Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for packet combining for PDCP duplication, e.g., in ultra-reliable low-latency-communication (URLLC) scenarios are provided. One method may include providing, from a network node to at least one second node, a pointer to an earlier or first transmission of a protocol data unit (PDU). The pointer may be used by subsequent transmissions of the protocol data unit (PDU) through the at least one second node to indicate to a user equipment (UE) what transmissions are to be combined.

Abstract: A method including receiving at a wireless communication device first and second scheduling information indicative of attributes related to a data transmission. The first scheduling information including information indicative of contents attributes of the data transmission, and the subsequently received second scheduling information being indicative of time attributes of the data transmission.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for optimizing user equipment (UE) oriented link adaptation. One method may include receiving a configuration of a predefined transmission power for one or more cases. The method may also include calculating a required transmission power based on at least a specific pathloss of the one or more cases. In addition, the method may include, selecting, based on the calculation of the required transmission power, a modulation coding scheme level that does not exceed the predefined transmission power for a radio transmission. Further, the method may include performing the radio transmission based on the selected modulation coding scheme level and the calculated required transmission power.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic transmit diversity fallback are provided. One method may include configuring a user equipment with a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers used for transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling, and performing, by a network node, at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling. The configuring may include indicating to the user equipment to use a modified mapping table providing transmit diversity fallback for the at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a signaling arrangement for a wireless system are provided. One method includes transmitting a short control signaling (SCS) message to one or more user equipment (UE). The SCS message may comprise at least a reference signal part and an optional control signal part. The reference signal part may comprise reference signals that allow the UE to perform at least one of: cell search, synchronization, fine time/frequency tracking, radio resource management (RRM) measurements, radio link monitoring, or channel state information (CSI) reporting. In an embodiment, the control signal part may indicate at least one of: whether the cell is ON or OFF, whether each subframe in a current or upcoming set of subframes are ON or OFF, TDD uplink-downlink configuration for a current or upcoming radio frame, PLMN ID to identify to which operator's network the cell belongs to, and/or system information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a transmission mode with user equipment (UE) independent physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scrambling for inter-cell and intra-cell PDSCH-to-PDSCH interference cancellation. A method may include configuring (610) a first identifier (e.g. first RNTI) for a first UE. The method may also include performing at least one of indicating (620) (e.g. semi-statically) a second identifier (e.g. PDSCH RNTI own) for the first UE, or indicating (630) (e.g. semi-statically) a third identifier (e.g. PDSCH RNTIJnt) for the first UE. The first identifier (e.g. first RNTI) is for at least one of operation of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the first UE, or operation of PDSCH of the first UE if the second identifier (e.g. PDSCH RNTI own) is not indicated to the first UE; the second identifier (e.g. PDSCH RNTI own) is for at least one of scrambling or descrambling PDSCH of the first UE; and the third identifier (e.g.

Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a user equipment from a network entity, a first downlink (DL) control signal activating semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) of a first set of downlink data transmissions, the downlink control signal indicating an applicable hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing for the first set of downlink data transmissions and receiving one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions. The user equipment may determine that an applicable HARQ feedback timing for a second set of downlink data transmission previously received with an inapplicable HARQ feedback timing has not been provided. In response to the determination, the user equipment may determine a HARQ feedback timing for the one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions based a second DL control signal indicating an applicable HARQ feedback timing received after reception of the one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions.

Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one downlink assignment indicating at least one multiplexing group indicator. The method may further include generating, by the user equipment, at least one hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement codebook in a sub-slot for each received multiplexing group indicator value. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, whether more than one PUCCH resource associated with more than one multiplexing group indicator overlaps in time. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, the highest priority codebook on the determined PUCCH resource and preventing, by the user equipment, transmission of the lower-priority HARQ-ACKs based on the at least one MGI indication in case an overlap in time has been determined. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, the generated codebook on the determined PUCCH resource.

