Abstract: A method performed by a first communication device for sending one or more control signals to a second communication device. The first communication device and the second communication device operate in a wireless communications network. The first communication device determines, during a first period, that a transmission medium is available for sending the one or more control signals to the second communication device. The first communication device then sends, to the second communication device, the one or more control signals along with a discovery signal, via the transmission medium. The discovery signal and the one or more control signals are sent without data after the first period. The first period is shorter than a second period for determining that the transmission medium is available for sending the data.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and stimulating user actions to contents retrieved from a network is disclosed. The system may comprise a set of configurable rules, a rules engine for applying the rules, and a server coupled to an end-user computing device and the network. The server may be configured to associate the end-user computing device to the rules engine and to at least one of the rules, determine at least one of a state of the server, an input at the server, a state of the end-user computing device, or an input at the end-user computing device each associated with at least a portion of the retrieved contents, and execute the associated at least one rule utilizing the associated rules engine to stimulate a user action from the end-user computing device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for power saving and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method for efficiently conducting data transmission/reception of each terminal in a high density environment and a wireless communication terminal using the same. To this end, the present invention provides a wireless communication method for a terminal including receiving a distributed access group parameter for data transmission/reception by a group unit, wherein the distributed access group parameter comprises information about a number of groups assigned to a corresponding BSS, obtaining group information about the terminal based on the distributed access group parameter, and performing data transmission based on the obtained group information, and a wireless communication terminal using the same.

Abstract: Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application describe a motor vehicle self-driving method and a terminal device. The method may include obtaining, by a terminal device, vehicle external-environment data of a position of a motor vehicle and initial positioning precision of the motor vehicle. The method may also include determining, by the terminal device, a target driving parameter of the motor vehicle based on the vehicle external-environment data and the initial positioning precision. Furthermore, the method may include controlling, by the terminal device, the motor vehicle to drive based on the target driving parameter. In the embodiments of this application, the terminal device determines the target driving parameter of the motor vehicle based on the vehicle external-environment data and the initial positioning precision. In this way, the target driving parameter varies with the vehicle external-environment data, and further matches an external environment, thereby improving self-driving safety of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: Various examples and schemes pertaining to on-demand network configuration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) user equipment (UE) autonomy in New Radio (NR) mobile communications are described. An apparatus implemented in a first user equipment (UE) receives a signaling from a network node of a wireless network. Based on the signaling, the apparatus operates simultaneously in a network-controlled mode and an autonomous mode such that: (a) the first UE operates in the network-controlled mode with respect to resource allocation on a first sidelink with a second UE, and (b) the first UE operates in the autonomous mode with respect to resource allocation on a second sidelink with the second UE or a third UE.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, via a storage processor of a storage system, a write request for writing a data portion to a storage array enclosure of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives communicatively coupled to the storage processor, where the write request may be received from a host. The data portion may be written to a persistent memory write cache within the storage array enclosure.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for transmitting data over a wireless channel from a data transmitting node to a data receiving node in a communication system. The data transmitting node comprises second-layer processing circuitry for receiving at least one second-layer SDU, to be mapped onto a resource allocated for data transmission, and for generating a second-layer PDU, including the at least one second-layer SDU and at least one second-layer control element, and first-layer processing circuitry for receiving the second-layer PDU generated by the second-layer processing circuitry and for mapping the second-layer PDU onto the resource allocated for data transmission.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to efficient Evolved Packet System (EPS) fallback. A method may include receiving a rejection message that indicates a rejection to set up a call through a 5th Generation (5G) network by a 5G Radio Access Network (RAN). In response to receiving the rejection message, the method may include transmitting a request to establish a dedicated bearer through a 4th Generation (4G) network. A confirmation that the second dedicated bearer has been established through the 4G network may be received within a predetermined time after transmitting the request.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device that enables degradation in the quality of communication between a base station device and a terminal device to be avoided when a sidelink channel is set. [Solution] There is provided a communication device including: a control unit configured to allocate a predetermined gap to a boundary of a resource of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than the resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a network device for configuration of Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, monitoring by a terminal device. The method includes: determining a PDCCH monitoring configuration indicating a PDCCH resource pool to be monitored by the terminal device at an aggregation level; and transmitting the PDCCH monitoring configuration to the terminal device.

