Abstract: A method for a serving cell for signaling a communicating with a user equipment (UE) is described. The method may include transmitting, by the serving cell, a radio resource control (RRC) message to the UE. The RRC message may include a plurality of sets of parameters and a plurality of indices corresponding to the plurality of sets of parameters. The method may also include transmitting, by the serving cell, downlink control information (DCI) to the UE indicating an allocated resource block (RB) in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for the UE and an index corresponding to one of the plurality of sets of parameters to decode the allocated RB.

Abstract: A method performed by a UE for wireless communications is provided. The method includes determining whether a first HARQ process of a first PUSCH duration of a first configured uplink grant is occupied by a dynamic uplink grant indicating a second PUSCH duration, and in a case that the first HARQ process of the first PUSCH duration is occupied by the dynamic uplink grant indicating the second PUSCH duration, determining whether the first PUSCH duration is prioritized over the second PUSCH duration based on a set of rules for determining priorities for the first PUSCH duration and the second PUSCH duration, and when the first PUSCH duration is prioritized over the second PUSCH duration, performing transmission on the first PUSCH duration, and starting or restarting a first configured grant timer corresponding to the first HARQ process of the first PUSCH duration during the first PUSCH duration.

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication is provided. The method includes initiating a random access (RA)-based small data transmission (SDT) procedure while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state; starting a timer while the UE is in the RRC inactive state after initiating the RA-based SDT procedure; initiating an RA procedure; determining whether an RA problem associated with the RA procedure has occurred while the timer is running; and in response to determining that the RA problem of the RA procedure has occurred while the timer is running, transitioning from the RRC inactive state to an RRC idle state.

Abstract: A method performed by a UE for implementing a random access procedure is provided. The method transmits a MSGA, monitoring an MSGB-RNTI within an MSGB time window starting from an earliest symbol of an earliest PDCCH occasion after the MSGA transmission. The method receives the MSGB in a first slot. The MSGB includes a success RAR that contains a HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator, a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Resource Indicator, and a UE Contention Resolution Identity. The method determines, by a MAC entity of the UE, to instruct a lower layer to transmit a HARQ feedback in a second slot in response to the reception of the success RAR. The method delivers, by the MAC entity, the HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator and the PUCCH Resource Indicator to the lower layer, and performs, by the lower layer, a HARQ feedback delivery on an uplink (UL) resource.

Abstract: A method performed by a UE for a Small Data Transmission (SDT) procedure is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message including an SDT configuration while the UE is in an RRC_CONNECTED state; transitioning to an RRC_INACTIVE state from the RRC_CONNECTED state in response to receiving the RRC release message; and determining, by an RRC layer of the UE, whether to initiate the SDT procedure based on the SDT configuration when the RRC layer receives a first indication from a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of the UE, wherein the first indication indicates whether at least one condition for initiating the SDT procedure is fulfilled or not.

Abstract: A prediction image generation is provided. First and second luminance values corresponding, respectively, to first and second positions on a luminance image are derived. First and second chrominance values corresponding, respectively, to first and second positions on a chrominance image are derived. First and second difference values indicate, respectively, a first difference between the first and second luminance values and a second difference between the first and second chrominance values. A shift value is derived for a shift operation and a first parameter is derived by using the first and second difference values, and a second parameter is derived by using the second luminance value, the second chrominance value, the first parameter, and the shift value according to a formula. The shift value is set to a first threshold if a value derived by using the first and second difference values is less than the first threshold.

Abstract: A wireless communication system for performing communication and computing includes a plurality of cells configured to perform the communication between at least one user equipment and at least one network; and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing platform comprising a plurality of AI slices to perform the computing, wherein the plurality of cells are located in air, space, sea, or land.

Abstract: A method for subdividing an interval during entropy decoding for a bitstream representing a set of video pictures is provided. A sub-interval value is computed by (i) performing an initial right bit-shifting operation on a probability estimator value to reduce a length in bits of the probability estimator value, (ii) multiplying the right bit-shifted probability estimator value by a range value representing the interval, (iii) performing another right bit-shifting operation on a result of the multiplication, and (iv) adding a constant value to a result of the other right bit-shifting operation, wherein the probability estimator value is associated with a probability of a bin having a particular value. The sub-interval value computed based on the right bit-shifted probability estimator value is used to update the interval.

Abstract: Methods related to physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetitions, a user equipment (UE), and a network device are provided. In the method, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble is transmitted. A random access response (RAR) message responding to the PRACH preamble is received. The RAR message includes an uplink grant that schedules a message 3 (Msg3) PUSCH. A transport block size (TBS) for a transport block (TB) is determined based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field in the uplink grant. The Msg3 PUSCH for the TB is transmitted with the number of PUSCH repetitions. The number of PUSCH repetitions is selected from a set of candidate numbers of PUSCH repetitions based on the MCS field in the uplink grant.

