Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program is described, comprising: obtaining a first beam alignment dataset, wherein the first beam alignment dataset comprises measurement data for a first plurality of beam pair transmissions, wherein each beam pair transmission of the first plurality is between one of a plurality of communication beams of a first user device and one of a plurality of communication beams of a base station and wherein the first plurality of beam pair transmissions is a subset of all available beam pair transmissions between the first user device and the base station; and selecting a first beam pair combination for communications between the first user device and the base station, wherein the first beam pair combination comprises one of the plurality of beams of the first user device and one of the plurality of beams of the base station, wherein the means for selecting the first beam pair combination comprises a machine-learning model trained with a second beam alignment dataset.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a transport block size determining method and an apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device determines, based on control information sent by a network device, K transmission occasions used to transmit a first data packet, where at least two of the K transmission occasions include different quantities of valid REs. Further, the terminal device may determine, based on a target quantity of valid REs, a TBS corresponding to the first data packet, where the target quantity of valid REs may be an average quantity of valid REs of the K transmission occasions, or may be a quantity of valid REs included in a target transmission occasion in the K transmission occasions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting uplink control information. The method includes: a User Equipment (UE) receives Uplink Control Information UCI configuration information, wherein the UCI configuration information includes information for determining a periodicity, an offset and a Physical Uplink Control Channel PUCCH for Periodic-Channel State Information P-CSI to be report in one subframe and configuration information for transmission of Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest-Acknowledgement HARQ-ACK; processes one or more kinds of UCI in the subframe, and transmits the on resources using a PUCCH format. According to the method of the present disclosure, the transmit power for transmitting the UCI on the channel using the PUCCH format is optimized. During the transmission of the P-CSI, the PUCCH resource most preferable for the transmission of the P-CSI is determined. The uplink resource utilization ratio is increased.

Abstract: Disclosed are a feedback information sending method and apparatus thereof. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information from an access network device; receiving a data channel scheduled by the downlink control information; determining an uplink time unit to send feedback information corresponding to the data channel; determining a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the feedback information according to resource indication information, wherein the first PUCCH resource is a part of a second PUCCH resource that is included in a second PUCCH resource set, and wherein the second PUCCH resource is indicated by the resource indication information, which raises resource utilization.

Abstract: This application discloses a data transmission method which includes: receiving DCI, wherein two TBs or one TB can be scheduled in the DCI, the DCI comprises a third bit, the third bit indicates that a quantity of the TB(s) scheduled in the DCI is 1 or 2, and the DCI further comprises a first bit and/or a second bit; and when the quantity of the TB(s) is 1, performing, based on the third bit, and the first bit or second bit, uplink or downlink data transmission, wherein the first or second bit indicates a NDI associated with the TB scheduled in the DCI; or when the quantity of the TB(s) is 2, performing, based on the third, first bit, and second bit, uplink or downlink data transmission, wherein the first and the second bit respectively indicate two NDIs associated with the two TBs.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for wireless communications, comprising receiving a first signaling and transmitting a first signal; herein, whether the first signaling is used for determining a first time window is used for determining whether the first signal is used for determining a second time window, a start time of the first time window in time domain is a first start time and an end time of the first time window in time domain is a first end time, a start time of a second time window in time domain is a second start time and an end time of the second time window in time domain is a second end time; a first time window and a second time window are reasonably configured in the present disclosure and are associated with a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session, increasing the flexibility of the system.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transport block transmission. One method includes determining a failure of a listen-before-talk procedure for transmission of a transport block on a configured uplink grant at a first transmission opportunity associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request process. The method includes, in response to determining the failure of the listen-before-talk procedure, not transmitting the transport block on the configured uplink grant at the first transmission opportunity corresponding to the listen-before-talk procedure. The method includes autonomously triggering transmission of the transport block in a second transmission opportunity using the hybrid automatic repeat request process, wherein autonomously triggering the transmission comprises triggering the transmission without receiving network signaling for the transmission and, the second transmission opportunity occurs after the first transmission opportunity.