Abstract: When downlink data allocation is indicated in an ePDCCH, this terminal device can determine PUCCH resources to be used in notification of response signals indicating results of error detection of downlink data without imposing scheduling restrictions on future DL subframes. In this device, an extraction unit receives downlink data on multiple unit bands. A CRC unit detects errors in the downlink data. A response signal generation unit generates a response signal by using the results of error detection of the downlink data obtained by the CRC unit. The control unit arranges the response signal in the PUCCH resources corresponding to the current DL subframe.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, on a sidelink, a groupcast communication and a unicast communication concurrently from a transmitter. The UE may determine a feedback sequence to be transmitted to indicate joint acknowledgment or negative acknowledgement feedback for the groupcast communication and the unicast communication based at least in part on a decoding of the groupcast communication. The UE may transmit the feedback sequence in one or more sidelink feedback resources associated with a sidelink subchannel via which at least one of the groupcast communication or the unicast communication is received. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product receive an application flow comprising a source flow and a supplementary flow from a core network. The method, apparatus and computer program product receive a flow payload indication from the core network. The method, apparatus and computer program product determine whether the application flow is to be transmitted via a unicast transmission or a multicast transmission. The method, apparatus and computer program product determine whether the supplementary flow is droppable based on the flow payload indication and whether the application flow is to be transmitted via a unicast transmission or a multicast transmission. The method, apparatus and computer program product cause only the source flow to be transmitted in a circumstance where the supplementary flow is droppable.

Abstract: A method comprises constructing, by an access point (AP), a radio frame within a scheduling window, the radio frame including at least a preamble part compatible with an existing IEEE 802.11 preamble legacy preamble, a preamble part used in a next-generation IEEE 802.11 standard (HEW preamble), and the first downlink subframe (DL subframe); sending the Legacy preamble, the HEW preamble and the first DL subframe in the radio frame; receiving at least one uplink subframe (UL subframe) located after the first DL subframe; wherein each of the at least one UL subframes is triggered by one DL subframe located before the UL subframe.

Abstract: A channel and signal transmission method and communication device are provided. The channel and signal transmission method applied to a communication device at a sending end includes: when transmitting at least two data transmission resources, send the data transmission resources, according to at least one of QCL information of the data transmission resources and a preset rule, where a data transmission resource includes at least one of a signal and a channel.

Abstract: [Object] To simplify the operation of a terminal device for performing D2D communication in which the same communication scheme as the communication scheme of cellular communication is adopted. [Solution] Provided is a terminal device including: a detection unit configured to detect a synchronization signal for wireless communication with a base station; and a control unit configured to control transmission of a synchronization signal for inter-device communication. A radio frame used in the wireless communication with the base station and a radio frame used in the inter-device communication have a same frame structure. A timing of the synchronization signal for the inter-device communication in the same frame structure is same as a timing of the synchronization signal for the wireless communication with the base station in the same frame structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure is to transmit a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. An operation method of a base station comprises the steps of: transmitting information on a configuration of a control channel using a plurality of transmission beams; transmitting control information through the control channel, using the plurality of transmission beams; and transmitting data through a data channel allocated by the control information, using at least one of the plurality of transmission beams.

Abstract: A data transmission method of a User Equipment, UE, in a Long Term Evolution, LTE, compliant mobile communications network, and a corresponding UE. The method comprises detecting reconfiguration of a bearer from a split bearer in which uplink Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, Protocol Data Units, PDUs, are transmitted to both a Master eNB, MeNB, and to a Secondary eNB, SeNB, to a non-split bearer in which uplink PDCP PDUs are transmitted only to the MeNB. If reconfiguration of a bearer from a split bearer to a non-split bearer in which uplink PDCP PDUs are transmitted to the MeNB is detected, the method further comprises initiating retransmission of PDCP PDUs from the first PDCP PDU for which transmission was attempted via the SeNB and for which there has been no confirmation of successful delivery by a protocol layer below the PDCP layer within the UE. The method further comprises retransmitting only PDCP PDUs for which transmission of the PDU was attempted via the SeNB.

Abstract: A multicast group creation method, a multicast group joining method, and an apparatus, where the multicast group creation method includes: a user multicast source terminal sending a first request message to a first control plane network element to request creation of a multicast group; the first control plane network element sending a second request message to a second control plane network element to request creation of the multicast group; the second control plane network element determining that a next-hop user plane network element of the second user plane network element is a first user plane network element, and then sending information about the first user plane network element to the first control plane network element, which indicates the second user plane network element to send a multicast packet received from the terminal to the first user plane network element.