Abstract: A wireless communication method, performed by a User Equipment, for transmission on different BandWidth Parts (BWPs) includes receiving, a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring a first Physical Uplink Control CHannel-Configuration (PUCCH-Config) for a first UpLink (UL) BandWidth Part (BWP) of a first cell and a second PUCCH-Config for a second UL BWP of a second cell; receiving, from the first cell, Downlink Control Information (DCI) including fields to indicate a duration and a switching indication; and transmitting a PUCCH on the second UL BWP after receiving the DCI if the switching indication indicates the second cell.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for handling measurement operations in a wireless communication system are provided. A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes receiving a first measurement configuration from a first serving cell; performing, in a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) state which is an RRC idle state or an RRC inactive state, a first measurement operation based on the first measurement configuration; generating a first measurement result; receiving a first measurement report request from a second serving cell; retaining the first measurement result after the UE transitions from the first RRC state to a second RRC state which is an RRC connected state; and transmitting the first measurement result to the second serving cell, wherein the first serving cell and the first RRC state are associated with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and the second serving cell and the second RRC state are associated with a second RAT.

Abstract: A UE and a method for handling UE onboarding are provided. The method includes receiving a first indication, a second indication, and a third indication from a cell via a SIB1, the cell operated by one or more SNPNs; reporting, by an AS layer of the UE, the first indication, the second indication, and the third indication to a NAS layer of the UE; receiving, by the AS layer of the UE, an indication for UE onboarding from the NAS layer of the UE; and transmitting a first RRC message to the cell, the first RRC message including an onboarding request associated with the indication for UE onboarding.

Abstract: A method performed by a UE is provided. The method determines a first size of a first DCI format and a second size of a second DCI format monitored in a common search space (CSS). The method determines a third size of the first DCI format and a fourth size of the second DCI format monitored in a USS. The method aligns the first size with the second size, and aligns the third size with the fourth size. The method determines at least one of a size of a third DCI format and a size of a fourth DCI format monitored in the USS, and adjusts at least one of the determined sizes of the third and fourth DCI formats, such that the adjusted size is not equal to any of the aligned first size, the aligned second size, the aligned third size, or the aligned fourth size.

Abstract: A system and a method of random access resource selection are provided. The method includes a target Base Station (BS) transmitting a first Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) to a User Equipment (UE), the first SSB associated with a first contention-free random access resource for the UE to transmit a random access preamble; the target BS transmitting a second SSB to the UE, the second SSB associated with a contention-based random access resource; and in a case that a first Synchronization Signal-Reference Signal Received Power (SS-RSRP) of the first SSB is not greater than an SS-RSRP threshold and a second SS-RSRP of the second SSB is greater than the SS-RSRP threshold, the target BS receiving the random access preamble from the UE using the contention-based random access resource.

Abstract: A method of decoding a bitstream by an electronic device is provided. Encoded data is received for at least one image frame each including one or more regions. A first affine flag is determined from a sequence parameter set (SPS) associated with the at least one image frame when an affine mode including affine tools is enabled in the at least one image frame. A second affine flag is present in the SPS when the first affine flag is equal to one. A third affine flag corresponding to one of the affine tools is present in a slice header associated with a specific one of the one or more regions when the second affine flag is equal to one. The specific region is reconstructed based on first candidate modes including the one of the affine tools when the third affine flag is equal to zero.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method for a user equipment, a control method for a base station, and a user equipment. The control method for a user equipment comprises receiving scheduling request configuration information related to a sidelink; and performing a scheduling related to the sidelink based on the received scheduling request configuration information, wherein the scheduling request configuration information is received from at least a network side or a base station side and comprises a scheduling request configuration identity (ID) or specific scheduling request configuration.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) that performs sidelink (SL) communications is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to: receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for configuring an SL bandwidth part (SL BWP). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a second RRC message comprising second information used for configuring one or more resource pools for SL transmission within the SL BWP. The receiving circuitry is further configured to receive a third RRC message comprising third information used for configuring a sidelink channel state information-reference signal (SCSI-RS). The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform SL channel state information (CSI) reporting based on the third information. The third information is associated with at least one of the SL BWP and one resource pool of the one or more resource pools for the SL transmission.

Abstract: A method executed by a UE comprises: receiving DCI for scheduling a PDSCH transmission; determining, according to an FDRA field in the DCI, a RIV; if a frequency domain resource assignment scaling condition is not satisfied, determining, according to the RIV, a first starting resource block index and a first length of continuous resource blocks; if the frequency domain resource assignment scaling condition is satisfied, determining, according to the RIV, a second starting resource block index and a second length of continuous resource blocks, determining the first starting resource block index by multiplying the second starting resource block index by a scaling factor, and determining the first length of continuous resource blocks by multiplying the second length of continuous resource blocks by the scaling factor; and determining an allocated frequency resource based on the first starting resource block index and the first length of continuous resource blocks.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine a multiplexing location of an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) uplink control information (UCI) on an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform multiplexing of the URLLC UCI on the eMBB PUSCH.

Abstract: To perform communication efficiently. Provided are a receiver configured to receive a random access preamble and a transmitter configured to transmit one or multiple medium access control random access responses (MAC RARs) corresponding to the random access preamble. The transmitter sets, in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in a new radio access technology (NR) cell, a timing advance command (TAC) field included in the MAC RAR to have a first size and an uplink (UL) grant to have a second size, and sets. in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in an NR-unlicensed (NR-U) cell, a size of the TAC field included in the MAC RAR to be smaller than the first size and a size of the UL grant to be greater than the second size.