Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for restricting access of devices. The receiving cell access related method may include: receiving cell access related information; and information performing an access control based on the cell access related information and a device type of a user equipment (UE).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for mapping physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetitions. An embodiment of the present application provides a method, which includes receiving configuration information indicating a mapping pattern of a plurality of spatial relation information and a number of nominal PUSCH repetitions of a PUSCH transmission using the plurality of spatial relation information; determining a plurality of actual PUSCH repetitions using the plurality of spatial relation information based on the number of the nominal PUSCH repetitions; and transmitting the plurality of actual PUSCH repetitions using the plurality of spatial relation information based on the mapping pattern and a mapping scheme, wherein the mapping scheme is one of: beam mapping per slot, beam mapping per nominal repetition and beam mapping per actual repetition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, information indicating whether busy indication functionality is supported or not, wherein the busy indication functionality is associated with at least one of Core Network (CN) paging or Radio Access Network (RAN) paging. In addition, a cause value indicating busy indication between Xn interface can be used to determine whether the path switching should be performed or not.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for sidelink burst transmission. The method includes: performing a channel access procedure for initiating a channel occupancy for sidelink transmission; transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) to another apparatus within the channel occupancy; wherein the SCI includes an indicator indicating a remaining duration of the channel occupancy; and transmitting sidelink data associated with the SCI to the another apparatus without exceeding the remaining duration of the channel occupancy.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and apparatus for power control of configured grant PUSCH repetition. A method according to an embodiment of the present application may include: receiving a configuration including a mapping pattern and a plurality of pathloss reference RS Ids for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, which is configured to be transmitted in a plurality of time intervals repeatedly by higher layer signaling; determining a power of each PUSCH repetition of the configured grant PUSCH transmission based on the configuration; and transmitting the configured grant PUSCH transmission in the plurality of time intervals repeatedly based on the determined power of each PUSCH repetition of the PUSCH transmission and the mapping pattern.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for processing a radio link failure (RLF) of a target master cell group (MCG) during a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover procedure. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method includes: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message includes dual active protocol stack (DAPS) configuration information and a reconfiguration with synchronization information element; synchronizing to a target master node (MN); synchronizing to a target secondary node (SN) in response to a bearer associated with a secondary cell group (SCG) being configured; and upon detecting a radio link failure (RLF) of a target MCG, initiating a fast MCG link recovery procedure during a DAPS handover procedure. In addition, both SN and MN in a source connection are released in response to receiving an indication from a target connection indicating to release the source connection.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods of joint search space set for enhanced PDCCH transmission with multiple beams from multiple TRPs are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a processor that generates a plurality of versions of Downlink Control Information (DCI) for transmission from a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities with a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs), each CORESET being transmitted from one of the transmitting-receiving identities; and configures an Information Element (IE) indicating a joint search space set for the DCI, wherein the joint search space set comprises a plurality of component search space sets; and a transmitter that transmits the DCI and the IE using the plurality of transmitting-receiving identities; wherein each one of the component search space sets is configured for monitoring and detecting one DCI version.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for detecting a sidelink transmission burst over an unlicensed spectrum. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes: generating a sequence; and transmitting the sequence at a beginning of a sidelink burst on a carrier, starting from a first candidate position of a set of candidate positions in a first slot, wherein the sequence spans a predetermined number of consecutive symbols in time domain and the sidelink burst is contiguously transmitted in time domain without any gap.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include: receiving first configuration information indicating that at least two search space sets are associated; and detecting downlink control information (DCI) in the at least two search space sets based on the first configuration information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for determining timing advance value. According an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receiving association information between timing advance (TA) value for uplink transmission and downlink reference signal (RS), wherein each TA value is associated with an index of at least one corresponding downlink RS; determining a downlink RS index for associating with a TA value for uplink transmission; and determining the TA value for uplink transmission based on the association information. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application can indicate and determine TA value with reduced signaling overhead.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for determining default spatial relation and default PL-RS are disclosed. A method comprises determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference RS (PL-RS) for transmission of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured CORESET, the uplink resource is configured with neither higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and transmitting the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and the power determined by the determined default PL-RS.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: determining a first redundancy version (RV) pattern from a set of RV patterns for transmitting a number of repetitions of a first transport block (TB) in a first configured grant (CG) period; performing a channel access procedure for a first repetition of the first TB according to the first RV pattern; and transmitting the number of repetitions of the first TB according to the first RV pattern in response to the channel access procedure for the first repetition of the first TB being successful.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for access control of a small size and infrequent data transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes: receiving access control configuration information; and performing an access control of a user equipment (UE) based on the access control configuration information, wherein the UE is configured with a pre-configured uplink (UL) resource, and the UE supports a small size and infrequent data transmission in radio resource control (RRC) inactive state or RRC idle state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: receiving, at a first base station from a second base station, assistant information related to user equipment (UE) grouping; and determining whether to transmit a reference signal (RS) associated with a paging message for a UE based on the assistant information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for determining default beam(s) are disclosed. A method comprises receiving an activation command for the activated BWP of a serving cell, wherein the activation command contains codepoints pointing to TCI state (s) for PDSCH, and at least one codepoint points to two TCI states; and determining default TCI states for the reception of multiple PDSCH transmission occasions scheduled by a single DCI according to a scheduling offset between the reception of the DCI and the nth PDSCH transmission occasion, wherein n is larger than 1.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for eMTC scheduling are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a control signal in a search space; and transmitting an uplink data after a first time duration of receiving the control signal or of receiving a downlink signal scheduled by the control signal, wherein the first time duration is comprised of at least one of a second time duration and a time duration offset (Koffset).

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for blockchain-aware mobile vehicle communication for 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project). A method for wireless communications performed by a user equipment (UE), e.g., a vehicle UE (VUE), includes: receiving configuration information of a blockchain application; transmitting information associated with a candidate block of the blockchain application; and receiving a response related to the candidate block.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for random access resource configuration. One embodiment of the present application provides a method performed by a Base Station (BS), which includes: transmitting random access occasion configuration, wherein the random access occasion configuration is associated with at least one of the following parameters of a UE: a propagation delay, a timing advance, a location, and a distance; and receiving preambles in a preamble receiving window corresponding to the random access occasion configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for resource configuration. A method includes receiving a first resource (s) configuration and a second resource (s) configuration; and determining a resource (s) for RRC idle/inactive mode by the second resource (s) configuration; wherein the second resource (s) configuration is determined based on value (s) of parameter (s) in the first resource (s) configuration and/or value (s) of additional parameter (s).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting or receiving data for NBIoT supporting 16QAM modulation are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a control signal, wherein the control signal includes a MCS index and a resource assignment index; and receiving a control signal, wherein the control signal includes a MCS index and a resource assignment index, wherein the transport block size is determined by a combination of a transport block size index and the resource assignment index, and the transport block size index is determined by at least one of the MCS index and the resource assignment index.