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising checking if an option grant for an uplink transmission is received, wherein the option grant comprises, for a subframe, a first allocation option to start the uplink transmission and a second allocation option to start the uplink transmission, wherein the first allocation option is earlier in the subframe than the second allocation option; deciding if the uplink transmission is allowed at the first allocation option; starting the uplink transmission at the first allocation option if the option grant is received and the uplink transmission is allowed at the first allocation option; deciding if the uplink transmission is allowed at the second allocation option; starting the uplink transmission at the second allocation option if the option grant is received, the uplink transmission is not allowed at the first allocation option, and the uplink transmission is allowed at the second allocation option.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an access node for configuring relaying using one or more terminal devices. The access node is configured to select the one or more terminal devices connected to the access node for relaying a signal from the source terminal device to the access node based on radio link measurements. Further, the access node is configured to configure each of the one or more terminal devices to decode each received primary uplink resource and if the decoding is successful, to cause transmitting a transport block corresponding to the decoded primary uplink resource on a secondary uplink resource using a pre-defined starting position to a target network node. The access node is also configured to receive at least one transport block transmitted from the source terminal device via one or more terminal devices on one or more secondary uplink resources.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform receiving at a user equipment an indication of a scheduled resource for an uplink shared channel transmission by the user equipment; determining that a high reliability low latency communication is to be transmitted by the user equipment; and based on the determining, prioritizing a transmission of the high reliability low latency communication on the scheduled resource of the uplink shared channel using a selected transport format to encode the high reliability low latency communication. Further, there is at least a method and apparatus to perform sending to a user equipment an indication of a scheduling resource for an uplink shared channel transmission by the user equipment; and in response to the sending, receiving from the user equipment said uplink shared channel transmission using a selected transport format.

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising estimating a future instantaneously required processing effort required by a terminal to process symbols received in at least one first transmission time interval and at least one second transmission time interval; checking if the estimated future instantaneously required processing effort exceeds a capability of the terminal to process the symbols; modifying a future scheduling of the symbols for the terminal if the future instantaneously required processing effort exceeds the capability; wherein the first transmission time intervals and the second transmission time intervals are of different types.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user device in a wireless network, an uplink grant, the uplink grant indicating granted resources having a priority level; determining, by the user device, whether or not information to be transmitted has a priority level that matches the priority level of the granted resources; and transmitting, by the user device, the information via at least a portion of the granted resources, and an indication of whether or not a priority level of the information matches a priority level of the granted resources.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising controlling receiving, at a node, subframe type configuration information, said subframe type configuration information defining at least one subframe type of a group of subframes to be used in a secondary cell, said secondary cell configured to provide at least one of licensed-assisted access, licensed shared access and co-primary sharing access and using said subframe type configuration information to cause the node to operate in accordance with that configuration in the secondary cell.

Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a network node, association and configuration information for a plurality of sequences, where each sequence may be associated to at least one network-node beam or beam-pair link. The method may also include performing beam measurements of beams from the network node to obtain beam measurement information. The method may further include detecting beam misalignment of the beam based on the beam measurement information. In addition, the method may include transmitting a sequence among the plurality of sequences to the network node to inform the network node of the beam misalignment, and to trigger the network node to start a beam adjustment procedure and a monitoring procedure for a configured-grant configuration. Further, the method may include, after transmitting the sequence, considering the indicated preferred beam as a new serving beam, and switching to the configured-grant configuration associated with this new serving beam.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for constructing a HARQ-ACK codebook for managing the trade-off between codebook size and feedback granularity. In an example implementation, the method may include a network node determining a second time domain resource allocation table and transmitting configuration information to the UE. The method may further include the network node transmitting downlink data to the UE and receiving the one or more ACKs and/or NACKs from the UE in response to the transmitting of the downlink data, the one or more ACKs/NACKs being generated based at least on the second time resource allocation table. In another example implementation, the method may include a user equipment (UE) receiving configuration information from a network node, receiving downlink data from the network node, and transmitting one or more ACKs/NACKs to the network node.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising determining, at a first access point, whether a carrier from a plurality of carriers is a primary listen-before-talk carrier or a secondary listen-before-talk carrier and providing information using the carrier, said information comprising an indication of whether the respective carrier is a primary listen-before-talk carrier or a secondary listen-before-talk carrier.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising controlling receiving, at a node, subframe type configuration information, said subframe type configuration information defining at least one subframe type of a group of subframes to be used in a secondary cell, said secondary cell configured to provide at least one of licensed-assisted access, licensed shared access and co-primary sharing access and using said subframe type configuration information to cause the node to operate in accordance with that configuration in the secondary cell.

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from allocation of candidates for a channel. For example, some new radio communication systems may benefit from hashing for allocation of control channel candidates. A method can include applying a hashing function for associating a plurality of decoding candidates of a search space set with subsets of control channel elements of a control resource set, and using the decoding candidate for scheduling of a user equipment in a control channel, wherein the hashing function is non-uniform in a pseudo-random manner and with one candidate per subband. The method can also include scheduling the user equipment based on the applied hashing function.

Abstract: The present invention addresses a method, apparatus and computer program product for improving slow DCI reliability. Thereby, with regard to a subframe including slow downlink control information, an indication element indicating that the slow downlink control information transmitted in this subframe has the same content as slow downlink control information in the previous subframe or one of the past subframes is generated, and the indication element is transmitted in the same subframe and the same downlink control channel candidate as the slow downlink control information to a user equipment.