Abstract: This invention presents a channel emulator for testing a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication system using an over-the-air (OTA) connection between the antennas of a base station (BS) and the channel emulator. It uses pilot signals with special structures to estimate the channel matrix between the BS and the channel emulator, equalizes the channel when performing emulation of the channels between the BS and a plural of user equipment (UEs) in MU-MIMO communication.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a communication method, a network device, user equipment, and a communications system. The communication method includes determining, by a network device, to allocate a first secondary cell group (SCG) to user equipment, and sending, by the network device, first configuration indication information to the user equipment, where the first configuration indication information indicates at least one type of the following configuration transmitting uplink control information related to a cell in the first SCG by using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) of a first cell, where the first cell belongs to a second SCG of the user equipment, or processing data transmission on at least one cell in the first SCG by using a layer 2 functional entity located in the second SCG. The communication method disclosed in the present disclosure can reduce complexity of UE.

Abstract: Provided are a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback processing method, a signal processing method, a communication node and a computer-readable storage medium. In the HARQ feedback processing method, flexibility of a system is improved by setting flexible HARQ feedback time, and specifically, a control signal including HARQ feedback time indication information is generated in a certain manner; in the signal processing method, different communication channels are respectively allocated for reference signal activation information and reference signal deactivation information, so that channel environment compatibility is improved, the decoding success rate of a control channel is improved, and the performance of a fifth-generation mobile communication system is improved.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for performing multiple random access procedures. One apparatus (200) includes a processor (202) that: determines (402) that multiple random access procedures are triggered; and performs (404) the multiple random access procedures in parallel, selects a prioritized random access procedure of the multiple random access procedures to perform based on a priority corresponding to the multiple random access procedures, or some combination thereof.

Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes enabling voice activated switch (VOX) mode on a communication device. The method further includes enabling a wake word detector on the communication device. The method also includes monitoring for voice activity using a voice activity detector (VAD). The method additionally includes detecting voice activity using the VAD, wherein detecting voice activity further includes: storing the voice activity in a buffer, determining, using the wake word detector, the presence or absence of a wake word in the voice activity, monitoring for and subsequently processing a voice command based on the determination of the presence of the wake word in the voice activity, and initiating a transmit operation, on the communication device, of the voice activity stored in the buffer based on the absence of the wake word in the voice activity.

Abstract: Exemplified systems and methods facilitate multicasting latency optimization operations for router, switches, and other network devices, for routed Layer-3 multicast packets to provide even distribution latency and/or selective prioritized distribution of latency among multicast destinations. A list of network destinations for serially-replicated packets is traversed in different sequences from one packet to the next, to provide delay fairness among the listed destinations. The list of network destinations are mapped to physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports of the router, switches, or other network devices and, thus, the different sequences are also traversed from these physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports. The exemplified systems and methods facilitates the management of traffic that is particularly beneficial in in a data center.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method of a system in an IP based broadcasting network, the data transmission method comprising the steps of: generating an MPEG media transport protocol (MMTP) packet using a media processing unit (MPU) for a service; generating an IP packet using the MMTP packet; generating a layer 2 (L2) packet using the IP packet and generating a layer 1 (L1) packet stream using the L2 packet; and transmitting the L1 packet stream, wherein absolute time information of the system is included in one of a transmission frame of the L1 packet stream and the L2 packet.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide a base station receiving an indication from a core network to serve multicast/broadcast traffic to one or more UEs. The base station may select a radio bearer mode from a plurality of radio bearer modes for delivery of the multicast/broadcast traffic to at least one UE of the one or more UEs. For example, the base station may select a multicast/broadcast only mode, a mixed multicast/broadcast mode and unicast mode, or a unicast mode for service of the traffic. Dependent on the selected mode and/or quality of service, the base station may select a dedicated radio bearer (DRB) for communication of the traffic in a unicast mode (e.g., to a particular UE) or a multicast radio bearer (MRB) for communication of the traffic in a broadcast/multicast mode.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to the supply of targeted advertisements to user devices receiving broadcast or multicast content are described. The methods and apparatus are well suited for systems where content is broadcast or multicast to a plurality of user playback devices, e.g., set top boxes, with advertisements included in the content delivered via a first communications channel, e.g., a broadcast communications channel. Viewing information, e.g., information indicating the tuning of a customer premise device to a channel and/or the outputting of program content is reported to a headend or other device. One or more targeted advertisements are delivered to a customer premise device via a secondary channel, e.g., unicast IP packet channel, with the alternative advertisement being displayed in place of the broadcast advertisement.

Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communications network including a plurality of base stations and a base station for a mobile communications network, wherein the base station includes a plurality of transmitters, a plurality of receivers and a processor, is disclosed. Each transmitter is configured to transmit radio signals to a plurality of mobile terminals. Each receiver is configured to receive radio signals from a plurality of mobile terminals. The processor is configured to serve a mobile terminal via the transmitter over multicast/broadcast across a radio link; receive information from the mobile terminal being served by the transmitter, in which the information derives from signal quality of a multicast/broadcast serving signal received at the mobile terminal from the transmitter; and provide to the mobile terminal first instructions based on a first comparison of the quality of the multicast/broadcast serving signal received at the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A method is provided for managing a plurality of media flows to be reproduced by a calling device prior to the finalization of the establishment of a communication. The method is implemented by the calling device prior to the finalization of the communication. The method includes sending a request for the creation of the communication to at least one called device. For each media stream of the plurality of media streams, a first degree of priority associated with the media stream is searched for in a message received in response to the request for creation of the communication. A media stream to be played is selected from the plurality of media streams, according to second degrees of priority associated with the media streams of the plurality of media streams, the second degrees of priority obtained according to the result of the search.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a transition information generation unit that generates a plurality of pieces of different transition information related to transition from a first mode in which centralized communication is performed by an access point to a second mode in which no centralized communication by an access point is performed and a frame generation unit that generates a frame containing the transition information.

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: An example system includes a first network device having first circuitry. The first network device is configured to perform operations including receiving data to be transmitted to a second network device over an optical communications network, and transmitting first information and second information to the second device. The first information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a first communications link of the optical communications network and using a first subset of optical subcarriers. The second information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a second communications link of the optical communications network and using a second subset of optical subcarriers. The first subset of optical subcarriers is different from the second subset of optical subcarriers.

Abstract: Methods of processing a packet, APs, ACs and non-transitory machine-readable storage mediums are provided in examples of the present disclosure. In one aspect, an AP receives an Internet-of-Things data packet sent by an Internet-of-Things sensor, wherein a sensor identifier of the Internet-of-Things sensor is carried in the Internet-of-Things data packet; and sends the received Internet-of-Things data packet to an AC such that the AC processes the Internet-of-Things data packet based on the sensor identifier.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology use a combination of static and rotating access credentials to access target devices. Some embodiments start with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token that can be used to log into the platform head-end. If approved, a landing page requesting login credentials can be presented to the user. The user can provide a username and password via landing page and select a PAM or CASB target. The system then issues a secondary access credential (e.g., a pin/token) that is unknown to the user and is placed into a vault. A dynamic credential can be dynamically generated at each request. The target device can use the static access credential from the vault and the dynamic access credential for access to the device. As such, even if the vault is comprised, the target device would be inaccessible without the dynamic token which constantly changing.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal. The encoding apparatus may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a first conversion encoder to convert the input signal to a frequency domain signal, and to encode the input signal when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) encoder to perform LPC encoding of the input signal when the input signal is a speech characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream using an output.

Abstract: A system and method for providing both localized and distributed transmission modes for EPDCCH is disclosed, where one EPDCCH comprises of one or multiple CCEs. Localized versus distributed transmission may be defined in terms of the EPDCCH to CCE resource mapping. In a localized transmission CCEs are restricted to be contained within one PRB. In a distributed transmission a CCE spans over multiple PRBs. A UE can be configured to either receive the EPDCCH only in localized or only in distributed transmissions. A UE can also be configured to expect EPDCCH transmissions in both localized and distributed transmissions. In each PRB configured by the higher layer as an EPDCCH resource, 24 REs that may be used for any DMRS transmission are always reserved and not used for EPDCCH transmission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for signal transmission or reception by a terminal dual-connected to a first radio access technology (RAT) or a second RAT in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises: a step of receiving a first RAT-based downlink reference time domain duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink configuration; and a time division multiplexing (TDM) step of, when an uplink subframe on the basis of the downlink reference TDD uplink-downlink configuration is associated with a first transmission time unit having a predetermined length, setting the first transmission time unit for the first RAT and setting a second transmission time unit for the second RAT. The second transmission time unit is obtained by excluding a transmission time unit from the uplink subframe. The terminal is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.

