Abstract: Provided are wireless communication devices and methods. A wireless communication device can comprise: circuitry operative to map at least a first type of reference signals (RSs) onto orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol(s) other than the OFDM symbols onto which shortened transmission time intervals (TTIs) are mapped in a subframe, each of the shortened TTIs comprising 1-7 OFDM symbols; and a transmitter operative to transmit a physical channel in one of the shortened TTIs and transmit at least the first type of RSs.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for sharing channel occupancy time. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first indicator requesting the UE to share a channel occupancy time (COT) for downlink transmission within the COT, wherein the COT is initiated by the UE for transmitting uplink data; determining a first channel access priority class (CAPC) value; initiating the COT by performing a channel access procedure using the first CAPC value; and transmitting, to the BS, at least a part of the uplink data in the COT.

Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses.

Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method at a remote nit, comprising: receiving, from a base unit, a first signaling for configuring a plurality of subbands for transmitting uplink data; performing a first channel access procedure on each of the plurality of subbands and obtaining a channel occupancy time (COT) on a first set of subbands, wherein the first set of subbands comprises one or more subbands of the plurality of subbands with the first channel access procedures being successful; and transmitting, to the base unit, the uplink data on the first set of subbands within the COT; and transmitting, to the base unit, uplink control information (UCI) associated to the uplink data, wherein the UCI includes a first indicator indicating the first set of subbands.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for allocating radio resources to a user terminal for performing communication between a radio control entity and the user terminal in a communication system. At least first predetermined radio resources are configured in the user terminal for use in connection with a particular carrier and are associated with a particular format of a downlink control information, DCI, message. The user terminal receives a DCI message of the particular format from the radio control entity. Upon receiving the DCI message of the particular format, the user terminal identifies the first predetermined radio resources associated with this received DCI message, and using the identified first predetermined radio resources for communication between the user terminal and the radio control entity via the particular carrier. The particular carrier can be an unlicensed carrier.

Abstract: The invention relates methods for triggering channel quality feedback for at least one of plural component carriers of a communication system available for downlink transmission. The invention suggests a mechanism for triggering channel quality feedback from a terminal where the downlink control signaling overhead for the selection of component carrier(s) to be reported on is minimized. One aspect of the invention is a new interpretation of a predetermined format for dedicated control information comprising a CQI request flag, which is depending on the status of the CQI request flag. In case the CQI request flag is set at least one further bit of the dedicated control information is interpreted as information indicative of the one or more component carriers available for downlink transmission to the terminal and the terminal is providing channel quality feedback on the channel quality experienced on the indicated component carrier or component carriers.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for HARQ feedback. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: receiving control information at least for a plurality of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions in an uplink transmission burst; and transmitting the plurality of PUSCH transmissions in the uplink transmission burst based on the control information, wherein one of the plurality of PUSCH transmissions includes an uplink control information (UCI) signaling at least associated with all PUSCH transmissions in an initial slot of the uplink transmission burst. Embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce the overhead for configured grant based uplink transmission.

Abstract: A transmitter transmits a first channel quality information report for reporting an average of channel quality measurement values of resource blocks with a first predetermined reporting frequency. The transmitter also transmit a second channel quality information report on channel quality measurement values of a predetermined number of selected resource blocks. The second channel quality information report is transmitted between two transmissions of the first channel quality information report. The second channel quality information report on the channel quality measurement values of the predetermined number of selected resource blocks is transmitted with a second predetermined reporting frequency in the periodic transmission. The first predetermined reporting frequency is different from the second predetermined reporting frequency in the periodic transmission.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.

Abstract: A communication apparatus has a receiver and a decoder. The receiver receives a control signal including first downlink control information and second downlink control information, and receives decoding area information that indicates whether the extended Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) should be decoded for each of a plurality of terminal apparatuses. The decoder decodes each of a plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area or decodes each of the plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area and each of the plurality of second mapping candidates in the extended PDCCH. A number of the second mapping candidates included in the user-specific search space equals to or is more than a number of the first mapping candidates included in the common search space.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for one-shot HARQ-ACK codebook determination are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a first signal configuring a number of Downlink (DL) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) processes, and a second signal triggering a HARQ-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for each of the number of DL HARQ processes; and a transmitter that transmits a HARQ-ACK codebook, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a first part including the HARQ-ACK feedback for each of the number of DL HARQ processes. The HARQ-ACK codebook may further comprise a second part and each bit in the second part corresponds to a HARQ process of the number of DL HARQ process with positive acknowledgement reported in the first part for the HARQ process.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. A method for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a data transmission in a set of candidate data transmission occasions; transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook for the set of candidate data transmission occasions; receiving another DCI scheduling another data transmission in another set of candidate data transmission occasions; and transmitting another HARQ-ACK codebook for the abovementioned another set of candidate data transmission occasions.