Abstract: An apparatus for a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) includes processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the gNB for QoS monitoring in an NG-RAN with a control plane (CP)-user plane (UP) separation, the processing circuitry is to decode assistance information data received at a gNB Central Unit (gNB-CU) node of the gNB from a gNB Distributed Unit (gNB-DU) node of the gNB. The gNB-CU node is hosting an NR PDCP. The gNB-DU node is configured as a corresponding node of the gNB. The assistance information data includes delay information of a communication link of the NG-RAN measured by the corresponding node. A delay associated with the communication link is determined at the gNB-CU node of the gNB, based on the delay information measured by the corresponding node.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration message indicating a configured grant-small data transfer (CG-SDT) group that includes the UE. The CG-SDT group is associated with a downlink beam of the base station and one or more CG-SDT occasions. The UE may transmit, to the base station and within the one or more CG-SDT occasions, an uplink communication, using an uplink beam of the UE corresponding to a downlink beam of the UE, where the downlink beam of the UE is associated with the downlink beam of the base station used for transmitting at least one of the configuration message, a paging message, or a reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus connected to a Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) switch in a TSN network is provided. The apparatus includes a transceiver, a storage medium, and a controller. The storage medium stores a first mapping of a traffic class to a time slot, and a second mapping of a frame type of a TSN stream to the traffic class. The controller is coupled to the transceiver and the storage medium, and is configured to determine a routing path and a Gate Control List (GCL) corresponding to the TSN stream based on a network topology of the TSN network, the first mapping, and the second mapping, and deploy the GCL to each TSN switch in the routing path via the transceiver.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a method comprising receiving, at a first node, a listening schedule associated with a second node; determining, by the first node, a link latency associated with the second node based on the listening schedule; in response to the first node detecting a frame transmission failure for a frame being transmitted by the first node to the second node, determining, by the first node based on the link latency, a backoff time; and in response to the first node determining that the backoff time has elapsed, the first node retransmitting the frame from the first node to the second node. In some embodiments, the method also includes determining a frame lifetime value associated with the second node based on the link latency; and in response to determining that a time period corresponding to the frame lifetime value has elapsed, dropping the frame.

Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for sending an SRS. When receiving first indication information indicating to send an SRS, a terminal device may determine a first time interval in a plurality of candidate first time intervals, where the first time interval is used to determine whether the first indication information is valid, and the terminal device may send the SRS based on the first time interval.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a message to a transmission reception point (TRP) in a multi-TRP network that indicates a capability of the UE to support a communication scheme (e.g., a spatial division multiplexing (SDM) scheme, a single frequency network (SFN) scheme, a combined SDM and SFN scheme, or the like). The UE may receive a configuration that indicates parameters common to both the SDM scheme and the SFN scheme. The TRP may transmit an indication of an SDM scheme, an SFN scheme, a combined SDM and SFN scheme, or the like to the UE for communications between the UE and one or more TRPs. The UE may communicate with the one or more TRPs based on the communication scheme indicated by the TRP.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system coupled to a communication network identifies, based on base station unit (BSU) performance measurements and network key performance indicator (KPI) measurements, a set of BSUs experiencing interference. The method further includes selecting BSUs from the identified set that are to be provided with an auxiliary antenna array; and computing, for each BSU in the identified set, parameters to be used by modules of the BSU that are local to the BSU and configured to perform interference detection, interference estimation, and/or interference cancellation; the computed parameters are used in a reconfiguration procedure for the modules of the BSU. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to multi-component carrier grants. Specifically, in one aspect, a relay UE may identify and transmit to a remote UE, a plurality of sidelink component carriers based on a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers, the plurality of sidelink component carriers associated with the a second communication channel. In another aspect, a remote UE may receive, from a relay UE, a plurality of sidelink component carriers associated with a first communication channel, the plurality of sidelink component carriers derived from a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers associated with a second communication channel. In a further aspect, a network entity may determine a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers associated with a first communication channel, the plurality of downlink component carriers used to derive a plurality of sidelink component carriers for a remote UE and associated with the a second communication channel.

Abstract: A method includes measuring an interference caused by a first radio in a multi-link device to a second radio of the multi-link device and in response to determining that the interference exceeds a threshold, repeatedly narrowing a transmission beam width of the first radio until the interference falls below the threshold.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a sidelink user equipment (UE) may monitor a set of symbols over a wireless channel. The set of symbols may include at least a first subset of symbols and a second subset of symbols. A quantity of symbols included in the first subset of symbols may be based on a carrier frequency of the wireless channel, a symbol length of the wireless channel, a subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the wireless channel or a capability of the sidelink UE.

Abstract: A method of operating an uplink scheduler as part of a medium access control scheduler on a satellite includes selecting, from a plurality of user terminals, a first number of zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, selecting, from the plurality of user terminals, a second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, binning the second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals into a plurality of bins based on a respective bandwidth requirement for each non-zero-bandwidth request user terminal and based on a minimum user terminal grant and allocating, according to a grant allocation algorithm, a respective grant of radio resources in an uplink frame to each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals into a respective bin of the plurality of bins in an order associated with increasing bandwidth needs. A downlink scheduler is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system for out-of-line testing of performance of a network, comprising a multiplexer at an input to the network; a demultiplexer at an output from the network; the multiplexer further comprising a traffic generator to insert synthetic traffic, and a first switch to accept an incoming customer traffic stream and join the incoming customer traffic stream with a synthetic traffic stream to form a total traffic stream, the total traffic stream fed to the input to the network; and the demultiplexer comprising a second switch to receive the total traffic stream from the output of the network, and separate the total traffic stream into the synthetic traffic stream and the customer traffic stream, and a traffic analyzer to analyze the separated synthetic traffic stream.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip for implementing aggregated flow detection and management includes a number of pipes, where each pipe is coupled to a portion of ports on the semiconductor chip that are to receive data packets. A logic is coupled to the pipes and is used to detect and manage an elephant flow. The elephant flow-detection and management logic includes a flow table and a byte counter.