Abstract: A method for automatic address configuration, router, computer program, computer-readable medium and method for automatically configuring a router that has an upstream interface, connected or connectable to a higher-level subnetwork and/or a higher-level router, and a downstream interface, connected or connectable to a lower-level subnetwork, wherein whether the router receives, on the upstream interface, messages providing notification of at least one domain as part of a DNS search list option, is monitored and, if the message is not received over a prescribed period, a DNS island mode is automatically activated in which the DNS zone of a local DNS server of the router is configured using a predefined island domain, and a transmission module of the router is prompted to send a message via the downstream interface, which message includes the preconfigured island domain as part of a DNS search list option, preferably an address of the downstream interface.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic apparatus, an information processing device, and an information processing method. According to one embodiment, an electronic device used for a base station side comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: perform channel detection for a target channel; broadcast, to a user equipment, a resource indication used for uplink transmission based on a result of the channel detection; and receive uplink transmission performed by the user equipment based on the resource indication.

Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for V2V, V2X, or D2D communication may be a transmitting device configured to determine a source ID for communication over a link, to determine a destination ID for the communication over the link based on a type of the communication. The transmitting device may be further configured to transmit at least one control message over the link, where the control message(s) indicate the source ID and the destination ID. In certain aspects, a receiving device may be configured to receive the control message over the link, where the control message indicates the source ID and the destination ID. The receiving device may be configured to receive a data message over the link and to determine whether to attempt to decode the data message received over the link based on the source ID and the destination ID indicated in the control message.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device, includes: a receiver configured to receive a first frame a transmitter address of which is an address of a first wireless communication device and a receiver address of which is an address of the wireless communication device; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame generated using a first address process in response to receipt of the first frame. The first address process is a process to set a first value in a first region in a receiver address field of the second frame. The first value is a value different from values settable in first regions in addresses of the first wireless communication device and another wireless communication device capable of receiving the second frame.

Abstract: A method, device and system for correcting errors in a group of received packets having a redundant packet. The method includes determining an inconsistent bit indicator for a bit position of the packets, determining a bit reliability indicator indicative of a potential bit error location in at least one packet, calculating a number of potential bit error locations for the bit position and identifying a correctable bit location accordingly. A method, device and system for correcting an error in a received packet. The method is adapted to calculate a checksum value of the received packet, verify if the checksum value is indicative of at least one bit error in the received packet, identify a predefined Checksum Pattern Type (CPT) according to the checksum value and determine at least one bit error event (BEE) accordingly. A method, device and system for decoding a plurality of received fountain encoded symbols.

Abstract: A mobile station receives a control message containing an indicator of presence of a first access network that operates according to a first protocol that is capable of interworking with a second access network that operates according to a second, different protocol. In response to receiving the indicator, the mobile station performs a procedure to establish a personality for the mobile station that specifies the configuration to allow the mobile station to use features of the first access network that enable interworking with the second access network.

Abstract: Provided are a method for indicating reference signal configuration information, a base station and a terminal. The method includes that a first communication node determines joint signaling and the first communication node transmits the joint signaling to a second communication node. The joint signaling includes first information and second information. The first information includes at least one of the following: quasi-colocation configuration information and configuration information of a transmission beam. The second information includes at least one of the following: configuration information of a phase tracking reference signal and configuration information of a demodulation reference signal.

Abstract: Operation of a wireless network access point (AP) to communicate with a first set of one or more wireless client devices using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable basic service set (BSS) identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify overlapping BSSs (OBSSs). A first set of one or more wireless client devices communicate using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable BSS identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify OBSSs. Unauthorized network activity is detected based on the BSS identifier and a received BSS identifier associated with the received transmissions. A dynamic adjustment is made to one of the BSS identifiers of the AP or the received BSS identifier in response to detected unauthorized network activity.

Abstract: Certain embodiments disclose a method in a wireless device. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a first Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) from a network node. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a second PRACH. Furthermore, the wireless device transmits a first random access attempt via the first PRACH and transmits a second random access attempt via the second PRACH. The first PRACH and the second PRACH each have an associated preamble, and wherein the second PRACH preamble has a different length than the first PRACH preamble.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a device of a terminal, in a wireless communication system, can comprise at least one processor and at least one transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a first signal transmitted using a first beam of the base station and including system information and receive, from the base station, a second signal transmitted using a second beam of the base station and including the system information, and the at least one processor is configured to decode the second signal in combination with the first signal, thereby enabling the system information to be acquired.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to network data processing methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving a multicast group join request sent by a terminal, adding a terminal identifier to a multicast group corresponding to a target channel identifier, where the multicast group corresponding to the target channel identifier includes an identifier of a terminal that has requested network data corresponding to the target channel identifier, and delivering the network data based on the multicast group and a group scheduling identifier corresponding to the multicast group by using an air interface resource corresponding to the multicast group, where a terminal in the multicast group decodes the air interface resource based on the group scheduling identifier to obtain the network data.