network, collecting information about requirements and status of the UE device, collecting information about the radio communication network, selecting a carrier aggregation arrangement for the UE device based on at least the information about capabilities and the information about requirements and status, forming a selected carrier aggregation arrangement, and configuring network nodes of the radio communication network according to the selected carrier aggregation arrangement. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises transmitting a first physical random access channel (PRACH), and receiving a random access response (RAR) on the basis thereof, wherein the first PRACH may be configured by a PRACH sequence of a particular length, which is mapped to 12 consecutive physical resource blocks (PRBs), being repetitively mapped multiple times in the frequency domain.

Abstract: This application provides a reference signal sending and receiving method, a network device, a terminal device, and a system, to be applicable to resource configuration for an SRS in NR. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a sounding reference signal SRS based on a location of a starting subcarrier for transmitting the SRS, where the location of the starting subcarrier for transmitting the SRS is determined by an offset of a sounding region, the offset of the sounding region indicates a resource offset between a starting subcarrier of the sounding region and a starting subcarrier of a bandwidth part BWP of the terminal device, and the sounding region is a resource that can be used to transmit the SRS.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for forward/retransmitting a data transmission to a target UE through a helper UE. A helper UE may receive a data transmission from a network node, determining whether the received data transmission is intended for a target UE or for the helper UE itself, based on a control message, and retransmitting the data transmission to the target UE upon determining that the data transmission is intended for the target UE. A network node such as a base station may transmit a control message to at least a help UE, the control message comprising an indicator of whether a data transmission is intended for the helper UE or a target UE and transmit the data transmission to at least the helper UE and the target UE.

Abstract: An operating method of a communication device includes storing a first part of a synchronization signal received from a cell as a first signal sample in first and second consecutive synchronization signal periods, determining a synchronization signal-reference signal received power (SS-RSRP) estimation candidate within the first and second consecutive synchronization signal periods based on the first signal sample, and performing an SS-RSRP estimation operation on the SS-RSRP estimation candidate.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for optimizing a mesh network by cloud computing. A cloud network controller may receive from multiple access points (APs) in a mesh network information related to channel quality based on measurements taken by the APs. Based on this information, the cloud network controller may forecast one or more optimal channels based on the information related to channel quality. The cloud network controller my then send to the multiple APs a message including a recommendation to switch to the one or more optimal channels based on the forecasting. The AP may then make a decision to carry out the recommended channel switch.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may encode a set of data bits on a set of subcarriers based on a boosting factor, and map the set of encoded data bits to a resource block including a first subset of subcarriers corresponding to the set of encoded data bits and a second subset of subcarriers corresponding to a set of null bits. The transmitting device may generate and transmit a signal including the set of encoded data bits. A receiving device may receive a modulated signal on a set of subcarriers, and de-map the modulated signal to a first subset of subcarriers and a second subset of subcarriers based on a boosting factor. The receiving device may decode the first subset of subcarriers to a first set of data bits and the second subset of subcarriers to a second set of data bits.

Abstract: Systems and methods of transmitting and receiving combined uplink control information (UCI) in respect of downlink assignments are provided. The UE is configured to combine certain UCI based on a property of downlink assignment, such as PDCCH ID, beam information, CORESET. The UE may also be configured to determine which UCI having the same value of the property of downlink assignment to combine. This can be based on a value-specific monitoring window or a monitoring window that is common to multiple values of the assignment property.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message comprising an indicator to indicate a number of contention based physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles within a PRACH occasion per Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration for communications on a set of cells. The UE may determine that signals transmitted on the set of cells may be spatially quasi co-located based on the CA configuration and a predetermined relationship rule. For example, the UE may determine that the signals are spatially co-located based on receiving multiple synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) that have a same SSB index, receiving a common SSB, assuming that an SSB and reference signals sourced by the SSB are spatially quasi co-located, receiving a signal from a particular cell of the set of cells, or receiving a common spatial QCL relationship during a configured period of time. Once the spatial QCL relationship is determined, the UE may receive the signals transmitted on the set of cells based on the spatial QCL relationship.

Abstract: A method of performing communication by a user equipment (UE) that is configured with a control resource set (CORESET) by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving configuration information of a CORESET, receiving configuration information of a search space, determining, based on the configuration of the search space, a subband to which the configuration information of the CORESET is to be applied, from among at least one subband within a bandwidth part, identifying a CORESET in the at least one subband based on a result of the determining, and performing monitoring in the identified CORESET for reception of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

Abstract: A base station, a user equipment and methods are provided for establishing access in a base station for a user equipment and for performing measurement in a user equipment in a radio communication system. The method includes transmitting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks at different frequencies within a wideband carrier from the base station, wherein each synchronization signal block is associated with each one cell supported by the base station. An indication is received in the base station, that a user equipment supports wideband operation. A first cell signal is transmitted from the base station to the user equipment, which first cell signal provides information identifying the cells available within the wideband carrier.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication unit that repeatedly transmits an advertising signal, and a control unit that, in a case of being not connected with a central device via the communication unit, controls the communication unit to transmit an advertising signal that includes information based on not being connected with the central device, and, in a case of being connected to the central device via the communication unit, controls the communication unit to transmit an advertising signal that includes information based on being connected with the central device, when receiving from another central device a connection request with respect to an advertising signal that includes information based on being connected with the central device, the control unit disconnects a BLE connection with the connected central device, and establishes a BLE connection with the another central device.