Abstract: This invention relates to the proposal of component carrier (de)activation message that is allowing a activation or deactivation of one or more component carriers in the uplink or downlink. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the new component carrier (de)activation message in methods for (de)activation of downlink component carrier(s) configured for a mobile terminal, a base station and a mobile terminal. To enable efficient and robust (de)activation of component carriers, the invention proposes to use component carrier-specific or cell-RNTI(s) for the scrambling of the CRC of the component carrier (de)activation message, and to explicitly indicate the intended recipient of the component carrier (de)activation message in a corresponding field in the message. Furthermore, the invention further proposes different designs of the component carrier (de)activation message and further uses thereof, so as to trigger CQI reporting and/or SRS transmission by a mobile terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmission and reception of data in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system supporting aggregation of a plurality of component carriers and an additional carrier accessible by a listen before talk approach. In particular, monitoring is performed of a search space on a cross-scheduling component carrier for detecting downlink control information having a carrier identification field indicating the cross-scheduling component carrier as well as for detecting downlink control information with the carrier identification field indicating the additional carrier, wherein the search space is specified by a subset of resources, associated with carrier identification of the cross-scheduling component carrier but is not associated with carrier identification of the additional carrier. Then data are transmitted or received on the carriers in accordance with the received downlink control information.

Abstract: A user equipment for in use in a mobile communication system includes a receiver that receives control channel signaling including a new data indicator and a modulation and coding scheme field, and processing circuitry which determines that the new data indicator and the modulation and coding scheme field of the control channel signaling indicates a predetermined combination of a new data indicator value and a modulation and coding scheme index. The processing circuitry deactivates a semi-persistent resource allocation in response to determination that the new data indicator and the modulation and coding scheme field of the control channel signaling indicates a predetermined combination of a new data indicator value and a modulation and coding scheme index.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes.

Abstract: The invention relates methods for triggering channel quality feedback for at least one of plural component carriers of a communication system available for downlink transmission. The invention suggests a mechanism for triggering channel quality feedback from a terminal where the downlink control signaling overhead for the selection of component carrier(s) to be reported on is minimized. One aspect of the invention is a new interpretation of a predetermined format for dedicated control information comprising a CQI request flag, which is depending on the status of the CQI request flag. In case the CQI request flag is set at least one further bit of the dedicated control information is interpreted as information indicative of the one or more component carriers available for downlink transmission to the terminal and the terminal is providing channel quality feedback on the channel quality experienced on the indicated component carrier or component carriers.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for scheduling Multi-TTI transmissions, for PDSCH and PUSCH. 1. The disclosure provides an apparatus having: a receiver that receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a plurality of data channels, wherein the DCI contains a first indicator indicating a first time domain resource allocation pattern selected from a set of predefined time domain resource allocation patterns for time domain resources of the plurality of data channels; a processor that performs a channel access procedure for each of the plurality of data channels; and a transmitter that transmits the plurality of data channels in the time domain resources in response to the channel access procedure for a corresponding data channel being successful.

Abstract: Provided are a resource scheduling method, a resource determining method, an eNB, and a user equipment. The resource scheduling method for wireless communication is performed by the eNB. The wireless communication involves at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The resource scheduling method includes: transmitting a DCI in the first carrier to a UE to schedule downlink resources for a PDSCH of the second carrier, wherein the eNB is able to start transmitting a burst in the second carrier at a flexible time independent of the subframe boundaries of the second carrier after the second carrier is occupied by the eNB, and the DCI for a flexible PDSCH of the burst different from the normal PDSCH of the second carrier contains information on the time period scheduled for the flexible PDSCH. The flexible PDSCH and its corresponding RS can reuse the DwPTS subframe structure for minimal specification impact.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.